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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2h

Wondering how this one can be made everyone’s fault, in the same way that we all wanted brutal austerity, or we all bought too many widescreen TVs in 2008. The excuse can’t be that AI was too popular and too many people wanted its extremely useful and valuable services, can it.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3h

Surely not the miracle technology that’s going to rescue us, and Britain in particular

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 8h

Still I'm sure it'll be fine. It's not like those expectations are based on a completely unproven product with deranged costs and hysterical levels of hype.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 9h

BANK OF ENGLAND FPC: RISK OF A SHARP MARKET CORRECTION HAS INCREASED || EQUITY MARKETS ARE PARTICULARLY EXPOSED SHOULD EXPECTATIONS AROUND AI BECOME LESS OPTIMISTIC

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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 4h

EXCL: PM facing Labour rebellion over Digital ID.

No10 setting up "outreach" meetings to win over unhappy MPs.

MP says: "Overtures from them won’t shift people and those who support it think No.10′s reverse Midas touch has tainted it for another 5 years.”

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

Exclusive: Keir Starmer Facing Mounting Labour Rebellion Over Digital ID Cards

MPs believe Downing Street's "mishandling" of the policy has set it back five years.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 6h

Can you believe there is a contingent of people who think this Supernatural Season 7 villain is the future and a bunch of them post on here

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 23h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Cara is the darkness that binds them 🇵🇸 @geekpie.bsky.social · 6h

Daria speaking with her mother. Daria has dark brown long hair and is wearing glasses with a green jacket, her mother has bobbed light brown hair and is wearing a pink suit jacket and an oven glove on her left hand. There is a plant behind them and they are sat at a table. The conversation goes:

- Daria, do you have to put everything in such a negative light?
- Could you possibly be referring to the harsh light of reality?

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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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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 8h

Genocide is no less egregious when it's done with bureaucracy rather than bullets and bombs.

🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 10h

"If you think genocide is only bullets and mass graves, you will miss how modern states can destroy groups."

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The UK’s Trans Genocide

The slow machinery of erasure: courts, clinics and ministers weaponising our disappearance

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 8h

Don’t listen to anyone who minimizes the threat of a government that “only” wants to tighten the authoritarian surveillance noose for “some” people. THATS ALWAYS HOW IT BEGINS YOU FASCISM ENABLERS.

Full Fact @fullfact.org · 8h

On social media and their website, the Liberal Democrats have claimed “Keir Starmer says everyone in the UK will be required to have mandatory digital ID”.

But this isn’t the case, and we can’t find any evidence the Prime Minister said it was.

Digital ID won’t be mandatory for ‘everyone in the UK’ – Full Fact

The Liberal Democrats have claimed Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said everyone in the UK will have to have digital ID, but that’s not the case.

fullfact.org

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6h

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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Fourth Crown War FPV Drone Operator 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 7h

She is genuinely a cancer at the heart of this country, a cancer that in a normal world would be excised by a bill of attainder on all her property.

SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 8h

Her hubris is the ugliest part of her diseased mind.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 1d

jkr openly condemning palestine so once again if it isnt clear all transmisogynistic politics claiming to "defend real females" is ideologically the same kind of reactionary nationalism, heterosexualism, and turning "weaklings into soldiers" that zionism, hindutva, etc are

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 8h

Her hubris is the ugliest part of her diseased mind.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 7h

They have made it clear that they believe if they make it awful enough to be trans, people will stop being trans. In service of that, the assault of children is a welcome outcome for them.

Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 7h

When politicians like Trump, or Starmer, say & do transphobic things, parents talk about it in front of kids & then the kids bring it to school.

It’s horrific that these kids are being taught to hate & at such an early age.

It is critical we do not import this into Irish politics:

11-year-old trans child allegedly assaulted by fellow student

An 11-year-old trans child was allegedly assaulted by a fellow student over their gender identity, the student's father has claimed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 7h

When politicians like Trump, or Starmer, say & do transphobic things, parents talk about it in front of kids & then the kids bring it to school.

It’s horrific that these kids are being taught to hate & at such an early age.

It is critical we do not import this into Irish politics:

11-year-old trans child allegedly assaulted by fellow student

An 11-year-old trans child was allegedly assaulted by a fellow student over their gender identity, the student's father has claimed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 7h

There is nothing Badenoch cares more about than hating trans people so of course she has to throw that in and of course she does it in the crassest, thickest, most nonsensical way possible

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 7h

Badenoch: "While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China built five nuclear reactors."

A perfect summary of conservative idiocy. Glorifying authoritarian post-communism for its efficiency while vilifying democracy for seeking nuance and respect.

It is the Right who hate their own countries.

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OII Europe @oiieurope.bsky.social · 1d

Today on October 7th, in a watershed moment, the Council of Europe’s 46 Member States have unanimously adopted the Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on Equal Rights for #Intersex Persons, setting a new gold standard in Europe. Read the full PR here: bit.ly/4gWrr9X

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10h

I agree but sadly for those of us who said things like “these people are reactionary authoritarians and they have repeatedly proven they are untrustworthy” are all going to have to eat shit for at least another four years, through no fault of our own.

lan DuntO @iandunt.bsky.social • 11m
Barely a squeak from the usual suspects on the free-speech right, of course, but this amounts to the most serious assault on free speech in living memory. We cannot accept a situation where hundreds of non-violent demonstrators are being arrested every weekend.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 9h

20 years of royally fucking up by the whole political establishment has left most of the UK impoverished and stagnant, while the super-rich take an ever-bigger rake-off.

And the bastards are STILL telling you it's some random foreigners' fault.

Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 10h

🚨 New research published today

'Before the fall' looks at what has happened to the distribution of household wealth in Britain and the impact on families.

Read it here 👉 buff.ly/Ya8kInK

Senior Economist Molly Broome:
"Wealth gaps in Britain are now so large that a typical full-time employee saving all their earnings across their entire working life would still not be able to reach the top of the wealth ladder. These gaps are doubly concerning as wealth mobility in Britain is low – people that start life wealthy tend to stay wealthy, and vice versa.
Rising house prices and changes in the value of pension promises account for most of the growth in wealth gaps since the early 2010s, rather than any active behaviour on the part of individuals, such as buying homes or acquiring new assets.
Soaring wealth and an acute need for more revenue has prompted fresh talk of wealth taxes ahead of the Budget next month. But with property and pensions now representing 80 per cent of the growing bulk of household wealth, we need to be honest that higher wealth taxes are likely to fall on pensioners, Southern homeowners or their families, rather than just being paid by the super-rich."

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 11h

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 1d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 2d

Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

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ECT Scotland @endconversiontherapy.scot · 20h

As the End Conversion Practices consultation responses are published today we are glad to see a Scottish Government response that recommits to a comprehensive and inclusive ban on conversion practices delivered to parliament by 2027.

www.gov.scot/publications...

Ending conversion practices in Scotland - consultation analysis: SG response

A Scottish Government response to the consultation analysis on ending conversion practices Scotland. This document responds to some of the issues raised in responses to the consultation and what the S...

www.gov.scot

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 12h

Because of the unforgivably appalling decisions of the Charity Commission, these hate groups, Sex Matters and LGB Alliance, are funded from your taxes.

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maximum robespierre @seeemilyplay.bsky.social · 11h

okay you’ve got to admit: edinburgh influencers using ai to literally erase the people of edinburgh is so spectacularly on the nose

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 9h

A grim thread.

Conversion therapists at the Oslo gender clinic stole children’s journals and used them to write a junk paper claiming to link the supposed rise in trans men with self-harm.

It echoes Cass.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 15h

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

Oslo universitetssykehus felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner

Forskere ved Oslo universitetssykehus har forsket på transpersoner uten godkjenning. Nå er de felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

www.forskning.no

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 10h

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 10h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 10h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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