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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 1m

MPs have the ability to help constituents get help through the authority of their office.

This one - who is apparently a LibDem - promised then ghosted.

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Jonathan Casey @jonathantcasey.bsky.social · 10h

Trump forgot that he was President on Jan. 6th. 2021.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 9h

Woah

That’s not good

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 9h

I beg you, before using the word "svengali," look up where it comes from. I beg you.

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Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 9h

Holy heck, this is what we need. This is what we need people to be doing.

Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 9h

A political ad from Zohran Mamdani, a major Democratic politician, exclusively defending trans rights.

www.burnsnotice.com/...

www.youtube.com/watc...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

You Have to See This Mamdani Ad

I wasn't planning to post anything today. I dislike working and writing on weekends in general, but this was too important to ignore. You have to see this Zohran Mamdani campaign ad that came out this morning: It's an entire political ad, from a major Democratic politician, that is exclusively

www.burnsnotice.com

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 9h

Confident, unabashed, positive

Lovely to see

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 9h

I guess it’s up to Times journalists to give him another easy interview where he gets to lie about himself and his beliefs without any challenge.

Glinner's Lies @glinnerslies.bsky.social · 22h

Thread:

First, he mocks the suicide of a 17 year-old trans girl.

Then he deletes it, claiming reasons of morality.

Then he forgets about having done either and mocks the suicide again with exactly the same joke.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 9h

The tabs kept being messed with though. The following tab stopped showing me chronological tweets, instead choosing which of my follows I would get to see. I was missing more and more accounts.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 10h

The people using AI detectors need to be disciplined for sheer incompetence.

“Does this thing actually work” should be the first question you ask, not something to ask AFTER you’ve made someone’s life a misery.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 10h

As you can imagine, it was great for earthquake updates. You felt a judder and went on Twitter to share info about how strong it was where and what local authorities were saying about tsunami risks.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12h

Fukuyama debunks the AI abundance myth: we can't feed or clothe all not due to a lack of smarts, but priorities and resources.

The world simply can't sustain the abundant lifestyle AI proponents promise, lacking even the electricity to run the very AI they favor.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 10h

One thing worth adding to this excellent piece is what we’ve all seen to people who stayed on.

There are multiple cases of people who have been radicalised towards the far right and positions they used to sincerely repudiate because of their continued Xitter use.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

Being such a responsible company, I’m sure they’ve gamed out the potential societal harms and have a plan for mitigating them. 💀

Are deepfakes of dead people rewriting the past?

While OpenAI's Sora has some guardrails around the likenesses of living people, protections around the likenesses of those who have died appear to be an afterthought.

www.nbcnews.com

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 10h

Well

JohnWest_JAWS @johnwestjaws.bsky.social · 10h

These 2 speeches, which, as Nick points out, on the same day, precede what Gill has pled guilty to by 4 years, are more damning for Farage as they also precede Brexit.

All European secret services would have been alarmed by this & would/should have been investigating.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 10h

Now now 😝

猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 10h

I remember trying to explain to (non insane) right wing accounts what it was like. They just didn’t get the same amount of far right attention at all.

Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · 10h

I left for 3 reasons

It got very anti-Ukrainian, pushing russian simps to the top of my list

blue tick promotion and anti liberal bias made it intolerable in general

And engagement and impact of tweets fell to 0

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 10h

So:

- blue cheese and jalapeño with a glass of wine is VERY good.

- green pepper didn’t do it on the texture front. Will try it with tako (octopus) next time. (Basil/tako works for sushi, so pesto should work here.)

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 11h

Also, it became increasingly apparent that many of the accounts trying to argue with me weren’t even genuine.

It wasn’t even “someone on the Internet is wrong”.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 11h

She’s not just railing on social media. She’s funding the campaigns that are putting the UK in a race with the US to persecute trans people and essentially criminalise them.

It’s fair to consider the best way to talk to fans lining her pockets, but it’s not just stupidity. It’s open cruelty.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 11h

Ooh

I don’t usually have Vegemite in the house but I might get some.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 11h

Second round:

- some chopped green pepper with the pesto
- blue cheese + jalapeño

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 11h

In addition to that, another of the final straws was realising that I wasn’t even getting a lot of breaking news any more. (I mean, I don’t get it on here, but it was one thing Twitter had been brilliant for.)

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 11h

So:

Pesto turns to very thin liquid (should have foreseen that really), so you’ll need to be careful to get it properly round.

One kid liked it a lot, I think it needs something like a chunk of green pepper for texture.

Blue cheese - seriously would consider this a good +red wine snack.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 11h

So tonight’s culinary adventure:

Takoyaki with (along with the usual fillings)
- blue cheese
- pesto

I will report back.

Any j-sky folks got any unorthodox fav fillings?

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 14h

THIS

It’s also why I really find it difficult to give two shits about superhero CGI stunt work and can’t fathom why others do.

Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 14h

No shame, I’ve laughed at those TikTok videos of dogs crashing into wedding cakes, funny. But the joke — dog crashing into cake! — is actually not as funny when you know it’s staged, or prompted. That is a legitimate response to humor: context can make it unfunny after the fact of laughing.

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