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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 4h

Follow up: “Shall we get another meeting in the diary for next month?”

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 5h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 4h

If people have Diary of a CEO brain, you can tell them literally anything. “I *do* take lunch but the way I avoid stopping is to just put data between two slices of bread”

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4h

WELL THEN IT'S NOT MEANINGFUL IS IT, NICK www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Lydia Bleasdale @parkendlydia.bsky.social · 14h

Grateful I still just get 'bruh'

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Sorcha Ní Nia @luiseach.bsky.social · 21h

Cannot be unseen

A screenshot presumably originally from Twitter but seen by me on Facebook, original Twitter comedian lost to the mists of time, of a TIME magazine front cover, showing Harry and Meghan staring into the camera, Harry standing behind her with his hands on her shoulders, and the comedic caption reads:

This looks like Harry is her hairdresser looking into the mirror explaining what he did to her layers

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Lydia Bleasdale @parkendlydia.bsky.social · 1d

It's so fantastic to pay a fortune to get ill

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uppergwladysblu.bsky.social @uppergwladysblu.bsky.social · 2d

Shameful. Essentially forcing a fan to pay twice for their season ticket.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 3d

Running out of words to describe what’s happening in America.

How about fucking outrageous.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s video of the incident

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3d

Nick: "GitLaw is working to build the right legal workflow tools to support people in a world where negotiating a deal doesn't mean weeks of back-and-forth, but minutes or seconds of your agent working with someone else’s agent."

The T&C:

3. Required Human Review

You acknowledge that:

All AI-generated content requires independent human review
You must exercise professional judgment in evaluating AI outputs
You should obtain appropriate legal counsel review for important legal documents
You are solely responsible for the final content of any legal documents

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 5d

"The public are sick of voting for tougher sentences and getting the opposite."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about:
www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 3d

And of course citing cases which do exist but don't make the points the client says they do.

There will be so much of this, but the scary bit is that even after being told that the AI they are using has made stuff up, they will still rely on it when it supports their view, without checking.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 4d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.bsky.social · 4d

Handsworth's problems are not its people but a post industrial dismantling and lack of investment. Similar impacting 'white' areas elsewhere. An attitude of condescending contempt and a disastrous display of incompetence from a series of arrogant, self-serving politicians does not help.

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

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 5d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 5d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5d

Jenrick now proposing sacking judges he doesn't like. I can just about remember when Conservatives cared about things like the rule of law.

George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 5d

The Daily Telegraph: MI5 kept in dark in China spy trial fiasco #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Lydia Bleasdale @parkendlydia.bsky.social · 5d

Haha! I was on the back row!

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Lydia Bleasdale @parkendlydia.bsky.social · 5d

@marctheblue.bsky.social Mate! Were you on the Harrogate Toffees bus yesterday? Swear I saw you walking down the aisle yesterday

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Lydia Bleasdale @parkendlydia.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes, I do wonder how I'm still taken seriously at work.

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 6d

So wait, is this something any other university can 'negotiate' about?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Home Office grants extra visas for UCL international students told to defer

Hundreds of students with promised places had been left in limbo after university exceeded its visa allocations Hundreds of international students will be able to take up their promised places after negotiations between the Home Office and University College London ended with the government granting extra visas. Hundreds of students, many from China, had been left in limbo after UCL underestimated the demand for places this year and exceeded its allocation of confirmation of acceptance for studies (CAS) electronic documents allowed by the Home Office. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 6d

This. People eligible for the flu vaccine are not eligible for the updated COVID booster. That makes zero sense

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 6d

The MILLIONS of people who were denied vaccines are suddenly realising.

@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social this was a terrible idea.

Not only will the NHS struggle this autumn / winter, but people will suffer and die unnecessarily.

It isn't too late for a U-turn!

Community Pharmacy England

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Pharmacy teams have reported major issues to us over the last two days related to large numbers of patients booking COVID-19 vaccinations via the National Booking System (NBS) who are not eligible for the vaccine this winter.

We are working with NHS England to try to address this unacceptable situation and to get more NHS communications issued to help people understand whether they are eligible for the vaccine.

In the meantime, we have created three posters that pharmacy teams can use to help explain about vaccine eligibility this winter:

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James Greenwood-Reeves 🦇 @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 6d

@edgreenwood.bsky.social did this at uni, for a sketch show. Hid my existence from almost everyone he knew, until I went onstage. While it got big laughs, it also made some people baffled and outraged. People shouted "is there a MIRROR??" Very satisfying, would recommend

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 6d

Hide the existence of your identical twin for decades so you can do a stage magic act in which it seems like you teleported.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 8d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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