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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 1d

Trauma doesn’t just stay in your mind, it sits in your body for so long that if left unhealed, can impact your cells and change your DNA. When we say that wounds are inherited, we literally mean it. So learn to breathe, rest, and let go of what doesn’t deserve your attention before it consumes you.

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Helle Abelvik-Lawson @drhelleal.bsky.social · 8h

“It’s not just economics, it’s a question of humanity"

‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance | Spain | The Guardian share.google/h75cIVue7D67...

‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance

Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines

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Helle Abelvik-Lawson @drhelleal.bsky.social · 9h

Drag him!! Don't stop, keep going. You're our greatest hope 💜

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 4d

how you imagine the AI bubble collapse: server farms catch fire. people are partying in the street with bespoke art purchased from real human artists. AI models vanish from the internet
what it actually will look like: computers just understand vibes now, but nobody is making money from it

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

The worst part about the AI bubble popping is how many average people will be affected by the economic fallout. People will lose their job, kids will go hungry, and families will lose their homes. Yet these billionaire bastards won't feel a thing other than a decline in their net worth.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 1d

I remember seeing someone circulating on Old Twitter, in early 2016, a discount fashion magazine cover whose main story read ‘MORE FASH LESS CASH’. As a prospective history of the next ten years I don’t think it’s been beaten.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Helle Abelvik-Lawson @drhelleal.bsky.social · 1d

Cannot forget this element. If it doesn't solve any problems and it gulps down so much energy and water that it worsens are already devastating environmental problems, it should be roundly rejected by anyone with any sense

Helle Abelvik-Lawson @drhelleal.bsky.social · 1d

Hard agree

Grave Dirt Boy @gordbrush.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think I've ever seen another technology so in search of a problem than 'generative AI'

Helle Abelvik-Lawson @drhelleal.bsky.social · 1d

This should be remembered FOREVER

Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 1d

Israel highlighting how many 100s of aid trucks they will now allow into Gaza is a tacit admission that they were using aid as a weapon of war, by the way. seems weird not to talk about this

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s make different political choices.

For decades now British people have been told to simply swallow austerity. They’ve been told that the NHS needs cuts, that libraries need closing and that child poverty can’t be tackled.

Greens say: Bullshit!
Join the Green Party today.

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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · Jun 11

the Lord is my shepherd, He shaves my entire body to make sweaters

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 5d

Some good news among all the horrible shite

“The world’s wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system, according to research”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 12d

finally people are speaking out as -don’t-want-to-watch-videos-Americans

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12d

just guess

cait (and adonis)
@cait.bsky.social
i'm sorry to say this but if you send me a tiktok of a person telling a story into the camera for 3 minutes i'm not fucking watching it. just in general ever. people need to start typing things up again because i can read so much faster than you can talk and i'm not wasting my precious time on this
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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 5d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 5d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Helle Abelvik-Lawson @drhelleal.bsky.social · 5d

Bristol!
Come see the Fires & Fascism doc, Fri 10/10 in BS3, +Q&A w/ director, who says it's not just another climate film but "about how wildfires in Europe link with fascist attitudes of past & present & how we can be inspired to craft a safer & more united future."

www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket...

Fires and Fascism @ Bedminster

Watch the trailer here.This new documentary shows extreme wildfires are more than just a consequence of climate change, but also involving big business, organised crime, and the rise of the far right....

www.zeffy.com

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 5d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Helle Abelvik-Lawson @drhelleal.bsky.social · 5d

Late capitalism, with no effective regulation of the most powerful and monied interests (and boy are they monied) is gonna break all hell loose.

Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 5d

Climate change disasters as a matter of personal responsibility. "The advisories emphasize the importance of increased personal responsibility in preventing wildfires" www.newsweek.com/wildfire-ris...

Warning issued as entire state faces wildfire risk

National Weather Service meteorologists have issued warnings for Maine amid dry, windy weather.

www.newsweek.com

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Blackstar☆ @blackstar1976.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting isn't it that the neoliberals are now openly redefining the meaning of democracy to be: you vote and we ignore you.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 7d

Being passionate about Taylor Swift is like being passionate about Bed, Bath & Beyond. There's nothing there. Just marketing and brand identity and hollow, acquisitive greed.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 7d

Different strategies and wording, but same outcome, people denied rights. You cannot in reality condemn the Tories, or Reform, plans for leaving the ECHR and support Labour's plan of restricting it for certain groups. All that shows is you don't care about human rights, you only care about yours.

Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 7d

So, the Tories want to remove us from the ECHR, Labour aren’t much better by wanting to ‘reform’ it

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