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Louise Ankers

@louiseankers.bsky.social

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Mother, Wife, Product Manager (UK) Music, Reading, Running, Product, Chess She/her Banner : a digital cert of when I joined bluesky

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 2d

Just Walk Out meme - skeleton walking away

"Just walk out - you can leave!!!"

Work
Social thing
Movies
Home
Class
Dentist
Clothes shopping
Too fancy weed store

Cops if your quick
Friendships
If it sucks...hit da bricks
Real winners quit

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Just been discussing the voting age with the 7yo. He agrees with David Runciman.

Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six | David Runciman

The long read presents Reconstruction after Covid: The generational divide is deforming democracy. But there is a solution

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 23h

I choose to believe that this is a cover of the Minnie Ripperton classic, and that Ashcroft defies expectations by hitting the high F perfectly

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 1d

2k follower accounts saying "big" accounts did this or that, 300 likes for a very mundane post.

We're so back

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 1d

Glad I'm veggie

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sq🎃🎃ky from:me @skeet.best · 2d

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 3d

girl are you chatgpt because your KPIs are crazy

Mostafa • @mokatia
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Shared row data file with GPT5 to analyze, the result KPIs were crazy, so I naively asked, and innocently it responded.
ChatGPT 5 v
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Did you make up these numbers?
Good catch - I wasn't able to actually open and parse your CSV file yet,
12:50 AM • 16/09/2025 • 19K Views

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 2d

Yes!

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

Funny trend I’m seeing on this trip: US brands coded as conservative being sold as chic over here. A Cabela’s hunting shirt being hawked at a Porto streetware thrift stall. A Stetson outlet in Chiado, Lisbon. All sorts of Carhartt logos, again as a fashion statement. It’s fascinating!

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 2d

Chatting up girls using ChatGPT?

Yep, you're twelve.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone is twelve now

Everyone is 12 now
ICE agent point gun at unarmed protester

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 2d

Emotional investment is part of the deal. So is having the compassion to communicate if you’re not feeling it. If you can’t do these things, you don’t deserve the rewards. We’re losing our humanity out here.

Mizzy Blundell-Straw MP 🌹 @mizzyblundellstraw.bsky.social · 2d

The emotional labour of thinking

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NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 2d

Like so many, they could benefit from taking this admonishment to heart

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 2d

They are probably doing both

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2d

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 2d

I have been married for over a decade, but pretty sure this was tried on me by a flirting acquaintance a year or so ago.

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 2d

Legit the best book I've ever read on sensing a lot of these loops and avoiding them, which mostly come from deeply traumatised individuals is Games People Play, by Eric Berne

amzn.eu/d/iVC7FFf

Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships: Amazon.co.uk: Berne, Eric: 9780141040271: Books

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 2d

You can sense it after a while and after the first time. We have emotions for a reason and when you learn to listen to them, it helps protect you from stuff like this

(Hard sell, guilt trips from friends and family, certain forms of political persuasion, all the same thing)

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 2d

On the Dating with ChatGPT "Chat fishing" my take is many men & some women have done this for decades. it's The Game / Pick Up artists (PUA) and the stuff @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social writes about his book Lost Boys

It's relating by manipulation and it's not new, I suppose it's more efficient tho.

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 2d

Nick sounds like Nathan Barley

Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 2d

@jonnelledge.bsky.social I've been meaning to ask for ages - did YouGov commission that poll about "would you go to the moon?" off something you said ?

Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe they are performance art because surely this is a very Twitter like experience

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 2d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 2d

Same

Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 2d

Sarah has dodged a bullet

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