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Cameron @crimeron.bsky.social · 1h

please subscribe to my newsletter where every week I learn a new thing and tell you why AI doing it is a horrible idea (I do not have a newsletter)

Cameron @crimeron.bsky.social · 1h

I have been training as a therapist for all of one month, and even now I have so many highly specific concerns

Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

I know the headline everyone's running with is "erotica" but "we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues" and "we are putting personality back in ChatGPT so it will act like a friend" are diametrically opposed statements

that's the cause of most of the mental health issues

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 3h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2h

"you can't just call the people you disagree with nazis"

oh no?

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2h

Oh hey, check this out. They talk the same way in their private chats as they do on Twitter www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 9h

To be clear: the decision to deny most people in the UK the covid vaccine is related to money, *not* based on a public health concern. In other words, Labour did not allocate enough money for covid vaccines so their "cost-effectiveness" end up the determining factor. www.gov.uk/government/p...

For the development of advice relating to COVID-19 vaccination from autumn 2025, JCVI has resumed the use of a standard cost-effectiveness assessment, in line with other routine vaccinations in the national immunisation programme and the JCVI code of practice. The advice is based on modelling of the impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccination where clinical outcomes are stratified by age, high-risk clinical disease groups and patients with immunosuppression. The use of cost-effectiveness is a key pillar in the consideration of immunisation programmes, ensuring that the substantial investments in the programmes are a good use of public money, and that those funds would not be better spent on other healthcare interventions. This has led to a more refined approach to the targeting of the COVID-19 immunisation programme, with a focus on individuals where there is good evidence of a high risk of hospitalisation and/or mortality.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2h

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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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2h

could i get some shares on this today?

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

I'd love to see Ahmad get the help he needs. Everything's still very expensive. I sent $25 yesterday and would love matches.

AHMAD 🇵🇸 @aaaaasaa95.bsky.social · 1d

Dear friends 💔
We dream of returning to our area after the ceasefire, but we are unable to cover the transportation costs ($500).
We urgently need your support—every donation brings us closer to safety, return, and relief after this ordeal 🤍
Give us a gift ⬇️🫂🕊️
gofund.me/69f962fc

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 3h

They make it clear which lives matter and which don’t because you never hear them mention Palestinian hostages, and when they do, they’re often referred to as prisoners or detainees instead, painting a very different picture.

Anita Anand @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social · 1d

Please see my statement on the release of hostages ⬇️

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 3h

“Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.”

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gugalanna daddy issues @ninazu.bsky.social · 6h

Just want to say that I happened to be at a hospital today and had to wait around to see someone. In that time a head nurse from a specialist unit mentioned having EIGHT nurses off sick right now. In case people are wondering who’s hurt by costly and inaccessible vaccines.

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 10h

I’ll find something and I can afford the £80, but many cannot afford to go wherever it is let alone afford the £80.

Again: they changed criteria just a few weeks ago. All to avoid spending money on essential care. People are going to die as a direct result of this.

It’s immoral. 4/4

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Norzola @norzola.bsky.social · 9h

Israel: you cease, I fire...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9h

“Cease” fire

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Cameron @crimeron.bsky.social · 8h

My computer is old and won’t let me install 11 at all, and I don’t have the money for a replacement that runs all the things I need it to. I imagine many others are in the same boat. And then there’s the questionable AI insertion.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 8h

Israeli ceasefire means it will massacre the emaciated maimed shell of a body they left you in for entering your own home, then claim Israeli terrorists were feeling unsafe near your house while they were destroying what was left of your life and family.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Cameron @crimeron.bsky.social · 21h

if I ever get to the point of making a patreon for the pod, you can bet your bippy that there will be a custom playlists reward tier

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The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 23h

The Criminal

Doodle of an orange cat with a piece of crumpled plastic in his mouth. He is running away quickly, wide-eyed. There is text from someone shouting "WHO IS EATING PLASTIC!!!"

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Cameron @crimeron.bsky.social · 21h

should be: asleep
am: working on a 1990s/2000s disco playlist

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Cameron @crimeron.bsky.social · 22h

you get me!!

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Cameron @crimeron.bsky.social · 22h

Scissor Sisters' Comfortably Numb. Fight me.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 1d

Without saying Hurt, fav Cover Song?

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 10d

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks!
But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!!

This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free.

MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 2d

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impossible knot @burnyourbones.bsky.social · 2d

If you're non disabled and/or a non masker please, I really am begging you, please donate to vax funds and get the information about these options out there. people who need this - including immunocompromised people who aren't "severe" enough - are being turned away by red tape and extortionate cost

impossible knot @burnyourbones.bsky.social · 2d

there is a mutual aid vaccine fund for help paying
www.instagram.com/vaxfundnetwork

and the lie pharmacists say is the evade the restrictions ticket this time round is to say yes if they asked if you received an invitation from your GP/tell them your doctor specifically recommended it

Vaccine Fund (UK and Ireland)

Helping the community access healthcare

vaccinationfund.ghost.io

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 2d

I am so sick of living in a world where certain groups insist art & culture be re-oriented to serve their tastes and whims when their own pitiful inability or unwillingness to critically engage with and contemplate creativity clearly demonstrate that art & culture are too good for them.

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Cameron @crimeron.bsky.social · 3d

If you want to enjoy fiction that has no tension then go with g-d, but…don’t demand this of *all* fiction, and certainly don‘t make that the writer’s problem. Some things aren’t for you! That’s ok! Plenty of other things are!

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Cameron @crimeron.bsky.social · 3d

Not to bang on about Aristotle but one of the purposes of fiction is to help us feel, right? Catharsis? I get the need to escape the horrors of the everyday, but without any kind of tension, fiction is just…nothing. What are we doing?

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