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Teresa UN; views my own.
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Interested in Psychology, History, Psychohistory, Philosophy, Poetry, Literature, Neuroscience, Health and Nutrition and all things French. Pro humanity and planet Earth.
Short version: Everyone and everything barring current allergy to politics.
Pinned
#DagHammarskjöld, who served as the Secretary-General of the #UnitedNations from April 1953 until his tragic death in a plane crash in September 1961. The cause of the crash has never been determined.
He was the only #NobelPeacePrize Laureate to have been awarded the distinction posthumously.
May all those who suffer prejudice, discrimination, hatred, or harmful intent know that those people are wrong. Therefore, you are protected from its effects in that knowledge. Energy is precious. Creation is joy; destruction agony. So use that energy to create.
#JasonArday #GoodLawProject
September 5, 2026 at 3:40 PM
For Jason, RIP; we need to show right-wing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
goodlawproject.org
August 26, 2026 at 2:03 AM
The media frenzy that stripped Jason Arday of one of his life-defining achievements - and his life. [Had they even tried to verify their 'journalism' he may well be alive now].
monkdebunks.substack.com/p/the-media-...
The media frenzy that stripped Jason Arday of one of his life-defining achievements.
Plus the available evidence on the 30 marathons in 35 days and the footballing claims
monkdebunks.substack.com
August 22, 2026 at 8:19 PM
We need to show newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name, please:
goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
#JasonArday RIP #goodlawproject
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
goodlawproject.org
August 18, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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Please join me in supporting authentic artists! I've made a custom art feed, as well as a giant blocklist of AI slop supporters.

Art Feed - bsky.app/profile/did:...

AI Slop Blocklist - bsky.app/profile/did:...

#art #artists #artist #ai #aislop #noai #fuckai #blocklist #customfeed #artfeed
March 11, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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Happy to share knowledge and data. Bottom line, few bots will run JavaScript and something like Cloudflare Turnstile (free) or Google Recaptcha (free for limited usage) is still effective. Maybe force all non-UK IP requests to pass a test?
March 13, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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They are spinning up vast armies of bots so requests are coming from many different IPs. Sometimes to keep things vaguely manageable whole countries’ IP ranges have to be blocked for a while to keep services available for everybody else but of course individuals in those countries are then affected
March 11, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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This isn't efficacious as a strategy anymore, as the scale has totally exploded and for every million bots blocked, a hundred million spring up in their place. This is happening across the open internet and it feels very much like an arms race
March 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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I'm sure that analysis of your server logs, looking at frequency of requests from IP address ranges, and looking them up under ICANN would enable you develop a block list. Not fool proof, but worth a try. Because their behaviour amounts to a DoS attack, maybe not by intent, but same effect
March 11, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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This is happening to university archive catalogues including the one where I work, and I believe it's affected WorldCat too. It's the equivalent of a DDOS and it's been almost relentless for months now.
March 11, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Dear everyone,

As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.

A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.
It’s the result of massive bot activity, downloading data at a scale which our infrastructure has found challenging. We have been finding this across all our metadata resources in recent months.
March 11, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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Ashes and Diamonds review – Poland faces bleak postwar realities in Andrzej Wajda’s 1958 masterpiece
Ashes and Diamonds review – Poland faces bleak postwar realities in Andrzej Wajda’s 1958 masterpiece
Polish fighters contemplate their future in Wajda’s 1958 film in which the war’s end, far from being a cause for celebration, marks a crisis of identity for their country
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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I was once an undocumented migrant in Spain – this new decree will change lives | Francheska Melendez
I was once an undocumented migrant in Spain – this new decree will change lives | Francheska Melendez
Yes, migrants are key to Spain’s economic boom. But Pedro Sánchez’s decision to regularise 500,000 people should rather be applauded for its humanity, says journalist Francheska Melendez
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:05 AM
Weep

If you can,

Weep

(Dag Hammarskjöld: Markings)
January 28, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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OPINION: If anyone doubted that the rich would use their control of the media to push their agenda and silence dissent, CBS removed it with its decision to censor the scheduled 60 Minutes broadcast on CECOT prison.
This pro-Trump farce makes the case for a different kind of media
If anyone doubted that the rich would use their control of the media to push their agenda and silence dissent, CBS removed it with its decision to censor the scheduled 60 Minutes broadcast on CECOT prison. CECOT is the notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador where President Donald Trump ha...
bit.ly
December 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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He turned vacant lots into flower farms and empowered at-risk youth to grow and sell the blooms. Now he's been named CNN's Hero of the Year. https://cnn.it/3YcrmGF
December 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
#Trump has unleashed the beast.

Don't go there.
Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
projects.propublica.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
APPALLING.
NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.

“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I want to go NOW please.

"The GEM is the world's largest museum dedicated to an ancient civilisation, and showcases 50,000 artefacts, including the entire collection of treasures from the tomb of King Tutankhamun, many of which are displayed for the first time."
www.euronews.com/culture/2025...
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
" Demand rules are tightened so broadcasters stop overplatforming REFORM & give our other represented parties proper coverage"

Good thinking, important enough to act upon, so I did.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

#petitions #stopReform
August 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM