DMHardc
@dmhardcc.bsky.social
Interested in everything. Gen X, further left than you think, exhausted. 🇯🇲🇬🇧
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"There are some homoerotic undertones to this film". I think I've discovered my new favourite game and it's just getting Feral Zoomer to review classic cinema.
November 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"There are some homoerotic undertones to this film". I think I've discovered my new favourite game and it's just getting Feral Zoomer to review classic cinema.
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My favourite Zoomer is watching The Great Escape and has just messaged me to say, "This film is just Chicken Run," and it's absolutely done me in.
November 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
My favourite Zoomer is watching The Great Escape and has just messaged me to say, "This film is just Chicken Run," and it's absolutely done me in.
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Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record.
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record.
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Japanese printmaker Ayomi Yoshida, woodblock print, the Tokyo-based artist explores the medium's roots in Buddhism #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Japanese printmaker Ayomi Yoshida, woodblock print, the Tokyo-based artist explores the medium's roots in Buddhism #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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call me a luddite, but a tool that generates "reports" full of made-up content is not "efficient" no matter how much faster or cheaper it is than having humans write... a real report
A major healthcare policy paper commissioned by @govnl.bsky.social government from Deloitte at a cost of $1.6 million, cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months. #nlpoli #AI
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent
$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months
theindependent.ca
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
call me a luddite, but a tool that generates "reports" full of made-up content is not "efficient" no matter how much faster or cheaper it is than having humans write... a real report
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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Lumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.
November 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Lumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.
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“People died who could have been saved. These deaths are facts that cannot be denied. And I will never forget what I saw.”
The COVID enquiry shines a light on the abject failure of the UK’s public health response - too little, too late.
The COVID enquiry shines a light on the abject failure of the UK’s public health response - too little, too late.
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
“People died who could have been saved. These deaths are facts that cannot be denied. And I will never forget what I saw.”
The COVID enquiry shines a light on the abject failure of the UK’s public health response - too little, too late.
The COVID enquiry shines a light on the abject failure of the UK’s public health response - too little, too late.
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As some of you may know, I’m a recovering alcoholic and very proud to be more than three years sober.
I recently started Weird and Sober on Instagram in an attempt to help other people who are/were in the same situation as me - supporting each other strengthens us all.
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I recently started Weird and Sober on Instagram in an attempt to help other people who are/were in the same situation as me - supporting each other strengthens us all.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
As some of you may know, I’m a recovering alcoholic and very proud to be more than three years sober.
I recently started Weird and Sober on Instagram in an attempt to help other people who are/were in the same situation as me - supporting each other strengthens us all.
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I recently started Weird and Sober on Instagram in an attempt to help other people who are/were in the same situation as me - supporting each other strengthens us all.
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This is an extraordinarily sad but beautiful piece of writing. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This is an extraordinarily sad but beautiful piece of writing. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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I suppose it shouldn't come as a surprise that this utterly despicable, wholly incompetent, untrustworthy, bone idle con man is still lying his way through life.
What I will never understand is why so many long for the return of good ol' Boris... 🤮
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
What I will never understand is why so many long for the return of good ol' Boris... 🤮
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I suppose it shouldn't come as a surprise that this utterly despicable, wholly incompetent, untrustworthy, bone idle con man is still lying his way through life.
What I will never understand is why so many long for the return of good ol' Boris... 🤮
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
What I will never understand is why so many long for the return of good ol' Boris... 🤮
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Born on this day in 1819, George Eliot. Here's my favourite bit from the greatest English novel - Eliot's concluding paean to Middlemarch's heroine, Dorothea (who, among other things worked to improve the housing of the local agricultural labourers). Here's to all the Dorotheas, past and present.
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Born on this day in 1819, George Eliot. Here's my favourite bit from the greatest English novel - Eliot's concluding paean to Middlemarch's heroine, Dorothea (who, among other things worked to improve the housing of the local agricultural labourers). Here's to all the Dorotheas, past and present.
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People know exactly what‘s going on.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
People know exactly what‘s going on.
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My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.
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The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
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I don’t think Danny Kruger is being taken seriously enough - this is far more extreme than anything the Conservatives were allowed to get away with. He is effectively saying that being anti-racist and being trans are contrary to British national identity and his party is leading the polls.
Reform are so dangerous and this headline doesn’t do it justice. I also think a piece like this should start with the politician‘s core views just to emphasise the urgency.
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I don’t think Danny Kruger is being taken seriously enough - this is far more extreme than anything the Conservatives were allowed to get away with. He is effectively saying that being anti-racist and being trans are contrary to British national identity and his party is leading the polls.
It’s been a dreadful week in a rough year…decade…forever, and the only solution for the weekend is to finally treat myself to this wonderful book by @municipaldreams.bsky.social. Bookmark from the mighty @bookhaus.bsky.social. A refuge for a couple of days
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It’s been a dreadful week in a rough year…decade…forever, and the only solution for the weekend is to finally treat myself to this wonderful book by @municipaldreams.bsky.social. Bookmark from the mighty @bookhaus.bsky.social. A refuge for a couple of days
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Where are all the "revoke Shamima Begum's citizenship she's a traitor people" today, I wonder.
Nathan Gill; A traitor who was at the very top of Reform UK, aiding and abetting Russian adversaries, has been sentenced today.
Reform UK should be ashamed. Britain deserves better.
Reform UK should be ashamed. Britain deserves better.
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Where are all the "revoke Shamima Begum's citizenship she's a traitor people" today, I wonder.
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No way on earth was that Cheltenham festival not going ahead
Hancock took £350,000 from the horse racing industry
Hancock took £350,000 from the horse racing industry
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
No way on earth was that Cheltenham festival not going ahead
Hancock took £350,000 from the horse racing industry
Hancock took £350,000 from the horse racing industry
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East Bristol has a thriving Anarchist community, which includes a lot of very effective grassroots political organisers. If @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social want to *really* push the Overton Window left, you could do worse than to actively embrace the Anarchist movement here.
Fuck it lads, joined the Green Party. Best chance we've got right now of not all being fed into the woodchipper, and first point of order is getting these transphobes out and replacing them. @zackpolanski.bsky.social I might be an aggro anarchist, but if you want to take BS5, you want us on side.
Doing this on Trans Day of Remembrance is fucking rancid. Good riddance to her. No compromise with this shit. Suspend her membership. Get the wreckers out. Protect the dolls.
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
East Bristol has a thriving Anarchist community, which includes a lot of very effective grassroots political organisers. If @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social want to *really* push the Overton Window left, you could do worse than to actively embrace the Anarchist movement here.
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Track and Trace that wasn’t worth a carrot but that wasn’t the point
The point was emptying tax payers money into the private sector
Along with the PPE preferential lane they used Covid to do nothing other than feather nests
The point was emptying tax payers money into the private sector
Along with the PPE preferential lane they used Covid to do nothing other than feather nests
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Track and Trace that wasn’t worth a carrot but that wasn’t the point
The point was emptying tax payers money into the private sector
Along with the PPE preferential lane they used Covid to do nothing other than feather nests
The point was emptying tax payers money into the private sector
Along with the PPE preferential lane they used Covid to do nothing other than feather nests
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As Maya Goodfellow shows in "Hostile Environment", this is a recurring theme in the political discourse on immigration. Racism is framed as a regrettable but natural response to a number of migrants arbitrarily deemed to be excessive, rather than a socially constructed and contestible subjectivity.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood made more explicit her argument that when ethnic minorities face racism, "we have no choice but to ask: what is the cause of our division"
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
As Maya Goodfellow shows in "Hostile Environment", this is a recurring theme in the political discourse on immigration. Racism is framed as a regrettable but natural response to a number of migrants arbitrarily deemed to be excessive, rather than a socially constructed and contestible subjectivity.
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I bet she would though
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I bet she would though
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You can still DONATE to help those in Jamaica affected by Hurricane Melissa’s devastation & WATCH the recording of last night
With a TON of amazing poetry, incredible hosting by Leone Ross & a beautiful atmosphere - but on a Karim Kamar one today, not sorry
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
With a TON of amazing poetry, incredible hosting by Leone Ross & a beautiful atmosphere - but on a Karim Kamar one today, not sorry
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
You can still DONATE to help those in Jamaica affected by Hurricane Melissa’s devastation & WATCH the recording of last night
With a TON of amazing poetry, incredible hosting by Leone Ross & a beautiful atmosphere - but on a Karim Kamar one today, not sorry
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
With a TON of amazing poetry, incredible hosting by Leone Ross & a beautiful atmosphere - but on a Karim Kamar one today, not sorry
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk