Jas
@jaswithans.bsky.social
Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? That comes from bad judgement.
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Susanna Reid, "If they get any type of prompt that suggests a young person or an individual is feeling in any way those dreadful feelings, it kicks in to a safe support mode and shuts down the conversation"
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Susanna Reid, "If they get any type of prompt that suggests a young person or an individual is feeling in any way those dreadful feelings, it kicks in to a safe support mode and shuts down the conversation"
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"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
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A good example of why we need more media able to scrutinise local government.
BREAKING: Councillor Pauline Giles, who @bylinetimes.bsky.social revealed had condemned "young black males" supposedly "flooding" Britain, has just resigned from the Conservative party
Follows more Qs from us to CCHQ today, and local media follow-up
Follows more Qs from us to CCHQ today, and local media follow-up
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A good example of why we need more media able to scrutinise local government.
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We’re at Highgate Art Fair this weekend with my work. Pop along and say hello if you’re in the area.
November 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
We’re at Highgate Art Fair this weekend with my work. Pop along and say hello if you’re in the area.
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The US Justice Department urged a New York state appeals court to reverse Donald Trump’s felony conviction, an extraordinary intervention by federal officials as the president seeks to clear his criminal record
DOJ Urges NY Appeals Court to Reverse Trump Criminal Conviction
The US Justice Department urged a New York state appeals court to reverse Donald Trump’s felony conviction, an extraordinary intervention by federal officials as the president seeks to clear his criminal record.
bloom.bg
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The US Justice Department urged a New York state appeals court to reverse Donald Trump’s felony conviction, an extraordinary intervention by federal officials as the president seeks to clear his criminal record
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Who could have predicted that mainstream media and politicians mainstreaming far-right talking points and symbols would embolden fascists (except all the research available on the matter)?
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Flags and Christian nationalist slogans feature in soaring attacks on UK mosques
Between July and October, 25 buildings were targeted in 27 attacks, according to British Muslim Trust
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Who could have predicted that mainstream media and politicians mainstreaming far-right talking points and symbols would embolden fascists (except all the research available on the matter)?
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
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Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
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Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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bro are you fucking kidding me
![quote from the Economist article which says "[study authors] are now looking at whether AI facial analysis can give lenders useful clues about a person’s propensity to repay loans. For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6ofjbklfvptnupad4lxumblw/bafkreia3yctiqd7ejumpd6novxjpiycphtfkc3bdgd573jw37faqdl7o7m@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
bro are you fucking kidding me
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it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry
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Tonight is many things, but it is among other things, vindication for Lindsey, for being brave and speaking up about Cuomo's abuse towards her and other women.
I’m very superstitious of election night, but not today.
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Tonight is many things, but it is among other things, vindication for Lindsey, for being brave and speaking up about Cuomo's abuse towards her and other women.
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1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
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Britain doesn't just have a racism problem, it has a bigotry problem.
All bigotry is rooted in a belief other people who are different to you are somehow "less human" and "inferior" than you and people like you. As soon as you see one group of people that way it ends up extending to all the others.
All bigotry is rooted in a belief other people who are different to you are somehow "less human" and "inferior" than you and people like you. As soon as you see one group of people that way it ends up extending to all the others.
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Britain doesn't just have a racism problem, it has a bigotry problem.
All bigotry is rooted in a belief other people who are different to you are somehow "less human" and "inferior" than you and people like you. As soon as you see one group of people that way it ends up extending to all the others.
All bigotry is rooted in a belief other people who are different to you are somehow "less human" and "inferior" than you and people like you. As soon as you see one group of people that way it ends up extending to all the others.
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Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
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A video of Israeli soldiers gang-raping a Palestinian man in prison was leaked. The Israeli government and its supporters are upset – not at the horrific assault, but at the fact that the tape was released.
Read Minnah Arshad’s full article: zeteo.com/p/israel-pal...
Read Minnah Arshad’s full article: zeteo.com/p/israel-pal...
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A video of Israeli soldiers gang-raping a Palestinian man in prison was leaked. The Israeli government and its supporters are upset – not at the horrific assault, but at the fact that the tape was released.
Read Minnah Arshad’s full article: zeteo.com/p/israel-pal...
Read Minnah Arshad’s full article: zeteo.com/p/israel-pal...
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It's appropriate that this sentiment comes after the industry realized that they haven't done anything useful in 20 years so they descended into mass psychosis over tech that does nothing but purports to do everything
2025 will go down as the year when all the subtext became text
February 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It's appropriate that this sentiment comes after the industry realized that they haven't done anything useful in 20 years so they descended into mass psychosis over tech that does nothing but purports to do everything
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Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments
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This is just reporting. This is what headlines in the New York Times and your local paper should look like every day. The New Yorker should be publishing stuff like this, only with an umlaut thrown in occasionally for some fucken reason.
someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
November 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This is just reporting. This is what headlines in the New York Times and your local paper should look like every day. The New Yorker should be publishing stuff like this, only with an umlaut thrown in occasionally for some fucken reason.
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Apart from a few angry posts on here, why will this be cost free? Where’s the stigma gone? Was it ever a genuine one? Have social norms or the rules changed? This is far from the first time he’s written or said something like this and he’ll be on the BBC again soon.
He’s not really trying to hide it. It’s open, unapologetic racism; let’s be plain about it.
November 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Apart from a few angry posts on here, why will this be cost free? Where’s the stigma gone? Was it ever a genuine one? Have social norms or the rules changed? This is far from the first time he’s written or said something like this and he’ll be on the BBC again soon.
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"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
manchestermill.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
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Lady with dangly earrings, "To the lady who is claiming PIP" #BBCQT
"Absolutely agree, claiming PIP, it's a horrific system"
"The amount of information you have to provide is unbelievable"
"So anybody who thinks people are cheating the system, I cannot understand"
"Absolutely agree, claiming PIP, it's a horrific system"
"The amount of information you have to provide is unbelievable"
"So anybody who thinks people are cheating the system, I cannot understand"
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Lady with dangly earrings, "To the lady who is claiming PIP" #BBCQT
"Absolutely agree, claiming PIP, it's a horrific system"
"The amount of information you have to provide is unbelievable"
"So anybody who thinks people are cheating the system, I cannot understand"
"Absolutely agree, claiming PIP, it's a horrific system"
"The amount of information you have to provide is unbelievable"
"So anybody who thinks people are cheating the system, I cannot understand"
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Today, someone who has been surfing the AI hype wave to boost his career, got upset by our position paper.
He gave no substantive couinterargument. Just called it “activism”. As if that is an insult.
In a world where techno-fascism hollows out our institutions, I’m a proud scientific activist.
He gave no substantive couinterargument. Just called it “activism”. As if that is an insult.
In a world where techno-fascism hollows out our institutions, I’m a proud scientific activist.
Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...
zenodo.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Today, someone who has been surfing the AI hype wave to boost his career, got upset by our position paper.
He gave no substantive couinterargument. Just called it “activism”. As if that is an insult.
In a world where techno-fascism hollows out our institutions, I’m a proud scientific activist.
He gave no substantive couinterargument. Just called it “activism”. As if that is an insult.
In a world where techno-fascism hollows out our institutions, I’m a proud scientific activist.