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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 1h

You literally cannot get margin called if you do not make the deliberate choice to use margin

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 16h

Sometimes you just can't tell people things. You just have to sit back and let them find out for themselves. Usually those people are children.

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 1h

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer

I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 2h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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honkhonkhonkhonkho.bsky.social @honkhonkhonkhonkho.bsky.social · 2h

Mr.Beast is the closest thing to the real world version of an SCP article about something that looks almost human but isn't quite, and if you fail to observe the ritual(do not engage with Mr.Beast), you'll lose your clavicle or something.

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 2h

Judging by the comments it's what a lot of people seem to have heard, so maybe take another swing at what you actually meant?

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3h

Things being as they are, and the near impossibility of predicting a General Election result this far out, I do find it vaguely amusing seeing certain people arguing that no matter what heinous thing Labour does people have to vote for them to beat Reform as "we live in a two party system". 1/

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 5h

Interesting how Ministers think minorities with a protected characteristic should be protected & from what.
It’s unacceptable that Jewish students feel they need to conceal their identity on campus.
Yet this doesn’t apply to Trans students & Gender Critical people who attack their right to exist 🤔

Phillipson: Universities must tackle antisemitism
Bridget Phillipson says it's unacceptable that Jewish students feel they need to conceal their identity on campus

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 3h

Who made this?

A frog in the Obama poster style with the word HOP along the bottom.

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 7h

Israel used 3D scans developed by the Scottish Maritime Museum in propaganda animations, which were a key part of its attempts to justify attacks on hospitals and residential areas in Gaza, Syria and Iran. The 3D scans, developed for boatbuilding workshops, were used without the museum's knowledge.

How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda

An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

www.972mag.com

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 3d

British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK

Now that the UK has recognised Palestine as a state, this opens legal routes for British members of the IDF to be charged in the UK
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK

Now that the UK has recognised Palestine as a state, this opens legal routes for British members of the IDF to be charged in the UK

www.thecanary.co

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 18h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

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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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 4h

i have joked that neoreactionaries just watched too much anime, but goodness fucking me

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the
manga One Piece, discussing how he
believes it represents a future where an
antichrist-like one-world government has
repressed science. He believes that the
hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a
Christlike figure.

"In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy
world, again sort of an alternate earth, but
it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world
state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually
gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in
my interpretation, who runs the world and
it’s something like the antichrist. There’s
Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat,
sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then
towards the end of the story, transforms into
a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation."

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at
Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16d

Everyone: What's government doing about the cost of living crisis, the climate crisis, and the unfolding genocide in Gaza?

Labour: "We will mandate people carry Brit cards".

This government's priorities are painfully out of touch and increasingly authoritarian.

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 5h

"A large majority of people now believe that Brexit was a mistake. Here's why trying to appeal to them is a mistake."

Do you even hear yourself?

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 5h

Corporate approved pattern catalogue.

Squiddy (eldritch horror beyond comprehension) @dr-squiddy.bsky.social · 6h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Mini cheddars and yoghurt.

Lee Harveryscary @valleyguitarist.bsky.social · 10h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

The monitors don't work

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 8h

Quote: I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember this too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick. Stewart Lee

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 5h

Hate has no place in our society, says Tweedledum, who overruled her own committee to specifically install a bigot. Tweedledee was unavailable for comment at time of press.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6h

That’s the line and by Christ, they are sticking to it come hell or high water. Let’s see whether it’ll work as well on e.g. Italian police arresting them at a holiday villa outside Rimini in 2033.

Bridget Phillipson * @bphillipso... 3h g
Hate has no place in our universities or our country.
Antisemitism must be rooted out of our society.
Our education system must play its part in keeping us free from fear and free from hate.
My piece in today's Sunday Express

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 5h

I've heard it said that BB was actually almost completely written by Dylan Moran & that Linehan had the best part of fuck-all to do with it.

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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ @cryptadamist.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 19h

new ayn rand just dropped

#argentina #milei #javiermilei #bailout #uspol #aynrand #atlasshrugged #meme #memes

Cover of Atlas Shrugged, but with new title "Atlas needs you to spot him like $20 billion", 1st argentinian edition

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 6h

The only Thatcher film I'd be interested in is one where she dies and takes the walk to literal Hell

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 17h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 17h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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