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🏳️‍🌈 Vicky J 🇺🇦
@victorious56.bsky.social
I'm Vick • she/her
Aged leftist British vegetarian, who just wishes people would be kinder to the planet and each other.
Interests:
writing #fanfiction
doing #jigsaws
#trees
#birds
#cats
#guineapigs
#hares
#capybaras
#BrokebackMountain 🤠❤️🤠
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This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING

wat

CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
January 18, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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I'm honestly less mad at the President, who is clearly not well, that I am at his outriders and enablers.

They see messages like this and then, with straight faces, go on television or write op-eds retroactively constructing grand strategy justifications.

Pathetic.
January 19, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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#SomethingBeautiful The first time I saw an orange tree with oranges growing on it I said "Just as if they were real!"
January 18, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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Major charities including the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) have stopped posting on social media platform X due to controversy surrounding its artificial intelligence tool’s image-creating function

www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/major-c...
Major charities leave X after AI images controversy
www.civilsociety.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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From "Frieren" Season 2 ending, animated with colored pencils by Mimei Aoume (she had already worked on Season 1 ending).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY4B...
www.instagram.com/mimei_a
January 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Kids loved playing with toys in #Roman times too!

Some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta horse with a rider on for wheels. It was definitely a beloved toy that the kid was also meant to play with in the afterlife.

📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln

🏺 #archaeology
January 18, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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"Under the weather" is a funny way to spell "chicken"
Farage is apparently 'under the weather' today and unable to talk about the US threats to the UK and Europe over Greenland.

Which is unfortunate.
January 18, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...
Progressive Caucus Backs Bill To Redirect ICE Money To Affordable Housing
www.huffpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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109 years ago, on the 17th of January 1917, the United States bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark for 25 million dollars (614 million in 2024) in the Treaty of the Danish West Indies, in which the United States also recognized Denmark’s control over Greenland. #otd #history 🗃️
January 17, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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No surprise to learn X is still permitting users to post these images generated by Grok despite claiming it had taken action. Enough is enough. @ofcom.bsky.social MUST use its powers to shut this down www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool
Despite restrictions announced this week, Guardian reporters find standalone app continues to allow posting of nonconsensual content
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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Yesterday's address by Minnesota Governor Walz is worth watching in full.

youtu.be/fGTsYXBWQgU?...
Governor Walz Addresses Ongoing Federal Presence in Minnesota
YouTube video by Office of the Governor of Minnesota
youtu.be
January 16, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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cowpybara
January 13, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
January 15, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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'Hare head Study' in bronze by Nichola Theakston, one of the UK's foremost contemporary sculptors working within the animal genre #womensart
January 15, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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A reminder that bringing shitty posts over from That Fascist Site to be performatively angry about them here is a choice you don't have to make! You can just leave them there! There is so much else to be legitimately angry about! You will not lack for content!
January 14, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.
January 15, 2026 at 6:44 AM
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A war cry buried for 2,000 years. Archaeologists have uncovered a terrifying Celtic battle instrument near Thetford – possibly linked to Queen Boudica herself. Read about it before tonight’s “Digging in Britain” ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @sarahjop.bsky.social
A historic find in Norfolk: the instruments of Iron Age war
A remarkable hoard in West Norfolk is exciting archaelogists and scholars who study the lives and battles of Boudica and her Norfolk Iceni
eastangliabylines.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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Barack Obama, November 2014

Feels like a different world.
January 14, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...
January 14, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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New YouGov poll finds a majority of Americans believe ICE agent Jonathan Ross should be charged for killing Renee Good.

Despite repeated lies from the Trump administration, Americans watched the videos and are demanding accountability.
January 13, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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Extremely good break down on how GenAi doesn’t learn, it copies.

Good reporting work done here

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
AI’s Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
www.theatlantic.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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KNIGHT - 2026

First Image of the year! had a lovely time getting into this once I managed to figure out the colours. will be adapting it into riso prints because I yearn to do some fairs.
January 11, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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After ten months of evidence, the House of Lords inquiry, here are all the – sometimes surprising – ways hybrid working benefits both employers and employees ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk
What do we really know about working from home?
Covid made working from home some of the time normal for many people. But does it work?
eastangliabylines.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 5:05 PM