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Morning Bluesky
South Korea has opened an investigation into Telegram for spreading deepfakes and leaking personal data.
South Korea has opened an investigation into Telegram for spreading deepfakes and leaking personal data.
September 2, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Morning Bluesky
South Korea has opened an investigation into Telegram for spreading deepfakes and leaking personal data.
South Korea has opened an investigation into Telegram for spreading deepfakes and leaking personal data.
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Dr Patricia S Paton raises some really interesting points about X getting banned in Brazil. No matter what we think of Musk, the ban gives us an insight into how the judiciary system is ‘working’ in Brazil ~ so was this a democratic act or a political one?
@patispaton.bsky.social
@patispaton.bsky.social
Closure of X (formerly Twitter) in Brazil – a democratic act or a political one?
The closure of X in Brazil gives us an insight into how the judiciary system is ‘working’ in Brazil
bylines.scot
September 2, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Dr Patricia S Paton raises some really interesting points about X getting banned in Brazil. No matter what we think of Musk, the ban gives us an insight into how the judiciary system is ‘working’ in Brazil ~ so was this a democratic act or a political one?
@patispaton.bsky.social
@patispaton.bsky.social
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We have a lot of new folks that may not know anything about this, but we were created with this goal: to make sure that nobody ever monopolizes social media, including us.
"The Atmosphere" is what we call the tech, which (if you're REALLY technical) you can read about here atproto.com
"The Atmosphere" is what we call the tech, which (if you're REALLY technical) you can read about here atproto.com
The AT Protocol
A social networking technology created by Bluesky.
atproto.com
September 1, 2024 at 12:45 AM
We have a lot of new folks that may not know anything about this, but we were created with this goal: to make sure that nobody ever monopolizes social media, including us.
"The Atmosphere" is what we call the tech, which (if you're REALLY technical) you can read about here atproto.com
"The Atmosphere" is what we call the tech, which (if you're REALLY technical) you can read about here atproto.com
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We talk about Bluesky getting users, but Bluesky is part of an open social internet called "The Atmosphere" where other people can make their own apps, including their own versions of Bluesky.
Bluesky isn't growing; the Atmosphere is! You're not "our" users; you're a part of a shared place.
Bluesky isn't growing; the Atmosphere is! You're not "our" users; you're a part of a shared place.
September 1, 2024 at 12:43 AM
We talk about Bluesky getting users, but Bluesky is part of an open social internet called "The Atmosphere" where other people can make their own apps, including their own versions of Bluesky.
Bluesky isn't growing; the Atmosphere is! You're not "our" users; you're a part of a shared place.
Bluesky isn't growing; the Atmosphere is! You're not "our" users; you're a part of a shared place.
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Labour blaming the SNP for all of Scotland’s economic ills lacks credibility, particularly as Kier Starmer stays wedded to Brexit | Martin Roche
Labour’s Scottish economy narrative – spin not substance -
Labour blaming the SNP for all of Scotland’s economic ills lacks credibility, particularly as Kier Starmer stays wedded to Brexit
bylines.scot
August 28, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Labour blaming the SNP for all of Scotland’s economic ills lacks credibility, particularly as Kier Starmer stays wedded to Brexit | Martin Roche
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Hard to express how important citizen journalists like the Byline Network are just now. A backstop to provide some certainty in these uncertain times. Follow them and amplify their voices.
A huge thank you to all our new followers. 🙏
We’d love to get to a big round 10k this weekend. You could help us get our progressive voice out to a few more by reposting this telling your followers why they should follow us.
We’d love to get to a big round 10k this weekend. You could help us get our progressive voice out to a few more by reposting this telling your followers why they should follow us.
August 31, 2024 at 6:13 AM
Hard to express how important citizen journalists like the Byline Network are just now. A backstop to provide some certainty in these uncertain times. Follow them and amplify their voices.
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It’s hard not to take issue with the billions we borrowed to fill Tory Donor pockets and yet suddenly it is “fiscally irresponsible” to borrow for kids not to go hungry or for pensioners not to freeze or for all of us to have decent access to to healthcare. Principles matter!
August 31, 2024 at 6:21 AM
It’s hard not to take issue with the billions we borrowed to fill Tory Donor pockets and yet suddenly it is “fiscally irresponsible” to borrow for kids not to go hungry or for pensioners not to freeze or for all of us to have decent access to to healthcare. Principles matter!
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Brazil nuts, almost unique in our food supply, are not cultivated, but are collected in the wilds of the Amazon forest. Communities of indigenous nut harvesters maintain intact forests necessary for the trees. When you eat Brazil nuts, you are contributing to the conservation of Amazon forests. 🌏
August 31, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Brazil nuts, almost unique in our food supply, are not cultivated, but are collected in the wilds of the Amazon forest. Communities of indigenous nut harvesters maintain intact forests necessary for the trees. When you eat Brazil nuts, you are contributing to the conservation of Amazon forests. 🌏
🎙️ Bylines Scotland’s #podcast is great.
A chat with poet Nazaret Ranea, originally from Malaga. In 2023, Nazaret gained recognition as #Scotland‘s next generation of Young Makars 🏴
🎧 listen here 🔽
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
#poetry #scotland #podcast
A chat with poet Nazaret Ranea, originally from Malaga. In 2023, Nazaret gained recognition as #Scotland‘s next generation of Young Makars 🏴
🎧 listen here 🔽
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
#poetry #scotland #podcast
Sound Portraits - Nazaret Ranea.
Ronnie chats to poet Nazaret Ranea. Nazaret moved from her home in Malaga to Edinburgh in 2017 to study film and psychology. Poetry has always been her passion
podcasts.apple.com
August 31, 2024 at 6:55 AM
🎙️ Bylines Scotland’s #podcast is great.
A chat with poet Nazaret Ranea, originally from Malaga. In 2023, Nazaret gained recognition as #Scotland‘s next generation of Young Makars 🏴
🎧 listen here 🔽
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
#poetry #scotland #podcast
A chat with poet Nazaret Ranea, originally from Malaga. In 2023, Nazaret gained recognition as #Scotland‘s next generation of Young Makars 🏴
🎧 listen here 🔽
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
#poetry #scotland #podcast
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I recently started a podcast to help support my healthcare colleagues (and myself) working through these very difficult times
After six episodes, I was in two minds whether to continue it.
Today, a nurse told me how much it has helped her. She cried. We hugged.
Not in two minds anymore.
After six episodes, I was in two minds whether to continue it.
Today, a nurse told me how much it has helped her. She cried. We hugged.
Not in two minds anymore.
August 26, 2024 at 6:19 PM
I recently started a podcast to help support my healthcare colleagues (and myself) working through these very difficult times
After six episodes, I was in two minds whether to continue it.
Today, a nurse told me how much it has helped her. She cried. We hugged.
Not in two minds anymore.
After six episodes, I was in two minds whether to continue it.
Today, a nurse told me how much it has helped her. She cried. We hugged.
Not in two minds anymore.
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Please consider following @dangoyal.bsky.social - a consultant who’s a passionate advocate for the NHS and preventing creeping privatisation. Writes great threads and also for Bylines Scotland!
August 27, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Please consider following @dangoyal.bsky.social - a consultant who’s a passionate advocate for the NHS and preventing creeping privatisation. Writes great threads and also for Bylines Scotland!
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Nigel Farage tightens grip on Reform as chief executive forced out.
A vote for Reform is a vote for totalitarianism.
Paul Oakden, was chief executive since Reform was Brexit Party, is said to have been asked to step aside, with Farage taking on Oakden’s shares.
www.thetimes.com/article/0d44...
A vote for Reform is a vote for totalitarianism.
Paul Oakden, was chief executive since Reform was Brexit Party, is said to have been asked to step aside, with Farage taking on Oakden’s shares.
www.thetimes.com/article/0d44...
Nigel Farage tightens grip on Reform as chief executive forced out
Former party official ‘fears for the future’ after Paul Oakden is asked to step aside
www.thetimes.com
August 21, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Nigel Farage tightens grip on Reform as chief executive forced out.
A vote for Reform is a vote for totalitarianism.
Paul Oakden, was chief executive since Reform was Brexit Party, is said to have been asked to step aside, with Farage taking on Oakden’s shares.
www.thetimes.com/article/0d44...
A vote for Reform is a vote for totalitarianism.
Paul Oakden, was chief executive since Reform was Brexit Party, is said to have been asked to step aside, with Farage taking on Oakden’s shares.
www.thetimes.com/article/0d44...
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Ha! You’ve got to love the @financialtimes.com 404 page
Why hasn’t this page been found?
We asked some leading economists:-
Why hasn’t this page been found?
We asked some leading economists:-
August 17, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Ha! You’ve got to love the @financialtimes.com 404 page
Why hasn’t this page been found?
We asked some leading economists:-
Why hasn’t this page been found?
We asked some leading economists:-
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A divine concoction, this No-Churn Margarita Ice Cream is #RecipeOfTheDay! Incredibly easy to make – and eat! www.nigella.com/recipes/no-c...
No-Churn Margarita Ice Cream
This is a cinch to make, and easy-easy-easy to eat. If you want to serve it in glasses with rims dipped in sugar and salt, by all means do. But it is so good that, even as someone who is not a committ...
www.nigella.com
August 17, 2024 at 10:23 AM
A divine concoction, this No-Churn Margarita Ice Cream is #RecipeOfTheDay! Incredibly easy to make – and eat! www.nigella.com/recipes/no-c...
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C.S. Lewis' advice to a young girl on how to become a better writer:
August 17, 2024 at 8:40 PM
C.S. Lewis' advice to a young girl on how to become a better writer:
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"WAR may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."
~Jimmy Carter
~Jimmy Carter
August 13, 2024 at 12:37 AM
"WAR may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."
~Jimmy Carter
~Jimmy Carter
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Same sex marriage
is not gay privilege,
it's equal rights.
Privilege would be
something like gay
people not paying taxes.
-- Like churches don't.
is not gay privilege,
it's equal rights.
Privilege would be
something like gay
people not paying taxes.
-- Like churches don't.
August 15, 2024 at 3:58 AM
Same sex marriage
is not gay privilege,
it's equal rights.
Privilege would be
something like gay
people not paying taxes.
-- Like churches don't.
is not gay privilege,
it's equal rights.
Privilege would be
something like gay
people not paying taxes.
-- Like churches don't.
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Stonehenge rock was lugged 400 miles from Scotland, scientists find
https://www.ft.com/content/5e6caddf-292b-4ed7-a0fa-f811a8331de2
https://www.ft.com/content/5e6caddf-292b-4ed7-a0fa-f811a8331de2
Stonehenge rock was lugged 400 miles from Scotland, scientists find
Discovery of Altar Stone’s origin is latest twist in creation story of fabled 5,000-year-old neolithic site
www.ft.com
August 14, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Stonehenge rock was lugged 400 miles from Scotland, scientists find
https://www.ft.com/content/5e6caddf-292b-4ed7-a0fa-f811a8331de2
https://www.ft.com/content/5e6caddf-292b-4ed7-a0fa-f811a8331de2
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Denizens of the secretly-funded lobby groups that call themselves ‘think tanks’ & are concentrated around Tufton Street are *really* cross with Led by Donkeys for that Liz Truss stunt. Because they need to inflate the nonsense that she wasn’t really that bad in order to keep their own grifts afloat.
August 14, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Denizens of the secretly-funded lobby groups that call themselves ‘think tanks’ & are concentrated around Tufton Street are *really* cross with Led by Donkeys for that Liz Truss stunt. Because they need to inflate the nonsense that she wasn’t really that bad in order to keep their own grifts afloat.
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Welcome to all of our new users, and a special welcome to the UK, which had the most Bluesky signups of any country for 5 out of the last 7 days!
What makes Bluesky different? Some key features: 🧵
What makes Bluesky different? Some key features: 🧵
August 13, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Welcome to all of our new users, and a special welcome to the UK, which had the most Bluesky signups of any country for 5 out of the last 7 days!
What makes Bluesky different? Some key features: 🧵
What makes Bluesky different? Some key features: 🧵
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Reflections on the Scottish Government’s attempt to train up its own European civil Servants at The College of Europe | Liam McLaughlin
Building Scottish Eurocrats: joining The College of Europe
Reflections on the Scottish Government’s attempt to train up its own European civil Servants at The College of Europe
bylines.scot
August 7, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Reflections on the Scottish Government’s attempt to train up its own European civil Servants at The College of Europe | Liam McLaughlin
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Oh hello Britain 😳
That blue line is activity in the UK spiking past all of the other countries on Bluesky right now.
Welcome, and invite a friend to join us! bsky.app/download
That blue line is activity in the UK spiking past all of the other countries on Bluesky right now.
Welcome, and invite a friend to join us! bsky.app/download
August 14, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Oh hello Britain 😳
That blue line is activity in the UK spiking past all of the other countries on Bluesky right now.
Welcome, and invite a friend to join us! bsky.app/download
That blue line is activity in the UK spiking past all of the other countries on Bluesky right now.
Welcome, and invite a friend to join us! bsky.app/download
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With Covid-19 cases at very high levels in the U.S. and summer travel season at its peak, here’s what you need to know about when and where to mask up.
Late-Summer Travel Plans? You Might Want to Put On a Mask.
With U.S. Covid-19 cases at very high levels and new vaccines still several weeks away, we asked experts for their advice on when and where to wear a mask.
www.nytimes.com
August 14, 2024 at 2:56 PM
With Covid-19 cases at very high levels in the U.S. and summer travel season at its peak, here’s what you need to know about when and where to mask up.
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The Rwanda policy no longer has any connection with legal and policy reality.
Even if implemented it will make no difference.
It cannot be made lawful in a rush, let alone in an emergency.
The money being thrown at it, better spent on UK asylum system.
It is now a totem.
Even if implemented it will make no difference.
It cannot be made lawful in a rush, let alone in an emergency.
The money being thrown at it, better spent on UK asylum system.
It is now a totem.
December 4, 2023 at 10:52 AM
The Rwanda policy no longer has any connection with legal and policy reality.
Even if implemented it will make no difference.
It cannot be made lawful in a rush, let alone in an emergency.
The money being thrown at it, better spent on UK asylum system.
It is now a totem.
Even if implemented it will make no difference.
It cannot be made lawful in a rush, let alone in an emergency.
The money being thrown at it, better spent on UK asylum system.
It is now a totem.
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Some initial thoughts on the Rwanda Bill: publiclawforeveryone.com/2023/12/06/t...
December 6, 2023 at 10:32 PM
Some initial thoughts on the Rwanda Bill: publiclawforeveryone.com/2023/12/06/t...