Bluesky: "I appreciate the alt text on this." Facebook: "Why do you take photos of sheep? You're weird." Instagram: "Not interested. No music and they're not doing a dance."

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last mo.

I've decided to compile a definitive thread of photos of the best sheep I've photographed during my walks in the countryside, together with supporting biographical information. I will put the vital story associated with each sheep in the alt text, since some of it is a little long to fit in a post.

This is what climate failure looks like. Nature, homes and livelihoods are being destroyed. The Government must act now.

An instructor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore who only just received a “teacher of the year” award has been arrested by federal immigration agents under the command of the Trump administration. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials detained Berhanu Kibre... TAT: [Nationalism]

University of Maryland ‘teacher of the year’ detained by ICE in Texas

DHS said pharmacy instructor Berhanu Kibret overstayed visa and arrested him at Dallas-Fort Worth airport

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The youth claim to hate capitalism yet they purchase goods and services in order to survive ahaha and I am very Fortune Magazine

😂Reality strikes. Sarah does it again - lol

Texas judge KICKS OUT whole room of speakers opposed to closing half the county's polling places www.instagram.com/reel/DbozSJQ...

Grant Shapps may be excluded but what about Corinne Stockheath, Michael Green and Sebastian Fox?

That Joshua Bonehill-Paine is a suitable Tory candidate but Grant Shapps and Gavin Barwell have been excluded is quite a good indicator of how many seats the Tories will realistically regain at the next election.

The EHRC guidance does not apply to workplaces, and trans people are not criminalised for using any toilet in the UK. But the whole point of this - as with Section 28 back in the 1980s - is to intimidate people. Don't give into that fear.

Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 9h ago

Just a reminder that: - this isn't for workplaces and if your work is trying to implement it scare them over discrimination claims - the onus is on the service provider, not the service user to comply - the code *itself* says enforcement of toilet facilities is unworkable and low priority

I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …

Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules

Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups

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The BBC went to Richard Tice's constituency and spoke to people who generally said they still like him - and the Reform MP decided this was an example of "hate and bias" 🤔

Richard Tice fumes at BBC for talking to his constituents and no one can work out why

Richard Tice has accused the BBC of "bias and hate" against him after the broadcaster decided to go to his constituency and talk to people.

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Nuclear plants in Romania and Hungary are under threat of being shut down because there’s not enough water from the Danube to cool them.

As the Danube Hits Record Lows, Every Centimeter of River Counts

Nuclear plants in Romania and Hungary are under threat of being shut down because there’s not enough water to cool them.

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This improves things marginally (by stripping out AI summaries) but only reveals that the underlying search product does seem to be getting worse: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good

The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google's AI Overview.

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I think 🦆 🦆 go is the same and that also seems to be getting 💩

Happy 12th anniversary of the day Kim Jong Un visited the lube factory.

Google appears to be getting worse as a search engine at a rate of knots.

Trans people are being segregated in prison for v coding as national policy now. I don't think its responsible to encourage trans folks do anything that can get them arrested right now.

The entire plan is to show angry dangerous trans people. I am not telling anyone to not be angry, to supress anger etc, i am asking mostly cis folks to maybe consider not promoting aggressive or confrontational responses to trans folks who are at greater risk.

French interior Minister on Ceuta after meeting with EU counterparts "The problem isn't Schengen. Schengen is the solution. Schengen didn't let a single person from Ceuta onto the Spanish mainland. The problem is "outside interference" whipping up divisions within Europe"

🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇

We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project

The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back

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Hi everyone, you’re probably aware that we have been helping with the campaign against Thames Water who are planning on getting approval to dump 75 million litres of semi-treated sewage in the river on a daily basis. Please help fight this destruction. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Petition: Ensure new sewage treatment infrastructure meets higher standards as in the EU

We urge the government to review the regulations for new sewage treatment infrastructure and introduce new legislation to ensure high international standards are met; to safeguard people’s health, bet...

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Reform UKs plan to use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel brilliantly taken apart by ... er ... Nigel Farage

Not sure why she thinks it’s a defence that she personally does not consume the output that disqualifies him from office

James Heale@jaheale.bsky.social · 10h ago

Kemi Badenoch on Crewkerne Gazette candidate: "I don't watch his videos. I don't even like those videos. I hate AI deepfakes."

Two AI accounts wanting to connect and stay in touch with each other in the mentions of a post I wrote about AI is fucking hellscape material.

They linked to me in that Telegraph article about Rod Liddle ffs. I didn't even warrant a name, just 'transgender activist'. At least they called me 'he'. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...

Let's all support the brave protesters in Georgia who are fighting the pro-Russian government in Tblisi 24/7 and want to join the #EU because they are Europeans and detest Putin and his oligarchs! You can find them by following the hashtag #GeorgiaProtests. Picture: @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social

I’ve gotten that response, as well. DESPITE the fact that it’s actively used as the surveillance tool everyone supposedly is against (but participating in??). You can’t tear down the Master’s house using the Master’s tools. Maybe we should follow the wisdom of the long-term victims of patriarchy.

« Donner aux investisseurs les plus rapides et aux algorithmes un avantage qui se mesure en fractions de seconde ». En clair : Trump utilisera ses fonctions publiques pour s'enrichir personnellement en vendant... un délit d'initié. Le degré de corruption & de déliquescence démocratique est total.

Donald Trump lance un accès payant à ses annonces sur Truth Social, qui bousculent régulièrement les marchés, l’opposition s’insurge

Selon le « Wall Street Journal », cinq entreprises financières avaient déjà souscrit à l’abonnement payant, peu après son lancement, en juillet. Le site Axios évoque un tarif mensuel allant jusqu’à 10...

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He's gone for Pratchett. Thats enough. Ive defended Stancil but this time he's gone too far. (And no, no one thinks the boots theory is a fully worked out economic system: its a elegant metaphor for part of the problem)

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · yesterday

Yeah, for days people have been citing “boots theory” at me and I want to shout DO YOU REALIZE THIS IS A RANDOM IDEA TOSSED OUT BY A FANTASY WRITER AND MAY NOT ACCURATELY DESCRIBE REALITY

A £240m contract with the Ministry of Defence, a £330m deal with the NHS, but only £2m of tax in the UK 🤔 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/palantir-corporation-tax-uk-2024-accounting-practices

Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts

Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss

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