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RobPatch @2patchitup.bsky.social · 14h

This is a wild thing to read.

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 15h

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 15h

It was only ridiculous articles in places like The Times that suggested they would.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 22h

Private school VAT raid ‘did not drive pupils to state sector’

Local councils reject claims by the Scottish Council of Independent Schools that Labour’s policy has added to burden on taxpayers

Private school VAT raid ‘did not drive pupils to state sector’

www.thetimes.com

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 15h

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

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RobPatch @2patchitup.bsky.social · 14h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSJd...
This cover of Weezer's Island in the sun.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15h

Prediction: Infantino is suddenly going to have a lot more to say about "football as a peacebuilding initiative in Gaza" than he had to say in the last two years. He must be absolutely salivating over the reconstruction plans.

Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 22h

Reports that FIFA President Gianni Infantino has arrived in Sharm el Sheikh for the Middle East peace summit. Unclear why he would be required or what his role is.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

One the one hand - thanks? On the other hand, seeing Brits do mental arithmetic on 'desirables vs undesirables' doesn't feel right. It seems like we're in the 'desirables' bucket simply because they think HKers are productive and not because they are actually deserving of some dignity as *people*

Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 1d

“If Britain has no space for a group like the Hongkongers, then our national panic over immigration will surely have gone too far. This country needs some immigration, and if it is not the productive & educated exiles from Hong Kong, to whom we also have a moral duty, then who will we let in?”

Hong Kong’s migrants are the ones we need

Tightening the rules makes life harder for 160,000 highly educated and employable refugees

www.thetimes.com

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RobPatch @2patchitup.bsky.social · 15h

I see he's still posting through it...

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 16h

If true, it's an open question which of them this reflects more badly upon.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 17h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16h

We should have ended it all when he started openly monetizing the presidency at his DC hotel & sending his kids to represent the 🇺🇸 government at official international events. But he is One Special Boy and we appear to no longer be a serious country interested in the rule of law or the Constitution.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 18h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17h

Wild how the Gen Z protests are international:

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Madagascar president flees after losing support of key army unit

Elite Capsat unit that played a major role in Andry Rajoelina’s rise to presidency joined gen Z protests against corruption

www.theguardian.com

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 18h

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says ICE and DHS are repeatedly lying about their arrests in Chicagoland:

"They lie every time it seems like, so we can't believe it when they say it. We have to do our own investigations. That's why it's so vital that people are pulling out their phones and filming."

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RobPatch @2patchitup.bsky.social · 17h

He's just going to post through it.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 19h

presented without comment

on.ft.com/3J1TRmz

Nigel Farage tells crypto conference ‘I am your champion’

[FREE TO READ] Reform UK leader touts plans to create a state-owned bitcoin reserve

on.ft.com

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Nancy The Catgirl 😺she/her)🇨🇦🏳‍⚧⚧ @anekonamednancy.bsky.social · 1d

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah, this is sadly very naive. They've already done it to trans rights (which let them undermine basic principles of bodily autonomy) and made strides on anti-abortion rights - their "free speech protesters" outside abortion clinics regularly get to launder their views via the TV and print media

Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 23h

Right-wingers who think tactics they've used to criminalize abortion in the US will have the same kind of traction in the UK fail to grasp that religious fundamentalism is widely viewed as nuts in the UK, & has been for many decades, if not centuries.

As much chance of abolishing UK gun controls.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

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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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 19h

Disinformation, far-right panic, headline errors: the New CBS

Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 19h

The typo is the embarrassing cherry on top of all this. It speaks to the lack of expertise and effort everyone is bringing to the table here. It's that much funnier since this is almost certainly a piece the new EIC was involved in and there's a typo in the headline.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22h

Opinion | It's time for corporate America to end DEI and choose its leaders on the basis of merit alone.

by Barron Trump

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RobPatch @2patchitup.bsky.social · 19h

The ultimate circle-jerk.
electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

electrek.co

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23h

From Robert Jenrick's video - in which he did not see a single other white face on a brief trip to Birmingham, despite his video showing that he did.

"He must have been walking around Handsworth with his eyes closed" writes Dan Cave

www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/a-notorious-...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

underrated part of this is that stoller very clearly has no idea what "the passive voice" is

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 1d

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 21h

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 23h

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 21h

Nicked driving a Bentley not registered to him, with fifteen grand in cash in the back...

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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 21h

It seems to have gone unnoticed outside the railway dork world but little Tommy, man of the people, spent the weekend with stockbroker Jeremy Hosking aboard his private luxury train.

Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 21h

Tommy Robinson? In court on serious criminal charges? Again? Surely not?

Tommy Robinson refused to give police phone Pin to protect 'journalistic material'

The far-right activist was charged under the Terrorism Act over an incident at the Channel Tunnel in July 2024.

www.bbc.co.uk

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