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Tara Vern

@taravern.bsky.social

Musician Sapphist 🔻🔻🔻 New album THE CALM AFTER THE RIOT out now 💿 linktr.ee/taravern Lisbon 🇵🇹

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TVtaravern.bsky.socialOct 5, 2024 10:20am

‘Blue plaque’ at Walthamstow Tesco honours lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘Blue plaque’ at Walthamstow Tesco honours lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss

Star of Daily Star’s web stunt given fake heritage mark after proving itself less perishable than Truss’s premiership

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abhoth.bsky.socialSep 26, 2024 12:23pm

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... You might ask what is Cuddles Dutton doing in bed with Zionists. The simple answer is that Zionism is a white supremecist, collonialist cult founded on terrorism. Ashkenazi Jewish Zionists have no blood connection to Israel. This is a perfect fit for Dutton.

Peter Dutton says if Mark Scott had ‘any shred of integrity’ he would resign as University of Sydney vice-chancellor

Call comes after Scott apologises for university’s handling of antisemitism complaints

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LMlydiamulvey.bsky.socialSep 26, 2024 7:06am

Not valuable enough for it to matter Valuable enough that they can't build their stupid AI without it

DOdragonsofwales.bsky.socialSep 26, 2024 6:31am

They’re not even trying to hide it anymore. “Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train Al models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn't valuable enough for it to matter.”

Screenshot from the Verge website. A picture of Mark Zuckerberg at the top. Below the text reads:
“Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train Al models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn't valuable enough for it to matter.”

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NCnoh8campaign.bsky.socialSep 24, 2024 11:06pm

BREAKING: Thai king signs same-sex marriage into law #NOH8

TVtaravern.bsky.socialSep 25, 2024 10:14am

Sam Lee has been doing amazing work holding NSW police to account over this issue and lockdown overreach 👏 She’s taken an interest in portugal’s decriminalised drugs policy as well

GAguardianaustralia.bsky.socialSep 24, 2024 10:34pm

A police strip-search left Mysa feeling dehumanised. New data reveals the extent of the practice in NSW

Exclusive: Figures made public for the first time expose ‘problem with police accountability’, lawyer says Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Mysa Le felt “vulnerable and completely helpless” when she was ordered by police to undress in front of them so they could search her body for drugs. Le was strip-searched at Sydney’s Midnight Mafia music festival in May 2018, where she said two female police officers took her into a booth and told her to take off her clothes without explaining what was happening. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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GAguardianaustralia.bsky.socialSep 25, 2024 7:04am

Australians sent into panic as authorities issue tsunami warning – then say it was just a test

Bureau of Meteorology issues warning over an 8.2 magnitude earthquake off New Zealand before cancelling it moments later Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A brief panic gripped parts of eastern Australia on Wednesday after the national weather bureau sent a tsunami warning to thousands of residents. People along the New South Wales and Queensland coast received the Bureau of Meteorology warning, sent shortly after 11.30am, reading: “tsunami warning” and giving the location of the user. App users were informed that a tsunami was approaching, caused by an 8.2 magnitude earthquake off the west coast of New Zealand. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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Kkcar.meSep 19, 2024 6:37am

This doesn’t sound sustainable TBH

Ttechmeme.comSep 18, 2024 10:06am

Researchers: GPT-4 generating a 100-word email uses 1,468ml of water at its Washington data center, 925ml in Arizona, 464ml in Illinois, and 235ml in Texas (Washington Post) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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MSmommunism.bsky.socialSep 18, 2024 10:48pm

I don’t know why this has to be said but the use of booby traps is a war crime

Rule 80. The use of booby-traps which are in any way attached to or associated with objects or persons entitled to special protection under international humanitarian law or with objects that are likely to attract civilians is prohibited.
Practice
Volume II, Chapter 28.

TVtaravern.bsky.socialSep 18, 2024 9:41pm

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Lufthansa and Air France suspend services to Israel

Lufthansa and Air France have suspended some services to Israel

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JMkatzonearth.bsky.socialSep 18, 2024 8:08pm

That’s terrorism. What you’re describing is terrorism.

ANALYSIS
Pager Attack Was a Tactical Success Without a Strategic Goal, Analysts Say The attack demonstrated Israel's technical prowess and partly restored the aura of its intelligence agencies. But its long-term intent is unclear.
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Tara Vern

@taravern.bsky.social

Musician Sapphist 🔻🔻🔻 New album THE CALM AFTER THE RIOT out now 💿 linktr.ee/taravern Lisbon 🇵🇹

714 followers2.3k following273 posts