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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 17h

where do people like this think creativity happens? it happens IN the transitions, it happens in navigating through all the difficult bits; the pleasure of creating is inextricable from the difficulty, it's all one cloth. you deliberately conflate that with rote productivity then you have no soul

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 8h

They imagine ideas emerge from the ether, bolts of lightening disconnected from our hearts. They imagine the process is an obstacle not the whole damn point. The idea of being stuck and having something just hand you some...solution, is so off putting to me as an artist.

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 5h

God this is so depressing

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 8h

People who think the idea of "give me ideas" is something genuinely creative people want have literally never experienced the absolute EUPHORIA of a brainstorming breakthrough, either solo or with a human collaborator. They don't understand what is happening when artists create, on a basic level.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 1d

Does "gold standard" apprenticeships mean anything at all, or is that just to make it sound better?

Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 2d

"That's not the language I would have used" is not an acceptable response to this at all. Journalists need to make sure that this line repeatedly gets the response it deserves

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d

Tice's quote is fake.

Starmer said: "While we must come together to fight Reform with everything this movement has, we must go into that battle armed – not just with words but condemnation – but with action. That means tackling all the problems they pray upon. All the problems.”

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d

Richard Tice has made up a fake quote from the PM to claim he incited violence against his political opponents.

It was not sufficiently challenged in the Sky News interview that he did not say it, because the interviewer didn't have the text.

Ofcom should rule

uk.news.yahoo.com/no-keir-star...

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 7d

It is disgusting, horrifying, and heartbreaking that this even needs to be said. But sadly it does.

Sarcophagus Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 7d

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 7d

What tf is wrong with you

Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 7d

I'm so sorry. This is so devastating to read.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 9d

I'm getting really really fed up at constant reassertion that welfare spending is "out of control" when it is the same as the average for the past few decades.

One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 9d

A great read!

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MSI Reproductive Choices UK @msichoicesuk.bsky.social · 11d

We've been featured in Stylist this #InternationalSafeAbortionDay 🌟

"We need to consider what fighting for reproductive justice might look like in a global political climate which is more hostile to human rights and equality." - @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social

www.stylist.co.uk/news/politic...

“On Safe Abortion Day, we need to continue to fight for reproductive justice in the UK”

“While we can’t be complacent, we also shouldn’t be defeatist.”

www.stylist.co.uk

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 13d

One of the ironies in the age of micro-targeting is that a single unifying narrative/message is more important than ever.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13d

We don't live in a world anymore where you can do one piece for the Telegraph and an interview with the Guardian + appeal to two different audiences with different messages. Anyone interested can see what you're doing.

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 14d

A great new project.

Feminist Miscarriage Project @miscarriageproject.bsky.social · 15d

Delighted to be launching the Feminist Miscarriage Project! Please see our new website and we'll be updating on news and events soon: feministmiscarriageproject.org

The Feminist Miscarriage Project

A new collaboration led by two feminist academics, Victoria Browne and Susie Kilshaw, promoting intersectional approaches to miscarriage, grounded in bodily autonomy, social justice, and solidarity ac...

feministmiscarriageproject.org

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16d

The heuristic of 'if you couldn't make a decent stab at writing their obituary without further reporting, you shouldn't write a thinkpiece about their thoughts reveal about our times' remains very strong.

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 16d

These people absolutely exist and they’re nuts, and I can even understand doing a story on them, but it’s really quite pathetic to frame it as “Wow, just like 2020!” when it’s a bunch of random people online and not, like, *the candidate themselves and the overwhelming majority of elected officials*

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16d

After Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat, Republicans used dubious arguments to say he had been cheated. Now the left is dabbling in some of those same questionable theories to claim that Kamala Harris really won last year’s election, @dgraham.bsky.social argues.

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 17d

“Understandably, autistic people will be dismayed and frightened by this... We urge our Govt and NHS to stand by autistic people and condemn this misinformation.

"We urge anyone looking for information about autism to visit websites from trusted organisations."

www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/n...

Our response to President Trump’s announcement on Tylenol and vaccines

www.autism.org.uk

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 17d

Good piece by @chrisdillow.bsky.social on probability compression, relativism, and the idea of media balance

Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 17d

It's dangerous to say as the BBC does that Trump's claims of a link between paracetamol & autism are "unproven" & "disputed". This is because people over-estimate small probabilities & so give even wild claims too much credence. Here's one I wrote ages ago: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/dangerous-...

Dangerous balance

How impartial reporting can be misleading.

chrisdillow.substack.com

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 17d

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 17d

Happy birthday! I hope your day is fabulous 🤩

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 18d

A "marketplace of ideas" isn't going to be any less distorted by money and power and corruption and imperfect information and negative externalities (or the free speech equivalent) than actual markets

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18d

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 18d

The round-up.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/reflection...

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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 18d

Also other parties and politicians do plenty of things that could be considered attention seeking stunts...! The Lib Dem ones are more harmless and silly and don't involve bonkers policy proposals

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19d

I can explain the term "the woke right." The logic:

1) I denounced "wokeness" for years, proclaiming it dire threat to free speech, a civilizational danger
2) This fascism I was downplaying while focused on wokeness seems actually bad
3) Since I am by definition never wrong, the fascism is wokeness

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 19d

I’ve seen other people express this far better than me. But if, like me, you’re finding the ‘free speech’ hypocrisy of the right unbearable, you have to remember they know what they are doing. It’s not that they haven’t realised how illogical and hypocritical they are. They know,they just don’t care

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