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Reka Patricia Gal

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Fire extinguisher on fire. Feminist STS & media theory. Environmental justice. Social Studies of Outer Space. Social Studies of Chemistry. Postdoctoral Researcher @TUM STS. Land⛰️Back.

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I wanted to stay there until the end of program.

25.02.2026 14:39 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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How long until things go 💥 and LEO becomes useless and night sky which already ruined be forever ruined

#astronomy

x.com/aaronburnett...

31.01.2026 13:20 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

The nexus between pedophilia and right wing authoritarianism seems to be based on the idea that there is a ruling class that gets to do what they want with no consequences.

31.01.2026 12:36 👍 676 🔁 104 💬 8 📌 2

btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

31.01.2026 12:33 👍 6882 🔁 1776 💬 76 📌 26

You mean the guy who wanted to cryogenically freeze his dong so he could pump out (what he thought were) white ubermensch children after death was a Hitler guy

31.01.2026 08:13 👍 139 🔁 34 💬 3 📌 0

Ich sage auch: Ihr werdet das, wenn Ihr ein Modicum emotionaler Redlichkeit besitzt, mit "ja" beantworten, leise seufzen, und dann weiter mitlaufen - weil das immer die risikoärmste Variante ist.

Und das wäre der GAU: das IHR SELBST einem echten Risiko ausgesetzt seid. Dafür gibt's doch die Armen.

19.01.2026 07:54 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Mitläufergesellschaft: Gießen, Lübcke & die Zukunft des Antifaschismus Die Reaktionen auf Gießen & Lübcke zeigen:die faschistische Bedrohung ist mittlerweile so akut, dass "die Mitte" beginnt, sich voller Scham vom Antifaschismus abzuwenden.

Wehe, ich sage Euch, Ihr Mittebürgis und Normalitätsjunkies: wenn Ihr dereinst in einer kollabierenden Welt ängstlich zu Hause kauern werdet, werdet Ihr Euch die Frage stellen, ob Ihr Euch nicht früher, besser organisiert, und militanter dem Marsch des #Faschismus hättet entgegensetzen sollen.

19.01.2026 07:40 👍 25 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 1

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week.

ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

18.01.2026 16:20 👍 9916 🔁 3080 💬 349 📌 169

nice to see Midas Project sharing their research here -- for anyone interested in AI / LLMs supercharging everything weird and often horrible about the internet... a good follow.

17.01.2026 21:56 👍 27 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
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The Companies Behind ICE Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

16.01.2026 20:19 👍 4945 🔁 3093 💬 100 📌 286

Ive been accused of my politics not being valid (despite me singlehandedly using the internet to raise almost a $1M for poor women) because I take vacations or go to nice restaurants.

It is such a farce to believe that a vow of poverty and suffering is necessary to advocate for equitable societies

01.01.2026 19:06 👍 224 🔁 39 💬 14 📌 3
Homeland security post The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world. A photo of an old 70's tan car on the beach with palm trees swaying in the wind as the surf comes in. with the text America After 100 million deportations.

Homeland security post The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world. A photo of an old 70's tan car on the beach with palm trees swaying in the wind as the surf comes in. with the text America After 100 million deportations.

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

31.12.2025 21:59 👍 4013 🔁 1377 💬 221 📌 280
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No idea who Laurent Brindeau is, but isn’t this caricature of @zackpolanski.bsky.social in today’s @dailymailpolitics.bsky.social ragingly antisemitic?

28.12.2025 18:41 👍 1291 🔁 298 💬 133 📌 109

damn. I just searched and the piece I wrote for them years ago about domestic violence and Title IX is gone

28.12.2025 20:35 👍 1444 🔁 563 💬 12 📌 11

There was a female prison nicknamed the rape club. It got closed (eventually) and the Trump administration is trying to reopen it as a migrant detention center

I don't think I need to provide further details.

It's all the same stink

24.12.2025 03:30 👍 221 🔁 77 💬 2 📌 2

Like Assata taught us, "to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave." Too many white folks are accustomed to being manipulated and dominated, fed scraps from the table. Pathetic, indeed. It's a diabolical system of control. MAGAism (Red or Blue) is the latest system update.

24.12.2025 15:45 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Few white people are up for it. Maybe because they don't understand what's in it for them, what do they have to gain. That's because they don't even know what they've lost: their indigeneity, their worth beyond productivity for capital, connection to ancestors. 5/

24.12.2025 15:45 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

That discomfort is real, it's physical. Changes have to happen on a neurological level to rewire the nervous system to feel the tentacles of domination and resist them. It's a kind of death for white people to wake up into antiracism.
4/

24.12.2025 15:45 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

White folks have been anesthitized for generations with racial apartheid, 'free' land, all-white juries, you name it. "Capitalism requires inequality. Racism enshrines it." -RW Gilmore
Trump keenly exploited anxiety and grievances over feared loss of generations of white privilege gains. 2/

24.12.2025 15:45 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Privilege is like an anesthetic. It reduces one's ability to feel the discomfort of oppression, to feel empathy, to act in solidarity.
"The purpose of racism is to control the behavior of white people, not Black people. For Blacks, guns and tanks are sufficient." -Prof. Otis Madison 1/

24.12.2025 15:45 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1

It's uncomfortable to unpack your privilege, but it's more uncomfortable to be oppressed. Most white people can't manage the relatively minor discomfort of coming to terms with whiteness in order to ease the burden on the oppressed. It's pretty pathetic.

24.12.2025 14:18 👍 254 🔁 85 💬 4 📌 6

"I shot a bunch of people because they have the same religion as a nation state in a different hemisphere doing terrible things" feels like the dictionary definition of bigotry, and in this case it's pretty clear what the bigotry is

24.12.2025 12:54 👍 451 🔁 50 💬 3 📌 0

Y’all remember when they came up with “Black Identity Extremist” in an attempt to vilify people speaking out against police brutality?

This is another attempt to use language to denigrate a reasonable response to tyranny.

24.12.2025 13:13 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

had a fascinating exchange about immigration with an Englishman who seemed rather taken aback that my response to "so you don't think England should be able to maintain its own borders" was "correct", when you spend half a millennium not respecting anyone else's border you don't get to have one

24.12.2025 13:16 👍 714 🔁 94 💬 16 📌 3
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“.. some engineers argued for mechanical handles,” but “Musk’s directive was clear: Virtually everything in the new vehicle — including the doors — should be controlled electrically ..

“.. 15 people have died in crashes where Tesla doors wouldn’t open ..”

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

23.12.2025 18:19 👍 1499 🔁 630 💬 146 📌 79

Reagan's project was successful: now, many Americans have no idea what a "public good" is.

Their only framework for social interaction--outside friends & family--is set by the concepts of private property & consumer choice.

That explains a lot about voting patterns & the dying sense of civic duty.

23.12.2025 22:12 👍 352 🔁 134 💬 6 📌 6
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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Life-and-death needs. You are still helping six families & a camp of fifteen more SURVIVE. Right here: chuffed.org/project/hope...

23.12.2025 10:01 👍 19 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0

Wonderful to have a contribution among these incredible and thoughtful scholars trying to make sense of the Silicon Valley technology elite and corporate forms of power and sovereignty

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23.12.2025 10:54 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Something important to note is that the tech companies and the gas companies have promised each other demand and supply, so massively constraining and killing any threat to that is a key function of the Trump admin

23.12.2025 10:06 👍 86 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 0
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UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’ Analysis suggests consumption at Northumberland site could be 50 times higher than US operator QTS estimates

The UK’s largest planned data centre—a project by US firm QTS—is understating its true water consumption by a factor of 50, says new analysis by @watershed-i.bsky.social & @aiarmsracebook.bsky.social @digiconomist.bsky.social No mistake; AI is a heavy, polluting industry. shorturl.at/KXQxJ

19.12.2025 13:00 👍 211 🔁 149 💬 6 📌 11