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harry @hrrybtlr.bsky.social · 1d

ffs

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harry @hrrybtlr.bsky.social · 2d

fine

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harry @hrrybtlr.bsky.social · 4d

ffs

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harry @hrrybtlr.bsky.social · 4d

Pakistan 43 a/o loading unfortunately

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 4d

Pakistan may have taken four Australian wickets but they need to take at least fifteen more before they reach the tail. #TheCricket

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harry @hrrybtlr.bsky.social · 4d

one thing that's always ignored with the "mickey mouse" degree stuff is I'm pretty sure these degrees *hugely* subsidise STEM degrees. I got like 6 hours of contact time per week and access to a library - scientists got like 30 hours and access to a lab, which I think is a bit more expensive

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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harry @hrrybtlr.bsky.social · 5d

someone should create a bot to flag copyright infringement whenever a Sora video is created

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 5d

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”

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harry @hrrybtlr.bsky.social · 10d

Dave new album this month? we're so fucking back

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Sarcophagus Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 10d

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 11d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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onion person @junlper.beer · Nov 26

while dating: my beauotiful girlfriend,

while engaged: my perfect fiancee,

5 minutes into being married: my bitch wife,

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harry @hrrybtlr.bsky.social · Nov 26

need to remind myself to retweet this in 10 months time

onion person @junlper.beer · Nov 26

while dating: my beauotiful girlfriend,

while engaged: my perfect fiancee,

5 minutes into being married: my bitch wife,

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GT @granitetide.bsky.social · 25d

anyone who thought angela rayner was "one of the good ones" was only fooling themselves

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 25d

No words.

The lives of those living in Gaza are deemed less important than maintaining relations with Israel and, by proxy, the US. At the personal level, on Labour's doorsteps, this approach plays out in the most callous of ways. Dalloul al-Neder is a Palestinian refugee from Gaza, who was a constituent of the former deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner.
He got to know her, meeting several times: she visited his takeaway shop in 2019 and posed for pictures, declaring "Palestine must be free". She took him on a tour of parliament.

PHOTO: Dalloul al-Neder, who lives in Manchester, with an image of his late mother - he has lost several family members in Gaza bombings.
Photograph: Sean Hansford/MEN Media

Within weeks of the genocide beginning, in October 2023, his mother, brother, sister-in-law and two young nieces were killed by an Israeli airstrike. Desperate to evacuate his wife and four-month-old daughter - who had been buried under rubble three times by Israeli attacks - he emailed Rayner twice to seek help evacuating his family. He says received no response.

In January 2024, he attended a Labour fundraiser in Stockport addressed by Rayner and her colleague, Jonathan Reynolds, and got to his feet, clutching pictures of his dead mother, begging her to support a ceasefire, emotionally declaring "I lost my family in Gaza". The whole tawdry episode is on camera: he was aggressively ejected from the meeting and on to the street. Rayner did nothing, except to say "thank you, you've made your point". She then unfollowed him on social media. Days later, she was interviewed by Sky News' Beth Rigby, who framed the incident as an example of the threats politicians face, linking it to the murder of the MPs Jo Cox and David Amess.
Since then, so many of Neder's relatives have been slaughtered by the Israeli state that their names take up three pages of a notebook.

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harry @hrrybtlr.bsky.social · 26d

which one

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harry @hrrybtlr.bsky.social · 29d

they're actually overwhelmed because everyone there is a close friend or relative of a cop

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29d

Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride.

They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29d

Some more of that 'leftist violence'

HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 29d

The man, who did not give his name, identified himself as a former criminal from Kent who has spent 26 years in prison. “Keir Starmer needs to be assassinated,” he said. “Someone needs to shoot Keir Starmer.”

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · Sep 11

Mattie Lubchansky comic

Panel 1: A woman wipes away a tear while looking at her phone. A man comes in to check on her

Man: Hey, is everything ok?
Woman: It's just. The Bone Farmer... he died

Panel 2

Man: He was that thing that would break into people's homes at night and steal their skeletons as they slept, right?
Woman: So sad

Panel 3: The woman is looking at a framed photo of a purple monster with lots of teeth, wearing a bow tie.

Woman: I mean obviously, ideologically, I didn't agree with him, with regards to skeleton ownership. But his sweet li'l bow tie.
Man: You have to admire his tenacity for a cause he believed in!

Panel 4: zoom out to show Geoff, a pile of boneless flesh in a glass tube in the middle of the room.

Geoff: Gonna have to disagree with you folks here...
Man: Too soon, Geoff!

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · Sep 9

I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point