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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 1h

Dead Internet Theory

Via @t0nyyates.bsky.social

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a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service

Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 7h

It had been several days since a French political crisis, so thank god the Socialists have come back with threats to blow up the government next week

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Garret Beggan 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @garretbeggan.bsky.social · 7h

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Garret Beggan 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @garretbeggan.bsky.social · 7h

El verbo que buscáis es "mentir" y no "afirmar". 😑

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 8h

The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324

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Garret Beggan 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @garretbeggan.bsky.social · 7h

*Every* UK Government with a majority in Parliament holds untrammelled power. Or try asking the question, "What is it that Crown in Parliament can NOT do?"

As for the people of the UK: If they weren't feckless, they'd have won themselves real democracy already. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Garret Beggan 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @garretbeggan.bsky.social · 7h

You don't hold untrammelled power on 33% of the vote in a real democracy, Ben. 😉

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Garret Beggan 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @garretbeggan.bsky.social · 7h

I think Other Ben is right, else you end up with something like the Spanish Constitution of 1814, which is great while the Liberals hold the balance of power - and gets thrown in the bin the moment the Reactionaries are back in charge.

You need very wide agreement on the Basic Law that binds all.

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Garret Beggan 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @garretbeggan.bsky.social · 8h

For a real democracy (which the UK very much is not), a Constitution is necessary but not sufficient.

So less snark about Constitutions, please, since the root cause here is an ignorant and feckless population, and a complacent but talentless elite that has zero use for real democracy.

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minderbinder8.bsky.social @minderbinder8.bsky.social · 12h

Chris Mason, Laura Kuenssberg, Fiona Bruce, Nick Robinson - your boys took a hell of a beating www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Plaid Cymru defeats Reform in Welsh Parliament Caerphilly by-election

Labour came third after suffering its first parliamentary defeat in Caerphilly for 100 years.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 1d

There were earlier versions to this poem as it appeared in 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb', including one for a performance with Satnam Galsian which was close to this.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10h

My "designed to annoy everyone" take is that the British right should be ashamed of and incensed by the murder and lack of justice for British citizens.

Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 11h

Most people in NI are really not surprised by the Soldier F outcome - but this was no show trial or witch hunt. The judge excoriated the soldiers' conduct, but because of a passing of time caused by extreme state failings, could not convict. That is the scandal. These headlines are grotesque:

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 11h

Most people in NI are really not surprised by the Soldier F outcome - but this was no show trial or witch hunt. The judge excoriated the soldiers' conduct, but because of a passing of time caused by extreme state failings, could not convict. That is the scandal. These headlines are grotesque:

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 18h

That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.

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Luis Valdés @luisvaldes.bsky.social · 1d

La píldora diaria

BYD ya ha superado por 6° mes consecutivo las 1.000 unidades 100% eléctricas

La serie más larga de Tesla fueron 5 meses, de NOV23 a MAR24

Otro mes más son los coches con enchufe los que tiran del mercado y los 100% eléctricos podrían superar mañana el total de octubre de 2024

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 15h

In THE TABLES TURNED (1911), a band of prankster cowpokes kidnap actress Edith Storey as a practical joke but quickly find themselves in a pickle when she steals a pistol and forces them to bunny hop for her amusement, as one does.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20h

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 1d

As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found

- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire

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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 1d

Castilla y León desobedece a Feijóo y sí facilitará información al Gobierno sobre los cribados de cáncer

Fernández Carriedo "no ve inconveniente" en que después esos datos sean facilitados a la prensa en favor de la transparencia

www.eldiario.es

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Fiona Small @fionasmall.bsky.social · 23h

CMAT is a legit legend

i sincerely hope that A Certain Other Irish Pop Star gets the help that she needs, but right now she is very publicly acting like a bully and is absolutely not a voice to be listened to or trusted when it comes to trans lives.
can i ask for all the lovely people in the irish/musicy/ gay/alloftheabove circle who are *rightfully* outraged by her latest series of tweets to not share them? i can tell that everyone's intentions are good but it can be quite traumatising to spread around this bogus 'data. I really care about prevention of harm to the trans community and i believe in the power of cutting off hate at the source.
anyways. today seems like as fabulous a day as ever to donate to TENI, Trans Equality Network Ireland.

https://teni.ie/donate/?fbclid=PAZnRzaANncGtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp2cnZliqOys3gQKkAF8NEpuBafVfttOvDRjB-OQJ7l87861IlgPXkrXzoDXq_aem_HF0eRetIzgAfhfLYk8-y4Q

i love you all so much ! let's work harder to protect our trans family during these

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 1d

If "Tory officials say people will not lose their ILR for claiming the state pension", then they need to withdraw their published draft Bill and apologise, since it is carefully and precisely drafted to ensure that they would.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Conservatives complain to whips about fellow MP’s comments on legally settled people

Exclusive: Criticism of Katie Lam comes amid widespread confusion in the party over its policy on indefinite leave to remain Conservative MPs have complained to party whips after Katie Lam said many legally settled people should be deported to make the UK “culturally coherent”, the Guardian has learned. Lam, seen as a rising Tory star, said last weekend she believed “a large number of people” living legally in the UK should have their right to stay revoked and “go home”. “What that will leave is a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people,” she told the Sunday Times. Continue reading...

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d

23 October 1943 | A transport of 1,035 Jews deported from Rome arrived at Auschwitz. After the selection 149 men & 47 women were registered in the camp. The remaining 839 people were murdered in gas chambers.

Mario, Mara Cesira & Sandro Sonnino among them.

Studio photograph of three children - from smallest, to largest: a boy, a girl and a boy. They are standing on a fur rug. All have their legs exposed. Some are holding toys in their hands.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

Bad day for the rule of law. The state can murder you in front of witness, cameras, frustrate justice for years, oversee destroying evidence and then put it 53 year later before a jury less trial to give themselves the green light about it all. And I have to pay my taxes to fund it

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Matt Fulchiron @thefullcharge.bsky.social · 1d

If you don’t want ICE to find you, pretend you’re a clitoris.

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Pedro Fresco @pedrofresco.bsky.social · 1d

Oigan, que hay más de un 70% de energías no síncronas en el sistema ibérico.
Miren ustedes si se les ha ido la luz o algo, que dicen en la prensa que esto no puede ser.

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