Shamima Begum has lost an appeal against the decision to remove her British citizenship. The implications of this is HUGE for UK citizens i.e. if you are a British citizen, who has any links of foreign descent through your parents/grandparents, your citizenship is now conditional
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It's surely a measure of how far infrastructural breakdown has gone in the UK that the country is currently unable to send post internationally, but this doesn't anywhere register as a major problem/crisis.
I will actually never forgive y’all for recommending this book nonstop when the first pages are accounts from white soldiers having ptsd and feeling bad for raping women and children in war
nun präzisierte die #Polizei !
... und dann entschuldigen sich bestimmt alle von (Ex)Springer und Co und #Merz und andere von der #CDU oder auch #FDP gestehen ihren Fehler ein
... was für ein Traum...
tl;dr AI frontline support monitored by humans worked until the client knew an AI was the one "empathizing" with their struggles. which is actually a great commentary on the scripted nature of med/soc support and authentic empathy lol
pls do not hire chatgpt as a social worker
Dr Gordon MacLeod, 1964-1922, Obituary in Scottish Geographical Journal https://t.co/Vn7u0oY9LR There are no words to capture the personal and professional loss. This seeks to put his massive intellectual contributions in the context of geographical political economy
Remembering a time many years ago when a crow died and fell onto my driveway. Their family were gathered and calling. I moved the deceased to a peaceful place under a tree and laid a flower beside them.
Several times over the next few weeks I found a flower on my doorstep.
@emmabalkind i still haven’t sewn anything but my fave hoody is starting to disintegrate and i figured i can use it for a pattern (knitted loads the past couple of years though)
Fixing my translation, and have the "green, green meadows" of Sligo... Greek word is λιβάδια. But somehow "meadows" doesn't sound right to me for Ireland? (Maybe sounds too "English"?) Or is it correct. Is there a better word?
i don't know how many times i've posted this poem before. or how many times i'll post it again. but "I wake up & it breaks my heart" has been in my heart ever since i read this