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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 2d

Every past version of you was trying to protect your truth until you could live it safely.

That’s not wasted time. That’s loyalty.

Transitioning later in life is how you repay that loyalty, by finally giving yourself the freedom you always deserved.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 8d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10d

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’…

…but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵
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www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION

As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

www.thenerve.news

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Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social · 12d

I did not grow up watching RR but I love that is it this human leading a revival. Joy all round

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 12d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 16d

Apparently what I do in the middle of the night in a sleeping pill fugue is now "create bad little graphics on canva"

GOING UP: conkers, melania's big hat, carlin peas, andy burnham?, BBC archives

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Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social · 13d

I love this, more please (also these peas sound delightful!)

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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 13d

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 14d

Within the first year of my daughter’s life, the Lionesses have won the Euros and the Red Roses have won the World Cup in front of sell-out crowds and huge tv audiences and it’s so wonderful to know she will grow up thinking that of course women play sport and of course everybody watches it

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Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social · 14d

Watched Can v Aus live and that was a joy, their win over NZ just extraordinary - so much for them to be proud of. And terrific for the Roses to get the win.

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Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social · 14d

Ha, what do I know! Canada overwhelmed by the far better side, tactics, set piece, execution. Relieved Botts' moment of madness didn't matter in the end. And an 80k crowd for the women's game, fuck yeah.

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Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social · 14d

Final time! Reckon Canada will pull this off but expecting a tight one. I will be cheering them both and generally getting excited.

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Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social · 14d

That was cracking, what a treat. Don't want this world cup to end.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15d

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social · 15d

For anyone wanting to watch the Bronze final of the rugby world cup, it's live on iPlayer and is already dead brilliant. No idea why it's not on terrestrial like every other game has been.

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Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social · 15d

My phone has updated and now the lock screen has a new font and it's different from the home screen font so now I have to put my phone in the bin

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Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social · 16d

list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1. Starsky and Hutch (Watsonian or Doylist, you pick)
2. Virginia Woolf
3. History of queer rep in children's books

Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 17d

list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1. Single season ‘90s TV shows
2. Hamlet through the ages as an avatar for emotional repression and later the healing process of mental health.
3. The secret life of Jack Traven aka Johnny Utah aka John fucking Wick

wendell the expletive pronoun @wendellwrites.bsky.social · 17d

list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1. the portrayal of women in renaissance poetry
2. the portrayal of women in big r romantic poetry
3. the trans spec fic renaissance we're currently in

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Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social · 18d

So much of my childhood was this fuzzy 'that's a joke I don't get, laugh politely'. Only Connect the other week, someone did the Eggbert Nobacon joke and that's when I learned what the joke was, and it wasn't that there was a famous person whose name sounded a bit like Eggbert Nobacon.

Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 18d

Dickie Bird passed. Much like Willie Thorne and Lester Piggott, as a kid I found all of their names so amusing (and not being able to Google them), I thought they were just fictional characters from old sitcoms from when my parents were young because older people mentioned them.

I'm very normal 👍

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Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social · 18d

Also: sand sucks, the sea doesn't sound like the sea, and I need a tripod spider thing. Also sometimes your props will blow away

Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social · 18d

part ways in shame. Then big rock follows 1 and 4 in search of love.

This is possibly an over complex narrative for 14 seconds

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Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social · 18d

Apparently Bluesky wants to eat Alt Text today so here is the explanation I provided to my partner: So the 3 rocks are friends but then rock 1 falls off the big rock and 2 and 3 don't know what to do but then rock 4 comes and provides medical assistance and they leave happy together. Rocks 2 and 3

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Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social · 18d

Beach rescue

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Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social · 19d

I had a job contract like this once. Marketing/content creation role trying to take ownership of anything I created outside working hours.

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 19d

Donald Trump has said there is a link between paracetamol use in pregnancy and autism, in a claim widely condemned by UK experts

Trump’s claim of paracetamol and autism link condemned by UK experts

Donald Trump has said there is a link between paracetamol use in pregnancy and autism, in a claim widely condemned by UK experts. The US president said there had been a “meteoric rise” in cases of aut...

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Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you for reporting on this like adults. Though 'universally condemned ' would likely be fine since Wakefield was struck off for peddling similar nonsense.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 19d

THIS is how you cover it.

Seung Min Kim @seungminkim1.bsky.social · 19d

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump uses platform of presidency to promote unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence.

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