Alicia

See, these kinds of claims are the ones you can't tackle with pointing out the obvious lie, because that cedes the basic argument to them. You have to take them at their word and then calmly ask, "So why was that a problem for you?"

You might like my peanut butter, boiled egg, cucumber and sambal belacan sandwiches. Fantastic combination, but every element has a large number of haters.

I think some people see "endive" and have a mental image of frisee/curled endive salad thing, some people picture chicory/witloof spear things. I am a big fan of the chicory/witloof endive.

Sounds very French. Yum!

I would not want someone who judges me on sight by my ethnicity for my neighbour

I would correctly judge they were unable to treat me with respect, and would not stand up for my or my child's rights or safety

I am still teaching my child to protect such people's rights, even as they dismiss his

How lovely!

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

The racism here is very bad of course. But imagine being as BORING and STUPID as he must be for this to matter to him

Pharmacies facing angry patients over Covid jab confusion Up to half of patients coming to some pharmacies are being turned away because they are not eligible.

So much confusion by charging guidelines for Covid and flu vaccines in UK with a massive mismatch in eligibility for who can get them 🧵

Food as the language of occupation An online and print magazine, shado stands for See | Hear | Act | Do and promotes the engagement between arts, activism and academia. %

"The roots of Palestinian food are regularly disrespected and wilfully ignored by the UK culinary industry, which Fadi is accustomed to, and attributes to laziness of the general restaurant-goer."

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What a £5 coffee (or a £100 Pizza Express) tells us about a changing Britain | Gaby Hinsliff For many Gen Xers, it feels like we’re sliding back towards the land of our childhoods: where eating out was for special occasions, and Thermoses were king, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

"A lot of life’s treats were possible only because of cheap labour. If the cost of paying livable wages is that people earning just above minimum wage can’t have so many nice things, maybe that’s what redistribution looks like in an era where chancellors are out of easier options."

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

This has been the muttered mantra of the racist since as long as I can remember. I literally remember hearing people say this as a child, and I’m not especially young.

Five small white candles burning in a row

It’s the full moon of Thadingyut today - the Burmese Buddhist festival of lights.

I make the same wish that I have done for the last five years.

အရေးတော်ပုံအောင်ရမည် 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

May the revolution succeed in Myanmar 🔥🔥🔥

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Thadingyut

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here

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All-the-way to Carolina burgers Taking a deep dive into the Carolina-style cheeseburger. We'll be figuring out what this burger is and isn't, where you can find one, and then sharing tips and recipes to make your own at home.

I wrote a very in depth look at what a Carolina-style burger is and what it isn't. I created a map to help you find a great example and then I shared strategies and tactics to make your own all-the-way burger at home. Click through to get hungry and learn more.

I really enjoyed this one!

perfect detail

Adorable!

A few months ago I listened to one baseball game and one hour of cable news (as a podcast) and I heard scalps, pow-wow, and totem pole and was reminded just how deeply ingrained this stuff is in the language of American non-native people, doesn’t feel totally necessary at this point.

I think what people replying to this are missing is that Dean Street is home to both a gender clinic and a sexual health clinic. I've been to both many times over the years, they're a vital lifeline for many people.

This is intimidation of staff and patients.

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A British friend recently spent a couple of weeks in Japan and ate all her meals in the Starbucks near her hotel. Except the day they went to the Harry Potter theme park, when she ate a vegetarian burger and chips.

I've never had Taco Bell in the US but I cannot imagine any world where it's worse than in Milton Keynes.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

A small metal bowl with 2 scoops of ice cream in it, one buttery pale yellow, one pale pink.

Delicious dessert! One scoop of Grand Marnier and one scoop of roast homegrown strawberry. 🍜

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

It shouldn't be as hard as some people seem to make out to recognise that islamophobia, anti-semitism, hate in general, all needs to be absolutely, unconditionally, condemned every time without any form of whataboutery or "but this..." etc.

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Good morning Womble! I am reading The Great Orchid Heist, as recommended by one of your followers last week.

A small Welsh Terrier is lying on a colourful rug. He has a torn roll of toilet paper between his paws and is quite wet, especially around his head. Apparently, the towel witch didn't get him there.

Something really stupid happened to me this morning. Every time I wanted to go outside, cold water came down from above. My Mom says that's autumn and played with me, but then I got really wet and the towel witch tried to catch me. She's particularly keen on paws. Be careful she doesn't catch you.