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Gemma Clark 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 29m

Can you imagine future American history books?

Someone in an inflatable frog costume facing down Trump’s goons.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9h

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 24m

I haven't even read this yet and I'm screaming *NO!!!* at my phone. Seriously have people stopped *thinking* about adverse side effects? I'm sorry but this is a giant red flag for all kinds of reasons.

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 28m

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...

'Deepfake' teacher avatars to help pupils catch up

Academy trust staff to use AI generator to introduce resources for pupils returning to school

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Bluebird K7 @bluebirdk7.bsky.social · 16m

Donald Campbell’s Bluebird K7 hydroplane to return to Cumbrian waters - if 10mph speed limit lifted www.itv.com/news/border/...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

surgery recovery, even for a minor surgery, is a bitch! the body is not meant to have things poking around inside it

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 10h

Sounds good, easy to digest

Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 11h

That is lovely. The reflection off the bus is magical

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 2d

Nevada

digital image (Nikon D750)

A Southwest 737 taking off at dusk with a cityscape and mountains behind it. (The city is Reno).

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 13h

what do you even say. what do you even say.

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 13h

Not yet, touch wood. Home now and feeling a little more human

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 13h

I don’t think I can be alone in thinking that the Nobel committee should wait a bit to see if peace actually happens before awarding the appropriate prize. Like, 20 years

Fantasy Football Draft Dodger @liberationnow.bsky.social · 16h

Fun fact: Obama remains the only Nobel winner to order a drone strike on another Nobel winner

Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 19h

Happy anniversary to the day Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Somewhere, Trump is rage-Googling “how to win Nobel without doing peace.”

#TrumpTantrum

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 13h

#FolkHorror novel recommendations please, preferably recent

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 14h

I've said it before: anyone who runs down the job that teachers do, even for such nakedly political reasons rather than from any real place of conviction, (a) should try surviving even a fucking WEEK of it themselves and (b) should then go to the bottom of a well.

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 14h

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14h

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 13h

It’s reconstruction of a lost tribe. Nobody’s ever seen a young conservative so we have to guess

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 14h

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14h

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

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🔨🪜 📻 roofer sound 📻🪜🔨 @rufushound.wtf · 14h

Listen, we all know it's a long shot, but:

Does anyone have a motorbike I could use for a couple of months?

November - December

It's entirely the wrong amount of time to buy/rent/lease one for so, on the off chance that someone has one just sitting around, could I borrow it?

Feel free to RT x

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 13h

Mum and Dad have reached Keld on day 8 of their Coast to Coast challenge and are now safe in their B&B with its view over Swaledale

View out of a window over a gently rolling hillside

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 14h

These people are dense. You can't even make an acronym of Make Britain Great Again. How would you say it? Mubga?

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 16h

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.
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Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was earlier today abducted and detained by Israeli forces after the aid flotilla on which she was traveling to Gaza was intercep…

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 16h

Authors - need a cover artist? This pack has you covered (lol) and is a great starting point for getting human made arts for your writing!

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 16h

[whispers] a *settee*

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 16h

Courtesy of Clarissa Dickson Wright..

There’s not a man on my Ottoman,
There hasn’t been for weeks;
There’s not a man on my Ottoman,
He’s gone off to fight the Greeks.

Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 17h

Cool, I’ll flatten my hair down with Brylcream and affect an expression of disdainful malevolence

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 17h

Yes, we used to call it the lounge

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 17h

There’s someone down in the LAAOUNGE youtu.be/aIiVEF0DgV8

Bottom - There's someone down in the lounge!

YouTube video by BurroDiablo

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