Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴(🇨🇭)
@mib2259.bsky.social
Socialist, traveller, photographer. He/him. Slava Ukraini. Trans rights are human rights. Climate change is real, so is Covid.
The people of the Middle East are, of course, famously tolerant of outsiders just helping themselves to their land.
February 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The people of the Middle East are, of course, famously tolerant of outsiders just helping themselves to their land.
This is obviously some exciting new meaning of the word stabilise of which I was previously unaware.
February 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This is obviously some exciting new meaning of the word stabilise of which I was previously unaware.
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Rachel said Lisa Murkowski reported the average # of calls coming into the Senate is 40
Now it is over 1600 a minute and they can't keep up
KEEP IT UP!!!
KEEP IT UP!!!
Now it is over 1600 a minute and they can't keep up
KEEP IT UP!!!
KEEP IT UP!!!
February 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Rachel said Lisa Murkowski reported the average # of calls coming into the Senate is 40
Now it is over 1600 a minute and they can't keep up
KEEP IT UP!!!
KEEP IT UP!!!
Now it is over 1600 a minute and they can't keep up
KEEP IT UP!!!
KEEP IT UP!!!
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Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue.
TWENTY.
As in, they call that getting slammed.
So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind.
TWENTY is a lot.
TWENTY.
As in, they call that getting slammed.
So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind.
TWENTY is a lot.
February 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue.
TWENTY.
As in, they call that getting slammed.
So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind.
TWENTY is a lot.
TWENTY.
As in, they call that getting slammed.
So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind.
TWENTY is a lot.
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RFK Jr & his kids are vaccinated.
Because he knows vaccines are safe & effective.
Yet he makes millions of dollars causing preventable illness & death by telling other people vaccines are harmful.
1/
Because he knows vaccines are safe & effective.
Yet he makes millions of dollars causing preventable illness & death by telling other people vaccines are harmful.
1/
January 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
RFK Jr & his kids are vaccinated.
Because he knows vaccines are safe & effective.
Yet he makes millions of dollars causing preventable illness & death by telling other people vaccines are harmful.
1/
Because he knows vaccines are safe & effective.
Yet he makes millions of dollars causing preventable illness & death by telling other people vaccines are harmful.
1/
Went to see Conclave tonight. If you don't know it it's a movie about selecting a (fictional) pope. I was optimistic, could have been dull, but I was expecting political shenanigans and I was disappointed. Really enjoyed it.
January 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Went to see Conclave tonight. If you don't know it it's a movie about selecting a (fictional) pope. I was optimistic, could have been dull, but I was expecting political shenanigans and I was disappointed. Really enjoyed it.
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Been reading your posts.
January 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Been reading your posts.
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I hadn't believed it until I saw with my own eyes. DeepSeek is programmed not to answer certain basic questions of fact.
January 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I hadn't believed it until I saw with my own eyes. DeepSeek is programmed not to answer certain basic questions of fact.
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Up there with his assertion that babies belong in mangers 🤣
Phoney Edwardian "intellectual" and professional bore Jacob Rees-Mogg is going to have egg on his face for this one.
January 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Up there with his assertion that babies belong in mangers 🤣
“Society has the right to decide how technology is used and pass legislation accordingly. People have the right to use technology which respects their choices and does not try to hack them into perpetual empty engagement.”
The dream of technology is now under the control of men who are vain, foolish, self-centred, amoral, desperate for power, and in some cases openly fascistic. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...
How to resist the tech overlords
Big tech has now made its position clear. It is on the far-right. Here's what happens next.
iandunt.substack.com
January 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
“Society has the right to decide how technology is used and pass legislation accordingly. People have the right to use technology which respects their choices and does not try to hack them into perpetual empty engagement.”
This youtube channel is delightful. He’s making a map of the USA using wood from the state tree of every state, but you get a little story about the biology, history and uses of the tree, or whatever is interesting. Great stuff.
Making California out of Coast Redwood | Official State Tree Map #shorts #trees #wood
YouTube video by justinthetrees
www.youtube.com
January 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This youtube channel is delightful. He’s making a map of the USA using wood from the state tree of every state, but you get a little story about the biology, history and uses of the tree, or whatever is interesting. Great stuff.
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The authorities are coming for Murdoch rag The Sun.
Police request transcripts from Prince Harry’s case against owner of the Sun
Exclusive: Campaigners hope for investigation into claims of ‘perjury and cover-ups’ against News Group Newspapers
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The authorities are coming for Murdoch rag The Sun.
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Tip from @snowjob.bsky.social
If you have a whitehouse.gov link you want to access and it is down, try replacing "www.whitehouse.gov" with "bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov"
The national archives is still doing its job for now.
If you have a whitehouse.gov link you want to access and it is down, try replacing "www.whitehouse.gov" with "bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov"
The national archives is still doing its job for now.
January 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Tip from @snowjob.bsky.social
If you have a whitehouse.gov link you want to access and it is down, try replacing "www.whitehouse.gov" with "bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov"
The national archives is still doing its job for now.
If you have a whitehouse.gov link you want to access and it is down, try replacing "www.whitehouse.gov" with "bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov"
The national archives is still doing its job for now.
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Yeah. We kept letting folks push and not *technically* be breaking any rules/laws while making every discussion space miserable, and at a certain point we just have to say "you are making this place suck, you aren't here in good faith, and you don't belong here" to these fucks.
January 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Yeah. We kept letting folks push and not *technically* be breaking any rules/laws while making every discussion space miserable, and at a certain point we just have to say "you are making this place suck, you aren't here in good faith, and you don't belong here" to these fucks.
This is the way.
Like an idiot, I decided to read all thirteen cases/rulings on the Prince Harry litigation, rather than rush out a piece just based on the wording of the apology.
This has taken far more time than I would have liked, so my piece will not be up today. Sorry.
But it will be a lot better informed.
This has taken far more time than I would have liked, so my piece will not be up today. Sorry.
But it will be a lot better informed.
January 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This is the way.
I think our best response is to reject AI completely, and try to destroy its reputation. Make "made by humans" a mark of quality.
This is gross and wrong and unsubtle. But it's just the beginning, AI is most certainly going to be instructed to give biased, inaccurate answers to further the causes of its billionaire owners. That's going to be a lot more difficult to spot.
Instagram really does hide #Project2025 and #Democrat. I had to see it for myself.
January 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I think our best response is to reject AI completely, and try to destroy its reputation. Make "made by humans" a mark of quality.
This is gross and wrong and unsubtle. But it's just the beginning, AI is most certainly going to be instructed to give biased, inaccurate answers to further the causes of its billionaire owners. That's going to be a lot more difficult to spot.
Instagram really does hide #Project2025 and #Democrat. I had to see it for myself.
January 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is gross and wrong and unsubtle. But it's just the beginning, AI is most certainly going to be instructed to give biased, inaccurate answers to further the causes of its billionaire owners. That's going to be a lot more difficult to spot.
Party of law and order eh?
President Trump granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road drug marketplace.
Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.
Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.
Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace
Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Party of law and order eh?
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It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
A little bit of hope after a terrible week
A survival guide to the next four years.
iandunt.substack.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
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Zuckerberg's 'masculine energy' got its first big win with Trump declaring there are only two genders. This is an agenda that will see laws passed to push gays back into the closet and women back into the kitchen. Our trans siblings are in the front line of this fight, so now more than ever
January 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Zuckerberg's 'masculine energy' got its first big win with Trump declaring there are only two genders. This is an agenda that will see laws passed to push gays back into the closet and women back into the kitchen. Our trans siblings are in the front line of this fight, so now more than ever