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Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 3h

Both Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift are part of a small circle of musicians who have achieved billionaire status.

Selena Gomez shares a piece of business advice from Taylor Swift that helps her run her billion-dollar beauty brand

Both Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift are part of a small circle of musicians who have achieved billionaire status.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3h

Max, in all fairness, I didn’t write the BBC headline referring to this as “A Level Standard of English” and neither did I write the government’s own press release that describes it as such.

I am fully aware that it is a B2 Level - it’s the actual government that chose to frame it differently.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4h

the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate

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Dr Russell Glasson @russellglasson.com · 3h

New tech should be financing the #ui for those it displaces. The removal of any opportunity to create an income will create the type of #techdystopia where no one will be immune.

Dr Russell Glasson @russellglasson.com · 3h

The USA has a long tradition of ignoring copyright and providence for economic purposes. I realise this is a kettle-colour situation but if we are modelling the future of ‘us’, surely ethics should come into play.

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Dr Russell Glasson @russellglasson.com · 3h

Not paying for a product you exploit to sell your product is theft; not paying for labour you employ is slavery. If your business model is theft and slavery, you’re not an industry. You’re a pirate. Perhaps this is techno-cynicism.
No, this is basic economics.

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AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham

Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push back

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'The British Library...has taken years to recover from a major cyberattack that disrupted its services and restricted access to its collections. The walkout is set to take from 27 October to 9 November, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the cyberattack.'

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 1d

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay.

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‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay - Research Professional News

Two-week walkout planned on second anniversary of major cyberattack

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Dr Russell Glasson @russellglasson.com · 1d

I hear this fear from students every week.
Reducing 'us' to a herd will cause endless conflict as we scramble for the control of limited resources.
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Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds

One in four students say AI ‘makes it too easy’ for them to find answers

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The Mirror @mirror.co.uk · 1d

Brits have been urged to take extra care as the Stratus Covid variant becomes the most common strain

NHS issues 5-day Covid warning as 2 variants dominant in UK

www.mirror.co.uk

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 1d

Happy E. E. Cummings's birthday!

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

The guy who threatened Nigel Farage has been sent to jail for 5 years for a Social Media post.

There will of course be dead silence, or cheers about this from the 'Free Speech' brigade.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Join us in being cheerful!

Let's make hope normal again!

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 1d

"You need to be unapologetic, someone who gets the modern media environment and social media, and is a competent speaker - all of which Polanski is."

Why Zack Polanski is one of the only UK politicians with a reason to be cheerful right now

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...

Zack Polanski: Can the Green Party leader ‘rebalance the scales’ of UK politics? | The News Agents

In little more than a month of leadership, Zack Polanski has grown the party’s membership and become a powerful figure on the left-wing of UK politics. Can he, and the Green Party, take this further…

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The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 2d

African Parks made bad use of investments, making local residents poorer and failing to protect wildlife, claims Chad’s environment ministry

Prince Harry’s African charity has ‘whiff of neocolonialism’

African Parks made bad use of investments, making local residents poorer and failing to protect wildlife, claims Chad’s environment ministry

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

Carolin Lucas, "The level of disgust and distrust in the population is like nothing I've ever seen before"

"It's really dangerous and scary"

"It's so important there is a voice out there offering hope and solutions and isn't afraid to say what it thinks"

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 2d

Sunak saddled us with 25 year contracts with Freeports that's why Labour says we can't join the single market. And my local MP confirmed it. We have been really stitched up. UK Freeports are incompatible with EU ones because companies pay no tax on customs and excise.

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Charlotte / Charly @charlyf81.bsky.social · 2d

Never vote Tores Party Ukip or reform #RejoinTheEU 🇪🇺

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Dr Russell Glasson @russellglasson.com · 2d

if only we could collectively agree as an ethical point that no-one comes out of war looking good, ban the notion of victory, life would be far better.
how small we are.

Dr Russell Glasson @russellglasson.com · 2d

#Oh, not very exciting then. All as predicted.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 2d

You can read more on ADF and how the backlash against abortion rights globally is funded by US and others in my (sadly far too) prescient book!

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 3d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Dr Russell Glasson @russellglasson.com · 2d

hold on, there's a queue here...

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Dr Russell Glasson @russellglasson.com · 2d

entitled pond scum -
where has the utopian promise of social media gone?

Dr Russell Glasson @russellglasson.com · 2d

Did Liz Kendall make a statement in the house today?

What's on in the House of Commons on Monday 13 October 2025

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