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  RE: https://mastodon.scot/@JackTheCat/117336714805887582 I don't think I'm overstating the point or resorting to hyperbole when I say that this is the greatest moment in television history, bar none.

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  Just seen that stand-up, writer and general good egg Jen Ives has written an extended piece about her experience as a trans woman working at the BBC for the last couple of years. It's centred around the Supreme Court ruling, and the effect it had on both her working environment and her mental health. As always, my heart goes out to the incredible people who have to tolerate this shit day in and day out. 🏳️‍⚧️ https://www.jenives.net/ Read by Jen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Ld6AKmA...

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  RE: https://climatejustice.social/@ketan/117001974244089760 This is so on the nose it almost makes me think someone at The Times is genuinely trying to get a message across.

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@markhburton/117002678234405825 New Bain Principle just dropped. #UKPol

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  This poll was in the news this morning and I found the result interesting, so I thought I'd ask here. So, fedi... If you had a choice between instantly receiving £50,000 or a 50% chance to win £1m, which would you pick?

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  I can't post this, but I simultaneously can't not post this. Jeff from The Dragon's Tomb, a board game YouTube channel, was somehow sent a $2000 AI sex doll to review. So he did. The highest compliment I can give this video is that it gets both worse and better the longer it goes on. Tentatively tagging #boardgames. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhJWvt6MB5A

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  RE: https://mastodon.world/@signalapp/116716184796039663 "Child safety looks like well-funded education, robust social services, and meaningful guardrails on the very AI technologies and platforms the current government is eagerly courting. What the UK government wants instead is invisible surveillance infrastructure, switched on by default and potentially rushed into law under cynical pretexts." 👏

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  @annaleen@wandering.shop @charliejane@wandering.shop "Unavailable in my area" - boo! Edit: fixed by accessing with a US VPN endpoint and using guest checkout with an email address unknown to Humble. H/t to @leguinian_utopia@union.place 👍 Edit 2: Don't forget you can adjust your donation to bump up the proportion that goes to charity, if you wish.

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  @Toxic_Flange@infosec.exchange An oldie but a goodie.

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  It's a win either way, but I'd rather Starmer was taken down by the election results next month than the Mandelson fiasco. #UKPol

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  Another little shout-out for the genius of Tim Hunkin. Here he is demonstrating how a lockstitch sewing machine works by way of his "human sewing machine". This is from The Secret Life of the Sewing Machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lwI4TSKM3Y (h/t to @katiefenn for putting this in my head by way of her sewing post earlier.) #TimHunkin #Maker #Sewing #Craft

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  T-9 minutes until Artemis II launch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo #Nasa #Artemis2

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  It's not that difficult, Keir. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy368j1e3lo #UKPolitics #Iraq

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  Apropos of nothing: the only man ever to recover from Alzheimer's disease* was Ernest Saunders, a multi-millionaire who was diagnosed just after he had been convicted of insider trading and had his prison sentence halved from 5 years to 2.5 as a result. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2034ww6kqxo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Saunders#Sentence_and_appeal

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  @PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social I only use it to externalise very light torment to poor people. Haters are such purists. 🙄

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  @djr2024@mastodon.social @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Dara O'Briain: "I get really pissed off when people give out about crime going up when the numbers are definitely going down. And if you say the numbers are going down, they go, 'but the FEAR of crime is rising'. Well so what? Zombies are at an all-time low level, but the fear of zombies could be incredibly high. It doesn't mean we have to have government policies to deal with the fear of zombies. It's ridiculous." T...