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In Nazism this was called the Führerprinzip, which meant that everything Hitler wanted was legitimate and beyond the rule of law. Just saying..

submitted 10 days ago • 81 comments

Microsoft is going to price gouge you by adding their genAI to your subscription without your consent, and they are not transparent about how to avoid this bullshit. Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...

submitted 40 days ago • 304 comments

"A request made through ChatGPT, an AI-based virtual assistant, consumes 10 times the electricity of a Google Search" This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!! www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

submitted 61 days ago • 86 comments

I want to thank Elon Musk for attacking Wikipedia for being a part of the internet he can't currently control. It reminded me to donate to support Wikipedia, the best remaining thing about the internet. You can donate here: donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

submitted 62 days ago • 60 comments

I’m not often shocked any more but I was when I visited this “homeless” primary school in Cumbria. In the shadow of BAE Systems’ multi-billion-pound shipyard, Sacred Heart was evacuated urgently nearly two years ago due to its rotting floor. 1/5 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

submitted 61 days ago • 3 comments

If you're having a cosy festive night, and want to spread some love, consider helping this family just trying to get by in an incredibly hard situation ⬇️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-ev...

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why? If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)! elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

submitted 75 days ago • 17 comments

So, I see youth visas remain as controversial as ever. Worth asking, in an honest assessment of such visas, who benefits? Cui bono? A 🧵

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments

In July, I FOI'd the Home Office for the full breakdown of spending on the Rwanda scheme I was refused because the government planned to publish the data in future, and today is the day. These numbers are in millions www.gov.uk/government/p...

submitted 86 days ago • 118 comments

🚨URGENT - PLEASE SHARE Amilah is 9 & needs a stem cell transplant, but there are no matches worldwide. Her family are calling for as many people as possible aged 16-30 to sign up and become a potential donor. It’s simple to join the register using this link🙏 www.anthonynolan.org/help-save-a-...

submitted 91 days ago • 6 comments

@reecedinsdale.bsky.social Please will you repost for my precious 9 yr old Granddaughter Lilian who desperately needs a stem cell Donor to save her life .Pls register @anthonynolan.bsky.social she has a Rare DNA 💜

submitted 92 days ago • 9 comments

macdonnchada.substack.com/p/oscar-puen... I translated the reply of Minister @oscarpuente.bsky.social to a Vox deputy today. When I read it this morning the tears welled up in my eyes when I thought of my father-in-law's fate in Argentina

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

Viene fuerte la próxima temporada de los Bridgerton.

submitted 92 days ago • 7 comments

I made one of these for behaviour genetics back in the day.

submitted 101 days ago • 10 comments

Are we doing those old-school, meandering, ludicrous threads here? They were the best thing about ol’ Twitter. And, hoo boy, have I got one for you. Buckle up. We need to talk about Gromit. 🪡 🧵 🪡

submitted 102 days ago • 70 comments

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

submitted 104 days ago • 865 comments

My @bylinetimes.bsky.social long read on Trump's victory, how politics isn't about politics now, tech changing everything, & why the liberal left must engage with tech-driven alternative realities fuelled by gross inequality that put emotional instincts centre-stage. bylinetimes.com/2024/11/11/t...

submitted 107 days ago • 23 comments

cracks knuckles Who is ready for my FIRST serious Bluesky thread (can we call it Skeet shooting) on "Collapse" of Civilizations (the topic of my next book Humanity: A Survival Guide). It might be timely...

submitted 104 days ago • 71 comments

The EU will soon be recruiting translators working into English from 2 EU languages - the first permanent staff posts in a long while. Expected 3 December. Keep an eye here: eu-careers.europa.eu/en/job-oppor.... Also for translators into DK, EL, ES, FR, IT, MT & NL. EU nationality required.

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

Hello everyone. I am now on this platform for social media. Do please repost this message so that more people can find me!

submitted 106 days ago • 539 comments

Please if you are a Twitter connection and see this post, wave at me here as I’m struggling to find people who’ve told me on the hell site that they’ve also followed me here. I’m not being rude! I am winding down Twitter with a view to being free of it and deleting the app by the end of the year.

submitted 105 days ago • 1129 comments

OKAY by special request, here comes the encore performance of How Hans Christian Andersen Was a Bisexual Disaster.

submitted 106 days ago • 20 comments

Telling the full wild story of why Hans Christian Andersen wrote The Little Mermaid for a guy who kept desperately trying to ignore/rebuff his advances without making it weird and wrote about how HCA kept making it weird in his diary.

submitted 106 days ago • 3 comments

You want to know how important eels were in early medieval Britain. I hear you. Bede says they were very important. And grave goods from a 7th C. burial site in Cambridge include a copper bowl w/ the skeletal remains of three complete eels. Who says you can't take it with you? 🗃️🧪

submitted 106 days ago • 6 comments

Hello, I’m Matthew Zorich, I write fantasy books & hope to dip into other genres eventually. From time to time I write book reviews as well. I believe in supporting other creatives including authors, bloggers reviewers, artists, readers & dancers. ⚔️🛡️💙🧷

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

The last time we supported a war against the United States’ express wishes was in Yemen in the 1960s, I think.

submitted 107 days ago • 4 comments

I teach a class on data science here at Illinois and during the seminar I host a competition for the class called "The Hunt for the Worst Data Visualization." This was my most popular post on Xitter, so reproducing some of the best submissions from previous years here:

submitted 107 days ago • 67 comments

My friend @iandunt.bsky.social let me borrow his substack to write about the Trumpian Tariffs, their Brexit parallels, and what it all could mean for the UK and the world. Finally, a return on investment for my endless patience teaching him about comic books. iandunt.substack.com/p/guestpost-...

submitted 107 days ago • 21 comments

Can you help one of my PhD students, folks? ❓German immigrant living in the UK? ❓Or a descendant of a German immigrant in the UK? ❓Or have German friends in the UK? Please check out this survey on the experiences of Germans in the UK and participate / share: hass.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

submitted 107 days ago • 13 comments

honestly i'd really like to sell out my first printing of 11,600 copies not sure how viable that is! but! i do think religion (and the threat of christian nationalism) has been consistently downplayed by media assessments of this election -- both in the runup and after bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

submitted 108 days ago • 84 comments

IMHO as a corruption researcher, pundits seriously UNDERestimate crony capitalist Orbanseque turn in 🇺🇸 politics moving forward Similarly, pundits OVERestimate voter punishment of corruption Here’s why ⤵️ Based on 2017 research overview with @hectorsolaz.bsky.social: shorturl.at/HfNlU A 🧵 1/n

submitted 107 days ago • 16 comments

On the seventh anniversary of THIS image, here's a funny story about the elephants, Naomi Wolf and the absurdity of online nostalgia.

submitted 465 days ago • 21 comments

Johnny Somali, the nuisance streamer who travels the world committing the most culturally offensive felonies he can for views, is now in Korea. Mock-assaulting memorials to sex crime victims, Actual-harassing women, spraying rotten fish juice on subway strangers. And he is absolutely screwed. 🧵

submitted 109 days ago • 172 comments