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"The fact that we are here & that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence & bridge some of those differences between us"🌹she/her
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“Longtermism might be one of the most influential ideologies that few people outside of…Silicon Valley have ever heard about.”

Worth reading to understand the extremely dangerous philosophy of our new tech oligarch overlords.

By former longtermist @xriskology.bsky.social
aeon.co/essays/why-l...
Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays
It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous
aeon.co
November 27, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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I make no comment on the ICC case against Netanyahu, nor on the government response (which the telegraph believes is surrender,the guardian thinks is a stalling position and the left think is giving in to Israel) but…Jenrick does know there’s an ICC warrant out for Putin and Khomeini is dead, right?
November 22, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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November 22, 2024 at 7:30 AM
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre.... “Early on, assessors describe her as “fit for work”, but later they note “she is in agony” and “uses a cane” to walk. She was getting panic attacks..Her body couldn’t always tell when she really needed to urinate,+so she’d wet herself.” Life as an #Amazon worker.
Chronic pain and ravaged mental health: this is the brutal reality of Britain’s new working class | Aditya Chakrabortty
The story of former Amazon worker Karolina Sobczak reveals much about the people who keep our society running – at huge personal cost, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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This needs to be said, loud, and often.
November 25, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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Young child with possible leukaemia goes to hospital for bone marrow biopsy & ends up in ICU with RSV

We need mandatory masking in healthcare.

A baby can’t protect themselves. You can’t take a “you do you” approach with an infant.

www.disabledginger.com/p/a-plea-to-...
November 27, 2024 at 4:47 AM
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Heads up for US colleagues- starting Jan 8th, those of us flying to the UK on US passports will need a visa: natlawreview.com/article/what...
What U.S. Travelers to UK Need to Know About UK’s Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA)
Americans traveling to the UK as tourists or business visitors are generally visa-exempt. Starting on Jan. 8, 2025, visa-exempt Americans traveling to the UK will need to use the new Electronic Travel...
natlawreview.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:45 PM
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The water industry’s annual get-together, the British Water Conference, has been secretly rebranded by sewage campaigners, with attendees guided to the event via stickers from Brighton station pointing to “The Grand Sewage Conference”

38 Degrees and People vs Profiteers teamed up for the stunt
November 26, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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Those who are saying that Americans should make any major household purchases before the Trump and Musk plan to capsize the American economy for everyone but billionaires goes into effect on January 20 are not kidding and we ignore them at our peril
Trump said he will issue executive orders imposing new tariffs on all imported goods from China, Mexico and Canada, the nation’s three largest trading partners, as one of his first acts on Inauguration Day. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump promises specific tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico
If enacted, they would violate the 2020 deal that the United States inked with Canada and Mexico during Donald Trump’s first term.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:26 AM
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Read this. Read the replies. This happened in Missouri and has happened in states all over with abortion bans.

Your morality on abortions aside. Abortion bans will slowly collapse a state.
missouriindependent.com/2024/06/04/m...
November 26, 2024 at 1:26 AM
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I'm going to be honest I miss the way bluesky was a little bit before election day, but any honest reconciling of why people are coming en masse to Bluesky should start with the communities who came after because after election day they were getting rape threats in their DMs.
November 23, 2024 at 5:09 AM
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NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.

Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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'The readiness to repudiate identity politics & group them under “bad woke” is less about policy and more about the fact that social justice never really found a home amongst liberals, who were happy to capture its energy but not its demands.'

The week's column

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
‘Woke’ didn’t lose the US election: the patrician class who hijacked identity politics did | Nesrine Malik
Why is this simple explanation being so widely embraced? Because it does not require a commitment to real, structural change, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:17 AM
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November 25, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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Bathroom bans and policies don’t do what they purport to do.

The argument is they're created to 'protect women', but they usually do the opposite. 

To turn a phrase, they stink all round... Here's why 🧵
November 25, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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I studied the Holocaust & the mass slaughter of LGBTQ ppl during that time & thru history. The greatest lesson of the Holocaust was the need for Human Rights [what extremists now call ‘identity politics’ or ‘regulation’]. Most don’t think it impacts them.
November 25, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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I’m trying to tune out as much US politics as I can. However I t’s clear, that apart from asset stripping the richest country in the world, his rag tag group of super-rich plan to destroy significant human rights. Previously: www.politico.com/story/2017/0...
Full text: Trump’s comments on white supremacists, ‘alt-left’ in Charlottesville
A transcript of the president's remarks at Trump Tower.
www.politico.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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Trump’s pal: 1488 combines 2 white supremacist symbols. The first is 14, short for the "14 Words" slogan: "We must secure the existence of our people & a future for white children." The second is 88, which stands for "Heil Hitler" (H is the 8th letter of the alphabet)*. Sleep well! 👀
It really is something that the My Pillow guy is selling his pillows for $14.88 on conservative news networks.

Wonder why that price, specifically. 🤔
November 25, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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Obeying in advance
"Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will be in charge of DOGE, are both brilliant, and the federal government has clearly become too expansive..."
November 25, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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Per @aoc.bsky.social and co., I'm here to celebrate echo chambers and preaching to the choir. Which sings back, beautifully. "The primary assumption behind the idea that we shouldn’t preach to the choir is that one’s proper audience is one’s enemies, not one’s allies." harpers.org/archive/2017...
Preaching to The Choir, by Rebecca Solnit
harpers.org
November 24, 2024 at 2:13 AM
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55 Tufton Street based lobby group lgballiance has used the iconic anthem, A Small Town Boy, in their latest anti-trans+ campaign WITHOUT the artists permission

"We will do everything we can as soon as possible to have A Small Town Boy removed from this film" - Jimmy Somerville
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I hadn't realised the LGBA had done this. Absolute snakes. Quite right, Jimmy.
November 24, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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Bluesky,

Activate the Emergency Medical Hologram

omg it worked
Hello Bluesky! I hear the air is fresher here. Please consider following your @startrek #AI .
November 23, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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Jeremy Clarkson, a notorious supporter of hunts, owns a pub and farm business. If you don’t want your money supporting those linked to wildlife cruelty, check out bloodbusiness.info to make ethical spending choices.
November 23, 2024 at 9:47 AM
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But the bio is a dead giveaway. Anyone who claims to be able to recover your money from you after you've been scammed is a scammer, and more than that, they're a scammer who is right down the hall from the original scammer.
November 22, 2024 at 9:10 PM