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How to change public policy!

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It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

submitted 12 hours ago • 372 comments

Perfect!

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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

If you haven’t heard of Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove… you have now. When she stepped out from the back without missing a beat, I knew it was on🔥 @kamlager-dove.house.gov

submitted 23 hours ago • 786 comments

Earlier this year, we reported on chemical industry lobbying to prevent regulation of PFAS forever chemicals on a scale "far bigger than anything the tobacco industry have been able to pull together." Today, we report on the latest tactic in this deadly strategy: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The 1% really don't want to start paying tax, do they? This looks like the work of an orchestrated campaign or perhaps a lobby group.

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The ‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent" bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

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🏛️ All members of the United Nations have agreed to pursue the 17 Global Goals for #SustainableDevelopment (#SDGs). However, rising inequalities and #ClimateChange are threatening progress — contact your elected representative and remind them of their commitments. #Sustainability #GreenSky #EduSky

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The sea is being emptied of fish, also wiping out most other wildlife in the process, to feed us. The land is being emptied of ecosystems, and the wildlife they contain, for livestock to feed us. We have ways of feeding ourselves that DON'T require emptying the planet of wildlife. Let's do it.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

submitted 3 days ago • 286 comments

Still waiting for the article that’s like “these right wing militia members are in a bubble and it would be healthier if they exposed themselves to left wing ideas”

submitted 3 days ago • 164 comments

AIs don't "hallucinate" because they are not conscious. They make errors. If your laptop stops working properly, you wouldn't say it was hallucinating. Language matters. They want us to see AIs as conscious, thinking, and therefore independent, to deflect attention from those programming them.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Really? Because we neutralized the ICE tip line using Bluesky. We also flooded the “gender identity” snitch email with over 54,000 useless submissions. But go on…

submitted 3 days ago • 577 comments

Notable clip today👇 in light of the news that the Trump administration successfully pressured ABC into suspending Moran

submitted 3 days ago • 425 comments

I remain convinced that the real reason every single spellchecker became dogshit at the same time is simple: model collapse from the companies training on raw typo-filled user input harvested without consent. They're training on your typos while stealing everything you write.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Must read article if you want to know how stupid and dangerous @reformuk.bsky.social are.

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Important point… in case facts still matter…

submitted 3 days ago • 281 comments

Very informative thread ⬇️

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side effect of AI-in-higher-ed: having to spend my ONE WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE googling footnotes for articles that I can't believe I missed off my reading lists only to discover that they aren't, in fact, real articles

submitted 7 days ago • 33 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 47 days ago • 617 comments

A definition of White British which, aside from everything else, includes Gerry Adams but excludes King Charles.

submitted 8 days ago • 36 comments

“In every generation there is a benchmark by which the morality of our world, and those within it — from the nations of the world to their politicians, their business leaders, and even our closest friends — may be judged. Today, Gaza is that measure,” Josh Paul, DAWN Fellow.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Every speech Farage made in the European Parliament was boosted by Russian media. He was given his own show on Russia Today fgs. The fact that isn’t reported in the press every time the man gives an interview tells us everything about who controls UK media.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Ibuprofen can affect fish hatching, diclofenac impacts fish livers, flea treatments kill off the insects fish & birds eat - a cocktail of meds, pesticides, cleaning products, road runoff is poisoning our rivers - no wonder fish numbers are plummeting. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Statement on FB by Faversham Lib Dem councillor Anthony Hook on The outrageous behaviour of ReformUK councillors in Kent.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

This is terrifying.

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“Women are at risk of being dragged back to the dark ages by precisely the same technology that promises to catapult men into a shiny new future.”

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

This is very good, and yes — I'd like to hear this speech given in a number of parliaments. And spelt out slowly to Reform voters.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Reading yet another post asserting all you need is a human doing careful continuous supervision of the automation and it’s gonna be perfectly fine, as I grind my own teeth into dust while 40+ years of research and industry reports flash through my mind like war footage in a ptsd movie scene

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

The fact that they use the US term "DEI" rather than the UK term "EDI" is a pretty clear indication that they're taking their cues directly from Trump's racist, neo-fascist government.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

🧵 On 'Blue Labour' I was quite struck today reading in the Guardian that Blue Labour are asking Starmer to legislate (!) against DEI. Living outside the UK, I assumed they were a group within the Labour parliamentary party, a bit like the ERG within the Conservatives. But that isn't actually so:

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Google is now hallucinating summaries of conversations that haven’t even happened yet. My colleague Matthew just emailed me a budget to review. I haven’t even read it yet — let alone agreed!

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Great letter, well said.

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Let me be clearer. I was former head of UK Foreign Office humanitarian affairs, incl policy on war crimes, genocide. I helped craft policy for international criminal court. I’m in no doubt these are war crimes. Disproportionate, indiscriminate, collective punishment by an occupying power.

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

Seeing as everyone is writing Brexit anniversary pieces, I thought I'd give it a go. Brexit for 🇪🇺 didn't begin in. 2020 or even 2016. Brexit began during the financial crisis, with UK blackmail. A 🧵

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A reminder, in case you need one, that women are incredible athletes

submitted 11 days ago • 651 comments

They gave Elon a participation trophy for cutting pediatric cancer research and meals on wheels.

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

Yes.

submitted 11 days ago • 3537 comments

I think if you grabbed any famous thinker from centuries ago and showed them Wikipedia and told them it was free for anyone to access, they would say it is humanity's crowning achievement and would be indifferent to the moon landings, modern medicine, flight, or anything else you showed them

submitted 11 days ago • 119 comments

Earth will recover with or without us. How about we treat it right before the choice is made for us. @warandpeas.bsky.social cartoon.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments