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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 12h

Running out of words to describe what’s happening in America.

How about fucking outrageous.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 13h

Nick: "GitLaw is working to build the right legal workflow tools to support people in a world where negotiating a deal doesn't mean weeks of back-and-forth, but minutes or seconds of your agent working with someone else’s agent."

The T&C:

3. Required Human Review

You acknowledge that:

All AI-generated content requires independent human review
You must exercise professional judgment in evaluating AI outputs
You should obtain appropriate legal counsel review for important legal documents
You are solely responsible for the final content of any legal documents

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 2d

"The public are sick of voting for tougher sentences and getting the opposite."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about:
www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 13h

And of course citing cases which do exist but don't make the points the client says they do.

There will be so much of this, but the scary bit is that even after being told that the AI they are using has made stuff up, they will still rely on it when it supports their view, without checking.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 1d

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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Mary Madden @feministgothic.bsky.social · 1d

Handsworth's problems are not its people but a post industrial dismantling and lack of investment. Similar impacting 'white' areas elsewhere. An attitude of condescending contempt and a disastrous display of incompetence from a series of arrogant, self-serving politicians does not help.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

Jenrick now proposing sacking judges he doesn't like. I can just about remember when Conservatives cared about things like the rule of law.

George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 2d

The Daily Telegraph: MI5 kept in dark in China spy trial fiasco #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Lydia Bleasdale @parkendlydia.bsky.social · 2d

Haha! I was on the back row!

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Lydia Bleasdale @parkendlydia.bsky.social · 2d

@marctheblue.bsky.social Mate! Were you on the Harrogate Toffees bus yesterday? Swear I saw you walking down the aisle yesterday

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Lydia Bleasdale @parkendlydia.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes, I do wonder how I'm still taken seriously at work.

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 3d

So wait, is this something any other university can 'negotiate' about?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Home Office grants extra visas for UCL international students told to defer

Hundreds of students with promised places had been left in limbo after university exceeded its visa allocations Hundreds of international students will be able to take up their promised places after negotiations between the Home Office and University College London ended with the government granting extra visas. Hundreds of students, many from China, had been left in limbo after UCL underestimated the demand for places this year and exceeded its allocation of confirmation of acceptance for studies (CAS) electronic documents allowed by the Home Office. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 3d

This. People eligible for the flu vaccine are not eligible for the updated COVID booster. That makes zero sense

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 3d

The MILLIONS of people who were denied vaccines are suddenly realising.

@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social this was a terrible idea.

Not only will the NHS struggle this autumn / winter, but people will suffer and die unnecessarily.

It isn't too late for a U-turn!

Community Pharmacy England

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Pharmacy teams have reported major issues to us over the last two days related to large numbers of patients booking COVID-19 vaccinations via the National Booking System (NBS) who are not eligible for the vaccine this winter.

We are working with NHS England to try to address this unacceptable situation and to get more NHS communications issued to help people understand whether they are eligible for the vaccine.

In the meantime, we have created three posters that pharmacy teams can use to help explain about vaccine eligibility this winter:

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James Greenwood-Reeves 🦇 @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 3d

@edgreenwood.bsky.social did this at uni, for a sketch show. Hid my existence from almost everyone he knew, until I went onstage. While it got big laughs, it also made some people baffled and outraged. People shouted "is there a MIRROR??" Very satisfying, would recommend

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3d

Hide the existence of your identical twin for decades so you can do a stage magic act in which it seems like you teleported.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

I'm in Manchester for the Conservative conference, where some of the views on show are likely to be fairly extreme. As one example, these quotes from a Kemi Badenoch interview in the Telegraph are the sorts of things which not very long ago would have only *ever* been said by the racist far right.

Tony Diver Associate Political Editor. Ben Riley-Smith Political Editor. Aaron Newbury
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Kemi Badenoch, Conservative Party Conference, Migrant crisis, Reform UK, Nigel Farage, Conservative Party

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Kemi Badenoch arriving at the Conservative Party conference on Saturday
Kemi Badenoch, pictured arriving for the Conservative Party conference in Manchester on Saturday, has unveiled a seven-point plan to tackle migration Credit: Eddie Mulholland for The Telegraph

Kemi Badenoch has pledged to deport 150,000 illegal migrants a year with new Trump-style immigration squads.

The Conservative Party leader will use this year’s conference in Manchester to announce how she would reform Britain’s migration system after leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Mrs Badenoch has unveiled a seven-point plan to “secure Britain’s borders”, including a commitment to deport small boat arrivals within a week, refuse any asylum claims by illegal migrants, deport all foreign criminals and remove immigration powers from judges.
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In an interview with The Telegraph, Mrs Badenoch pledged to stop “silly arguments” about human rights from preventing the government from doing the “right thing”.

She said she was “ashamed” Britain’s immigration system had allowed the emergence of grooming gangs, with “foreigners raping our little girls”.

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 4d

A day to wonder “why couldn’t you have found contract law or trusts as interesting at university, David?”

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John86 @john86l.bsky.social · 4d

You don’t have to be called Steve or Stephen to work at Blackpool, but it does help.

A club statement from Blackpool saying Steve Bruce has been sacked along with coaches Steve Agnew and Stephen Clemence. Stephen Dobbie and Steve Banks will take temporary charge.

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drswaff @drswaff.bsky.social · 4d

#UTFT

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 5d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 7d

There is no such thing, as Starmer well knows, as a "golden ticket of resettlement and family reunion" for people who have been granted refugee status. This is meaningless guff aimed to play to populist fantasies that refugees get provided with everything. 1/

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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University of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social · 9d

Safer Parks guidance is back!
Created by our @annabarker.bsky.social and her partners, the new edition has tailored advice for different audiences, including park managers, local authorities, and Designing Out Crime Officers.
Read more about its contents and impact 👇
🔗https://tinyurl.com/4x9snzyt

Secured by Design - Making parks a place of safety for everyone: New guidance paves the way for women and girls

SBD News Category Blog

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Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · 7d

"Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved."

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

Jane Goodall was the best of us.

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