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shadow hedgie, your favourite reply guy's favourite reply guy Migrant in London, citizen of nowhere, marked safe from the transphobe mind virus geriatric millennial, like everyone else here still looking for the Édouard Drumont of the left

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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · Apr 15

Isn't that a crime?

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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 12m

Worked for Teichmüller, sort of

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1h

I would prefer it if Wes Streeting did not become Prime Minister

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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 31m

My “I’m a faithful” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

Streeting denies plotting against PM after leadership claims

"I'm a faithful" - Wes Streeting denies plan to challenge
Starmer as PM

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 12h

"Trump himself may not be an antisemite, even as he harbors some antisemitic notions (e.g., Jews are money-grubbing) and regularly repeats some antisemitic tropes (e.g., Jews hold dual loyalties), but he has been a font of hatred writ large, and a facilitator of vicious antisemites." 👇👇👇

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 12h

As the right wing continues to convulse over antisemitism following Tucker Carlson's interview w/ Nick Fuentes, there's one name that is conspicuously unmentioned: Donald Trump.
www.thebulwark.com/p/right-wing...

Right-Wing Critics of Antisemitism Keep Weirdly Mum About Trump

But this fish rots from the head.

www.thebulwark.com

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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 14h

would Optimus make a good twitter sitter?

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 14h

in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said

Elon Musk: With Optimus, we might be able to stop putting people in prison.

“If somebody's committed a crime, we might be able to provide a more humane form of containment of future crime. You now get a free Optimus, and it's just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime. Other than that, you get to do anything; it's just going to stop you from committing crime. That's really it. You don't have to put people in prisons and stuff. It's pretty wild to think of all the possibilities, but I think it's clearly the future.”

Tesla Shareholder Meeting, November 6,

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 14h

There's so much to criticize for an American in Britain and he's coming for Heathrow?! 🤡

first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, mate

George Pearkes @peark.es · 15h

Unfortunately it appears I have to choose between two ironclad aspects of my personality today: Br*tain is a mess and Noah Smith is one of the internet's greatest morons.

Having done an international connection at Heathrow this year, the latter wins by a country mile.

Economist Doesn't Follow Signs At Heathrow: Proof The UK Is Failing?

A economist had a bad experience connecting at Heathrow, suggesting it's reflective of bigger issues in the UK. There's only one issue...

onemileatatime.com

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

the fun thing about the BBC story is that I can't actually read about it for more than couple of minutes at a time because it makes me feel too insane :)

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.

The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1d

Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?

Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 1d

The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.

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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 1d

Masa-san is out.

CNBC International @international.cnbc.com · 1d

Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.

Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 1d

as long as it's Other People's Money

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 1d

the entity ultimately controlling the BBC is also trying to curry favour with Trump, unfortunately

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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 1d

are you listening, @royalsociety.org?

CHOAM Nomsky (thankful) @samthielman.com · 1d

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

Tweet by Joyce Carol Oates:

"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"--that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.

QT of @avidreader1000
Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He seems to have no c...

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 1d

Deutschland hat ewigen Bestand, es ist ein kerngesundes Land.

Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 1d

1/ In case you missed it: on Sunday evening, Jason Stanley was invited to speak at the Jewish Community of Frankfurt to commemorate the November Pogrom of 1938 (referred to as 'Kristallnacht' in English). His talk was cut short after members of the audience shouted him down. German interview below:

Streit um Gedenken zum 9. November: „Leute im Publikum haben mich angeschrien“

Der US-Philosoph Jason Stanley sollte in der Jüdischen Gemeinde Frankfurt eine Rede halten. Sie wurde abgebrochen. Stanely ist schockiert.

taz.de

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 1d

I know travellers delayed in the UK that were let in without one when they explained their situation at the border, but enforcement was notoriously lax in the beginning so I'm not sure that still works.

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 1d

it's one of those "we've had a consultation about it, leave us alone now" consultations

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 2d

It will never not be odd to me how the BBC reports on the BBC as if it weren't the BBC

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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 2d

Up is down

BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit

Deborah Turness, the CEO of news, says “mistakes have been made”.

www.bbc.co.uk

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 3d

This does not happen to someone who has zero charisma

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 5d

Musk gets his $1 trillion compensation package approved by Tesla shareholders.

Shareholders in the room chant "Elon, Elon, Elon!"

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 3d

I suppose Novo should have given Trump a slice of the company like he asked them to

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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 4d

Right, he’s not everyone’s cup of tea and his appeal isn’t nearly as broad as Trump’s. But the way he made all that money in the first place was by turning a publicly traded company into a cult of personality

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 4d

It doesn’t work on most of us but he definitely has a kind of charisma

Hard to sustain a cult without that

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Feb 11

It's International Women in Science Day ♀️, and I want to talk briefly about Rosalind Franklin.

A conventional choice for unconventional reasons: Dr. Franklin was one of the FIRST STRUCTURAL VIROLOGISTS. Let's talk about her work outside of the Crick & Watson debacle.

Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite.

Description: Dr. Franklin looks across a checkered table at everyday objects. I think this is in a cafe or a breakroom. Since we know this is Paris, this photo is likely from 1946?

With all she did to make Watson and Crick's discovery possible, Rosalind Franklin was essentially "a de facto collaborator," says Lynne Osman Elkin.
Novartis Foundation

Dr. Franklin looks to her right, wearing a dark necklace and broad-yoked shirt or blouse. She has short dark hair and eyebrows, and has a look of sharp intelligence, with an edge of weariness.

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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 4d

a strange game.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

lmao

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Max Read @maxread.info · 4d

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1

But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.

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