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@kcimt122.bsky.social
· Oct 25
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you...
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you...
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Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
December 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
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This dude: the problem with women is they won't endure abuse anymore.
December 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This dude: the problem with women is they won't endure abuse anymore.
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Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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Incredibly moving interview with Sydney philosophy professor Peter Slezak, son of Holocaust survivors.
“Recognising Palestine was the right thing to do - in fact it was long overdue. How on earth can that be connected to two mass murders who commit an atrocity?”
“Recognising Palestine was the right thing to do - in fact it was long overdue. How on earth can that be connected to two mass murders who commit an atrocity?”
December 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Incredibly moving interview with Sydney philosophy professor Peter Slezak, son of Holocaust survivors.
“Recognising Palestine was the right thing to do - in fact it was long overdue. How on earth can that be connected to two mass murders who commit an atrocity?”
“Recognising Palestine was the right thing to do - in fact it was long overdue. How on earth can that be connected to two mass murders who commit an atrocity?”
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won't somebody think of Australia's six most successful Olympic sport!
December 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
won't somebody think of Australia's six most successful Olympic sport!
Dan seems to think Olympic medals are more important than people dying of gunshot wounds.
Using Dan's logic, why don't we bring back live pigeon shooting? After all, it used to be an Olympic sport. Damn those animal rights people who got rid of it. Dan could probably win us a few more medals, ay.
Using Dan's logic, why don't we bring back live pigeon shooting? After all, it used to be an Olympic sport. Damn those animal rights people who got rid of it. Dan could probably win us a few more medals, ay.
Federal Labor MP Dan Repacholi has hit out at the NSW Labor government over its new gun laws, saying it means he "would no longer be able to compete in all my Olympic events"
"When you rush things through it has unintended consequences...shame on the NSW Government"
"When you rush things through it has unintended consequences...shame on the NSW Government"
December 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Dan seems to think Olympic medals are more important than people dying of gunshot wounds.
Using Dan's logic, why don't we bring back live pigeon shooting? After all, it used to be an Olympic sport. Damn those animal rights people who got rid of it. Dan could probably win us a few more medals, ay.
Using Dan's logic, why don't we bring back live pigeon shooting? After all, it used to be an Olympic sport. Damn those animal rights people who got rid of it. Dan could probably win us a few more medals, ay.
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Putting community safety before sport?! Outrageous!
Federal Labor MP Dan Repacholi has hit out at the NSW Labor government over its new gun laws, saying it means he "would no longer be able to compete in all my Olympic events"
"When you rush things through it has unintended consequences...shame on the NSW Government"
"When you rush things through it has unintended consequences...shame on the NSW Government"
December 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Putting community safety before sport?! Outrageous!
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threade
So I am going to say something about romance as a genre.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
December 24, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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I'm with the judge. This is torture of inmates, dressed up as concern for their welfare.
I work in aged care. Our nurses/carers manage to do regular checks on sleeping residents without even shining a torch in their face, let alone deliberately waking them up.
www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
I work in aged care. Our nurses/carers manage to do regular checks on sleeping residents without even shining a torch in their face, let alone deliberately waking them up.
www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
‘Idiotic, cruel, boneheaded’: Judge slams police over sleep-deprived inmates
A Supreme Court judge has warned that regional courts may no longer be able to hold some criminal trials because of hourly welfare checks being conducted on inmates.
www.theage.com.au
December 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I'm with the judge. This is torture of inmates, dressed up as concern for their welfare.
I work in aged care. Our nurses/carers manage to do regular checks on sleeping residents without even shining a torch in their face, let alone deliberately waking them up.
www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
I work in aged care. Our nurses/carers manage to do regular checks on sleeping residents without even shining a torch in their face, let alone deliberately waking them up.
www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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23 December 1937 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Maria Troeder, was born in Amsterdam.
In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Children at Auschwitz:
📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Children at Auschwitz:
📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
December 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
23 December 1937 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Maria Troeder, was born in Amsterdam.
In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Children at Auschwitz:
📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Children at Auschwitz:
📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
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23 December 1931 | Dutch Jewish boy, Max Adolf Frits Cohen, was born at The Hague.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in December 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in December 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
December 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
23 December 1931 | Dutch Jewish boy, Max Adolf Frits Cohen, was born at The Hague.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in December 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in December 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
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Americans are starting to realise how cactus their international tourism industry is now, and finding it hard to fathom how much worse it will get.
December 22, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Americans are starting to realise how cactus their international tourism industry is now, and finding it hard to fathom how much worse it will get.
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After a fall, Barry Jones found that he could no longer walk. What followed was 40 days in hospital, he writes. "The exit ramp is looming." satpa.pe/toHvGtS
On faith and the exit ramp
satpa.pe
December 21, 2025 at 5:49 AM
After a fall, Barry Jones found that he could no longer walk. What followed was 40 days in hospital, he writes. "The exit ramp is looming." satpa.pe/toHvGtS
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Geometry means cars can't solve the problem of concentrated traffic sinks; they're too space inefficient.
There's a reason why the largest Taylor Swift concert occurred in Melbourne & not in the US. The MCG can be massive because of Richmond station.
There's a reason why the largest Taylor Swift concert occurred in Melbourne & not in the US. The MCG can be massive because of Richmond station.
December 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Geometry means cars can't solve the problem of concentrated traffic sinks; they're too space inefficient.
There's a reason why the largest Taylor Swift concert occurred in Melbourne & not in the US. The MCG can be massive because of Richmond station.
There's a reason why the largest Taylor Swift concert occurred in Melbourne & not in the US. The MCG can be massive because of Richmond station.
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Autonomous cars aren't going to solve geometry. There will be no saving in space requirements for the forseeable future - rather probably an increase - and the average number of people per car will fall below 1. Congestion will get worse.
December 21, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Autonomous cars aren't going to solve geometry. There will be no saving in space requirements for the forseeable future - rather probably an increase - and the average number of people per car will fall below 1. Congestion will get worse.
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It's amusing that none of the traffic experts points out that traffic congestion is a consequence of geometry. A car needs ~16 m^2 when parked - perhaps 2x that when moving slowly & much more at higher speed. You quickly run out of space to move a lot of cars...
www.theage.com.au/national/it-...
www.theage.com.au/national/it-...
‘The phantom jam’: Why do they happen?
It’s a mysterious yet oh-so familiar phenomenon on the roads. What makes cars grind to a halt for no apparent reason?
www.theage.com.au
December 21, 2025 at 5:38 AM
It's amusing that none of the traffic experts points out that traffic congestion is a consequence of geometry. A car needs ~16 m^2 when parked - perhaps 2x that when moving slowly & much more at higher speed. You quickly run out of space to move a lot of cars...
www.theage.com.au/national/it-...
www.theage.com.au/national/it-...
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The world sees Australia: an antisemitic atrocity; a zombie ex-PM lurches out of his Jason recliner to cancel out his previous, one-off moral stance for better gun laws; dull-witted racists plan to assemble, fomented by neo-Nazis & whingeing egotists Hanson & Joyce. All the would-be dividers.
Anti-immigration rallies planned for day of remembrance. If there was ever any doubt these rallies were about intolerance, here’s your evidence. #bondibeach www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne...
Minns urges anti-immigration rally to be scrapped as Bondi mourning continues
NSW Premier Chris Minns has urged organisers of a planned anti-immigration rally in Sydney to abandon the event, warning it would deepen pain as communities continue to mourn the victims of the Bondi Beach terror attack.
www.skynews.com.au
December 21, 2025 at 6:08 AM
The world sees Australia: an antisemitic atrocity; a zombie ex-PM lurches out of his Jason recliner to cancel out his previous, one-off moral stance for better gun laws; dull-witted racists plan to assemble, fomented by neo-Nazis & whingeing egotists Hanson & Joyce. All the would-be dividers.
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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If you want your city to be a great place for everyone, especially children, older and disabled people, to get around safely and conveniently, then don’t invite in a load of driverless cars.
You’ll just be landed with a new source of congestion and serious extra chaos if there’s a power cut.
You’ll just be landed with a new source of congestion and serious extra chaos if there’s a power cut.
“Traffic lights across the city were down, seemingly confusing the driverless cars —& halting them in their tracks. Riders and pedestrians posted videos of Waymos stuck at intersections, long lines of drivers behind them.”
Less well known— driverless cars contribute to traffic congestion EVERY day.
Less well known— driverless cars contribute to traffic congestion EVERY day.
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams across San Francisco after a PG&E outage hit 1/3 of the city.
missionlocal.org
December 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM
If you want your city to be a great place for everyone, especially children, older and disabled people, to get around safely and conveniently, then don’t invite in a load of driverless cars.
You’ll just be landed with a new source of congestion and serious extra chaos if there’s a power cut.
You’ll just be landed with a new source of congestion and serious extra chaos if there’s a power cut.
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I have downloaded this on Kindle; I am 9 pages in and every paragraph is gobsmackingly quotable & she hasn't even been born yet. Her mother is living in a tent in the drawing room having instructed servants to hammer the tent pegs into the parquet ...
Came across Clarissa Dickson-Wright’s autobiography in a charity shop. It is everything a devotee of weird history could hope for
December 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I have downloaded this on Kindle; I am 9 pages in and every paragraph is gobsmackingly quotable & she hasn't even been born yet. Her mother is living in a tent in the drawing room having instructed servants to hammer the tent pegs into the parquet ...