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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 9m

I mean this isn’t what I’m saying. I don’t think we should even discuss reducing migration because a) I think migration is a good thing and b) nobody has ever been able to show me evidence that reducing it would have a positive effect on anything

amontin.bsky.social @amontin.bsky.social · 22h

This whole debate has become absurd. Obviously forced deportation of settled residents is deeply unjust and completely unnecessary. But the idea promoted on this site that one cannot even discuss reducing immigration lest it helps fascists is irrational and counterproductive. /1

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 1d

I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 1h

The Pallas Cat Seer of Truths says, "No, it isn't Friday yet, sorry."

A huge fluff of a Pallas cat sits amid their grassy throne as if sprawled among cushions in the most exotic, smoke-filled tent in this magical bazaar, dispensing wisdoms deeper even than her fur. Paws tucked in, huge tail wrapped around her, a face caught in a thoughtful expression matching the visions in her mind; somebody, somewhere, is opening a tin of what they call Too Nar. You can recreate this at home by having your tabby cat knock the spider plant from the shelf and then sit in the wreckage.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah I think there are going to be more families who do the equivalent of “we don’t own a TV, we simply all sing madrigals around the piano by candlelight for entertainment” during these next decades. There isn’t a safe amount of AI slop for kids to be exposed to. So if a platform has it: then no.

Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 5h

NB TikTok is totally blocked on my kids’ devices, but thanks to the fact all their videos are fully downloadable (how is THAT legal) it’s inescapable - all big websites are now video scrolling services, even Spotify etc, and they’re all full of TikTok slop

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 5h

It’s obviously pissing in the wind to point it out, but I’m not sure how this gets fixed unless people stop using TikTok, which is the same as saying there’s no way of fixing it.

The minute we gave up control of who we see on our feeds to big, amoral companies, this was inevitable.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 11h

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

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Wocco @wocco.bsky.social · 4h

Also.

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 1h

my friends, I am in a 10-person capacity record bar in Tokyo requesting songs and drinking Japanese whisky. the owners are a married couple chain smoking behind the bar, slinging cocktails, and spinning records.

this is heaven??? goodbye forever I have died ✌️

A glass of Nikka Coffee Malt Whisky with a big ice rock with a background of about a million vinyl records

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 3h

"Almost half of everything AI assistants tell you is wrong" and "Oxford university gives AI assistants to all its students" are two headlines we are forced to accept as coexisting in this appalling timeline.

Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 3h

The response of UK universities to this is, almost universally, to say "Tch, what can you do?"

Or in some cases, to very overtly decide that the thing to do is join in...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2h

One reason why the government is in a mess is that “is that true tho?” doesn’t get anywhere near enough weight against “what do the public think?”

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4h

Home Sec describes a widely held public perception (UK is the destination of choice for asylum seekers in Europe) + endorses it as true. Home Office data shows it is not true. Whatever merits of her policy change, should not make false factual claims
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3709465...

Migrants come to Britain because they think we're Europe's most generous country

TODAY’S small boat numbers are shameful, and the British people deserve better. They contain a lesson: we must go further and faster to secure our borders. Under the last Conservative Government, t…

www.thesun.co.uk

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4h

Why is a Labour Home Secretary perpetuating this myth in The Sun?

Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage

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𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒚 grace @acab4cutie.top · 4h

i NEED to know the backstory here

r/UnethicalLifeProTips
u/occasionallyvertical • 12h
ULPT I need a way to move 13 2000lbs pallets of margarine side to side and then down into a 6ft hole and then cover it with dirt
It must be quiet and fast. I'm not opposed to renting heavy machinery but they must be quiet and able to be operated in low light conditions. For the record, I don't think there's anything unethical about this, but it was recommended I post here and I'm desperate.
The margarine cannot be harmed, no melting or changing its shape of any kind. Afterwards, I will dig it up and whatever is left I will need to either dissolve in some kind of acid or burn it someway that has little clean up. Thank you.

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r/LosAngeles 6h
Any recommendations for heavy equipment rental in San Gabriel?
r/UnethicalLifeProTips 6h
ULPT Is there a way to remove the reversing alarm on an electric forklift?
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ULPT I need a way to move 13 2000lbs pallets of margarine side to side and then down into a 6ft hole and then cover it with dirt It must be quiet and fast. I'm not opposed to renting heavy machinery but they must be quiet and able to be operated in low light conditions. For the record, I don't think there's anything unethical about this, but it was recommended I...
r/diet 1d
What might happen to someone if they were to consume say, 3lbs of margarine every day for a month?
Just have some extra margarine lying around that I'm hoping to put to good use. If not 3lbs, how much could I eat a day and still be okay? Thank you.

r/NoStupidQuestions 1d
Are there any chemicals that will dissolve margarine with very little cleanup?
r/AskChemistry 1d
Are there any chemicals that would dissolve margarine without a trace?
r/NoStupidQuestions 1d
Curious about the ramifications of keeping large pallets of margarine underground for extended periods of time?
If I were to put a few large pallets of margarine underground (stored in cardboard boxes in plastic wraps) would it melt?
Would the temperature be sufficient to maintain the solid state of margarine? I'm thinking about 6ft deep. Thank you.
r/askanything 1d
Looking for a method to transport a 2000lbs pallet of margarine into 6ft deep holes and cover them?
Must be done in low light scenarios and quietly. Hoping to do this myself. I'm hesitant to rent heavy equipment as it may be too loud.

r/ask 1d
What is the easiest way to slide a 2000lbs pallet of margarine into holes an inch wider on each side and approximately 6ft down?
It will need to be done in low light areas, preferably without any hired help. I'm trying to keep it as quiet and as fast as possible.
Thank you

r/heavyequipment 1d
Looking for a machine I can rent to slide 13 pallets of margarine (~2000lbs) from side to side multiple times quietly.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 8h

Scolding me for donating menstrual supplies to my local mutual aid instead of money when they literally write on their website that they are always desperately in need of menstrual supplies... is the most fucking bluesky thing on the planet.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

LLMs were trained on (stolen) fiction and the unfiltered contents of the internet. Of course they make thing up. They were trained on made-up stuff.

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 1d

What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

(if anyone would like to maybe start some sort of campaigning or pressure group of and on behalf of immigrants with ILR and settled status in Britain then I would be interested in helping, or indeed trying to get it off the ground myself, email in bio, etc)

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Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 1d

The Tories want me deported for going on maternity.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 1d

Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

It is so absolutely freaking shameful that a mainstream political party can propose something like this and not be instantly vilified by everyone. And who signed this off? What were the conversations and meetings that enabled it to get to here?

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

I have never liked a politician so much that I would get on the internet to negotiate how much Nazi tattoo is a acceptable amount of Nazi tattoo.

It's none! None Nazi tattoo!

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

Platner's tattoo is literally the specific piece of Nazi iconography from the "Are we the baddies?" sketch.

Mitchell and Webb: "Are we the baddies?"

YouTube video by CrystalRoseCreations

www.youtube.com

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1d

statements like

"half the marines I know have tattoos like that"

"the average millennial had a Nazi phase"

just expose your social circles lol

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 1d

Distracting myself from rising global authoritarianism by comparing four different shades of white oh wait.

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Call me a luddite if you like - but I don't want a bed that stops working when Amazon Web Services goes down.
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto

The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

www.dexerto.com

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Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · 2d

In these fraught times, I thought y’all would like to know that Sister Maude won the Fancy Dress class at yesterday’s dog show.

A photo of a large black dog in her Fancy Dress costume. She is dressed as a nun with black and white head-coverings and a gold cross.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 1d

Via Press Gazette: "The Daily Star’s livestream of the Liz Truss lettuce has been acquired by the British Film Institute’s National Archive for a collection of significant pieces of online video. The BFI’s curator said it was “a seminal moment in British political history”"

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d

"Loads of guys in the military have tattoos like that" is an argument against the culture of the US military, not an argument for chilling out about Nazi tattoos.

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Alicia @foodycatalicia.bsky.social · 1d

I love The Lady Vanishes! That and Strangers on a Train are my two favourite Hitchcock films.

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