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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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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 17h

doomscroll break

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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · 1d

Fish cranial kinesis model is now listed in my Etsy shop! Hopefully useful for showing the mechanism that opens and closes a teleost fish's mouth.

(Ships from US) blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com

#SciArt #SciComm #BSNM #ArtShop #Fish

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Kittie @kittiepeters.com · 1d

delete chatgpt and stop using generative AI 🖤🤍

Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune

Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”

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Raptor's Nest @drmambobob.bsky.social · 1d

It was refugees and asylum seekers up until recently, and it's now suddenly indefinite leave to remain. Next, it will be naturalised citizens. Then 2nd and 3rd generation citizens. There will be no end.

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Raptor's Nest @drmambobob.bsky.social · 1d

They actually say it's wrong that minorities feel hurt by racist behaviours and if they feel hurt or feel unsafe, then they should leave the country, go back to where they came from. They say that. I've seen this happen.

Raptor's Nest @drmambobob.bsky.social · 1d

You're not allowed to call out racist behaviours as racist, so the next best thing you can do is to tell a human story of how those behaviours hurt ethnic minorities. But then they tell you that minorities shouldn't get hurt by that. That's what they say. You can't win.

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Raptor's Nest @drmambobob.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes your paper gets critiqued from people you weren't expecting - like from ppl out of that field. I wonder if that's a reflection of how bad your work was that it triggered ppl like that to comment on it - or if it had made enough an impact to draw random criticism from random people...

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 2d

A bully believes that kindness is weakness. A fool believes that bullying is strength. A true warrior knows that a bully is weak, and that compassion and kindness are strengths they could never comprehend.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2d

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Raptor's Nest @drmambobob.bsky.social · 2d

This is a powerful message by Green Party Leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social

#ZackPolanski #greenparty

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

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Raptor's Nest @drmambobob.bsky.social · 2d

"It is understood, however, that the rule would not apply to EU nationals with settled status in the UK, as their right to receive benefits forms part of post-Brexit arrangements with the bloc."

...so it's not just xenophobia...

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 2d

“Another part of the plan would limit benefits to people with UK citizenship, removing it even from those who have been in the country for years or even decades and have indefinite leave to remain”

If this is not xenophobia then I don’t know what is.
Sickening.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories say people denied benefits in UK can return to home countries

Mel Stride outlines plans to slash £47bn a year from public spending, including £23bn welfare cut

www.theguardian.com

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Eleanor Fielding @meownersclub.bsky.social · 2d

‘Benefits’ are not a privilege, they a safety net for individuals AND for society. They protect people from starving to death AND they protect businesses from collapsing because people can keep shopping for essentials. Benefits are thus ‘ESSENTIAL’ to a functioning society.

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Raptor's Nest @drmambobob.bsky.social · 2d

Also, what if there's no "home" to go back to?

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 2d

yeah like even state pension needs you to be here for 10 years to even be eligible for it even while you're paying in after arrival. imagine being here 30 or 40 years then being told "sorry no pension btw"

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 2d

"well they could just leave", with zero thought put into the fact that maybe the non-eu resident is married to a british citizen, or both residents have ILR and can't have dual nationality and are faced with their family split off to 2 totally different nations. not a shred of basic "waitaminute.."

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 2d

“The rule would not apply to EU nationals with settled status in the UK, as their right to receive benefits forms part of post-Brexit arrangements with the bloc”

An explicitly racist policy then

Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 2d

“Another part of the plan would limit benefits to people with UK citizenship, removing it even from those who have been in the country for years or even decades and have indefinite leave to remain”

If this is not xenophobia then I don’t know what is.
Sickening.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories say people denied benefits in UK can return to home countries

Mel Stride outlines plans to slash £47bn a year from public spending, including £23bn welfare cut

www.theguardian.com

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Raptor's Nest @drmambobob.bsky.social · 2d

If you attend or work at a university in the UK, chances are you know someone who is on Indefinite Leave to Remain. Please consider what the recent attacks on ILR from both Reform and Labour are doing to those people you probably know.

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Gill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social · 2d

BBC will do everything possible to sideline & undermine voices that challenge the regime it works so hard to protect & perpetuate. For real change join @greenparty.org.uk
Follow and share widely any social media from @zackpolanski.bsky.social let’s build a movement despite efforts to silence us.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Andrea Robertson @mrsrobbo.bsky.social · 2d

Whether you're a Green Party supporter or not, this stinks!

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Fabio @thesuntraveller.bsky.social · 3d

If I were a British citizen, I'd certainly join the Green Party.
Why?
Because as soon as Zack Polanski was elected, he started to say sensible things, explaining his decisions and the way problems should be solved, in a very clear way.
I can sense honesty, true commitment, will to change things.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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The PhD Place - Academic Community @thephdplace.bsky.social · 2d

Academics take one headshot at the start of their career and then use it for the next 40 years.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 2d

By way of context, that's more than 50% bigger than the Lib Dems.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: over 3,000 people joined @greenparty.org.uk over conference weekend.

Membership now stands at over 86,000.

We’re just getting started.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

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