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Shane Glackin

@eltorosolo.bsky.social

Read Philosophy, write Philosophy, swear. (senior lecturer at u of exeter; phil. of medicine, politics, ethics & metaethics, philosophical methodology. Irish, sports bore, hobbyist guitar pedal-builder)

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Every mention of 'the UAE model' needs to be accompanied by a reminder that the population of the UAE is 89% immigrant and 70% male.

07.10.2025 14:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 94    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is fiendishly clever, fiendishly evil, and almost certainly what they're trying to do.

07.10.2025 17:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"My name is Reek."

07.10.2025 14:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this! legitimate, trusted, and verifiable knowledge/reality are becoming a thing of the past

07.10.2025 11:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 75    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

I don't want an obsequious chatbot, I just want:
a) to be able to attach comments to endnotes/footnotes
b) to be able to convert PDFs with endnotes/footnotes to a Word doc

06.10.2025 14:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

07.10.2025 00:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15432    ๐Ÿ” 2276    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 817    ๐Ÿ“Œ 262
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Minister Robert Jenrick ordered painting over of child asylum unit murals - BBC News Robert Jenrick is reported to have considered the cartoon images in the Dover centre too welcoming.

This is who Robert Jenrick is.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

07.10.2025 12:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 51    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

This story needs national attention.

Not just because what happened to her was horrific, but also to get the American public accustomed to the idea that ICE cannot be trusted

07.10.2025 10:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 181    ๐Ÿ” 81    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding theyโ€™re against communities living โ€œparallel livesโ€ might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

07.10.2025 10:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1640    ๐Ÿ” 383    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 72    ๐Ÿ“Œ 28
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Pat Leahy: Ireland faces a stark choice in the face of the threat from Russia Catherine Connollyโ€™s horror at the remilitarisation of Europe is understandable, but she has taken the wrong lesson from the history of the 1930s

"Catherine Connollyโ€™s horror at the remilitarisation of Europe is understandable. But it is a very strange lesson to take from the history of the 1930s that democracies, faced with the threat from aggressive autocracies, should not prepare to defend themselves."

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

07.10.2025 10:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He doesn't want areas where there is a 'preponderance' of one race over another. My kids school in rural Suffolk had one black family in a school of 1200 pupils. But that's not what he means, is it?

07.10.2025 08:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 439    ๐Ÿ” 104    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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If you don't understand that a civilization can't survive systematic degradation of information like this, you are no friend of mine. Not "by" Christina Perri in "2019," for fuck's sake. By Louisiana governor Jimmy Davis, in 1940. Seriously: this shit is death to culture and knowledge. A bludgeon.

07.10.2025 09:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 172    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Feeding baba his porridge this morning, he tutted and muttered "I see the organisers got the basic catering package".

07.10.2025 09:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s largely academic, because @KemiBadenoch is on a Liz Truss trajectory towards the US Nutter Circuit. But that the Leader of the Opposition would spread such utter lies - adding in her ignorance by suggesting the Sentencing Council has any role in immigration - is pathetic.

07.10.2025 08:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 472    ๐Ÿ” 83    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't think Robert Jenrick realises that the people clapping along to him when he talks about Handsworth would clap along if he said the same about Stamford Hill. I'd hope that would give him pause for thought.

07.10.2025 07:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 471    ๐Ÿ” 89    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

I regret to inform you that the American adult converts are At It Again.

07.10.2025 00:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
zeldawilliams 
20m
From Create Mode 
โ€ขโ€ข
Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode โ€ขโ€ข Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams ๐Ÿ’”

06.10.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14878    ๐Ÿ” 6602    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 75    ๐Ÿ“Œ 464

OPENAI LAWYER: so how does this sound. 'user x' pays us $3 to generate a video of elsa suffocating him with her ass. from that, you will receive a princely 50ยข

DISNEY LAWYER: i am going to shoot you with a gun

06.10.2025 16:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2447    ๐Ÿ” 673    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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Robert Jenrick complained of โ€˜not seeing another white faceโ€™ in Birmingham neighbourhood Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

Jenrick is plainly a racist. Not up for discussion.

He should just say it, and stop pretending he isn't.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

06.10.2025 20:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Important to note ICE tends to drop off detainees before 9 a.m. and after 6 p.m., which is why people were protesting at 5 a.m. to begin with. It's not because waking up at 4 a.m. was a convenient time for protesters!

06.10.2025 18:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3102    ๐Ÿ” 852    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

06.10.2025 17:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5521    ๐Ÿ” 1605    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 112    ๐Ÿ“Œ 27

Reminder that all you need to do to get a job in tech is to be a white guy that murders someone on the subway. You need no other qualifications to work in this business. None at all. Just like you don't need to be a journalist if you want to run CBS News. It's not a requirement.

06.10.2025 16:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 360    ๐Ÿ” 93    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

As on the Eastern Front, snowflakes ftw

06.10.2025 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

06.10.2025 12:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 122    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Great city, great colleagues; if you fit the (quite flexible) profile, you should apply.

06.10.2025 15:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

The link is timestamped to the very final seconds but yeah, absolute banger. Takes me back.

06.10.2025 14:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If the landlord that lived in our garage and pretended he didn't and used to secretly sleep in one of the girls beds when she was away and used go through our bins and once fished out a pregnancy test amd brought it up ever runs for president I will be ready

06.10.2025 09:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 358    ๐Ÿ” 49    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

Just cosmic.

06.10.2025 14:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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perfect detail

06.10.2025 11:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 999    ๐Ÿ” 269    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 37    ๐Ÿ“Œ 49

The new Supreme Court term starts today, meaning that -- in a novel twist -- the justices will hear oral arguments in some cases before they issue rulings that actually explain what they are doing.

06.10.2025 12:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3814    ๐Ÿ” 663    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 66    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18

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