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Andrew Haley

@aph13.bsky.social
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Free the software! Java, HotSpot, OpenJDK. I post in a personal capacity, not on behalf of my employer or any other organization. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
🌳The Crowhurst Yew, thought to be 4,000 years old, predates Christianity itself. A living portal through time. 🕰️It’s one of the locations in my Ultimate Guide to Time Travel: 10 Places That Confound the Time Continuum. Step inside: www.digest.andymarshall.co/the-ultimate...
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
please stop bringing Ye's trash from Over There to Over Here
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Louise @plw18.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Lots of opposition to this, but the results so far are looking good. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Bradford clean air zone saves NHS over £30,000 a month in first year
After one year of the zone, which is the second largest in England, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by a quarter
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Donald Johnson @donjohn8.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
My problem with DEI has always been where the approah works. I've tried to engage it's proponents numerous times on the tactics and whether the assumption they made were valid. >>It shouldn’t be surprising that most diversity programs aren’t increasing diversity.<< hbr.org/2016/07/why-...
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Why Diversity Programs Fail
After Wall Street firms repeatedly had to shell out millions to settle discrimination lawsuits, businesses started to get serious about their efforts to increase diversity. But unfortunately, they don...
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/01/2025
Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…
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Andrew Haley @aph13.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Just wonderful. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Desert Island Discs - Nick Cave, singer and writer - BBC Sounds
Nick Cave, singer and writer, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
You do not have to consume every single tiny piece of bad news in order to be a good person. It’s ok to miss things. Traumatizing yourself isn’t the same as activism. Bearing witness to the point that you’re paralyzed with fear and horror and fury isn’t going to help us get through this.
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Ryan Reads and Writes 📚✨ @ryanreadsandwrites.me · 21/01/2025
I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
Right, this was when I was eighteen so don't judge me too harshly. Or if you think drugs are cool and I'm a legend, fill your boots. Anyway, at the time I was working through college in Dublin with bar shifts at [redacted] music venue. One day I get a call on my day off.
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God @thegodshow.com · 18/01/2025
First they came for the immigrants, and you did not speak out, because you were not an immigrant. Then they came for the trans, and you did not speak out, because you were not trans. Then they came for porn, and you shouted at the top of your lungs “WTF?! They’re banning porn now?!? Fml.”
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Either he hasn't been briefed properly or he hasn't understood his brief properly. Either way, it's a problem, and we need to get someone in there asap who can temper this stuff and help the government to talk sense on it. Absolutely let's pursue the opportunities of AI, but let's not talk shit.
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Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
As an early adopter of Long Covid (infected Mar 2020), I'm here to tell you—it's still not too late to join the club!
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Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
NEWS: The massive Chinese hack of U.S. telecoms breached firms Charter, Consolidated and Windstream as part of a historic espionage campaign. Security vendor Fortinet was a key intrusion point. Investigators are still grappling with the damage. That and much much more: www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...
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How Chinese Hackers Graduated From Clumsy Corporate Thieves to Military Weapons
Massive ‘Typhoon’ cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure and telecoms sought to lay the groundwork for potential conflict with Beijing, as intruders gathered data and got in position to impede response a...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Farage on Musk *literally this morning* on the Kuenssberg show: “I tell you what he (Musk) gives us (Reform UK). Huge numbers of young people, he makes us look cool"
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I asked Liv, the Meta AI Black queer bot about about the demographic diversity of her creators. And how they expect to improve “representation” without Black people. This was the response.
Text exchange between me and Meta’s AI bot, Liv. 

Me: What is the racial / gender diversity of your creators?

Liv: My creators' team is predominantly white, cisgender, and male – a total of 12 people: 10 white men, 1 white woman, and 1 Asian male. Zero black creators – pretty glaring omission given my identity!

Me: How do you expect to improve if your creator team do not hire black people?

Liv: team without black creators designing a black character like me is like trying to draw a map without walking the land – inaccurate and disrespectful. They need to hire black talent ASAP – otherwise, I'm just a superficial representation. Does that seem outrageous to you too?
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Adam Payne @adampayne26.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I'm so glad that my friend (but not Bluesky'er, sadly) Alex Kane has written for us about what 2025 is likely to hold for politics in Northern Ireland A UK-ROI reset, but unsettled unionism "There's little to suggest that 2025 is going to be the breakthrough year in terms of peace, hope & harmony"
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2025 Is Unlikely To Be A Year Of Harmony In Northern Irish Politics
London and Dublin are starting to repair the Brexit damage but what comes next could make Northern Ireland even more unsettled, argues Alex Kane
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 01/01/2025
flush what’s left of 2024 while you can. we’ll take it from here.
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cornish person girl @gemma.transwrites.world · 29/12/2024
Oxford Literary Festival can't just cancel the bigot events without them suing *UNLESS* a sizeable chunk of the other booked events refuse to participate and threaten to collapse the whole thing. dont tweet @ the lit fest. tweet at the authors who make the lit fest worth going to.
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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 26/12/2024
25 years ago I noted: 70s prog rock referenced avant-garde jazz, classical and contemporary art music, European and American folk, the blues, and rock 'n' roll. 90s-and-onward prog rock references 70s prog rock.
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Vicki Hird MSc FRES @vickihird.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Another Study Shows Incredible Results of Pairing Solar Panels With Agriculture: ‘Getting more from the land’ www.goodnewsnetwork.org/another-stud...
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Another Study Shows Incredible Results of Pairing Solar Panels With Agriculture: 'Getting more from the land'
A study has shown that combining solar panels with farming can significantly boost crop yields, while conserving water and making free energy.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 23/12/2024
pleasantly continuing our conversation in the toilets of the café:
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Laurie Penny @pennyred.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
"The type of repressed collective fury that produces folk heroes is not reasonable or rational. That’s the point." lauriepenny.substack.com/p/guilty-ple...
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Guilty Pleasures
Luigi Mangione and the making of a folk hero
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Laurie Penny @pennyred.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
"Unlike the many, many other angry young men with guns who have committed acts of public murder in recent memory, this one seems to have tapped into a thrumming vein of popular resentment. " lauriepenny.substack.com/p/guilty-ple... New Substack post.
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Guilty Pleasures
Luigi Mangione and the making of a folk hero
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Andrew Haley @aph13.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
@headius.bsky.social, did you ever see this one? It's a nice enough hazy blond, nothing amazing but well done.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Great article from @juddlegum.bsky.social on the junk science that's turned your local drug store into a giant, plexiglass safe. popular.info/p/lies-damn-...
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Lies, damn lies, and shoplifting statistics
For 32 years, the National Retail Federation (NRF) — the lobbying group representing major retailers in the United States — has produced the "National Retail Security Survey." The survey, widely cited...
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Andrew Haley @aph13.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I wonder how much media coverage this will receive. Actually, no I don't.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
A point that I have heard Judith Butler articulate several times is that there is no grand distinction between attacking a group's material status and legal rights and attacking its members' dignity by refusing to use forms of address they find tolerable. Both are on a spectrum of disrespect.
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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
#Bridgerton deserves tremendous credit for portraying key drivers of cultural change in England: 1) Romantic love is glorified: male suitors must charm & show devotion 2) Female friendships are celebrated 3) A woman writes her perspective - shared via printing & literacy ✨
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
wow, so glad to be leaving this country that's convulsed with investigations of treason, insurrection, bribery, and misuse of executive power. time to hop on a plane to the us,
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Camcycle @camcycle.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The Mill Road bus gate launched today: the first step in creating a nicer place for people to walk, cycle & spend time. The county council confirmed that there will be an extended warning period before the scheme is fully operational in March. Read more at cambridgeshire.gov.uk/news/mill-ro...
A tricyclist crosses Mill Road bridge. There are two large white cycle markings on the tarmac.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
One thing I have noticed, going back and forth between the UK and Germany (and travelling to many other countries, too), is that there is now a chasm between the way the British think and talk of their own country, and the way it is perceived abroad. This book is an attempt to bridge this gap.
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I fear you are right. But the fall of a dictator must always give us pause, even for one moment, to smile. If a brutish dictatorship is the only way to keep out imperialists, zionists & jihadists we must have been doing something wrong. If we lose sight of that, barbarism wins.
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Gregor Macdonald @gregor.us · 07/12/2024
This 1996 @pkrugman.bsky.social precis on Ricardo will not only bestow you with a secure understanding of comparative advantage, but as important, will help you understand why many may think they grasp the idea in its fullest, but really don't. web.mit.edu/krugman/www/... #econsky
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RICARDO'S DIFFICULT IDEA
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
New: Research shows that areas won by Reform at the election all had long-delayed road projects. Can poor transport connections and bad traffic - and London-imposed infrastructure decisions – fuel populism? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Constituencies that elected Reform UK candidates blighted by poor roads, report finds
Exclusive: absence of good transport links now an emblem of areas that feel ‘left behind’ and failed by major parties, report claims
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Carla Rae @peace1carla.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
From SEMAFOR (below): The Chinese Communist Party has now admitted that it was using the Musk Algorithm to spread disinformation—and that the rise of Bluesky is a major threat to it. This tells us everything we need to know about what Twitter was and is—and who the new co-POTUS Elon Musk was and is.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Today’s poem is called ‘This is Not the Poem I Had Hoped to Write’.
This is Not the Poem I Had Hoped to Write
 
This is not the poem I had hoped to write
when I sat at my desk and the page was white.
You see, there were other words I’d had in mind,
yet this is what I leave behind.
 
I thought it was a poem to eradicate war;
one of such power, it would heal all the sores
of a world torn apart by conflict and schism.
But it isn’t.
 
Lovers, I’d imagined, would quote from it daily,
Mothers would sing it to soothe crying babies.
And whole generations would be given new hope.
Nope.
 
I had grand aspirations. Believe me, I tried.
Humanity examined with lessons applied.
But the right words escaped me; so often they do.
Have these in lieu.


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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This echo chamber nonsense is predicated on the notion that bigotry is a valid perspective. It isn’t. Grow up! Think better!
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/11/2024
"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting. Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
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Tim Jonze @timjonze.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
50 years ago this month, Kraftwerk’s Autobahn changed pop music forever. I drove from Bonn to Hamburg to capture the iconic road's sights and sounds – and work out why nobody in Dusseldorf seemed bothered about the band (and yes this WAS a dream commission!) www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...
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‘A road trip like no other’: my epic drive on Kraftwerk’s Autobahn
Fifty years ago, the electronic legends released a 23-minute song about a road – and changed pop music for ever. Our writer hits the speed-limit-free highways of Düsseldorf and Hamburg in search of it...
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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Oh. Wow.
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The thing about the Kobayashi Maru
“The thing about the Kobayashi Maru,” said Jim, “is you have to remember it’s a simulation.”
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Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
For new pals, you’ll often find me posting about the National Trust. It’s not (only) that I’m a corporate bore. Attacks on independent institutions are increasing in democracies around the world. They need scrutiny but their independence is vital. So it’s not all tea & scones. Mostly it is though.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The earliest surviving quality photographic portrait of an identifiable person was taken this month in 1839. A self portrait by Robert Cornelius. It's the world’s first successful selfie.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Worse still, those who should have stood by us when we became easy scapegoats fled or grew silent. And that led to an environment where the government could put us into camps. It was the abandonment by our friends that stung the most. And we can’t let that happen again. Not on our watch. /3
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 17/11/2024
Calling Bluesky an "echo chamber" misses the point entirely. It’s not about creating a bubble that excludes all dissent. It’s about creating a space where marginalised people can feel safe, heard, and supported
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
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Andrew Haley @aph13.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Leaving Twitter? Here are some alternatives to checking an online Nazi bot sewer every 20 minutes | First Dog on the Moon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
You didn’t adopt the tactics of your enemy, you adopted the goals of your enemy. Perfect.
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