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- Reposted by Splainer (Material Conditions Acknowledger)Do you think this is the first time Bartolome de las Casas has been labeled part of the "woke mob"?
- Reposted by Splainer (Material Conditions Acknowledger)I wrote a blog for the Meta-Research Center expressing my infinite frustration about not getting data. What else is new, you might think? Well, I added an extra layer of annoyance directed at the journals who do NOTHING to enforce promised data sharing. metaresearch.nl/blog/2026/2/...
- Reposted by Splainer (Material Conditions Acknowledger)Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.
- Another @nafeez.bsky.social banger. "Thiel personally solicited and maintained a business partnership with Epstein that stretched from 2014 [...] all the way up to Epstein’s final arrest."
- 📌 ICYMI — Jeffrey Epstein ‘Co-Owned’ Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund… bylinetimes.com/2026/02/04/jeffrey-…
- Reposted by Splainer (Material Conditions Acknowledger)Here’s What the Latest Epstein Files Say About His Ties to Higher Ed: Collectively, the files underscore how deeply Epstein remained embedded in academic and intellectual circles even after his criminal history became public. www.chronicle.com/article/here...
- Reposted by Splainer (Material Conditions Acknowledger)FWIW, as funny as it is to say all of society’s woes date back to Lowtax banning hentai, I think that sentiment really does give too much leniency towards all the things Facebook/Zuckerberg are responsible for.
- Reposted by Splainer (Material Conditions Acknowledger)If you'd told me, a decade ago, that the rising concept of the 'influencer' would one day serve as a transmission belt for the elevation of subliterate clowns seeking to provoke pogroms in exchange for promotional deals with online betting companies, I'd probably have said, "That tracks."
- Reposted by Splainer (Material Conditions Acknowledger)This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
- Reposted by Splainer (Material Conditions Acknowledger)Now is probably a good time to remind folks that Elon Musk deleted this recent tweet of his about an 18 year old girl
- Reposted by Splainer (Material Conditions Acknowledger)Shouting this from the rooftops!
- Biometric locks for phones aren’t just convenient for you, they are convenient for the cops. “explicitly authorized law enforcement personnel to obtain Natanson’s phone and both hold the device in front of her face and to forcibly use her fingers to unlock it” theintercept.com/2026/01/30/w...
- Reposted by Splainer (Material Conditions Acknowledger)Shout out to William stancils who said this week that protesting isn’t dangerous. This dude let people use his apartment to clean off pepper spray and tear gas and now he’s on a DHS domestic terrorist watchlist
- All those "Rude" labels are applied _manually_?!
- Reposted by Splainer (Material Conditions Acknowledger)The Twitter Files were the most scandalous and important documents ever but the ones about prominent politicians and members of the elite being pedophiles? Yawn
- The most dramatic example I can recall of a right-winger punching left with a transparently bad-faith accusation of bigotry.
- Reposted by Splainer (Material Conditions Acknowledger)WSJ: “.. The deal marked something unprecedented in American politics: a foreign government official taking a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president's company." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...