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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 2h

If everything is easy, nothing is worth doing.

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 2h

Students talk about the demoralizing effects of AI. It makes them feel like they don't need to know anything and can't learn how to do anything well enough to compete with the machine.

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 3h

I tweeted about a book plot + a friend encouraged me to write it. That book got me an agent via dvpit on Twitter. That series made me a USA Today Bestseller.

Also a group of colleagues + I created a training for storytime librarians that's been used around the world. RIP Twitter.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 16h

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

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 2h

This is what strong leadership looks like.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Pritzker: "I think it's important to recognize that the Trump administration does not seem to respect any laws in the United States. They just do what they want to do and they'll keep doing it unless someone stops them. Here in Illinois we're stopping them."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "This president is unstable, unhinged, a double-minded individual that quite frankly is a threat to our democracy. It's certainly not the first time that Donald Trump has called for the arresting of a Black man unjustly."

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El Hombre Malo @elhombremalo.bsky.social · 4h

Nusantara Beat - Tamat
Fusión de folk indonesio con... no se, funk? latin lounge? A mi me ha gustado, bendito sea el algoritmo

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Nusantara Beat - Tamat (Live video)

YouTube video by Nusantara Beat

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 4h

Rod Stewart is older than the state of Israel.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 23h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 6h

If you had written this as a fake news headline a year ago, you would be called hysterical.

Reuters today. Fascism.

Reuters story headlines:

Trunp calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 4h

It's about as un-British as you can get.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5h

I'm unsurprised, mind you. Dubai is a paradise to those who measure success on tax-free wealth and taste on the basis of naff gold-plated supercars. A gigantic soulless autocratic a/c shopping centre in a desert. I know that some people think otherwise but that was my impression when I went.

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 4h

I always get the impression that these Reform characters don't actually like Britain very much.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5h

UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent

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Marie Hummingway @crapcerealandpills.bsky.social · 4h

It looks like the only way left to avoid being a crazy cat lady is to not get any more cats.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 4h

i have a parasocial relationship with all your cats

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 5h

oh yeah, and you nutjobs made my ridiculous cat social-famous.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 5h

There is a lot to be horrified about this year. It is also important to remember how bad at their jobs they are

Zeteo @zeteo.com · 7h

“Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown”

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are waging a war on leakers – but ‘this stuff only works if you let it get to you,’ says one Pentagon official. @swin24.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social -
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Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown

The president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are waging a war on leakers – but ‘this stuff only works if you let it get to you,’ says one Pentagon official.

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 1d

Okay britpol is none of my business but this attitude fills me with incandescent rage

Rachel Reeves’ words about environmental delays to a housing development: “ She described the planning blockage as being due to "some snails on the site that are a protected species or something", adding:
"They are microscopic snails that you cannot even see, and they haven't been able to build there." The chancellor appeared to be referring to the little whirlpool ramshorn snail, which is 5mm in diameter, and one of the rarest creatures in Britain. It is an indicator of clean rivers and ponds…”

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 6h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6h

This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 5h

You’ll never be able to convince me ripping an American citizen out of their Chicago apartment in the dead of night, zip tying their hands and refusing to let them call their lawyer is ‘America First’

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