slartybartfast6.bsky.social

slartybartfast6.bsky.social

@slartybartfast6.bsky.social

GenX, left of centre UK. Retweets are not necessarily an endorsement.

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10 years ago, after narrowly winning the referendum, Boris Johnson confessed, "We didn't have a plan for what to do next" "We didn't think it was our job to have a plan" 10 years later, Brexit continues to be a disaster

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What did @regimecpa.bsky.social know?

New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com

Some bosses say full-time, in-person work boosts productivity or collaboration. “Our new research reveals that the objection to any work from home is more likely to be driven by something else entirely: ego,” write Adam Grant, Marissa Shandell and Courtney Elliott.

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The theory that “electable” means “work to appease right-wing bigots under the assumption that majorities agree with them, at least partially, and they prioritize it when voting” has been tried. It has failed. Try something else.

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Starmer being able to lay out his own departure timetable (potentially over months!) is silly. You don't give a PM a farewell tour, you do the numbers over the weekend, roll him at 10am, and tell the voters he's gone to live on a nice farm in the country. You amateurs. You absolute toddlers.

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Ah so LLMs operate like senior male academics. Who could have envisioned that technology trained on existing texts could operate in a fundamentally conservative nature

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

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BREAKING: A former Israeli intel officer says Netanyahu is sitting on unseen Epstein files ready to kill a US-Iran peace deal. Ari Ben-Menashe warns that Mossad will unleash dirt on top US officials, including Trump… Blackmail 101. Netanyahu. Is. A. War. Criminal. 😎✨

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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz in a proud voice: “All the villages near the Lebanese border are being systematically destroyed.”

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NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

wired.comLeak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ SocietyMore than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.

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For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

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23rd June marks 10th anniversary of the EU referendum. You'd think that would be something for Farage, Reform and the big Brexit leaders to celebrate but....

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They removed CD/DVD drives from PCs. -Made physical media harder to buy and use. -Removed expandable storage from phones. -Pushed us into streaming subscriptions. -Made always-online normal. -Made unlimited internet necessary. -Slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.

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Netanyahu will break this peace between the USA and Iran within the next few days and nobody will blame Israel but act like Iran has done something wrong. Everyone knows this is going to happen.

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It's not lets cut welfare to billionaires or lets tax billionaires to fund 'Defence' which is money paid to billionaires. No it is lets cut Welfare, so it's money being moved from poor people to billionaires. I wonder exactly who, billionaires, came up with this plan?

Working hard or hardly working....

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social

When he was an MEP, Farage excused his absences on basis that it was an illegitimate government and that sovereignty should reside in Westminster. He's now an MP in Westminster And he's been absent for 77 Parliament votes in a row. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/whe...

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Farage plans to ditch workers’ rights, cut the NMW, scrap the Equality Act, legalise discrimination, take us out of the ECHR and have a deregulation bonanza to remove our protections and make it easier to exploit and endanger us… for profit. He couldn’t give a shit about working people.

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With Farage claiming his phone was 'hacked by Russian spies' I'm reminded of the time he thought he was the victim of an attempted assassination because one of the wheels on his car was a bit wobbly.

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Groundhog Day. How utterly depressing that these dismal people get to fail us all over again. Big hand to the media for their starring role in this hellcycle of corruption, dishonesty and betrayal.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social

Members of the last government, Nadine Dorries and Nadhim Zahawi, are going on telly to tell us how mainstream politics have failed. Expect former home secretary Suella Braverman to pop up at any moment to tell us how the immigration policy of the last government failed.

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A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

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Exactly

Matthias Eberl@eberlmat.bsky.social

Nigel Farage had one big mission in his political career: to drag the UK out of the EU. 10 years on since the referendum, why doesn't he celebrate all the amazing Brexit achievements and opportunities? Why does nobody ever ask him how exactly Brexit improved the daily life of people across the UK?

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Irony off the scale..

The London Economic@thelondoneconomic.bsky.social

- July 2016: Theresa May replaces David Cameron, no election called - July 2019: Boris Johnson replaces Theresa May, no election called - September 2022: Liz Truss replaces Boris Johnson, no election called - October 2022: Rishi Sunak replaces Liz Truss, no election called

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If you are voting in the United Kingdom today, do not vote for this charlatan who lies almost every time he opens his mouth Reform has a track record of dodgy Finance amongst its small band of vocal MP‘s

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Left: Keir Starmer, "Stopping antisemitism is not someone else's responsibility, it is all of ours" Right: Why hasn't Keir Starmer criticised the Times, Daily Mail, Telegraph, and Sun for their antisemitic cartoons of the Green Party's Zack Polanski?

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Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.