hoovered
Having been cleaned with a vacuum cleaner; vacuum-cleaned.
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How do we make it that every dollar a tech company spends on energy for an ai model 1) a dollar is invested in local community owned infrastructure where the energy came from 2) a dollar is invested in an art endowme…
Wealth doesn’t trickle down, it’s being hoovered up
They appear to have hoovered up the absolute worst of the crank left from Labour. Well, those that haven’t joined Your Party, that is.
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Having been cleaned with a vacuum cleaner; vacuum-cleaned.
“How do we make it that every dollar a tech company spends on energy for an ai model 1) a dollar is invested in local community owned infrastructure where the energy came from 2) a dollar is invested in an art endowment controlled by everyone they hoovered art from”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Wealth doesn’t trickle down, it’s being hoovered up”
— Bluesky· May 2026“They appear to have hoovered up the absolute worst of the crank left from Labour. Well, those that haven’t joined Your Party, that is.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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