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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š

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Toby Nangle's avatar Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social
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Tories always a weird alliance of One Nationers + Swivel-Eyed Loons.

My guess:

47% want Tories to merge with Reform β‰  47% of Tories are Reformists.

47% = Reformists + Tories who reckon they can Ride the Face-Eating Leopard to power.

www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

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Kathryn Tewson's avatar Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social
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Please enjoy these 24 minutes of drone footage of the Channeled Scablands, a landscape formed by cataclysmic floods that is like nothing else on Earth. youtu.be/oWzFH7x6nLs?...

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Neil Sheppard's avatar Neil Sheppard @ultramanginger.bsky.social
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Hollywood always turns the world's topical fears into villains, and I approve of the number of movies making AI the baddie. It's unfortunate, however, that they're doing so by showing omniscient and all-powerful sentient AIs, when the real threat of AI is its incompetence.

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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Too soon man, too soon. 😒

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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Oh I too am weary with the insidious rehabilitation of these venal motherfuckers. I (think I) remember when disgrace meant disgrace and erasure from the political landscape, but this may be nostalgia and/or being less engaged with what was actually going on talking.

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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Fully funded, whoop whoop!

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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Fully funded, you beauty! 🀘😍

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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Fuckin' A!

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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That'll be time to torch my TV licence.

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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You know how to live on the edge Nat.

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Reactor (formerly Tor.com)'s avatar Reactor (formerly Tor.com) @reactorsff.bsky.social
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Over the course of 15 months and with 62 Lakota speakers involved, The Avengers has been dubbed fully into Lakota by the original cast:

reactormag.com/the-avengers...

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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The fuels in development by the suppliers will be drop in replacements and aim to be usable by existing road cars without modification.

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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This is great news. I recently got back in to Formula 1, and was heartened to learn they're aiming for Net Zero by 2030 themselves. It might be partly to do with economy, and partly with image, but one of the first aims, over and above F1 already using hybrid engines. is to become fossil fuel free.

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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Tom Hardy strikes me as a guy who'd be on board for "the right project", so maybe a Max-centric prequel, or sequel, to Fury Road. I'll buy shares in popcorn.

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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Well, to fair you're a little bit biased. πŸ˜‰

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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Now I've *finally* watched it, gosh yes! It took me a little while to get over "that nose", and I thought perhaps ATJ takes a little while to go full Charlize but she did get there. I'm not sure exactly where George would take it from here, but I'm well on board to find out.

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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As if he needed to do any more to remind us.

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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Three doors down, Ripperdoc opens the door. "I have a reputation to uphold, you understand..."

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Hayes Brown's avatar Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social
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In a just world asking it how much carbon pollution generative AI pumps out each year would cause the system to self-destruct

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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True. You don't have to be dumb as a bag of rocks to be a rabid Tory but all the evidence suggests it certainly helps.

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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In retrospect the Union Jack dress was a bit of a red flag.

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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Oh, oh no. Not all that surprising, given the idyllic huge country house/horsey/hunting life they project in Drive to Survive. Don't really strike me as natural Labour voters. They're welcome to each other, frankly.

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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Having got back into Formula 1, I keep seeing her nowadays accompanying husband Christian Horner, head of Red Bull Racing. He's quite a piece of work ("allegedly"). 😬

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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Hah, @alexvont.bsky.social just asked the exact same question on Paper Cuts. πŸ˜…πŸ‘Œ

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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One can only hope.

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Nick Harkaway's avatar Nick Harkaway @harkaway.bsky.social
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This (which came to me via @rhiggitt.bsky.social) is an absolutely *superb* longish read, in which the long brown envelope of truth lands on the doormat of generative AI. I want to sample the best bits and mix it up with Yello’s Oh Yeah and use it as my entry music.

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Major Clanger's avatar Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social
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As long as she’s allowed to insert five swear words per minute I’m completely up for this.

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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Insert Mal Reynolds "Um, actually... No, never mind..." gif. πŸ˜‚

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What was the plan if one of these imaginary candidates got elected d'you reckon? Find someone to pretend to be them for the foreseeable future? It's almost comedically bad.

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Burning Ambulance's avatar Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social
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When you start thinking that people who make dark art must surely be dark people, remember that Cannibal Corpse vocalist George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher is famous for playing claw machines on tour and donating the stuffed animals he wins to local toy drives and children's hospitals.

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Rosamundi's avatar Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social
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I thought there'd be a scandal involving Reform and the Short Money, but I admit I didn't think it would relate to being paid based on votes for people who don't exist.

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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You start to wonder, where's it all coming from? I should be hollow by now. Is there a gateway to the snot dimension up my nose or something? 😬

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abbi's avatar abbi @abbis.bsky.social
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I don't want to minimise the book thing because ABSOLUTELY. But, yes and...please understand that this is also true of anything, everything. Any product you like, small business you shop with, artist you love. The internet cannot help you, the person-to-person word of a friend is all that works.

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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πŸ‘

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Dr Kat Day (she/her)'s avatar Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com
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Do I have any scientist followers who are also Italian speakers? Someone elsewhere is arguing that there’s only one word for both breathing and respiration in Italian (which I believe) and thus they aren’t distinguished as separate processes in biology (which I do not). Anyone shed any light?

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Daryl: Part One's avatar Daryl: Part One @hotdonkeybear.bsky.social
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The latest season of Is Paul Dano OK? launches today. We’re focussing on actor, singer, and martial artist, Hiroyuki Sanada. The season is called Hiro Worship, and it’s available via all good podcatchers
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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Utility, or futility, or indeed both? Darn it Kieron, I'm all kinds of peckish now. 😜

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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Original 1982 version I hope. πŸ€˜πŸ˜‰

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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I'm glad I'm not a nail biter or what with qualifying and the race I'd have no fingers left. 😍

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Jaunty Art's avatar Jaunty Art @jauntyart.bsky.social
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Saw this on mastodon and it is fantastic. AI in medicine

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Kieran Healy's avatar Kieran Healy @kjhealy.bsky.social
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Look I Know Miss J.D. Ferguson Said This Pot Was Used By Bonnie Prince Charlie But As A Local Historian I Have Standards You Know.

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Kingfisher & Wombat's avatar Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com
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My god, the Finns are right, sauna DOES cure everything!

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WildGorillaMan's avatar WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social
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You had me at β€œexceedingly dry in-jokes for recherchΓ© subcultures”

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Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š's avatar Steve Jeffery πŸΈπŸ˜·πŸ“š @zincstoat.uk
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Same in the UK I'm afraid. I had a bunch of appointment last year, now more this year, and I can't think of a single health care professional I've seen masked, and just a handful of patients. It was quite an anomaly when one consultant I saw offered to mask up if I'd prefer, as I was already. πŸ™„

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