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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Imagine working 24/7 to be a racist Republican piece of shit & yet not being able to pull a crowd in a county that elected Steve King to national office 10 times. Utterly, crushingly humiliating. I love it.

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Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 22/04/2025

JUST IN: US judge blocks Trump's shutdown of government-funded radio broadcasts reut.rs/4jgn0qU

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

For the first time ever, wind and solar energy are covering more than 100% of demand in mainland Spain. The excess is being stored and exported. The Spanish are achieving these numbers and there is still so much more potential to tap. What incredibly exciting opportunities there are for Spain here.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Very bad BBC headline on analysis of a significant meeting. This disregards what was news as two leaders met at heart of a constitutional clash Instead promotes "were the reporters expectations disrupted". That is of much less importance to world or interest to audiences than to a reporters lobby

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Bryan Pready @kahuzi.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Definitely essential reading. Clear and to the point.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 04/03/2025

France and the UK, “some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 20 or 30 years.” The UK lost 457 soldiers in Afghanistan, fighting alongside the US, and 179 soldiers in Iraq. Hard to overstate what an insult this is to the Brits. (Also wrong on FR obviously)

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Starmer not commenting after the Trump/Vance attack on Zelenskyy is going to become a bigger and bigger issue - for the UK and for his leadership of the Labour party. It is absolutely unthinkable he would not offer Ukraine and its president full and unequivocal support.

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Emma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The absolute shame of it. I’m disgusted.

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Where is Starmer's statement of support for Zelenskyy. No excuses. No equivocation.

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Nick Scott @nickscott.digital · 28/02/2025

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

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This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...

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Jane Dawson @jakdaw65.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Has Starmer said anything yet? Anything at all?

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Sweden, Lithuania, and Sweden all reiterate their support for Ukraine. It would be nice to see the same from the UK and France in this moment.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Former Lib Dem leader Vince Cable calls on Starmer to cancel the State visit for Trump.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Withdraw the state visit invitation to Trump. Offer one to Zelensky instead. With bells and fucking whistles.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Obama and Biden may think they are honoring the office of the presidency by keeping quiet at a moment like this — if so that’s just preening vanity — they owe it to the office and to the Republic that until last month it served to speak up loudly and clearly and without relent.

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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The mistake is to think Zelensky could have salvaged this. Trump admin just doesn’t want to support Ukraine. Period. There was also never going to be a peace agreement. That’s been clear but everyone has been pretending otherwise. There can be no confusion now.

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Delbert Grady Seasons @delbertgseasons.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

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Nick Scott @nickscott.digital · 16/02/2025

Serious question that I haven’t yet seen an article answering: what actual levers that really matter would a more united European response have to add pressure?

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Nick Scott @nickscott.digital · 16/02/2025

How depressing is it to find yourself even half-contemplating in planning conversations the potential the world might just blow up around you. To find yourself saying “we should know more clearly in six months so let’s not commit before then”

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Unions 21 @unions21.org · 14/02/2025

To finish your week, here's a nice little case study of how a union is using AI in a really effective way – to quickly review and categorise hundreds of emails they’re receiving every day in a shared inbox. youtube.com/shorts/SKAuF...

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Steven Willocx ACV-CVS: using AI to make it easier to process hundreds of emails in a shared inbox.

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Nick Scott @nickscott.digital · 12/02/2025

No reviews?! I think a 1* review might be called for.

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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

🤖At the AI Action Summit, Eric Manzi stressed: “The future of work, shaped by digitalisation and AI, is inevitable, but the outcomes are not predetermined. By ensuring that trade unions are actively involved in this transformation, we can create a future of work that is both inclusive and equitable”

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

We're seeing a toxic surge of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric on GB News. This is what advertisers such as Sky are enabling. If Ofcom continues failing to enforce its own rules, then MPs need to step in and hold it to account. bylinetimes.com/2025/01/31/g...

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GB News Hit by Guest Boycott After Hosts Label LGBT+ People 'Paedos' and 'Deviants'

There was a flurry of Ofcom complaints after a series of offensive remarks by presenters on the right-wing channel

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

DeepSeek is the flip side of the same coin: It innovated because of, not in spite of, its constraints. And now that it has upended the assumptions of the dominant AI paradigm, we should reject its costly trade-offs and seek new ways to develop AI without so many harms. 24/

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

So it doesn’t matter if you're a company in the US, China, or elsewhere. DeepSeek should be a cue to pivot HARD toward investing in far more efficient methods of AI development. Even if you care nothing about community & climate impacts, it’s just better business. 19/

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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Nick Scott @nickscott.digital · 17/01/2025

Nearly 100 responses in and we can see that nearly half of union staff think that their union is not engaged in AI being used for internal operations or projects. Not surprised. More surprising is 1 in 3 saying their union is not engaged in policy, representation, advocacy on AI impacting members.

How focused do you think your union is on AI? -
Using AI for internal operations and projects.
43.30% Not Engaged
32.99% Exploring
6.19% Active
16.49% Don't know
Understanding AI for policy, representation, or advocacy.
34.02% Not Engaged
31.96% Exploring
16.49% Active
15.46% Don't know

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Unions 21 @unions21.org · 16/01/2025

Just over week ago we launched the first ever global survey of trade union staff on #AI. We want to know their experience, hopes and fears with AI. What have we learned so far? @nickscott.digital asked AI to help with a quick analysis. youtu.be/crDhhik-Qpk

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How AI can help you do a quick analysis of survey results: a real-time example

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Nick Scott @nickscott.digital · 16/01/2025

#Nonprofits and #unions paying for Google Workspace can now use Gemini for free. Should Microsoft follow suit and make CoPilot 365 free? My take: YES and NO.

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Nick Scott @nickscott.digital · 15/01/2025

This final question in the survey of union staff on their experiences and views of AI is a gold mine. Here’s my favourite response so far.

One final question... imagine you had a magic wand. You can determine what happens with Al in the next 12 months. What do you wish for?
57 of 72 answered
I doubt I'll need a magic wand - the tech industry already knows that it's in it's death throes, and they are overexposed. It will die, but not before the Government hands massive amounts of cash to their pals in the private sector to deliver AI in public services, and it will be terrible (just like it was in the Netherlands, where they've already done this and had to roll-back hard from it). All that will happen is that the poorest and most vulnerable in out society will suffer further. Unions should have nothing to do with it - it's another capitalist grift.

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Nick Scott @nickscott.digital · 15/01/2025

This final question in the survey of union staff on their experiences and views of AI is a gold mine. Here’s my favourite response so far.

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Nick Scott @nickscott.digital · 10/01/2025

One for the #wonkcomms people out there… I’m running an online course (starting on 20th Jan) on AI for policy communicators. Interested? Find out more here: castfromclay.co.uk/course/gener...

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Nick Scott @nickscott.digital · 09/01/2025

“I think we're playing with fire.” 🔥 I’m LOVING seeing the many honest opinions from union staff in response to our survey on AI use in unions. If you work in a union, please fill in the survey here: unions21.fillout.com/2025-ai-surv...

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Union Staff AI survey 2025

Made with Fillout, the best way to make forms, surveys and quizzes your audience will answer.

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Nick Scott @nickscott.digital · 09/01/2025

The picture from the first day’s results to our survey of #tradeunion staff on #AI … Over 4 in 5 have at least experimented with AI tools. DO YOU WORK IN A UNION? Please participate so we can get a full picture 🙏 unions21.fillout.com/2025-ai-surv...

Survey results showing that most union staff (34%) are at the “Walk” stage in their AI journey, with 23% each at “Crawl” and “Run”, 17% at “Standstill” and 3% at “Fly”

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Nick Scott @nickscott.digital · 08/01/2025

TRADE UNION PEOPLE: I need your help! Today, we launched the first global survey of AI in union work. The survey has a simple goal: to help us understand the reality of AI usage among unions. I need you to share this post and the link to the survey: unions21.fillout.com/2025-ai-survey Why? 🧵

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Union Staff AI survey 2025

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Nick Scott @nickscott.digital · 08/01/2025

Work in a union and got a few minutes to spare as we come towards the end of the day (Europe) or kick the day off (N America)? Use those minutes productively and fill in our quick survey on AI use in unions —> unions21.fillout.com/2025-ai-survey

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Union Staff AI survey 2025

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Unions 21 @unions21.org · 08/01/2025

A comment from a union staff member who just filled in our survey on AI use in unions: “I *think* that many colleagues are using AI, I don't know because, as an organisation, we're not talking about it, and I think this is a problem” We couldn’t agree more.

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Union Staff AI survey 2025

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Unions 21 @unions21.org · 10/12/2024

What are unions' experiences of using AI? @nickscott.digital wrote for @etui.bsky.social's HESA magazine on what we've found out while working on the Centre for Responsible Trade Union AI. You can read the full article here www.etui.org/sites/defaul...

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Becky Wright @beckyunions21.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Very exciting to start our new Responsible AI for unions course launch today at @unions21.org. This will be our first self paced course so excited to see how things go. Well done @nickscott.digital and Antti Mäki for getting it off the ground! In person (online) will be launched in the new year

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Unions 21 @unions21.org · 21/11/2024

Have you tried hiring anyone for a job recently? Been frustrated by having to wade through dozens of job applications generated by #ChatGPT or other generative #AI tools? You're not alone! And union HR officers are feeling the pain. www.agileunions.ai/p/job-applic...

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Job applications are the visible tip of the AI iceberg for unions

The question isn't whether AI will transform how people engage with unions - it's already happening. The question is whether we're ready to shape that transformation.

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Stan De Spiegelaere @standespiegelaere.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

As this is really helping me getting a network, here are some people doing research on industrial relations and trade unions Feel free to suggest more @etui.bsky.social @mhermans.bsky.social @melaniesimms.bsky.social @johnwbudd.bsky.social @kurtvandaele.bsky.social go.bsky.app/8W2BZMR

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