Rowanne
@agirlintheshed.bsky.social
Alphabet soup masquerading as an adult
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I checked in on Afnan and she sent me this video from last night in her tent. If you can spare anything to help her find better shelter for Mofeed and Malak before winter really hits, please do tinyurl.com/HelpAfnan
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Hello friends! Barley is multiplying; 1000 barley seeds will sprout. Last year there were only 3. Please share and donate if you can.
chuffed.org/project/help...
chuffed.org/project/help...
November 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Hello friends! Barley is multiplying; 1000 barley seeds will sprout. Last year there were only 3. Please share and donate if you can.
chuffed.org/project/help...
chuffed.org/project/help...
I know we all want to kick Sanchez in the face but that doesn’t mean it’s a booking
November 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I know we all want to kick Sanchez in the face but that doesn’t mean it’s a booking
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peak Joao Pedro experience, free on goal and ends up passing it to the other team
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
peak Joao Pedro experience, free on goal and ends up passing it to the other team
Was actually on time today!
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Was actually on time today!
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I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
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there are two tragedies of the commons
the enclosure acts the upper classes imposed to steal them from us
and the victim blaming narrative that insists that that was actually the lesser evil because the masses were so incompetent and terrible
the enclosure acts the upper classes imposed to steal them from us
and the victim blaming narrative that insists that that was actually the lesser evil because the masses were so incompetent and terrible
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
there are two tragedies of the commons
the enclosure acts the upper classes imposed to steal them from us
and the victim blaming narrative that insists that that was actually the lesser evil because the masses were so incompetent and terrible
the enclosure acts the upper classes imposed to steal them from us
and the victim blaming narrative that insists that that was actually the lesser evil because the masses were so incompetent and terrible
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One reason I was skeptical of LLMs is that I've been scraping out a life as a writer for nearly 20 yrs.
Do you know how cheaply and quickly humans will produce words for you? Or how little you have to increase the compensation to get very high quality words indeed?
I do. ☠️
Do you know how cheaply and quickly humans will produce words for you? Or how little you have to increase the compensation to get very high quality words indeed?
I do. ☠️
“AI sceptics” who work on policy and education continue to overestimate the utility of LLMs—portraying it as a potential revolution even as they warn against overhype—simply because they can’t see that generating seemingly coherent text has very little economic value, all evidence to the contrary
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
One reason I was skeptical of LLMs is that I've been scraping out a life as a writer for nearly 20 yrs.
Do you know how cheaply and quickly humans will produce words for you? Or how little you have to increase the compensation to get very high quality words indeed?
I do. ☠️
Do you know how cheaply and quickly humans will produce words for you? Or how little you have to increase the compensation to get very high quality words indeed?
I do. ☠️
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(Neo)liberals genuinely believe that when they make the subjective compromise we all make on everything they are making the *objectively* correct one
Thus when you want something they don't you're being extraordinarily entitled. But if a party doesn't offer what they want it's "unserious" and "mad"
Thus when you want something they don't you're being extraordinarily entitled. But if a party doesn't offer what they want it's "unserious" and "mad"
There is an extraordinary sense of entitlement behind the belief that there ought to be political party that aligns 100% with your own opinions.
November 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
(Neo)liberals genuinely believe that when they make the subjective compromise we all make on everything they are making the *objectively* correct one
Thus when you want something they don't you're being extraordinarily entitled. But if a party doesn't offer what they want it's "unserious" and "mad"
Thus when you want something they don't you're being extraordinarily entitled. But if a party doesn't offer what they want it's "unserious" and "mad"
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Lmao 600 for a city of 8.48 million. Never forget there are more of them than there are of us. I mind shortly after Kenmure Street a similar raid was attempted in Edinburgh, shit was called off before I got my boots on
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Lmao 600 for a city of 8.48 million. Never forget there are more of them than there are of us. I mind shortly after Kenmure Street a similar raid was attempted in Edinburgh, shit was called off before I got my boots on
Now that she has been informed that it is a pie, as it says on the menu, this woman has changed her order to the salmon (with a whole bunch of modifications), which would be fine* if we hadn’t already done the ordering for next week based on the original preorder that we had!
*annoying, not fine
*annoying, not fine
Doesn’t help that it came hot on the heels of me having to reply to a customer explaining that the key word in Beef Steak Pie is not in fact Steak and that it would not be possible to cook the steak rare in a pie. That response had to go through committee.
November 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Now that she has been informed that it is a pie, as it says on the menu, this woman has changed her order to the salmon (with a whole bunch of modifications), which would be fine* if we hadn’t already done the ordering for next week based on the original preorder that we had!
*annoying, not fine
*annoying, not fine
Someone at Chelsea needs to tell me why their app takes over my headphones and turns off my music when I open it now
November 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Someone at Chelsea needs to tell me why their app takes over my headphones and turns off my music when I open it now
Well I managed to make it a month before backsliding to as angry and over it as I was at the start of October so that’s something, and at least this is the quietest time of year with no discernible uptick in the number of Utter Fucking Morons that I have to deal with!
November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Well I managed to make it a month before backsliding to as angry and over it as I was at the start of October so that’s something, and at least this is the quietest time of year with no discernible uptick in the number of Utter Fucking Morons that I have to deal with!
It would be really cool to get Mohammad’s photos of his farm in the al-Mawasi camp published as a book or an art exhibit! Can anyone help?
Hello friends, greetings from Gaza. I'm thinking of selling photos of my farm; I have over 100 pictures of barley, radishes, arugula, and onions. I know it's possible, but I don't have the experience. Please, if anyone can help me with this, I would be very grateful.
bit.ly/help-mohamed
bit.ly/help-mohamed
November 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM
It would be really cool to get Mohammad’s photos of his farm in the al-Mawasi camp published as a book or an art exhibit! Can anyone help?
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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Depressingly well-made point.
November 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Depressingly well-made point.
“Washing machines live longer with Calgon”
November 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“Washing machines live longer with Calgon”
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Since its Friday night and we all love a laugh, here’s my theory of how the Glorious Revolution in 1688 has been at the core of British governance ever since.
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Since its Friday night and we all love a laugh, here’s my theory of how the Glorious Revolution in 1688 has been at the core of British governance ever since.
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Logging in lol
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Logging in lol
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Gang, do any of you fancy coming to Lefty Christmas at Bush Hall on 20/12? Should be a good night and a chance for a little meet up!
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Gang, do any of you fancy coming to Lefty Christmas at Bush Hall on 20/12? Should be a good night and a chance for a little meet up!
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Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
A full decade I am crying on the bus ffs
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
Arizona pair celebrates decade of friendship that started with wrong text
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
A full decade I am crying on the bus ffs
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Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
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to conflate two points i feel are relevant: Grenfell is in the constituency with the most amount of properties subject to the ~mansion tax~ in the country bsky.app/profile/dann...
You'll be extremely unsurprised to see that the vast majority of the tax comes from London/Southeast
Shoutout to Poole - the only exception actually visible on this chart (the interactive version on the website reveals all the details when you touch/move the mouse over)
Shoutout to Poole - the only exception actually visible on this chart (the interactive version on the website reveals all the details when you touch/move the mouse over)
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
to conflate two points i feel are relevant: Grenfell is in the constituency with the most amount of properties subject to the ~mansion tax~ in the country bsky.app/profile/dann...
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Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
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"How would you have defined 'entitlement' in the 2020s, grandpa?"
"It was when people got so used to being spoonfed information that they stopped clicking on links but instead asked other people who'd posted the links questions they'd have found the answers to if they'd clicked on the links."
"It was when people got so used to being spoonfed information that they stopped clicking on links but instead asked other people who'd posted the links questions they'd have found the answers to if they'd clicked on the links."
November 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
"How would you have defined 'entitlement' in the 2020s, grandpa?"
"It was when people got so used to being spoonfed information that they stopped clicking on links but instead asked other people who'd posted the links questions they'd have found the answers to if they'd clicked on the links."
"It was when people got so used to being spoonfed information that they stopped clicking on links but instead asked other people who'd posted the links questions they'd have found the answers to if they'd clicked on the links."