NEW: I wrote about why so many people wanted to believe that Ukrainian airstrikes on a Russian data center reduced troll and bot activity online, even though it's almost certainly not true. Featuring @noupside.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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I've been wondering why people have been taking this at face value. I saw one 'graph' and it was apparently just HTTP GET requests coming from their datacenters and that they fell off when the datacenter was hit. (Duh.) Not indicative of being anything other than a datacenter...

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"She had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life ... and she tried to settle that most difficult problem for women, how much was to be merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working." EG, North & South

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This is a completely inappropriate cover for this novel, which turns out to be a sharp, nuanced, and often poignant novel about choices and relationships and aging and the messiness of it all. I picked it up at the library in spite of the cover because I have often found her novels good in these

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It was quality over quantity on here from the start, but I do get the odd ‘blocked’ post due to that list. [“Inadvertently glanced at a HP poster while walking through Waterstones in 1999” is damning evidence - saying the new version looks a reanimated corpse isn’t enough to atone once blocked!]

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