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worms cited

@christa.bsky.social

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Your model of the world is so fucking broken if this seems remotely “odd”

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social

“ The Houthis have recently homed in on a particular set of revelations to try to undermine Saudi Arabia’s leaders — namely that associates of the Saudi royal court sent tapestries that had draped the holiest site in Islam to Mr. Epstein’s private island.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/w...

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Grow up and stop living in fear of your fellow man

RELORD 閃士の Horror@haruhater.bsky.social

Yes, let's freely allow all the Russian, American and Chinese subversive agents into the democracies of the world so they get to undermine them from within. You are wrong. The future is going to need stronger, stricter borders + a more powerful nation state, some nationals banned. Sorry not sorry.

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Again, it’s important to understand that the transgender terror did not arise organically from the public. It was imposed from above, by the world’s most hateful and poisonous media class.

Leicester Gazette@leicestergazette.leicester.news

Two University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge

leicester.newsBBC edits out pride pins on University Challenge in ‘Orwellian’ move* * * This story was published by **The Leicester Gazette** : a local, independent newspaper about Leicestershire. 1,000 people have already joined our community. Just use those buttons below to download our app and **sign up for free**. * * * Astrophysics student Samuel Carlier and History student Emmeline Hague-Wright were shocked to find that their LGBTQ+ pride pins had been edited out of their University Challenge appearance earlier this year. The episode, initially scheduled for BBC Two on 24 August, was delayed twice before airing on 7 September 2026. The pins showed the progressive LGBTQ+ pride flag, the bisexual pride flag and a rainbow feather. Speaking to the Leicester Gazette, Sam said: “Living in a liberal democracy and having the state broadcaster tell you ‘we’re editing how you look’, seems very Orwellian.” Sam described the choice to remove the pins before broadcast as “weird” and “absurd”. He said: “[Censoring] that seemed weird. If I had worn a rainbow shirt, would they have censored that? If the idea is to keep things impartial, where is that line in the sand?” A side by-side image of Sam wearing the pin and with it having been digitally removed. Photograph: supplied Sam contacted the BBC to try to understand why his pins had been edited out. He told the Gazette: “The BBC people said they’d ring me, and I chased them, they just said go to the complaints website and file a complaint there, that’s what I did.” Since then, Sam hasn’t had a response from the BBC as to why his pins were removed. After the episode had aired, Sam noted that his shirt ‘melted’ into itself occasionally, as a result of the editing. Photograph: supplied ## Students believe the decision was made following online transphobia Emmeline was also shocked when she found out that the feather pin she wore was due to be removed from the episode she was in. It was understood by Emmeline that there was online transphobia in response to previous episode of University Challenge, and she had been contacted by the BBC, anticipating support from the broadcaster. When the BBC contacted her, instead of an offer of support, she was told her pin was going to be removed. “At first it was mostly confusion,” she said. “I heard that they had received a lot of nastiness online from people and I thought they were going to call me to say ‘we have support services if needed,’ and that wasn't what I got at all.” Instead, Emmeline was notified that the episodes were going to be delayed. “It was out of left field, I was confused for a while,” she said. “This entire delay has been because of a feather and two badges on a teammate that were basically impossible [for viewers] to see.” Emmeline had expressed her frustrations with the repeated delays from the BBC, spanning from mid-July to early-September. She said: “We were announced on the website and then delayed again, and then announced on the website a second time, and delayed even further. Speaking about the removal, she said: “It takes a lot of time” she said. “Making it [the edit] look good would be even more expensive and time-consuming. It seems like drastically a lot of effort.” ## Join the conversation Our app is more than just a way to keep up – it's a gateway to award-winning journalism and the local community. __Want to support our work?__ Click here for membership__.__ ## Wider criticism on LGBTQ+ support The pins Sam wore during the episode. Photograph: supplied According to leading LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall UK, two in five LGBTQ+ students will hide their identities at university for fear of discrimination. Stonewall has reported that more than 36 per cent of trans students have received hostile conduct from university staff due to their gender identity. Reflecting on the digital removal of the pins, Sam spoke about how disheartening the choice was. He said: “There was maybe like a span of eight years where someone could be uncontroversially out in the open queer – now that’s gone again.” he said. The BBC has also been widely criticised for ‘an attack on the LGBTQ+ community’ by pulling its involvement with the popular show, RuPaul's Drag Race. The broadcaster pulled its involvement in September following “significant financial pressures” as the reason for axing their involvement. The criticism follows another recent controversial edit by the BBC. On its hit show, Strictly Come Dancing, a decision was made to edit out ‘Protect the Dolls’ from contestant Bethany Antonia’s T-shirt. It’s a slogan which has become widely used to support the rights of trans women. The BBC defended their decision, saying the changes were made to meet editorial guidelines. It comes as the LGBTQ+ community has faced challenges amid an increasingly less tolerant political climate. ## What the BBC had to say When we asked them about editing out the pins worn by Leicester’s University Challenge team, a BBC spokesperson said: “In line with our editorial guidelines, we advise that no badges, flags, and emblems or symbols are worn or visible during filming, along with clothing with obvious branding or slogans. If such items are not removed for any reason then a decision is made between the programme makers and the BBC regarding any edits to the programme.” The BBC said the delays to the episode were unrelated to the decision to edit out the pins. A spokesperson for ITV Studios said: “University Challenge is an entertainment quiz show and is made in accordance with the BBC Editorial Guidelines requirements for impartiality.” The University of Leicester refused to comment on the matter. * * * **Before you go…** We’ve recently surpassed 1,000 subscribers, which is amazing considering we’re a small team on a shoestring budget. Now, we’re ready for the next stage of the Leicester Gazette. **Download our new app and get all of our journalism anytime, anywhere.** The app connects with **Bluesky** , **Mastodon** and **Threads** , giving you access to a network of around 60 million people. It’s a safer, more meaningful alternative to mainstream social media – owned by the community. * * *

Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign thought “People will like to watch a woman who fled with a man indicted for raping her 12 year old daughter claim that her daughter is a liar.” We do not

Israeli media appears to be running the palest photos of Netanyahu they have to emphasize that he is the white candidate. But he looks like shit. was he bleeding out

For many cancers only higher risk patients get chemo; it’s also used in the absence of more modern targeted therapies. Cancer patients’ facial appearance is so confounded by treatment, which is predictive, but not new information…

Your hair falls out with indiscriminate antiproliferative agents, that kill cells in the process of dividing. It works really well for the fastest-dividing cancers, but proliferation is an intrinsic feature, so it can crudely target cancer without better options

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BREAKING: SCOTUS rejects Trump admin's request to allow it to end gender-affirming medical care in prisons — a significant, if tentative, rejection of one of the admin's most extreme anti-trans arguments. Only Thomas and Alito noted they would have granted the stay. More to come: www.lawdork.com

Many analytic philosophers have been impressed by Frege’s assertions that [phenomenon], therefore [brute posit that explains by fiat]. But I read a contemporaneous review and it said “this is like a peasant attributing everything to his household goblin”

We can communicate, therefore there are mind-independent thoughts we can all access. We can make justified inferences, therefore there are primitive logical laws that need no justification. Hoppe was not impressed

I’m really interested in Natalie Harp’s bone cancer story because my sister was killed by osteosarcoma, and wow it is baffling

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This is what hurts the absolute most: Being gaslight or otherwise told by those who you interact with frequently or who have obvious power over you that your issues don't matter, didn't really happen, or aren't worthy of discussion. This happens even when they maybe accept something indeed happened.

Katie Spoon@kspoon.bsky.social

And many women described a second harm: reporting devaluation and having their institutions ignore it or make it worse.

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Replying to @dylanschenker.com

"The interested and informed citizen can congratulate himself on his lofty state of interest and information and neglect to see that he has abstained from decision and action."

Analytic philosophy is a living time capsule for fin de siècle emotional problems about objective truth. We have been frightened by the relativist peril for over one hundred years. Can someone tell us if its happening

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you can see how the idea might be scary to guys who don’t yet have electricity. what if everyone in the village starts thinking differently

logical psychologist menace Christoph Sigwart was like “… you are confusing truth with reality. please calm down” and that was correct

Analytic philosophy is a living time capsule for fin de siècle emotional problems about objective truth. We have been frightened by the relativist peril for over one hundred years. Can someone tell us if its happening

Was “the world can be viewed from many perspectives” one of the dangerous ideas of late 1800s and early 1900s Europe. Did the guys freaking out about it identify the actual threat

Cognition being physical does not mean it can be done by a machine! The fact that one kind of physical system can do something does not mean a radically different one can. It’s like we forgot that physical systems are constrained by physical possibility

I don’t think people really get just how different organisms are from other physical systems. Extremely different!! Very different stuff happening! Cannot happen outside a living system! The reasons are chemical but the result is a very different kind of processing

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I'm taken by this image of Bally Bagayoko, Mayor of Saint-Denis. A physically small man putting himself between protesters and cops, while someone behind him has his back.

It is a result of approaching questions in terms of what it takes for something to be true, instead of how things work

worms cited@christa.bsky.social

Analytic philosophy has a disastrous paradigm of treating natural phenomena like they occur based on conceptual criteria. they don’t

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Replying to @kenlowery.bsky.social

Spam that's vaguely credible until you look at it for 3 seconds is still spam. it's a spam generator. this is spam. noise. static. space filler. it's styrofoam peanuts instead of food. what are we DOING.

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So a thing I didn't realise about disc brakes on cheap bikes which have become near ubiquitous in the last 10 years is if you ride your cheap disc bicycle down a big hill, like 10% gradient downwards for a few minutes solid at 30+mph, and your braking technique is bad, they'll overheat and fail.

They’re just CALLED “Common” we love them all

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social

Hate it when you see what you think is a cool bird and you look it up later and it’s called like the Common Dumb Asshole. “Birders throughout history have hated its guts. It can’t even fly right.” I thought I saw an interesting guy.

When it is conscious. necessary and sufficient condition: consciousness

Sean Carroll@seanmcarroll.bsky.social

I do think philosophy as a discipline has dramatically underperformed at answering the question “When would an artificial system qualify as conscious?” Should have nailed that one long before it became a practical issue.

Analytic philosophy has a disastrous paradigm of treating natural phenomena like they occur based on conceptual criteria. they don’t

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Sometimes when I’m feeling hyperbolic I say that there really isn’t a climate movement at all these days - and wow, this goes some way to demonstrating why it feels that way

Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com

We surveyed 210 of the most active climate communicators across the US and Canada. Only one pair reported both collaborating with each other AND sharing information with each other. Key results below. Read the full report here: talkingclimate.com/landscape-as...

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it seems like it's increasingly impossible for people to hold more than one idea in their mind at once and things aren't about to become way less complicated anytime soon

They may have damaged her brain too badly to try again. She would need to be able to understand what is happening.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved.

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For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing