Gen_Xr
@genxr.bsky.social
Editor, Reviewer & Interviews @thepunksite.com, very part-time contributor @punknews.org, punk/metal, cat whisperer, sometime IT worker. Fan of facts, good journalism, books and science. RIP webOS/Palm(it still hurts)
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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
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Tip for the Mail, Telegraph, etc - imagine how you’d report this if this was Angela Rayner
September 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Tip for the Mail, Telegraph, etc - imagine how you’d report this if this was Angela Rayner
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I don’t think AI is going to go rogue or even steal all the jobs. I think AI is going to create an AI spam/slop heap that’s so colossal in size, it will corrupt everything online. Information pollution. A literal Internet of Shit. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
August 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I don’t think AI is going to go rogue or even steal all the jobs. I think AI is going to create an AI spam/slop heap that’s so colossal in size, it will corrupt everything online. Information pollution. A literal Internet of Shit. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
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Brilliant idea! Next they’ll invent seatbelts and call them “freedom straps.”
May 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Brilliant idea! Next they’ll invent seatbelts and call them “freedom straps.”
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Vaccines save lives. Pass it on.
It’s #WorldImmunizationWeek
Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years. That’s 6 lives every minute.
A reminder of what is #HumanlyPossible. Science saves lives.
#VaccinesWork
bit.ly/wiw2025
Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years. That’s 6 lives every minute.
A reminder of what is #HumanlyPossible. Science saves lives.
#VaccinesWork
bit.ly/wiw2025
April 24, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Vaccines save lives. Pass it on.
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Why would anyone invest in the US if the tariffs can be negotiated away and might be gone in less than four years? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump Has Already Botched His Own Bad Tariff Plan
Once you’ve said you might negotiate, nobody is going to believe you when you change your mind and say you’ll never negotiate.
www.theatlantic.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Why would anyone invest in the US if the tariffs can be negotiated away and might be gone in less than four years? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Is it really too much to ask media outlets reporting on invading Greenland & Canada to lead with "THIS IS WILDLY ILLEGALLY UNDER BOTH OUR NATO AND UN TREATY COMMITMENTS, WHICH ARE ALSO PART OF US LAW"? The normalization of this is wildly inappropriate & there is no excuse for it.
Scoop: White House officials are studying the costs of taking over Greenland, attempting to determine price-tag to maintain & what revenue could be gained, per sources
Government officials working on Greenland
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Government officials working on Greenland
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
White House studying cost of Greenland takeover, long in Trump’s sights
It’s the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire the Danish territory into actionable policy, despite widespread international outrage.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Is it really too much to ask media outlets reporting on invading Greenland & Canada to lead with "THIS IS WILDLY ILLEGALLY UNDER BOTH OUR NATO AND UN TREATY COMMITMENTS, WHICH ARE ALSO PART OF US LAW"? The normalization of this is wildly inappropriate & there is no excuse for it.
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I will not hide my inner convictions anymore. Be the change you want to see in the world !
#AcademicSky 🧪
#AcademicSky 🧪
November 20, 2024 at 11:04 AM
I will not hide my inner convictions anymore. Be the change you want to see in the world !
#AcademicSky 🧪
#AcademicSky 🧪
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“Farage cost farmers more money with Brexit than any inheritance tax. Now he’s cosplaying in tweed, marching alongside them. Tractors came to Whitehall in March, to protest trade deals Badenoch signed. Now they're applauding her speech. How can I take them seriously? Where are their principles?”
🚜 NEW Quiet Riot: FARMED OUTRAGE 🐄
@pimlicat.bsky.social, @sturdyalex.bsky.social and special guest former UK-US ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch, discuss Trump's outrage farming in the US, and farmers' outrage here in the UK.
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@pimlicat.bsky.social, @sturdyalex.bsky.social and special guest former UK-US ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch, discuss Trump's outrage farming in the US, and farmers' outrage here in the UK.
🏮 open.spotify.com/episode/1gu2...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Farmed Outrage
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 21/11/2024 · 1h
podcasts.apple.com
November 21, 2024 at 5:18 AM
“Farage cost farmers more money with Brexit than any inheritance tax. Now he’s cosplaying in tweed, marching alongside them. Tractors came to Whitehall in March, to protest trade deals Badenoch signed. Now they're applauding her speech. How can I take them seriously? Where are their principles?”
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This does really highlight the way the Tory party in particular but really the whole British establishment has messed up for the last decade and a half.
The journalists, the media Barrons, the political parties. How did this happen? What cultural or institutional change could have prevented it all?
The journalists, the media Barrons, the political parties. How did this happen? What cultural or institutional change could have prevented it all?
“From three friends in high places to essentially zero is quite the feat of statecraft.”
Ouch. Janah Ganesh in FT today:
How Britain squandered the best hand in the world on.ft.com/3AP6eOO
Ouch. Janah Ganesh in FT today:
How Britain squandered the best hand in the world on.ft.com/3AP6eOO
November 21, 2024 at 5:54 AM
This does really highlight the way the Tory party in particular but really the whole British establishment has messed up for the last decade and a half.
The journalists, the media Barrons, the political parties. How did this happen? What cultural or institutional change could have prevented it all?
The journalists, the media Barrons, the political parties. How did this happen? What cultural or institutional change could have prevented it all?
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November 12, 2024 at 8:36 AM
For those asking, here’s where you can find a list of starter packs:
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People making demands of BlueSky tech team, mods etc because it’s getting busy: BlueSky has a staff of 20. None of us are paying a penny to use it, and it has, at the moment, no way to monetise itself, as far as I can see, because it’s trying to resist any pivot to algorithmic ads or selling data.
November 11, 2024 at 7:53 AM
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