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Justen Hyde @throctukes.bsky.social · Dec 7
Please stop being a dickhead about migration.
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 1:17 PM
throctukes.bsky.social
Latest video by @adamneely.bsky.social on genAI, music and our technofacist wannabe overlords is well worth your time www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc... but it's also pretty bleak.

So go and play music for realsies with your friends in the world too.
Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future
YouTube video by Adam Neely
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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lanceparkin.bsky.social
The market for all these things seems to be 'people so incompetent they can't even visualise what competence looks like'.
watsoncomedian.bsky.social Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 2d
Keep seeing this Copilot ad in which a woman pulls off a shit-hot 'business negotiation' by tapping away at Copilot to ask its advice every 20 seconds, as if that would put you in a position of strength rather than implying that you didn't have a fucking clue what you were doing.
February 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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nick-pettigrew.bsky.social
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
dancow.bsky.social Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 3d
VC, founder, dumbass
@Nick_Davidov Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops" Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything. It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn't have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can't see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack. Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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hhesterm.bsky.social
JD Vance traveled to Italy with 14 planes, three of which were cargo planes, one of which carried food for the delegation. To Italy. I hope some intrepid journalist finds out whether it was pasta and pizza.
www.gazzetta.it/olimpiadi-in...
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February 7, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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garius.bsky.social
Absolute chills
lalahaenzy.com Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.com · 6d
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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benstanley.eu
This is scandalous behaviour by @greenparty.org.uk, and Rob is owed an apology. People look at this sort of stuff and think it's evidence of scholars engaging in a partisan fashion, and not only is that a slight on Rob's professionalism, it also damages the field more generally.
robfordmancs.bsky.social Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 7d
Just a quick note to @greenparty.org.uk and @greenpartyhan.bsky.social - I was not consulted on being quoted on your leaflets and I have not endorsed your campaign (or any campaign in this seat). I think this note, like the bar chart next to it, is misleading and out of context.
February 4, 2026 at 12:27 PM
throctukes.bsky.social
Still of the opinion that having a well educated population is a societal good and we should just pay for it through general taxation.
February 3, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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louiselocock.bsky.social
Time for immediate preventive and punitive action @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social @bradtbaines.bsky.social
We are a sanctuary county, this cannot be allowed to continue.
#StandUpToRacism #SUTR
chrismilsom.bsky.social Chris Milsom @chrismilsom.bsky.social · 11d
A group of thugs brazenly hauling flags up lampposts in the middle of Oxford this morning. People, especially of colour, watch on terrified. Reported to the police: apparently they can do nothing. Weimaresque undertones. These plastic patriots must not be appeased
January 31, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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magicmooshka.bsky.social
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
throctukes.bsky.social
Stop using AI.
January 30, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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louiselocock.bsky.social
Oxford people please sign!
January 30, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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ayoub.bsky.social
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be… The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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mattpolprof.bsky.social
A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.
January 25, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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liamthorp.bsky.social
Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
January 24, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting. 2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value. 3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE. 4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on. 5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle." 6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground. 7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack. 8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video. 9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk. 10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun. 11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him. 12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes. 13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. 14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him. 15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1. 16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground. 17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building. 18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values. I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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kakape.bsky.social
This is definitely the perception here in Germany.
Minnesota is cutting through, but in a way that only accentuates the lack of any wider response. These are people courageously defending their neighbors and their community. But at the national level? Opposition politicians? Elites?
filipecampante.bsky.social Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 18d
Also for the external perception. I was struck by a number of people I have talked to the last couple of weeks (from Brazil, Europe, China) who independently remarked on how little opposition there is to Trump in the US.
January 24, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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neilmackay.bsky.social
Too late, Bone-Spurs. We fucking hate you
January 24, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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colewehrle.bsky.social
A letter from Saint Paul to those last few friends and family who have somehow become indifferent to ongoing campaign of terror in the Twin Cities:
I'm sending this out to the few folks I know who might support the present administration. I've done my best to be politically tolerant all my life and respect folks I disagree with. The last few weeks in the Twin Cities have shaken that tolerance to its core. All of the conservative folks I respected growing up have long abandoned the Republican party, but there are still folks I care about who have found ways to justify remaining. Usually they shrug and say something like, "We don't like him much either," and then do nothing to stop the rise of this horrible new regime. I don't care about excuses any more. This is the world you all made. I don't know how you might have been hoodwinked into your present beliefs, but you need to know they are deeply wrong and folks are getting killed because of it. The Twin Cities are an incredible place. I've lived all over this country, and I think this little corner of the Midwest represents the best of us. Within a week of moving here I knew the names of everyone on my street. Folks brought us food and helped watch our kids as we unpacked. We bonded over digging out each other's cars in the winter and comparing north shore hikes and camping grounds in the summer. If I hadn't lived here, I wouldn't have imagined a place like this could exist. Over the past month, we have been ravaged by state-sponsored terrorists. They are kidnapping folks. It's not uncommon to find an empty car, blinkers on, in the middle of the road, as if the driver had been whisked away in the Rapture. Families are being broken up, folks with ample legal protections are being locked up for days without access to their lawyers or their families. This isn't an internet rumor. It's happening outside my window and it's every bit as horrible as a page from the Diary of Anne Frank. But Minnesotans are a stalwart bunch. We've got a neighborhood patrol to protect school children from government agents. Cati has been helping coordinate groceries for folks who are afraid to leave their home. The little dish by our door where we put our keys now has a stock of whistles that we bring with us so that we can alert folks to government agents. And it's working. ICE is less effective, and more and more people and businesses are being tied into one of the most remarkable and organic grassroots efforts ever seen. All of that was on display yesterday when I went downtown with perhaps 40 or 50 thousand people to protest. The -40 degree wind chill didn't stop us. And yet, today they killed another person. In broad daylight. The video is horrible and looks like something that we'd associate with the reign of Tito or Kristallnacht. They are trying so hard to break this beautiful place. They won't do it, but the longer they try the more people are going to die senselessly. None of this would be possible without the folks who enabled this, one way or another. That's you and that's on you. This isn't an invitation to a dialogue. I'm done talking. This is a demand for accountability. Turn off your TVs and your podcasts and step out of your echo chambers. A terrible moment has arrived in America, and you carried it here on your backs.
January 24, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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thetirednurse.bsky.social
Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.
discosaurus.bsky.social Disco @discosaurus.bsky.social · 21d
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
Kid in a hat and backpack, maybe 5, getting detained
January 22, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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eleanormorton.bsky.social
We Have AI Now

www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
We Have AI Now
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
www.youtube.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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jessicaelgot.bsky.social
New - Nigel Farage has been found by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to have made 17 standards breaches, adding up to over £380,000 in late declarations.

He’s apologised, so no further investigation (which seems unusual for a breach this large)
January 21, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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paperghost.bsky.social
incredible scenes as absolutely nothing of any consequence happens
pippacrerar.bsky.social Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 21d
NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct.

He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…
January 21, 2026 at 9:21 AM
throctukes.bsky.social
*sigh* Of course a few days later when I listen back to the recording that I was reasonably happy with I find somehow without changing at all it's become intolerably awful and I will definitely have to redo a lot of it.

At least I like the song enough to care.
January 21, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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benaaronovitch.bsky.social
Here's a conspiracy theory - the people who have fraudulently overextended themselves re: the AI bubble have asked Trump to tank the global economy to hide that the next big recession is going to be their fault.
January 21, 2026 at 7:03 AM