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M O R G Y @rjmrgn.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve met a lot of cool people on various types of internet thing over the years, many of whom I may not have encountered otherwise. This includes my wife who I got off twitter.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 22h

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

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M O R G Y @rjmrgn.bsky.social · 11h

Oh of course

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 1d

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.

A screenshot of the headline “Tens of thousands attend anti-immigration march in London” with a photo of people on that march waving England flags.

My friend’s caption says:

Growing up in uk, I learned to fear this flag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

If i got lost and ended up in a place where these flags appear, i knew to get away FAST.

I know i am not the only one. And seeing this on the news is terrifying. I sent messages to friends saying "be safe"

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 1d

A whole bunch of us have grown up in the UK knowing to flee in the other direction if we spot this flag anywhere. We’re not going to pause to see if there are stickers stuck below them.

And if they’re stuck elsewhere, we will not get close enough to see the text - again, we’re just going to leg it.

Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 3d

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

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M O R G Y @rjmrgn.bsky.social · 12h

It’s basically the same thing, as far as I can tell, as “clever” “subversions” of maga red hats.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 18h

20 years of royally fucking up by the whole political establishment has left most of the UK impoverished and stagnant, while the super-rich take an ever-bigger rake-off.

And the bastards are STILL telling you it's some random foreigners' fault.

Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 19h

🚨 New research published today

'Before the fall' looks at what has happened to the distribution of household wealth in Britain and the impact on families.

Read it here 👉 buff.ly/Ya8kInK

Senior Economist Molly Broome:
"Wealth gaps in Britain are now so large that a typical full-time employee saving all their earnings across their entire working life would still not be able to reach the top of the wealth ladder. These gaps are doubly concerning as wealth mobility in Britain is low – people that start life wealthy tend to stay wealthy, and vice versa.
Rising house prices and changes in the value of pension promises account for most of the growth in wealth gaps since the early 2010s, rather than any active behaviour on the part of individuals, such as buying homes or acquiring new assets.
Soaring wealth and an acute need for more revenue has prompted fresh talk of wealth taxes ahead of the Budget next month. But with property and pensions now representing 80 per cent of the growing bulk of household wealth, we need to be honest that higher wealth taxes are likely to fall on pensioners, Southern homeowners or their families, rather than just being paid by the super-rich."

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M O R G Y @rjmrgn.bsky.social · 17h

Ah yeah I’m sure this is gonna be legit and worth bothering to read

“Booking agent” wants to send my band a message on instagram

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Collapse faster! @maketotalcollapse.bsky.social · 21h

How refreshing for a UK politician to call the press 'shit rags' rather than cowering in front of negative headlines.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 21h

There is something deeply broken in the UK and it has absolutely nothing to do with migrants, especially with 1 in 25 properties being vacant.
This should be the number one priority for the government. Instead more and more homeless individuals are dying.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

www.bbc.com

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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🔻Bela Lugosi's Dad (Even More Spooky) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇮🇷 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 1d

In fairness, this is essentially the central tenet of the shitpost left, so they are just kind of confirming that we're right and it works, but the difference is we want to deploy it against 38 year old briefcase Labour wankers, and they want to deploy it against 12 year olds who seem a bit fruity.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

wtf is wrong with these people

NYT: A Campaign to 'Bring Back Bullying'

On social media, some are arguing that bullying deserves a second look. Trolling or not, the push seems to reflect a general turn away from sensitivity.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 2d

I enjoy how people with lists called "leftist pigs who deserve helicopter rides" are ignored so the devs can focus on what's *really* important, defending digital cancer

carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 2d

just don’t create a moderation list, bluesky said that’s bad

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social @sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · 2d

Let me help out here Chris

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, look, it’s the guy who paid affectionate tribute to US podcaster Charlie Kirk when he got murdered.

LATEST: Keir Starmer's spokesman has said that the detention of activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters is 'a matter for the Israeli government'

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 3d

This is my blood

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 2d

The environmental horrors aside, what's most frightening about when the AI bubble collapses (not if, when) is we're past the point where we can even afford to bail it out. nVidia was 25% of all market growth in the last year. One company. There isn't enough real money to fix this anymore

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 2d

AMD gave OpenAI 10% of its stock for free in exchange for OpenAI announcing they'll buy AMD chips for ten years using the money made from the value of the stock, which then went up 30% in a day. They created $80 billion on paper doing nothing. This is definitely not going to collapse spectacularly

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake reut.rs/46SOnCj

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 2d

At least the Tories fixed the roof while the sun was shining. All that austerity was a tough slog but at least everything is hunky dory now (I am struck by lightning directly through the gaping hole in the roof)

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2d

Thread.

When Enron collapsed, taking Arthur Andersen (then one of The Big Five accounting firms) with them the two big issues were:
1. Enron’s corporate culture which was dependent on the value of their shares always going up.
And
2. Their Mark-to-Market bookkeeping system

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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M O R G Y @rjmrgn.bsky.social · 2d

The payoff to this story is INCREDIBLE

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · May 17

When I was 7, my teacher told us to write an article about “world cultures” for school over the weekend. I remembered it late on Sunday so in a panic I made up something called the "Icelandic Fish Festival", figuring said teacher wouldn’t know either way.

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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 2d

Like - why do all the 'British Patriot' types so willing to lick boot for a US vassal state. A former colony no less. Isn't that a major international humiliation for a supposedly powerful country?

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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 2d

Spineless behaviour. A foreign country are detaining your citizens illegally, with reports of abuse, while their government actively criticises you specifically. This isn't statesmanship it's rolling over and having your belly tickled.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

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M O R G Y @rjmrgn.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao what the FUCK? “Dear cops, thanks very much for shooting an innocent bystander to death.” Absolutely fucked country.

Excerpt from a Guardian article about the UK government frothing to shut down any protests they don’t like

“In a letter to chief constables on Sunday, Mahmood warned that ‘the country faces a period of heightened tensions and division’ and thanked police for their response to Thursday's attack.”

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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