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„ייִדן, שרײַבט און פֿאַרשרײַבט!“ -- שמעון דובנאָװ. פּראָנאָמען: ער/אים. 🕎

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Without very substantial numbers of US/Israeli troops on the ground in Iran, who is the Iranian regime meant to be surrendering to?

10.03.2026 18:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rei Toei isn't real.

10.03.2026 18:17 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

bsky.app/profile/adri...

10.03.2026 18:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ideally, of course. But there's a huge gulf between having to request some information that you should have been given proactively and removing substantial rights of of criminal defendants having rights because you were inconvenienced.

10.03.2026 18:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There's an additional courtesy charge for each impoundment seal.

10.03.2026 17:52 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Royal Navy’s HMS Dragon sails for eastern Mediterranean Destroyer leaves Portsmouth a week after deployment was announced following drone attack on RAF base in Cyprus

"Officials said the ship had been prepared as quickly as possible for deployment, with six weeks’ worth of work squeezed into six days."

Did they remember to take some ammo?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

10.03.2026 17:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'd ask him to explain what he understands an EO to mean.

10.03.2026 17:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He won't have time for ayatollahing if he's spending all day phoning round for competitive life insurance quotes.

10.03.2026 17:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

bsky.app/profile/adri...

10.03.2026 17:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I care about what (some) people think, feel, experience.

I don't care at all about disembodied text generated probabilistically by a computer program with the thinnest of human "prompts".

Culture is about people relating to people, not free-floating artefacts.

_Use your words_, people.

10.03.2026 17:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Phillips said she believed the alleged breach of the order should have been dealt with at the magistrates court, and did not know why it had been sent to the crown court."

She should ask the CPS. Presumably the answer is that the nature of the alleged breach needs stronger sentencing powers.

10.03.2026 16:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The substance of the "Zionism is racism" motion is calling for the Green Party to support the armed overthrow of Israel. Interviewers should be asking whether GP members (and its leaders) support that rather than trying to parse the supposed nuances of the title of the motion.

10.03.2026 08:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."

"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all.

The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6.

Link to the full resolution below.

09.03.2026 21:17 👍 480 🔁 151 💬 5 📌 16

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

09.03.2026 02:01 👍 19263 🔁 4824 💬 231 📌 141

Good luck!

07.03.2026 20:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you can't write a book, you shouldn't.

07.03.2026 20:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Lammy is asked if UK forces are attacking sites in Iran. He confirms that yes, if we anticipate being attacked by Iran, we can attack sites there

See how it works. We 'defensively' stop Iran retaliating after being attacked by the US/Israel, they respond so we start bombing them

06.03.2026 08:21 👍 124 🔁 60 💬 22 📌 22

What the living bollocks is this?

06.03.2026 08:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

We need a party to effectively counter the right and Reform in particular and it would seem that @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social are doing just that.

06.03.2026 08:39 👍 120 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 1

Missiles were fired.

06.03.2026 08:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

BREAKING: Four people arrested as part of counter-terrorism investigation relating to Iran - Met police

Police arrested one Iranian & three dual Brit-Iranian nationals on suspicion of assisting foreign intel service.

Investigation relates to suspected surveillance of Jewish communities in London.

06.03.2026 08:35 👍 549 🔁 153 💬 63 📌 18

We can usually only get this kind of quality material on the Liz Truss Show.

06.03.2026 08:33 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You're getting confused. Orwell said it _to_ Franklin.

06.03.2026 08:29 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've just been appointed Special Envoy for Some Nonsense I Made Up.

Wish me well in my new opportunity.

05.03.2026 20:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Try your damndest to live your life so that if you were fired from your job and about to give a speech that someone would tell you.

05.03.2026 19:39 👍 828 🔁 143 💬 3 📌 2

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet."

-- George Orwell.

05.03.2026 19:22 👍 170 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0

"Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity."

Yes, and your tattooist does dentistry now too. Good luck.

05.03.2026 17:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Literally none of the "capitalism is great" crowd are actually opposed to rent-seeking.

05.03.2026 17:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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eurosky

My account on here is now a Eurosky account rather than a Bluesky one. It's hosted in the EU and under EU law rather than in the United States. Otherwise, it works the same.

Find out more here:

www.eurosky.tech

#DigitalSovereignty

(Yes, I'm aware that the UK isn't in the EU.)

05.03.2026 16:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Personally, my brain understands "This is great, and if I pay I can get a lot more of it" and it doesn't understand "This is horrible but if I pay it will get better".

It's worse when you're giving that business a big chunk of money every month for a print subscription or one-off paper purchases.

05.03.2026 16:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0