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Josh "HAUNTED WAFFLE SQUARF" Brown @theotherspeakman.bsky.social · 5m

You're not a chump for avoiding committing arson on your career

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13m

this makes me feel like a chump for having actual standards and ethics in my reporting

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 21h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 2d

After Columbia canceled my course on race and media, and Washington Poat fired me for speaking about race and violence,

I’m teaching about race and media anyway!

@resistanceschool.bsky.social fall session on Race, Media and International Affairs starts tonight!

600+ signups.

We move!! ✊🏾

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6h

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’, but instead could be ‘things that people needed to know at the moment’ and ‘things that they didn’t need to know at the moment’.

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☠️DelBark☠️ @delablo.bsky.social · 3h

Remember, kids:

All Billionaires Are Evil

You don't become that wealthy without taking advantage of people.

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 5h

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 3h

I was also reminded of the way code proactively gets made. You give the fire science people a chunk of money and space to build the thing they're interested in. Then they set it on fire and collect a lot of data while it's burning and in the aftermath.

Wanna guess something we haven't really done?

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 3h

They did give me a nightmare scenario addition:

"The larger the datacenter, the larger the battery backup it needs, which we also only have recently started addressing in the code."

And added "So, yeah, I guess we're waiting for a Triangle Shirtwaist Fire for datacenters."

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 3h

UPDATE:

I absolutely did trigger my fire marshals to go through the code and grumble about it continually playing catch up. That part of the point of building the datacenters where they are isn't just cheap land and resource they can exploit, but older code with poor enforcement.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 23h

I suspect I have just triggered a "Well, shit" moment regarding the building code, its to imagine datacenters facilities like this, and the potential of people just outright ignoring the code to load as many GPUs in as possible and run them at 99.999% of maximum clock speed until they melt.

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Josh "HAUNTED WAFFLE SQUARF" Brown @theotherspeakman.bsky.social · 3h

This playlist?

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

THE TRAITORS - The Official Soundtrack - YouTube

Are you obsessively faithful to the music in The Traitors? Listen to the official soundtrack from the makers of BBC One's ultimate psychological reality game...

youtube.com

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Josh "HAUNTED WAFFLE SQUARF" Brown @theotherspeakman.bsky.social · 3h

Love to reply to "Mr. Cait" and then question the legitimate marriage of Cait to him.

Keep posting through it! Surely there's treasure if you keep digging forever.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13h

i love this website actually

Mr. Cait @chas.bsky.social • 13h
Gavin Newsom would take a puppy from an orphan, rip the puppy apart with his bare hands and eat it while the orphan screamed if he thought it would win him one vote in Wisconsin.

ILLEGIT PREc
@illegitprez.bsky.so... • 13h
there is something wrong with you.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social • 10h
"anti far left" in bio, hard pass

ILLEGIT PREc & E @illegitprez.bsky.so... • 10h no one invited you

cait (and adonis)
@cait.bsky.social
that's my husband you dumb bitch

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Josh "HAUNTED WAFFLE SQUARF" Brown @theotherspeakman.bsky.social · 3h

Especially from fuckin libs who think if you spend 10 minutes out of your 24 hour day praising food or sports or whatever, you're falling down on RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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Josh "HAUNTED WAFFLE SQUARF" Brown @theotherspeakman.bsky.social · 3h

YIKES

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Josh "HAUNTED WAFFLE SQUARF" Brown @theotherspeakman.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah I can understand that

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15h

I really hate the dogwhistle "would you leave your front door open for anyone to come in" question. That's the wrong question.
The real analogy is "If a stranger knocked on your door and asked you for help, would you help them?"

and for me, the answer is yes, in a heartbeat. every time.

Cllr Dr Max Morris @maxmorris.bsky.social · 15h

Very proud of my fellow Green councillors for proposing this motion. "We are a rich tapestry, we are strengthened by our diversity, and we must stand up as a council and as a city for that diversity, unite against the far right and the divisive narratives of them." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oxford City Council backs city's minority communities in vote

A Green party motion called on Oxford City Council to oppose far right rhetoric.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Spooky Boner @lucytoner.bsky.social · 15h

just reminded me of this banger www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8YE...

Screenshot of Iron Spike on bsky saying

"Apropos of nothing: One of the most clean-cut divides between layperson British and American perspectives I've noticed is the general opinion of poachers.

in the UK, poachers are romanticized rebels, risking it all to feed their families.

In the US, they're assholes. Massive, massive assholes."
Spike has replies and quote tweets restricted because she has to deal with a lot of fucking idiots

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Loui Stonehill @louistonehill.bsky.social · 15h

What I really wish universities and art schools would start thinking about is how their name could be like an Organic stamp of skill and quality-assurance; that any student associated with their name could say to an employer "I am properly trained and have real skills, and can do my job reliably"

Loui Stonehill @louistonehill.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand teachers who waste their students' time explaining how to use GenAI. There are youtube tutorials for that shit.
When I was studying translation, there was already software around to do most of the work, but we were still taught the damn craft, not the tech

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 15h

Hey hey, ho ho
Gavin Newsom an hero

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 15h

Love the clarity of this message

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Let's make hope normal again.

youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

youtu.be

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 15h

A grim thread.

Conversion therapists at the Oslo gender clinic stole children’s journals and used them to write a junk paper claiming to link the supposed rise in trans men with self-harm.

It echoes Cass.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 21h

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

Oslo universitetssykehus felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner

Forskere ved Oslo universitetssykehus har forsket på transpersoner uten godkjenning. Nå er de felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

www.forskning.no

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 16h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 16h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 16h

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 16h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 16h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Josh "HAUNTED WAFFLE SQUARF" Brown @theotherspeakman.bsky.social · 14h

Look, if you say it slowly enough with the right amount of...sultry?

I can make it work.

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 19h

Please I just want to eat. I'm sorry to beg

moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 19h

Please consider helping me to eat.

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