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they/them General of Hats 帽子将军 (former) Art Director. automotive photographer/graphic designer. sorta anarchist, sorta communist. west bromwich albion
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i take pictures of cars and parts of cars. hit me up if You! would like to have your car parts photographed!! uk based
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Before it was all ancient aliens, the History Channel was 99% WWII stuff and at the time I was like “wow people really like a war with clear good guys and bad guys” but 20 years later I feel like maybe that was not the reason.
Weird that the white liberal stage of grief that comes right before acceptance is saying "everyone had a nazi phase, right?"
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Basically the problem is that we need candidates who are very online because navigating the digital space is crucial to modern political landscape, but people who are very online tend to be very stupid and bad because online political spaces are dens of low-trust and anti-social behavior
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This monstrous abuse of Brianna Ghey and her grieving mother; to turn an absolutely transphobic hate crime into "kids on they phones" is something you can only do if you're genuinely too stupid or too evil to know better.

Is this the change that needs changing then?
Meeting yesterday with Brianna Ghey's mother Esther - and pupils at Brianna's former school - was a powerful reminder of why controls on social media and smartphone use in schools is so important for children, teachers and parents. (1/2)
ah okay, so you’re a fuckwit
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seems bad!
This whole time I’ve been talking about the Fetterman Particles radiating off this guy but it turns out they’re regular were regular ol’ Hitler Particles.
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using cutting edge 3D printing technology, scientists have been able to reproduce the voice box of an ancient mummy, and reconstruct what must have sounded like when alive:
Woo referring to the yell to start his answer says it all
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I don’t think its great that zionists are trying to pressure Jewish people into agreeing with bullshit antisemitism claims, and then cutting them off mid-sentence when they point to the crimes of Israel
Robert Peston, "Where are you on the banning of Maccabi fans?"

Zack Polanski, "I'm Jewish, I take antisemitism really seriously"

"I don't think banning Maccabi fans is antisemitic at all"
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We're going to have such barbarism, folks, the greatest barbarism ever seen. Red in tooth and claw, they say, that's from a poem you know, "red in tooth and claw", very nice. We'll have barbarism like a scene from Revelations - Revelations, the chapter of the Bible, one of my favorite chapters,
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never forget that the health surcharge is an utterly fake and bogus tax on migrants, and anyone who defends it is carrying the can for governments making it up as they go
i remember when students were going to lose their surcharge discount to fund 8,000 extra police officers for some reason
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Cause the angle seems to more be that phone controls would have protected Brianna from ~something~ rather than be about stopping the radicalisation of the killers. There’s no talk of blocking uk newspapers is there, the greatest cesspit of transphobic radicalisation
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Greens are shifting the debate.

Next we shift power.

Join greensorganise.uk
electrosphere goes so hard it’s unreal
you ever just fucken
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"thank god we lost," he added.
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God, re-reading this and it’s incredibly depressing to realise just how far Labour & media has accepted Priti Patel’s COVID-era quiet bait & switch, of squalid barracks style quasi-incarceration *for people who have done nothing wrong and should be free to live in the community*
I edited a piece on life at Napier barracks during COVID which got nominated for British Journalism Awards. Writer & I had to work hard to understand policy, what was shifting, & correct our own misunderstandings. Time consuming & few media owners allow that. www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemoc...
‘I feared I would die’: Life inside the Napier Barracks asylum-seeker housing
As the Home Office moves more migrants to Kent’s abandoned army barracks, first-hand reports from ex-residents reveal the dark future envisioned by Priti Patel
www.opendemocracy.net
ah, the old art is hard line. strange he takes this position so soon after crashing out about an ai image he posted without an ounce of contrition
All this is directed not at the OP but the person who chimed in to imply doing the work I’m doing is easy—because they have no idea what the hell they’re talking about. Songwriting, co-arranging, producing, and audio-engineering songs using complex digital tools is fucking hard, whatever trolls say.
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Look at this mess. The journalist knows, like anyone does, that any six lottery numbers have the *exact* same odds of winning the lottery as any other. It doesn't matter how you choose them, the chance is always the same. This isn't a story at all.

www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...
This woman won the lottery thanks to ChatGPT, but I'm scared of what that means for the future
No, ChatGPT can't predict the lottery
www.techradar.com
that doesn’t read like things are going well
so much about this case is judges in extreme distress
now that’s what i call honkbal hoofdeklasse
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We got not just "fuck Roe v Wade" but "Dred Scott 2: Latinos in particular", like we have a Taney Court running hog wild. Eat my shit and gargle my b3aner balls.
fuck me i think even i could manage that shit
Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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A lot of supposed "AI" skeptics said that industry would just get bailed out. Dollar hegemony looking a little shaky imo
“.. struggling to put together a $20 billion loan to Argentina without leaving themselves on the hook to the virtually bankrupt South American country ..” 🤡

@wsj.com $ARGT
www.wsj.com/finance/arge...
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I went to the No Kings protest. After talking to dozens of people, I noticed an interesting shift: Democrats no longer trust the national security state

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/no-kings-i...
"No Kings" Is About More Than Trump
Americans are rejecting the national security state
www.kenklippenstein.com