sallyoc.bsky.social
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Crisp lover, dog botherer, digital at ActionAid UK though views here are my own.
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
December 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
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This tweet from Big Balls says the new “Tech Force” website is their first using the “America Design System.” Here are just a few reasons why that sucks. 🧵
December 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This tweet from Big Balls says the new “Tech Force” website is their first using the “America Design System.” Here are just a few reasons why that sucks. 🧵
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
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It’s not necessary to keep highlighting the qualities of exceptional immigrants as a reason for them to be treated well by their governments. We don’t have to be on our best behaviour to receive a basic level of human decency: that‘s why they’re called “human rights”, and not “human privileges”.
December 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
It’s not necessary to keep highlighting the qualities of exceptional immigrants as a reason for them to be treated well by their governments. We don’t have to be on our best behaviour to receive a basic level of human decency: that‘s why they’re called “human rights”, and not “human privileges”.
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Philanthropy as a radical act in the face of authoritarianism
This week alone, several higher education institutions announced major gifts from the billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott—donations totaling well over $100 million. trib.al/HHoeZ4a
MacKenzie Scott is trying to close the DEI gap in higher ed, with $155 million in donations this week alone | Fortune
These gifts are a “major source of encouragement” during uncertain times for higher education.
trib.al
December 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Philanthropy as a radical act in the face of authoritarianism
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Across Gaza, hundreds of thousands of people are living in makeshift shelters which offer little protection from the wind and rain. Winter conditions are adding misery to the devastation.
Please donate today: donation.dec.org.uk/middle-east-appeal
Please donate today: donation.dec.org.uk/middle-east-appeal
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Across Gaza, hundreds of thousands of people are living in makeshift shelters which offer little protection from the wind and rain. Winter conditions are adding misery to the devastation.
Please donate today: donation.dec.org.uk/middle-east-appeal
Please donate today: donation.dec.org.uk/middle-east-appeal
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Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
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This is among the funniest things I have read all year and I laughed out loud several times. Highly, highly recommended. It reminded me of the best days of Deadspin.
I wrote 4000 words about Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK, please read it before it gets taken down by HR
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This is among the funniest things I have read all year and I laughed out loud several times. Highly, highly recommended. It reminded me of the best days of Deadspin.
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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'Musk may have revealed that the platform he’s long called “the number 1 source of news on Earth” is really just a worthless, poisoned hall of mirrors.'
November 25, 2025 at 6:06 AM
'Musk may have revealed that the platform he’s long called “the number 1 source of news on Earth” is really just a worthless, poisoned hall of mirrors.'
Super interesting research and recommendations about a technology I suspect many workplaces have blithely adopted without thinking through all the implications. Personally I dislike mtgs with AI transcriptions, for lots of the reasons here.
I've written up the findings from our work with people and organisations who have used AI notetakers in meetings, identified 9 risks and a bunch of mitigation strategies. www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
Nine risks caused by AI notetakers — Careful Industries
AI transcription tools are not currently mature or reliable enough to be regarded as an always on, single-source of truth for meeting notes. Nine common risks, and six possible mitigations.
www.careful.industries
November 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Super interesting research and recommendations about a technology I suspect many workplaces have blithely adopted without thinking through all the implications. Personally I dislike mtgs with AI transcriptions, for lots of the reasons here.
Cheered me up that someone else is also going nuts because of All This - plus brilliant writing ofc
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Cheered me up that someone else is also going nuts because of All This - plus brilliant writing ofc
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I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real
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Stop buying this crap.
TEMU and SHEIN recall hundreds of products across Ireland amid serious fears for children's health
TEMU and SHEIN recall hundreds of products across Ireland amid serious fears for children's health
Customers have been warned to 'stop using the products immediately'
Online platform's Temu and SHEIN have recalled different products across Ireland amid a serious risk and harm to children's health. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has alerted the public to the following re
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www.limerickleader.ie
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Stop buying this crap.
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If a man points in a woman's face and says "Quiet piggy" you say something about it... You stand up and you say "What the fuck did you just say?" www.welcometohellworld.com/the-love-we-...
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If a man points in a woman's face and says "Quiet piggy" you say something about it... You stand up and you say "What the fuck did you just say?" www.welcometohellworld.com/the-love-we-...
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Gaza's Government Media Office warns that hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians face catastrophic conditions.
Gaza’s shelter crisis is ‘most dangerous’ disaster of war: Authorities
Gaza's Government Media Office warns that hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians face catastrophic conditions.
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Gaza's Government Media Office warns that hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians face catastrophic conditions.
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There is no difference in practice between removing rights of individuals and leaving the ECHR. The end outcome is still the same, people lose rights. If human rights are an obstacle to your policy it is not the rights which are the issue, it is your policy. Labour going full Reform at this stage.
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
There is no difference in practice between removing rights of individuals and leaving the ECHR. The end outcome is still the same, people lose rights. If human rights are an obstacle to your policy it is not the rights which are the issue, it is your policy. Labour going full Reform at this stage.
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Information underpins democracy and the BBC is a key part of that.
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Information underpins Democracy – why the BBC must be defended
Recent events at the BBC have wide-reaching implications for our democracy - and the sooner we realise it, the better
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Information underpins democracy and the BBC is a key part of that.
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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IMO the worst thing about this government is its failure to see Trump, Farage, anti-immigration rhetoric, rising racism, and the 'gender critical' lobby as connected elements of a global war against liberalism and social democracy – and instead treating them as discrete issues to be 'managed'.
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
IMO the worst thing about this government is its failure to see Trump, Farage, anti-immigration rhetoric, rising racism, and the 'gender critical' lobby as connected elements of a global war against liberalism and social democracy – and instead treating them as discrete issues to be 'managed'.
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we gotta stop with the tiny microphones. get a full size mic like an ADULT. you look like you’re at tea with a mouse
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
we gotta stop with the tiny microphones. get a full size mic like an ADULT. you look like you’re at tea with a mouse
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all of the worst people are big mad today, and i think that’s delightful.
good morning to everyone who isn’t having an absolute meltdown about how “the left” will end civilization!
good morning to everyone who isn’t having an absolute meltdown about how “the left” will end civilization!
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
all of the worst people are big mad today, and i think that’s delightful.
good morning to everyone who isn’t having an absolute meltdown about how “the left” will end civilization!
good morning to everyone who isn’t having an absolute meltdown about how “the left” will end civilization!