Katy
@morgalyn.bsky.social
🇺🇸&🇬🇧 politics, food stuff, maybe 🧶 things. High tendency to repost academic job openings of various disciplines. I hate writing bios, if you know me feel free to suggest edits. I'll be over there, reading or playing NMS or ONI probably.
I imagine it's only a matter of time before they decide to nuke everyone who ever posted the hippity hoppity chippity choppity meme.
No hyperbole or historical references allowed, folks.
No hyperbole or historical references allowed, folks.
patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I imagine it's only a matter of time before they decide to nuke everyone who ever posted the hippity hoppity chippity choppity meme.
No hyperbole or historical references allowed, folks.
No hyperbole or historical references allowed, folks.
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Fascism thrives on ignorance, which is why quality public journalism is such an existential threat.
I see this a lot in Canada too, where our local far-right hobgoblins are constantly trying to take down the CBC.
Our adversaries want to control the entire information landscape. We can't allow it.
I see this a lot in Canada too, where our local far-right hobgoblins are constantly trying to take down the CBC.
Our adversaries want to control the entire information landscape. We can't allow it.
There's lots you can and should criticise the BBC for.
But it's our BBC - and it's important.
Great to speak to CNN - Donald Trump shouldn't have his hands anywhere near our public services.
But it's our BBC - and it's important.
Great to speak to CNN - Donald Trump shouldn't have his hands anywhere near our public services.
Zack Polanski on President Trump, "It's difficult to call him anything other than a fool"
"This is sociopathic behaviour"
"He is toxic, misogynistic, racist"
"I'm not a fan of Trump"
Christiane Amanpour, "It's pretty clear"
"This is sociopathic behaviour"
"He is toxic, misogynistic, racist"
"I'm not a fan of Trump"
Christiane Amanpour, "It's pretty clear"
November 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Fascism thrives on ignorance, which is why quality public journalism is such an existential threat.
I see this a lot in Canada too, where our local far-right hobgoblins are constantly trying to take down the CBC.
Our adversaries want to control the entire information landscape. We can't allow it.
I see this a lot in Canada too, where our local far-right hobgoblins are constantly trying to take down the CBC.
Our adversaries want to control the entire information landscape. We can't allow it.
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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See?
It’s this easy, everyone
👏
It’s this easy, everyone
👏
Zack Polanski on President Trump, "It's difficult to call him anything other than a fool"
"This is sociopathic behaviour"
"He is toxic, misogynistic, racist"
"I'm not a fan of Trump"
Christiane Amanpour, "It's pretty clear"
"This is sociopathic behaviour"
"He is toxic, misogynistic, racist"
"I'm not a fan of Trump"
Christiane Amanpour, "It's pretty clear"
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
See?
It’s this easy, everyone
👏
It’s this easy, everyone
👏
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Of course there's a difference, and it's reflected in many state laws.
But . . . that isn't the point. Middle-aged men coercing sexually mature but underage girls into sex is still illegal, exploitative, and vile. "But they weren't 8-year-olds!" is a really weird thing to say.
But . . . that isn't the point. Middle-aged men coercing sexually mature but underage girls into sex is still illegal, exploitative, and vile. "But they weren't 8-year-olds!" is a really weird thing to say.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Of course there's a difference, and it's reflected in many state laws.
But . . . that isn't the point. Middle-aged men coercing sexually mature but underage girls into sex is still illegal, exploitative, and vile. "But they weren't 8-year-olds!" is a really weird thing to say.
But . . . that isn't the point. Middle-aged men coercing sexually mature but underage girls into sex is still illegal, exploitative, and vile. "But they weren't 8-year-olds!" is a really weird thing to say.
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When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
if you cant go in to the office 3 days a week then you really can't complain when cities are hollowed out. cities are places where ppl work and network. getting rid of that makes cities useless
And it's usually something like "but that's not what the literal DNC does!" as if I don't know, as someone who has worked on Dem campaigns, sometimes in conjunction with the DNC what they do. So I'm going to be very specific here: this is the DNC being shitty: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Writing DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT on anything, particularly email, should be instant evidence you should never, ever be in charge of anything. Ever.
November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Writing DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT on anything, particularly email, should be instant evidence you should never, ever be in charge of anything. Ever.
At this point I sort of want a version of my Following etc tabs that mute the word Epstein. It's just a lot, y'all. Kinda wonder what else is going on, but the zone has been *flooded*
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
At this point I sort of want a version of my Following etc tabs that mute the word Epstein. It's just a lot, y'all. Kinda wonder what else is going on, but the zone has been *flooded*
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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And again I say it: stop loving politicians and celebrities and Supreme Court justices and start loving your actual values. And if the ppl you revere don’t share those values? Then maybe, baby, they aren’t worthy of your reverence
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
And again I say it: stop loving politicians and celebrities and Supreme Court justices and start loving your actual values. And if the ppl you revere don’t share those values? Then maybe, baby, they aren’t worthy of your reverence
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Authoritarian governments are not new to this country. If you want to know what comes next should resistance fail, look to the history of Black resistance in the South.
calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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Nov. 13, 1957 | Texas Officials Threaten and Jail NAACP Officers for Not Disclosing Members
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Authoritarian governments are not new to this country. If you want to know what comes next should resistance fail, look to the history of Black resistance in the South.
calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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As an autistic veteran, experiences of violence (even in “well-meaning” gestures) can be especially intense.
As an active member of Veterans For Peace, if you want to "thank me for my service" please work for peace. Period.
If interested, continue reading at:
autisticphd.com/theblog/armi...
As an active member of Veterans For Peace, if you want to "thank me for my service" please work for peace. Period.
If interested, continue reading at:
autisticphd.com/theblog/armi...
Armistice Day and the true cost of war: Reflections from an Autistic Veteran for Peace - Autistic PhD
Cognitive reappraisal may help some autistic folks with emotional regulation in a world shaped by war.
autisticphd.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
As an autistic veteran, experiences of violence (even in “well-meaning” gestures) can be especially intense.
As an active member of Veterans For Peace, if you want to "thank me for my service" please work for peace. Period.
If interested, continue reading at:
autisticphd.com/theblog/armi...
As an active member of Veterans For Peace, if you want to "thank me for my service" please work for peace. Period.
If interested, continue reading at:
autisticphd.com/theblog/armi...
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🚨 Fully funded PhD alert 🚨
Want to use big data to tackle to help biodiversity loss?
Apply for a PhD quantifying how human pressures are affecting the resilience and extinction risk of vertebrate populations 🌍🦴
📍University of Bristol 🎓 Starts Sept 2026
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Want to use big data to tackle to help biodiversity loss?
Apply for a PhD quantifying how human pressures are affecting the resilience and extinction risk of vertebrate populations 🌍🦴
📍University of Bristol 🎓 Starts Sept 2026
🔗 tinyurl.com/cfdzrsj9
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🚨 Fully funded PhD alert 🚨
Want to use big data to tackle to help biodiversity loss?
Apply for a PhD quantifying how human pressures are affecting the resilience and extinction risk of vertebrate populations 🌍🦴
📍University of Bristol 🎓 Starts Sept 2026
🔗 tinyurl.com/cfdzrsj9
Want to use big data to tackle to help biodiversity loss?
Apply for a PhD quantifying how human pressures are affecting the resilience and extinction risk of vertebrate populations 🌍🦴
📍University of Bristol 🎓 Starts Sept 2026
🔗 tinyurl.com/cfdzrsj9
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Hi, I'm on SNAP. Stop speaking for me. The Dems made my life measurably worse by caving, and nade other lives even worse than mine. More people will die because they caved.
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Hi, I'm on SNAP. Stop speaking for me. The Dems made my life measurably worse by caving, and nade other lives even worse than mine. More people will die because they caved.
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Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
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The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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I've said repeatedly "I want Labour to be more worried about losing votes and seats to the Green Party than to Reform. That's how we start to shift decisions."
Time to make hope normal again.
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Time to make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I've said repeatedly "I want Labour to be more worried about losing votes and seats to the Green Party than to Reform. That's how we start to shift decisions."
Time to make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Time to make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Each new law against trans people in society will just become the platform for the next law restricting someone else. Possibly you. Dont fall for it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Each new law against trans people in society will just become the platform for the next law restricting someone else. Possibly you. Dont fall for it.
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LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
Computational Turing Test Reveals Systematic Differences Between Human and AI Language
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in the social sciences to simulate human behavior, based on the assumption that they can generate realistic, human-like text. Yet this assumption rem...
arxiv.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
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Like and share this if you've received online threats of violence for being trans, or supporting trans people.
I have.
I have.
Trans ally Georgia Tennant contacts police after receiving death threats online
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/10/georgia-tennant-contacts-police-online-hate-trans-ally/?utm_content=1762785060&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/10/georgia-tennant-contacts-police-online-hate-trans-ally/?utm_content=1762785060&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Trans ally Georgia Tennant contacts police after receiving death threats online
Georgia Tennant, the wife of Doctor Who star David Tennant, has contacted the police after being targeted by trolls, who sent a string of abusive messages.
www.thepinknews.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Like and share this if you've received online threats of violence for being trans, or supporting trans people.
I have.
I have.
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
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Schumer and pals gave away the healthcare of tens of millions of Americans for nothing, even though they had more momentum on their side than their party has seen in years.
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Schumer and pals gave away the healthcare of tens of millions of Americans for nothing, even though they had more momentum on their side than their party has seen in years.
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LITERALLY HOURS. THEY COULD HAVE WAITED HOURS.
BREAKING
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
LITERALLY HOURS. THEY COULD HAVE WAITED HOURS.