Imagine not being able to start your day clean - Donate Now!, organized by Beauty Banks Beauty Banks was founded in 2018, with the eradication of hyg… Beauty Banks needs your support for Imagine not being able to start your day clean - Donate Now!

The brilliant Beauty Banks, which fights hygiene poverty (as they say, imagine not being able to go to school clean, or with no sanitary products on your period) by supporting hundreds of charities up and down the country. They’re in a bit of trouble. Can you help?

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🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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A white female plumber, a Jewish gay man and a Muslim wan walked into a hall....and united a community.

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One thing we don’t do well, societally or interpersonally, is digest harms when there really isn’t anyone to blame.

Being called a n*gger on international television in front of your peers is a harm.

Having a disability that creates that harm through no choice of your own is a harm.

Shot of Photographer Looming Over an Owl Highlights Growing Problem 'It's kind of awful what some photographers do for 14 likes on Facebook.'

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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records.

Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'.

Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract.

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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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It's #buyastrangerabook day today.

That'll start a bit later. Probs about midday.

In the meantime, I'll tell you about some new SIGNED books I'll be getting.

How does that sound?

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If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

If you’re new to BlueSky or know people who are, you can pin this feed to follow the best people thinking about the ethics and politics of technology — the type of folks who would be deprioritized on your X feed. :) bsky.app/profile/did:... #welcome #newsky

I've decided to make this piece free to read in full for the next 24 hours. It's about the dangers of AI and the difficult decisions the digital world forces us to make, especially if we earn a living via our creativity. It's also a love letter to human thinking: www.tom-cox.com/thinking-abo...

Winter blooming of hundreds of plants in UK ‘visible signal’ of climate breakdown New year plant hunt shows rising temperatures are shifting natural cycles of wildflowers such as daisies

Wondering whether to bother with the #NewYearPlantHunt? This is why!

Evidencing the impacts of climate change on our plants, environment and our everyday. Climate change can seem nebulous and far away - this demonstrates its effects in your street…

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I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this.

Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?

Dear bluskeeters!

I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.

Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

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All donations to @calaisappeal.bsky.social are being DOUBLED RIGHT NOW!! 🤩🤩

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Oops yes that too! If you’re able, it’s a lovely thing to do and to feel a part of, and will likely have you feeling all Christmassy 🎄

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It’s #buyastrangerabook day, a day early! Lots of brilliant offers from generous humans, go and have a look! 👀 #booksky

#JoinIn on Christmas Day

This Christmas Day join us for #JoinIn on Bluesky. Just use or look for the #JoinIn hashtag. Lovely people coming together for chat and cheer - especially for those who may be alone or troubled at Christmas, or just looking for a bit of fellowship. See you there!
Please share

I may not be the most festive person going, but know it can be a tough time for many people. If you can help support organisations supporting others please do, and, if you need support, hopefully some organisations below can help.
This is far from comprehensive so please do add more at the end. 👇

This #internationalmigrantsday it's essential to remember pro-immigration policies benefit everyone, anti-immigration policies benefit no-one. It's essential we all work for those, and we don't allow migrants to be thrown under the bus in a hope of combatting the far right, who want just that. 10/10

Another lovely #buyastrangerabook offer.

Some of @sarahjp.bsky.social 's children's favourite books.

The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Owl Babies
Tabby McTat
Otto the Book Bear

Sarah is offering to buy one of them for someone, so get in touch if you'd like one.

More #buyastrangerabook day magic.

If there's a kids book you'd like to get someone for Christmas, @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social is offering to buy it for you (up to £20).

So, just let us know, if there's a specific book you'd like, and Rob will sort it out.

UK only.

"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.

When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.

For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.

Looking for book recs for this winter, especially around:

- Queerness in nature
- Medical ethics & policy
- Evidence-based science communication methods
- Memoirs of trans scientists/doctors
- Biotech scandals
- Silicon Valley technofascism
- How people leave cults
- Avoiding burnout as an activist

Lonely postbox, Isle of Yell, Shetland, 2004, photo by Martin Parr (Magnum).

We must protect our borders to defend our democracies. Here's how This is our strong message to our friends in Europe. Unless responsible governments reflect their citizens’ concerns, populists will win, say British PM Keir Starmer and Danish PM Mette Frederiksen

There are so many interesting things in this article; a quick thread on what jumps out for me. 🧵1/7

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Cover of the essay. It depicts a Black man, visibly tired and sad, holding a bleading heart that reads The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy by Michael Geoffrey Asia.

Today, DWI publishes a powerful essay by @mgasia.bsky.social, who works impersonating an AI sex companion: data-workers.org/michael/

This piece offers a rare glimpse into the psychological and economic realities behind one of the fastest-growing sectors: AI-assisted intimacy.

A pile of SIGNED books.

IT'S THE BIG GREEN BOOKS CHRISTMAS RAFFLE!

Tickets are just £2 each!

You can win all these SIGNED books + £50 to spend.

More importantly, every ticket you buy will help buy books for two amazing schools.

JUST TWO POUNDS.

More here.

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Just seven days left!