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Very tired Yorks/Strayan recluse living in South Devon. Pathological reader with enough books (I’m re-reading). Somewhat scattered in my interests with an overdeveloped sense of the ridiculous and an abiding interest in politics. She/her
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In January two gas powered power stations decided to charge you 100x the cost of producing electricity and made £10m in two days. The Energy Companies need to be nationalised like France have done with EDF.

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All around the world Electricity prices are going down, but in the UK they are going up, and the Water bills too. We live on scam island.

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Depressing to see anyone still seeking Boris “The old concepts of fighting big tank battles on European landmass are over” Johnson’s views on Ukraine…

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Sorry to ask again but politely can someone make anything make sense

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"Here is Europe. We have happily paid three times as much to Ukraine as the USA. We are not asking for anything in return and we are not extorting the Ukrainians while they are fighting for their lives. Because we are not assholes." - Rasmus Jarlov, Chairman of Denmark's Defence Committee.

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Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.

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🔴‘Keir Starmer Must Embrace Proportional Representation and End the Coercive Duopoly Throttling Our Democracy’ Britain will never truly change for the better as long as Britain’s deeply unfair voting system remains in place, argues Neal Lawson bylinetimes.com/2025/02/25/k...

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Morning Bluesky. More than a thousand artists - including Kate Bush, Radiohead, Bastille and others - today release a silent album in protest at UK government proposals which will make it easy for AI companies to ignore copyright when it comes to data mining.

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For those saying 'let's allow software companies to steal copyright work for LLMs because AI can improve cancer detection'. This expert system was developed by applying machine learning to a specialist, selected dataset. Not by wholesale theft of intellectual property. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Do they think we have all drunk some sort of "forget everything since 2010" elixir? It is so blatant. ~AA

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Your reminder that software developers are selling generative AI on the economic model of a primary school cake sale. Other people provide the essential ingredients at their own expense, and do the crucial work unpaid, while the sellers of the end product keep all the income.

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Nailed it...

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NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...

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i have to congratulate his Estate for one of the single most useful FAQs i've ever seen

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Wow. I did not know this was happening. If I was in government, this would absolutely give me pause.

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22,000-year-old tracks are earliest evidence of transport vehicles. Tracks and footprints found in New Mexico are by far the earliest evidence of people using primitive vehicles to transport things www.newscientist.com/article/2469...

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Stolen?!? zOMG, who were the last ones in the vault?

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Just seen Farage and Truss (grifting over in the US) described as "the Slug and Lettuce".

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Feed cleanser.

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FINALLY! I always knew Kennedy was behind the high cost of eggs. These Republicans are really getting things done.

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Oh shit Roberta Flack has died.

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Darren Grimes was born in 1993

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Homes with solar starting to eat into the energy buisness profit pie.

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This is the oath civil servants take. It is made to the American people and to the Constitution. Unless you think Trump is God, Trump's name does not appear in the oath, nor does the office of the presidency.

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This is informative. Thanks

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Looks like not a single one of Reform UK's five MPs made it into the Commons for David Lammy's update on a momentous week for Ukraine. (Two of them were present for the UQ on electric cars minutes before, but then left the chamber).

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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

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Human exposure to antibiotics in the food chain is VERY dangerous. I recently nearly died because I was allergic to an antibiotic used solely as a preventative under anaesthetics for humans but is used FREQuENTLY in intensive agriculture. @docsenvaus.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social #auspol

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i've just remembered that capybara were declared fish by the Pope

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You boy! What fresh hell is this?

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UK stock market is a destructive cash extraction machine. In 2024, listed-companies paid £86.5bn in dividends. Top 100 alone paid another £56.9bn in share buybacks. In 2024, companies raised £3.4bn in new shares; £953.7m in 2023. UK ranked 28 out of 31 OECD countries for investment.

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[from] Things Come Apart: A Teardown Manual for Modern Living by Todd McLellan (2013)

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I’m not comfortable myself with a flattening tendency in settler colonial studies, but there is obvious utility in the description ‘settler colonialism’. To dismiss that description as merely a radical leftist project is to play the colonising apologists’ game. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

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this code works for 15 MORE HOURS GO GO GO

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Not sure my aging friends would be up for having their nuts crushed beneath the wheels of my BMX as the makeshift ramp I've built collapses at the crucial moment I attempt to leap over them. And the alternative - breakdancing down the local shops on my square of lino - would undoubtedly end me.

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Ethical consumer has a very good page about boycotting Amazon: www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethical-camp... Please share this with others so that we can all stop feeding the beast

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The US could shut off Starlink if the rare earth minerals deal is not reached. This is equivalent to a policeman telling a woman fighting off a serial killer that he won’t help her unless she signs half of her life savings over to him. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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