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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 2h

This Christmastide we could call AI content stollen

David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 3h

Stamp duty doesn't deter people from moving house. It makes people say "ahhhh shit" every time they remember it exists.

Reliefs and exemptions for first time buyers and vulnerable people can fix it without a tax cut to those that can afford it

David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 16h

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 23h

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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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 22h

They could email people telling them it would be great exposure for their work?

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 22h

Did she just call herself a large flaw?

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 1d

"A Word In Your Ear"

Billionaires are keeping their lawyers hungry so they can set them on our world class journalists. If you don't want to wake up pregnant with Elon Musk's ideas, give us 2 of her majesty's pounds and a belly rub

David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 1d

Don't worry, they're gonna ask you to

David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 2d

This is the alternative to billionaires and it actually works

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 2d

The defenders of Portland need more bicycles. Please help...

Colour lithograph of six naked warriors holding spears and rectangular shields. One has thought to wear antlers

David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 3d

I think we were set up

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 3d

Came here to say this

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 3d

British people are onputting, actually

David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 3d

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 3d

Many exhibits were actually purchased fair and square from soldiers outside smouldering ruins. Representatives of the museum accompanied the expeditionary forces to ensure their provenance...

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 3d

This is the only known footage of them

a close up of a person holding a balloon that says meeps on it

Alt: a close up of beaker from the muppets placing a wine glass on a table

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 3d

Do they not realise AInme has coded them as the villain? These characters would be shocked and sweating in front of a blown out skyscraper window, garlanded by flailing blinds and fluttering A4 within 90 minutes

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 4d

"Amazon gouges its merchants so much that it pays nothing to ship its own goods, which compete directly with those merchants’ goods."

And we all pay extra, even if we boycott, because merchants are forced to charge the same everywhere

Charlie Taylor @charlietaylor.bsky.social · 4d

"The platform has turned into a pile of shit, and we’re at the bottom of it"

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

www.theguardian.com

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 4d

Something else that offers a glimpse is much of the entire rest of the globe

"Is it safe to govern using the same politics as many millions of people on this planet?"

Yes. Yes it is.

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 4d

Signing a contract with the UK govt means waiting 25 years to get their hands on it?

David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 4d

So, they'll be put out to tender and be ready to roll out in 2045

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 4d

I fear jesus is not alive

David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 5d

Yes. A friend from art college in London, 2005, found a lost baby squirrel and it lived on him. He would come into the studio with it on his body. He called it Jesus (not for religious reasons)

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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social · 5d

I assumed his plan was to hand Ukraine to Russia and he didn't realise he couldn't do that

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