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Mmm vad sugen jag blev på mat med krämig avokado av att googla recept på det

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is out today. bookshop.org/p/books/one-...

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“Friedrich Merz is a European. Somebody who believes in Germany being part of a Western alliance very strongly. So, when it comes to Germany's leading role in Europe, so neglected by Scholz, he is really good news - and Europe has been waiting for it, also.” @annettedittert.bsky.social

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Fantastic news. More countries should do the same.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

submitted 3 days ago • 145 comments

My impression of William Blake's 'Satan or Head of a Damned Soul'

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Just found another productivity method, looks like today’s a write-off

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Pres Trump: ‘I think Europe has given $100bn [to Ukraine] and we’ve given, let’s say, $300bn plus.’ The most reliable figures show the EU has given $138bn to Ukraine, while the US has given $114bn. In 2024 Europe and Canada provided nearly 60% of NATO’s security aid to Ukraine.

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

Narrowed yesterday’s alphaguess down to a word between exhaustive & exhort before admitting defeat (That range was down from the marginally wider “between exeunt & exigent”, I know, it was never going to be one of those either)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The reason why we need to spend more money on 'bombs and guns' is because Russia is trying to remake the borders of Europe by force and people who live in Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland and the Baltic states have as much right to live freely as you do.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

Assuming that – when it come to liability & insurance – this service is as hands-off (“not our problem”) as Uber, Air BnB et al… what could possibly go wrong 😐

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From Wendy Cope's book, Family Values. #poem #books #writing

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Dear #BookSky can you help us find our lost audience? We left 140,00 people behind on X and we want to reconnect!

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

As a reference, the $46B that Meta spent building this shit is about the same amount of money Spain used to built its WHOLE high speed rail network. All 2469 miles of it. Zuckerberg got that money selling shitty ads and destroying democracy, and gave the world this.

submitted 8 days ago • 89 comments

I'm proud to have just posted this great interview with George Saunders, by asst fiction editor Otis Fuqua. "Make beautiful art to the best of your ability and send it out into the world not entirely sure what it will or will not do, and hope for the best." www.epochliterary.com/blog/intervi...

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I'm yet to hear someone who is hyping the use of GenAI in public services (or anywhere else) that has a good answer to the "it makes shit up" problem

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

"Education is poison", as I believe Pol Pot once said.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

@upthepath.bsky.social Thanks mate! Honestly, before jumping in I thought “let it go”, these debates (using the term loosely there) are rarely worthwhile but 🤷🏻‍♂️

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

@copybot.bsky.social Välkommen till Stockholm! Is it a work trip?

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

A quick resistance task: Google Gulf of Mexico (on a Google search engine) Click on the three little dots to the right of “Gulf of America”. Select "Send Feedback" Click on "Gulf Of America" text. Select "Inaccurate content"> “Incorrect" and type "The name of this body of water is Gulf of Mexico”

submitted 13 days ago • 81 comments

Idea for an arthouse reimagining of the Fast and Furious franchise as Velocity and Ferocity.

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

Good Morning Blue Sky! I hope you’re all ok? Today I’m reading the short story anthology Of Shadows, Stars and Sabers edited by Jendia Gammon and Gareth L Powell. What are you reading at the moment?

submitted 9 days ago • 149 comments

Fountain Pen Emporia of Stockholm

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The most important thread you'll read today. In brief: Europe has the power to save Ukraine and slip into the leadership position America has vacated. It must grasp it. And Europeans must pressure their governments to do so.

submitted 11 days ago • 45 comments

🧩 Puzzle #570 🤔 8 guesses ⏱️ 34s 🔗 alphaguess.com

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“How on earth would he have the information about the net worths of government employees?” asked @normeisen.bsky.social, a top White House ethics lawyer under President Barack Obama. “Either he’s making it up … or he has gotten access to data that he has no business getting.”

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

More of this sort of objective reporting please, rather than the feeble “both sides” approach that actively favours bullshit artists

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Now @adamroberts.bsky.social is a very clever man and a great novelist. This post about time in various fictional forms - not only The Story of Your Life and Arrival, but also Harry Potter, Narnia and even a swerve into LotR is particularly perspicacious and worthy of your… time.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

A thing I have been saying for the past couple years is that AI is labor devaluation scheme. There are very few areas in which capitalists are so perturbed by costs as in labor. The goal is to reduce labor cost to nothing. There are only a few ways to achieve this. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

I’ve seen people saying this is stupid but, in the police’s defence, this would vastly increase the incidence of unauthorised tritone substitutions within a radius of up to 200m. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Can't believe it's 881 years since that slag Robert of Chester completed his translation from Arabic to Latin of the Liber de compositione alchemiae, marking the birth of Western alchemy. Still freaks my nut in to this day

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Okay now do 2FA and bank transaction security checks

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments