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@jaffa.bsky.social
Mostly badger, occasionally mermaid. Terminally online.
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Like many artists, I am struggling with AI. My reaction to this has been to create an entirely human made product for other humans to make! You can buy a little paper house. It arrives in a bright envelope with a bit of art and silliness. More here: www.lucycorrina.co.uk/shopproducts...
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The full weight of the UK establishment - NHS, the Times, Baronesses of the House of Lords, all misrepresenting an actual full blown scandal of acute child harm. My research (with @sandraduffy.bsky.social) captures the real situation, centring patient voice journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.
BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY
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Sausagemeat is smarter than this motherfucker. The relentless idiocy of this regime is *exhausting*. It's unbearable.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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"Young mayor gets caught using police gym for pickup basketball" is the plot of a kids movie where the mayor is the hero
New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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When I say I love Cheesecake Factory, I mean this cat who was found malnourished and wandering through a Bay Area mall parking lot. Cheesecake Factory has since been rescued and nursed back to health. He's now healthy, vaxxed, & sweet, but still needs a loving home www.petfinder.com/cat/cheeseca...
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You might have thought that Modella Capital's asset-stripping, together with the UK's indulgent company law, was the story here. But no, this is simply an excuse for John's magazine nostalgia. Look and Learn never did a special issue on predatory capital. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Replying to @goodlawproject.org
It's much worse: the Oxon Universities' Reform Society oxunireform.com/index.html, which is avowedly white supremacist. Check out its Michaelmas term card github.com/OXUNIREFORM/.... "people of this nation set to be a minority..." "legal migration ... who should be deported?"
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Replying to @franzanth.bsky.social
I found another upload by the actual dev if you feel like raising this one's numbers instead
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My parents still have a comfy living room chair that's been there my whole life, so presumably predates the 80s. Their perfectly sensible attitude is, if it isn't broken why would we replace it? It is broken, mind
That's the bit everyone gets wrong. They try to look like the 80s/90s and they pick whatever was in fashion or what was on TV show sets at that time. Most people lag about a decade behind whatever the furniture and decor trends are because they only buy stuff when they need to replace them.
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Maybe this is reasonable. But you then forfeit any right to ever talk about "leadership".
'I will never move ahead of the British public when it comes to Brexit' Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he will not return the UK to EU freedom of movement rules without a referendum, after his call at the weekend for an “honest discussion” on the issue
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How to Install an App on Your Commodore 64. “Oh, don’t worry, you’ll just need to type in the code for that program. There’s an article explaining what MLX is, which you can read really quickly on page 93, and then you’ll find the code for it on page 94.” [anildash.com]
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Trans people are fighting to keep rights they had ten years ago—in 2016. It is not the same as fighting for rights in the first instance. So please I beg of you, knock it off with this “purity test” horseshit.
You know, the purity tests when trying to change society only make things worse. Im old enough to remember the fight for gay rights starting in the 80’s. We didnt change hearts and minds by demanding 100% adherence to everything. It came by increments. All you are doing is helping the magats.
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Add this to the long list of things that were always entirely possible but you were called a naive idiot for thinking they were possible because it was More Complicated Than That.
Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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As I've said before, it's only once I became a professor that I realized the entmoot, a meeting that goes on for three days and three nights, was a professor's joke about faculty meetings.
The Lord of the Rings is essentially a series of faculty meetings broken up by several long walks in the countryside.
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Roadside eyesight tests for drivers coming soon in Cheshire. Good initiative. macclesfield.nub.news/news/local-n...
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Replying to @explaintrade.com
Here's an idea for editors, let's do a little roleplay. Writer: "I have a contrarian take!" Editor: "Is it fucking stupid?" Writer: "Well yes, but it bucks the consensus. No one else is saying it." Editor: "Is that because the consensus is correct?" Writer: "... yes but... " <hang up>
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