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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 6h

This.

A thousand times over, this.

Heather Glass @heatherglass.bsky.social · 10h

Good, well taught degrees in any subject can be a foundation for all sorts of not obviously related careers. (STEM graduate in non STEM career here 👋)

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 12h

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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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 6h

It’s how people typically use the word: your dictionary entry doesn’t contradict that.

Do you also get upset when people say “chicken burger”?

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7h

We must all stand up and speak out.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 6h

A wise regime would not risk a political prisoner like that.

This is, of course, not a wise regime.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 6h

What happened to normal?

When I was young, it was normal to have a range of subjects to choose from.

It was normal to have a well-funded public broadcaster AND commercial broadcasters.

It was normal to want human rights and to help refugees.

It was normal to hate racism.

What happened?

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 6h

But it’s also NOT TRUE that humanities degrees don’t pay off economically.

They don’t command high *starting* salaries compared to STEM, but studies show humanities graduate lifetime earnings catch up, and with a more resilient trajectory in economic downturns.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 7h

I hope Marco Rubio sincerely believes in God.

I hope he wakes up screaming every night in fear of hell.

Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 7h

The patty usually means before it is cooked. Do you eat your burgers raw?

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 7h

It's really simple.

We need to wean ourselves off meat and dairy for the climate's sake.

If we can replace them with sustainable convincing alternatives, that means we don't have to radically alter food culture.

Path of least resistance is best. You fucking idiots.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 7h

Conservative politicians fucking things up again

Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 8h

WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane!
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...

European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union

Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...

www.euroveg.eu

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 7h

More and more people are worried about the AI bubble. If when it bursts, it's going to hurt everyone who invested and those who rely on them in a domino effect.

If the impacts on education are negative as some suggest, there's also going to be a hell of an externality to all this as well.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 7h

It's kind of shocking how much people have tolerated coal plants existing. They clearly kill people when functioning as expected, whereas with nuclear, there's a whole cottage industry of fringe figures torturing population data to find *something*.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 7h

Technically, I think one person qualified for compensation due to developing leukaemia, and that gets cited, but that was an automatic qualification regardless of whether it had been caused by exposure. The number of people who worked on clearup meant the odds were *someone* would have leukaemia.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely. Reap the benefit of cheap wind and solar as far as that cheapness can be sustained, and fill out the rest of what's needed with stuff that's on all the time.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 7h

I had a right old shock during the Fukushima crisis. We had the scientists who had worked on Chernobyl trying to keep everyone calm, saying the risks were actually surprisingly minimal, while some leading environmental organisations were trying very hard to scare the shit out of everyone.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 7h

But we don't know that, not for a system based *entirely* on low-carbon renewables that doesn't also feature a lot of hydro.

This is because the marginal cost of adding wind and solar shoots up at high penetration levels.

We need to think of the whole system, not just the next bit of change.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 8h

Absolutely - among anti-nuclear greens. That doesn't stop it being a bollocks argument though. It would only make sense as an argument if the thorough decarbonisation of electricity was going to happen sooner than that, and it patently wasn't, not least because fully solving intermittency is tough.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 8h

I mean, I was actually going to say there was actually one thing she cares for *more* than hating trans people, and that was Kemi Badenoch.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 8h

He's done just so much good for the world. Babysat austerity, undermined climate policy, then went to work for Facebook.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 8h

So, the Board of Deputies of British Jews (correctly) protested the invite to Israel for far-right fraudster Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who'd been cosplaying as an opponent of antisemitism.

SYL's response? The mask falls off: He cites the Great Replacement conspiracy theory blaming Jews for immigration

Image is a photo of Stephen Yaxley Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson).

Underneath the photo is a statement released and then deleted by Yaxley-Lennon.

"Let me explain to you what's going on here. The elitist Jews, the ones who are not representative of the entire community. The woke, liberal, elitist Jews. The ones like the Board of Deputies who are pro open borders. They don't represent all Jews. Netanyahu and his government are conservative. They're not woke, they're not liberal, they're not open borders, they're conservatives. I've been invited by the conservative government so of course you're gonna see the woke liberal Jews getting upset. The ones who want mass open borders immigration, the ones who've created the hostile environment for most ordinary Jews. The ones that don't represent most ordinary Jews. There's a big divide. You've seen it happening in America with the ADL. There's a big divide where these so-called voices of the Jewish community which are betraying the Jewish community with their hugging up and cosying up to Islam with their open borders mass immigration. They're the reason all these problems are happening, many of them. And they're upset because the real Zionist Jews who are strong, conservatives not weak, pathetic liberals are the ones who have invited me and they're upset about it."

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 9h

omg is that SYL's defence of his invite??

That is grimly hilarious.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11h

Heseltine was the first Tory MP to publicly criticise Enoch Powell after Rivers of Blood in 1968. Let him cook

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“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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