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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h

Like everything idiotic Johnson does, this is yet more evidence of the depths that all of these clowns were prepared to sink to, and how they were so happy to caper around, pretending it was all cool and normal.

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Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 8h

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 19h

oh boy, i hope ukgov isn't betting the farm on AI

(handed paper from offscreen)

my APES

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“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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Your Party 2: 🎃Season Of Dead Terfs🎃 @fasterfizzier.bsky.social · 9h

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 10h

"Starmer plays diplomatic blinder, actually" fawns sycophants in English media.

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 13h

And this is not that.

At best, it's 2ic to a bonnet ornament.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13h

They’ve been calling a significant section of the public unBritish hatemongers. They’ve been telling everyone who objects to their horrible politics to fuck off, for years. It’s not that mild-mannered is it, and that’s before we get to the Enoch Powell speech.

Is Labour just mild-mannered Faragism?
The New Statesman:

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 13h

Oh she's running for the deputy leader of Labour Together or as Maurice Glassmans no.2 is she?

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 14h

Neither have been given space to promote themselves on this platform.

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 15h

Later I will be travelling on the Motorway.

Is the M8 mine?

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 15h

"How dare you criticise labour" reply guys:

a black and white photo of a man wearing a baseball cap and a chain .

ALT: a black and white photo of a man wearing a baseball cap and a chain .

media.tenor.com

WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 15h

This is not my bar chart. Why would this be by my bar chart?

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 15h

Of the Tufty Club too?

The Lefty-Handed Rochester Ladies Sewing Circle?

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 16h

This is a timely, excellent and important report on how "arms length" bodies in UK are vulnerable to political manipulation.

Kudos @chrischirp.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social for putting this together.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 7d

[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]

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SOCRATES:
Plato..

PLATO:
Yes Socrates?

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SOCRATES:
Can you tell me, are you human?

PLATO:
Why… yes, Socrates

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SOCRATES:
And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is?

PLATO:
Um, yep

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SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then

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[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]

SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?

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PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel

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SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.

PLATO:
No.

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SOCRATES:
[Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes]

So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*?

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PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really

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SOCRATES:
So are we not human?

PLATO:
‘Spose not.

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[Bleak pause]

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PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock

SOCRATES:
Yeah

[ends]

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Kevin St. Alder @kevinstalder.bsky.social · 19h

Statement from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee 👏 🙏

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 18h

We'll always have one of the greatest political memes in history.

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 19h

Do you feel better off after austerity, Brexit and rising bills under Westminster?

With independence, we can raise living standards and build an economy that works for Scotland.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 20h

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 18h

"I want a Labour Party that not only doesn't exist but hasn't since there was an internet."

The performative mewling from those that know precisely who they've been shilling for, for years, is at least entertaining. Sad, pathetic, but entertaining.

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 18h

Incredible how Israel plays by different rules all the time

Gaza ceasefire agreement now in effect, says Israel - but troops will stay until
Hamas disarms

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 19h

Israel highlighting how many 100s of aid trucks they will now allow into Gaza is a tacit admission that they were using aid as a weapon of war, by the way. seems weird not to talk about this

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 21h

I don't think the deputy leadership of Labour Together was an elected post. Or that she's in line for it.

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 22h

Your husband doesn't speak to his brother, who also doesn't speak to his dad, his uncles a nonce, his gran protected him from punishment despite being a nonce and your husbands aunt was a racist who bullied your sister in law for being black.

Are you really in a position to give advice? Are you?

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 22h

We've been selling them peace weapons and using our air force to provide them with peace targeting data.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23h

The foreign secretary says the UK has been contributing to the peace process.

No. What the UK govt has been contributing to is the extermination of the Palestinian people.

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