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Fyre

@amuseoffyre.bsky.social
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Fyre online since 2000. Scottish. Geek. Author. Globetrotter. Technically 'grown-up'. Can be found under the username amuseoffyre in most locations :) ko-fi.com/amuseoffyre #OurFlagMeansMuppets

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 16h
You know, not only is this nonsense wrong about romance books, it’s wrong about clothes. JCO, there is no such thing as machine-made clothes. There are humans doing that work at every stage of the process, whether it’s custom or ending up in Walmart.
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Red Lori Bright Eyes A Fucking Bitch @redloribrighteyes.bsky.social · 23h
it's not just the rapes, the policies, the fucking constant assault of incidents and attacks and murders. IT'S THE FUCKING MEN IN THE COMMENTS MAKING FUN, MOCKING, THREATENING, FANTASIZING, EXCUSING, BLAMING, AND CALLING FOR OUR TOTAL SUBJIGATION. FUCK YOU
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John “Danielle” Phipps @magitekdad.bsky.social · 21h
I have friends younger than 38 who look like this and they're wonderful people, and some of the worst people I know are conventionally attractive. Being hateful and misogynistic or kind and compassionate is who you are inside, not what you look like.
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Fyre @amuseoffyre.bsky.social · 10h
Name a TV show that stars a woman.
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Raspberry The Finger
Alt: Tatiana Maslany in Orphan Black blowing a Raspberry and giving the V sign
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
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Illustory 🌈✨ @illustoryart.bsky.social · 19h
Emergency ART SALE tomorrow, October 1 🔥 20 unique originals, 10 different fandoms :з This time there are also little A5 arts with special prices! Every original is signed, every order will be sent out with surprise postcards! 💌 Please, share this post and thank you so much for supporting me! ❤️‍🩹
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/09/2026
I don't mean to be that person but this is a Labour event and Labour are the government and Labour appointed the chair of the EHRC and Labour could stop this all any time they wanted.
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Cay @caymanwent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let’s be real they’re using “furry” as a visibly queer subculture as a stand-in for queerness at large. Their goal has been to remove queer people from public life, and they’re testing different vectors to do so. Hence the all caps “MENTALLY ILL,” which is how they want to reclassify all queers
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sunday marks the 90th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street in East London. There are events across the weekend to mark this important milestone in opposing Fascism in Britain. #CableStreet90 togetheroncablestreet.com www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/... 1/2
Image of sticker produced by Unite the Union to advertise events around the 90th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, 4th October 1936.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Its good there’s people pushing pro trans things within the labour party but i do wish they could understand that when you say “the only way back to trans rights is through the labour party one way or another“ that is very upsetting actually cause all i hear is that we’re fucked then
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Fyre @amuseoffyre.bsky.social · 20h
I feel like they missed a trick, not having the mouth open and making you fish inside it (and putting a wee diver down inside the bottom of the bucket)
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 23h
People have asked why we aren't involved with Neil deGrasse Tyson...this is why. @standupforscience.net does not endorse candidates with accusations of sexual misconduct and we do not collaborate with people who have accusations of sexual misconduct. PERIOD. Welcome to the matriarchy.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The VERY conservative 11th Circuit unanimously refused to block the lower court's sanctions order against the DOJ in the Trump v IRS (that resulted in the slush fund) case.
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Tara O'Shea (she/her) @fringe-element.net · 30/09/2026
it gets worse. here's what someone else on social media posted when they used different AI I programs to de-pixilate the same image to show how incredibly INCREDIBLY damaging this could be in terms of relying on AI for any kind of identification of witnesses, suspects, victims, etc.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I feel like if AI wants to be in the business of offering medical opinions, then AI companies need to be in the "getting sued for medical malpractice" business too
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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Speaker Mike Johnson is warning of a “nightmare scenario” if Republicans lose the House: Democrats could investigate Trump, his family, his Cabinet, GOP donors and powerful business figures.
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MAGA Speaker Johnson Calls Trump Family Investigations a ‘Nightmare’ Ahead of Midterms
With control of Congress at stake in November, Johnson warned that Democratic committees would investigate Trump, his family, cabinet officials and major donors—and claimed that accountability would t...
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Illustory 🌈✨ @illustoryart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Long story short: I’m an asylum seeker in France now. I don’t know how long this process will take, but for I still can’t officially work here. So I’m looking for any opportunity to earn money to be able to pay for rent and food. Please, read and share this post ❤️‍🩹 ko-fi.com/illustory
WE NEED HELP
Please, read and share this!
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We are a group of queer artists, and we are in big trouble.
In April 2025, we immigrated to France, seeking a safe place to live and make art.
Our humanitarian visas expired a year ago.
Since then, we have been trying to get legal status in France.
To be able to work, open a bank account, get health insurance and just have some basic human rights.
We spent a whole year fighting for our lives against Strasbourg Prefecture and we lost.All this time we couldn't properly work, so we were burning our savings.
In August, all three of us were denied a residence permit.
According to the Prefecture, the only option for us To stay legally in France is to become asylum seekers.
About a week ago, we sent out our applications for the asylum.
Now we are looking at another indefinite stretch of time, before we are summoned to Paris for interviews.
It might be two months, three months, half of a year or even more... no one knows for sure.We had planned for a year without documents max, and now it's been a year and a half already.
No matter how hard we tried to stretch our savings, they have run out.
Currently, we don't have enough money to pay for rent and food in November.
It's hard for me to admit that, but we are in huge trouble, with all our hopes and plans ruined by the French bureaucracy.
We really need your help and every little bit matters, so I came up with some options for how you can support us.HOW YOU CAN HELP
❤️ Share this post to bring attention
❤️ Join my monthly Club at Ko-fi
❤️ Participate in my art originals sale this week
❤️ Donate a few cacaos at Ko-fi
❤️ Buy some of our merch (big sale at Ko-fi next week!)
❤️ Order a commission artwork
❤️ Vote in the interest checks for our new projects (soon)
❤️ Go visit our printshops
❤️ If you have a job for freelance illustrators, please let us know!
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We've been doing "let's scrap [benefit] to fund [promised future public service] for close to two decades now, and while we have succeeded in scrapping benefits we do not seem to have funded any more public services. And somehow we still don't have any money.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In 1956 the late great PETER CUSHING invited a film crew into his Kensington home to show off his hobby — painting miniature toy soldiers, and playing with them in the rules set down by fellow toy soldier hobbyist H.G. Wells.
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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Healy on ITV just now saying we have a system which asks "how much are you entitled to" and that's absolutely not true, the welfare system in the UK has loads of conditionality to look for and find work, it's so weird Labour keep pretending otherwise
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Fyre @amuseoffyre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It looks like it's the Gizmo that becomes a Labubu after midnight
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Morghan A. Bedford - LFW @teatigercafe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
With many artists trying to get prepped for LBX, I wanted to share this video I have seen on TikTok. Apparently Vista Prints is running materials provided by artists through AI to "enhance" or make "corrections" on art without the artists consent. www.tiktok.com/@kablooeys.k...
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What a disaster this has been. There was so much I wanted to say. First off, that elbow wasn’t the only indicator. There were other parts of the drawing that had been edited, but I only had time to ad...
TikTok video by kablooeys.kargo.bay
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.
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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I loved, loved, loved Forgotten Island. It's wildly oroginal, funny as hell, and about something very real (how memories make us who we are) at the heart of the visually stunning mythological world. My head is still spinning at all the insanly profound ideas...
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Fyre @amuseoffyre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Off the back of my last repost thingie, can I just say how depressing it is when films and TVs get panned when the numbers aren't sky high within the first 3 days of release. Not everyone can go and see things in the first week. Also, studios need to stop depending on word of mouth for promo
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Forether @forether.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The main reason it didn't get people to cinemas in the UK is that it doesn't release until just under 3 weeks from now. It not being out in a lot of places definitely isn't helping its international box office plus by the time it releases conversation will have moved on hurting it's performance more
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AppleInsider @appleinsider.com · 28/09/2026
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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Meta's new AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(sigh) IF IT'S CAPPED, THEN IT'S NOT A SAFE ROUTE
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Fyre @amuseoffyre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've started rewatching Poirot from the beginning. Forever impressive that David Suchet played the character for over 20 years and really, it's hard to see anyone else in the role now. Also I love watching old series of stuff and spotting bebe actors when they were cutting their acting teeth :D
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Fyre @amuseoffyre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sorting out the t-shirt printing for wee con and one of my favourite details on the original spanish jackiez shirt is that they spelled Republic wrong 😂 We're in the Rebulic of Pirates #ofmd
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else
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Lamhfada @lamhfada.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Eww. Fuck. Just found out ExpressVPN is Israeli. I'd been paying a subscription for it, cancelled and account deleted as soon as I saw this.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.
Stuff of nightmares UK cuts aid to Un Gaza food operations by 78%
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can I have some legitimate concerns please? Hello, UK government, I have a legitimate concern that temperatures will rise to a level that destroys many already-struggling nations, leading us in to an era of food scarcity wars. And now we wait for Andy Burnham to act on my legitimate concerns😎
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Fyre @amuseoffyre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What I find grimly fascinating in videos with PA activists is that they always need multiple policemen to surround and push around individual protesters. It reminds me of the vigil for Sarah Everard. Multiple police officers. One single person. And yet hooded masked men terrorising people? 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗
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Puck the tall hobbit 🧜✊ (trek should be more woke actually) @r3dleprechaun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Know your rights UK edition Terrorism: putting words on a board Not terrorism: marching in black hoodies and mask to attack anyone looking foreign, slash boats and burn hotel
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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ext...
Man, standing on a cliff in front of a lighthouse: I am a lighthouse keeper 
man scrubbing wall of lighthouse: I keep her bricks nice and clean 
Man turning off the power to the lighthouse at night: I turn her light off at night so she can sleep 
Man cleaning up shipwrecked bodies off the shore in front of lighthouse: I clean her Beach every morning
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We can read the equivocations mate here i circled em for you
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LukeLem⭕️n @lukelemon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Opening COMMS! 💜💛 Want a fanart of your favorite couple doing ✨stuff✨? Or maybe your OC doing ✨stuff✨? Illustrations from your fic? A present for a friend? I gotcha! DM me, babe!
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The supposed party of the working class when they restrict their women’s conference to the most privileged women only and nobody shows up: 😯
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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. (Published April 2023)
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Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since Elon Musk seems to hate this documentary about him from one of my favorite non-fiction filmmakers, Alex Gibney, figured it was my duty to spread a link to the trailer so you can see it for yourself. ENJOY: loom.ly/oA2_-p8
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
Musk
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Having written a TV show built on "deep dives on one bad rich guy per week" with one version 2008-2012 and another 2021-2025, I'll say that the OG evil rich guys were evil greedy assholes, and the new rich guys are mentally disordered perverts, and so do evil. And not the good kind of perverts.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 16/09/2026
lady: our data center flexes demand to protect the grid and ratepayers!

guy: how

lady: we use AI to shift load!

guy: how

lady: we run diesel generators when prices spike

guy: thank you
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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