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Steve B @steveb.bsky.social · 4h

The right-wing press have been losing it at the Greens new leader saying "maybe even one party in the UK could be left of centre?"

As usual, every hit piece they write make the Greens look *brilliant* and the Green social media has been eating it up, ha

Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 6h

Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

I've been trying to put my finger on why ICE/DHS lies feel so much more outrageous than normal cop lies, and I think it's because they don't lie like cops, they lie like aggressively stupid criminals

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Steve B @steveb.bsky.social · 2d

Bsky has a "gift links / gift articles" feed where you can read without paywalls, and 99% of the current articles on there suggest that America is in enormous, gigantic amounts of trouble.

This one in particular is a LOT but worth it.

Patrick @pck.rocks · 2d

I went looking for someone serious to lambast this Bari Weiss / CBS monstrosity, gave up, then discovered of course Defector fucking nailed it.

Gift Link because this is essential shit.

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

defector.com

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 3d

Just guessing the UK isn't one of these.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 3d

Numerous countries express interest in Government’s basic income for artists pilot scheme

Minister for Culture committed to making the scheme permanent if funding is secured in budget

www.irishtimes.com

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Steve B @steveb.bsky.social · 3d

This is correct, and pastries are a major part of my answer to "Conan, what is best in life?"

Felicia Day @felicia.day · 4d

I've spent a lot of money on baked goods in my life and, on my deathbed, I will never regret one dollar.

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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 3d

I HAVE THE MIGHTIEST NEED

Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 4d

What if Wes Anderson made the 10th entry in a DTV action series?

The answer is SNIPER G.R.I.T. (2023)

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Steve B @steveb.bsky.social · 4d

Stephen Miller is essentially in charge of the entire US, so it's not going great

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

Steve B @steveb.bsky.social · 4d

Back in the good old days (2009) the internet was for funny and cute things like this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zEH...

World's Loudest Alarm Clock!

YouTube video by kipkay

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 5d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 4d

Hey, that chatbot’s not going to sext your kids without the juice, people.

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 5d

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana, as big as 70 football fields, requiring more than twice as much electricity as the City of New Orleans.

Louisiana has had to greenlight $3 billion in new energy infrastructure to service Meta's facility.

New Meta Data Center Needs Twice as Much Energy as New Orleans

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.

buff.ly

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Steve B @steveb.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely amazing thread

Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · Dec 17

There’s an antiques emporium in Norwich of such unfathomable strangeness every visit produces fresh gasps of bewilderment and terror. Recent finds:

1. Mounted photo print of depressed steam train driver (£1)

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 6d

That speech was quite light on specific Green policies but it’s clear that Polanski is a *much* more effective public speaker than Starmer, Badenoch or Davey, & possibly on a par (albeit v differently) to Farage. It’s no wonder Labour are privately pretty worried about possible losses to the Greens.

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Steve B @steveb.bsky.social · 6d

I, like many of you, got an official response to the nearly 3 million strong petition against digital ID cards. Predictably, it was the stupidest shit imaginable.

It's to stop illegal working - but there's already checks that are no different, and digital ID didn't stop it anywhere else. Hopeless.

chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 6d

The government's response to the "no ID" petition. Make it make sense.

Not compulsory, but mandatory.
It's not a physical card. So how will people without phones have this "not compulsory, but mandatory" digital ID? #IDCard

To tackle these interlinked issues, we will introduce a new national digital ID. This is not a card but a new digital identity that will be available for free to all UK citizens and legal residents aged 16 and over (although we will consider through consultation if this should be age 13 and over). Over time, people will be able to use it to seamlessly access a range of public and private sector services, with the aim of making our everyday lives easier and more secure. It will not be compulsory to obtain a digital ID but it will be mandatory for some applications.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 7d

Reminder that @theguardian.com has a partnership with OpenAI, and has of late published a spate of asinine articles that are uncritical in framing, and just read as press releases for the company and for "AI" in general.
The headline/implicit framing of this article seems consistent with its biases.

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 7d

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

www.theguardian.com

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 7d

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today 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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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 7d

Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate.

This year’s theme is ‘play’ so here’s a poem which plays with some letters. It’s called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.

The Problem of Writing Poems
in the Shape of Deciduous Trees

[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:

a comm n
pr ble whe writin
p ems in the shape of decid o s
trees is t at once t ere ar ives the fir t
sti rings of he new aut mn breeze, he
oems will begi to shake hemselves
ge tly ntil their letters loos n
d
like leaves, an
they
start
to
float
down
then

[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7d

American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement

worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 7d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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Steve B @steveb.bsky.social · 8d

I was at a conference on exams last week where someone told me about the absolutely extraordinary amount of cheating on *driving theory tests*.

...Which you can take infinite times and don't impact your job if you fail first time. The lowest stakes exam for adults and the cheating is still unreal.

j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 8d

"Extended writing may be set for older students when it is appropriate and can be completed by all without the risk of plagiarism/ AI." Well, good luck with eliminating the _risk_ of plagiarism, a thing which nobody has ever yet succeeded in doing at any level of study/research.

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Steve B @steveb.bsky.social · 8d

Jeez, I thought I was (totally and completely) anti-AI, but The Daily Show are really coming out firing.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 8d

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 9d

#Florida woman wins Mortal Kombat tournament playing with newborn baby in arms. You know, like you do. www.dexerto.com/mortal-komba...

Florida woman wins Mortal Kombat tournament playing with newborn baby in arms - Dexerto

A mother is going viral after winning a Mortal Kombat tournament while holding her five-day-old daughter in her arms.

www.dexerto.com

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Steve B @steveb.bsky.social · 9d

Okay, this one's actually pretty amazing by the end.

Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 9d

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 9d

Book Cover of the Day:

WHAT TO GET FOR BREAKFAST
MISS COLBRATH
Green cover, gold panel for title, sun and border design in black.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 9d

Holy fucking shit.

Someone moving off the island just handed me, for free, an ENORMOUS bag containing, plus inflator…

Wait for it

An entire full-size working water slide bouncey castle.

My kid’s 7th birthday party is this weekend.

Holy fucking shit.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 9d

[me doing my new 7-figure political consulting gig] I advise that you surrender more, that will probably work

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