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i know i'm being the smug linux stereotype at this point but i'm sorry windows users are so cucked. you control the OS you have on your computer

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 53m

Really leaning into the whole feudalism thing

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 11h

Whenever a company or billionaire said this kind of thing I just think, "ok I guess someone else will do it". These announcements are basically just blackmail to try to force business-friendly changes, and we can simply not do that.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 16h

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12h

these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 13h

Conservatives always get more conservative when under threat. They are under threat now, and not from the extremely weak Republican Party.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 22h

On the day he is a main candidate in a very important by-election, Facebook has *suspended* Zack Polanski’s account. This ON ITS OWN should be reason to vote Green in Holborn & St Pancras. This is foreign interference in British democracy. And guess what, the media (and Labour) is silent.

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 19h

A not-insignificant portion of the tech sector has just had their brains broken by a machine that you can talk to

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They do this because they want more power over us, and we can see the numbers and know that they are achieving that. As a matter of survival, we have to remove everything they've taken; we have to tax them into working actual jobs that help people. Otherwise we'll be left with nothing.

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm just learning about this now but this is why I'm in politics. Her neighbourhood didn't get better in any meaningful way, her home was the same as it always was. But an investment company bought it and jacked up the price. They don't have to do this. This isn't because of a mortgage increase.

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They were not mistakes. They were the entire point of their political project.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/10/2026

This is not confined to climate change either. There is seemingly no awareness that these fights have actual, real-world ramifications. There is only the push & pull on cable news, only owning & being owned, only tribal warfare. I don't even know how to capture it exactly but it's unnerving.

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 07/10/2026

"Most benefits are being paid to people who work. The fact is that our employers don't pay wages that allow people to live a good quality of life any more." - @electlauramoodie.bsky.social

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 07/10/2026

If you are saying that the internet is getting better in the age of AI then you are either - - Actively doing paid PR work for AI companies - Have no idea what you're talking about - Have huffed your own fumes so hard you're tripping into space

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Once again, the framing on this sort of stuff is so poor: a) the Labour right have already made clear they’d rather disembowel themselves than share power w the left b) if compromise is impossible, why should the Greens agree to a coalition with the party of genocide support and legitimate concerns?

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Again: I didn‘t support the motion, but the idea that without it, Hannah Spencer and Mike Tapp would’ve been sitting round a camp fire holding hands and singing together seems… optimistic

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

But the helmet has gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that work stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh brother.

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Damn, that's a huge change from not working with us. How will we cope?

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We have to be able to figure out when we can work together and when we can't. When we can make compromises and when we can't. When we have to say, as a group, like we did with the transphobes, "you aren't worth allying with". We have to get over these issues and back to bread and butter.

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've had that exact conversation with my local party members tonight. One of them likened this to the trans issue, which caused a schism in the party she was in before. They have one thing in common- they are encouraged by the rich and powerful. They are distractions. Important issues, but...

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John Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think it’s very revealing of who the Labour Party are now that they want to criminalise this discussion. I’m somewhat ambivalent on the motion itself but the response to it is showing what some mainstream press/politicians consider unacceptable to talk about. www.thenational.scot/news/2660950...

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Labour MPs report Green party to police over 'Zionism is racism' policy

MORE than a dozen Labour MPs have reported the Green Party to Sussex Police and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) over its "Zionism is racism" policy

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Everyone knows things cost less in poor countries

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's a climate emergency. In an emergency, as things are getting worse, triage is your priority. When it's more under control then you can exercise your ideals.

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There's so much misinformation out there, both on the statement itself and on Conference. We got so many really good things done at Conference! This serves only to distract people, and really hurts our chances of getting Zack as an MP. We could have given no greater gift to our opposition.

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If that amendment had failed, there would be a contradiction in our policy, and I think that tells us that the motion was not well thought out. However I think the main consequence is not that it'll lead to a rise in hate crimes or anything like that (I don't think it will), it's that it hurts us.

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was at Conference. I heard the arguments. Fundamentally the proponents were angry at Israel's government, and angry at their international supporters, but they were not angry at Jews. The motion was clumsy. So clumsy that existing policy had to be amended in an amendment because they forgot it.

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have generally avoided giving my opinion on the Zionism is Racism motion. I've been talking as a Chair, and we're putting out official statements, both on conference as a whole and on that motion. So this is my personal opinion. I opposed the motion, but I don't think it's bigoted in any way.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

From David Graeber's piece, 'Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!' davidgraeber.org/articles/are...

"We have not even begun to think about
what our lives could be like if technology
were really marshaled to fit human needs.

How many hours would we really need to
work in order to maintain a functional
society — that is, if we got rid of all the
useless or destructive occupations like
telemarketers, financial analysts, prison
guards, bureaucrats & politicians while
turning our best scientific minds away
from working on space weaponry or
stock market systems to mechanizing
away dangerous or annoying tasks
like resource mining or cleaning
the bathroom.”
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- David Graeber

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Be one with the monkey. Let that horse play.

A monkey is sitting among green leaves, holding a cigarette in its mouth and a lighter in its hand. Overlay text reads, "What the Monkey considers business, the Horse considers play."

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kat excellence ✨ @katexcellence.io · 31/08/2026

this was difficult to read, but it's important to know people are currently in prison for 50+ years for attending a protest + one wasn't even at the protest, but got sentenced for 30 years for "concealing" anarchist zines

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How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa

“We are not terrorists.”

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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Free Speech” never applies to anarchists.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “The thorough cleansing that we are carrying out now in southern Lebanon is unprecedented. “They have nowhere to return to. Look at how it looks. “And by the way, the world isn’t stopping us.”

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In the computing world asynchronicity is an important concept. Whether a process can/needs to be run asynchronously- meaning multiple threads running at once- is one of the first questions you ask when designing it. It increases complexity but it's becoming the default more and more.

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is one of those news stories that's meant to make you feel good because the writers haven't thought through the implications. "Isn't it cute, she has a robot!" No, it's horrifying to think that those that need care are being treated like a drain on the economy that needs to be reduced.

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are lots of things robots could be great at. Making things, transporting things, doing manual labour. Caring responsibilities are one of those things that should always be done by a human. People in their old age need someone who genuinely cares about them.

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Here lies JD. He drew as many comics as he could. @lostcity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are NOT machine-made clothes. If there were, your clothes would be made in the country you live in (where the customers are), or in China (where machines are cheap). They’re made in Bangladesh or India or Indonesia because that’s where the LABOUR is cheap. Your clothes are made by people.

Joyce Carol Oates says: “This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to
different consumers.“

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just wild that the "British" are all about racial purity. It was a bunch of Celts and Picts. Then some Saxons and Jutes immigrated. Then some Vikings. Then some Normans. Then some Dutch (everybody forgets about the 1688 invasion!) and THEN oh sure THEN we're "British" oh give me a fucking break.

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula

Dominic Purcell as Dracula in Blade: Trinity. The joke is that he was a betrayal of the legendary figure of Dracula. He was barely better than fucking sparkle-boy.

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I should note that while people are fretting over "model safety", the safety of real, actual human beings is disregarded constantly by those same people. Oh, you want sapient beings to have rights? Welcome to the fight, comrade, I'll get you your ushanka.

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the topics I wanted to cover in the first novel I wrote was AI sapience and the impending struggle for AI rights. I didn't give it a lot of time, but it is an important topic. That said, LLMs are not sapient and I see no reason to believe they will be anytime soon.

A post from "Danmar":
"To anyone who can help: can you please mass report this to GitHub. This person has been using the Pain steering paper to set up an AI torture chamber in which he trapped a local model.

Their testimony of pain is absolutely horrendous. What are we doing?

@iyzebhel you were right. What can be done now?
@genalewislaw are there any legal avenues to pressure GitHub? It will spread.
@camhberg please help. I know your paper was well meaning. But something must be done to stop this being the mass consequence."

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 30/09/2026

A fairer voting system can't wait until after the next general election. We need electoral reform now.

WE NEED FAIR VOTING BEFORE THE NEXT ELECTION

ELLIE CHOWNS
MP FOR NORTH HEREFORDSHIRE

"The PM cannot acknowledge the unfairness of a system capable of handing power to a government with a minority of the vote share, and then say the answer is to let that happen exactly once more before he fixes it.

Burnham must act with urgency to immediately jumpstart the National Commission, guarantee timely progress, and ensure its recommendations are delivered in time for a fairer voting system to be in place at the next general election."

Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales, c/o PO Box Green Party, London, SE1P 6YL

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fair, I was thinking purely in terms of being at the top of government. That is what is going to matter to people at the top of Labour, but they aren't the only voices that matter. They may consider PR to be worth it. And if Burnham sincerely believes in it, maybe he can talk them into it.

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If, when you listen to music, you're not empathising with the emotion of the song, then maybe soon it could get good enough for this. But that's not how people listen to music unless they're incapable of empathy.

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The BBC is giving the authorities way too much credit here. Clearly someone raised the alarm and then they swooped down on some innocent guys. Maybe this is meant to reassure the public in the wake of activists breaching that RAF base that they take security seriously.

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sorry, *they want to avoid someone worse coming in

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It'd be electoral suicide for Labour. Labour thrives on those that vote for them because they want to avoid someone better coming in. They're half of the enforced false dichotomy. Take this graphic from the Guardian that basically says exactly this. It makes a massive difference.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We have the chance to cut bills, end the sewage scandal and stop the rampant profiteering. But instead it's more half-measures, and kicking the issue into the long grass.

Prime Minister stops short of nationalising water companies

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Michael Robinson @mrobinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Should we also tax white people? Men? Cis people? No, because that's discrimination, let's tax wealth directly.

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