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Mike Muth @mikemuth.bsky.social · 1d

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 14h

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.

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 14h

Rich folk discard it
Poverty knows curdled milk
Makes fabulous tart

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 14h

Or, they want their kids to find like minds with whom to raise eyebrows when the King goes by. Without being shot. Or told they're un-British...

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 14h

The older I get the more frequently the folk I took an instant dislike to turn out to merit my opinion. Actually, I'd rather this wasn't the case, but Mr Clegg here definitely qualifies. He can sit next to Morrissey on the arses bench.
Repost of The Verge article with a photo of Clegg looking solemn

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.

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 14h

Cheers Doll

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 15h

Any other mountain you'd have been ok. But that one? No, it shimmers...

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 15h

When the Tories closed down manufacturing industry in the 70s and 80s it was because Britain (or should that be Britian?) was going to be a knowledge economy. Now they're closing down knowledge. They want us to be a subsistence serf economy don't they? #TheGoodOldDays

Dan Howdle @danhowdle.bsky.social · 15h

current tory policy platform: reducing students by 100,000, banning wednesdays, halving gravity, capping birthdays at three per lifetime, introducing a national bedtime, limiting colours to two, privatising rain and banning foreign clouds

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Dan Howdle @danhowdle.bsky.social · 15h

current tory policy platform: reducing students by 100,000, banning wednesdays, halving gravity, capping birthdays at three per lifetime, introducing a national bedtime, limiting colours to two, privatising rain and banning foreign clouds

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 15h

There were only 13 days between Bessie Smith's last recording and Billie Holliday's first, yet stylistically they're aeons apart

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 21h

Organic mudpack innit tho'?

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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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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 22h

She was an absolute sweetheart, though avid destroyer of wallpaper

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 23h

Here's the glory that was Mabel Syrup, recently gone to Valhalla but still a tonic for the troops

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 1d

For folk who would have appreciated ALT text, today's picture is of a tree on a street corner in an urban setting. Its leaves are golden. Behind the tree is a building that looks to be late Georgian/ early Victorian with nicely proportioned windows and a flattish roof.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Jack Whitehall night in Riyadh - everyone will be there - oh, except Asaad bin Nasser al-Ghamdi, a teacher that criticised the government that is paying Jack and so is in prison for 20 years

www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 1d

I do not need to be shown Hammas committing atrocities to understand that they are a dreadful organisation. I can't believe that broadcast regulations permit such footage to be shown on mainstream TV at all, let alone before the watershed. An absolute dereliction of duty by the editors.

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 1d

The BBC just showed footage of Hammas executing three young Palestinians on the early evening news. The men were shown kneeling with their hands tied behind their backs before masked men behind them aimed pistols at them and fired. The men then fell forward onto the ground, dead.

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 1d

Kind of Narnian...

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 1d

Linesman for the county...

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

I love how Russell T Davies always uses his platform to fight for progress - I hate how it is always so necessary

nicola @gleanniucha.bsky.social · 1d

Please, if good television matters to you, repost or repackage this video until everyone you follow has seen it

#televisionmatters

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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 1d

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 1d

Do what the lady says

You know you want to

Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 1d

Reasons are the very devil, I'm sorry they're plaguing you. Without wishing to look like a parasocial stalker, I always find your posts interesting and think we'd probably get on well in real life. Also, fab hair...

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