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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 1d

Star Sword Nemesis is now available! Read about the most fashionable girl in a utopian collective of Trans-Neptunian Objects falling in love with her fencing instructor, the deadliest turncoat milf in all of space, feat. art by @mightyatom.bsky.social! loveconquersallgames.itch.io/star-sword-n...

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 5d

Okay, so what you're going to do is get some friends together. They don't all have to be radical leftists but they do at least need to believe that borders are fake. They also need to think that the sentiment of NASA's Voyager record is the coolest thing ever but that's easy because who doesn't?

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Duncan Brown @duncanjbrown.com · 5d

Why I don't believe in "small giants": mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dy...

Team dynamics after AI

Small giants and real giants

mechanicalsurvival.com

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 2d

ICYMI: Last week got grumpy trying to reach my local police Safer Neighbourhoods Team, so built yourpolice.events, that automatically adds upcoming events from your local policing team to your calendar and keeps it up to date.

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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 4d

Folks need to be paying attention to the growth of Real-Time Crime Centers. It is not just NYC, but they tend to lead on these things. www.biometricupdate.com/202510/nypd-...

NYPD turns public housing Internet program into surveillance network | Biometric Update

Officers are now able to watch New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) residents through a live feed connected to NYPD’s Domain Awareness System (DAS).

www.biometricupdate.com

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 5d

Have I Got Fake News For You

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/have-i-got...

Have I Got Fake News For You (Odds and Ends #79)

A jaw-dropping screw-up on prime time BBC One – and more!

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 4d

Fellow endless procrastinators and #Obsidian users, built something for us this morning: Timed Posts, a plugin that gives you 60 minutes to complete your post... or permanently deletes it. Commit to writing the thing!

(and yes, I built this instead of Writing The Post)
github.com/AndreasThink...

GitHub - AndreasThinks/obsidian-timed-posts: A timed post plugin for obsidian

A timed post plugin for obsidian. Contribute to AndreasThinks/obsidian-timed-posts development by creating an account on GitHub.

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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 4d

BBC apologises for false claim about Tony Blair's son's company being awarded a govt contract for digital ID www.politicshome.com/news/article...

BBC Apologises For Airing Fake Claim About Digital ID Scheme

The BBC has apologised for airing a false claim about Tony Blair's son's company being awarded a government contract to produce the new mandatory d...

www.politicshome.com

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 5d

I think they've just repeated some conspiratorial disinformation being spread on X honestly! Nobody has been contracted for this (and prob nobody will be) and even if they had, Multiverse is a training company.

@jamesomalley.co.uk has an excellent explainer takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/how-the-uk...

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 5d

So had to contact my local police Safer Neighbourhood Team this week, and had *A Bad Time*, so built a thing: Your Police Events, a service that automatically updates your calendar with events from your local policing team.
Would welcome some testers!

yourpolice.events

Your Police Events - Local Neighbourhood Policing Calendar

Get automatic calendar updates for your local neighbourhood policing events. Enter your postcode to subscribe and stay connected with your community.

yourpolice.events

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 5d

Jaw-dropping error – and not just a throwaway quip but part of the script. Someone is getting a massive telling-off for this. (I bet it will be chopped out of the iPlayer edit too.)

Here‘s how the digital ID system will actually work:

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/how-the-uk...

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 5d

I mean, this feels like quite a victim blame-y take

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 5d

This is astonishingly poor. How does @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social the *host* of @hignfy.bsky.social say something so verifiably, obviously wrong?!

Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely astonished @hignfy.bsky.social just stated that Multiverse will be running the government's digital ID scheme

An incredibly basic failure of fact-checking

fullfact.org/technology/d...

Has Euan Blair’s company Multiverse been chosen to run the government’s new digital ID scheme? – Full Fact

Multiverse is an “upskilling company”, not a software developer, and both it and the government say there’s no truth to viral claims linking it to the scheme.

fullfact.org

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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely astonished @hignfy.bsky.social just stated that Multiverse will be running the government's digital ID scheme

An incredibly basic failure of fact-checking

fullfact.org/technology/d...

Has Euan Blair’s company Multiverse been chosen to run the government’s new digital ID scheme? – Full Fact

Multiverse is an “upskilling company”, not a software developer, and both it and the government say there’s no truth to viral claims linking it to the scheme.

fullfact.org

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 6d

Lots of discussion on this trends on X. So what's going on here? I totally understand not investing in UK equities (US returns are better) but why the large increase in bonds? Investing in US equities for last decade has been good free money. Why are pension funds turning their nose at that?

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 7d

On a linked note, I continue to find it deeply depressing there isn't a nice web-based client for my laptop like @openvibe.social that lets me see and post on Bsky and Mastodon (and ideally X).

AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 7d

I'm sometimes reminded how good Twitter (and online discourse more broadly) was in the Good Old Days, and it makes me sad. X is wonderful for some AI content, but I miss being on hopeful platforms that brought everyone together.
I suspect the economics never really made sense, but it's still sad.

AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 7d

I'm sometimes reminded how good Twitter (and online discourse more broadly) was in the Good Old Days, and it makes me sad. X is wonderful for some AI content, but I miss being on hopeful platforms that brought everyone together.
I suspect the economics never really made sense, but it's still sad.

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Centre for Economic Performance @cep-lse.bsky.social · 8d

New Policy Brief! Domestic abuse: improving risk assessment
and response by the police?

Evidence and recommendations from Tom Kirchmaier, @drekaterinaoparina.bsky.social, Jeffrey Grogger, and @riaivandic.bsky.social

Written by
@aadyabahl.bsky.social

Read more at:
cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/d...

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 8d

Nobody asked for it. We did it anyway.

If you ever used Winamp during the later years, it had an awesome, awesome visualizer called Milkdrop. The Webamp people implemented a workalike called Butterchurn.

Internet Archive now supports Webamp and Butterchurn. Just click on the llama!

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rat posting from the lab @gizmouse.bsky.social · 9d

academy award contending tiktok

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 9d

The amount of disinformation around the proposed UK electronic id is striking. The combination of TBI globalist paranoia/big tech leading to general tech distrust is striking.

The below is total disinformation, but of course has millions of views.

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Sam @sunlightafterdark.com · 10d

Tomorrows World report about the internet from 1994 is fascinating while dealing me 100 points of psychic damage per second
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpZ5...

1994: Are YOU Ready for the INTERNET? | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

www.youtube.com

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Laurie Penny @pennyred.bsky.social · 10d

Hey. It’s my birthday. If you’d like to make my day, you could sign up as a paid subscriber to my substack. I’m building back up after a couple of years of burnout, and I’m excited to be back writing- and your support would mean a lot.

lauriepenny.substack.com

Penny Red | Laurie Penny | Substack

Laurie Penny's blog. Politics, pop culture, gender and power. Click to read Penny Red, by Laurie Penny, a Substack publication.

lauriepenny.substack.com

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 11d

Just wanted to mention here that I wrote an ENTIRE BOOK about a future utopian society based on perpetual mass migration. You should read it :)

The Actual Star | monicabyrne

"Wildly ambitious, wildly successful."--Cory Doctorow, author of Radicalized and Walkaway

www.monicabyrne.org

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