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Charlotte Hadley (she/her)

@charliejhadley.bsky.social

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Data visualisation consultant @ www.gpcds.com All tech is political. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Charlotte Hadley (she/her) @charliejhadley.bsky.social · Nov 6

Rules for myself on starting again with Bluesky.

All tech is political. From energy, to silicon and software. You can’t escape it.

But. This is going to be a positive space for me and not a doomscroll replacement.

I’m very pessimistic about GenAI. Too much so… and so I’m going to not engage.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 23h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

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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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 6d

Wait, Tyler Cowen has been writing about how to find virgins since 2009 while he was a professor at George Mason University

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Charlotte Hadley (she/her) @charliejhadley.bsky.social · 12d

I’ve just received permission to make a PR against a repo I’ve been dreaming of making for EIGHT YEARS.

I couldn’t be happier. And it’s all thanks to @niccrane.bsky.social

More details at Shiny in Production 😄

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12d

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?

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Charlotte Hadley (she/her) @charliejhadley.bsky.social · 14d

Waaait, #rstats is actually alive here now? 😦

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17d

So unifying

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 16d

Always the same tropes: "The West has fallen," "owning lots of books makes you immediately smarter," spurious correlations treated as evidence, and discomfort with the world of one's youth changing. If this is your magnum opus, James, it's not exactly original.

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 17d

Many such cases

A tweet by Andrea Bosoni (@theandreboso) reads: “A guy sent me a message telling me that he’s building an AI marketing cofounder. He says it works incredibly well and that he can see it replacing marketers. Then he asked me if he could pick my mind on how to promote it.”

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17d

(I think a lot of the BBC’s written output can likely be explained by them interpreting “need to write for a reading age of seven” as ”need to write for a moron with an adult reading age”.)

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17d

He barely won the popular vote, and he would lose if he ran today. The counties he won are much smaller in average population, so this stat is meaningless. And he gets terrible press because he’s a terrible leader.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18d

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

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Charlotte Hadley (she/her) @charliejhadley.bsky.social · 19d

Laser eye surgery is the clearest indication to me that Zuck’s “you’ll die, get fired and won’t get invited to parties if you don’t wear smart glasses” is stupid.

Charlotte Hadley (she/her) @charliejhadley.bsky.social · 19d

Listen.

I don’t talk about my surgery often.

But there’s a reason I did it. They got in the way. It felt like there was something between the real me and the world.

Lots of people think this. I’m not weird. I’m not alone.

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 20d

Oh goodie. I'm pleased about this as our problem with screens in general is we don't use them enough. This should sort that.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta announces first Ray-Ban smart glasses with in-built augmented reality display

Meta Ray-Ban Display have screen on inside of lens that can translate conversations, display information on landmarks and give directions

www.theguardian.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22d

Things have gotten out of hand and it’s now going both ways. People are being doxxed and fired from their jobs, and in response, some are retaliating by taking screenshots of those who doxxed them to return the favor.

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Charlotte Hadley (she/her) @charliejhadley.bsky.social · 21d

If you haven’t left Twitter yet it’s like it being 2025 and still attending queer nights at swingers clubs that price entry based on genitals.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 23d

Glad the vice president of the United States, whose salary my taxes fund, is using his position to *checks notes* attack me on the Charlie Kirk show.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 23d

Got fired from my job for saying that Samantha on Bewitched didn’t really wiggle her nose, she was just kind of twitching her mouth back and forth.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23d

We don’t celebrate his death, but we won’t hide the truth about his life.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22d

It is absolutely insane to me that we're having a debate over whether or not the rightwing deploys violent rhetoric within days of a Fox News personality calling for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. There is no excuse for this obliviousness. It's unacceptable.

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Charlotte Hadley (she/her) @charliejhadley.bsky.social · 25d

I want a sci-fi to be brave enough to reveal “We were wrong. It’s not a hive mind. They’re just shitposting”

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26d

you could write an entire book about this post and I will for the right price

Facebook post from the Charlie Kirk assassin's mom from Christmas of 2013: "almost forgot Tyler! He can totally avoid us now that he got all of the computer accessories he's been wanting." And a picture of her son on a laptop with headphones in

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 25d

Brian Kilmeade wants to murder unhoused Veterans then?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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