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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 4h

Precisely

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 4h

These are the people who then complain about kids hanging around doing nothing

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 4h

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 18h

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 13h

Looks wonderful and impressively tidy for a place you’ve just moved into!

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 15h

Lethal skewering this, in particular this paragraph skewering the idea that Handswortg is an integration failure when it is a multi-ethnic integration success story.

As Mrs Merton might say “what is it about this 9% white ward that led you to frame it as an integration failure?”

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 15h

Brilliant piece Sathnam.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 21h

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 21h

At least jonn gets bots named after publishing houses tbf

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 21h

You cannot make these statements and not share said footage

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 21h

Very good

Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 21h

In terms of the sheer pretentiousness of American hackery, nothing beats the New Yorker bringing in photojournalists to document their pay dispute though

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 21h

Neither was a particularly appealing thought I confess

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 21h

Spare a thought for us hacks who worked for big American news organisations in their youth and who had to carry orange business cards that said either “go further, faster” or “flirt with brilliance” on the back.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 1d

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS.

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1d

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