Jane A.
@jane-in-progress.bsky.social
Feminist, atheist, immigrant, European, graphic designer, content creator, well-informed, mostly harmless. Pro-equality, pro-facts, pro-compassion. Anti-fascist, anti-extinction. Woke AF.
Blueskyer since Oct 23 | #FBPE | NO DMS!
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Jane A.
@jane-in-progress.bsky.social
· Oct 15
My Bluesky Rules
I don't follow back if (any of the following):
• You haven't posted anything yet
• You haven't written a profile
• The only thing you've posted is selfies
• You're pushing bitcoin or similar bollox
• Your profile is solely about how much you love (any) god
If that's you, jog on 😘
I don't follow back if (any of the following):
• You haven't posted anything yet
• You haven't written a profile
• The only thing you've posted is selfies
• You're pushing bitcoin or similar bollox
• Your profile is solely about how much you love (any) god
If that's you, jog on 😘
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Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
Search engines used to work fine 😱
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Search engines used to work fine 😱
90 mins since the power went out in my building, and it's getting COLD 😨
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
90 mins since the power went out in my building, and it's getting COLD 😨
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Up next: all the crappy devices being infused with ChatGPT and other chatbots.
The last thing you want is for your nieces and nephews to have “sensual” chats with an AI teddy bear or your grandpa losing his mind because he’s spent hours talking to an AI “friend.”
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
The last thing you want is for your nieces and nephews to have “sensual” chats with an AI teddy bear or your grandpa losing his mind because he’s spent hours talking to an AI “friend.”
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Up next: all the crappy devices being infused with ChatGPT and other chatbots.
The last thing you want is for your nieces and nephews to have “sensual” chats with an AI teddy bear or your grandpa losing his mind because he’s spent hours talking to an AI “friend.”
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
The last thing you want is for your nieces and nephews to have “sensual” chats with an AI teddy bear or your grandpa losing his mind because he’s spent hours talking to an AI “friend.”
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
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The more I think about this, the more it really, really, REALLY bothers me
We've reached a point where a text-based reference fabrication engine - comfortably the most effective machine liar we've ever invented - is being pushed by an ultra-polluting tech company and accepted by climate scientists
We've reached a point where a text-based reference fabrication engine - comfortably the most effective machine liar we've ever invented - is being pushed by an ultra-polluting tech company and accepted by climate scientists
Deeply absurd. This Google PDF published on a blog (arxiv, not peer reviewed) claims an LLM is "PhD level" but in most cases the MAJORITY of reference URLs were invalid or inaccessible.
A PhD sitting down and just fabricating >50% of sources = career ending
arxiv.org/abs/2511.11597
A PhD sitting down and just fabricating >50% of sources = career ending
arxiv.org/abs/2511.11597
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The more I think about this, the more it really, really, REALLY bothers me
We've reached a point where a text-based reference fabrication engine - comfortably the most effective machine liar we've ever invented - is being pushed by an ultra-polluting tech company and accepted by climate scientists
We've reached a point where a text-based reference fabrication engine - comfortably the most effective machine liar we've ever invented - is being pushed by an ultra-polluting tech company and accepted by climate scientists
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It should be obvious by now that we cannot make the future of human civilisation dependent on whether the fossil fuel vendors vote for ending fossil fuel use.
Rather, it is up to those who buy fossil fuels to end their lethal addiction fast, before it is too late.
Rather, it is up to those who buy fossil fuels to end their lethal addiction fast, before it is too late.
My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
It should be obvious by now that we cannot make the future of human civilisation dependent on whether the fossil fuel vendors vote for ending fossil fuel use.
Rather, it is up to those who buy fossil fuels to end their lethal addiction fast, before it is too late.
Rather, it is up to those who buy fossil fuels to end their lethal addiction fast, before it is too late.
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Ireland should be doing this too. There isn’t an alarm bell big enough to wake this government up. We should be in crisis mode, but instead it’s still shaking-developers’-hands-at-the-race-course, business as usual.
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat.
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country's climate minister told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Ireland should be doing this too. There isn’t an alarm bell big enough to wake this government up. We should be in crisis mode, but instead it’s still shaking-developers’-hands-at-the-race-course, business as usual.
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I wish patriotic millionaires would get together and buy Daily Telegraph. No left leaning media apart from Guardian. Badly needed.
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I wish patriotic millionaires would get together and buy Daily Telegraph. No left leaning media apart from Guardian. Badly needed.
They lost with humanity, but also with reality!
There's 87,000 people on this island, and it's 30 miles from the capital! They were planning to "take military control" with a bunch of untrained homeless people they recruited in the months before. They would have died on the beach.
There's 87,000 people on this island, and it's 30 miles from the capital! They were planning to "take military control" with a bunch of untrained homeless people they recruited in the months before. They would have died on the beach.
THIS conspiracy is a by-product of Trump’s MAGA mindset where men have lost touch with everything that makes us ‘human.’ “It was the goal of the conspiracy to take military control of the Island of Gonave by murdering all the men on the island & capturing all the women.”😱 www.npr.org/2025/11/23/n...
Texas men indicted in plot to take over Haitian island and enslave women and children
Gavin Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Thomas, 20, planned to take over Gonave Island and murder all men on the island, prosecutors alleged.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
They lost with humanity, but also with reality!
There's 87,000 people on this island, and it's 30 miles from the capital! They were planning to "take military control" with a bunch of untrained homeless people they recruited in the months before. They would have died on the beach.
There's 87,000 people on this island, and it's 30 miles from the capital! They were planning to "take military control" with a bunch of untrained homeless people they recruited in the months before. They would have died on the beach.
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To thrive in future jobs (even the ones we can’t predict), students need cognitive skills, not just subject expertise: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/teaching-core-skills-todays-and-tomorrows-jobs #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
Teaching core skills for today’s and tomorrow’s jobs
Students need skills that go beyond subject knowledge to be ready for as-yet-unknown jobs. For institutions, that means preparing them with cognitive abilities – and awareness of how to apply them – for careers now and in future
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
To thrive in future jobs (even the ones we can’t predict), students need cognitive skills, not just subject expertise: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/teaching-core-skills-todays-and-tomorrows-jobs #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Maybe they could cover this…
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Maybe they could cover this…
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Journalists and the media who do not consistently and directly challenge Farage on his and Reform’s links to Russia are colluding with him.
Please do your job and do it until we get to the truth.
Please do your job and do it until we get to the truth.
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Journalists and the media who do not consistently and directly challenge Farage on his and Reform’s links to Russia are colluding with him.
Please do your job and do it until we get to the truth.
Please do your job and do it until we get to the truth.
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Probably won’t see this in mainstream media - aka the right wing press - coz it’s against their narrative. Wind energy in Britain broke a new record last week with nearly 23GW on the grid one cold windy evening. That was 56% of all electricity on Britain’s grid.
buff.ly/r8yeFmJ
buff.ly/r8yeFmJ
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Probably won’t see this in mainstream media - aka the right wing press - coz it’s against their narrative. Wind energy in Britain broke a new record last week with nearly 23GW on the grid one cold windy evening. That was 56% of all electricity on Britain’s grid.
buff.ly/r8yeFmJ
buff.ly/r8yeFmJ
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Dear Bluesky,
www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners.
We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!
www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners.
We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!
This is the Observer's coverage of the Reform Russian Spie Scandal... 600 words on page 22 of the printed newspaper.
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
More MEPs investigated in Russian bribe probe | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Dear Bluesky,
www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners.
We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!
www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners.
We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!
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Imagine if 2000 children had gone missing from boarding schools. How much outrage there would be. Imagine how quickly there would be demands for inquiries and actions. Instead because these are unaccompanied asylum seeking children they will either be ignored or blamed for being trafficked.
How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Imagine if 2000 children had gone missing from boarding schools. How much outrage there would be. Imagine how quickly there would be demands for inquiries and actions. Instead because these are unaccompanied asylum seeking children they will either be ignored or blamed for being trafficked.
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This isn't ancient history either. Farage used the term "globalist" to describe Grant Shapps just three years ago.
These are age-old antisemitic terms, and they tap into racist right-wing conspiracy theories about a one world government.
There's no excuse.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
These are age-old antisemitic terms, and they tap into racist right-wing conspiracy theories about a one world government.
There's no excuse.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage urged to explain conspiracy theories linked to antisemitism he voiced in US media
Exclusive: The Reform UK leader discussed far-right talking points in web TV and radio appearances between 2009 and 2018
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This isn't ancient history either. Farage used the term "globalist" to describe Grant Shapps just three years ago.
These are age-old antisemitic terms, and they tap into racist right-wing conspiracy theories about a one world government.
There's no excuse.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
These are age-old antisemitic terms, and they tap into racist right-wing conspiracy theories about a one world government.
There's no excuse.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*.
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
On US TV shows and podcasts from 2009-18, Farage discussed supposed plots by bankers to create a global government, citing Goldman Sachs, the Bilderberg group and George Soros as threats to democracy. Included six guest slots with the disgraced far-right US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*.
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
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It's not going away
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
It's not going away
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
I mean, this is proper reporting and great work... 👊🏼
...but, in other news, it's become clear that the pope is, in fact, catholic...
...but, in other news, it's become clear that the pope is, in fact, catholic...
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I mean, this is proper reporting and great work... 👊🏼
...but, in other news, it's become clear that the pope is, in fact, catholic...
...but, in other news, it's become clear that the pope is, in fact, catholic...
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This is an excellent, depressing, analysis. Trump accuses Democrats of treason, yet he is the one colluding with Russia, selling out allies, betraying NATO, and surrendering US interests to the diktats of a foreign nation. Trump is a deeply corrupt, compromised, craven Quisling.
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This is an excellent, depressing, analysis. Trump accuses Democrats of treason, yet he is the one colluding with Russia, selling out allies, betraying NATO, and surrendering US interests to the diktats of a foreign nation. Trump is a deeply corrupt, compromised, craven Quisling.
This "new feature" is going to be removed very soon I think!
X's self-defeating new feature proves:
Many MAGAs & other Troll accounts are based in the third world.
Mostly India. Followed by Nigeria, Bangladesh & so on.
All countries that have low wage data workers (who e.g. feed LLMs) employed by the "Magnificent Seven" = Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Meta etc.
Many MAGAs & other Troll accounts are based in the third world.
Mostly India. Followed by Nigeria, Bangladesh & so on.
All countries that have low wage data workers (who e.g. feed LLMs) employed by the "Magnificent Seven" = Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Meta etc.
November 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This "new feature" is going to be removed very soon I think!
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Also hilarious, for want of a better word, that British ‘patriots’ are amplifying & funding foreign actors who live in unsafe countries & have never been near Britain slagging off Britain. Good old Elon.
I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of the rage-addled American right.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Also hilarious, for want of a better word, that British ‘patriots’ are amplifying & funding foreign actors who live in unsafe countries & have never been near Britain slagging off Britain. Good old Elon.
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The glorious future which we must trash data protection and copyright for
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The glorious future which we must trash data protection and copyright for