Michael Birtwhistle

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Badenoch's speech completely detached from reality with no mention of protecting our communities from the climate crisis - particularly in light of her party’s plans to scrap the Climate Change Act and throw away Britain's progress on preventing climate breakdown

“Our companies need access to all the things right now to avoid bankruptcy, I’m afraid ‘complying with the law’ is completely out of the question. What, do you want CHINA to win? Anyway on the plus side if everything goes to plan it’ll destroy your livelihood LOL.”
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Haha, thanks, not like Mytholmroyd then.

This is a trigger for me and any speaking agreement I conclude must feature a clause expressly forbidding anybody to ask me this question.

And, as people often point out, Media Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, History, English, etc, all give valuable understanding of aspects of the media-political machine and how society is manipulated and held back.

Can't be having well-informed citizens intervening in that, can we?!

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

I think you probably always start by addressing the question: is it just pronounced Smith, or is your Y an active participant?

I'll go even further than just needing to ask permission

any AI model which uses other people's data or work should ask for permission AND offer compensation. Any AI model which doesn't do this should be immediately deleted - not reworked to take stuff out - wholesale deleted and you start again.

I never thought I would actively want Labour out of power, but I deeply want Starmer out of politics forever. What a wasted opportunity.

you just need to publish a collection of the half-baked thoughts, with any additional ad hoc baking as you go

And making theft illegal would “kill” the thieving industry. Good. Make theft illegal again.

have sex with repression

that explains the other which says "pass suppression"

What does it mean?

Oxford City Council backs city's minority communities in vote A Green party motion called on Oxford City Council to oppose far right rhetoric.

On Monday, Oxford City Council near-unanimously supported the Green Party motion which made clear our city stands against the far right and against regressive migration policy - from banning asylum seekers from working to scrapping family reunion.

It's time for everyone's favorite new game show:

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"How Did I Hurt Myself In My Sleep?"
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Recommended player ages: 40 and above.

I always read into that poem a sense of frustration. "It made all the difference, because I got lost in the wood, was late for lunch and tore my clothes on brambles."

Around 41% of Americans believe that Jesus will return by the year 2050. This figure comes from a 2010 Pew Research Center survey and is considered relatively consistent over time. Among white evangelical Protestants, the belief is higher at about 58%,

One difficulty, is that flirting is being a little more intense/hinty/whatever than your normal self at whatever you're doing, and unless it's overtly stated, it's impossible to tell unless the other person knows your baseline and normal variation.

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Makes sense that she would hate them really since her neoliberal ideology is precisely why the rivers are full of human shit

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

We always knew that Labour cares about little else other than keeping private developers happy.

But here's proof showing off to JP Morgan despite destruction of some of the "rarest creatures in our country."

Let's make that description Labour votes.

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Just as corrupt as the Conservatives, and in my opinion even more reckless with nature and the environment.

Even if you don't care about snails, we as human beings rely on nature for our mental and physical health.

This is Labour taking an anti enviromment and anti public health stance for cash.

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.

neurotypicality is a myth as in an ideal concept that cannot exist in material reality

but it is also a social construct that does exist in material reality

because nothing is just one thing

everything is lots of things

I like @shelleybwoke.bsky.social's Genitally Obsessed Bigots, or Gobs for short.

I'm old enough to remember when collateralized subprime mortgages were "investment grade" debt.

The Harvest Full Moon rises tonight... and it's a supermoon! 🌕

These occur when the Moon coincides with perigee — its closest point to the Earth during its orbit

Northern areas of the UK will have the best viewing chances as skies clear overnight 🎑

I'm in a room full of people who probably think I'm an oldhead because I think nirvana is grunge and anything after kurt died is post-grunge and actually what they're advertising is more like """shoegaze""" by which I mean it sounds like the foo fighters with loads of reverb and a female vocal and