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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. Good? Fine?

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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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 2d

My friend’s dad Malcolm Ducker, former RAF pilot, dad & grandad, is among those still being held in a maximum security Israeli prison for the crime of trying to bring food & medicine to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla. Read: www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-and-...

US and UK 'immensely let down' families of detained Gaza flotilla activists

Israel still holding hundreds of activists in Ketziot prison, with British and American citizens receiving little help

www.middleeasteye.net

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 4d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 4d

I actually thought our silly corrupt society might balk at the mistreatment of - gasp - a celebrity, people we bafflingly revere above all others. I’m genuinely chilled that Greta Thunberg’s mistreatment is sliding alongside everything else.
I thought we were better/worse than this.

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 7d

A good funeral would sort you out

Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 7d

the dread and the sad and the swelling fear, maybe it’s too much news and not enough art

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 7d

@benmoor.bsky.social it was so nice to see you. I’m sorry about death.

Here we are. Looks like we’re starting again again.

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 10d

I feel like I’ve left it too late to learn about everything and there’s just more everything all the time

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 10d

For a live illustration of where pragmatism without vision gets you, I offer the United Kingdom, right this fucking minute, Ezra.

Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 10d

Happy to buck the trend also to say mostly I really appreciate what Klein has been trying to do, just clear that ‘strategic and disciplined’ thought can get you to some pretty bad places too.

Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 10d

Interesting and a tiny bit sad to hear Ezra Klein’s neural networks fry in his latest with Coates. So many experts in the corruption of attention struggling with how they’ve been corrupted by attention.

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 12d

September is the month of the childhood friend’s birthday

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 17d

QUaCK!

Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 20d

Boycotting doing my Donald Duck impression (to EVERYONE’s relief)

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 19d

Printers should be so much better by now and I shouldn’t have to sign up to a lifetime subscription plan or somefuckingsuch

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 20d

Boycotting doing my Donald Duck impression (to EVERYONE’s relief)

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 21d

super dark version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 21d

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 21d

Oh my god please do this, please show the world this, please have Vance write the monologue and radicalise every viewer in the world against state intervention and censorship

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 22d

If you can think of a better way to get merger approval, I’m sure we’d all love to hear it

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 23d

Just spectacular

The Onion @theonion.com · 24d

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases

WASHINGTON, UT—As he described a massive backlog of murders that continued to stump the agency he leads, desperate FBI director Kash Patel reportedly asked the family of alleged Charlie Kirk assassin ...

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 24d

Book sales

Marc Channick @marcchannick.bsky.social · 25d

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 25d

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 25d

“The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.”
― J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 25d

"The Sikh woman who was target of the hate crime rape in Oldbury (Midlands, UK) this week has issued a statement through community group Sikh Youth UK, who are supporting her and her family through the ordeal.

Media please note, there will be no further comment."

[email protected]

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 25d

Won’t the British press bother with Jeremy Hosking et al rather than swallowing the shit

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 25d

there is an extremely well funded and dedicated international propaganda campaign to convince people that everyone is actually a racist and they should join the club, and it's a handful of rich extremists bankrolling all of it

Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 25d

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

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