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Nan

@nancapetown.bsky.social

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EuroAfrican ‘African of Colour’. Passions: Equal rights & respect for all sentient beings & the planet. African higher education partnerships, research networks.

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Nan @nancapetown.bsky.social · 8h

Fabulous 😂

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pete52.bsky.social @pete52.bsky.social · 13h

Vote Blue! 💙

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I. Blade Daily @ibladedaily.bsky.social · 23h

So the American government at this moment is 50% cult, 50% criminal enterprise, 0% functional.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

Wow. Trump's masked federal agents tear-gassed a crowd in Chicago and ended up gassing a bunch of local Chicago cops who were there to *deescalate tensions.* One local cop was captured on film washing out his eyes with a hose:

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10h

In the month since I was elected leader of the Green Party, we have gained a new member equivalent of every single minute. 24/7.

We're all smiling. But we've also got a big job to do.

Let's make hope normal again.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Visibly enthusiastic, incredibly articulate and with a winning smile that never left his face, Zack seemed entirely at home

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 23h

California's move to regulate AI companions really could not have come soon enough www.platformer.news/california-a...

For the moment, chatbot companions are mostly seen as a sideshow. That misses just how quickly they are growing in popularity. An analysis by ChinaTalk this month found that AI chatbots designed for sex and romance have about 29 million monthly users globally. (That's about 6 million more people than use Bluesky.) Meanwhile, a recent survey by the Center for Democracy and Technology found that one in five high school students say that they or someone they know has been in a romantic relationship with a chatbot.

Those data points pair uneasily with statements from the CEOs of AI labs promising to make their products simultaneously more personable, more sexual, and more powerful. Some segment of the population seems already to be coming to the conclusion that AI companions are more engaging, agreeable, and easier to talk to than people. And the response of many chatbot makers so far has been to take those qualities and supercharge them.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11h

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Bad Medical Takes @badmedicaltakes.bsky.social · 11h

Twitter user snackbottledesu: Drinking water is unhealthy. It has no protein, no peptides, no aminoacids, no nutrients, and multiplies the effects of carbohhdrates. Your body naturally reuses the necessary amount of fluids necessary to keep you alive.

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BIG D GRANDROYAL @bigdgrandroyal.bsky.social · 14h

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 13h

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10h

We are living in one of the stupidest times in history.

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Nan @nancapetown.bsky.social · 9h

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A psychologist once said: “Your grandmothers treated stress better than most therapists do today.” (6 STRANGE old-fashioned TIPS that actually work):

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Nan @nancapetown.bsky.social · 10h

That’s the way to go!!

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Nan @nancapetown.bsky.social · 12h

They all look the same

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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 12h

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#StrongerTogether #MeidasBoosts #resist

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h

‘Hot mic’ hot mess: gaffes made by global leaders when they think no one is listening

Indonesia’s Prabowo is the latest world leader to fall foul of the ‘hot mic’ – diplomatic snafus that have caused embarrassment to leaders around the globe

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Sky News @news.sky.com · 22h

Deadline day for firm linked to Tory peer to pay back millions over COVID contract scandal

Today is the High Court's deadline for a firm linked to Baroness Michelle Mone to repay £122m for supplying defective PPE at the height of the pandemic, with no indication the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will be paid in full.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23h

Money already approved for projects that Trump is using the shutdown to defund comes from less than 3% of Republican districts, compared with Democratic districts.

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