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kfab
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English, fifty-ish. He/him. Cishet. Whovian.
On the side of the oppressed, never the oppressor.
I have eclectic tastes and interests.
Love: David Attenborough, nature, AEW, art, cats, films, telly, Hans Zimmer, Tim Minchin, Anna Lapwood, Eurovision, tennis
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kfab @k-fabs.bsky.social · Sep 6
The Refaat Alareer Camp - by The Sameer Project chuffed.org/project/1133...
The Refaat Alareer Camp - by The Sameer Project
The Sameer Project, a mutual aid organization led by three Palestinians in the diaspora, are the proud directors and funders of a tent encampment in Central Gaza that provides shelter and specialized ...
chuffed.org
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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cjayanetti.bsky.social
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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mekka.mekka-tech.com
While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.
economist.com The Economist @economist.com · 3d
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB

Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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nickturse.bsky.social
Gaza’s Students Kept Studying Amid the Rubble. Now Universities Hope to Rebuild.
theintercept.com/2025/11/07/g...
Gaza’s Students Kept Studying Amid the Rubble. Now Universities Hope to Rebuild.
Palestinian students learned remotely, with flickering internet, through two years of Israel’s genocide. Now universities need funding to rebuild.
theintercept.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
when life hands you lemons make caipirinha
peark.es George Pearkes @peark.es · 3d
What a queen
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
This system of McCarthyist screaming and bullying of unpeople the crank right hates and wants to destroy, by important people and the press in unison, is not new. It seems Britain isn’t even as sane as 1950s America, where Joe was undone because he was dumb enough to target the army.
flyingrodent.bsky.social flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d
Just a regular pipeline now of dubiously funded cranks targeting the NHS to enforce their horrific, hateful politics on the public, by seeking out, targeting and harassing the fuck out people who have quietly been going about their business for years without anyone bothering
Darlington trans medic used female changing room for years
Rose Henderson felt within her rights to use the Darlington hospital facility, a tribunal is told.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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itsthebrandi.bsky.social
Miss World Chile did is in a metal band. This was her talent portion at Miss World
www.instagram.com/reel/DQuI2W7...
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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doctor1hundred.bsky.social
Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.
A small black kitten doing a really good blep while laying on a red towel. A small black kitten doing a really good blep while laying on a red towel.
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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leoprints.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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phineas.bsky.social
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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edithcharles.bsky.social
INTERVIEWER: Any comment on Zohran Mamdani's victory and what it says about immigrants and trans rights?

LABOUR POLITICIAN: (panicking) I've never heard of New York
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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edithcharles.bsky.social
Every year we get closer to this happening on the news
ME, CALLING INTO BABESTATION: hey beautiful what are you wearing BABE: just a thong baby ME: just a thong? BABE: yeah baby ME: where's your fucking poppy
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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playthroughline.com
Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
A rain-slick backalley containing two men, both tall and dressed predominantly in black, each walking a cat on a leash
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Are there any agreed rules on who can just phone up that paper, tell them a load of made up shite and then have it reported as a terrifying scandal? I don’t think there is, but the precise people you can always defame and abuse seems to be highly consistent.
November 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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cara.city
new reaction video just dropped
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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parkermolloy.com
So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!

This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...
CULTURE TRENDS SNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown One mother claims taxpayers must feed her children as SNAP benefits face cuts By Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi • Fox News Published October 31, 2025 2:16pm EDT
October 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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davesadventures.bsky.social
One of my favorite fall shots from two years ago. A dead Oak in front of a live Oak. #BlueSkyArtShow #autumn #Photography #EastCoastKin
twisty windy dead branches in front of a similar tree with fall foliage
November 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Yes, this is wingnuts and cranks all over: you can never appease them by walloping migrants or minorities or by kicking the poor. Every concession you give them, every group of people you sacrifice to please them, is just wasted. They don’t respect you or feel grateful, they reset and demand more.
Trans sisters. I'm pretty sure I was wrong. I am sorry. I genuinely thought that as a trans woman, if ceded some points with the gender critical crowd we could have a healthier conversation and arrive at better public policy. The problem is, they are getting crazier and more extreme. If you admit "trans women don't belong in women's sports" they agree, but call you a man the whole time. If you admit, "I understand l am a biological man, but this is how I want to live my life and talking about me like this is degrading" they scream about free speech. If you admit that hurtful language is part of free speech but you don't have to associate with people that degrade you, they act like the victim and call you a man and then say you should be thrown in an insane asylum. It's like this on everything. They are incapable of looking for a middle ground on bathrooms. They want maximalist policies on everything. They'd throw a fully transitioned, fully passing trans woman in male prison genpop and laugh as she got aids from being raped. I want a middle ground on so many of these polices. BUT THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM IS THEY DO NOT. They enjoy degrading us, it's fun for them. So, sisters. I genuinely don't know what to do. I think many of our most extreme ideas are bad. But theirs are worse. So if I have to pick, I choose us. I wish there were a political vehicle for compromise and medical safeguarding. But that just simply does not exist. 6:52 • 01 Nov 25 • 27.9K Views 18 Reposts 23 Quotes 373
November 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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ianvisits.co.uk
The fuss over who appears in TV adverts misses the point...
Adverts aren't meant to be a mirror of society, but to reflect the advertiser's openness to society as a whole. A photo of 10 people, including one in a wheelchair, doesn't say 10% of the UK are in wheelchairs, but it does signify that people in wheelchairs are welcome at the venue. Likewise adverts showing men as nursery teachers, women as builders, Asian people down the pub etc -- it's saying "you're welcome here, join us". And yes, that means including black people in adverts shown in parts of the UK where they are a minority. Too often we hear that people grew up avoiding something because they never saw people like them doing it -- and adverts that show the diversity of society fix that visibility problem by saying "yes, you can do this if you want". Isn't that a good thing?
October 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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thehistoryguy.bsky.social
These maniacs are sad that advertisers are presenting black & brown people as family members, professionals and users of washing machines rather than iklwa hurling zulus, untrustworthy agents of Vichy, dockyard lascars in opium dens and double crossing Crusader infantry
October 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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dreamcatcher01.bsky.social
Ruby-throated Hummingbird

A moment of bird zen...
A yellow and white Hummingbird is perched on a green stems. The background is blurry green and maroon foliage.
October 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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darrencullen.bsky.social
Did a new one
Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.
August 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested.' 1/2
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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safiyanoble.bsky.social
This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
defector.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM