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Dzyga's Paw @dzygaspaw.com · 6h

In September, we raised $166,551 and delivered 14 parcels to our heroes in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. We also closed two fundraisers and dedicated much time to events and networking.

Read more about it in the thread 👇

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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Wholly Calamity @andrewhuntley.bsky.social · 6h

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🤷Літ🤦 хоче спекти пасочку 👍 @lithra.bsky.social · 1d

#UkrainianView
after seven years.
Some things take a lot to be uncovered.

I sadly recall how foreigners during the first year of the full scale were asking WHY have Ukrainians not provided the report statistics or proofs of russian war crimes after a week past the event.

UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 1d

A 64-year-old doctor from Donetsk breaks his silence after seven years of torture in Russian captivity.

🧵 1/8 ⬇️

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 20h

Here’s video of the incident

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 17h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 21h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Wholly Calamity @andrewhuntley.bsky.social · 1d

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back goodlawproject.org/s/4860b3

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back

goodlawproject.org

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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 2d

RIP, John Woodvine. A very fine actor, and son of South Shields

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Susan Korbel @sasuz.bsky.social · 2d

OK all you #Texas mamas who let your babies grow up to be cowboys and joined the Texas Guard instead: CALL THEM NOW and tell them to come home!

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Tonight, Terrorist Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 2d

Smuggling routes, illegal fishing operations, and shadow fleets. There’s loads going on at sea. Try to track some ships yourself, this month in the Bellingcat Open Source Challenge. Find the exercises, created by our volunteer @tomi-mcc.bsky.social, here: challenge.bellingcat.com

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David Lewis @davidclewis.bsky.social · 3d

Jane Goodall wanted to put Putin, Trump, Musk, Xi Jinping and Netanyahu onto a spaceship and launch them into the stratosphere. The fact that she is no longer with us yet that pack of planet-shafting scumbags are is yet another sad indictment of this obscene timeline.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 3d

Trajectory of Russian missiles and drones, mainly aimed for Lviv in Western Ukraine.

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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 3d

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

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AngryFella @angryfella420.fellas.army · 3d

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Pen2Net @pen2net.bsky.social · 4d

‼️Heroes are not born, they are made - 🔥 in all sizes 🔥

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 4d

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

we must refuse to debate the worth of other people.

We must agree that everyone has value at a human level, and that it’s not tied to their health, their job or their bank account.

When we start allowing ourselves to debate someone’s worth, we’ve already lost.

You are worthy, just as you are.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

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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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 4d

very much on point mood wise, curt asked for harpies ripping men to pieces 😇

an illustration of angry harpies sitting over a man’s body. one is holding up his severed head. swirls of black and mustard yellows are in the background

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 4d

Day 1319 of this appalling and needless war in Europe.

Every single one of those days I've been here to bring you the real news and analyse, all fact checked.

It is possible to report accurately and still know Russia is the illegal aggressor and Ukraine fighting for freedom.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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