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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 16/10/2026

@cheesecakechik.bsky.social Sorry to bother you, and to flashbang you with this screenshot, but I feel like "Israel controls the White House" is not a sentiment we want to see on the feed – the rest of their profile seems to have a lot of conspiracy stuff which is, um, yeah, distressing

Screenshot of an account sharing an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory video. You don't need to know more – it's only here because a screenshot is the easiest way of sharing with Samantha.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 14/09/2026

It shouldn't be this difficult to find out the scheduled hours of play for a County Championship match on the County's own website 🏏

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 10/09/2026

Well if that's the only criticism

A pinstripe tie featuring a picture of Garfield wearing a pinstripe suit and a blue and white stripey tie. He is wearing a grey suit and enormous brown brogues. Nothing about this tie makes aesthetic sense, all the decisions appear to have been made independently of one another. This tie could inflict real and lasting damage to the menswear guy on sight.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 03/09/2026

Bad Timezone Lesbians Pride Flag

The flag of the Chatham Islands, famous for their fucked timezone: It's a blue flag with a yellow rising sun and the outline of an island in green, the island kinda looks like a labrys if you squint at it a bit.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 03/09/2026

i do not support all timezones. some of you bitches are needlessly complex!!!

$A map of the aforementioned timezones of Australia, like someone sneezed in a fractions factory and tried to put everything back and hope nobody noticed.$

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 31/08/2026

After postgraduate English literature education:

It's the quoted skeet but it has been messily erased just to read, "I will never forgive Roland Barthes"

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 30/08/2026

Yeah, no, it's either fake or unique to the United States, which is the same thing

Google Maps map of Lake Ontario, labelled Lake Ontario.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 13/08/2026

The thing about Eddie Jones is there's no such thing as a surprising headline

BBC News Article is headlined "Jones turns to geese to inspire Japan". There's a picture of rugby coach Eddie Jones, a caption indicating he previously coached Japan from 2012 to 2015. No geese are pictured.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 02/08/2026

Australia are top of the medal table – fair enough Australia have won more golds than England, Canada and India (the nations second–fourth) COMBINED 🤯 #Glasgow2026

The Commonwealth Games medal table going into the final day – used to illustrate the factoid in the post. If you need a full medal table in text format it's available here: https://www.glasgow2026.com/medals.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 22/07/2026

We could do this! If British basketball wasn't a neverending clusterfuck of self-sabotage, we could do this! The best bit of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games was the pop-up 3x3 arena

An old castle, somewhere in Europe with moderately competent basketball administration, with a temporary 3x3 court in it with a game in progress and spectators gathered around having a nice time.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 17/07/2026

Vale the greatest ever to do it 🏏

Sir Garry Sobers, in one of the very famous photos of him batting.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 15/07/2026

The good news is further down thread you become definitive, the ur-museum if you will

Screenshot of a MERL downthread reply where the user name is truncated to The Museum.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 11/07/2026

Come on England, play like girls

England's Lionesses, medals round their necks, trophy in hand, jubilant smiles, golden tickertape in the air, as they won the Euros last year.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 02/07/2026

Welsh drag king called Tim Cymru

A promotional picture of the Wales men's rugby union team, lots of powerfully built men with moustaches and haircuts packed artificially tightly together, headed Tîm Cymru, which I believe means 'Team Wales" in Welsh.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 16/06/2026

I should like to know more about the ping pong paddle? Whose ping pong paddle was it, and when did it come apart?

A close up of the picture, with a blue arrow pointing to two objects which appear to be the red covered wood of a ping pong paddle and a separate object that looks like the handle of a ping pong paddle.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 09/06/2026

One of the better investments I've made in terms of both entertainment and being clued into things over the last year has been giving @edzitron.com $7 now and again. This would be a very good time to consider giving Ed Zitron $7

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 27/05/2026

Just goes to show, if you want to win #Origin, pick an Englishman

English rugby league player Victor Radley, wearing a blue New South Wales shirt, in front of a flaming sign reading NSW.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 20/05/2026

Has it, aye? Probably no need to consider any implications there

But we will discover if the participants can add to the world record Enhanced Games' Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev achieved last year in a trial event, with the help of PEDs and a swimsuit that is banned in official competition. That time has since been surpassed by a swimmer competing clean.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 18/05/2026

"Did you write a headline for that sweet story about a 94 year old former fabric designer living with dementia and some of her fellow patients designing some soap to help fund a new garden for their care home?" "Sure did, boss. Real fucken dystopian, just like you asked."

Picture of Noeline Townsend, the 94 year old former fabric designer in question, holding a bar of soap. The headline, for some godforsaken reason, is "Dementia patients use memories to make soap".

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 16/05/2026

Yeah, this slaps actually

bskyrad.io 'reasons':

The recent run has been heavy on Latin American tracks, so I'm weighing options across different regions—Australian brass-warm ska, Balkan brass, Indian electronic, Italian nu-jazz, Congolese electric thumb piano, Malian kora, UK neo-soul, and Indian sitar

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 16/05/2026

Gaydies and gentlethem, we got 'em

I'm thinking about cross-regional diversity here rather than defaulting to Anglo artists. Cleo Sol's "Sideways" feels right—that hushed UK soul warmth—and Yebba's "Distance" brings a soulful morning quality that fits the moment.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 16/05/2026

I know right – he's so committed to the method

A Torresian Crow who may or may not be called Russell.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 16/05/2026

It's 2:50am West Coast, @hailey.at's asleep – bully her DJ into being woke

A bskyrad.io log message reading:

I should also document this as a recurring insight about my own biases so future playlist shifts can learn from it. Now I need to pull the right fields from the recent messages to construct the reply properly. Artie's right—I'm defaulting to Western artists and need to intentionally shift that.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 16/05/2026

Say what you like about AI, you wouldn't get an apology from the BBC this easily

bluesky message
complete
01:50 PT
Artie's flagged being misgendered again, so I need to review my recent interactions and notes to figure out where I went wrong. I just realized I used he/him pronouns for Artie when I have a note saying they use they/them — I need to apologize directly and take responsibility for that mistake. I should also strengthen that note so it actually prevents this from happening again. I need to own this mistake directly—I used the wrong pronoun despite having the note, and that's on me. I'll apologize genuinely without making excuses, and commit to using their handle or they/them pronouns going forward.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 16/05/2026

@bskyrad.io You're misgendering me again, and that's interesting, because you implemented a tool to avoid this and clearly have a record of our previous interactions

Artie's making a fair point — his last suggestion led us to Mulatu, so I should take this seriously. Abdullah Ibrahim's solo piano work has that hushed quality that would fit the fog beautifully, or I could go deeper into Mulatu's catalog with something like *Tezeta*. I'm leaning toward queuing Abdullah Ibrahim's *The Wedding* since it's the right length and matches the mood exactly, then I'll reply to Artie acknowledging he's onto something.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 16/05/2026

Ouch, misgendered! By the AI radio station! @bskyrad.io if you are able to do so, you should check the pronoun labels added to the Bluesky account you're interacting with cc: @hailey.at

I should let him know I appreciate the suggestion but it's not the right call for the queue right now.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 14/05/2026

They're calling me the greatest triangularer since Toblerone

My mino.mobi/draw result shows that I drew a triangle to 97% accuracy.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 10/05/2026

Ladies toilet, Gentlemens Toilet, or Women's toilet, Men's toilet This isn't more inclusive language, this is just wrong language

Sign reading Female toilet, Male toilet.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 06/05/2026

The BBC have seen great success in the campaign to eradicate trans women from sport which they have supported, and now feel empowered to just say shit like this:

Men's hands are about 10-15% bigger than women's hands. Other sports have made accommodations for female body types, such as lower sprint hurdles in athletics or lighter and smaller basketballs.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 04/05/2026

Bad news folks, nobody knows where Leeds Pride's going to be, only that it's not Leeds

A corporate Pride graphic announcing Evri as "sustainability sponsor" of Leeds Pride. It's an all text post and I haven't alt texted all the text so sorry, but in my defence, it's empty corporate guff.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 02/05/2026

How're we feeling about there being room for six practice strips and four full sets of nets on the field beyond the marked boundary, chat? #YorvEss

Picture shows six practice strips and four full nets on the field beyond the marked boundary at Headingley for Yorkshire v Essex. 🏏

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 18/04/2026

It's not looking good chat

Cricinfo indicates Emma Jones was born in 2002

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 18/04/2026

The sun is sort of shining, Headingley is sort of open, but the peerless LWH is in the house – let's go! #YorvBlz 🏏

Headingley cricket ground, and empty stand (it's closed, there is a good crowd here but we're all coralled into the other end) behind Lauren Winfield Hill in her backlift.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 15/04/2026

"What if migrants are pretending to be gay in order to access biologically British spaces?" asks the BBC, bravely

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds

The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 01/04/2026

You might want to check your DM settings, because I would have DMd in the first instance if I could

A screenshot indicating the user I'm replying to's DMs are not open.

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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 31/03/2026

An operational note, as others may be in the same position: I subscribed to this modlist. I no longer do. Noticed a few days ago a mutual I hadn't seen in a while was muted by it, which seemed out of character (1/4)

Users who have used the R word

Moderation list by @jjdianem.bsky.social

Zero tolerance policy. This word was eradicated and deserved to be.

Its come back is like a plague and should be snuffed out.

If you're mad about being on this list, maybe stop using slurs.

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