If you’re working with your Meta pervert glasses on, don’t forget that looking at passwords shares them with Meta. I know the immediate solution is to use a password manager, and I’ll never not recommend that, but how about not wearing your pervert glasses?

My oldest boy Rossco is best man at a week long wedding on a Scottish estate, all living in separate lodges. They all get a WW each, bride gets a T1 :-)

NEW: Dozens of ads containing video and other child sexual abuse material ran across Meta’s social media platforms, including some as recently as yesterday. @mattburgess1.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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Well this is heartbreakingly horrifyingly beautiful.

Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · yesterday

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

300 firefighters from Mexico arriving in British Columbia this week.

Lorna Suzuki@authorlsuzuki.bsky.social · yesterday

Thank you to Mexico & Australia for sending your fire fighters to aid us when our closest physical ally threatens to fine or tariff Canada even as smoke from Washington & Oregon blow into BC. We send fire crews & our Super Soaker water bombers when the USA is on fire. TACO issues threats. Sad...

‘Good photography isn’t about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It’s just about seeing. You either see or you don’t see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.’ Elliott Erwitt, New York, 1992. Photo Peter Adams.

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Many Europeans are as freaked out about black & brown migrants as American conservatives are. Just like Trump, right & far right politicians are exploiting their fears. More here. 👇🏽 f24.my/C5Wn

Ceuta migrant influx reignites immigration divisions in Europe

The arrival of 60,000 people into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco last week has created serious tensions within the EU over immigration. Spain has called for a meeting of EU in...

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Best reporting I've seen on what sparked the massive wave of desperate migrants who entered the Spanish colony of Ceuta from Morocco last week. Most have since returned, but the episode has been good for the European right & bad for Spain's progressive prime minister. apnews.com/article/ceut...

Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta

By the time authorities reacted, an estimated 60,000 people had reached Ceuta in just a few days, the largest migration surge between Morocco and Spain in years.

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I did not work countless hours in an ICU full of proned patients and go back to my hotel crying because we lost more patients in a day than a typical week to hear a moron with a worm in his brain say that the ICU's were empty. I AM SO FUCKING ANGRY.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d ago

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Yes, that's how tax works. You pay for stuff you may never use - schools if you're childless, roads you may never travel down and so forth - because it's the right thing to do. Is there somebody who looks after you who can explain this to you?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Stop calling them "data centers." Start calling them pollution centers. 🧵👇

*The Dumfries & Galloway Tree Planting Grant Scheme is now open* Offering up to £1k for small native schemes across D&G. Last year 76 projects benefited. This year the focus is woodland connectivity. Could it be you planting this winter? Apply 👉️ buff.ly/PE59KWJ #TreePlanting #DumfriesGalloway

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Can we have this here in Australia? Shoppers should be paid for their efforts in serving themselves #auspol

I’m very much on the “don’t speak ill of the dead” side of civility but that doesn’t mean distorting what someone did with their life, particularly if they used their position to hurt others. Liddle was not a brilliant provocateur. He used misinformation to whip up hate against bedbound people.

As Rod Liddle has died, I notice this column I wrote in 2019 about his attacks on people with M.E. is on the most read again. Rebekah Brooks, of News UK, described Liddle today as “provocative”. In reality, he spread lies about very sick people for cash. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rod Liddle vilifies disabled people. I’m tired of the hate. We all should be | Frances Ryan

Whether it is ME patients or another target, huge swathes of the media have normalised hatred of minorities for years, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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🚨 NEW: @danneidle.bsky.social claims Scotland’s 48% tax rate has lost public revenue. But is this actually true? My new deep-dive says no – Dan’s analysis doesn’t prove anything. It’s a long read, so buckle up 🧵

Showing mum Big Jim's Big Boozy Bike Trip, as she hasn't seen it before. youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?...

1976: BIG JIM's Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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RFK told Dana Bash that Lyme disease “almost certainly” came from gain of function research. Which is utterly false. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Lyme Disease Did Not Come From a Secret Military Lab, Contrary to FDA Chief's Claim

Bacterium that causes it circulated long before the lab opened, decades of evidence show

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This whole shit show is demonstrating that Google QA is either non-existent or that it's been completely sidelined and ignored as a cost center that gets in the way of shipping product.

404 Media@404media.co · 5d ago

UPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

Norfolk, 2015 #otd

WAR CRIMINAL 1: “So I heard you have been busy killing kids.” WAR CRIMINAL 2: “Yes, but you are quite the competition! 168 at just one school.” WAR CRIMINAL 1: “ I was told only about 120 were kids.” WAR CRIMINAL 2: “Still pretty impressive.” WAR CRIMINAL 1: “High praise coming from you.”

Turned this rant into a blog post. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-data-c...

The data center backlash Is working. That's why the New York Times is so concerned.

I have a

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Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm reading the "environmentalists are wrong about data centers" piece from the NYT and ohmygoditssofuckingbad. Apparently, so long as you're punching left, they'll just let you say any goddamn thing you please... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...

This moray's home is off the southern shore of Liuqiu Island, southwest of Taiwan. Taken with my Sony RX100 Mark IV, Nauticam housing, wide-angle wet lens and YS-D3 strobe. #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #scuba #eastcoastkin #photography

Look just how happy and content Rocky is in his new home. When he digs the hole to sit beside his dad. Perfection

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All hail the Gold Dust Alders! 👑 These Perthshire ancients were already woodland royalty, but dressed in a shimmering coat of Gold Dust lichen (Chrysothrix candelaris we think), they're looking positively regal. Long may they reign over the woodland! 🌳✨ #ThickTrunkTuesday #TooManyPuns 😀

BREAKING: Trump's trust is ordered to turn over financial documents "from the date of January 1, 2023, to the present" responsive to a subpoena issued in Trump's defamation case against the BBC. The first production is due in 10 days.