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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 12h

In case people don't believe me

Palestinian girl, 12, 'dies' after suffering from malnutrition for months
Palestinian girl, 12, 'dies' after suffering

Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 1h

Plus most people in showbiz get into it in hopes of recieving lots of positive attention.

And Harry Potter is still really popular so it's a good way for them to get that positive attention they crave.

Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 1h

They want to continue enjoying all the perks of being in the upper class and picking a fight with Rowling threatens that.

Sure they'd still be rich but they wouldn't get invited to lavish events and adoring coverage from the media might stop.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 12h

Every time someone drops into my comments asking about a general strike, I have to remind folks that unlike in Europe we have at will employment here allowing essentially anyone to be fired at any time for any reason, and health insurance tied to employment.

The amount of organizing

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 4h

🎉 We've done it. We've passed 100,000 Green Party members!

📈 But we're not stopping there.

💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 3h

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 3h

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 1h

Zionists, from Western leaders on down, are going to push the equivalent of "The Nazis have stopped doing the Holocaust so they're 100% good now" so hard.

With Zionist Jewish people absolutely desperate to regain their status as the only possible victims.

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 15h

Maybe the public has learnt, after it has happened repeatedly, that anything good Labour says they'll do will be followed up by Starmer giving a speech ~6 months later saying "things have changed, the world is different now, we can't do [good thing]."

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an arch on @anarchonbury.bsky.social · 2d

65% of the way there. Can you help make it 66?

an arch on @anarchonbury.bsky.social · 18d

I've been quiet for a while. It's been due to a number of factors, the most prominent of which is poor health.

I need surgery, and I'm stuck in limbo. Please help.

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 15h

I hope you can still have a nice birthday regardless.

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 17h

But as DOGE showed, as well as even further power grabs by Trump, very clear, longstanding rules need not be a barrier or glue on the gears of fascism if no one with power cares about them.

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 17h

But not to the extent you'll delete your abusive post.

Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 17h

No buddy, I'm saying pumping a guy for five years after the war and then sending him home is not the same as inviting Von Braun to stay in the US and eventually making him the head of NASA.

I am stating the objective fact that what the US did was far worse.

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 17h

To be clear, you're claiming that because your assertion Apel was similar to Von Braun was shown to be absurd you're declaring the entire discussion pointless.

Just flipping the table because you lost.

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 22h

Oh absolutely but I think we, as in the public of the developed world, have to get out of the mindset that laws or constitutions have independent power.

The only way we're stopping fascism if the fascists are made to stop whether that's by forcing them to obey laws or by other means.

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 22h

And this is obvious to anyone who has driven on a highway/motorway.

Legal speed limits are simply not enforced because it has been decided the political and practical cost of enforcing it is too high.

Saying "it's illegal" won't make those cars slow down.

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 23h

The law or a constitution is not a magic spell with binding power in and of itself.

It's just a written down guideline that people have to be willing to obey and/or enforce.

If the powerful choose to ignore it or not enforce it than it is has no power.

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 23h

It's true that the lack of a codified constitution and parliamentary sovereignty in the UK on paper means a fascist government would have a free hand to do anything.

But as we've seen with the US, a codified constitution is just as much of a gentleman's agreement as whatever the UK has.

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 23h

The UK does not have a codified constitution. As much as it has a constitution at all it's a mix of convention and existing legislation.

And UK parliamentary soveriegnty means that the government in power can alter/remove any existing legislation with new legislation.

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 23h

There's going to be very few right wing supporters of walkable cities and yet there was dunk after dunk from walkable city fans mocking a disabled person for suggesting their needs be considered.

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 23h

Something that really sticks with me is that not long after I joined Bluesky (when a lot of people claim it was better) a post did serious numbers viciously mocking a disabled person for daring to suggest walkable cities wouldn't take into account disabled people's needs.

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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 23h

And more pointedly, we know the right hates disabled ppl. But liberals and the left have a massive ableism problem that is so deeply rooted and that the pandemic highlighted so clearly that we largely feel like we’re out here fighting alone

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

I think the average person does not realize how ableist our entire country is, and relatedy how bad most media outlets are at covering disability issues.

Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

People are really asking me why the mainstream news is barely reporting the closing of special ed dept at DoEd like all our big media companies aren't owned and run by absolute psychopaths.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 23h

An infographic. Underneath the phrase "designed with activists in mind" is an illustration of super mario. Underneath the phrase "designed with gamers in mind" is a crocheted penis and testicles with mario hanging onto the shaft.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years.

They'll do a worse job than humans,

but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers,

but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies.

Lose-lose-lose.

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

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