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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 11h

Yesterday it was parental estrangement Today it’s the birth rate “Social contagion” is starting to sound like “adults making their own choices and refusing to be abused and exploited, in ways I disapprove of because I prefer to remain ignorant”.

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 11h

Tell me again how AI doesn’t really infringe copyright because it’s fair use, deconstructing the source material in to something truly novel

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 12h

ATTENSHUN: plz remember to inflate your floof or this happen

A primordial pool of Bernese mountain dog

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 11h

You’ve seen Doctorow’s centaur / reverse centaur distinction?

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 11h

(none of which actually makes sense in a county without birthright citizenship, but whatever)

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

7/ Among the most jarring trends we found: 36 U.S. citizens were not allowed to contact their family or a lawyer.

36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their family.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h

Using phone calls, travel movements and location data, Der Spiegel has traced the recent drone attack on a German airport back to the elite SSD unit of the Russian military intelligence service GRU. When are the authorities going to start saying we’re at war and have been for a long time?

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(S+) Leipziger Flughafen: Das sollen die Männer hinter der Drohnen-Attacke sein

Ermittler meinen zu wissen, wer den Leipziger Flughafen mit Drohnen angegriffen hat. Ihren Auftrag erhielten die Verdächtigen nach SPIEGEL-Recherchen wohl von einer Spezialeinheit des russischen Gehei...

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 11h

“We expect you to behave as loyal allies, while we treat you like the enemy”

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 11h

How much does You And Yours even cost?

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 22h

Trump: You wanna see trauma? I said it the other day. Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles.

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 11h

My guess is it’s more that he was disappointed that he hadn’t outraged people as much as he’d hoped

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 11h

Long overdue, and profoundly necessary.

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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 17h

Is your software a “product”? If not — and it harms you in some way — you may not be able to claim compensation. That needs to change, the government’s law reform advisers suggest. And product liability law might be extended to online marketplaces like Amazon. rozenberg.substack.com/p/consumer-p...

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Consumer protection

Will Amazon have to pay compensation if it sells products that cause harm?

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 12h

> specific to U.K. threats > Badenoch adds that the system would aim to protect critical infrastructure across the UK, as well as assets abroad. So a system specific to U.K. threats but providing global coverage? I want to speak to her dealer. She’s obviously getting the really good stuff

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 12h

Are you channeling MTG?

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 12h

> We choose the unapologetic pursuit of national power. Isn’t this the sort of thing that Austrian chap used to say?

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 12h

I wish that the Parliamentary party statement had been this clear and principled. Really good.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 15h

On your commute? Not entirely convinced that Kemi B. is the second coming in spite of all the adoring headlines? Or just in need of a laugh? John Crace has got you covered, as per.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13h

I think this is often driven by media class overcompensation for fear of metropolitan bias: a lack of proper engagement across geography, social class lines leads to a weird caricature of public opinion, as if the radicalised online group must be speaking up for authentic public opinion

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13h

Nor is it the case that public attitudes) become more unsettled recently. Generational shiftbigger. 1 in 5 doubted this in 2010 and 1 in 10 in 2020s. (There was a generation gap in 2010, but older people adapted to the prevailing norm). This is media/politics amplification of online radicalisation

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Hmmm… Let’s see… how could I possibly say something more revolting than urging Iran to bomb American cities… ? Oh wait, I’ve got it…“

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Trump will not respect the election outcome. What a shock. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Máirtín Ó Loċlainn @mr--mo.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

If you spend a few minutes reading Orwells Homage to Catalonia you soon learn a similar lesson. Just because a group was anti facist doesn't put them on your side. It's a lesson that gets repeated so often yet here we are.

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No-one would have complained if she hadn’t been in the aisle seat at the time.

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Phil Syrpis @syrpis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To govern is to choose, or some such. Not difficult to see why so many see the Tories as the nasty party.

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think you’re unnecessarily harsh on Paddington. * Mr Gruber knew how authoritarians work, and he taught Paddington well… * …which may partly explain why Paddington is generally a very shrewd judge of character… …& gives people he distrusts a Hard Stare Also, he’d make a better PM than Liz Truss.

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thank you. I did hope to hear it from you directly, and I appreciate you doing that.

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Speaking for myself, you’re spot on.

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thank you for responding here, and for your clarity. I’d muted the questioner; it was only *your* opinions I cared about. My expectation was that you’d interpreted the question differently and that like me you would not consider those things legitimate (but that your questioner most likely would).

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That’s a very powerful framing, and one I imagine took great integrity and great love for your child to frame and to hold. Respect to you.

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have had my child contemplate suicide in response to my failings as a parent. Apologising for that hasn’t magically made everything ok. But it has helped. Sometimes it’s not what you *do*, it’s what you do *next*. I’m sorry you’ve had to go through all this. I hope you find what you need.

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

…and that learning to do better in itself comes from learning self-compassion and self-forgiveness. Self-judgement hurts you, but it doesn’t make anything better for anyone else. We have all failed We have all let people down All of us at some point have felt guilt or shame or both

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The thing about guilt is that once you have clarity about what you regret and wish you’d done differently, it becomes possible to recognise that you did the absolute best that you were capable of *in each moment*. And that you best honour those you’ve wronged by learning to do better…

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At the risk of saying the obvious: Where you can make reparations, that can be a good thing to do Either way, taking responsibility can help, & apologising, if the other person is alive and willing to be in contact with you After that, there is only the long journey of self-forgiveness

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That’s certainly a…possibility

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

FWIW, this report about a failure in an ‘ML’ exercise in 2016 is conceptually very similar to a failure in a BAe ‘neural network’ exercise in the late Eighties 🤷‍♂️ www.tumblr.com/actualaster/...

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💬 28 🔁 16187 ❤️ 21629 · There was a paper in 2016 exploring how an ML model was differentiating between wolves and dogs with a really high accuracy, they found that for whatever reason the model…

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

things you people wouldn’t believe…

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❄️🥀Em Will Bite🥀❄️ @wrathfulroses.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

May their memories be a blessing

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026

it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA

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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On this day 20 years ago, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow, on Putin’s 54th birthday. She had spent years reporting on Putin’s Russia and exposing atrocities committed during Russia’s war in Chechnya. Dozens of journalists have been killed for their work under Putin.

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Andrew Whiteley @andrewwhiteley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Another example of how the racist thugs who claim to be 'protecting our women and children' are actually the biggest physical threat to our women and children. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols

Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

My new album LIAR (Love Isn't A Right) is out now! ☀️ Thank you so much to everyone who has joined me on this journey to the release of LIAR. I am beyond proud and excited to finally share this with you all and I want to know what you think! ❤️

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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