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James Loxley @oldnorthroad.bsky.social · 2h

ChaturbateGPT

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 5h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Patrick Harvie MSP @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 5h

The whole point of human rights law is that the Government can be held to account when they breach people's rights.

If the Home Secretary doesn't like it, that's why she needs to hear it.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 7h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 3h

Photo of four ice thugs facing a madcit frog. Text: Win or lose, sink or swim One thing is certain, we'll never give in Side by side, hand in hand We all stand together. - The Frog Chorus

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James Loxley @oldnorthroad.bsky.social · 4h

Which ‘reality’ is it, Keith? The one in which you acknowledge that language status is a political matter, or the one in which you pretend it isn’t? Why does this even bother you at all?

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 20h

Concerned about what the peace means for Palestinians? Concerned whether there will be peace at all? Concerned about accountability for the Israeli genocide? Shabana Mahmood has this to say to you.

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phil spectre takes photographs @reobinwagon.bsky.social · 1d

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Bad Medical Takes @badmedicaltakes.bsky.social · 1d

Twitter user kikolara23: Do you intend to give your dog the new self-amplifying RNA rabies vaccine? 🤔

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny: "Our homeopathic vet... said the problem with it is all the side effects are exactly what you would see in a dog that has rabies."

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

what I'm saying is the headline seems to implicate

HE CAN'T POSSIBLY HUNGARIAN, HE'S A JEW!

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

I love that the Hungarian press is overly careful with describing one of the released hostages as "having a Hungarian citizenship"

as opposed to calling him or her "Hungarian" as you and I would

I would like to be described as "Andras who is having a Nectar Card"

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 1d

Meme:

OP: why do you need a specific word for being thrown out of a window

The burgomaster of Prague: i be in situations

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 1d

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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James Loxley @oldnorthroad.bsky.social · 1d

‘Dies’

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

In case people don't believe me

Palestinian girl, 12, 'dies' after suffering from malnutrition for months
Palestinian girl, 12, 'dies' after suffering

James Loxley @oldnorthroad.bsky.social · 1d

Honey, no.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 7d

Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.

Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show

Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.

www.ok.co.uk

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James Loxley @oldnorthroad.bsky.social · 2d

They have a very particular set of skills, skills they have acquired over a very long career in failing to deliver parcels on time.

a man is talking on a cell phone and the words what i do have are a very particular set of skills

ALT: a man is talking on a cell phone and the words what i do have are a very particular set of skills

media.tenor.com

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Dr. Uncle Feared 🦊 🌈 @unclebeard1978.bsky.social · 2d

Me on the apps

A yellow sticker saying TOO GOOD TO WASTE

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James Loxley @oldnorthroad.bsky.social · 2d

A green thought in a green shade

A photo of a window with distorted glass, framed in black; pressed against the glass are some dark green leaves on a branch. The whole is suffused with a gentle pale green light.

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 2d

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Anita Chaudhuri @anitachaudhuri.bsky.social · 2d

This madness must be stopped.

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ɢᴀᴠɪɴ @whosthatgav.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday night on BBC1. Probably. 📺

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.bsky.social · 2d

one thing i will never forget and forever be sickened by was that the leader of the SNP's, the First Minister's, in-laws were literally being bombed in an active genocide and the press and most of the political establishment just didn't care

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d

Husam Zomlot thanked the people of Scotland in a rousing speech to SNP conference

🗣️ 'The Palestinian people will never forget the support of the people of Scotland when we needed it most'

Husam Zomlot thanks people of Scotland in rousing speech to SNP conference

www.thenational.scot

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 2d

Analysis in @thetimes.com by @leaskyd.bsky.social & Anna Dowell of the sharp decline in British identity uncovered by the Scottish Social Attitudes survey.

With comment from Sir John Curtice on the polarising of Scottish politics and from myself on the decoupling of Scottish and British identities:

Why Scots are losing their British identity

With only a quarter of respondents to the Scottish Social Attitudes survey identifying with Britishness, Scotland faces a generational political split

www.thetimes.com

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 2d

You may call it ‘Chatfishing’, but I shall only refer to it as ‘Cyrano de Berger-App’
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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James Loxley @oldnorthroad.bsky.social · 2d

On his way to Munich, Chamberlain quoted Hotspur’s line from Henry IV, part 1: ‘Out
of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.’ youtu.be/OzPwL5GiXIM?...

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain leaves for Munich (1938)

YouTube video by British Pathé

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James Loxley @oldnorthroad.bsky.social · 2d

And Neville Chamberlain (ok, I know we don’t talk about him) was a huge fan of the eminent Shakespearean editor and critic John Dover Wilson, inviting him for dinner in Downing Street and maintaining a correspondence for years. jamesloxley.blog/2020/02/05/s...

Shakespeare as Currency

John Dover Wilson’s Correspondence John Dover Wilson was one of the best known, and most influential, Shakespearean scholars of the 20th century. His greatest achievement was the complete edi…

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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