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Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michal Rosen and other creatives urge government

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If only UK courts would hold the law to the same regard.

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When I was born dad didn't have his own camera, so borrowed one to take pictures of his first born. Paper and developer being expensive, he only printed out the successes, so I didn't see this rejected one until I was sorting through his negatives after he died. #SundayPixBadPhotos

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I’d remind you here that the lunatic beliefs of the left are “we should fund services”, “everyone deserves to be treated with respect” and “war is bad for children and animals”, while the beliefs of the right are “LOL burn it all down” and “you’re getting sent to the camps”.

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The wealth of the super rich is exploding

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Isn't it time we just stated the obvious? The right is racist, and these statements shouldn't surprise us, from them. When pressed, they still cavil at embracing the R-word, but enthusiastically exhibit every described behaviour that defines it. (A lot of the left is racist, too.)

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“Experts say current US outbreak is unlikely to end without intervention with further mutation of virus likely” What chance of effective intervention under this new anti-science regime? www.theguardian.com/...

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The political class and press loves to wheel out the cardboard cut out of the "working class voter" to justify its own anti-migrant urge. How about making public services work well in poorer areas? Good jobs? Why are we not worried about "looking down on" people's concerns about these things?

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Are you struggling with poverty, low wages, insecure job? Neoliberals have an answer. They want govt to encourage you to speculate on the stock market, buy/sell shares with illusion of riches. Part of the right wing coup to distract people from reality, produce corporate foot-soldiers.

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Kathleen Stock doesn't half talk some shite [Sunday Times]

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"Trump doesn’t merely oppose trans rights — he has declared that our existence, and any acknowledgement of this fact, to be one with which he and the entire federal machine is now at war. " jessk.org/blog/censo... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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So they haven't "banned the word man" at all then. It isn't even like this is new. It's been fairly standard for years to say things like "tradesperson". Gender neutral language isn't just perfectly normal already, it makes more sense for most things. The outrage machine is reaching at this point.

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Political 'pragmatism' is when a 'focus-group' uses a polling company to decide their principles.

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“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

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If a man likes cats, one or two is enough. If he has fifty and wants thousands more social services will become involved. Replace cats with money and you get the deeply damaged Elon Musk.

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He nails it.

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There is an obvious plan to beat reform, but Labour have been paid not to do it. 👉 Tax the wealthy 👉 Invest in public infrastructure 👉 Stop demonising migrants 👉 Renationalise utilities, travel and health 👉 Media reform 👉 Lobbying reform 👉 Voting system reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The same thing has been well under way here in the UK since before 2016, though. Media & institutions captured. Fascist messages pushed. Votes & the resulting actions, questionable. This feller's warning is a decade late.

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Never trust a dictator.

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It's beyond Obama. The bigger truth is about Black progress in America in the 20th/ 21st century-- Black advancement helps open the doors for so many other marginalized groups to rise. They want to kill the path of govt/educational/ career advancement for EVERYONE not white, straight, and male.

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(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

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School breakfast clubs in England ‘will be used to justify keeping the two-child benefits cap’

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"Amanda Jones, a librarian in Louisiana, has received death threats since speaking out against book bans. She was labelled a paedophile and filmed by strangers in public. She fears going out alone. “I can name a librarian in every state this has happened to — and I fear it’s only going to get worse”

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Speaking at #ScotLab25 today, our National Official @mikecorbett1.bsky.social made a number of clear asks to Labour. NASUWT stands in support and solidarity with Scotland's trans community.

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"America’s growing darkness: a timely warning to the UK Living amidst chaos in the US, I fear a creeping regime reminiscent of 1930s Germany. Project 2025 echoes a history threatening democracy"

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Fantastic news. More countries should do the same.

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We can fund our defence and we don't need to screw ordinary people in order to do it - This is simply brilliant. Every progressive politician in the UK should watch this.

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Right. Transphobic asshats have got a petition to repeal the GRA to over 10,000 signatures. Fuck that. Let's get this one higher: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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We could make fun of this in so many ways, but telling people, "We are poor because transgender people are taking all the money," should be uncomfortably familiar to people familiar with 20th century history.

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JK Rowling naming an Italian

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Fifty years ago, the dystopic film that imagined suburban white men swapping their spouses for robot trad wives terrified viewers. Now, it watches like a GOP playbook. by @damemagazine.bsky.social

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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Just as govt websites are being pullled down: “A 2nd type of bird flu has been found in US dairy cows for the 1st time, the USDA announced. This version of bird flu, known as D1.1, has only ever previously been detected in wild birds and poultry, indicating that it has now spilled over into cows.”

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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

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How sad it is that enough people - including the previously liberal - fell for the fear-mongering against trans people and this wedge issue helped return Trump to power and now we see the terrible cost that must be paid by both the trans community and many others too

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Once, accident. Twice, coincidence. Third, enemy action. Fourth, Reich.

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Sometimes you sort of forget how bad it was growing up under Section 28 and then you're like...oh yeah, it was This, Everywhere

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We told you and told you and told you

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🚨 SCOOP: Labour MP Preet Kaur Gill accepted £10,000 from firm that has helped wealthy Russians obtain 'golden visas' since the war in Ukraine Calls for Labour to investigate donation to Business sec Johnathan Reynolds' PPS New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-mp-...

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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

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I spoke with some of Brianna's online friends after her murder and they were willing to go to prison to stand up for her and see that she got justice. They truly loved her. It feels like such a huge betrayal to see Esther now campaigning against the only friendships her daughter really knew.

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Thinking about that John Green video about the woman who got tuberculosis in her bones from raw milk

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Keir Starmer, Wes Streeting and NHS boss Amanda Pritchard all want more private sector involvement in our #NHS Let’s get out there and show them the public wants to keep our NHS public! #KeepOurNHSPublic #PatientsNotProfit

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So does the ‘correction of diversity issues’ mean sacking women and people of colour? God help you America. Trump fires top US general CQ Brown in shake-up at Pentagon www.bbc.com/news/article...

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1/12 🚨H5N1 Indoor Cats🚨 BREAKING: Two critical H5N1 developments: • Indoor cats may have caught bird flu from dairy workers • Ohio counties declare emergency as poultry outbreaks surge Major implications for public health, agriculture, and food supply. #H5N1 #PublicHealth #CDNhealth #ABhealth

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