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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 23m

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 32m

Where are you now Dan

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Squirma (Halloween version) @eckslibris.bsky.social · 1h

An old tweet from "every day from now on jerk" @rajandelman:
The Swedish Chef is the best Muppet.
Shockingly pure in conception. Just one tall hippie's antipathy towards northern Europe. How can they fit so much disrespect in such a small felt man

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 3h

‘Social media turned my parents brains into pudding’ skills issue that, sorry they couldn’t handle it but that’s on them

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 3h

If you asked this on Facebook bet you’d get a ton of ‘my family stopped talking to me’ replies. Tbh I’m loath to even blame social media there, sounds like a you problem more than anything

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 3h

Tons, weird bait question

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 16h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 3h

Avg israeli is like

נלחמים על פים
I slaughtered countless babies for Israel, and this is the thanks I get?
O ISRAEL HAYAT
FORMER ISRAELI SOLDIER

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 4h

This is the heart of the matter with allowing the people who were Kamala or Starmer people to have a Come To Jesus moment, and we’re not supposed to litigate the past and let them off. All of them, to a man, would sell you out when it was expedient to do so.

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 4h

This cunt would absolutely call Gaza a purity test if that was the issue in the frame too. Anything that isn’t white American lib shit is not important to them. do not pay anything people like this say any mind at all.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 6h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6h

For those of us in higher education this company has snaked its way into our institutions—and this is the kind of care and thought they put into the risks of their products.
Do you imagine our students are safe with these people?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Johnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social · 7h

Moki Karlsson Cherry and Neneh Cherry in their home in Gamla Stan, Stockholm, late 1960s.

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Use of Weapons @useofweapons.bsky.social · 7h

This was 100% going to be Luke the Nuke with twenty different monitors.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7h

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails. One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 8h

I mean, whom amongst us

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 8h

She strikes me as someone who just isn’t interested in *anything*. Tha description of her just endlessly scrolling Twitter with her headphones on, she’s just a Reddior, ultimately.

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 8h

I think she’s past caring. she clearly has her heart set on being a diversity hire at GB News, she would get to talk about memes all day, perfect gig

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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 9h

“Our companies need access to all the things right now to avoid bankruptcy, I’m afraid ‘complying with the law’ is completely out of the question. What, do you want CHINA to win? Anyway on the plus side if everything goes to plan it’ll destroy your livelihood LOL.”
bsky.app/profile/thev...

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.

buff.ly

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 9h

They have made it clear that they believe if they make it awful enough to be trans, people will stop being trans. In service of that, the assault of children is a welcome outcome for them.

Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 9h

When politicians like Trump, or Starmer, say & do transphobic things, parents talk about it in front of kids & then the kids bring it to school.

It’s horrific that these kids are being taught to hate & at such an early age.

It is critical we do not import this into Irish politics:

11-year-old trans child allegedly assaulted by fellow student

An 11-year-old trans child was allegedly assaulted by a fellow student over their gender identity, the student's father has claimed.

www.thepinknews.com

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 9h

In 2015, it was obvious to me that stopping Eastern Europeans from entering the country was a cipher for deporting black & brown people that have been in the UK for generations.

I knew that because people were literally saying that out loud at the time.

This is not news, this was the next step.

Deporting ethnic minority Britons was the goal of Brexit for many

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Chris but he’s a ghost @gothcasual.bsky.social · 10h

Weird that the news is reporting this finance leach fucking off to the UAE as a bad thing.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 10h

Banking billionaire becomes latest member of ultra-rich to leave UK

Banking billionaire becomes latest ultra-rich lister to leave UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 11h

It is awful to wake up to posts like this, but much worse to have to try to survive under a genocide that's maiming and killing children like Nour, please help if you can:
gofund.me/982fcaf79

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On Her Majesty's Rail Replacement Bus Service 🔞🦀 (Crab Verified) @ipsumlorem.bsky.social · 13h

I grew up in the UK in the early eighties. Every time I see this flag, I am reminded it was used by members of the NF shouting racist slogans and beating people up.

I too feel fear when i see this flag. Not because of the flag itself, but because of people who brandish it as an excuse for violence

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 20h

A friend of mine who no longer lives here posted this on Instagram just after the anti-immigration march and this was exactly my experience and that of countless other non-white folk I know.

Please don’t use these stickers - they’ll just add to the racist noise.