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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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hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice) ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...

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The fact that Jake Wood ever thought this would be an acceptable thing to be involved in says more than enough about his judgement. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Been baking

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EU officials accuse bloc of taking ‘little to no meaningful action’ on Gaza

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Humanitarian principles guide the delivery of the aid people need to the people who need it most, independent of political considerations. @savethechildren.org www.savethechildren.net/news/save-ch...

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Apologies to everyone who gets the ick from football fan groups posting text app screengrabs on social media, but following the events of today's game against @claptoncfc.co.uk, it felt important to say something #dhfc

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This is extremely significant. Former 🇮🇱 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (2006-9) wrote in a May 22 Haaretz op-ed that Israel is: 🔴 intentionally waging a war of annihilation 🔴 premeditatedly adopting a policy of starvation 🔴 massacring civilians 🔴 making declarations of genocide A thread:

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Israeli strikes over past 24 hours killed at least 38 people in Gaza, health officials say

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UN chief Antonio Guterres says Palestinians in Gaza are enduring “the cruelest phase” of Israel's war. He denounced Israel’s blockade, calling the 400 trucks cleared to enter Gaza so far “a teaspoon of aid” when “a flood of assistance is required.”

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if your grand approach to politics is bloodless poll-testing so that you're always aligned with wherever public opinion happens to be, you've already lost

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Outrage after an Israeli attack kills nine of a Gaza doctor’s children while she was at work, aged seven months to 12 years, with two still under the rubble aje.io/i7m1nb

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Picture this: a doctor kisses her husband & their ten children goodbye to go to work. She returns home to find that 9/10 children have been killed. Her husband & remaining child are injured & might die. This nightmare is Gaza’s reality. 16,000+ children have been killed there since Oct. 7, 2023.

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Tax wealth fairly or face democratic unravelling: "the UK economy has become a machine for the upward redistribution of wealth." A 2% wealth tax on assets £10m+ would raise £24bn a yr to begin repairing broken Britain. It's time to tackle inequality & cut poverty. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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@moderation.bsky.app @jay.bsky.team ->> The worse this gets, the more those of us who keep your website alive start reconsidering whether we're living in the right social media home. Allowing people suffering unimaginable harm the right to ask for help should be the BARE MINIMUM.

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This is what happens when you only view things through the lens of "political benefit" rather than actually improving people's lives. Scrapping the two child limit would lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty. That's the benefit!

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I can't even. How about removing the cap not because of how it plays politically but because it will bring tens of thousands of children out of poverty? Fucking hell. Winning power should be about helping people not running scared of losing power.

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New limited edition Clapton CFC trans solidarity goalkeeper shirt is available to pre-order now 🔥 All profits go to the Trans Legal Clinic ✊ The one-off window to buy closes on May 30 then they will be manufactured. www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/05/20/c...

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More of this please. Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”

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We're deeply saddened by the news of the killing of 2 staff members of CARE's partner organization in Gaza, Juzoor. Yahya Shihab and Ahmed Khilla were killed along with their families in airstrikes last week. We need a #CeasefireNOW. Read: www.care.org/media-and-pr...

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At least 16,500 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip in Israeli attacks since the start of the assault in October 2023, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, including 343 children who were born and died during the genocide. qudsnen.co/how-many-chi...

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🟢“What we’re witnessing in Gaza is genocide.” Slovenia's president becomes the first EU official to openly accuse Israel of genocide in the European Parliament.

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This is going to be an absolute car crash, the Supreme Court verdict looks more absurd by the day www.thetimes.com/article/86fb...

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I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.

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Ending the 2 child limit is the most cost effective way to get child poverty falling this parliament, and it’s also the right thing to do. As the government considers its approach to welfare, here’s what the latest research from @moreincommon_ shows: bsky.app/profile/kati...

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The Daily Mail complaining that immigrants have not the English too well. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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#Syria: those photos symbolize the gradual return of displaced people to their hometowns. This particular section of Atmeh camp was inhabited by people from Tremseh (NW. #Hama), who returned yesterday after being displaced for more than a decade.

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A reminder that Eurovision banned Russia while Israel continues to participate. Meanwhile the Israeli government has killed at least 140 ppl in 24h and has been openly starving Gaza for over two months. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Gaza's last hospital for 10,000 cancer patients shuts down due to repeated Israeli strikes www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Crystal Palace 🏆🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖

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Crystal Palace win first major trophy by beating Manchester City in FA Cup final at Wembley - follow reaction live

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I have been. I have lived on friends sofas and hid when landlords came to collect the rent. I've done without electricity and gas because I couldn't put money in the meter. As far as I can say, it didn't turn me into a hateful, bigoted, individual who has turned what they do into demonising others.

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Enough. We demand rapid, safe, and unimpeded access to starving civilians in Gaza. We have a plan. We have thousands of trucks of food at the border. Let us in. Let us work. bit.ly/3S7M0oo

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In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters. I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.

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The new London College of Fashion in Stratford, which we designed alongside Allies and Morrison, has won a RIBA London Award.

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The UK is so, so far from being a global charity. The UK has plundered the world to build its wealth. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the policies, this rhetoric is disgusting. Coming on top of Starmer's 'island of strangers', this really paints an ugly picture.

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Pressure grows on Fifa as reports warn of serious risk to workers amid Saudi World Cup building boom

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Pepe Mujica, the anarchist guerilla who became president of Uruguay, has passed on. He leaves behind as good a legacy as it's possible to leave. So it goes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Reminds me that Oswald Mosley was a Labour MP for a while. Just thought I'd mention it.

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From a country that colonized half the world and stripped it bare.

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I'd say quite a lot of people need to have a long hard look in the mirror and ask themselves if they would be defending Conservative or Reform politicians as much as they are Labour ones for using the language of the far right. Dog whistles are dog whistles no matter the party using them.

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The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening. That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk. Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

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Our response to this government white paper on immigration

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Black people don’t count as working class in the UK because, when they express concern for their health and safety due to racist policies, they are sneering and looking down on “the ordinary voter” - who is always white and simultaneously above them and beneath them in society.

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RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated. “Only very sick kids should die from measles.” No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die. Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!

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