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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 4h

When you read this about people being *afraid to go to. church* lest they be snatched by ICE, remember that Cardinal Timothy Dolan serves on Trump's Religious Liberty Commission (www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...) and was honored by the Becket Fund this year (becketfund.org/media/cardin...)

The letters and video he brought to Leo detail the fear that even legal migrants are facing every day. U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters by federal agents. In Leo’s hometown of Chicago, agents have stormed apartment complexes by helicopter as families slept, deployed chemical agents near a public school and arrested a city councilman in the hospital.

“They can’t go out. They are afraid to shop, to go to church and so they stay home,” wrote Maria in one of the letters delivered to Leo. Originally from Guatemala, she has lived in San Francisco for a quarter-century and qualified for asylum years ago, but has relatives in the U.S. who are not legal.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5h

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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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 3h

Well done!!!

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Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 5h

Autism hive-mind: does anyone have a sense of the etymology / origins of 'meltdown' as a metaphor for autistic overwhelm?

When it was first used / popularized as an analogy? Whether it was a community-originated term, or a medical one? Particularly influential deployments that lent it currency?

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Edna Dowling @libertiesbelle.bsky.social · 5h

#SpéirGorm
“Please note that all 2025 Student Leap cards will expire on Tuesday 21 October 2025.
There is a new process for applying for a Student Leap card and you can no longer apply online and collect your student leap card on the same day”
www.dublinbus.ie/news/student...

Dublin Bus - Student Leap Card Update

www.dublinbus.ie

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10h

Like the Tories, the Labour government is trying to drive down the number of people who qualify for disability benefits by insisting there has been an epidemic of “overdiagnosis”: a favourite theme of the BBC and the junktanks of Tufton Street. Never mind the science: what outcome do we want?

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 14h

Not going to share 'grift' but Heather Humphreys has just said that I'm a man and the gender recognition act should be changed. Please do not vote for or give a preference for her. Having someone as president who thinks this way would be absolutely awful for minorities #SpeirGorm

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 8h

I remember reading Anne of Green Gables with my youngest. Dense, sometimes archaic language, immersing her in another soundscape, so unfamiliar to her to almost be abstract, breathtaking impressions. Then we’d come up for a breath, talk through it, clarify some of the blurry bits and look up words.

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 8h

I know @dermotcasey.bsky.social remembers abridged editions being sneered at (for all their value: my abridged Around the World in 80 Days was a prized childhood possession).
So they were not always in vogue, they were dismissed as intellectually lightweight.
They were not What’s Hot but What’s Not.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 15h

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

www.newyorker.com

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 8h

If a politician believes “only ‘useful’ immigrants should be allowed in,” at core they’re saying “all disabled people are a drain on society.” Since only declared Fascists say the last bit out loud, a lot of former’d be appalled to be associated with that sentiment, but the thinking is interlinked.

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Rose 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @anaemicroyalty.bsky.social · 23h

And why is it means tested based on your partner's income if you cohabitate? I am disabled and can't work and yet I can't marry or even live with my partner of almost four years or I'll be forced to depend on his income which, through no fault of his, is not large enough to support two people.

Melissa @melissabreen.bsky.social · 1d

The Basic Income for the Arts Scheme is €325 a week, similar to what they gave out during the pandemic. This is how much they've deemed one needs in order to live in Ireland. So why is disability benefit only €244? Why are disabled and sick people expected to live so far below the poverty line?

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 9h

An English degree is also a really useful tool for discerning waffle and, if necessary, utter bullshit, because you recognise language that’s not conveying any real meaning. People deliberately write like that sometimes, of course, but I really notice a lot of AI-generated text as “empty”.

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 9h

“So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel —because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world”

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Orla Nic Fhlannchaidh/Orla Clancy @orlacp.bsky.social · 22h

Love the original, but feel it's out of your budget? Fear not - it's available as a #limitededitionartprint in a run of one thousand. Follow the link to buy!
https://www.orlaclancycontemporaryart.com/art-prints-pod/p/poster

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 22h

“The cat was SO CUTE… 10 seconds ago.”

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh - I was quite excited about it, cos revenue has teeth - but I see what you mean re delay.

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

Part of making a summary for myself is that it also reveals to me the bits I most value, maybe makes me squeeze my word count to fit in what is of importance to me as well as a basic outline, and I deeply engage with the material.
I agree that having an unknown word/reference explained is useful.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Melissa @melissabreen.bsky.social · 1d

The Basic Income for the Arts Scheme is €325 a week, similar to what they gave out during the pandemic. This is how much they've deemed one needs in order to live in Ireland. So why is disability benefit only €244? Why are disabled and sick people expected to live so far below the poverty line?

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

@viriconia.bsky.social will know the specific fear of your rabbit becoming totally relaxed while sitting right on the edge of the couch, so that you are paralysed by the fear they’re going to flopse off.

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

No it’s not! Just saying it’s another thing I’ve heard about his name still being on the ballot.

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

Because YOU then put the word or reference back into the text, and YOU interpret its meaning in context. So it all depends on the limitations of the questions you can ask - if the AI tries to explain imagery/themes to you rather than references, than it’s doing the work your brain is supposed to do.

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

Might depend on the weather… with the current doubt as to whether or not he’s on the ballot, wiser heads than mine are saying that if he is, give him your number 2, to inhibit transfers to your unwanted candidate.

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely this! Same for dentist. Alternate every second year if money too tight to mention. Beyond seeing and eating, both can catch an array of life-changing, even fatal, diseases and conditions, at a still reversible/curable/manageable state.

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