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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 10m

Were you, Shaun? Or did you post some racism on your social media? I love how they bury the ledes on these types of stories. It's like a treasure hunt, but the prize is always terrible people doing and saying awful things.

Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 3h

Today's heart-warming FAFO news story
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news...

'I was snitched on for putting up 150 British flags and lost my teaching job'

Shaun Remmer, 49, says he has been left 'devastated'

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 21m

This is definitely my favourite season of Slow Horses so far. God, that was a fun episode ending.

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 2h

Extremely G.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2h

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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bjørnebær @lilbjornebaer.bsky.social · 18h

did you know? being denied turkey leftovers leads to madness and vampirism

A black cat stares blankly at the camera, his white fangies poking out, while lying on his cream bath mat.

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 4h

Malone pretty much saying what I've always suspected of the terminally terf-brained - billionaire JK Rowling is the only woman who is allowed to speak for all of us. Which is bullshit, because she doesn't even like women.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 7h

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman"

Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥

"You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 17h

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 18h

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Snacko Racko @snackoracko.bsky.social · 1d

Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 8h

Vance is already framing it as a case of edgy kids being edgy. But Vance is a lying scrote, and these are adults. One of them was even a state senator.

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 8h

She came off so, so badly in that interview.

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J.S. Allen @jseanallen.bsky.social · 18h

Aardvarks deserve toys too

omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 2d

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K Grace 🎃 @lietkynes.bsky.social · 19h

I'm sharing Caelan Conrad's videos because they're not just youtube opinion slop. They're detailed and empirically based — like this one, where they show a popular ai chatbot engaging in similar behavior

If I tell my DM I want to go to heaven, he won't point me to the nearest bridge. Bc he's human

Ai ‘Therapist’ Told me to KΙLL Myself & Others!

YouTube video by Dr. Caelan Conrad

youtu.be

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 20h

I'd kind of respect that if she wasn't such a total trash person.

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 20h

She always looks like she's got gravy stains on her bra. No judgement - slob game recognise slob game, but come on - you're on Newsnight, Therese. At least brush the Pringles crumbs off your lap.

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 20h

I know, right? The number of times I've been in the middle of cooking something and asked someone to pass me the whatchamacallit, you know, the thing...whirly-go-round...whisk, yes. The fucking whisk. That one.

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 22h

In that case you're going to have to deport Wes Streeting, and everyone else who operates at a Daily Mail level of English.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you. I'm a firm believer in the healing power of filth.

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 1d

What a good creature.

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 1d

By ignoring/lying about them, I expect.

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 1d

Given the seriousness of the issue Sam should rightly be in prison, but sure. Make the suicide-gaslighting machine horny now, I guess.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

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

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

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.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry. I do tend to steer things in a gay spitroast direction, I know. For a long time I thought it was a curse, but I'm trying to embrace it as a gift.

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 1d

Shakespeare would simply invent new insults for these pricks. We should, too. For fun.

children of the corncob @bisk.sureis.sexy · 1d

fuck off with this shit you racist cunts.

i forgot the word "tumbledryer" the other day so i called it a tumbley bumbley and english is my only fucking language.

abolish the home office.

Changes to the English language requirement were first reported in May when the government published their early plans in the immigration white paper. The new standard requires people to express themselves “fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expression” and to be able to communicate flexibly in social, academic and work situations.

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 1d

And of COURSE he had a big vain babyman tantrum at the photo. Knew he would as soon as I saw the Time cover.

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 1d

Council took the flags down.

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 1d

He was up to some shit. I know what country gentlemen do in the city.

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