Brenda W
@erith-lass.bsky.social
Book lover, keen knitter and crocheter, rock music rules!
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Thank you to all those firefighters who have worked tirelessly through the night to bring the fire at Maypole Crescent, Darenth Industrial Park in Slade Green under control.
Residents are asked to keep windows & doors closed did to the level of smoke that remains in the area.
Residents are asked to keep windows & doors closed did to the level of smoke that remains in the area.
July 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Just watching the Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ & listening to Timothee Chalamet singing ‘Blowing in the Wind ‘ & thinking for a song written in ‘62 how fecking little we’ve learned!
Wars, climate change, refugees, opression, whatever… Bob Dylan’s vision was prophetic! 🙌
Wars, climate change, refugees, opression, whatever… Bob Dylan’s vision was prophetic! 🙌
July 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Just watching the Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ & listening to Timothee Chalamet singing ‘Blowing in the Wind ‘ & thinking for a song written in ‘62 how fecking little we’ve learned!
Wars, climate change, refugees, opression, whatever… Bob Dylan’s vision was prophetic! 🙌
Wars, climate change, refugees, opression, whatever… Bob Dylan’s vision was prophetic! 🙌
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Free MRI scans for men age 50-75 at UCL East I Stratford this weekend.
TAKE ADVANTAGE!
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from Friday 4 - Sunday 6 July, with Black men aged 50-75 in particular encouraged to come and take part. The scan is free and non-invasive.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
TAKE ADVANTAGE!
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from Friday 4 - Sunday 6 July, with Black men aged 50-75 in particular encouraged to come and take part. The scan is free and non-invasive.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
Scan-in-a-van prostate cancer screening at UCL East
A clinical trial using an MRI scan to help detect prostate cancer before people have symptoms is coming to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from Friday 4 - Sunday 6 July, with Black men aged 50-75 in part...
www.ucl.ac.uk
July 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Free MRI scans for men age 50-75 at UCL East I Stratford this weekend.
TAKE ADVANTAGE!
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from Friday 4 - Sunday 6 July, with Black men aged 50-75 in particular encouraged to come and take part. The scan is free and non-invasive.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
TAKE ADVANTAGE!
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from Friday 4 - Sunday 6 July, with Black men aged 50-75 in particular encouraged to come and take part. The scan is free and non-invasive.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
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They really should remove the World Cup from the USA and let Canada and Mexico do it all.
Spread the message if you agree.
Spread the message if you agree.
June 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
They really should remove the World Cup from the USA and let Canada and Mexico do it all.
Spread the message if you agree.
Spread the message if you agree.
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Britain and Germany issuing travel warnings to the US is the kind of thing Americans might not be aware of, but it’s poison to tourism and international economic activity. The perception of the US as dangerous due to gun violence is widespread; now the government is chaining up British tourists.
March 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Britain and Germany issuing travel warnings to the US is the kind of thing Americans might not be aware of, but it’s poison to tourism and international economic activity. The perception of the US as dangerous due to gun violence is widespread; now the government is chaining up British tourists.
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March 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Simple and powerful little video
Ahead of Germany’s election, with anti-immigrant sentiment rising, they released viral videos showing life without immigrants.
History proves that when a country starts erasing certain people, it doesn’t end well.
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History proves that when a country starts erasing certain people, it doesn’t end well.
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March 20, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Simple and powerful little video
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Thank you @patmillsuk.bsky.social 👏
We’re out and about across the UK today to tell MPs and constituents that our country is missing out on £460m a week without a wealth tax.
Rachel Reeves doesn’t need to make cuts, instead she can tax the richest people like us to build a better Britain.
#TaxOurWealth
Rachel Reeves doesn’t need to make cuts, instead she can tax the richest people like us to build a better Britain.
#TaxOurWealth
March 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Thank you @patmillsuk.bsky.social 👏
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Do not travel to the US
A young lady originally from Whitehorse is being detained in a detention center in Arizona. She was detained March 3rd, after her visa was denied.
Facebook post from her Mom is in the pics below. It's a disturbing sequence of events.
Do not travel to the US.
Facebook post from her Mom is in the pics below. It's a disturbing sequence of events.
Do not travel to the US.
March 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Do not travel to the US
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I hope the right wing nutters who trashed the RNLI reflect on their stupidity as they watch coverage of the collision in the North Sea.
The RNLI and their volunteers represent the country at its best.
The RNLI and their volunteers represent the country at its best.
March 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I hope the right wing nutters who trashed the RNLI reflect on their stupidity as they watch coverage of the collision in the North Sea.
The RNLI and their volunteers represent the country at its best.
The RNLI and their volunteers represent the country at its best.
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To repeat: the Trump administration peace deal was always a deal for peace between Russia and the US, not Russia and Ukraine. In it, it seems, the US gets Ukraine's resources, Russia gets Ukraine's land, and Ukraine gets to say thank you.
March 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
To repeat: the Trump administration peace deal was always a deal for peace between Russia and the US, not Russia and Ukraine. In it, it seems, the US gets Ukraine's resources, Russia gets Ukraine's land, and Ukraine gets to say thank you.
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A UK citizen has been detained by ICE at the Canadian border.
Her possessions confiscated, she’s being held in a cell with limited access to the outside world and no idea when she will be allowed to return home.
Stop traveling to the U.S. Vote with your dollar & protect yourself.
Her possessions confiscated, she’s being held in a cell with limited access to the outside world and no idea when she will be allowed to return home.
Stop traveling to the U.S. Vote with your dollar & protect yourself.
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
A UK citizen has been detained by ICE at the Canadian border.
Her possessions confiscated, she’s being held in a cell with limited access to the outside world and no idea when she will be allowed to return home.
Stop traveling to the U.S. Vote with your dollar & protect yourself.
Her possessions confiscated, she’s being held in a cell with limited access to the outside world and no idea when she will be allowed to return home.
Stop traveling to the U.S. Vote with your dollar & protect yourself.
Hold onto your seats. It’s Monday, it’s ten o’clock. Anything can happen in the next three hours
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Hold onto your seats. It’s Monday, it’s ten o’clock. Anything can happen in the next three hours
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:
March 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:
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Reminder for those Americans hating on Ukraine: Ukraine gave up their nuclear warheads in 1994 after signing a deal with America that guaranteed their security. America has fucked Ukraine over twice.
March 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Reminder for those Americans hating on Ukraine: Ukraine gave up their nuclear warheads in 1994 after signing a deal with America that guaranteed their security. America has fucked Ukraine over twice.
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‘Free speech’ latest.
NEW: Voice of America is in upheaval. Journalists are facing HR investigations for comments critical of Trump. One of VOA's highest-profile journalists was put on leave today after a Trump aide called him a traitor. And the White House bureau chief was reassigned. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...
Voice of America Journalists Face Investigations for Comments About Trump
The broadcaster placed a longtime journalist on leave amid growing concerns about its editorial independence.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
‘Free speech’ latest.
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They are arguing, endlessly, that illegally inciting acts of terror online is ‘free speech’ while silencing dissent, targeting journalists & telling an invaded ally what he is & is not allowed to say during a live television broadcast are all fine.
March 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
They are arguing, endlessly, that illegally inciting acts of terror online is ‘free speech’ while silencing dissent, targeting journalists & telling an invaded ally what he is & is not allowed to say during a live television broadcast are all fine.
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This is exactly why we need to make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform on the planet. We need to do it at pace and with urgency. We need share the truth & the facts far & wide - & then, at the earliest opportunity, send those truth twisting & lying charlatans, wherever we find them, packing
Trump just alleged without evidence Ukraine should hold elections because Zelensky holds a "4% approval rating”
Recent polling from Kyiv International Institute of Sociology shows as of December 2024, 52% of Ukrainians trust Zelensky
I’m sure UK News shows will be all over this in the morning
Recent polling from Kyiv International Institute of Sociology shows as of December 2024, 52% of Ukrainians trust Zelensky
I’m sure UK News shows will be all over this in the morning
February 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This is exactly why we need to make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform on the planet. We need to do it at pace and with urgency. We need share the truth & the facts far & wide - & then, at the earliest opportunity, send those truth twisting & lying charlatans, wherever we find them, packing
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America! If you are up for modern dungeon crawling hijinks, The Copper Promise is currently 99c on Kindle (this book is over ten years old, howww is that possible) www.amazon.com/Copper-Promi...
The Copper Promise (complete novel) (Copper Cat Trilogy Book 1)
The Copper Promise (complete novel) (Copper Cat Trilogy Book 1) - Kindle edition by Williams, Jen. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Copper Promise (complete novel) (Copper Cat Trilogy Book 1).
www.amazon.com
February 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
America! If you are up for modern dungeon crawling hijinks, The Copper Promise is currently 99c on Kindle (this book is over ten years old, howww is that possible) www.amazon.com/Copper-Promi...
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Sounds like a plan
January 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Sounds like a plan
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For reference, the case report that described this toxicicity mentioned in this @australia.theguardian.com piece was by Dhayalen Krishnan and Matthew C Kiernan and was published in 2023 in @mja.com.au www.mja.com.au/journal/2023...
January 14, 2025 at 4:24 AM
For reference, the case report that described this toxicicity mentioned in this @australia.theguardian.com piece was by Dhayalen Krishnan and Matthew C Kiernan and was published in 2023 in @mja.com.au www.mja.com.au/journal/2023...