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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 8d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Fiona Dolman @fionadolman.bsky.social · 4d

“Don't give up on yourself. So you make a mistake here and there; you do too much or you do too little. Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick” ❤️

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Fiona Dolman @fionadolman.bsky.social · 5d

Loved it. Any others?!

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Fiona Dolman @fionadolman.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone recommend a great book that they’ve loved this year? Not too fussed about genre but have particularly enjoyed In Memoriam Alice Winn, My Fathers House Joseph O’Connor, Raising Hare Chloe Dalton so far..#Books

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 5d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 5d

Felicitaciones, María Corina Machado, por recibir el Premio Nobel de la Paz.

This award honours not only your courage and conviction.

But every voice that refuses to be silenced. In Venezuela and across the world.

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Fiona Dolman @fionadolman.bsky.social · 5d

Oh am DELIGHTED to read this. Thank you!
Didn’t know @mossmontmomery.bsky.social was on here and The Midnight Guardians is one of my favourite books and destroys the idea that children’s books are just for kids.

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Fiona Dolman @fionadolman.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone recommend a great book that they’ve loved this year? Not too fussed about genre but have particularly enjoyed In Memoriam Alice Winn, My Fathers House Joseph O’Connor, Raising Hare Chloe Dalton so far..#Books

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Fiona Dolman @fionadolman.bsky.social · 6d

Willow. She’s 5 today x

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Fiona Dolman @fionadolman.bsky.social · 7d

Love is..

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Fiona Dolman @fionadolman.bsky.social · 7d

“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"

Death thought about it.

CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE

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Fiona Dolman @fionadolman.bsky.social · 8d

Invisible Strings
@M_Kelter
In the last few decades, we have detected thousands of planets outside of our solar system. They did not suddenly appear at the time we found them. No one calls it an
"exoplanet epidemic". The planets were always there, just previously undiscovered.
This is a tweet about autism.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 8d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 8d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 9d

Flirt with someone today, do it for Jilly Cooper x

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 10d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 10d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 12d

[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]

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SOCRATES:
Plato..

PLATO:
Yes Socrates?

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SOCRATES:
Can you tell me, are you human?

PLATO:
Why… yes, Socrates

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SOCRATES:
And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is?

PLATO:
Um, yep

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SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then

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[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]

SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?

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PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel

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SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.

PLATO:
No.

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SOCRATES:
[Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes]

So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*?

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PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really

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SOCRATES:
So are we not human?

PLATO:
‘Spose not.

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[Bleak pause]

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PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock

SOCRATES:
Yeah

[ends]

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Fiona Dolman @fionadolman.bsky.social · 12d

“When I approach the pearly gates, I'd like to hear a champagne cork popping, an orchestra tuning up, and the sound of my mother laughing”
Patricia Routledge
17th Feb 1929 - 3rd October 2025

May your wishes come true, you wonderful woman and thank you x

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Fiona Dolman @fionadolman.bsky.social · 12d

lol

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Fiona Dolman @fionadolman.bsky.social · 13d

Wtaf?

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 13d

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human
Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.

A picture of some AI girl standing on an AI landscape with an AI monster behind her. I'm gonna be so real: she looks about 14

By Tyler Cowen

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13d

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone.

We will not let hate or those who spread it win.

We stand with you.

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Fiona Dolman @fionadolman.bsky.social · 13d

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make”
Dr Jane Goodall, DBE
3 April 1934 - 1 October 2025

Dr Jane Goodall with one of her beloved chimps

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 14d

My favourite Barry Cryer story is his account of Nicholas Parsons asking Ross Noble who his favourite comedian was. "Richard Pryor" Noble replied, "Genius! So sad he set himself on fire while freebasing crack cocaine".

Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"

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Fiona Dolman @fionadolman.bsky.social · 17d

I’m so surprised to see this too and it seems to go against everything he talked about privately and stood for when I worked with him.

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