Bakewell
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Bakewell
@sircoffeealot.bsky.social
A delicious homemade bakewell tart
“The dollar, human rights, and the United States of America, exist in the shared imagination of billions, and no single individual can threaten their existence… in order to change them, we must simultaneously change the consciousness of billions of people, which is not easy."

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July 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
If it was only Democrats on the Epstein list, Trump would be sending it to every household in America. Sure some MAGA will forgive Trump for being on it, but how many?
July 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"The people who wrote the constitutions of many states sought to learn the lessons of history and the horrors of religious wars by insisting on the absolute separation of religious practices from public life." - Colin Ward
July 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Reposted by Bakewell
The purpose of the American political system is to prevent the rise of tyranny.

It has failed in that purpose.
July 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Why does ChatGPT create garbage?

Artificial blueberries are chunks made from sugars, starches and oils colored with blue and red dyes and flavored with perhaps trans-2-hexenol, trans-2-hexenal, cis-3-hexenol, cis-3-hexenal and combinations thereof.

You can eat them. But they're "artificial".
People really don’t understand what it is. It is simply a text generator that uses statistical tools to stick one word after another. If it is trained on legal documentation it will generate legal sounding text, *but* has less capacity to understand what is being asked of it than a parrot might.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Varied Sunday, read the Sermon on the Mount, cleaned the bathroom, changed oil and filter in the bike. Titanic: Ship of Dreams is a great podcast series 🚢
June 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Love that this diagram from breedingbusiness.com includes the stockbroker from American Psycho
June 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
"One soldier described the situation as a total breakdown of the Israel Defense Forces' ethical codes in Gaza."

Later:
"I'm not aware of a single instance of return fire. There's no enemy, no weapons."
IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid
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www.haaretz.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🎯
If one woman accuses a man they’ll say she’s lying, because she’s only one person. If more than a dozen women accuse a man they’ll say they’re all lying, it must be a coordinated campaign
June 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
🎯
Call it what it is: an attempted ethnic cleansing of the United States.
June 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Definitely
I would just like one (1) high-profile political journalist to publicly acknowledge the painfully obvious fact that the two parties are covered differently, held to different standards, and to wrestle with why that is & its practical effects on US politics.

(Difficulty: impossible.)
June 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
No-one can make me go to bed and that is a problem for me
June 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
We're in another golden age of political cartoons. Sadly.
So now there may be a war because #TrumpleThinSkin couldn't stand an Obama success?
June 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Targeted hate rhetoric
June 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
An excellent suggestion
Another idea:

Start doing Online hearings for immigrants.
Online hearings will keep them and those trying to protect rights, safe.

Courts conducted business online during Covid. Courts can do it now.
June 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Permissiveness for this has also now been created in the US
When rapists can buy ICE gear on Amazon, you can bet they are planning on disappearing women. Also including angry boyfriends and abusive spouses doing the same.
June 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is powerful, admirable.
What standing up to ICE looks like.
#Resist
June 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
With a lot going on today, I'm glad the BBC have Greta Thunberg's aid trip so prominent on their main news page.
Madleen: Israel warns it will stop aid yacht reaching Gaza
Israel's defence minister says climate protester Greta Thunberg and others onboard are
www.bbc.co.uk
June 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
LAPD statement June 7th 2025: "Today, demonstrations across the City of Los Angeles remained peaceful, and we commend all those who exercised their First Amendment rights responsibly."

Film everything, don't back down, don't tolerate violent people, they are often agents of security forces.
June 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Back of the envelope calculations, but if everyone in England had an equal amount of land, that would be nearly an acre each. "It is far easier to cling to privileges if few are privy to their extent."

(This was pointed out to me in "Who Owns England?" by Guy Shrubsole.)
June 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Useful to remember when talking to people on social media. Standard Operating Procedure for agents infiltrating anti-authoritarian movements is to advocate for and help plan more and more extreme actions (see "Undercover" by Rob Evans and Paul Lewis). Another reason why non-violent action is best.
May 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It sure is!
May 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
May 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
May 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM