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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4h

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 20h

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Rich Speight @footypol.bsky.social · 7h

a black and white drawing of a group of people standing next to each other with the words `` i know that feel bro '' .

Alt: a black and white drawing of a group of people standing next to each other with the words `` i know that feel bro '' .

media.tenor.com

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Rich Speight @footypol.bsky.social · 7h

Wow, what a fantastic piece this is. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 10h

🎙 New @therealnews.com: Will @txst.edu fire a tenured professor based on a Nazi apologist's doctored video?

I spoke with Professor Tom Alter himself about his case, which has become a flashpoint in the MAGA right’s all-out assault on free speech & higher education.

therealnews.com/will-texas-s...

Will Texas State University fire a tenured professor based on a Nazi apologist's doctored video?

“This is a self-described fascist, horribly antisemitic person who said that Jews chose to die in the Holocaust and Hitler went to heaven… Who's going to listen to this person with this doctored video...

therealnews.com

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Rich Speight @footypol.bsky.social · 1d

Can you imagine British journalists doing this to Farage?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

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Rich Speight @footypol.bsky.social · 1d

Best 25 minutes of the season for the Sunderland lasses in what is a really entertaining game of football down at Crystal Palace. 1-1, could and should be 2-1 up. #SAFC www.youtube.com/live/n08ab4f...

LIVE: Crystal Palace v Sunderland | Barclays WSL 2 25/26

YouTube video by Barclays Women’s Super League 2

www.youtube.com

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3d

Awkward for Zia Yusuf, who keeps being sent out to lie as cover for the Reform UK leader

Who did Nigel Farage have lunch with after resigning as UKIP leader 4 July 2016?

Why, it's Russian bribe enthusiast Nathan Gill, who then did the important news briefing on his behalf (to Russia Today)

#BBCQT

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d

Byline Times has been told by various sources that Farage has maintained a close interest in Ukraine’s conflict with Russia…
But Farage’s ignorance of this particular set of pro-Russian influencers around Nathan Gill is even more questionable….

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Rich Speight @footypol.bsky.social · 2d

The idea that Farage doesnt know Nathan Gill is ludicrous - they’ve been close for years and this story is as serious as it gets podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Farage

Podcast Episode · Byline Podcast · 06/10/2025 · 17m

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UNISON @unison.org.uk · 3d

Change hearts. Change minds. Change lives.
On Friday 17 October UNISON members wear red to say no to racism and yes to change.
Share your red and tag #WRD25 to show your support. #SRTRC

I'm supporting Wear Red Day 25. Show Racism the Red Card.
Friday 17th October 2025 #WRD25
Together we are Stronger.
UNISON is wearing red to show racism the red card. Join us in standing up for equality and inclusion.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 6d

I can never see mention of carbon offsets without thinking of when the VP of Facilities at Georgetown described them as "buying indulgences" at a Sustainability Advisory Committee meeting.

She wasn't wrong...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Rich Speight @footypol.bsky.social · 6d

This lad - unreal.

Darts player Luke Littler on a TV screen

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 7d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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From Create Mode
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Rich Speight @footypol.bsky.social · 7d

Instead, maybe the should all be thinking and focusing on what the next Senedd might look like

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 10d

Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose

#r4today

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Rich Speight @footypol.bsky.social · 9d

This is the article I’ve been waiting for!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 10d

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.

Farage is still silent.

It’s deafening.

#ReformRussianBribes

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14d

If she does this, the gap between her policy and Farage's will narrow considerably. Retrospective legislation is the choice of tinpot dictators and intellectual vegetables. It means no-one could take Britain's word seriously.

The i Paper @theipaper.com · 14d

The Home Secretary is understood to be considering applying the policy to deal with concerns about the so-called ‘Boriswave'.

Read more: trib.al/WewVODg

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Rich Speight @footypol.bsky.social · 14d

Keeping the receipts on this one

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 14d

Business and Trade sec Peter Kyle’s speech at Labour conference: "Let me start by making something absolutely crystal clear: I will implement the Employment Rights Bill in full."

Pays tribute also to the "extraordinary" work of Angela Rayner. "We are eternally grateful" to her, he says.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 15d

My take (from Friday) on the digital ID proposals. I don't think it's relevant to say, "but other countries have ID cards, why can't we?" The critical questions here are implementation-based and it seems like they are up for grabs

www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...

Unpacking Digital ID - can the government deliver on its ambitions? — Careful Industries

A look at what has been proposed, how it might work, and whether it will be effective.

www.careful.industries

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Rich Speight @footypol.bsky.social · 15d

What a weekend of football.

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Rich Speight @footypol.bsky.social · 15d

After this weekend, I’m proposing a total ban on the mention of golf during football commentary.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15d

This has been known for several years. What is actually going to be done about it? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests

Rioters were influenced by network that exposes hundreds of thousands of Britons to racist disinformation, Guardian research indicates

www.theguardian.com

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Rich Speight @footypol.bsky.social · 15d

Despite being clearly the better side, a scrambled goal from Southampton courtesy of a handball on the line means it’s 1-1 at the break. Once again the refereeing in #WSL2 costing #SAFC dearly

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