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Emyn Dean

@emyndean.bsky.social

I think about things. Interdisciplinary computer/social scientist, mostly memes, data, anthropology, ethics, language. Intersex. Postal voter.

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tbf, there's a risk that politics in football is bad for politics' reputation

03.03.2026 15:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

tbf, you can't buy Polymarket shares directly with Visa or PayPal. You would need a crypto intermediary.

02.03.2026 01:05 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

everything which is not personally approved by Wes Streeting is substantial and therefore bad

01.03.2026 00:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

aww

27.02.2026 00:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

had this exact thought

27.02.2026 00:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

more like the Norfolk broads

27.02.2026 00:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

canvassing:

26.02.2026 23:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

idk, putting Love before Laugh is almost hipster

26.02.2026 23:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

he'll march them up to the top of the hill and leave them there(?)

26.02.2026 23:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Reform: we only want white people to have families

26.02.2026 22:36 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I've read the judgement several times and I don't quite understand whether they mean "sex at birth" or "sex recorded at birth". I suggested at the time that they might mean "sex as recordable at birth by a third party [eg doctor or midwife]" which presumably could be alterable by a later assessment.

25.02.2026 09:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

you mean, taxation with representation??

21.02.2026 01:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

keep the written name but start pronouncing it "crossbox" with no explanation

20.02.2026 22:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You can't unintentionally fake data if you're following the process every other pollster follows. Unless you have a problem with the methodology, there's no point in questioning the data based on the pollster's affiliations. YouGov and Fox News do excellent polling.

20.02.2026 15:23 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Making A Complaint – British Polling Council (BPC) The British Polling Council (BPC) promotes transparency in the conduct and reporting of polls that enter the public domain. In so doing its aim is to enable users of polls to make an informed judgemen...

They're a BPC member that abides by its rules. If you think the data is faked, I suggest you make a complaint to the BPC as this would be quite a serious issue. www.britishpollingcouncil.org/making-a-com...

20.02.2026 14:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

In what universe should the lead candidate not campaign in favour of the third place candidate? It's this kind of entitlement and complacency that makes people hate Labour

20.02.2026 14:17 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

yes. everyone fucked their computers so much, there was no time

we solved it through Y2KANSWR (y2k and non-stop wanking response)

19.02.2026 10:47 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I get that, but as a legal reality it's super weird

18.02.2026 19:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If I can offer an even hotter take:

OpenAI, NVIDIA, etc make great technologies which are not considered marketable.

LLMs capture most of the interest, not because they're all that these companies do or because they're the most cutting edge thing, but because of capitalism and greed.

18.02.2026 13:58 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I am persistently intrigued by the use of "biological sex", as it doesn't seem to have a precise or verifiable legal meaning. What's to prevent someone simply claiming that their biological sex at birth is male or female? It's not as if someone is going to get a witness statement from your midwife

18.02.2026 11:18 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Anything involving IQ tests *in any way* is eugenicist pseudoscientific bullshit and should not be anywhere near anything to do with disability provision. Might as well base it on their Myers-Briggs type or their star sign.

16.02.2026 23:04 — 👍 197    🔁 57    💬 3    📌 1

I think almost every culture has fusion food, but the US certainly has some special combinations

16.02.2026 00:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I know who David Farragut is because I read 24th century history

16.02.2026 00:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

by-elections are very different from national elections

15.02.2026 13:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

. @cybersobiecki.bsky.social

14.02.2026 17:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ah, but here is your chance to canonize the plural of moose as meese

14.02.2026 16:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

omg new profile pic

12.02.2026 09:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I feel like I've seen this joke before somewhere

09.02.2026 22:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I disagree entirely. Labour is in power and it is the duty of opposition parties to critique those in power.

09.02.2026 18:25 — 👍 28    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I love/hate how the Labour excuse for not wanting Kier to resign is currently "but everybody else has even less talent"

08.02.2026 16:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0