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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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The Republican Project 2025 isn't just a war on workers and women, it's a war on truth and accuracy itself. A rigged census so Trump fascists can cheat in future elections would have larger impacts than just the election cheating

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Hear me out.. Jury Duty.. but it's leadership of the country.

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Time for an economics lesson.

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A good reason to break traditions regularly, so you don't end up bound by them.

British Parliament is an example where it has some arcane rules that can't now be changed because 'tradition'.

Some though were so unpopular they got the axe regardless,

politics.stackexchange.com/questions/77...

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That "No more tears" formula burning like hell

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى's avatar Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com
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The perception of an inevitable fascist victory in Europe is largely just the wishcasting of mainstream media publications saying that fascist victory is inevitable. See how the BBC spins National Rally's loss.

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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bad luck for biden to run in an electoral cycle where "are you old" is the most important issue instead of in one of the cycles where email security procedures or accuracy of vietnam war medal citations was the most important issue in the country.

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Someone posted repeat pavement Parker pictures anonymously on a local Facebook group and of course got a bunch of laughing emojis and anger. Feels like they weren't so entitled before they met like-minded folk on social media.

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Well Lance would certainly be an expert on bringing the sport into disrepute.

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Making the empire competent makes them a far greater threat. Also, the rebels aren't just cannon fodder now. It's like an accidental reboot of the franchise.

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Same with my neighbours fire alarm, it's been 24hrs, they'd be well done by now..

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I remember that case, it was appalling. Nolan is a disgrace.

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I just mean that if they are being forced to spend the bulk of the five years repairing the damage then they better try communicate that fact rather than flail around and get ripped to shreds by the opposition and the media.

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Markus Pössel's avatar Markus Pössel @mpoessel.de
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There seems to be little to no concern about copying normal people’s work, but when it’s about copying another *corporation’s* work, apparently that is where it crosses a line :-/

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I guess it's a similar situation as the US where if they have to expend most of their efforts rolling back the damage of the previous administration they won't win the upcoming popularity contest.

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I love it when a coffee shop owner insists that the one parking space the city is gonna remove will tank their business and if you study the space it turns over max 4-5 times a day. If your coffee shop is gonna fail over 5 potential customers you don’t have a business.

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We hear you Ed, we'll get the engineering team working on those extra cameras right away!

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Definitely notice the damage when I fall asleep without one. Pros: I keep my teeth Cons: I'm probably full of microplastic

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Someone mentioned that if you ask Ai to summarise the plot of a book it doesn't end well, so I tried it with a TV episode. It's bad...

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I do worry about that, my kid has a nut allergy and I've asked him to be a bit discreet about it with other kids as he gets older. Somebodys little psycho is bound to test him at some stage.

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Then there's the culture war set who would brag about sneakily feeding meat to a vegetarian or vegan. Impossible to verify, but speaks to the mindset.

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I think I read that a lot of Chinese EV makers were folding and leaving owners in rather bad situations. Perhaps we may see a lot more of this.

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There's simply no scenario where he becomes more of a danger than the alternative.

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I've started mailing Cllrs about this and will get onto TDs also. The plan needs to go ahead, we'll learn nothing without doing so. It's just shameful that they have such little ambition for the city and such low regard for the proper process.

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There are sections of railway which have relatively low bridges, requiring substantial works and closures to resolve. Those potentially could be avoided with the overhead line & battery approach.

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Yes, the smoke from our existing DMU trains is pretty bad, they seem to have avoided diesel emission rules entirely.

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Ashley M. Gjøvik's avatar Ashley M. Gjøvik @ashleygjovik.bsky.social
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🧵 In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my apartment. Later, I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into our windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off US EPA, who then raided them in 2023. EPA sent me the report on Friday. 💀 ⬇️

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Ashley M. Gjøvik's avatar Ashley M. Gjøvik @ashleygjovik.bsky.social
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We're not done, you guys. There's more! However, if you feel like you just got a strong whiff of Apple's poison gas & you need a moment to catch your breath; I'll just leave this right here as a reminder of how important it is that we protect each other.

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They aren't even that big inside. Utterly stupid vehicles.

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It often comes from marketing, I recall a radio advert that pronounced the j, there's something similar going on with Hyundai in Europe, they used to say Hi-un-die in marketing and now they switched to Yun-day I guess the company didn't care how it was pronounced in the early days.

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Elaine Johnson 's avatar Elaine Johnson @elainejohnson.bsky.social
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"I think that when we see a multi-billion-dollar corporation, hiring a multi-billion-dollar US law firm to go after environmental charities for legal costs, we do have to ask whether people ought to be protected from this type of legal strategy."

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...

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Those useful parts of the internet which I rely on, used to be held in forums and blog posts but are now concentrated on YouTube. I have concerns about the levels of centralisation.

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Almost like they'll argue contributory negligence.

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❀°。der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆'s avatar ❀°。der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social
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This a fun interview with an English cycling announcer here (starts at about 8:00) in which he explains that now the Tour de France gives the announcers a sites guide so they know what to talk about & have all the factlets ready to go 😂

99percentinvisible.org/episode/mini...

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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if Biden wants to stay in the race he needs to do this. Just flood the zone with media appearences and get people used to stammering old guy Biden as something that's normal (or ideally a better version where he's not stammering old guy). Hiding out won't work.

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Not me trying to use One note to transcribe an Ai voiced training deck at work.. no nope, definitely not.

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll is Uncommitted🍉's avatar Sam Eyler-Driscoll is Uncommitted🍉 @sameyler.bsky.social
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This is a wild stat

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I do this, but for shows that manage to contain at least the main plot in an episode. Which is something they increasingly seem to avoid. If the show presents a recap at the beginning of an episode, then that can be a bad sign.

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In 10 years there will be a vast gaping cultural void of basically everything that was ever posted online between 2002 and 2026. Like a quarter century of media, deliberately turned to dust and ashes.

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There seems to be a huge increase in spammy accounts here recently. They could be legit but I very much doubt it.

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He's a local TD and he turns up at various community meetings etc, but you'd kinda forget he was in the room. I don't get it, but politics is weird so who knows.

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I'm told that it may be combining words straw & berry as tokens, and it results in this confusion. But that explanation just raises more questions, not sure if that make it better or worse!

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It really doesn't take much to shatter it's confidence. I wonder how can it be relied upon then.

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