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My Voice, My Choice @myvoicemychoice.bsky.social · 2h

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 8h

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.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 6h

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 6h

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 2d

"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 2d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Remember how the Trump administration raged about "transgender mice" because of studies involving transgenic mice?

Well, the woman who just won the Nobel Prize in Medicine wrote her thesis using transgenic mice.

Early life and education

Brunkow was born in 1961 in Portland, Oregon.[2][3] She graduated at St. Mary's Academy in Portland in 1979.[3]

Brunkow received a BS in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Washington in 1983.[4] She received a PhD in molecular biology from Princeton University in 1991, where her advisor was Shirley M. Tilghman.[5] Her doctoral dissertation was titled Expression and function of the H19 gene in transgenic mice (1991).[1]

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

Regardless of how private or thoughtfully you say racist things, they still remain racist and it’s right to be called out on them.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Shadow DEFRA SoS, Victoria Atkins MP, bemoans those trying to score points off Jenrick's "private" remarks: "These are conversation we must have thoughtfully away from the clickbait of social media that, sadly, is so often the case."

And here is Victoria Thoughtful-Atkins at a farmers' protest. ~AA

Victoria Atkins with a thoughtfull bullhorn, wearing a non-clickbait union jack jacket.

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Karen Klomp @kklomp.bsky.social · 1d

Seconded. Really like these, as they're also quite wide

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Irene Tsherit @irenetsherit.bsky.social · 1d

Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

I’m probably not wrong in assuming that there would be no tax break for people on ILR who have no access to the social safety nets that they’re paying into.

That’s three parties, all going after settled migrants or migrants looking to settle.

Deeply, deeply troubling.

Welfare
Tories say people denied benefits in UK can return to home countries
Mel Stride outlines plans to slash £47bn a year from public spending, including £23bn welfare cut
UK politics live - latest updates
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent
Mon 6 Oct 2025 15.59 BST
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Overseas nationals denied benefits under a Conservative plan to limit social security to UK citizens would have the option to return to their own countries, the shadow chancellor, Mel Stride, has said.
Under the proposals, benefits would be denied to any overseas nationals, including those with indefinite leave to remain, even if they have lived in the UK and paid taxes for decades.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 2d

In fact this *understates* the point here.

Tory policy is not (just) to remove benefits but to remove ILR and deport, exactly like the Farage plan the PM correctly described as racist.

Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 2d

“Another part of the plan would limit benefits to people with UK citizenship, removing it even from those who have been in the country for years or even decades and have indefinite leave to remain”

If this is not xenophobia then I don’t know what is.
Sickening.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories say people denied benefits in UK can return to home countries

Mel Stride outlines plans to slash £47bn a year from public spending, including £23bn welfare cut

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2d

Denying all benefits to non-UK nationals sounds simple but it would mean excluding people who might have lived and paid tax in the UK for many years. And - as the interview shows - it’s not very clear what they should do under the Tory plan.

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

Tories say people denied benefits in UK can return to home countries

Mel Stride outlines plans to slash £47bn a year from public spending, including £23bn welfare cut

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

We have agreed that attempting to maintain a habitable planet is not in shareholders' interests.

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d

Global banking climate alliance folds four years after launch

- ‘Net zero’ financial sector group votes to cease operations after losing members under political pressure

#climatechange
Story by @kenzabryan.ft.com
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.ft.com/content/841f...

Global banking climate alliance folds four years after launch

‘Net zero’ financial sector group votes to cease operations after losing members under political pressure

www.ft.com

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 2d

Also even if there is Top Secret material justifying a ban, it’s very difficult I think to argue that retired GPs and Quaker students holding up a cardboard sign are party to that information or responsible for it

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

When Yvette Cooper was Home Sec she hinted the govt had further material justifying a ban that they couldn’t reveal because of the legal process. If so, better to get that out in daylight ASAP. Because as things stand they have clearly not made the case for proscription to the public’s satisfaction.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d

We can all agree that the attack on the Synagogue in Manchester was terrorism

So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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FrankenSnodes @mrsnodes.bsky.social · 3d

Props to @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social for this

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 3d

You can donate to the Peacehaven mosque here bsky.app/profile/xunl...

Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 3d

Can donate to the mosque here, feel its important to show the community solidarity at this time.

www.peacehavenmosque.co.uk/support-us

Support Us – Peacehaven mosque

www.peacehavenmosque.co.uk

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 3d

Went to a party hosted by an absolute icon

A hanging banner spelling out “PLEASE LEAVE BY 8”

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Fast Women @fastwomen.bsky.social · 3d

If anyone is looking for a retirement/reserach project and likes to watch mediocre race coverage, it would be really interesting to have some data on how much camera time women get compared to men in elite road racing. There's no way it's even remotely close.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 3d

And the abolition of judicial review in deportation cases that they are advocating would make it more difficult to challenge mistakes in court (including for legal residents too)

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.

Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 7d

My 2025 Christmas Card Collection is here!

Available now on my website. Matching wrapping paper coming soon…
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-ca...

Vintage-style Christmas cards with festive illustrations - baubles, a wreath, record player, candles, snow globe, and Christmas text.

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 3d

When it comes to intimidating racist protests including outside our homes or place of worship, Black and Asian people are supposed to just accept it and the government saying “we hear you” and “it is right to protest this” and “I love flags me”. No thought of “cumulative impact” for us!

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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