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Tea Junkie
@teajunkie.bsky.social
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AI will bleed us dry until it has no more use for us.
Why are we feeding it?
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A photo of three chimps, one covering its mouth, another covering its eyes, and the third covering its ears.
October 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Powerful image from Ben Jennings.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A cartoon showing a tiny hand doing a V for victory sign, protruding from the cuff of a blood-stained shirt, with a American flag cufflink. There are smoking ruins in the background.
October 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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I finished reading The Book Thief last night. I had to stop for a while because I was sobbing so hard. All I could think of were the people being bombed in their homes at the moment in Gaza and Ukraine.
The cover of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, showing a skeleton in a brown robe dancing with a girl in pretty dress.
September 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Just waiting for Starmer to say that he gets it, that he "completely understands" why they're concerned.
Screenshot of Musk saying "remigration is the only way" in a quote-tweet of someone who claims that you "just see foreigers" in the UK.
September 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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"Feel your fucking FREEDOM."
Patti Smith on stage, not giving a fuck.
August 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
teajunkie.bsky.social
The tomatoes are getting ripe! Let the cooking begin.
August 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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It's no accident that it's women who are supposed to disable ourselves, and spend a fortune doing so.
A pair of shiny, black high-heeled shoes. A pair of hands with ridiculously long nail extensions.
August 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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From the Cambridge Dictionary
"import verb [ T ] uk /ɪmˈpɔːt/ us /ɪmˈpɔːrt/ Add to word list B2 to buy or bring in products from another country: import something from somewhere We import a large number of cars from Japan." "deport verb [ T ] uk /dɪˈpɔːt/ us /dɪˈpɔːrt/ Add to word list to force someone to leave a country, especially someone who has no legal right to be there or who has broken the law: Thousands of illegal immigrants are caught and deported every year."
August 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Why are people more bothered about the privacy implications of the Online Safety Act than they are about this? It makes no sense.
www.techtimes.com/articles/309...
"Meta's tracking is not limited to Facebook and Instagram. It has tracking pixels that are embedded on millions of websites, tracking what users do online. These pixels can collect very sensitive information such as browsing history, financial information, and even health information."
August 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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That went down well then.
Screenshot of Bluesky interaction showing my reply of "If Bluesky is being blocked, how come we're using it?" to a user who is concerned about online censorship and claimed that Bluesky is being blocked.
August 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Do you know what's important? The police taking women seriously. That would save many women's lives every year in the UK.
Claire Chick was one. She's just one of many.
But you keep banging on about trans women 🤦
news.sky.com/story/claire...
Text: "o Martin KC, prosecuting, said Ms Chick had made six statements to the police about Butler and he had been arrested three times before the attack. Victim's final statement to police In her final statement to police the day before he killed her outside her own home, she said: "I only feel that Butler will kill me if further action is not taken. I am in fear of leaving my house."
July 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Waves from a windy beach. Xx
Black labrador-type dog sitting on the beach, looking happy.
July 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Here's Paul diagnosing somebody as intersex on the basis of no evidence whatsoever.
June 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Every time I see a woman who's had her face cut and pasted, or pumped up with fillers, I feel both pity and rage.
A woman undergoing a facelift. A woman with distorted lips.
May 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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The Green Paper specifically says that the new criteria for qualifying for PIP have already been decided, and are NOT up for consultation.
I've made my views incredibly clear to my MP. I got a "sorry but" response. Not enough Labour MPs will revolt.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
108. We are taking action now to control the rising increase in spend on PIP and to make it more sustainable. We will introduce a new, additional requirement for people to score at least 4 points in one daily living activity to be eligible for the daily living part of PIP. This will focus PIP more on those with higher needs and will be introduced by the same separate primary legislation. We are not consulting on this measure.
May 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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There are. There are lots of Poles where I stay. Quite a few Ukrainians too. There are other immigrant communities in other parts of Scotland. Just not as many as in England and Wales.
May 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Lots of Brits have recently experienced rain in the wrong places.
Cars floating in floodwater in a residential cul-de-sac.
May 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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More like the anti-Christ.
April 30, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Why did The Guardian edit 'misogynistic' out of this headline? The link is to the edited version of the story.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Screenshot of Guardian headline: "Man suspected of misogynistic ‘massacre’ attempt in Leeds dies. Owen Lawrence, 38, is believed to have shot two women with crossbow on Saturday afternoon before turning weapon on himself" Screenshot of Guardian headline: "Man suspected of crossbow ‘massacre’ attempt in Leeds dies Owen Lawrence, 38, believed to have shot two women with crossbow on Saturday before turning weapon on himself"
April 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I'm just about to finish Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore, which has absolutely blown my socks off.
Now I get to do one of my favourite things, which is choosing what novel to read next.
The cover of Voice of the Fire, which is gloriously colourful, with purple and orange. There's a image of a person at the centre, silhouetted against flames, with astronomical symbols, and framed by an antler headdress.
April 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Thankfully, Refuge is going to continue offering services to all women who need them.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"The charity Refuge said it would not be changing its policies. “We remain firmly committed to supporting all survivors of domestic abuse, including trans women,” Gemma Sherrington, Refuge’s chief executive, said in a statement."
April 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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You've mentioned the White Rose movement a few times. There's an excellent novel, Alone in Berlin, written by someone who lived through the Nazis, and who witnessed the costs of resistance. It's based on the true story of Otto and Elise Hampel.
The cover of Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada. 'Extraordinary ... redemptive'.
April 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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There's also this.
April 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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That is exactly what Labour is doing. Somebody who is paralysed from their armpits downwards will lose their PIP under Labour plans. That is how brutal they are. This isn't from the headlines, it's from Labour's Green Paper.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
106. We are taking action now to control the rising increase in spend on PIP and to make it more sustainable. We will introduce a new, additional requirement for people to score at least 4 points in one daily living activity to be eligible for the daily living part of PIP. This will focus PIP more on those with higher needs and will be introduced by the same separate primary legislation. We are not consulting on this measure.
March 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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You think this will go away just because you deny it. Oh boy, you're in for such a shock.
Maybe you'll believe the DWP.
You're not at all sorry by the way.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67e3fa...
The potential impact of these reforms on poverty projections has been estimated using a static microsimulation model. Using this model, we estimate there will be an additional 250,000 people (including 50,000 children) in relative poverty after housing costs in 2029/30 as a result of modelled changes to social security, compared to the baseline projections.
March 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM