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Apples n Spice

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · Mar 1

1/2 Been thinking a lot today about how creating, building, organising, healing and growing are higher power options and actions in times of unchecked destruction, negligence, cruelty and decay.

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 3h

It's almost as if fascists don't care who they hurt.

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 4h

Now, I may not be overpaid think tank talking head or a pollster with techbro friends who post Nazi memes in the group chat, but it appears to me that being openly and vocally supportive of trans rights is somehow part of a successful electoral strategy in a nation gripped by transphobic media.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4h

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www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Greens neck and neck with Labour, new poll shows

Voters are continuing to turn to both Reform UK and the Green Party amid growing discontent with Sir Keir Starmer’s government

www.independent.co.uk

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 4h

I can't seem to find the video of the Water Company CEO, Mark Thurston, being stopped and placed under citizen's arrest. It was on Novara media on another platform but not here.

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 6h

AI is genuinely and absolutely disgusting.
youtu.be/675d_6WGPbo?...

Tristan Harris – The Dangers of Unregulated AI on Humanity & the Workforce | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 8h

What? Roundtripping/securities fraud, passing the same 100 billion around with nVidia and the other AI companies and claiming they all made 100 billion revenue? Stock fluffing bubble.

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 15h

To be a part of and profit from anything of JKR's is to declare oneself a bigot anymore. No excuses.

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 19h

Interesting. I wonder. It's back now.

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 20h

Down Detector shows YouTube is having a spike in issues for video streaming. I keep getting an error message. downdetector.co.uk/status/youtu...

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 20h

I'm getting errors on every video as well. Is Youtube having issues?

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 1d

Good. Tax billionaires out of existence

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 1d

If I discover any of my colleagues are using ChatGPT to communicate with me I will simply stop trusting them to talk to me honestly

www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-is-c...

ChatGPT is coming to Slack. Here's how to use it.

Slack now offers ChatGPT from OpenAI, enabling users to summarize messages and files.

www.businessinsider.com

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 1d

No consent, no decency, no humanity, just slop. Who would want that trash? Stop shilling for something so deeply inappropriate, unethical and irresponsible.

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 1d

It really is shocking how callous it comes across. Not even an attempt at being sincere. That awful laugh and smug nonsense. "Oh were some people affected by something from the source of my paycheck? They didn't matter enough for me to notice, so sorry, haha"

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 1d

The rights and survival of any human being is not some menial difference of opinion. What the hell is wrong with her? She saw JKR's reputation and thought she'd have some of that filth that never washes off as well?

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 2d

No context needed questions. Is he dead yet? Are they in the Hague yet? Did it pop yet?

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 2d

2/2 ”...In 2024, around a half (51%) now take this view, the lowest level of support recorded since NatCen began tracking public opinion"

Image of quote from research: "National Centre for Social Research
Meanwhile, the proportion who say the monarchy is ‘not very important’ or ‘not at all important’ has risen from one in ten (10%) in 1983 to around three in ten (31%) in 2024. Support for outright abolition of the monarchy has also grown, from just 3% in 1983 to 15% in 2024."

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 2d

1/2 "Support for the monarchy at its lowest level since records began
When the question was first asked in 1983, over four in five (86%) people in Britain said it was ‘very important’ or ‘quite important’ to continue having a monarchy... natcen.ac.uk/news/public-...

Public support for the monarchy falls to historic low while calls for abolition start to rise | National Centre for Social Research

New findings from the British Social Attitudes survey show how the public’s views towards the monarchy have shifted over the past four decades.

natcen.ac.uk

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

🏮 He thinks the direction of travel in the UK will breach its human rights obligations in multiple respects - pushing trans people into an 'intermediate zone' and jeopardising their right to be treated with dignity and to be able to participate in all areas of everyday life...

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 2d

He's so going to have a heart episode soon.

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 2d

The recovery of salmon and the river ecosystem after the removal of the Klamath River dams is very inspiring. Scotland should be aiming to strengthen our natural precious salmonecosystems vs the downhill plummet we've seen due to the damage, greed and unaccountability of salmon farms.

Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 3d

lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

lostcoastoutpost.com

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 2d

I'll never take an artist, academic, writer, developer etc as a professional or seriously again if they use the thieving, lying plagiarism machine that is AI. It actively erases your skills of the profession, smooths your brain out, let alone the unethicality in the extreme of it.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 3d

This timeline is making me physically queasy on a daily basis. The incessant cruelty, sick billionaires, roundtripping bubble AI companies just committing global securities fraud con out in the open, humanity/nature being siphoned, stolen, punished and sold back as slop, enshittification rampant etc

Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 3d

That isn't even remotely believable of an excuse.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 3d

It should be obvious to everyone that if Bridget Phillipson wins the deputy leadership contest it will be used as a platform to double down on the anti-trans crusade being waged by the Labour Party, and she's hiding that because she knows it's unpopular with their shrinking membership

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 3d

Bridget Philipson is trying to get grab even more power, but her ‘gender critical’ transphobic supporters and the trans-hostile media are lobbying HARD to get anti-trans legislation in place ASAP, as they can’t bear to wait a moment longer to exclude trans people! 😖

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