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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 3d

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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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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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 4d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 4d

everyone on any zoom when a cat or dog shows up

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mjflanagan.bsky.social @mjflanagan.bsky.social · 5d

Was referencing it just 4 days ago

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 6d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 8d

People banging on about Tilly Norwood like Max Headroom never happened.

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 8d

Tilly Norwood is the most trying-to-make-fetch-happen shit I've ever seen

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mjflanagan.bsky.social @mjflanagan.bsky.social · 8d

Amazing work

mjflanagan.bsky.social @mjflanagan.bsky.social · 13d

First movie that I can remember seeing in a cinema (theater for us Brits...) ... 'Pete's Dragon'. As far as I can remember, the school took us.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 13d

Age yourself with a movie you saw in a theater as a kid.

Poster for the movie THE COMPUTER WORE TENNIS SHOES (1969)

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mjflanagan.bsky.social @mjflanagan.bsky.social · 13d

Couldn't agree more. A B/w reprint of this story (or half of it) in a UK title a few years later had me hooked for life. By the way as a Brit it took me a minute to work out what '15 and 20 centers' meant and I very nearly posted asking you to clarify... Then it fell into place!

mjflanagan.bsky.social @mjflanagan.bsky.social · 16d

The love we have for our football clubs, eh? Sometimes you have to go inside their apps for the first time in a while for something to do with tickets. And what you see sets your heart beating so strongly that it reminds you of why you loved that club in the first place #MUFC

Screenshot from the Manchester United club app. It shows a tie in product with golf under the headline 'product of the week'

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mjflanagan.bsky.social @mjflanagan.bsky.social · 17d

Oh I love Sammond's book about Walt Disney. Thanks for sharing

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 17d

There is huge market share for the Lib Dem’s to run with the motto of “enough of this American nonsense let’s be sensible British people
Again” and not sure anyone’s weird arguments that specific voters should be chased is needed at all.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18d

Abolish ICE.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18d

ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family

ICE held 5-year-old autistic girl in Massachusetts to pressure father to surrender, family says

The girl's father, Edward Hip, has lived in the United States for the last 22 years, according to his wife.

www.nbcnews.com

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Care Full @carefull.bsky.social · 18d

Before I run off to eat lunch a few reflections on the @claremontcomms.bsky.social event today exploring how we create a society that values care. It's positive to see focus on the need to shift how we talk about care - in all it's forms to one that is universal. 🧵

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18d

Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist."

RT if Mick is right.

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Mollie Simpson @molliesimpson.bsky.social · 19d

and if you fancy filling my shoes over in manchester, apply here millmediaco.uk/2025/09/04/w...

We’re hiring: Staff writer, The Mill, Manchester

Come and work with a team that’s changing journalism (We’re also hiring a staff writer role in Birmingham) Role details Location: Manchester (we need someone who lives full-time in Grea…

millmediaco.uk

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mjflanagan.bsky.social @mjflanagan.bsky.social · 21d

Well, Disney won't turn down kids who want to see these films clearly, hence the limited age classification (unlike some of the TV material). But comics are not really for kids anymore (Big 2 superheroes anyway), so it isn't that surprising that movies would follow suit

mjflanagan.bsky.social @mjflanagan.bsky.social · 21d

Excellent, thanks Anna

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mjflanagan.bsky.social @mjflanagan.bsky.social · 21d

Where can one find this intriguing sounding doc about someone I've never heard of, yet inexplicably need to know more about...

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mjflanagan.bsky.social @mjflanagan.bsky.social · 22d

Think you're spot on

mjflanagan.bsky.social @mjflanagan.bsky.social · 22d

@ruthhannan.bsky.social , try not to let this tip you over the edge

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 23d

The forming of orderly lines in pubs appears to be an emerging phenomenon, and Britons are divided on what system they prefer

Single-file queue: 40%
Bar scrum: 39%

yougov.co.uk/topics/consu...

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Ruth Hannan @ruthhannan.bsky.social · 23d

Few thoughts from me on the newly launched report from @centreforcare.bsky.social

Care Full @carefull.bsky.social · 23d

I (Ruth) have just attended the launch of @centreforcare.bsky.social launch of their research into adult social care worker organising. A really interesting area, especially as Care Full is exploring solidarity in and across care. Thoughts. 🧵
The report is here: centreforcare.ac.uk/publications...

Successfully engaging paid care workers in organising: Challenges, opportunities, and what works | the Centre for Care

This briefing proposes recommendations for successfully engaging care workers in organising.

centreforcare.ac.uk

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