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@louise33andathird.bsky.social
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Born in Bedford Falls now sadly living in Pottersville. I reserve the right to punch any man wearing a balaclava.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1h
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 1h
More here: taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/10/08/c...
taxpolicy.org.uk
Tory IHT cut could cost £11bn - almost twice the advertised price
Our modelling suggests Badenoch’s inheritance tax cut could cost £7.7bn-£10.9bn a year and shift £60bn-£110bn from savings and investments into housing.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 1h
This does in fact seem obvious to everyone apart from the people who came up with the policy.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1h
Not sure why anyone bothers with anti-AI activism when the most effective strategy would be to just point as many microphones as possible to its most vocal champions.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 1h
In light of the guy wanting to a train an AI to read to his kid, may I propose the counterpoint and repost this ode to reading to children www.newstatesman.com/politics/fut...
newstatesman.com
The magic of reading to children
Its appeal is in the forging of memory as much as the story itself
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2h
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1h
It's exactly the same reason that streaming services are now frantically having to reinvent bundled cable tv. The technology of streaming was NEVER the product. AD FREE access to a large library of quality (or, frankly, familiar old comfort watches) on demand was the product. Not the platform.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1h
Amazon. Uber. Air-BnB. All represent the use of technology to streamline the customer experience and, bluntly, reduce costs by dodging regulation or taxes. They weren't the PRODUCT. No consumer wants to BUY AI. It's not a product. Billy six-fingers has no value to them until he gets a job.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 2h
Most of AI (in business terms) is driven by a false belief that TECHNOLOGY is what drove the internet and telecommunications booms of the last two decades. Technology unlocked better communication and business processes. THOSE then drove the boom. Tech was a means to an end, not the end in itself.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2h
Sometimes it’s hard to breathe with what is happening with the United States. Even OxyClean won’t be able to get this stain out.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2h
FIMI is a new acronym I just learned, short for “Foreign information manipulation and interference”. An international conference is going to have a session entitled “USA as a FIMI threat: acknowledge, adapt, push back”. So the Trump administration threatened the EU and Canada and they pulled out.
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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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 2h
This will happen in some cases.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is brilliant! And so true! 😂 💀💀💀 A Norwegian consumer protection video about the inbuilt redundancy of so many modern products and apps.
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louise33andathird.bsky.social @louise33andathird.bsky.social · 2h
So relations between Israel & the UK are at an all time low. #wato Because Israel is committing Genocide ? No. Because we complained about the Genocide, a bit.
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Kevin McKenna MP @kevinmckenna.co.uk · 6h
Not only a fringe view currently being aggressively promoted for desperate reasons, it’s not even an interesting talking point as most pub conversations settled this decades ago. Less than 16% support for the (nonsensical in the case of Englishness) race essentialist view. Boring as well as nasty
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DotDotDotDash @dotdotdotdash.bsky.social · 22h
Have been supplied with the supposed prompt. If this is Grok's output, Grok is spewing Russian propaganda. This bad, very bad, and why self-regulation of AI will never work, especially with a bad actor in the driving seat. bsky.app/profile/pete... HT @peterjukes.bsky.social
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6h
Comebacks for wild tigers, tuna and sea turtles prove nature loss can be reversed, scientists say
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Comebacks for wild tigers, tuna and sea turtles prove nature loss can be reversed, scientists say
A landmark report reveals that the world must change the way it produces food to avoid a biodiversity collapse
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 7h
Totally agree with him, Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick should never get near power again #r4today
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please share widely! We all need to know our rights! #momsky#sheshed
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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 14h
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louise33andathird.bsky.social @louise33andathird.bsky.social · 8h
The most expensive houses in London aren’t selling without big discounts. If anyone thought Kemi might be PM one day expect those mansions to start selling better. Pass you £13m mansion on tax free! #r4today
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 9h
Rubio's Athens speech was unabashedly white supremacist. Astonishing to me that reporting references his invocation of the Spartan "300" without noting the fetishized role the idiot movie--a fiction based on a fiction, a comic book--plays for the murder-minded wing of the Right.
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louise33andathird.bsky.social @louise33andathird.bsky.social · 8h
#r4today
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 9h
Mainstream political journalists, committed even now to a horse race that Trump openly speaks stealing, call Rubio's Athens speech 2028 positioning. Yes, and--he'd like to be the contender if that becomes the option. But all his great man talk is designed to flatter a boss who may decide to stay.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 9h
And if you say, "What! Trump can't stay!" citing either term limits or his unpopularity, I'm putting you in the sadly large bin of people who insisted in 16 he couldn't win, in 20 that there'd be no coup attempt, in 24 that he couldn't win again. I think he'll go; but he may make an attempt.
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J. Rowe @saquin.bsky.social · 21h
“The Apprentice” did so much damage. People believed that s**t was real.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21h
I never watch the speeches anymore, I only read them and what's funny about Badenoch's speech is when you're reading it the lack of a throughline is even more clear. Conference, our tax code is too long... [a few paragraphs later'] ...we are going to add more complexity to it
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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 18h
Six months have passed since the #ArtemisII mission and NASA has just released the reentry video from the Orion capsule! Here is a timelapse of the reentry, but be sure to check out the realtime version linked below! 🔭🧪
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Dave Iley @dna-level-c.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Last night on the bus: Phone lady: "Are you even listening to me?" Bus driver: "Everybody on this bus is listening to you. Can you tone it down?"
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paranormal mattivity @windows98support.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
She wouldn’t be a Tory if she didn’t come preprogrammed with “the past was perfect, we must return to the past”
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
One of the most important climate change risks: a slowdown or collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which would transform Europe as we know it
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yeah, he won a General Election.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
For the sake of a slogan achieving nothing except great concern and distress to British Jews, Green members have probably destroyed any hope that a party - their party - which consistently and clearly opposes the #genocide will join the next government. Genius. 🤦‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Labour figures rule out working with Greens after ‘Zionism is racism’ vote
Minister says they could not see parties cooperating, while official says coalition should be formally ruled out
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
back in the pre-marriage equality era I once heard a close friend from church earnestly say to someone “I just can’t understand why gay people want to DESTROY my marriage by redefining the meaning of it” I’ll remember the way she said the word “destroy” until the day I die, because she meant it
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Sorry about your dead kid. Hey, you want to see my fancy party room? Look at that gold! Lotta gold. I got a new helicopter, too! Do you feel better now about sacrificing your child on my altar? Worth it, right? Look at that gold."
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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A bit late to install a fire extinguisher next to Joan of Arc now
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The pivot from "identity politics is bad, we shouldn't be putting people into boxes" to "except for trans people, who don't exist and need to get back into their assigned box" genuinely gives you an insight into how she thinks.(1/2)
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“If the wife is fit, you must acquit”
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Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Plenty of Zionists (in and outside of Israel) strongly disagree with the idea of the displacement of Palestinians. This idea was also not part of the original Zionist movement and settlements.
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mike Caruso, Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts, and pedophile said he still intends to win his election for Clerk and Comptroller after being arrested in August for molesting a male relative under the age of 5. He’s been endorsed by the GOP. amp.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
amp.miamiherald.com
Palm Beach GOP endorses candidate accused of child sex abuse
“I maintain my innocence and remain a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller,” Mike Caruso, facing child sex abuse charges.
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Make The Planet Great Again... @turquoisemarble.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Tories have had over two years to come up with a broad set of new policies and they've reverted to their same old mean spirited small minded ones they have had for decades. More austerity and the type of deregulation that led to Grenfell.
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Conservatives: We will spent £10bn over ten years on missile defence for the UK. Conservatives: As part of our commitment to spend 3% of GDP on defence by 2030. Conservatives: While we are out of power until some time in 2029. BBC: And we will just read it all out. #R4Today
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Us: Patriotic Alternative are harassing South Asian people on the street and threatening the RNLI have you thought about doing something? Shabana Mahmood: we have reduced small boat crossings and are maintaining robust borders
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Chris Washington @cwashington.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
youtu.be
HIGNFY Mastermind
YouTube video by Steve White
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Openly bragging about ethnic cleansing. That's how you know they're the Good Guys.
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