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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3h

A reminder that Ben Gvir was set to be sanctioned by the United States government in February 2024 but was personally taken off the list by President Biden.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

Itamar Ben Gvir is a real monster www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Gary Burton @theofficialgrb.bsky.social · 45m

Tesa make a tape specifically for curved contours. This unique tape is superb. The creped backing flexes & will give a defined curved paint edge.

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Teresa M @teresasm.bsky.social · 34m

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1h

Utterly heartbreaking.

How can we be so comfortably numb to the death of ancient, megadiverse ecosystems, full of life and colour?

Blue Planet Society @blueplanetsociety.bsky.social · 1d

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale.’

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 5h

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mamdani went on Fox News and did not take the bait as Martha MacCallum repeatedly tried to get him to opine on Israel-Palestine, October 7, Trump, and other non-NYC issues

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Ashley Hankinstein Illustration 🌙 @ashleydoesartstuff.com · 1h

UPDATE #2: There IS an option inside the app!!! It's just a little different.

Thanks to @bonestudent.ing and @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social for pointing this out!!!

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alana (witch mode) @bonestudent.ing · 1h

You can do this on the app! It's just under Home Feed Tuner. Select that and "GenAI Interests" is all the way on the right. I was able to disable everything.

A screenshot of the Your Account page in the Pinterest app, with "home feed tuner" highlighted

A screenshot of the "home feed tuner" page in the Pinterest app, with "GenAI Interests" highlighted

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Ashley Hankinstein Illustration 🌙 @ashleydoesartstuff.com · 2h

Art friends: Here's a tip for getting rid of *a lot* of the AI slop in your Pinterest feed.

⭐Go into your account settings.
⭐Click the "Refine your recommendations" tab.
⭐Click the GenAI Interests subtab.
⭐TURN OFF EVERYTHING.

So far, my feed is *significantly* cleaner.

Screenshot of the Pinterest settings menu. The option "Refine your recommendations" is circled.

Screengrab of the Refine Your Recommendations tab in Pinterest's settings. The subtab GenAI Interests is circled.
Below, all options have been turned off.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Teresa M @teresasm.bsky.social · 3h

Oh? Interested.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 3h

“You could avoid more than half of today’s energy inputs just by swapping inefficient combustion for efficient electric tech.” That’s what I told @Foresight_CE @SamJamesMorgan

Too few people know this and get tripped up by the “Primary Energy Fallacy”.

foresightmedia.com/story/sIGNpl...

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 5h

Tchaikovsky was able to quit his day job with the support of a wealthy patron.

Her only condition for her support was that they never meet in person.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 7h

And let’s not forget the enormous wages of the CEOs and business managers in the NHS, social care, and in England, Multi Academy Trusts (MATs). Why should such institutions even need business managers? 🤯

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 6h

The saucy juxtapositions

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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 6h

What taxes will they increase at the Budget next month?

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 6h

“What we’re seeing today in the U.S. is increasingly fascist. MAGA, I believe — and I study fascism, I don’t say this lightly — is a fascist movement.”

Anti-Fascism Scholar Flees U.S. Fearing for His Family’s Safety Amid Trump’s “Antifa” Fearmongering

We speak with Rutgers University professor Mark Bray, who fled from the U.S. to Spain with his family after receiving death threats over his scholarship. He is the author of the 2017 book Antifa: The ...

www.democracynow.org

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 6h

"Our polling shows a majority of voters - including Labour's own winning coalition - increasingly view Brexit as a failure for the country, and rightly expect ministers to urgently work with the EU to find a pragmatic way to fix the damage."

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13h

Name a protest movement, anywhere or at any time, that has achieved its goals without being annoying and obstructive.
People like this enjoy the freedoms our political ancestors gained for them, while attacking the means by which they were achieved.

Jack @jackdawg52.bsky.social · 19h

Nope, you make protest obstructive and annoying you lose the good will of the general population.
When they ring their local member to complain - they dont tell the local member to deal with the issues raised by the protesters, they tell them to deal with the protesters.

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Teresa M @teresasm.bsky.social · 8h

Also most of the time as I tey a d do that another more messed up idea will be transmitted or created alongside. It's important to keep having messed up ideas out there.

(Like that time I wanted to draw Barbie but and ended up drawing a badass Megatron in pink instead, as a kid.)

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John Edwards @euclidianboxes.bsky.social · 9h

"I don't hear her talking about women's rights, I just hear her talking about trans people." absolutely spot on about Rowling.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10h

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman"

Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥

"You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 9h

London is proud to host Japan's Grand Sumo Tournament this week - it's fantastic to see the the teams using our cycling infrastructure to get around.

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 9h

🚨 😾 VICTORIAN EMERGENCY CAT TRICYCLE 😾 🚨

Pop a card in the London post in 1896, & a chauffeur driven tricycle would collect your pet for care & cure, providing a smooth springed ride to the Hampstead infirmary

More Cycling World Illustrated gems digitised at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...

Part of a page from 'The Cycling World Illustrated', 26 August 1896. It includes photos of a tricycle for collecting cats (complete with uniformed driver) and the Cats' Infirmary, Hampstead (a pen of cats of varying sizes in someone's house, one of the cats is being cuddled by what appears to be the tricycle driver). The accompanying text reads: "A philanthropic lady in the North of London has established an infirmary for cats. On receipt of a postcard she will send for the ailing animal, the tricycle which collects them being provided with a box resting on springs to avoid all jarring and jolting. The cats are carefully tended at the infirmary, where their quarters and most comfortable, and when cured are returned to their owners, no charge being made."

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Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · 16h

Beyond Vienna. -- The "Wittgenstein-Path" in Trattenbach. He used to walk up here to lunch. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria #philosophy

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 19h

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 16h

This is how it’s done

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 2d

From war-ravaged Portland

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