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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 5h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 4h

A #SilentSunday at Innisidgen.

#Photography #StandingStoneSunday #View #Landscape

A prehistoric burial chamber sits on a hillside, overlooking a blue sea.

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Dominique B. @dominiquebrg.bsky.social · 1d

Un peu de lumière pour ce soir

🎨 John Singer Sargent
Escalier à Capri, 1878

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 1d

Usually, when I go into town, I try to go by bike. There are several possible routes in, and one of them passses through the 'Rec'. If the weather is nice, I sometimes sit on a bench for five minutes to enjoy this view...

#Photography #Landscape #Cycling #Devon

A grassy field, surrounded by trees. Beyond the trees, there are glimpses of houses, a castle, and a church. Beyond those, are green hills.

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · 1d

Lawren Harris‘ Ice House, 1923 .

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 1d

Usually, when I go into town, I try to go by bike. There are several possible routes in, and one of them passses through the 'Rec'. If the weather is nice, I sometimes sit on a bench for five minutes to enjoy this view...

#Photography #Landscape #Cycling #Devon

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 2d

This time last year, we were visiting Vienna. We loved it there, and this week's #FensterFreitag offering can serve as a 'reflection' on that trip.

#Photography #Reflection #Urban #Architecture

A baroque facade is reflected in the glass wall of a modern building.

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 2d

'Das Unsichtbare sichtbar machen'
#FotoVorschlag

Das Foucaultsche Pendel – das die Rotation der Erde sichtbar macht.

A long, golden pendulum swings over a marked out floor.

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V is for… 🥷👊🐜🌿 @vfree3.bsky.social · 2d

“I saw them myself. Epstein went to the safe and took out the photos because they amused him…. Trump was sitting by Epstein’s pool in Palm Beach with young girls who were topless sitting in his lap. There’s one where he has a stain on his pants, and the girls are laughing…” #TrumpAbusedGirls

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Michael Wolff: I've seen the pictures of Trump with Epstein's girls. Here's what's in them.

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 2d

The thing about AI is that although it looks like a bubble and is obviously a bubble and anyone who thinks about it for a moment knows it’s a bubble, unlike all other bubbles in the past I’m sure it will just be fine. I’m investing in tulips.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 2d

Rather than investing in our recycling industry – which could create 5,000 jobs, as well as having an environmental benefit – the UK is dumping more and more plastic waste on other countries.

It’s shortsighted, it’s irresponsible, and it’s immoral.
https://bit.ly/437k75H

Britain missing out on potential £2bn recycling industry by exporting plastic waste

Exclusive: Government failure to close loophole allows 600,000 tonnes to be shipped elsewhere each year

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Linda McIver @lindamciver.adsei.org · 2d

gosh, who could possibly have foreseen this?? 🙄

Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 2d

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 2d

Who's gonna say it first?
🇬🇧🇪🇺

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 2d

'Das Unsichtbare sichtbar machen'
#FotoVorschlag

Das Foucaultsche Pendel – das die Rotation der Erde sichtbar macht.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 2d

This time last year, we were visiting Vienna. We loved it there, and this week's #FensterFreitag offering can serve as a 'reflection' on that trip.

#Photography #Reflection #Urban #Architecture

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 3d

Well, I managed to see the 'supermoon' on Tuesday evening, but this could be the worst picture of it on the entire internet. Sometimes a cameraphone just isn't up to the job you're asking of it. 😂

#Supermoon #Harvestmoon #Photography

Grainy picture of a full moon with light cloud, and a roof and chimney in the bottom left.

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 3d

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 3d

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 3d

Well, I managed to see the 'supermoon' on Tuesday evening, but this could be the worst picture of it on the entire internet. Sometimes a cameraphone just isn't up to the job you're asking of it. 😂

#Supermoon #Harvestmoon #Photography

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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 3d

The public have a right to know. That's why we're staging the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis - which will cover the same issues as this blocked report.

Please urge your MP to attend with our postcode checker:
www.nebriefing.org
#TimeToStepUp

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

www.nebriefing.org

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 4d

A sea pool on a volcanic coast for #MeerMittwoch. Each incoming wave set off another burst of spray.

#Photography #Sea #Coast

A rocky, sea pool amongst dark brown, volcanic rocks. The sea is whipped into spray as it enters the pool.

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 4d

A sea pool on a volcanic coast for #MeerMittwoch. Each incoming wave set off another burst of spray.

#Photography #Sea #Coast

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 4d

😂

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