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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 9h

Look, I just wanna get this out ahead of what you're going to hear: it's an honour to be nominated, especially in such esteemed company as Vincent Racismè and Guillaume Bitpièce de Monnaie

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 9h

*LECORNU SAYS MACRON TO BE ABLE TO NAME NEW PREMIER IN 48 HOURS

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 16h

Debt secured by GPUs that drop precipitously in value once used is a great idea, like securing your loan with the value of a new car thats about to leave the lot

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 16h

US Supreme Court: "This is fine actually that law is invalidated because *waves out window* oh look a dog"

Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 16h

Round and round the money goes!

bsky.app/profile/tech...

TechPowerUp @techpowerup.com · 17h

NVIDIA to Fund Musk's xAI Chips in $20 Billion Investment Round

www.techpowerup.com

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 16h

I get to post my favourite graph again!

A slide showing successive obr forecasts of economic productivity being massively wrong over time; every year they project productivity to rise by 20% in 5 years but instead its almost flat

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 16h

AI cares not from whence the capital flows, only that it flows.

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 16h

Bank of England flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI - on.ft.com/4o3RheA

Bank of England flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI

Financial Policy Committee warns equity prices are at levels comparable with dotcom bubble

on.ft.com

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an arch on @anarchonbury.bsky.social · 1d

Today my doctor told me it will be at least another six months until I can get the surgery on the NHS.

I am not exaggerating: I will be homeless and probably dead long before then. My situation is completely dire.

an arch on @anarchonbury.bsky.social · 14d

I've been quiet for a while. It's been due to a number of factors, the most prominent of which is poor health.

I need surgery, and I'm stuck in limbo. Please help.

www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Help raise £6500 to help cure James' disease. – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to help cure James' disease.. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

www.justgiving.com

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 19h

The purpose of a system is what it does.

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 20h

Alt-right blogger, alt-right poster, alt-right YouTuber

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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matt’s slutty lil halloween name @windows98support.bsky.social · 22h

The Hills Have KPIs

Courtney 🐙 Lovecraftian 🐙 Actually @hexadecibelle.fyi · 22h

the blair witch project manager

Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 1d

i know what you did last quarter

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 1d

tbf boomers driven insane by racist facebook pages is a *prime* tory demographic so might as well start with some "eighties parents will remember this!"

Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao I got blocked, turned out comment isnt so free after all

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 1d

It's like you're applauding the 1980s Republicans for politely talking about "forced busing and states' rights" because that's ok at dinner parties. You either do that because you cannot hear the dog whistle, or you do but they're your friends, and tossing them out is impolite.

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 1d

How come demonising benefit claimants and migrants is acceptable as long as it's couched in three-syllable platitudes rather than Robert Jenrick's out-and-out racism today? Why does the form and the style take precedent as somehow "better"?

I genuinely don't understand why you're doing this.

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 1d

Then SAY that that was the agenda and draw the *obvious lines* between Cameron's "reduce migration to tens of thousands" speech to today. How is that not othering?

Why even engage in this rose-tinted rewrite of history? What does the language and the form matter when the end result is this, today?

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 1d

The ONLY difference was that back then it was considered gauche to outright support the Tommy Robinson shaved head crowd; pandered to, yes all the time, but not let into the room. Come on you cant be this dim by accident.

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 1d

This latest revisionist nonsense from @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social can only *possibly* be true if you were in a coma during the Cameron years.

Demonising migrants, Muslims, and *especially* benefit claimants was a CENTRAL PILLAR. What was the bedroom tax about, Zoe?

From the article:

it’s absolutely striking how those worldviews – the one nation Tory, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been erased, in favour of relentless demonisation: of migrants, Muslims, benefit claimants and protesters

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 1d

meanwhile the UK state sincerely wants to rip out all copyright protections for the UK creative industry to feed it into the slop generator because it's THE FUTURE BAYBEE

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

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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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 1d

Best tracks of The Life of A Showgirl:

1. Father Figure
2. Opalite
3. Elizabeth Taylor
4. Cancelled!
5. The Fate of Ophelia

The rest is either so mid I can't keep them apart or just kind of embarrassing tbh

Verdict: Do better.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 2d

Why can a party only "be serious" if it moves right to, again, appease swing voters who will inevitably NOT stick around when offered tax cuts?

Why are the tens of thousands of new members "not serious"?

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 2d

📜 From the Archives Alert 📜

Seeing how the transphobe charter is now running one of the biggest newsrooms left in America, we invite you to brush up with this old episode we did on Bari Weiss with @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social

E190 - Weiss Pride www.podbean.com/ea/pb-4zzbs-...

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 2d

I know it's trite at this point, but IMAGINE Kieth using this line about British citizens in idk North Korea or Libya, or Afghanistan

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 2d

That could be literally any dwp minister since Thatcher or a thousand columnists

I was alive during the coalition strivers/skivers years, AND Labour's love affair with "hard-working families"

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 2d

I sincerely mean it when I say that my hope for a socialist future is that this is about the right level of everyone's biggest problem in life

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2d

“I left my wife, Nicole Kidman, because I was sick of her, Nicole Kidman, needing me to have sex with her, Nicole Kidman” do you hear yourself man

Tweet from Daily Mail Celebrity @DailyMailCeleb
How Nicole Kidman's 'bottomless need for sexual attention' led to the end of her marriage to country music star Keith Urban: Nashville insiders open up to
ALISON BOSHOFF

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