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Hey, everybody! Not that kind of doctor. Embodied cognition, AI and robotics, eating behaviour, flavour & the senses Mostly cathartic ranting Personal account

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@nisslbody.blacksky.app hi I'm intrigued how I managed to end up on your ai boosters list. Mind letting me know? I don't feel like an AI booster, see, a bit the opposite really

07.03.2026 20:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

block Dr Nick day apparently, must've gotten on some wanky list

07.03.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You’d think this would be a totally humiliating, career-ending reality check for the cheerleaders of pro-MAGA politicians and media in the UK.
β€œOh dear, lads… no denying we backed the wrong horse here.”
But no. On they cheer, as the whole country shakes its head in despair.

07.03.2026 18:20 πŸ‘ 188 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

another war ended by the peace president

07.03.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Xi looking at Taiwan and watching Trump spaff the entire US stock of ammo

07.03.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

C'mon now. Claude is just a name, mate

07.03.2026 15:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Given the obvious portents for Republicans, seems that this election is going to be riddled with fake Democrats and the billionaires that fund them.

06.03.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 414 πŸ” 161 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 8

it really is just stunningly on the nose that the opening salvo to Trump’s supposed war
of liberation in Iran began with bombing a girl’s school.

if you put that in fiction people would dismiss it as being too maudlin and heavy-handed, and yet this kind of thing just keeps actually happening.

07.03.2026 13:44 πŸ‘ 961 πŸ” 164 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 9

Damn your inconvenient captions, man! πŸ˜ƒ

07.03.2026 14:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There is only one form of Trumpofascism which works out ok for the world, and that is a deposed form. We've wasted >a year desperately hoping otherwise and avoiding risk, thereby enabling it to grow and consolidate. We are failing this challenge and the result will be catastrophic

07.03.2026 11:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is this about the USA? (No)

07.03.2026 10:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just cos there is a baddy, does not mean there is a goody

07.03.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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As someone who routinely mocks permabullish clickbait oil forecasts, I want to be exceptionally clear:

Crude WILL go to $200/bbl, en route higher, unless traffic through the Strait resumes.

Not clickbait, but rather brutal physics and necessary economic incentives.

06.03.2026 16:17 πŸ‘ 1809 πŸ” 333 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 80
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12. I think what's more significant is that the AP and other media organizations have consistently rejected the Republican effort to characterize the Iran war as anything but a war.

06.03.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Oh, neat. Good thing we're having to deal with complete global fucking chaos because of one insane narcissistic pedo man-baby instead...

06.03.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the blague, and the problem is it really is that bad and everyone will be fucked if it's not stopped

06.03.2026 22:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"No stupid rules of engagement"

06.03.2026 22:19 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

America has a long history of pointless and wasteful military adventurism. And in our quest to normalize Trump we’ve stuck his Iran war in that box: β€œanother war, just like the rest.” It’s not like the rest. It’s an act of insanity, rogue state behavior. Don’t know how this ends until we admit it.

06.03.2026 17:38 πŸ‘ 1318 πŸ” 206 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 15

It’s lunacy, madman stuff. We’re just going around killing whoever we feel like, with zero regard for the law OR the consequences! If any other country were doing it our political class would say, probably rightfully, that there was an urgent necessity for their leaders to eat a cruise missile.

06.03.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 1147 πŸ” 120 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 7

but at the same time it's an empirical fact that conservatism, such as it was, is collapsing into fascism with a few minor purges and a bit of momentum

06.03.2026 21:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
It Wasn't Fascism All Along Conservatism was a distinct ideology but it is dead and it is not coming back.

"Conservatism is not merely dead, fascism has paraded the body around, peeled off its face, and is wearing it as a mask for its own amusement as it does a demented little dance." www.liberalcurrents.com/it-wasnt-fas...

06.03.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 128 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

Like, Claude is just a name

06.03.2026 21:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Getting some expert advice on how to wage an illegal war over imaginary WMDs

06.03.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 313 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 4

Nagging thought... Can't help feeling the burden of proof is being reversed here. When someone says x might be conscious, if there is not a non-cryptic answer to the Q 'what is conscious?' is difficult then we seem to be in woo territory.

06.03.2026 21:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What's amazing here is that the Trumpofascists have the press and politicians querying about whether this is a war, exactly. Instead of taking on the fact that the mad dictator king is just waging crazy stupid war like there's no constitution and no congress and fuck the economy

06.03.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The simple phrase, "Look, these people are all Nazi perverts," explains a good 90% of the news.

06.03.2026 13:15 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Blue Labour not escaping the Trumpist 5th column suspicions

06.03.2026 18:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Much socialism, very working class

06.03.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

'human values' is a bit vague innit

06.03.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🎼 "What the hell am I doin' here?" 🎢

05.03.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1