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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · Mar 1

1/2 Been thinking a lot today about how creating, building, organising, healing and growing are higher power options and actions in times of unchecked destruction, negligence, cruelty and decay.

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 4h

No consent, no decency, no humanity, just slop. Who would want that trash? Stop shilling for something so deeply inappropriate, unethical and irresponsible.

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 8h

It really is shocking how callous it comes across. Not even an attempt at being sincere. That awful laugh and smug nonsense. "Oh were some people affected by something from the source of my paycheck? They didn't matter enough for me to notice, so sorry, haha"

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 8h

The rights and survival of any human being is not some menial difference of opinion. What the hell is wrong with her? She saw JKR's reputation and thought she'd have some of that filth that never washes off as well?

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 19h

No context needed questions. Is he dead yet? Are they in the Hague yet? Did it pop yet?

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 21h

2/2 ”...In 2024, around a half (51%) now take this view, the lowest level of support recorded since NatCen began tracking public opinion"

Image of quote from research: "National Centre for Social Research
Meanwhile, the proportion who say the monarchy is ‘not very important’ or ‘not at all important’ has risen from one in ten (10%) in 1983 to around three in ten (31%) in 2024. Support for outright abolition of the monarchy has also grown, from just 3% in 1983 to 15% in 2024."

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 21h

1/2 "Support for the monarchy at its lowest level since records began
When the question was first asked in 1983, over four in five (86%) people in Britain said it was ‘very important’ or ‘quite important’ to continue having a monarchy... natcen.ac.uk/news/public-...

Public support for the monarchy falls to historic low while calls for abolition start to rise | National Centre for Social Research

New findings from the British Social Attitudes survey show how the public’s views towards the monarchy have shifted over the past four decades.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 23h

🏮 He thinks the direction of travel in the UK will breach its human rights obligations in multiple respects - pushing trans people into an 'intermediate zone' and jeopardising their right to be treated with dignity and to be able to participate in all areas of everyday life...

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 1d

He's so going to have a heart episode soon.

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 1d

The recovery of salmon and the river ecosystem after the removal of the Klamath River dams is very inspiring. Scotland should be aiming to strengthen our natural precious salmonecosystems vs the downhill plummet we've seen due to the damage, greed and unaccountability of salmon farms.

Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 2d

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One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 1d

I'll never take an artist, academic, writer, developer etc as a professional or seriously again if they use the thieving, lying plagiarism machine that is AI. It actively erases your skills of the profession, smooths your brain out, let alone the unethicality in the extreme of it.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 1d

This timeline is making me physically queasy on a daily basis. The incessant cruelty, sick billionaires, roundtripping bubble AI companies just committing global securities fraud con out in the open, humanity/nature being siphoned, stolen, punished and sold back as slop, enshittification rampant etc

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 1d

That isn't even remotely believable of an excuse.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 1d

It should be obvious to everyone that if Bridget Phillipson wins the deputy leadership contest it will be used as a platform to double down on the anti-trans crusade being waged by the Labour Party, and she's hiding that because she knows it's unpopular with their shrinking membership

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

Bridget Philipson is trying to get grab even more power, but her ‘gender critical’ transphobic supporters and the trans-hostile media are lobbying HARD to get anti-trans legislation in place ASAP, as they can’t bear to wait a moment longer to exclude trans people! 😖

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 2d

ICE deserves every karmic hex.

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 2d

The audacity of the AI scam to force its way into our lives to create more fake value... AI is roundtripping their profit, "...a common type of fraud where companies just pass each other the same money in a circle to mutually inflate their valuations." youtu.be/CBCujAQtdfQ?...

Big Tech Is Faking Revenue

YouTube video by Sasha Yanshin

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 2d

Bots are shaping policy.

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 2d

How many people are getting ready to short nVidia and other major tech stocks? Tech stocks are all grossly over-inflated and yet make up a large part of the total stock market value. The knock-on effects start there. Reality correction on techbro cons/delusions. Growth line must go up about to crash

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 2d

The masses are quite done shouldering the burden of the wealthy's economic crashes. Tax the rich or eat the rich. They clearly have far too much money if they can spaff it up the wall at the most obvious delusional rubbish that AI is. The rich are sick people, incapable of society/sense + wealth

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 2d

Independence is the SNP dangled carrot and careerist shield. Actions not words because they love a rousing conf where they speak like progressives then back to the day job to ignore member voted issues, corporate shills, meet w Israel/Trumps, move to the right, be weak towards UK govt etc.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: SNP members have backed John Swinney's independence strategy at party conference.

Members backed making an SNP majority at Holyrood 2026 the mandate for a second referendum.

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 3d

Eh? Absolutely not. You don't even know the reputation you all already have. The Greens should steer clear of Your mess of a Party. Misogyny, bigotry, outdated ideas...you all lowered the bar. It is a Labour repeat of keeping the Tories out and we see how that went. We need a far better politics.

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone with money invested in AI at rhis point is sincerely trying to lose it.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4d

Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does.
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The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises

Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 3d

Tik Tok is just truth social now.

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 3d

AI companies should be held responsible. This is so messed up.

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 4d

Ash Regan quits Alba. Some commentators fear that this may mean the end of the IRT (Independence Readiness Thermometer). Abla Cadabra bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/10/a...

Abla Cadabra

Ash Regan, the Alba Party’s only member in the Scottish Parliament, has resigned immediately citing concerns over the party’s direction, leaving Alba without Holyrood representation ahe…

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