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If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.
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Bex @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 27 min
The AI writing and art stuff always makes me think of the Discworld Auditors breaking down famous works of art into their individual piles of pigment molecules to try and identify what makes them so moving.
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Ethan “Fink-Nottle” Kocak @blackmudpuppy.bsky.social · 2 days
This is a story for anyone who got left out in the cold by J.K. Rowling or any other creator or artist who turned out to be a terrible person.
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Hey folks. We are three days from launching The Unfamiliars. Please please please sign up here and share the link. I apologize in advance for being That Guy, but I’ve got…well, everything, riding on this one. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Get Ready for The Unfamiliarswww.backerkit.com From Ethan Kocak - Get Ready for The Unfamiliars
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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 3 days
Liberals did not kill Jo Cox. The atmosphere that led to her murder was not created by liberals, Remain supporters, or people caring for refugees. People on the far right would reply "the presence of refugees, EU membership is what caused others to react" as in it's the fault of liberals anyway.
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Adrian Randall @anidealhusbando.bsky.social · 3 days
from now until Election Day, we connect every story back to Project 2025 Eg: The FBI is currently investigating the Trump shooter. But did you know that Project 2025 will place the FBI under Trump’s direct control, so he can decide which acts of political violence get investigated, and which don’t?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4 days
Farage and Reform received 12% of TV and press coverage during the UK election, far more than the Lib Dems and Greens, according to a big study by Loughborough Uni’s Centre for Research in Communication and Culture.
Report 5: 30 May – 3 July 2024 | General Election 2024 | Loughborough Universitywww.lboro.ac.uk
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Craig Nimlet @craignimlet.bsky.social · 5 days
Explain why Charlotte Owen has been made a life peer in the House of Lords - Sign the Petition! chng.it/qrChfHXSDG via @UKChange
Sign the Petitionchng.it Charlotte Owen's career as a special advisor was 20 months long, although it may well have been shorter as she did not appear on the June 2021 report on Special Advisors. Despite this, she has been ma...
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Dan Wentzel @danwentzel.bsky.social · 5 days
This YouGov graphic is fascinating. It captures complex political dynamics of the vote share in a single image. #UKpolitics #ukpol
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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 8 days
Also: PLEASE SHARE. I have a very small network on this platform and I'd love these books to reach people I don't already know! Here are some reviews etc so you can get an idea of what Sticky is about a.co/d/02AsXSKq 🧪👩‍🔬🦎
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Iona WonderFox 🪄📦✨🎉 @ionawonderbox.bsky.social · 6 days
Sigh. The news yesterday made me think of this, which was bouncing around social media for a while:
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 8 days
This meme is relevant again.
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does anyone else feel goofy trying to recycle and conserve power after reading about how much energy AI consumes on a daily basis
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9 days
More than 400,000 people were denied a vote in the UK General Election because of the Tories’ voter suppression, mainly from ethnic minority groups. This needs to be tackled immediately.
Voter ID rule may have stopped 400,000 taking part in UK election, poll suggestswww.theguardian.com Exclusive: 3.2% of those surveyed say they were turned away at least once, with minority ethnic people worse affected
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UK News @uk-news.bsky.social · 11 days
Inside Keir Starmer's first meeting with Cabinet: New PM warns there's a 'huge amount of work to do' as he kicks off Labour era over coffee - axing Rwanda plan, talking Brexit with EU chief, and reopening junior doctors' 35% pay demands https://trib.al/rg7lIKF
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12 days
Gullis has lost in Stoke North and Clarke-Smith in Bassetlaw. Taking out the trash #UKGE2024
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12 days
Why you absolutely can’t consider Reform an extension of the Conservatives and just add the two voting totals together. New polling from MiC shows barely a third would ever vote Conservative. Why the Tories are crazy for chasing the Reform vote.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 12 days
My latest post on where we are with Covid in England (likely at, or just after, the peak but it's been a big wave). And a look ahead... open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Is the current Covid wave in England peaking?open.substack.com Yes - probably. Plus looking ahead to the future.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13 days
If a foreign state had done what the Tories have done to the UK, we would call it sabotage and treat it as a hostile act.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 13 days
A fake Instagram account in my name (with underscore) is messaging people who know me. Don’t know what the scam is, but please watch out… and if people on Insta could report it, I’d be really grateful.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 13 days
This kind of thing tends to happen when you have no regulation and oversight, and you let corporations do whatever they want to maximize profits.
Former Boeing inspector alleges ‘scrap’ parts ended up on assembly lines | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com A former Boeing quality-control manager alleges that for years workers at its 787 Dreamliner factory in Everett, Washington, routinely took parts that were deemed unsuitable to fly out of an internal ...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16 days
Must be nice to have choices
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Emily 404 Not Found @emilyatlast.bsky.social · 17 days
This is important. For example, you might think that the media fuss around not allowing trans women to be on a shared women’s hospital ward in the U.K. was based on evidence. But it isn’t. There haven’t been any complaints, let alone any problems. The “threat” is a phantasm.
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You can’t carve out exceptions to equality based on feelings, or hunches, or bad takes. Why? Because that way lies persecution of whichever minorities are currently deemed unpalatable. Transphobes’ mistrust of trans people is based on whipped up fear, not on any actual threat.
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 17 days
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@DrJoePajak @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 18 days
One party has failed Britain - and after 14 years, at the top of the public's list of grievances is the UK's crumbling National Health Service, and how it was desperately underfunded, and unprepared, before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.' Via @ABCaustralia www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...
Britain's beloved NHS was kneecapped by the Conservative Party. Then the COVID pandemic hitwww.abc.net.au The NHS was woefully unprepared when the pandemic arrived. Will this damn the Conservative Party when voters go to the polls in a few days?
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 17 days
Good morning - I hope you slept like a midge-stuffed dragonfly - I'm starting with ‘Hackpen White Horse’, Anna Dillon, oil on board, 2023. Available as a single card or as part of the Wessex Airscapes Collection (No. 2). www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/anna...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 18 days
“The justices accidentally, repeatedly referenced laughing gas in a disastrous ruling before declaring that judges know better than agency regulators” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Supreme Court Is a Joke. It’s Not Funnywww.rollingstone.com The justices accidentally, repeatedly referenced laughing gas in a disastrous ruling before declaring that judges know better than agency regulators.
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astrotomato @astrotomato.bsky.social · 18 days
Bloody hell, the only good thing that Sunak ever announced and he dropped it in the face of lobbying from the tobacco companies www.theguardian.com/business/art...
Revealed: how Sunak dropped smoking ban amid lobbying from tobacco firmswww.theguardian.com Investigation details industry campaign including legal threats and charm offensive aimed at Tory MPs
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Spicy Rick Havoc @rickhavoc.bsky.social · 18 days
Enjoy your day, heathens and heathenistas..✌️✌️☀️
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@DrJoePajak @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 18 days
Hey @UKHSA, the @US_FDA 'voted unanimously to continue recommending a COVID-19 vaccine for everyone 6 months and older - as they were concerned that the potentially confusing guidance about who should get vaccinated may lead to a lower immunization rate'! time.com/6993279/vacc...
The Vaccines You'll Need This Fall and Wintertime.com From COVID-19 to RSV, here's what to know about the vaccines the CDC recommends.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20 days
The Kremlin is now directly promoting Nigel Farage as he spouts Russian propaganda messages.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20 days
Great poster.
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barbisblue @barbisblue.bsky.social · 24 days