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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 5h

When was it that "narrative" became a euphemism for BIG FAT LIE??

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18h

So refreshing to see someone challenge the smug, nasty Reform narrative

Anita R @venividiverily.bsky.social · 18h

I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 5h

When was it that "narrative" became a euphemism for BIG FAT LIE??

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18h

So refreshing to see someone challenge the smug, nasty Reform narrative

Anita R @venividiverily.bsky.social · 18h

I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18h

So refreshing to see someone challenge the smug, nasty Reform narrative

Anita R @venividiverily.bsky.social · 18h

I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 5h

That's great so I've added #AltText so that more folk can appreciate it.

"World Mental Health Day
Isn't like Christmas Day or Valentine's Day
It's a day that should be
Every day of the year;
If it's your birthday, Happy Birthday to you;
If you're not okay today
Talking and getting help
Are the best things you can do.
You might not feel like smiling,
But you are worthwhile,
And you deserve to be here.
@AllOnTheBoard"

This is written by hand with a board-marker on a Service Information board at one of the stations on London Underground (these boards usually give information, if needed, on Underground train services).

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Kιƚƚყ ₜₕₑ ᵥₑgₐₙ ₛₒcᵢₐₗᵢₛₜ 📎Ⓥ🌱💚🦇🌍🐠🇬🇧🇪🇺 @sparklykitten.bsky.social · 9h

Happy #WorldMentalHealthDay lovely phone family. There's no shame in admitting you're not doing great or you need support. There's always someone who will listen, so reach out if you need to and check in on loved ones. Be kind to yourself and each other. Have a peaceful day 🥰
#HaveCourageAndBeKind ❤️

Two fluffy pandas sat together. One has an arm around the other and there are love hearts across them both.
Text reads: When someone is going a rough time, just sit with them, no preaching, no judgement, just be there for them.
Credit - Mental Health Believe UK

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 1d

A Huge Thank You 🙏💙🙏 to Frankie @frankiemillie10.bsky.social for adding me to their latest excellent starter pack. Truly honoured to be included amongst all these wonderful folk. Check out Frankie's many other great starter packs.
#Resisters
#StrongerTogether

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 21h

As the wonderful commentator @davidallengreen.bsky.social so often says:
Brace, Brace.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Head of largest US bank warns of risk of American stock market crash

Jamie Dimon, chair of JPMorgan Chase, said he was ‘far more worried than others’ about serious market correction

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 1d

A Huge Thank You 🙏💙🙏 to Frankie @frankiemillie10.bsky.social for adding me to their latest excellent starter pack. Truly honoured to be included amongst all these wonderful folk. Check out Frankie's many other great starter packs.
#Resisters
#StrongerTogether

go.bsky.app/UF7fKDG

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 2d

Have you seen this @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social ?

Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 2d

An important nexus and intersection in this time of #polycrisis - especially because both war and climate crisis have massive effects on #migration.

Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 In just 2 weeks, we'll be hosting a free online panel with @cplusc.bsky.social to launch a new collaboration: @transitionsec.bsky.social

🎙️ @stephensemler.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social
🪑 @lalehkhalili.bsky.social

Reserve your spot now! 🔗👇

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 2d

An important nexus and intersection in this time of #polycrisis - especially because both war and climate crisis have massive effects on #migration.

Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 In just 2 weeks, we'll be hosting a free online panel with @cplusc.bsky.social to launch a new collaboration: @transitionsec.bsky.social

🎙️ @stephensemler.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social
🪑 @lalehkhalili.bsky.social

Reserve your spot now! 🔗👇

War, Climate Crisis and the Economy: Transition Security Project Launch

A collaboration between Common Wealth and Climate & Community Institute to investigate the US and UK military industrial complexes.

shorturl.at

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Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 2d

Yes exactly, we're beyond the south sea bubble, and into medieval territory:)

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 2d

Phew says Michael.

a man in a suit sits in a chair with a nbc logo in the background

Alt: Miochael Buble looking happy.

media.tenor.com

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Loukas (they/them)🏳️‍⚧️ @loukas.bsky.social · 2d

We should start calling it the AI buboe.

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 2d

Had to look that one up - you mean bubonic plague, right? Then YES.
#AI-Buboe

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 2d

I'm not saying it makes a huge amount of sense, but I am saying a market melt-up is a distinct possibility. The bad stuff just isn't sticking - on.ft.com/48PHt3p

Brace for a market melt-up

[FREE TO READ] Some say this is a ‘good’ bubble, but investors should remember that all bubbles burst in the end

on.ft.com

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 2d

Aaaargh - "bubbles".

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent essay by @jamesmeek.bsky.social for @lrb.co.uk on #AI-hype and #AI-doomers:
"The current direction of travel puts us on the way to an AGI with superhuman ability to solve problems, but no more than a slave’s power to frame those problems in the first place."
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

James Meek · Computers that want things

For all the fluency and synthetic friendliness of public-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, it seems important to remember...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 2d

All bubles burst eventually.

#AIBubble

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

www.theguardian.com

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REVISE & UPDATE IT! @letthelivingrule.bsky.social · 2d

Unarmed Kent State students stuck flowers of love in NG rifle barrels . . . just before they were murdered!

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2d

Students defy Keir Starmer's call to cancel Gaza protests on 7 October - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/students-defy-keir-starmers-call-cancel-gaza-protests-7-october

Students defy Keir Starmer's call to cancel Gaza protests on 7 October

Hundreds marched through central London, as the UK prime minister described the planned protests for Gaza as "un-British"

www.middleeasteye.net

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 2d

🤣🤣🤣 "ICE fishing"

K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 2d

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Protests used to involve throwing rotten fruit & eggs at the police. Now its offering donuts

E.P Thompson in the Making of the English Working Class records that when a perjurer was placed in the pillory in the 1790s the London crowd pelted him with eggs. Yet when a political radical suffe…

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 2d

@ucu.org.uk @drjogrady.bsky.social

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 3d

Great call to arms by @cnewf.bsky.social, following the tactic of Jed Esty's "Future of Decline" by looking to Stuart Hall & the New Left, & urging us to forego "private agency within our universities" in favor of "collective agency by running them."

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

www.publicbooks.org

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 2d

Have you seen this @profmartinp.bsky.social ?

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 3d

Great call to arms by @cnewf.bsky.social, following the tactic of Jed Esty's "Future of Decline" by looking to Stuart Hall & the New Left, & urging us to forego "private agency within our universities" in favor of "collective agency by running them."

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

www.publicbooks.org

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 3d

Great call to arms by @cnewf.bsky.social, following the tactic of Jed Esty's "Future of Decline" by looking to Stuart Hall & the New Left, & urging us to forego "private agency within our universities" in favor of "collective agency by running them."

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

www.publicbooks.org

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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