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I'd been pound foolish, I could see that now. Video Gamey * Sciencey * Equality * Irelandy * Leeds Unitedy #lufc he/him

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · Jul 6

Yeah my Mario has a flying saucer and a submarine so what 🤷 #mario #Nintendo #gameboy #retro #retrogaming

Check out my sub says Mario. BAM! 100 points

Yeah blasting seahorse bosses in my submarine

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ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 12h

Who knew that you had to have a characteristic from birth for it to be worthy of human rights? Bye bye protections on religious grounds, age grounds, martial grounds, even maternity

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13h

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 1h

This is great

youtu.be/wubkrBd3-gg

#boc #boards #music #pdp-1 #retro #retrocomputing

Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer

YouTube video by Joe Lynch

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rubot @rubot.ie · 2h

This mug is clearly branded to let you know it is endorsing Friends the television series and not Friends, the social concept

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Daniel/Moxco @leedsista.com · 17h

Massimo Cellino wanted the credit, and #LUFC fans wanted a good local left-back.

But Charlie Taylor wanted the Premier League.

From A-Z since 1992, and big-time Charlie:

Charlie Taylor ⭑ From A-Z since '92

Massimo Cellino wanted the credit, and Leeds fans wanted a good local left-back. But Charlie Taylor wanted the Premier League.

www.leedsista.com

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 20h

Burglar says asking occupants for use permission would 'kill' the housebreaking industry.

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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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 1d

There's a long way to go that's for sure.
Here's the link to the article in case it gets moved down the bbc football page linked above
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Josh Cavallo: 'Football still has an issue with homophobia'

Australian Josh Cavallo, who moved to England in July to join non-league Peterborough Sports, says football has got

www.bbc.com

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Billy Morris, Leeds Books @billymorrisauthor.bsky.social · 1d

My pal the footballer…Some more of Tony Levison’s Albert Johannesson photos. Tony is the little lad in the photos taken in the early 60s. His dad owned Project records on the same Harehills parade as Big Jack’s shop so got to know a lot of the players.
#LUFC #LS65 #ALAW #60sLeeds #Leeds

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 1d

It is a wonderful thread

stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 1d

ASAW review of the #lufc v Spurs match. The listener question askers probably aren't as handsome as the Bournemouth review askers but ya can't have everything

All Stats Aren't We @allstatsarentwe.bsky.social · 2d

Also available to all listeners via Acast.

shows.acast.com/thegameofthe...

Ep. 360 - Tottenham Hotspurs(H) Review | All Stats Aren't We

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 2d

The same ever giving thread

stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 2d

It's the same thread!

stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 2d

We can mute a thread here, now we've gotta be able to follow a thread, cos I need alerts for this juicy one #speirgorm

Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 3d

Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 2d

"As the US author Ta-Nehisi Coates recently said of the Democrats, “if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy”. The same applies to the Labour government."

It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones

In making dissent a privilege, not a right, Labour is crafting a repressive toolkit. Imagine it in the hands of a Farage government, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

www.theguardian.com

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 2d

The GRA was passed in 2015 with very little fanfare following years of courageous campaigning by trans people. We have yet to see any negative ramifications in society - and we won't.

We simply *cannot* have a President of Ireland who speaks about trans women or their human rights in this way.

Reg Coppinger @regcoppinger.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not linking to the article but Heather Humphries thinks the Gender recognition act needs to be looked at, and trans women are not women. #Aras25 #SpeirGorm

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 2d

Hahaha amazing
Is there any song that can't be improved by some 8-bit additions...

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The Week in Politics @rtetwip.bsky.social · 3d

Regarding the €3300 reportedly owed to a former tenant of his, Jim Gavin tells @aine-lawlor.bsky.social that he 'does not have all the information to date' and that he is 'looking into it'

#RTETWIP repeats at 3, 6:30 and 10 on the news channel and at 23:10 on @rteone.rte.ie #presidentialdebate

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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 3d

The sound you can hear is hundreds of politicians, from county councillors to TDs to senators, paying off every last bit of arrears they owe to their tenants

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 3d

Yer gonna need a bigger boat

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · Apr 28

A huge group of people are in a giant hole in the middle of a rolling field. There is a large sign with an arrow pointing to the hole that says "HOLE." Suddenly the group's attention turns to a new hole, complete with a giant sign with an arrow pointing to it that says "NEW HOLE." One person points to the new hole and says "hey look! Someone made a new hole!" The mass clamours out of the old hole and makes a bee-line toward the new hole. It's chaos. One person, now situated in the new hole says "this feels like how the old hole used to feel." Another person nods in agreement.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 3d

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 3d

Let's celebrate moments #lufc

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 3d

The risible thing about these "AI = people" posts is that there would be a philosophical dilemma if we encountered truly sentient AI. There are roughly one million sci-fi stories on this very topic. But they're doing all this for autocomplete. They're doing this for a spellcheck that can't spell.

The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 4d

i think it’s actually completely okay to say an algorithm is not a real person

hailey @hailey.at
if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 4d

I booted up windows 98 to defrag my BADAPPLE drive

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