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@fearlessknits.bsky.social

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I was born in a water moon…

Since then I've paid an inordinate amount of attention to politics, made Sheffield my home, and made lots of things with yarn. Queer, disabled, democratic communist, one half of Mary James

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Mary James FAcSS retired in January 2014 as Professor and Associate Director of Research at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. In the same year she completed her four-year term as Vice President and President of the British Education and Research Association. .. more

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Psychology 9%

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 15h

We deserve a politics of care.

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 15h

Bloody hell Liz. I am shocked but not surprised. And yeah, I hate that we basically have to become experts on our own health and try to figure out the exact dialogue options to unlock the care we need. Docs should be a help, not an obstacle!

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 16h

Palantir software is now the basis of the Government's fraud reporting service. So it now handles sensitive financial data for millions of UK citizens. Plus NHS data. Plus military analytics. Plus policing.

And, of course, it's quite explicitly far right in its politics.

What could ever go wrong?

NEWS: UK police launch ‘Report Fraud’ service - AML Intelligence

UK officials have formally launched 'Report Fraud', a new service aimed at changing how victims of fraud and cybercrime contact police.

www.amlintelligence.com

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 18h

Oh my love 🫂🫂🫂🫂

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18h

We need a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy.

Urge your MP to sign @sianberry.bsky.social Early Day Motion 👇🏼

action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-brit...

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 1d

I know, right? You must see even more than me. It's going to fuck the global economy, we can all see it coming, and noone with any power seems to be in any way concerned. Maybe they're all just rich enough they don't think they'll get hurt

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. Obviously. As a stepping stone to making it free for everyone. Just think how much better off we'd all be, financially, socially, and environmentally, if all local transit (bus, tram, local trains) were free?

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 1d

I've just devoured this in two days. Holy fuck. It really reminds me of all the stuff @edzitron.com is saying about 'AI', and how little thought appears to be being taken over the consequences of these technologies we have so little choice about using

The cover of the memoir Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, subtitle: a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism. The cover image is of a rounded square in Facebook blue with a shark fin

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 1d

Very nice 🥰

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 1d

Aaaaaaa you look so soft and cozy!

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 1d

Just so we are all aware: yes, being politically active is a risk. Yes it will affect your career- it has affected mine. Yes it will put you in danger- I receive death threats regularly. But revolution for better or worse requires risk. Otherwise your writing stands for very little.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Entirely typical of the BBC's treatment of trans people that it presents Michael Foran, who is literally on the advisory Board of the Sex Matters hate group, as an independent expert.

How the NHS became the battleground in the trans debate at work

What's next for employers and their staff in the aftermath of the Darlington nurses ruling?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, this is my overwhelming impression listening to it. He repeatedly demanded full ownership of Greenland, and made an explicit threat to punish the Europeans if they don't give in. He then threatened to punish Canada over its prime minister's speech!

Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 1d

If you're only reading headlines and see "Trump Says He Won't Use Force" it will give you a misimpression of both how bellicose this speech is and how dug in he is on Greenland.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on NATO: "We never ask for anything, and we never got anything. We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force, where we would be frankly unstoppable. But I won't do that. Okay?"

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Labour are low in the polls and hard on the country.

Fair play to whichever special advisor has written Keir a bit of a snarky line. Maybe Keir could take that energy to Trump on the warpath or the billionaire bosses ruining this country?

Starmer attacks Green Party as "high on drugs, soft on Putin."

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 1d

New cyclist finds out he's an anti-car urban elite who has no life and wants some made up bike utopia.

kid with head in hands and bike leaning up on a tree

New cyclist finds out he's an anti-car urban elite who has no life and wants some made up bike utopia.

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 1d

😍

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 1d

DID YOU KNOW that if you were at the world's fanciest richest dinner with a steak knife on the table and you were sat next to a certain special someone you could solve a lot of problems (tough steak) in a single decisive movement (cutting up your tough steak)

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Distressing that Canada, which has the most to lose from this change, is ready to face reality, whilst Starmer bets on Churchillian nostalgia for the 'special relationship' and actively rejects meaningfully closer economic engagement with the EU, which must be where our future lies.

‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’: Mark Carney is emerging as the unflinching realist ready to tackle Trump

In a speech at Davos, written by Carney himself, the Canadian prime minister laid out his doctrine for a world of fractured international norms

www.theguardian.com

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck. The universe really rolled a one on the consequence table, didn't it? 😔

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 1d

A bit of discussion about this detached bogie being a cause rather than an outcome of the Adamuz crash. It's essentially impossible for a bogie to be released from a moving train without that train already having been derailed.

A huge piece of debris, seen by a photographer for The New York Times, appeared to have flown roughly 900 feet from the tracks, landing next to a stream running through a steep-sided gully below the railway.

One of the crashed trains with what appears to be a section of the undercarriage missing.

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Greyfore @greyfore.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing the news of Trump heading to Davos, being a Doctor Who nerd meant I misread that the first time.

a robot says yes i would do it while wearing headphones

ALT: a robot says yes i would do it while wearing headphones

media.tenor.com

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Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir @uglastefania.bsky.social · 1d

"WE WILL NEVER BE SILENCED" anti-trans campaigners shout, while appearing on the front page of every single newspaper and interviewed on all major news platforms in the country repeatedly for the past 10 years. Pretty sure you have the wrong definition of 'silenced', but okay.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Steve "Reed wants to cap ground rents on existing properties, building on a previous Tory intervention... But Reeves is seeking to block the proposal, having been urged to do so by influential institutional investors who fear that the changes would damage the value of their property portfolios."

Keir Starmer’s leadership under pressure from Angela Rayner and Andy Burnham

Senior figures from Labour leftwing burnish their profiles with public interventions

giftarticle.ft.com

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Harpy 🍉 @xharpy.bsky.social · 1d

Hoarding is a mental illness. Either get help, or destroy the planet for every living being. Every problem we have is due to wealth inequality. We outnumber them.

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 2d

Also, they're all different shades of pink, blue, and purple, because I love a low key trans flag mani 🏳️‍⚧️

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 2d

Three other day I did my nails. Properly. Like, I put so much time into shaping them. Making sure I had no bubbles in the builder gel. All the nail prep. And they were good?

Today, I added glitter on top.

And they're perfect.

It makes me laugh how much joy I get from sparkles!

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 2d

So it's just bad luck that the second train was passing at that time?

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j @james.claims · 2d

we need less people focused on building AGI and more people dedicated to worthier pursuits

like noiseless fuck machines

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Maggie Mae Fish 🐟 @maggiemaefish.bsky.social · 2d

NEW VIDEO!!!

We take a deep dive into True Crime creators and answer the question --

Are True Crime stories about incompetent cops radicalizing normies???

www.youtube.com/watch?v=shhu...

Investigating the True-Crime to Anti-Cop Pipeline

YouTube video by Maggie Mae Fish

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