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Shadow Hedgie 🌻

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shadow hedgie, your favourite reply guy's favourite reply guy Migrant in London, citizen of nowhere, marked safe from the transphobe mind virus geriatric millennial, like everyone else here still looking for the Édouard Drumont of the left

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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · Apr 15

Isn't that a crime?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 2d

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

www.business-live.co.uk

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 2d

Hollow laughter

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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 2d

right, I think it's estimated to be about 1% of the population?

point being, there's always a margin of error, that doesn't make the numbers incommensurable

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 2d

it's gone most of the way to being a reform paper in fairness

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 2d

@seththevoz.bsky.social I feel like there's an episode in this

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 2d

I reserve the right to judge both these people and my younger self

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 2d

the UK still does a census and tries to estimate this in other ways. It's not like everyone in Sweden is registered either

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 2d

The EU will always do big ag's bidding?

donald trump says i did n't know that in a dark room

Alt: donald trump says wow, I didn't know that, you're telling me now for the first time

media.tenor.com

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 2d

v fitting that the lady on the right has been expunged from the Times article already

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 2d

and even fewer are getting divorced at that age.

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 2d

If you try to post a link to it now she's not in the card either, she's likely been scrubbed from it since the article was first published

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 2d

cautiously optimistic but the expected timeline of events in the peace deal really needs an entry for Friday morning, when someone other than Donald Trump will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Israel and Hamas to sign peace deal in Egypt after hostage release agreed

Trump-backed agreement marks milestone in efforts to bring two-year conflict to an end

www.ft.com

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 2d

and @xblock.aendra.dev lets me hide posts that look like they contain screenshots.

But!

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 2d

it does have more uses than that!

I like that @pronouns.diy lets people self-label with pronouns, @skywatch.blue lets me hide posts from people with certain symbols in their bio, @joined-labeler.shatteredsky.net and @profile-labels.bossett.social give useful context on an account,

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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 2d

(I won't screenshot because the OP has disabled quote posts but a notorious labeller that awards badges to all followers of certain accounts is shutting down and this is their stated reason)

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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 2d

can this be fixed? maybe! but we're not there yet

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 2d

"some of you can't be trusted to use this information reasonably and responsibly" really sums up the problem with decentralized social media

there's data that has to be public in order for the network to be decentralized, but that same data can also be weaponized in anti-social ways

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 3d

Skywatch has a new label 'discourse-bait' which right now applies a label that expires in 7 days for certain key terms (mostly AI related discourse right now). It's sent to ignore as default, so go turn it on.

Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 3d

I will not wade back into discourse I will not wade back into discourse I will not wade back into discourse

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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 3d

Getting a lot of JPII vibes from this

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 3d

Do these statistics include cash shells? they became hugely popular in 2020/21 and remain listed for a while, without profit or revenues until they complete a transaction

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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 3d

even calling it the first domino may be giving it too much credit when there are so many other blockers that are just as important

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 3d

cc: @jonworth.eu (regretfully)

Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 3d

Let’s end Eurostar’s monopoly on cross-channel rail

New entrants could revitalise and expand rail services from London to continental Europe

www.ft.com

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