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Look not to be insensitive to people putting their freedom on the line, but if an action involves 4 people there is zero reason the cops should have known about it in advance. This keeps happening with Roger Hallam projects. Even if they weren't ops to begin with, they are now by function.

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Starmer Sausages.mp4

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america tanking its high tech industries and university sector, which is such an enormous source of soft power, is absolutely mad. but i guess neutering the academy is one of the core points of fascism's attempts to preserve itself

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Look, these are kids and while Harry Potter must be destroyed we shouldn't be mean to them. With that said, this photo does seem to be taken from the POV of a homeless person they're about to set on fire.

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Five more years of Boris Johnson and hard Brexit and it was just for this?? You fucking dickheads!

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Just so we're clear, the plan was: 1) Do more of George Osborne's policies, with slightly more investment but cracking down on actual incomes at the bottom end; 2) Throw the latest tech fad at it and hope it's another dot-com bubble. This was what you burned it all down for??

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The "art" of Led By Donkeys is distraction. The PPE scandal revealed a procurement system mired in corruption and a chumocracy at the heart of govt that sought to profit from public health. Instead we ended up focusing on Mone, in her bikini, on a yacht. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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not a single person in power has actually articulated in concrete terms how going all in on AI is going to fix the economy, and there are no extant examples of it doing so bsky.app/profile/poli...

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I see a lot of people assume that ML progress is effectively linear (or even exponential 😱) and it seems much more likely to me that it’s asymptotic The self-driving cars people already learned that getting 80% of the way there is not nearly enough, and we’re collectively forgetting this lesson

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It’s baffling why an open banking is not more popular in the UK. After all it offers users no discernible ease of use benefits and removes the protection against fraud offered by charge back.

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I think the fact that Lord Dog Shagger was a Labour MP for so long makes the case that the Labour Party one of the single most damaging forces in the UK

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If bluesky is dying it's bc there are a million accounts with 100k followers that all follow each other and post things like 'orange man tiny hands' back and forth all day and having that inside me would cause me a terminal illness too

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Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

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Read this and then ask why kneecap are up on a terrorist charge for waving a flag? This guy was caught with an actual load of guns in his car and got a slap on the wrist. In the same week the media were in hysteria over Kneecap. British ‘justice’ only ever applied to one side. #Kneecap #Speirgorm

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Yeah but here's the thing: no western "liberal/centrist/centre-left" party has such a thing as deeply held values any more. The capacity to have such a thing has been removed from them through long years of fetishizing compromise for its own sake.

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This looks very much like the European Commission trying to intimidate its staffers into silence about the EU's complicity with Israel's genocidal violence

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I wonder if we focussed less on politicians and more on labelling “civilian” CEOs, shareholders and top military personnel war criminals, what sorts of antagonism that would create - Starmer and Lammy are really just convenient fodder for the actual people who have vested interest in genocide

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Starmer's "High Quality Candidates" update:

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Whenever I lose a follower I look myself in the mirror, wipe away the single tear rolling down my face, and tell myself I’m one step further down the path towards degrowth communism

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6. Magic beans transform british agriculture

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Centrists and libs get uncomfortable on platforms where there are more leftists than nazis around because it takes away their assumed and unearned sense of comparative righteousness. This does not stop a lot of them from trying to punch left to get it back however.

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"I see children every day walking the streets trying to find food with empty bowls, trying to find water with their empty bottles... we have mothers telling us how they're trying to keep their children alive" Rachael Cummings from Save the Children

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Israel killed 25 mostly children & women as they slept. Set ablaze they were. We won’t hear their names or learn the ambitions they once held.

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The turning point that wasn't: the way the world talks about Israel's war has changed. Nothing else has | Nesrine Malik

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The Hallucination of Dorian grAI

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You have 42,000 followers there and 390 people voted in your poll, that should tell you everything you need to know here bud

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no pit stops in any Mario Kart game so jot that down for a start

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... according to the ukraine-run health ministry sorry, wrong region

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I don't know how to describe what is happening in Gaza now. The details are so great that they cannot be described. Displacement and bombing, in light of the complete lack of food, the crazy prices, and the exhausted person who has lost hope in talking about his suffering because there is no benefit

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Not the headline containing “The time has come” “execute” and “Elon Musk” that the world has been hoping for

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Antivaxx and libertarianism are the same--they can exist only when the majority of the population buys in to what it takes to live in a society, allowing the minority to think they are outsiders thriving on their own exceptionalism.

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Womp womp amp.scmp.com/economy/chin...

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On a remote, crescent-shaped island surrounded by crystal clear ocean live some of the most plastic-contaminated birds in the world. Scientists say the crisis is getting worse. cnn.it/4dxUEpZ

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Think back to October 2023 and you’ll see it wasn’t about manufacturing consent. The press immediately made it very, very clear that anyone notable who spoke out against the slaughter would get their head instantly kicked in by every media outlet in unison, by whatever means were necessary.

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@carlkinsella.bsky.social

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You can use a Gender Recognition Certificate to change the name and sex on your passport. The EHRC doesn't know what it's doing. It's just flailing.

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Yup. Literally why no one has seen me fundraise for @distributeaid.org's Gaza response since our last shipment of 2023 got in. The next one is ready to go but I'm not going to ask for funds until I know I can get it in.

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And will there be any mea culpas from all the New Statesman dickheads who sneered "why do you want rich people to get benefits they don't need?" now their golden boy has speedrun finding out this thing everyone else knew decades ago? Will there shit. We'll get exactly the same thing again.

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the best part (nihilistic) is that we've reached peak of exploiting attention mechanisms. years of sustained max distraction saturation is visibly frying ability to pay attention to literally anything and it's hitting everything at once. congrats. you've maxed out humanity's monetizable attention.

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Before Around the Horn, one of the long-running late afternoon shows on ESPN was an interview show called Up Close. It ran for like 20 years and if you're an oldhead you might remember one thing in particular from it, and that's that Lennox Lewis and Hasim Rahman once had a brawl on it in 2001.

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Congratulations @katiehonan.bsky.social on writing the best piece of predictive science fiction of all time

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Good morning from Belfast, Éire.

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twitter is down

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Haha get it up you, yanks.

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Every story that’s come out detailing United Healthcare’s business practices in the aftermath of the arrest has made it clear that it might be the most innovative mass murder for profit company ever. They were adding DNR to people’s profiles without their knowledge. Just the tip of the iceberg.

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BREAKING: At least five Palestinians have been killed and 50 wounded by an Israeli attack that targeted people gathering around a truck carrying flour in al-Mawasi, southern Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/q62k5i

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