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Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

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the idea that they didn't have all the material for this story like years ago is just not credible

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Scotland DIDN'T Vote for Brexit. Scotland got sucked into it, anyway. Scotland's Exports were affected. Who knew? Scotch Whisky is ALREADY 25% of ALL UK Food and Drink Exports. Scottish Independence please!

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This is what a Cold Air Front looks like from Space

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Seriously, WTF? This is a colossal scandal.

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Reform UK follow a Manifesto in 2025, that's eerily similar to the National Front of 1979? In the 1970s, I used to MARCH against these racist wankers. Are the people of Larkhall and Hamilton really this ill-educated?

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Left: Kwasi Kwarteng suggesting that doctors shouldn't be allowed to strike for asking for pay restoration to 2010 levels to make up for all of the years the Conservatives underpaid doctors Right: That time Kwasi Kwarteng who crashed the economy, wanted £8,000 to £10,000 as a day rate

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Amidst the driest Spring in 69 years, the National Drought Group says many water companies’ plan for drought is « simply praying for rain. » Selling off reservoirs, failing to invest, polluting our water – these acts undermine our national water security. It's time for public ownership.

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This ‘lovely family man’ came within metres of mowing down two of my children, so perhaps he isn’t.

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Look, what is the US tariff today is a good question. But not one I can answer. There's a reason why there are rules and laws, and sane countries don't allow a President to just do whatever he feels like whenever he feels like it.

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This has also struck me about Starship in particular. Granted, I'm absolutely not an engineer. But while few test runs is one thing, it kinda feels like, at some point, the overall Starship design may just have some…fundamental issues?

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Whatever else is true about it, before Starship I didn't feel the need to watch launches to know whether there was a chance that it would land on my head if a rocket exploded, which is a strike against SpaceX and their decision to launch from Texas.

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Moment SpaceX Starship spins out of control in test flight. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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Has the fucking thing gotten into orbit? No, it has not. They even REDESIGNED Starship, and remember the previous design never made it into orbit either. No matter how many metrics they try to apply, American taxpayers have spent at least $5 billion for a vehicle that still can't achieve orbit.

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Well-spotted. My own view: - Parliament is inflating sentences by setting longer maximum terms - CPS often over-charge when there is public disorder/disruption, instead of going with lesser offences - the pressure to plead guilty can be intense if there is a risk of losing discount

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Torching creatives in honour of an industry we previously all lived without. Genuinely, what is so important about it that this is deemed the acceptable cost?

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Going to keep saying it - the Farage effect is largely an illusion. Many, many more people loathe him than like him.

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2024/25 SCOTTISH CUP WINNERS 🏆

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🔴 ⚪️ 🔴 A sea of red & white.

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An important update to Pittodrie. Worth The W-Ei8ht.

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In Scotland it’s definitely grid holding things up (thank you Conservative governments from 2010-2024 for doing nothing to address this in a logical and timely manner) 🙈 Currently on wind farm sites actively under construction, developers are getting told the grid connection is another year away.

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NEW Explaining a 31-month sentence for a tweet How a mixture of court process, law and sentencing policy led to the lengthy imprisonment of Lucy Connolly By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/explaining... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/05/expl...

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Ultimately, this is just the standard tech bro lament: That their "vision" justifies the means. It's no different from Uber, AirBnB etc. saying regulations shouldn't apply to them. "Disruption" often just means avoiding the rules or exploiting unclosed loopholes that need to be closed.

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“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

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I’m sure you’ve all been bombarded with photos of the Aberdeen FC Scottish cup parade in Aberdeen today just home & getting round to having a look at some of the many shots I took today 🏆

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The perks of working in a high building on Broad Street 🔥🔴🔥🔴 More pics and video in our Aberdeen Scottish Cup winners parade live blog here: www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/foo...

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Quite the football day for the North East of Scotland. Kim Little: best Scottish footballer of the 21st Century

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I think that makes Graeme Shinnie the first player to win the Scottish Cup with two non-Old Firm clubs since Johnny McNaught (1892-1972), who won it with Falkirk in 1913 and Kilmarnock (1920)

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Aberdeen Scottish Cup Winners 🏆 👏 👌 🙌 😀

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A huge result for Aberdeen, who get their hands on the #ScottishCup for the first time in 35 years. Mitov’s performance during the shoot-out was as impressive as the penalties taken by his teammates. This is a reminder to those who belittle the SPFL as a “two-horse race.”

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This is absolutely key to the problem with AI-ubiquity, and needs saying, again and again. Bouncing around amongst other actual humans is really important for humans, and a world in which economic structures push us into AI channels to do everything will be a world which is bad for us as humans.

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This reminds me of my favourite Chatham House rule story 🧵 Way back in the pre-crash boom period, Gordon Brown as Chancellor hosted one of his big global investment conferences at the QEII in London. Muggins here, a junior Treasury official, had a cheap seat as one of the organisers…1/

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Breaking News: George Wendt, a six-time Emmy nominee for his role as the beer-chugging everyman Norm Peterson on “Cheers,” is dead at 76. nyti.ms/3ZuGwrN

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Farage never bothered to turn up when UK fishing rights were being discussed. He never turned up in the EU parliament - yet he did vote against an EU clamp down on Russian propaganda. Working against the interests of our nation.

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