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Fascinating read

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Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now | Dale Vince

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Climate change makes dangerous 32°C days in England 100 times more likely. Scientists warn that extreme heat is an “overlooked threat” in UK, which impacts impacting human health, NHS and economy.

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"The vulnerable parcels of land include areas adjacent to Yosemite National Park, Mount Shasta, Big Sur and Lake Tahoe..." "The land sale proposal... detailed by Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah who chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee..." www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

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As a distraction from the Timeline of Doom, thread of wonderful Glasgow murals 🧵 Location and artist in alt text 1. Honey I Shrunk The Kids

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The former Ukrainian minister of foreign affairs Kuleba has written a policy brief for @ecfr.eu: “How to arm a pacifist: Lessons from Ukraine for the EU’s defence” ecfr.eu/publication/...

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Interesting story in the FT that 60% of the "tax gap" between what's owed and what's paid is now accounting for by small businesses. Assumption that taxes aren't paid by the rich + big business. But it's mostly the small ones.

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This. It started off with wanting bendy bananas and now they're calling for the deportation of all foreigners, FFS.

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call me crazy but I don't think we should.

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Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied

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one thing Americans might miss because of wankers like Goodhart is that the UK is an overwhelmingly white country as a whole. 83 percent of the population are white! 76 percent of that is 'white British' What sparks the panic is that London is highly multicultural and the pundits all live there.

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Feels like quite a few people have been waiting their whole lives for the moment when being openly racist in print is no longer career ending and are determined to make the most of it.

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When ICE agents look like this, it is ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE for state and local law enforcement to step in and demand they identify themselves and show judicial warrants before detaining anyone from an immigration court. Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this.

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I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

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As I literally just yesterday was saying to somebody, if their "AI" is so good and useful for literally, why do they have to keep tricking us into using it, shoving it without warning into all the tools we actually Want to use, or otherwise forcing it on us without our consent?

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"The writing is getting better. The ideas are getting worse." Terrific @brianklaas.bsky.social essay on the trouble with AI, student essays and the decline of critical thinking. open.substack.com/pub/briankla...

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Lesson here, kids 👇

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Overnight Israel killed 11 Palestinians while they were waiting for food. Yesterday Israel killed more than 70 Palestinians, again while they were waiting for help Whats the UK govt doing while Israel murders hungry people waiting for food? Its supporting them while they do it.

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Israeli forces kill 51 Palestinians waiting for flour at Gaza aid site, witnesses and rescuers say

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The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

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I've seen other women take cash out of their bras to pay for stuff. But they generally just tuck it under a strap. I planned ahead badly and put mine at the bottom of the left cup. Turns out that's hard to reach in when you're paying or a Solero.

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⛏️ Some VERY intriguing contexts beginning to emerge around The Structure and our early medieval processional roadway... Great work in the June 2025 season by the brilliant archaeologists from University of Glasgow Archaeology and our Govan Stones volunteers, all led by Prof. Steve Driscoll.

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Christ, that photo

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Meta's AI discover feed is (still!) leaking user conversations with its AI. With its scale/import in shaping people's perception of reality, it is hard to think of a worse actor in the AI space than Meta, or to imagine a more invasive, user-hostile product than this www.404media.co/meta-invents...

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Update of the latest Russian attack on Kyiv. - 15 dead, including one US citizen. - 139 wounded - Search and rescue operations are ongoing

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Almost all of the bugs and problems and breakage in the software you use is known to the engineers, we just aren't allowed to fix it. Gotta ship new features.

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At least 45 Palestinians killed in Gaza while waiting for food trucks, says health ministry

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“US intelligence assessments had reached a different conclusion—not only was Iran not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon, it was also up to three years away from being able to produce and deliver one…according to four people familiar with the assessment” www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/p...

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Please don’t look away, just please

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The Phillips TV Test Screen, and what each section means. Images from Wiki

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Driving this always gives me the fear. Not the rock crashing down from the cliff (aunt's school run...), it's the fear of reversing into the wall! #Scotland #IsleofMull #photography

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Great. I'm going to lose my job and now I can't even take a bath. The 21st century is the worst

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