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Lady Jek

@ladyjek.bsky.social
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cats, travels, a smattering of politics - ok, turns out it's quite a bit of politics.. 🇩🇪 in 🇿🇦

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 2h
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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 2h
Actually, i can see some merit. Anthropic is developing the AI, but ultimately other companies will be adopting and applying it, and they won't be able to claim ignorance or blame Anthropic for an inherently dangerous product. Anthropic just needs to avoid liability in the development stage.
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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 13h
New conspiracy theory: There is no "Mar-a-Lago" face. Those are aliens.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 15h
Three panel comic. Panel 1: in an office break room, an excited man inspects a box of donuts. He says, “ooo… who brought donuts?” A coworker behind him says, “idk.” Panel 2: the man is holding tightly to the donut as it is suddenly and forcefully yanked out of frame, sending the table and several objects into the air. Panel 3: two fish are sitting in a canoe wish fishing gear. One grabs tightly to his fishing pole and exclaims, “I got one!”
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 13/10/2026
The Terminator franchise, but everything turns out fine because the CEO responsible for selling Skynet to a sceptical public is the least naturally charismatic person on earth.
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Christina Ayiotis @christinaayiotis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"TIME magazine analyzed the software’s internal instructions and found that it maintains constantly updated dossiers on users and the people they know." www.malwarebytes.com/blog/privacy...
malwarebytes.com
Meta’s Muse AI files away your friendships, arguments, and secrets
Meta’s Muse AI builds personal dossiers that would make the FBI jealous. Even people who never signed up can get caught in its files.
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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It sounded better when he said it 🤣
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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Same as - "they will need human agents to implement [terrible thing]". Yes, and I don't think that's even close to a guardrail.
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
<taps sign>
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I've been up since 4 AM this morning working on a past-due draft on the many ways that the Turkish government has weaponized the judiciary to harass, dislodge, and jail opposition leaders. Then I look at the news. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Ilhan Omar’s home raided as part of criminal investigation by Trump’s feds
Raid comes as Omar, the first Somali American elected to Congress, has drawn President Donald Trump’s ire for years
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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Love my local bookstore :)
Window display which has Klein and Taylor's new book End Time Fascism covering the whole window. The window itself is framed by an old-ish wooden brown frame, and a reflection of a Cape Dutch building from the opposite side of the road is visible.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
off the fucking rails. a rogue government.
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Too Lazy to Fail @toolazytofail.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A guy told me Ukrainian drones keep blowing up his data centers so I asked how many GPUs he has left and he said he just buys new ones from a guy in Kyrgyzstan afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding smuggled Nvidia chips to Ukrainian drones and then Sergey Lavrov started crying.
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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is art
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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
When you've opened cabinets, knocked stuff off the counter, scratched the wall and thrown dirt out of the potted plant ... but your lazy servant STILL won't take a hint and serve you second breakfast.
A very perturbed Jinx the tabby bobtail trying to will momma to give her breakfast with her big green eyes.
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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
OMG 🤣
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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 12/10/2026
The new The Dress is a horse www.reddit.com/r/opticalill...
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I suppose if I had only one wish it would be to shake policymakers until they realised that electrification and the energy sovreignity (not to mention the climate mitigation) it brings *IS* national defence www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Thread below highlights US-funded Danish study depriving newborns of hepB vaccine. Background: Guinea-Bissau newborns get BCG and polio vax, but not hepB. Infants get hepB vax at 6 weeks. This misses the window for blocking mother-to-child transmission, which matters ENORMOUSLY there.
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Raphael Wimmer @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In summary: - the graph that is circulating looks fishy - it is not clear what the source data for this graph is - the person who posted it first (?) is evasive. Could we (and especially politicians, journalists and scientists who should know better) please stop sharing unverified images?
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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I'm ... mildly impressed at the speed of the response tbh!
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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🔒Jonny Steinberg | Ramaphosa’s succession nightmare. "In handing the reins from one leader to the next, parties do things they know are insane, things they wouldn't dream of doing at any other time, and which they understand are suicidal." www.news24.com/opinions/col...
news24.com
Jonny Steinberg | Ramaphosa’s succession nightmare | News24
Cyril Ramaphosa is one hurdle away from easing his party into a gracious decline. But it may be one hurdle too many, Jonny Steinberg writes.
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Anybody who does this deserves the outcome
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aric @aghastronaut.com · 30/09/2026
Someone is replacing my body with a slightly worse body each night while I sleep.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump: “It's amazing. I can say the stupidest things, and you clap.” *someone in the audience claps*
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good." 

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues  "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
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More silence

"Professor?"
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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is horrendous groundup.org.za/article/we-w...
groundup.org.za
Anti-immigrant mob threatens to burn women and children
Home Affairs backtracks on reopening the asylum system after violent clashes
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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That's out front door, and this is HIS house 💜
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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
South Africa is at (yet another) cross roads and I'm not sure we have the social cohesion this time EDITORIAL | Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma is a threat to democracy. She must be stopped www.news24.com/opinions/edi...
news24.com
EDITORIAL | Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma is a threat to democracy. She must be stopped | News24
The advent of March and March has tested the strength and resilience of our democracy like never before. This week, March and March expanded its targets from undocumented foreigners to politicians, judges and journalists, News24 editors write.
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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Today's #birdoftheday theme is #waders This is probably my favorite wader photo, a great egret chasing a cattle egret with a vole. What characters they are!🪶
Great egret running, looming over a cattle egret with a vole in its beak, trying to keep his snack from getting stolen.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The image is of a four panel comic. 
In the first panel, we see a pair of ghosts. The first ghost says, “Let us make love, my darling.”
In the second panel, we see  see the second ghost’s face, blushing. It says, “Here? In public?”
In the third panel, we again see the pair of ghosts together. The first one says, “No one can see us, we’re ghosts!”
In the fourth panel, the title reads “the cat”. We see a cat looking up at them.
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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yes, totally. It really feels like the xenophobic mob is ratcheting up a notch. And it scares me so much if they now have the Con Court in their sights.
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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yes! Sorry, was reading multiple stories at once. Durban and Joburg. Will delete now now.
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Bob Burgess @bobburgess.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Why aren't gas prices dropping if oil is flowing through the Strait? The answer: "For a sign of just how extraordinary oil shipping costs have become, consider this: It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Hiring US-to-China Oil Tanker Costs More Than Launching a Space Rocket
For a sign of just how extraordinary oil shipping costs have become, consider this: It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space.
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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One cat won't fix all of your problems. But 3 might. Or they might just cause enough problems that you forget all about your old problems. So get 7.
Jinx the green eyed tabby bobtail cat sitting by the front door waiting for her squirrel friend to show up.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
god forbid a mouse come to this place for magic
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Currently in a theater that's being invaded by mice. I saw one. But then saw others. Kind of distracting. I am going to make a list later: movies where I encountered mice in the theater. I think this is the 4th time it's happened while I've been in NYC.

and then it’s just a photo of an innocent little mouse watching a movie on the big screen, the way scorsese intended.
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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I have a strongly held suspicion that evolution has selected for this - *competent fascists have to be the exception or the human race would be wiped out 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Very very evergreen tweet
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Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Photosynthesis
Two cats in a sunny windowsill. Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat with green eyes, lays closest to the camera and looks outwards. His pupils are small from the light. Behind him, in a green cat bed, lays Mr Lover. He is an orange tabby cat with amber eyes.
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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Argh spelling mistake 🙈
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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When you've already made eye contact with the server several times but your food still hasn't been served.
Jinx the green eyed tabby bobtail looking a little perturbed that breakfast has not yet been served.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
somewhere his wife is like “wait what”
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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
OMG 🤣
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thinking about the glamorous, snake-killing secretarybird this morning. She knows she’s the one.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Intermittently I get a fit of the bleak giggles thinking about how much poorer the Iran war has made all of us. Bills and inflation going up on the theory of “drop a few bombs, magic happens, Reza Pahlavi comes back”.
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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
😭😭😭
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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
BanING The Pervert Glasses ✨🎉
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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 08/10/2026
can't believe I still have to go to work when openai did all those maths things and there's been a paradigm shift in our understanding of the four-dimensional Kakeya conjecture and what have you
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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 08/10/2026
Sam Altman visited me in hospital and did all the sudokus in my sudoku book really quickly then he gave it back to me and told me they were solved and I should check all the numbers myself, is this normal?
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