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Ben Adam Sohawon @bensohawon.bsky.social · 4h

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They have already outlawed the use of AI-generated "actors" in California, so they can do it here too.

Please sign.

#humansnotAI #peoplebeforeprofit

Ban AI ‘actors’ in UK productions

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Ben Adam Sohawon @bensohawon.bsky.social · 5h

Very good. Very good indeed.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 15h

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

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All Good Bookshop @allgoodbookshop.co.uk · 1d

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

Not one government has told Israel to stop kidnapping their citizens in international waters and let them bring baby formula to starving babies. What a shameful time to be alive

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Israel intercepts another Gaza aid flotilla amid criticism over treatment of activists

Israeli foreign ministry confirms interception and says those on board will be deported A new Gaza-bound aid flotilla has been intercepted by the Israeli army, days after the detention of activists on board vessels bound for the war-torn territory caused international outrage and widespread protests. The Israeli military was jamming signals with at least two boats being boarded, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition said on Instagram. Continue reading...

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Damien Willey @kernowdamo.bsky.social · 3d

Britain’s Rich Tried to Hide £20 Billion — The Green Party Just Found It #DamoRants #GreenParty youtu.be/MFu0BB5cPhM

Britain’s Rich Tried to Hide £20 Billion — The Green Party Just Found It

YouTube video by KernowDamo

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 3d

I’m sick of how if somebody is rich enough their stupidity is our problem. That’s not fair to actual people

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 5d

This also isn’t true!!! There is a public consultation NOW OPEN and you can go have your say. Obviously they want to present it as a done deal but it’s not.

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 5d

When it comes to intimidating racist protests including outside our homes or place of worship, Black and Asian people are supposed to just accept it and the government saying “we hear you” and “it is right to protest this” and “I love flags me”. No thought of “cumulative impact” for us!

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Ben Adam Sohawon @bensohawon.bsky.social · 7d

(although i would be very amused by a completely regionalised-federalised uk and then the midlands seceding)

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Ben Adam Sohawon @bensohawon.bsky.social · 7d

yup. which is why i do not blame you guys at all. Along with brexit, the biggest bait-and-switch i've ever seen in my life. a disgrace.

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Ben Adam Sohawon @bensohawon.bsky.social · 7d

having separate governments to cater their specific regional requirements might have the benefit of giving them what they actually want, curbing resentment at getting governments they didn't vote for, and fostering diversity of political opinion that levels the playing field.

Ben Adam Sohawon @bensohawon.bsky.social · 7d

i've long been behind the idea that, should by some miracle the union endure, the country should be a federal republic split on population lines: scotland, wales, n england, mid england, sw england, se england, and ldn with devomax parliaments. the english are not actually politically unified, so

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Ben Adam Sohawon @bensohawon.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks man!

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 7d

"Did you write the pro ai pretend cartoon piece, Tyler?"
"Sure did, boss, REAL sexually weird and borderline noncey, just like you asked"

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 7d

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human
Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.

A picture of some AI girl standing on an AI landscape with an AI monster behind her. I'm gonna be so real: she looks about 14

By Tyler Cowen

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Ben Adam Sohawon @bensohawon.bsky.social · 7d

who might read my words
if i could have poetry
carved into my bones

#nationalpoetryday

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All Good Bookshop @allgoodbookshop.co.uk · 11d

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LiLBazula 👻 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 8d

Please. The Times was always just the bigoted opinions of The S*n upcycled for people who thought they were too posh & refined to read the tabloids

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social

The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally n 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay.
The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism

There is a more pressing issue. Ministers must ensure that the vast numbers of immigrants who arrived in the so-called Boriswave of 2020-21 are not automatically absorbed into the permanent population. They are about to cross the the five-year threshold into ILR, yet Labour continues to dither.Ms Mahmood must freeze the status of this huge cohort while a new residency regime is finalised. A million or more extra permanent residents in these islands, let in on the nod, is simply unacceptable. Finally, the home secretary must acquaint herself, and the public, with an accurate estimate of the actual number of foreign nationals living here, what taxes they pay and what services they consume. Without hard data, all the political parties are fumbling around the dark.

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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 8d

EMERGENCY: ISRAEL ATTACKS GSF
Israel has attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters. People of conscience have been abducted.
The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and the Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.

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Text: EMERGENCY
Israel has attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla. Unarmed people of conscience, abducted in international waters. This is piracy. This is kidnapping.

The flotilla did not break any laws. What is unlawufl is genocide, the deadly blockade of Gaza, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and the piracy of civilians vessels and abduction of all those on board.

Background image - evening, boat in ocean flying Palestinian flag with FFC amd TM logos.
Text: We will never stop challenging Israel's illegal blockade - a siege weaponized to starve, silence, and imprison Palestinians.
Stand with us to break the siege and hold governments and institutions accountable for enabling Israel's crimes.

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Ben Adam Sohawon @bensohawon.bsky.social · 8d

my new hat - birthday self-present

#lesschatmorehat

a grey porkpie hat with a wide black hat band and a feather

photo of me wearing the grey porkpie hat taken via mirror

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Ben Adam Sohawon @bensohawon.bsky.social · 9d

as of 16 minutes ago i am officially a year older

i will be out and about in camden town buying a new hat

Ben Adam Sohawon @bensohawon.bsky.social · 10d

just had a mauritian garlic & ginger fried chicken liver baguette and am now ready for a nap

Ben Adam Sohawon @bensohawon.bsky.social · 10d

bloody #insomnia kicking my arse again

havent had a proper nights sleep since 2011

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Ben Adam Sohawon @bensohawon.bsky.social · 10d

i refer to my bluesky posts as bloots as i am a loose cannon who does not play by the rules

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