US military spent $9 million on crab legs and lobster in the months before Iran war Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also authorized the $100,000 purchase of a Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, according to a watchdog report

What the actual fuck?

What if I'm on the internet posting about 'use case' without bothering to think about what use case means?
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it scares me to think that big tech/big AI's primary target demographic is kids

Europe Offers Little Hope for People in Iran Trying to Flee US and Israeli Bombs The growth of far right parties like Nigel Farage’s Reform may further keep refugees from reaching European shores.

European governments are offering little refuge to Iranians fleeing US and Israeli bombing, and the rise of far-right parties like Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, which champions mass deportations and asylum bans, may further shut them out.

Sensing Climate Mural in Glasgow — Sensing Climate In March we opened two new Sensing Climate murals at Greater Easterhouse Supporting Hands in Glasgow! In this piece we introduce the murals and their key messages…

New murals in Glasgow show responses to the climate crisis by disabled, neurodivergent and / or chronically ill people.

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Via @sensing-climate.bsky.social

Dramatic rise in water-related violence recorded since 2022 Experts say climate crisis, corruption and lack or misuse of infrastructure among factors driving water conflicts

As we witness the horror of attacks on desalination plants, we need to be aware, on a warming planet, conflict over water, using water as a weapon of war, & targeting people seeking water is on the rise

- in the past 4 years, it's nearly doubled:

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"Times are hard and the kids aint learnin' nothin'
Asbestos lead asbestos"

40 far right with union flags surrounded by cops on every side boxes into a small huddle

Bristol Patriots having a shit day out today. All 40 of them, totally boxed in by hundreds of antifascists.

Police turned them around and marched them back the way they came.

Despite using batons and horses against antifascists, people held their ground and the fascists did not pass.

again and again... there is NO SUCH THING, no such thing, NO SUCH THING as automation as presented by AI companies!

1/n

Children's Toys Are Shipping With Adult AI Inside Them Despite banning minors from using their chatbots, AI companies are happy to let their models be used in children's toys.

New report “suggests that leading AI companies are doing little to police how developers who pay for access to their AI models are using them. One consequence, the group warns, is that AI toymakers can ship products to children that are powered by AI models that are only intended for adults.”

"They will travel, and they will arrive, stripped of their caveats, in classrooms and clinical assessments and local authority decision-making, as permission to dismiss what autistic people say about their own experience - even more than there already is."
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“Masking Is a Myth, Late Diagnoses Are Wrong, and Non-Speaking Autistic People May Be Lying” - What Uta Frith Got Wrong — canary SEND Professor Uta Frith said masking isn't real, late diagnoses were mistakes, and non-speaking autistic people may be lying. She had no evidence. Here's the response she didn't get.

Read this incredible breakdown from @canarysend.bsky.social

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Scores of DWP failings linked to deaths were kept from MPs voting on benefit cuts, secret reports reveal Scores of failings that contributed to the deaths of disabled people who relied on the social security system were kept from MPs who were voting on cuts to disability benefits in the summer of 2025…

Scores of failings that contributed to the deaths of disabled people who relied on the social security system were kept from MPs who were voting on cuts to disability benefits in the summer of 2025, new documents have revealed.
#DWP
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ABOLISH
THE
HOME
OFFICE

No evidence ADHD is being over-diagnosed, say experts Experts are warning that far from being over-diagnosed, people with ADHD are waiting too long for assessment, support and treatment.

In a paper, published today in the British Journal of Psychiatry, a group of experts say there is no robust evidence that ADHD is over-diagnosed in the UK.
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autistic kid's teacher is trying to convince me not to let my kid draw on her own clothes. who cares if she draws on her own clothes. i am not going to tell her not to draw on her own clothes

1967 - Dystopian Sci-fi novel, Don’t Create The Torment Nexus published

1974 - Cult classic BBC mini series

1997 - BBC remake

2002 - Hollywood movie, upbeat ending added

2019 - Nexcon - A Torment Company IPO’s, $324 Billion market cap

2026 - Polymarket bets on who will be tormented next

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Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.

STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Now this is multi-tasking:

Serial NHS greasy-poll climber, private sector cartel lobbyist, Mandleson associate, bagman for fascist surveillance firm Palantir, *and* chair of Citizens Advice ?

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#Filth

Meta sued over AI smart glasses' privacy concerns, after workers reviewed nudity, sex, and other footage | TechCrunch Lawyers say Meta's marketing materials promised privacy and user control over sharing footage. But an investigation found that subcontractors are reviewing footage from customers' glasses.

That escalated quickly.

TL;DR Labour's policies:
🚨Increase use of irregular routes
🚨Increase human trafficking
🚨Increase number of people forced to be undocumented
🚨Force people into deprivation
🚨Leave, particularly women and children, at risk
🚨Cost more than current policies
🚨Violate international law
10/ #r4today

Opinion Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won't be able to do anything else at all Shabana Mahmood Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don't want extremes - they want a system that is managed and fair Shabana Mahmood is the UK home secretary

This is a hot mess of outright lies and misinformation from the Home Secretary, designed to try and persuade people that a government which is implementing some of the most hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies, in practice, for decades is progressive. 1/

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Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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Mothers campaign group to leave Newham flats Members of a women's group occupying flats in a council estate near east London's Olympic Park are told by a court to leave the premises.

"Sir" Robin Wales is the guy who tried to force a bunch of single mothers living in temporary accommodation to move miles away from Newham - the Focus E15 campaign

They then occupied social housing that had been left empty for years on his watch www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Is it that these Very Important Men have so little curiosity in learning, creativity or human connection, that trying to destroy all of these things in other people makes them feel good ?

Tick tock to shabana mahmood announcing her defecation to Reform

Yeah, I spelled that right

Someone told tech companies the phrase “mass surveillance” is radioactive, so now they spend a bunch of time trying to pretend they are actually doing something different.

Big watching.
Large looking.
Titanic tracking.

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Guardian signs licensing deal with ChatGPT owner OpenAI The Guardian has become the latest news publisher to sign a content licensing deal with OpenAI.

"Anthropic’s rival, OpenAI, quickly signed its own deal with the Pentagon for military use of its models."

Meanwhile,
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