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Some Guy in Kent @kentguy.bsky.social · 8h

US State/Federal Government does look like an absolute top tier retirement home

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Some Guy in Kent @kentguy.bsky.social · 8h

There are better options than ‘MOAR flags’

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Tokyo Sexwhale @tokyosexwhale.bsky.social · 1d

Putting my anti-Nazi stickers up in various cities I visit. I’m going to try to hit EVERY city in the UK. I might need some help though.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 22h

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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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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Some Guy in Kent @kentguy.bsky.social · 20h

Big fan of using Lizs corpse as one half of a stepladder

Some Guy in Kent @kentguy.bsky.social · 21h

AI can certainly recreate his dead-eyed smile - so I can totally see why he’s concerned

www.techspot.com/news/109769-...

MrBeast joins growing list of celebrities warning AI could upend creative work

YouTube star MrBeast has joined a growing list of prominent figures speaking out against the rapid rise of AI content. In a recent X post, he warned...

www.techspot.com

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 23h

it takes a windmill 27.7 hours to generate one transgender athlete

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Some Guy in Kent @kentguy.bsky.social · 1d

There’s 18 minutes between these two stories on KentLive

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 21d

honestly I'm more impressed the bear was on lawnmower

For You

USA
TODAY

Elderly man dies after bear attacks him
on lawnmower

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 1d

What on earth has happened to the Tories? This wouldn't have been acceptable in 1965 let alone 2025.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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DESIGN THINKING! Comic @designthinking.lol · 2d

Nothing will change.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 2d

Dumb Britain, in every issue of the mag, collates the best real answers given on real quiz shows, by real contestants.

Walsh: Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister is a book about which female prime minister?
Contestant: Margaret Thatcher.

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Some Guy in Kent @kentguy.bsky.social · 2d

We’re British, so we’ll just expect orderly queuing

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 2d

But seriously, how dedicated to being a total douchebag to you have to be to still be driving a Cybertruck at this point?

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Some Guy in Kent @kentguy.bsky.social · 2d

“the size of a smartphone that users would communicate with through a camera, microphone and speaker”

“multiple cameras”

“carried around or sat on a desk”

You’ve just reinvented the smartphone bro?

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3d

Hahaha this device is never going to release, or if it does it will become notorious for its shittiness, like if pets.com released the N-GAGE

Multiple people familiar with the plans said OpenAI and Ive were working on a device roughly the size of a smartphone that users would communicate with through a camera, microphone and speaker. One person suggested it might have multiple cameras.

The gadget is designed to sit on a desk or table but can also be carried around by the user. The Wall Street Journal previously reported some of the specifications around the device.

One person said the device would be “always on” rather than triggered by a word or prompt. The device’s sensors would gather data throughout the day that would help to build its virtual assistant’s “memory”.

OpenAI and Ive are seeking to build a more powerful and useful machine. But two people familiar with the project said that settling on the device's "voice" and its mannerisms were
a challenge.
One issue is ensuring the device only chimes in when useful, preventing it from talking too much or not knowing when to finish the conversation - an ongoing issue with ChatGPT.
"The concept is that you should have a friend who's a computer who isn't your weird AI girlfriend... like [Apple's digital voice assistant] Siri but better,
" said one person
who was briefed on the plans. OpenAI was looking for "ways for it to be accessible but not intrusive"

OpenAI's device will be entering a difficult market. Friend, an AI companion worn as a pendant around your neck, has been criticised for being "creepy" and having a
"snarky" personality. An Al pin made by Humane, a company that Altman personally invested in, has been scrapped.
Still, OpenAI has been on a hiring spree to build its hardware business. Its acquisition of io brought in more than 20 former Apple hardware employees poached by Ive from his alma mater. It has also recruited at least a dozen other Apple device experts this year, according to LinkedIn accounts.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 3d

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 2d

LGBT-rex

A relaxation toy. It's in the shape of a t-rex. It's coloured in rainbow colours

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 3d

A better turn out than for his stag do…

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 3d

Packed hall for Toby Young.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 3d

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 3d

Batshit.

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Some Guy in Kent @kentguy.bsky.social · 3d

It’s the end result of our political and journalistic class soaking in increasingly extreme-right leaning social media

It’s Badenoch thinking her Twitter followers are all real people/potential voters

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 3d

ICE in the US have been driving around beating up and abducting random nonwhite people. The fact the tories thought ‘this is what we need in the uk’ makes me glad they’re a completely irrelevant nonentity of a party.

‘Tory ‘ice’ force would deport 150,000 a year’ Daily Express

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

Most Americans now think Trump has gone too far on deporting people (though Trump is approx three times as popular in America as he is in Britain: 45% vs 16% approval)

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Some Guy in Kent @kentguy.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty disgraceful stuff tbh

Much of the UK looks at the US with weird revulsion, it’s the whole ‘rubber-necking a car crash’ thing. Morbid curiosity at best

No sane person wants that shit here

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

A second offer to bring Trump-style deportations, chaos and cruelty, to Britain

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