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@terribly-nice.bsky.social
Irishman in Scotland. #indyref2 supporter. Saoirse Don Phalaistín.
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
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I'm guessing the BBC edited this together to give the misleading impression he was threatening violence towards Congressional opponents.
November 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I'm guessing the BBC edited this together to give the misleading impression he was threatening violence towards Congressional opponents.
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I'm not mad into football but figured I'd tune in to BBC2 to see if the match was still on.
Just as Denmark gave the ball away....
Cracking goal!
#scovden
Just as Denmark gave the ball away....
Cracking goal!
#scovden
November 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I'm not mad into football but figured I'd tune in to BBC2 to see if the match was still on.
Just as Denmark gave the ball away....
Cracking goal!
#scovden
Just as Denmark gave the ball away....
Cracking goal!
#scovden
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new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
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Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
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Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
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The line “vote for us or you’ll get the far right” doesn’t really work when the policies you’re enacting are barely distinguishable from what the far right propose.
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The line “vote for us or you’ll get the far right” doesn’t really work when the policies you’re enacting are barely distinguishable from what the far right propose.
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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What this article doesn't point out - because it's not news - is the fact that our Scottish Government is at no point consulted or informed about British budget planning. It finds out when we do. And then has little time to re-plan its own budget to fit.
Here's how it works...
Here's how it works...
November 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
What this article doesn't point out - because it's not news - is the fact that our Scottish Government is at no point consulted or informed about British budget planning. It finds out when we do. And then has little time to re-plan its own budget to fit.
Here's how it works...
Here's how it works...
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If the grouse shooting industry are to be believed, Susie probably stamped her own chicks to death before turning the gun on herself.
Oh well. By a happy coincidence, less hen harriers means more red grouse for the toffs to shoot.
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
Oh well. By a happy coincidence, less hen harriers means more red grouse for the toffs to shoot.
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
Hen Harrier ‘Susie’, whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries
If ever there was an example demonstrating the high level of persecution faced by Hen Harriers on UK grouse moors, the lack of consequences for the offenders, and the lack of justice for the victim…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
If the grouse shooting industry are to be believed, Susie probably stamped her own chicks to death before turning the gun on herself.
Oh well. By a happy coincidence, less hen harriers means more red grouse for the toffs to shoot.
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
Oh well. By a happy coincidence, less hen harriers means more red grouse for the toffs to shoot.
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
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Life moves pretty fast
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Life moves pretty fast
DPD are so fucking awful.
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 AM
DPD are so fucking awful.
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
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"Research released this month by economists at the Bank of England, the Bundesbank, King’s College London and the universities of Stanford and Nottingham underscored the economic hit from leaving the EU. Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6-8%"
on.ft.com/4p1NoHv
on.ft.com/4p1NoHv
Rachel Reeves signals she will break manifesto pledge with Budget tax rises
Chancellor hopes to win support from Labour MPs by lifting two-child benefit cap
on.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
"Research released this month by economists at the Bank of England, the Bundesbank, King’s College London and the universities of Stanford and Nottingham underscored the economic hit from leaving the EU. Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6-8%"
on.ft.com/4p1NoHv
on.ft.com/4p1NoHv
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When all the lovely data centres are built we’ll be able to use ChatGPT 24/7 while we die from dehydration.
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
When all the lovely data centres are built we’ll be able to use ChatGPT 24/7 while we die from dehydration.
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Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
November 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.
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Don't let this government and their lackeys distract you. The issues we face in the housing, healthcare, and cost of living crises are real. Migrants don't make any of those problems worse.
It's government week after week that makes it worse! Don't let them blame migrants to give themselves cover.
It's government week after week that makes it worse! Don't let them blame migrants to give themselves cover.
Don't let government distract you from the real issues
"So they're saying now that migration is too high, but actually it's a figure that's coming down. So what has changed is they feel under political pressure. And it is very clearly at attempt to distract from all of their failures - in terms of housing, over 5000 children growing up in emergency accommodation, and so on, and to blame the most vulnerable." Don't let this government and their lackeys distract you. The issues we face in the housing, healthcare, and cost of living crises are real. Migrants don't make any of those problems worse. It is government policy week after week that makes it worse! Don't let them try and blame migrants to give themselves cover. #peoplebeforeprofit #PBP #PaulMurphyTD #Ireland #Tallaght #DublinSouthWest #Dublin #IrishPolitics __________________________________________________________________________________________ Keep up to date with Paul & his latest campaigns: https://linktr.ee/paulmurphytd Or follow him on social media: 👉 YOUTUBE | https://www.youtube.com/@paulmurphy_td 👉 TWITTER |...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Don't let this government and their lackeys distract you. The issues we face in the housing, healthcare, and cost of living crises are real. Migrants don't make any of those problems worse.
It's government week after week that makes it worse! Don't let them blame migrants to give themselves cover.
It's government week after week that makes it worse! Don't let them blame migrants to give themselves cover.
I can't be bothered but it really feels like "Rasher or Trumps ear" is right there in a "legs or hotdogs" way...
i know it’s corny to make fun of trump and call him a cheeto but dear lord lol
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I can't be bothered but it really feels like "Rasher or Trumps ear" is right there in a "legs or hotdogs" way...
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This would be a more convincing argument if Keir Starmer had not himself made a whole series of promises which he then declared completely undeliverable as soon as he became leader www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister
Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This would be a more convincing argument if Keir Starmer had not himself made a whole series of promises which he then declared completely undeliverable as soon as he became leader www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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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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Can you imagine if someone released a computer game, or a musical album, or *whatever*, that was designed to sexual groom children, or encourage them to commit suicide or any of the things LLMs are doing on a daily basis, how quick the media and political condemnation would be?
Oh my god I’m crying
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Can you imagine if someone released a computer game, or a musical album, or *whatever*, that was designed to sexual groom children, or encourage them to commit suicide or any of the things LLMs are doing on a daily basis, how quick the media and political condemnation would be?