Samanthropod
@samanthropod.bsky.social
He/Him, Time magazine person of the year (2006)| NHS Medical Physicist | Cancer Researcher| 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧.
This is my account where I mostly skeet about UK (and sometimes US/Canadian) politics.
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This is my account where I mostly skeet about UK (and sometimes US/Canadian) politics.
Views own.
Counties with Largest Increases in Food Stamps Went for Trump | Social Explorer share.google/c1jQJuTnECU6...
Many people on SNAP didn't enable their own destruction, and they deserve sympathy and support. The rest? Well....
Many people on SNAP didn't enable their own destruction, and they deserve sympathy and support. The rest? Well....
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Counties with Largest Increases in Food Stamps Went for Trump | Social Explorer share.google/c1jQJuTnECU6...
Many people on SNAP didn't enable their own destruction, and they deserve sympathy and support. The rest? Well....
Many people on SNAP didn't enable their own destruction, and they deserve sympathy and support. The rest? Well....
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They’re getting exactly what they voted for in 2024.
SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill
FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model
FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model
October 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
They’re getting exactly what they voted for in 2024.
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one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer
Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
September 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer
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We simply cannot live in a country where the death of hate mongers is a tragedy and the death of everyone else only warrants a shrug.
September 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
We simply cannot live in a country where the death of hate mongers is a tragedy and the death of everyone else only warrants a shrug.
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September 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
September 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
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The Republicans demanding respectability politics right now need to reckon with their own responsibility with actively trying to normalize gun violence in response to speech and their incredible naivety that it would never apply to them
I would care more about Charlie Kirk’s family’s pain if he had ever given a fuck about mine, which includes a ten year old who has to deal with active shooter drills, a 1st Gen Mexican immigrant mother, and the few progressives in my family who he’s been happy to suggest meet violent ends.
September 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The Republicans demanding respectability politics right now need to reckon with their own responsibility with actively trying to normalize gun violence in response to speech and their incredible naivety that it would never apply to them
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The night after the murder of Melissa Hortman, the Democratic legislator in Minnesota, the Yankees were at the Red Sox and neither team requested a moment of silence.
For an actual public servant.
Who we choose to hold a moment of silence for and who we do not are silences that speak volumes.
For an actual public servant.
Who we choose to hold a moment of silence for and who we do not are silences that speak volumes.
September 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The night after the murder of Melissa Hortman, the Democratic legislator in Minnesota, the Yankees were at the Red Sox and neither team requested a moment of silence.
For an actual public servant.
Who we choose to hold a moment of silence for and who we do not are silences that speak volumes.
For an actual public servant.
Who we choose to hold a moment of silence for and who we do not are silences that speak volumes.
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This is genuinely western liberalism summed up in a 30 second video. Incredible. Put it in an art gallery.
August 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
This is genuinely western liberalism summed up in a 30 second video. Incredible. Put it in an art gallery.
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I hate to say I told you so but… I told you so.
#mythofantiwartrump
#mythofantiwartrump
July 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I hate to say I told you so but… I told you so.
#mythofantiwartrump
#mythofantiwartrump
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Yeah
@meganhunt.bsky.social
This you? A state Senator said this? Unbelievable.
This you? A state Senator said this? Unbelievable.
July 12, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Yeah
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Hey all you wet bitch Dems YOU ARE NEXT BABY. Stand up or get tossed the FUCK OUT. Just retire and save yourself the trouble.
June 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Hey all you wet bitch Dems YOU ARE NEXT BABY. Stand up or get tossed the FUCK OUT. Just retire and save yourself the trouble.
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Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik
The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik
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‘Sorry, Keir Starmer pretending to be Nigel Farage is not what I ordered’: the Stephen Collins cartoon
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‘Sorry, Keir Starmer pretending to be Nigel Farage is not what I ordered’: the Stephen Collins cartoon
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June 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
‘Sorry, Keir Starmer pretending to be Nigel Farage is not what I ordered’: the Stephen Collins cartoon
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A million years ago my Dad told me that if every man disappeared off the earth tomorrow the women would be a ok and happy but if all the women disappeared we would immediately shit ourselves and die from being helpless dicks and he hasn't been proven wrong yet
Among heterosexual couples over age 50, research finds that divorce rates increase significantly when the wife develops a serious illness but the husband does not; however, no such increase is seen when husbands fall ill but wives do not. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/soci...
New Research Reveals a Concerning Emerging Divorce Pattern
Divorce trends among middle-aged adults have revealed a shocking new pattern.
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May 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A million years ago my Dad told me that if every man disappeared off the earth tomorrow the women would be a ok and happy but if all the women disappeared we would immediately shit ourselves and die from being helpless dicks and he hasn't been proven wrong yet
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Hello historians - this is going to be a moment when you can pitch “why ICE is in fact like the Gestapo.” And if you’re up for writing that, you should. Much as “it’s rude to call them concentration camps” discourse in 2017, we need you.
Why is the comparison wrong? What about ICE or how ICE operates demonstrates that it’s wrong?
May 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Hello historians - this is going to be a moment when you can pitch “why ICE is in fact like the Gestapo.” And if you’re up for writing that, you should. Much as “it’s rude to call them concentration camps” discourse in 2017, we need you.
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What I find fascinating is how I’ve been terminally online since I was a teen, and me and my other friends came out of Covid mostly okay.
My uncle, on the other hand, now believes that Hillary Clinton made AIDS airborne because of something he read on Facebook.
My uncle, on the other hand, now believes that Hillary Clinton made AIDS airborne because of something he read on Facebook.
I wrote about how the pandemic forced everyone to be much more online than they used to be, and about how that’s still messing with our glorified ape brains today:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/a-world-in-t...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/a-world-in-t...
A World In the Grip of a Terrible Onlineness
When the pandemic began, back in those flopsweat days of March 2020, I came to a horrible realization.
Due to necessary quarantines, lockdowns, travel restrictions, and general social disruption, the...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
May 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What I find fascinating is how I’ve been terminally online since I was a teen, and me and my other friends came out of Covid mostly okay.
My uncle, on the other hand, now believes that Hillary Clinton made AIDS airborne because of something he read on Facebook.
My uncle, on the other hand, now believes that Hillary Clinton made AIDS airborne because of something he read on Facebook.
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There’s maybe no better demonstration of how centrism works than a guy tanking any kind of positive agenda and his own personal likability to move from -77 to -76 approval from the center-right party
Keir Starmer's net favourability rating has dropped 12pts in a month to -46, his lowest level ever, including a 34pt drop among Labour voters
All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)
By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)
All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)
By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)
May 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
There’s maybe no better demonstration of how centrism works than a guy tanking any kind of positive agenda and his own personal likability to move from -77 to -76 approval from the center-right party
uwotm8
Simple: Rentals are temporary accommodations (also know as a hotel) dressed up as if they were a home.
An Apartment Rental is not a long term home and we have to stop allowing it to be substituted as such.
Through a rental moratorium, we are stopping landlords from exploiting our communities.
An Apartment Rental is not a long term home and we have to stop allowing it to be substituted as such.
Through a rental moratorium, we are stopping landlords from exploiting our communities.
May 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
uwotm8
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"I would rather pay MORE money so that people I consider undeserving of this benefit don't get it than just give it to everyone" is a major driver of how we design programs around the country and it is so fucking stupid and unnecessary
Not fraud related but see also school lunch programs…cheaper to just give them to everyone
May 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"I would rather pay MORE money so that people I consider undeserving of this benefit don't get it than just give it to everyone" is a major driver of how we design programs around the country and it is so fucking stupid and unnecessary
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we almost successfully talked about racism for about 3 minutes and that was enough for the right to get to make DEI the new boogeyman and move white nationalists back into power
“moderate” white people were convinced that asking for police to not murder Black people indiscriminately was too radical
“moderate” white people were convinced that asking for police to not murder Black people indiscriminately was too radical
One of the more frustrating things about the way many think about racism is that unless someone uses slurs, mainstream outlets and some academics give the benefit of the doubt.
You can resegregate schools, lie and claim that it’s about “markets” or “choice,” and get invites in polite society.
You can resegregate schools, lie and claim that it’s about “markets” or “choice,” and get invites in polite society.
May 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
we almost successfully talked about racism for about 3 minutes and that was enough for the right to get to make DEI the new boogeyman and move white nationalists back into power
“moderate” white people were convinced that asking for police to not murder Black people indiscriminately was too radical
“moderate” white people were convinced that asking for police to not murder Black people indiscriminately was too radical
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This was my Blair Iraq War moment: now I also despise Starmer.
We have another despicable Labour Leader
We have another despicable Labour Leader
Starmer's immigration speech made me the angriest I've been since the Brexit referendum because it left me with an identical "you've just made life MUCH more dangerous for foreigners" sick feeling in my stomach.
Remember when people were screamed at to "go home" as soon as the votes were counted?
Remember when people were screamed at to "go home" as soon as the votes were counted?
May 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This was my Blair Iraq War moment: now I also despise Starmer.
We have another despicable Labour Leader
We have another despicable Labour Leader
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This is a picture of Sir Keir Starmer
May 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
This is a picture of Sir Keir Starmer