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I feel like they really haven't had the vote surge people assume they've had from the increase in online hype

Maybe it's the fact that I'm far from London, but I feel like this by election hasn't been a massive deal? I really feel like the Greens should have been able to make it into a massive deal, but Labour, by choosing a sensible local candidate, robbed them of that opportunity.

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You shouldn't drink cigarettes

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Luke @helloitsluke.bsky.social · 3h

"First set of ballot boxes arrive" Come on, why can't every constituency be like Sunderland?

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I can't wait for private accounts on here

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Luke @helloitsluke.bsky.social · 4h

Damn, this is my view exactly, to the word.

Luke @helloitsluke.bsky.social · 4h

Also, being polite shouldn't be a conscious decision. You should naturally say "please" and "thank you" and you should instinctively hold doors open for people. These things should be second nature and you should do them without thinking.

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Luke @helloitsluke.bsky.social · 5h

Also, I repeat what I said when the lineup was announced: bsky.app/profile/hell...

Luke @helloitsluke.bsky.social · 5h

Have you seen her video about her strategy? (I love her so much)

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Luke @helloitsluke.bsky.social · 6h

I'd forgotten until the other day where the phrase "jam tomorrow" comes from, and every time I read about it (especially having forgotten) I audibly chuckle - it's such a wonderful Latin pun

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Luke @helloitsluke.bsky.social · 6h

Saw a video of the H&SP Labour candidate avoiding questions on Gaza and I just find that so baffling. At least before you could (badly) explain it as "just the party line" – but now the party's got a fairly strong position that the UK needs to do more, so I don't know why she can't say that

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Luke @helloitsluke.bsky.social · 13h

While I have my doubts as to how sincere this is, I genuinely hope that it receives enough praise that she finds the strength to sack shadow ministers who say such things.

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Just watched a video of someone explaining their unsuccessful pitch for the Doctor Who CBeebies show and it's so strange - I really think people overestimate the age of that audience.

Had a meeting with a mortgage broker today and was told that buying in the near future is very doable, and I genuinely never thought this would be the case

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Why not, if the interpretation and writing is all my own? Why does it matter that I was introduced to a book by AI as opposed to by a person who might also have recommended that book?

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You're replying as though I'm asking AI to write for me, or even plan for me. I'm not, I'm just using it to identify previous work on the subject which otherwise I wouldn't have known about, which I then go and study myself, as normal. I'm not AI-generating any work, just the initial research.

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I don't think you're hearing what I'm saying in good faith.

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Sorry, I think we're talking at cross purposes. I'm not AI generating anything more than a reading list. All reading, thinking, and writing is me.

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I would like others to read it. I think I've overstated the extent to which I use AI. What I meant is it can be a useful tool to identify existing sources in an area I'm not familiar with, so I can go and read them. I wouldn't ask it what it thinks, because it would be unreliable and/or unoriginal.

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I'm talking non-academically and non-professionally.

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But I am actually doing it. All the thinking and writing is my own.

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...yes?? I know. I'm reading books to draw my own judgments. I don't know what's problematic about that.

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Ok, I agree for academic essays. But I was talking in the context of non-academic essays.

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I genuinely haven't found this to be the case - but even so, if they're not real, I obviously can't use them, so there's nothing lost there

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I really think we're too generous in our estimation of Trump as a bad president. He is, but that's not the point. A bad president is only bad for the length of their term. He's a misogynist, a liar, and a rapist, and his poison will stay with America for years to come.

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Everything seems to be going right in my life. I have a job I don't hate, with great people, where I'm doing well. I have a decent amount of savings and don't feel like I'm scraping by. So why don't I feel happy about any of this?

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E.g. I'm working on a piece at the moment and gave ChatGPT the general outline of my thesis, and my plan for the essay, and just asked for a reading list, and it gave a very extensive reading list. It's now up to me to go through that reading, make my own notes, and use/not use it as appropriate.

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What I meant is asking for sources, not asking for interpretations. Obviously it can hallucinate sources, but I find that's less of an issue than it was, and that's for me to find out when I go and read them. I'm not outsourcing any of the thinking or understanding.

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This has just reminded me of an idea I had a while ago – a jukebox musical about the Limehouse Declaration, featuring the music of Gang of Four

I'm genuinely shocked that she's literally used the phrase "under new management" - is it just me who closely associates that with Starmer's leadership?

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I agree, though I do think AI can be useful for essay research. I approach it not as "AI can get this done faster" but "AI can broaden the palate of existing ideas from which I can form my own thesis". (I'm coming at this from a purely recreational, non-academic & non-professional POV, crucially.)

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Boringly, I think we're going to get a Lab/Lib coalition after the next election, and it's going to be basically fine.

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Can't wait for the discourse around TARDIS Crew. I think it's going to be a great show for young kids, but the Dalek voices are going to offend Who 'fans' on an epic scale. (I think they'll be most like the 1996 ones.)

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Yep, even for a film I've been really looking forward to, I'll usually wait a couple of weeks or longer to see it - because my life doesn't revolve around cinema!

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This is amazing. Whoever sent you this, hold onto them, they're a good 'un.

It's a weird one. Some - like 12 Things - are great. Others have potential but just aren't developed far enough. Then there are some really excellent songs which are just bizarrely left off the album (Anyone But Me) or relegated to B-side (Eyewitness)

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It saddens me that The Future Bites got so much backlash, because I personally loved it and really wish he'd kept that going alongside the prog stuff. I enjoyed The Overview, but it felt very safe 'SW by numbers', so I guess I shouldn't complain when this one takes more risks.

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Subscriptions should legally have auto-renew off by default

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Founded with money raised from taxes on beer and spirits, in the great British academic tradition

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I think they should have at least renamed it the (imo much cooler) Lasso Line

Lol at the 'Young Conservatives' event at CPC

I simply think that if you have to put out a statement assuring your members that a motion passed at your party conference will not be used to discriminate against them, you need to have a long think about whether this is a party you want to stay in.