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2026-09-01 06:26:52 UTC

'Being No. 1 in oil production appears to have given the US enough confidence to flex its muscles but not enough capacity to ignore the consequences...That capacity involves more than just oil production. US refineries, for example, are running harder this summer than in almost any other over the past three decades. Yet that hasn’t prevented fuel shortages arising from the conflict with Iran'
#geopolitics #usPol #iran #middleEast #polycrisis
https://energynow.com/2026/08/commentary-us-energy-dominance-descends-into-decadence/

2026-08-22 05:05:27 UTC

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2026-08-18 02:39:29 UTC

More catchup
'After Donald Trump shuttered the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate.gov website in 2025, cutting off public access to its 15-year archive of climate information, former members of the site's team have brought much of it back at a new domain'
#climateScience #nonProfit #polycrisis
https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/06/26/trump-shuttered-climate-change-site-back-online-in-nonprofit-hands/5263319

2026-08-18 02:14:27 UTC

Anyone know of a solar/storage installation outfit in Victoria Australia who are doing good work and are decent people to work for?
#askFedi #victoria

2026-08-08 03:51:59 UTC

'Accounts with links to the Russian military promoting far-right messages reached more than 500,000 people in the days following the mass influx of people into Ceuta...Russia-linked social media accounts frequently spread destabilising narratives in Europe, often promoting far-right talking points about immigration'
#euPol #russia #europe #farRight #disinformation #polycrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/07/far-right-narrative-russia-online-accounts-ceuta-migration-crisis-analysis

2026-08-05 01:14:23 UTC

'For over a decade, it was the heartbeat of vulnerability research. If something mattered in security, it was on Bugtraq first. Then it went quiet. The domain changed hands through a chain of acquisitions, and somewhere along the way, Bugtraq stopped being Bugtraq. The archives went dark. The list went silent. A generation of researchers grew up without it. Today, we bring it back'
#technology #software #security
#nevent1q…xm5u

2026-08-01 04:01:26 UTC

Arundhati Roy
'For the first time in years, it feels wonderful to be Indian. Just when hope seemed lost, they came. Young roaches riding in on the rain. The progeny of the unholy union between a judge and a joke'
#india #cockroachParty #democracy
https://thewire.in/rights/cockroach-democracy-unarmed-and-dangerous

2026-07-24 00:24:34 UTC

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@nprofile…zejv getting invalid address over here

2026-07-15 00:23:17 UTC

RE: https://scholar.social/@natebowling/116919710245909045
'*gentrification* is the process by which a neighborhood experiences an influx of wealthier residents and investment, often bringing higher property values, new businesses, and changes to the built environment. None of those things are inherently bad. The trouble comes with what often follows...Displacement occurs when rising housing costs, taxes, rents, or changing neighborhood conditions make it difficult or impossible for longtime residents to remain in the community they call home'
#gentrification #disability #builtEnvironment #publicPolicy #livableCities

2026-07-02 01:04:14 UTC

'When all else fails, “murdoching” is “simply continuing to assert something as true as if no one has ever shown it was false...Instead of it being a way to hold power to account, Murdoch saw it as a means of holding individuals to account”'
#polycrisis #media #murdoch
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/01/andrew-dodd-matthew-ricketson-getting-murdoch-book-bullying-factory

2026-06-26 01:46:55 UTC

Anne Pasek @nprofile…4hfr
'What are the rules of the road for building AI data centres responsibly? And are such rules, to the extent they exist, appropriate for this new type of infrastructure?'
#publicPolicy #ai #polycrisis #environment
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-hamilton-just-hit-pause-on-all-ai-data-centres-this-is-big/

2026-06-22 03:31:36 UTC

'The possible ramifications of this rupture are giddying...the collapse of Netanyahu’s dream of a greater Israel as the dominant Middle East power – and the end of unquestioning US support and unconditional military aid'
#israel #middleEast #gaza #iran
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/21/donald-trump-iran-deal-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-pm-iran

2026-06-15 02:50:21 UTC

Andy Craig on Gordon Wood
'here is the heart of Wood, the insight that animates nearly everything he wrote. The Founders were gentlemen of the 18th century. They were classically educated men who pictured a republic led by a natural aristocracy...What they got instead was an America more radically different from the Old World than they had ever envisioned. Not simply a revival of the classical Roman republic they idolized, or the British constitution produced by the Glorious Revolution, but something fundamentally novel in human history'
#history #culture #usPol #revolution
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-historian-who-explained-the-true

2026-05-30 04:42:30 UTC

'Some people find chatbots useful...but nobody is doing anything with them that remotely justifies their socialized costs. I’m compelled to note that I’ve been a machine learning practitioner for 20 years, and was excited about last decade’s neural network developments, but this train has gone off the rails'
#genAI #technology #polycrisis #climateCrisis #ClimateChange
https://www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-2026/

2026-05-29 04:20:45 UTC

'Data center activism is a bankshot. It can trigger a reset of the status quo, and has the potential to make a lasting impact on the digital future...The Wall Street Journal keeps reporting on circular financing. Ed Zitron keeps shouting that the math doesn’t math. But media is so fragmented, the regulatory state so compromised, and wealth so concentrated that the investor-class just keeps pumping money in'
#genAI #technology #resistance #activism #ventureCapital
https://davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-data-center-bankshot

2026-05-28 00:46:22 UTC

RE: https://chaos.social/@catileptic/116647102977043390
'Wikimedia Foundation fired Brooke Vibber...the first full-time employee the Wikimedia Foundation ever hired, and its first Chief Technical Officer. For more than twenty years she was the engineer you called when something deep in the code was broken. The Foundation itself once described her as one of a very small number of people in the world who deeply understand the technical underpinnings of the system. She was also a union organizer'
#internet #www #wikipedia #union

2026-05-22 04:01:48 UTC

'we examine the union avoidance industry and the law firms that play integral roles in this business. We calculate the revenue law firms generate from employers who try to avoid unions and undermine collective bargaining with their workers. Further, we discuss the impacts of the union avoidance industry on workers’ ability to organize and what it means for workers, our economy, and our democracy'
#union #unionBusting #classWar #socialChange
https://www.epi.org/publication/u-s-employers-spend-more-than-1-5-billion-annually-on-union-avoidance/

2026-05-18 06:13:47 UTC

'when the dominant form of energy changes, there is often a shift in the global pecking order. We are now in the midst of one such transition as the epoch of petrol, predominantly produced in the United States, Russia and Gulf states, starts to give way to an era of renewables, overwhelmingly manufactured in China. But the outcome remains contested'
#renewables #polycrisis #fossilFuel #climateChange #china
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/17/america-china-energy-oil-renewables

2026-05-17 03:16:49 UTC

Tressie McMillan Cottom
'Women are facing an economic apocalypse. Democrats have no plan for them. Republicans have a plan, and it’s a one-way ticket back to housewifery. The girl bosses who once promised us we could have it all are now selling the same uncritical A.I. takes as the men'
#genAI #feminism #publicPolicy #union
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/opinion/reese-witherspoon-mel-robbins-girlboss-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ilA.b_F3.pk-HP-VH3Cxs&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-05-04 08:21:59 UTC

Nesrine Malik
'One of the most jarring things about crisis is how much carries on as normal, how American power retains such a massive gravitational pull that even as Trump engages in all manner of unhinged behaviour or threatens to wipe out an entire civilisation, the cosy protocols of state respect and friendliness continue...to believe, for a moment, that the White House had not been driven into the gutter'
#trump #usPol #imperialDecline #ukPol
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/04/king-charles-us-visit-donald-trump-history-end-era

2026-05-01 04:37:03 UTC

'If the answer is no, the inquiry will say so and the lobby will be vindicated. If the answer is yes...then every Australian citizen has been the victim of a fraud conducted against their democracy by a foreign power and its local agents, for thirty years, with the full knowledge and active participation of the people they elected to protect them'
#israel #ausPol #zionism #straya
https://michaelwest.com.au/the-enforcement-the-lobby-that-bought-australian-democracy/

2026-04-21 06:41:52 UTC

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@nprofile…xkhf accidentally...?

2026-04-18 04:29:43 UTC

'Wing and his colleagues measured a 10-fold concentration of lithium atoms in the upper atmosphere around 20 hours after the uncontrolled re-entry of the Falcon 9 rocket. Increasing amounts of metal, such as lithium...are beginning to alter the chemical composition of Earth’s atmosphere'
#musk #bezos #nasa #space #rockets #climateChange
https://gizmodo.com/study-confirms-reentering-spacex-rockets-are-peppering-the-upper-atmosphere-with-metal-pollution-2000723932

2026-04-03 07:50:32 UTC

'The ‘rush for AI-gold’ appears to be overriding good practice and systemic thinking...and is developing far more rapidly than any broader, more sustainable systems'
#ai #datacentres #climateChange #polycrisis
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/30/climate/data-centers-are-having-an-underrported

2026-04-03 01:55:29 UTC

'The biggest current ideological collision is between developers warning of rapid, useful, and transformative advancements in software automation, and folks justifiably incensed that those advancements will arrive alongside a *gargantuan, historic ratfucking* of creatives, labor, the environment, and democracy itself'
#ai #genAI #technology #democracy #climateChange #polycrisis
https://karlbode.com/the-problem-with-ai-is-shitty-human-beings/

2026-03-29 05:24:37 UTC

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Ball

2026-03-29 05:18:26 UTC

#history #research #credit #fuckArthurDeanInPerpetuity
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2026-03-22 03:54:44 UTC

what we thought we knew about autism and... whatnot
'For decades, researchers had been measuring the wrong thing. Conflating communication style differences with empathy deficits produced dramatically inflated effect sizes and an illusion of empathy impairment'
#autism #actuallyAutistic #science #psychology
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/positively-different/202601/what-the-world-got-wrong-about-autistic-people

2026-02-09 23:03:00 UTC

I love this essay by Deb Chachra @nprofile…awgk (I've read it several times) but this quote strikes me every time, the clarity with which it articulates the self interest of the rich as necessary precondition to caring for the poor
'the wealthy taxpayers of Boston were convinced to build out water and sewage systems by a straightforward logic: every person in the city, rich or poor, needed clean water to drink every day. Without it, they would be at risk of contracting water-borne diseases like cholera. And with so many people in proximity, wealth alone couldn’t provide protection from contagious disease'
#socialJustice #cityPlanning #psychogeography #community
https://comment.org/care-at-scale/

2026-02-07 02:39:55 UTC

Bovino not welcome in Vegas
“Upon becoming aware of the individual’s presence, the patron was asked to leave the premises and was escorted out by staff in accordance with venue policy to maintain a safe and orderly environment for all patrons,” the venue said...Bottled Blonde did not provide further details other than describing itself as a private business that “does not engage in political activity or affiliations” and “reserves the right to refuse service to any patron at its discretion.”
#nazis #usPol #shunTheCunts #longMemory
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2026/feb/05/border-patrol-boss-gregory-bovino-tossed-from-las/

2026-01-31 08:42:15 UTC

I've seen some pretty entertaining reviews but I reckon this was the best
'Trump himself is an instantly more charismatic presence on screen. His scenes offer a relief from Melania’s mask of pure nothingness. Hitting cinemas as the streets of America remain filled with the angry and grieving – with the country on the verge of an irreparable schism – the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like Marie Antoinette skulking in her cake-filled chateau, or Hermann Göring’s staring up at his looted Monet...The “film” is part propaganda, sure, and part sop to Big Tech companies who require constant regulatory approval for financial manoeuvrings. Even then, it is bad. It will exist as a striking artefact – like The Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will – of a time when Americans willingly subordinated themselves to a political and economic oligopoly'
#melania #trump #cinema #documentary #neoimperialism
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/melania-trump-movie-review-documentary-b2911108.html

2026-01-16 19:57:00 UTC

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@nprofile…4fj5 @nprofile…xnyu this’s disingenuous in the extreme. in addition you’re posing off like everyone objecting’s some kind of naive idealist.
wiki are flush with cash to be clear

2025-12-24 22:50:34 UTC

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2025-12-20 06:36:09 UTC

Richard Denniss
'Australia is rich. The average income per person is the 12th highest in the world, and despite our small population we are the world’s 15th biggest economy. Despite this, our business community remains determined to keep this one of the lowest taxed countries in the world, which makes those of us who rely on public schools, public hospitals and public transport feel poor'
#ausPol #economics #australiaInstitute
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2025/12/20/the-fight-chalmers-has-have

2025-12-09 05:05:56 UTC

i've not done any reading on parasocial relationships so am just spitballing really and don't have anything like an insight nor any knowledge of psychology as a discipline or as a practice. in short, i'm roundly unqualified to comment.
i've always thought that parasocial covered the kind of emotional attachments folks develop toward celebrities and that apparently unbounded, untethered adoration strikes me as pretty unhealthy so have always thought of it as a problematic phenomenon.
having got that out of the way, i am constantly confronted by emotional responses i have toward folks on my timeline (i restrict myself to follows (almost exclusively restrict boosts for everyone)). i have heroes for whom i experience a rush of gratitude when they lay out their fearless explorations (@nprofile…uvs9 i'm looking at you) and share their lives and their discoveries, and i have comrades who i feel as though i'm watching over in some insubstantial yet important way.
there are folks who i'm just grateful to see are plugging away sharing their little joys and distractions and folks who keep me in one loop or another i would almost certainly drop out of were it not for their sharing. i don't know what i'm talking about (clearly) but it seems to me that as isolated as i may be in meatspace, the social contact i enjoy here on masto is adequate to the task of nourishing my basic needs in very substantive ways that i think explains peoples' attachments to social platforms of one kind or another above and beyond the rage-bait meat grinder we're so often framing them to be.
i realise fedi's different to blewski or fb or whatever but i do reckon there's a distinction to be made that can encompass these toxic platforms too and explain something about why we're so compelled above and beyond the lizard-brain hunger for sensation.
#socialMedia #parasocial #screenTime #mentalHealth

2025-10-16 05:25:16 UTC

#ai #internet #slop #whatBenefit
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2025-10-15 13:51:40 UTC

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@nprofile…998y mr doctorow sir, you are a spamming MACHINE

2025-10-15 00:49:37 UTC

"a new digital platform enabling your favorite independently owned bookstores to sell digital books, granting them a foothold in a marketplace long dominated by Amazon...100% of the profits generated by sales through those brick-and-mortar stores funnel directly back to them. Customers who don’t specify a store to support when purchasing e-books on Bookshop.org support indie shops anyway, since a third of the profit from those sales goes into a profit-sharing pool"
#reading #ebooks #books #literature #technology #bookStore #fuckAmazon
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/28/bookshoporg-enters-the-e-book-arena-giving-indie-stores-a-new-way-to-compete-with/

2025-10-03 09:53:48 UTC

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"we can reclaim literal *tons* of material from existing, superannuated tech. There’s a solar-powered factory that ingests old solar panels, decomposes them into their source materials, and makes new, hyper-efficient solar panels out of them, reclaiming 99% of their materials"

2025-10-03 09:47:30 UTC

Doctorow on Solar Transition in far better shape than we're given to believe
"the material bill for solarization is in freefall, with no end in sight. The amount of stuff we need to make panels, transmission lines and batteries keeps declining. Further: the efficiency gains of “clean” technology are astounding — meaning that, for example, it not only takes a lot less material to make a solar panel, the panel we make out of so much less stuff generates a lot more power. More: we keep finding ways to substitute more abundant materials for materials that are harder to find or refine (for example, swapping out lithium in batteries and replacing it with sodium, one of the most abundant minerals on Earth). Finally: we keep finding new sources of the materials that we can’t readily substitute for"
#solarPunk #renewableEnergy #fossilFuels #climateChange #energyTransition
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-10-02-there-goes-the-sun-carbon-shifting-039f968e727d

2025-08-28 01:09:19 UTC

Re the death of Adam Raine
'the chatbot could scarcely have done more to encourage and facilitate his suicide shy of sprouting a robot leg to kick the chair out from under him'
#ai #artificailIntelligence #chatGPT #humanity #GettingSoSickOfThisShit
https://defector.com/butlerian-jihad-now

2025-06-17 03:22:45 UTC

Nesrine Malick
"the region is not just Israel’s back yard. It is other people’s homes and they have their own politics, histories, populations and security needs that, increasingly, are subject to a country that has decided that only its own agenda matters."
if i ever met this person, i would bow my head reverently and if i could muster the courage i would, with trembling lips, kiss her hand
#Gaza #Iran #MiddleEast #Palestine
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/16/gaza-israel-destroyed-reputation-attacking-iran-benjamin-netanyahu

2025-05-26 06:04:23 UTC

Nesrine Malik on Gaza
"Why now, after 19 months of relentless assault that was plain for all to see, and declared by Israeli authorities themselves, has the tide begun to shift on Gaza?"
#Palestine #gaza #genocide #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/26/israel-gaza-war-turning-point-uk-eu-changed

2025-05-08 05:57:54 UTC

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@nprofile…emwt why not just switch to wireguard?

2025-03-20 04:48:00 UTC

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@nprofile…kxav socket to me (and a barcode!)
lovely

2025-03-10 03:35:28 UTC

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@nprofile…emwt it. is. huge. I'm not saying it's absent in Armbian but I'm pretty sensitive to it and tend to get pretty abrasive and sardonic when I encounter it so it's an intolerance that can exclude me from benefiting from/contributing to community support fora

2025-03-10 03:28:46 UTC

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@nprofile…emwt They're a pretty great team and in my experience there's a minimum of that FOSS engineer sneer hierarchy you seem to find everywhere else

2025-03-10 03:22:48 UTC

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@nprofile…emwt Armbian kernel is absolutely not vanilla

2025-03-10 01:58:06 UTC

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@nprofile…emwt It's actually a mystery to me how it can be such a mystery.
I had one of the OMV devs tell me it's not possible an SBC runs more efficiently on Armbian because it uses the same kernel as vanilla Debian which's false because if you install OMV's Wireguard plugin on an Armbian system it will install a vanilla kernel and will not be able to reboot.
If a vanilla kernel breaks an Armbian system there's something fundamentally different about those two kernels.

2025-03-07 22:37:46 UTC

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@nprofile…emwt something i (still) find astonishing is that even raspberry pi hardware runs cooler and more efficiently on armbian

2025-02-25 00:08:18 UTC

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@nprofile…z7vu i wish jon stewart was not so frequently cited as some kind of arbiter of good politics or/and argumentation

2025-02-23 22:22:47 UTC

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@nprofile…uhjq @nprofile…t8qp @nprofile…qqu4 was graphene a part of your equation and you decided against it or furi was just your first stop?

2025-01-21 09:38:41 UTC

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@nprofile…cgs9 there's 2160i..?

2025-01-20 06:21:44 UTC

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@nprofile…mpj6 tiktok aligning itself to trump..?
that's a bit of a stretch

2025-01-16 08:43:23 UTC

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@nprofile…88hc @nprofile…6urt you can read chinese or you read in translation?

2024-12-21 03:24:21 UTC

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@nprofile…gffv yeh i heard that in your op, didn't mean to reduce your observation which's absolutely worth making
i guess i've become a bit fragile when it comes to these issues. i think most rational folks default to reform when i think we should be considering our options above and beyond reform at all times at this point

2024-12-21 01:04:56 UTC

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@nprofile…ypxz i really enjoy your work and to be clear it enables me to visit structures and locations i very much would visit were life more of a voluntary proposition. visiting abandoned or/and condemned buildings was a real fascination for me as a kid
having said all that there's a real conflict in me liking the images you post. such a tension taking pleasure in the vicarious peeps into times and places left to rot

2024-12-21 00:49:12 UTC

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@nprofile…gffv sympathetic to this assessment but reckon it's worth asserting that there's an argument to be made that existing structures and institutions've proven themselves well beyond reform

2024-12-12 03:43:31 UTC

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@nprofile…gffv it's a bit seat-of-the-pants isn't it

2024-12-12 03:41:43 UTC

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@nprofile…gffv it's an m1 air
i may've misrepresented, siri toggle is off as before and a get apple intelligence button in a banner at top
https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/113/637/776/635/479/576/original/3a75877edc739306.jpg

2024-12-12 02:56:17 UTC

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@nprofile…gffv i hit setup later and it's showing as off in siri settings
could be that i don't use siri which was therefore off for the update

2024-12-10 07:25:14 UTC

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@nprofile…6urt if i had a bear suit as a kid i would never have taken it off. not ever.

2024-12-04 21:24:54 UTC

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@nprofile…gffv think you can argue that youth culture like goth or/and emo can’t be described as authentic by virtue of being adopted to express a generic alienation from broader consumer culture

2024-11-24 23:52:23 UTC

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@nprofile…ypxz I've no doubt you're aware, my post was to the redundancy but I'm waking up and it's no longer even vaguely amusing anymore, soz

2024-11-24 23:40:19 UTC

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@nprofile…ypxz not meaning to be a pedant i'm just waking up and that's what came to mind. enjoy your posts, ta

2024-11-24 23:37:56 UTC

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@nprofile…ypxz ha. so to my point, there is no ethical med testing on *prisoners* (iherently unethical)

2024-11-24 21:51:07 UTC

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@nprofile…ypxz unethical medical testing on prisoners as distinct from…?

2023-09-23 01:48:17 UTC

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@npub1sat…8vnx @npub1rhr…gh5p Hahahaha, oh you’re so funny. I dint realise you’re a parody account, my bad.

2023-09-23 01:45:05 UTC

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@npub1sat…8vnx @npub1rhr…gh5p You really are a complete wanker aren’t you?

2023-09-23 01:42:15 UTC

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@npub1sat…8vnx @npub1rhr…gh5p That seems like a needlessly aggressive response.
You’re not doing your argument (wtf is your argument anyway?) any favours at all by being such an unmitigated asshole.

2023-09-04 01:57:01 UTC

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@npub1hjn…vfr7 How do you reconcile yourself to the culture that produced these folks? Your culture. You can't just cut off your hand and make out like you can chuck it into a box for comic relief

2023-08-23 03:56:40 UTC

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@npub1qmc…v6gx good place to start?
https://sci-hub.ru/downloads/2020-05-27/cf/[email protected]?download=true