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One more ️ ...

I try so hard to stay out of UK politics now when posting, but something about Wes transcends that.

Tbf I think (in mild terms) it's called "being a raging self-hating transphobe"

Fake and AI generated 'experts' are being quoted in articles in the UK press. "Out of a sample of 250 expert-quoting articles published in The Sun, Daily Express, Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Star in 2025 and late 2024, 28 experts do not exist".

Faces of fakery: More fake and AI generated experts con their way into media

New research from Press Gazette has uncovered a fresh tranche of likely fake and AI-generated experts making their way into UK publications.

Press Gazette (pressgazette.co.uk)

#UKPress #Press #UK

Deserved mocking of Wes Streeting's press piece yesterday

#UKpolitics #UKpol #UK #WesStreeting

@ciara
Finally. Quite a good piece too I thought.

Irish Examiner: Government bodies need to get off X, now

"Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed"

"... most Government departments continue to use X for their outbound comms with the Irish people, with several, including the HSE, An Garda Síochána and the Department of Transport (via TFI and the TII) providing essential real-time updates via this now-niche third party platform — some exclusively so."

Government bodies need to get off X, now

Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed, writes Clare O'Donoghue Velikic

Irish Examiner (www.irishexaminer.com)

#Ireland #IE #Mastodaoine #X #SocialMedia

@Cal
I saw one which was simply the word "Hi"

Also, if you touch them the horses jump.

Go draw a horse and watch it run - this is the kind of silliness the internet was originally made for ...

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Draw a horse, watch it run!

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"Black Cat Monet Waterlilly" - by illustrator Allan Brakus

#Art #Artwork #Artist #Cats