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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 56m

I can't be the only one who struggles to read white text on a black background? It's like it's getting burned into my retinas 😵‍💫

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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 1h

Why did I just read all that 😐??

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

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.

buff.ly

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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James Murphy @murphy-jm.bsky.social · 4h

For first time buyers, there's already no stamp duty up to £300,000 and only 5% from £300,000-£500,000. So the only young people this will help are twentysomething hedge fund managers or those being bankrolled by very wealthy parents.

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 21h

Happy Banned Books Week! 🗃️

For more information on Book Bans, check out this recent report from @penamerica.bsky.social

pen.org/report/the-n...

Read Banned Books under a shelf of books.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 7h

Whoops. Priti Patel. Sitting right there. Everyone else is mentioned, except her. Camera lingers. Priti trying to cover her seething - and failing. Is alienating your Shadown Foreign Sec wise, while knives are being sharpened?

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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 3h

These mascots make me smile 😃

Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 4h

Po, an apple tree fairy with an apple balanced on his head, is the mascot for the annual Iida Puppet Festival in Nagano.

A round yellow mascot with a red apple balanced on its head stands in front of some tents.

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 4h

Kemi at the Speccy

If you thought that Boris Johnson was going to be the Spectator's last Prime Minister, then think again: Kemi Badenoch worked at the Conservative Party's journal of ideas from 2015 to 2016, which is a fascinatingly short stint. Intrigued by this, we asked a number of her former co-workers about her tenure at Old Queen Street, where she worked as a digital director.

She was 'unbelievably crap' according to one source, who relays that she was inefficient and idle, who struggled with organisation, loudly declaring that tasks were her 'top priority, my top priority', before leaving them unfinished at the end of the week.

She would make bizarre non-sequiturs in meetings, saying that 'the Spectator is a shop, and the editorial team are the shop window', and advertise that she spent a lot of time on the 'message boards'. She also, in one source's telling, would announce that 'there is no one more right-wing than me' to her colleagues at the magazine. Leaving in 2016 to focus on her nascent political career, she maintains friendships with Fraser Nelson and Andrew Neil, but operated a 'kiss-up, kick-down' policy, and was apparently combative and rude to her junior staff.

All the sources we spoke to are astonished that she is being spoken about as a potential Prime Minister. So what does Michael Gove see in her?

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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 5h

Exactly this. I studied textile design at Grays School of Art in Aberdeen & I loved every minute of it. Unfortunately, I didn't get a job in the creative fields & ended up working in offices, but that didn't mean all the experiences & happiness I gained along the way were meaningless.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Chris @masterklump.bsky.social · 6h

Kemi Badenoch, like Bobby Ewing in the shower, convinces everyone in the room to believe that it was all just a bad dream.
Aaaaaaahhhhh.

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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 5h

Wait, I thought they were the free speech brigade?

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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 5h

The best bit is her she's pretending the past 14 years didn't happen.

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Joe Dunckley @joedunckley.bsky.social · 1d

I know the racism is the main story, but I feel like it might also be worth also looking at the fact that the man who for several years not so long ago was Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government now thinks that a lot of our communities and neighbourhoods are "slums",

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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 6h

It's hilarious, she's just pretending the past 14 years didn't happen.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 7h

❓NHS waiting list in May 2010 when the Conservatives came to power: 2.60 million.

❓NHS waiting list in July 2024 when the Conservatives left power: 7.62 million.

Who's fault is it Kemi?

Source:https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-workforce/pressures/nhs-backlog-data-analysis

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

Kash was begging for a Community Note

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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 7h

Sure, but going by comments by Tories in the last few days, he's going yo have to include his own party among them 🤷‍♀️

Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 7h

We've had crazy headlines aimed at the SNP in Scotland for years. Anyone who dares challenge the established parties gets them furious. I'd say it means you're on the right track 👍.

Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 9h

Performative praying!

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14h

ICE and Kristi Noem treat everything as a photo op.

It’s torture porn.

It’s white Christian supremacy recruitment.

Here she is praying at the Portland ICE Detention facility, asking for a “hedge of protection” for the officers.

No prayers for those being kidnapped & beaten of course

Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 9h

Some days, it seems like the whole world has gone mad!

Not In My Name 🔻 @writerware.bsky.social · 11h

Milei capers around on stage whilst the country falls to pieces. This is a perfect encapsulation of his role, a narcisistic fool who clowns around and holds peoples attention whilst the Argentine ruling class reduces the country back to the level of neo-colonial dependency last seen prior to 1914.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 11h

The Rees Moggs will still do History degrees. The Johnsons will still do Classics.
Sadly, the Wilsons from South Bank in Middlesbrough won't get the intellectual stimulation of studying a subject of interest for a degree.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 16h

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 12h

Pochinoccio strikes again.

Reform UK’s @SarahForRuncorn has removed a video about Runcorn Boxing Club after lying about her helping getting funding for them.

Statement by the club has shown her to once again have made up things about representing her local area.

www.facebook.com/share/p/1CXr...

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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 9h

They would call themselves & ex-pat & pretend that's something different 😆

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