the next mayor needs to commit to recognizing the Armenian genocide

*and (Please insert where missed 🤦🏻‍♀️)

My friend's London bookshop - Pages of Hackney - does a lot of book events are well-known for them here, including with major publishers It's a proper independent, she founded, owns and runs it - since about 2008

please learn languages a new way cuz this is just foul

Cpropcazhpm.bsky.socialSep 24, 2024 11:06pm

In between bites of al pastor tacos and sips of a margarita, Duolingo billionaire Luis von Ahn talks about how AI will make some jobs disappear. “It’s a tough situation that'll affect the poor, the less educated. And not just in the U.S., but in poor countries.” Free: archive.ph/2024.09.24-1...

Duolingo’s Billionaire Founder Is All In On AI

Duolingo’s Guatemalan Immigrant Founder Luis von Ahn Is Now A Billionaire

i don’t want to have to be resilient. i want good things to happen to me

And even if people are super lovely and great, it's still *my* time and I will spend it how I want. Elderly relatives get 'duty time' out of me. If we are but internet randos to one another, no.

That's literally the entire point of talking on the internet! That you aren't obliged to sit there through "Kids these Days Reprise" or "Why Keir Starmer's Glasses Are Worse Than Trump" or "Your Specialist Subject, Manspained", still less "Oh God Racist Uncle's At The Gin AGAIN."

Do NOT do this in England 🤢

STdanglinghemmie.bsky.socialSep 22, 2024 6:20pm

the cool thing about the reactionary back to nature folks is that they're all going to explosively shit themselves and die

You broke the sky dammit! (Also my cat)

It's actually horrifying that the UK became so utterly dystopian under Conservative rule by 2018 (pre-covid even!) that for Americans, forcibly deporting non-white citizens & legal immigrants who have done no harm is still a hideous potential future event in 2024 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...