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Chris Emerson @chris.emerson.social · 16h

This might make me get a nectar card again

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 4d

2004: wow social media keep in touch with your friends online

2026: you are about to be held accountable by a 14 year old for a passive aggressive email you sent in 1991. overhead, vultures drift in lazy circles

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 5d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 8d

Trump Asks JD Vance To Research Whether President Allowed To Kill Vice President https://theonion.com/trump-asks-jd-vance-to-research-whether-president-allowed-to-kill-vice-president/

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 9d

And why call it 'golden ticket'?

Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children?

A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted.

4,671.

Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?

Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 9d

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Ben Davis @bendavisauthor.bsky.social · 9d

Just received an email:

Read your book. 1/10

Nice of them to let me know, but why put the date on it?

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Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 10d

"i just use it to generate ideas"

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 9d

Just having a moment reflecting on what a ridiculous state we're in, where the president is making "deals" with private universities by personally meddling in federally allocated education and research funding and this is being treated as just ordinary politics.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 9d

If Harvard bows down to this lawless president, it will cover itself in shame and betray its motto “Veritas.”

Don’t pretend to stand for truth if you’re going to surrender to this bully. Appeasement only feeds the beast and puts us all at greater risk.

Trump Says a Deal With Harvard Is Close

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Emerson @chris.emerson.social · 10d

This time, an incredibly rude lady from Churchill insurance talked over me when I tried to explain why I wouldn't give my personal info out to people who phone me, then hung up.

Really, this is how real hacks and security incidents have happened.

Chris Emerson @chris.emerson.social · 16d

Hello companies - if YOU ring ME, you should NOT be asking me for personal details to "go through security". This is an awful practice just training people to give away their details to anyone who asks and needs to stop.

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 11d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Chris Emerson @chris.emerson.social · 11d

Look forward to hearing this one!

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 11d

Stop amputee benefit claimants having to be assessed every two years, if their limb grows back, they will tell us, believe me!

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 11d

In 2008, West Yorkshire authorities renamed Tickle Cock Bridge, Tittle Cott. The original name was reinstated after a group of elderly residents protested. One said ‘I feel we should never alter names and Tickle Cock has a very clear message behind it’.

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Chris Emerson @chris.emerson.social · 11d

Where's that? It's strangely modern looking for such an old building!

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 12d

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.

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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 12d

Arrested/not arrested:

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Chris Emerson @chris.emerson.social · 15d

I don't really have that much of an objection to ID cards tbh. We already have enough different ways to identify us already in this country... government gateways, NI numbers, NHS numbers, etc etc... wouldn't be terrible tying everything together.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 16d

Everything Farage does - claiming migrants eat pets, bigging up dangerous AntiVaxxers, the data-grabbing DOGE - is a tribute act to Trump, just as the US proves it doesn't work. It's like a bad Elvis impersonator busking on a Clacton seafront

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Chris Emerson @chris.emerson.social · 16d

Report to the ICO but they're mostly toothless and won't/can't do anything unfortunately. I have similar frustrations...

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Chris Emerson @chris.emerson.social · 16d

Hello companies - if YOU ring ME, you should NOT be asking me for personal details to "go through security". This is an awful practice just training people to give away their details to anyone who asks and needs to stop.

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Chris Emerson @chris.emerson.social · 16d

He benefits from people not talking about the Epstein files for a while...

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Chris Emerson @chris.emerson.social · 16d

Good plan, you have to go backwards down that one

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