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Polly Pallister-Wilkins

@pollypw.bsky.social

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Associate Professor. Author of the award winning “fabulous and delightfully rad” ‘Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives’ by Verso Books. She/Her.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1h

Fuck you using Jews to peddle this racist filth.

And erasing centuries of British antisemitism to boot.

Seriously fuck you.

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1h

No words

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 5h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 2h

These AI techbro evangelists have either rocks for brains or are mendacious charlatans or maybe both.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

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

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 2h

Are you taking posting tips from the owners of this platform?

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 2h

Defending LGBTQ+ folks and having a homelessness policy that is more than destroying unhoused people’s tents on television.

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 2h

Keep digging, you’re doing great sweetie.

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 3h

That it isn’t mandatory. It is, for anyone working, as the government themselves confirm. bsky.app/profile/read...

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 6h

Could you clarify what your understanding of "mandatory" is?

Because this is a press release from Keir starmer saying exactly what you said hasn't been said.

www.gov.uk/government/n...

New digital ID scheme to be rolled out across UK

A new digital ID scheme will help combat illegal working while making it easier for the vast majority of people to use vital government services. Digital ID will be mandatory for Right to Work checks ...

www.gov.uk

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 3h

I know, there was that nice chap from the Netherlands…

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 3h

When those fact checkers are wrong they are not in fact fact checkers but the peddlers of falsehoods that enable fascism.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 3h

Or a golden visa and a direct line to the prime minister

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 4h

But Hend there’ll be some clueless white dude along any second to explain why you’re wrong based on their life experience.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 4h

I’m sure the self-appointed vanquishers of antisemitism will be along any minute to call it out…

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 5h

This supposed gotcha about Zack Polanski's "real name" reeks of antisemitism.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 5h

I’m going to make a wild guess and say that Casey here celebrates Jewish and Black success relative to the politics of the people concerned.

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 5h

I’m not sure The Telegraph have got their head around the EES

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 8h

The UK won’t even know what the EES is.

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 8h

Behold! The field in which I grow my fucks and thou shall see that it is barren.

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.