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Asquealia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Me having drawn loads of Valentines Cards for you all and having sold about four… WHERE IS DA LUV? They’re all here. I need knickers and frazzles money Pls buy dem - I hate marketing. I just wanna make ART linktr.ee/Dippyfishcards #bsnm

Me fucking making/drawing loads of luvly silly rude Valentine’s cards then having to market the fuckers which means more time and energy I don’t have and then people whinging about me being repetitive and me feeling bad and worrying no one likes me and oh. EVERYTHING

VALIDATE ME!

(Pingu crossly making a Valentine meme. He is so gloriously pissed off I just love it. And it is 100% ME-CODED)

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 26/01/2026

Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution. If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I have heard MAGA giggle over the idea of being "deplorable". They are revelling in finally getting the cruelty sanctioned that they have always dreamt of.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Honestly, whenever I see a new ad I immediately assume it must be fake. The Super6 ads I see are frankly traumatic and at this point I'm not convinced Jamie Carragher and co haven't licensed their likeness because they have such an AI vibe even though they may be genuine.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

...and everyone else just says it. No reason needed.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 03/09/2025

thanks to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social for introducing me to this movie poster, featuring a tagline that made me hyperventilate with laughter

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

"Unwittingly, he bought a chocolate bar that earned him a factory full of slave labour"

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 02/09/2025

Feels like the flag debate has been kicking around my whole life and it still boils down to: Civic institutions should fly the flag routinely. Sporting occasions and national events, sure get it out. Year round flag on your house, bit weird, trashy. Doing it to "intimidate the forrins", obvs bad

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Its perverse that people will support subsidising private enterprises with free labour, & tax breaks & incentives - all but nationalising slavery - before they'll consider stopping the subsidising of private enterprises to pay extortion level wages and breaking the banking hegemony on new homes.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I admit I don't follow this world too much -- I pay attention to the main fascists not the pseudo intellectual fascists. But here's Curtis Yarvin, who JD Vance is reportedly a "disciple" of, arguing for the institution of slavery. He tries to dress it up in bullshit, but its slavery.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

There's a lot of Shorts content intended to just be briefly consumed (particularly the 30 seconds-out-of-context movie clips that MUST be getting copyright struck even with dubbed music) with no loyalty. Even those looking to build a following via Shorts know it's not always the same audience.

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 27/08/2025

This, from Tom Scott’s newsletter, sums up the dilemma faced by content creators nowadays. Get known for one thing & keep giving people that, or be more varied/eclectic but have a harder time building recognition?

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Reads a bit back to front. Jennings is the one who said "No good ol' boy sings in Swahili" and left after Stevie introduced some lyrics being sung in that language - which then some time later was pointed out wasn't the Ethiopian language. As described by Richie www.whiskeyriff.com/2024/01/31/l...

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Lionel Richie Tells His Side Of Why Waylon Jennings Walked Out Of “We Are The World” Recording

A RIFF on what country is really about.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Wait until they unlock the secret of... adding spices from the spice rack. Oregano. Basil. Chilli flakes, onion flakes, garlic powder.

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a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open .

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Missed the bit where they drink coffee for 58 minutes staring at the 3 level summary wondering what on hell it is, all while incapable of verifying if it's actually true.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

2a heroes, usually Libertarians. One was shot (and killed) during the George Floyd protests. Angry dude drove vehicle towards crowd blocking the road. Guy "protecting" with an AK or similar approached, and the driver didn't wait and just started shooting. abc13.com/black-lives-...

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Gov. Greg Abbott's rush to pardon man convicted of killing BLM protestor is a 'travesty,' juror says

The juror's comments are the first time a juror has spoken publicly since Gov. Greg Abbott announced he would use the power of his office and seek to wipe away the verdict.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Yeah, I'd speak to another reseller. We've had this convo before I'm sure, but the only solution is to badger the ever loving shit out of a company until you get to their equivalent of me who will just go "oh yeah" and get it done.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Speak to any providers you can and ask them to speak to Openreach. So long as you have overhead wires it's an easy run & replace process so pointless to miss a property off.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

There are, but I have struggled to get people to adopt Frameworks such as G Cloud even though it would solve swathes of issues. The Digital Marketplace and Purchasing Platform should be par for the course - but I know it isn't. I made huge inroads with local council; so it can be done.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I have a council that used IBM LotusNotes as their primary software. They finally migrated to Office in mid 2010's, but so many of their systems hang off "Domino" or whatever it was called that they were still paying annual fees to HCL (sublicense entity for that one system). And they're not alone.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

"Man finds out what Councils already knew" I could, and have, written the white papers on this stuff - while spending an equal amount of the time getting departments off the form based processes into digital. It's the same in private industry so why is this a surprise to anyone at all?

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

You could make a randomised conspiracy generator and still be outfoxed by the sheer volume of monkeys at keyboards on the hellsite.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Poor Gerard is a racist Twitter troll who thinks he may be "in trouble". You can't even take part in a duet incessant racist harassment from 1am to 3am on a Friday night *these days* without putting your [sixth] account at risk, after his racist troll partner finally went too far even for Elon Musk.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Forgot that one, but absolutely another great example.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

West Ham on multiple occasions (Defoe in particular). But this isn't even the first instance for Liverpool. McManaman got same treatment, Owen got it too.

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 21/05/2025

No one has ever LinkedIn this hard. I am CRINE.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This was maybe the inventor of the hologram theory. Long & lanky, nervous. Went on all the niche public broadcaster shows. Just had a search and came up blank. Maybe it's still out there.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I hope the crazy hologram guy vids are still online. He was such an unusual individual, but so utterly dedicated to his own special craft.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Ours is her commanding the window on her side of the car by counting down. Sometimes have fun opening the wrong window and getting her to wobble her head about until it resets.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

They have to fulfil their prophecy that advocating people wear masks 5 years ago would result in people not trusting vaccines. Otherwise they'll look stupid to their twitter followers.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

CM9394 if you just want to pick players and go. CM9798 if you want the tactical and scouting. CM3 if you want to pick and choose just how much you need to do. After that it's a real hodge podge of increasingly insensible complexity.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

It's okay, they can keep converting abandoned hospitals to "affordable" dorms. They finally commodified squatting.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This is why one of my first question is always: How many rows should there be? How many rows are there? I don't trust AI to tell me the truth, only to interpret what people ask it.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

A corrected macro fixed it, but not without needing hundreds of thousands of entries into a system needing manually deleted, and purged, to prevent duplicate record data to our customer. Reaching for the macro became a learning experience just as reaching for AI will be also.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This is the difference with all timesaving tools. They only save time if someone with adequate expertise analyses make sure they do what is intended. Can remember someone making a macro in a system, leaving it for 8 hours, then someone (me) pointing out the decimal error throughout.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Was at a conference dinner a while back and one guy said "The future is AI. It doesn't replace senior developers, but no more need for juniors." To which i replied: "Where do you think senior developers come from. Straight from the womb?" He went quiet, then wandered off to a different huddle.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 09/05/2025

Absolutely insane levels of stupid if you watch the whole thing.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

They missed this bit in Idiocracy.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Not that I want to defend them, but there is a group of SovCit who believe in the difference between "non-" and "none". It's not enough to be a "non-citizen", they have to go the full "none citizen" and declining the full meaning and intent of any law they meet.

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

We want to manufacture things but not have the ability to sell them abroad. We want to be able to buy bananas farmed by British workers. Also, can we get the moon on a stick?

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

What are 3 things that a party of government which wanted "to celebrate the collapse of the era of globalisation" would do? - Would it put up tariffs on cars, instead of trying to get the USA to reduce tariffs?

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A_Thankless_Task @athanklesstask.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Watched a youtube vid of Eddie Dempsey lauding the collapse of globalisation, thrn making a whole raft of sweeping recommendations to governmemt. Meanwhile, globalisation is going nowhere. I thought the RMT had somewhat realised the error of Brexit, but they're still ignoring reality.

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