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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 28/04/2025

Who remembers the original NFT

From: David Thorne

Date: Wednesday 8 Oct 2008 12.37pm

To: Jane Gilles

Subject: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane,

I do not have any money so I am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead. I value the drawing at $233.95 so trust that this settles the matter.

Regards, David

drawing of a spider with a smiley face

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Shubbabang @shubbabang.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Another classic, not sure if I've already posted this one here.

The image is a six panel black and white comic.

Panel 1 - a girl sits at her desk in front of a computer, looking disheartened. She says, "I dont know if I should post this art, who would even want to see it?"

Panel 2- A new person bursts through the door in the background with a loud BAM

Panel 3- The new person pushes the girl out of the way, smushing her face in the process, while slamming their fist down on the keyboard.

Panel 4- The computer shows that the art has been posted

Panel 5- The person makes direct eye contact with the girl while pushing their finger against their own phone screen

Panel 6- A motion blur is added to the last panel, enhancing the impact of the new notifications on the new post. It reads, "(Friend) Liked Post just now" Followed by "(Friend) commented 'I FUCKING LOVE THIS AND I LOVE U'"

Underneath the last panel is a watermark that reads, Shubbabang

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 14h

From International Women's Day '21

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 October 1936. Battle of Cable Street took place in Cable Street, Whitechapel, London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley and various anti-fascist and Jewish demonstrators.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

take a look at my new book 🎉 kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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Andy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good morning. 'Batman's aff his Nut' by Robert Florence.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Power of Poetry

with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,

it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,

so he reached for his copy
of The Complete Works of Yeats

and bludgeoned the President
of the United States

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

anyone else feel like this

A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Zack Polanski said today he would unban Palestine Action, call the Genocide in Gaza Genocide, and end support to Israel. You can vote for him on the 8th October in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Caveat Frogs @caveatfrogs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Life Is Pretty Great!*

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For any confused Americans, dogging is a traditional British term for walking the dog, if you're ever over here and see someone with their pet make sure to tell them how much you love dogging. That nothing makes you happier than seeing that wagging tail and panting mouth out on the heath.

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Sophia Jetta @werkoderko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe time to swap tooth paste if you're using Colgate

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"

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Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of the reasons I hate the “super genius who doesn’t have time for social conventions” archetype is that I recognize it’s a power fantasy for guys exactly like who I was when I was the shittiest person I’ve ever been.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Ant Dawson @railwayhobbit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New Paper Alert! My study on the lived experience of railway workers and their clothing has been published by Costume (Vol 60, No. 2). It shows how Victorian railway uniform was cheaply and badly made; it smelled; it didn't fit and the wearers knew it.

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SamH (he/him) @badlyshavedpotato.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

I have a joke about RIFTS, but it takes forever and everyone hates it.

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

TransActual is working with Dr Kat Gupta, a researcher in Politics, to examine how trans people and our supporters responded to this consultation. Please visit transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/09... for more information.

Text reads: Did you fill out the 2025 EHRC consultation on the revised Code of Practice?
Are you trans, non-binary or supportive of trans people?
Are you over 16?
Do you want to include your consultation response in a research project?
Visit our website for more details.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

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SMD's pension @anothersmd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this is utterly adorable and i think if i saw this show as a kid i would've been bouncing off the walls

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran and the people of Piddington won’t see your posts, but your friends who are spineless and bigoted might

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Susie Esse @susieesse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So much…

A four panel brain comic by Susie Esse about a little brain with a lot to do today so they they go and hide under a blanket

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

On my bucket list: The closest I'll get to the Willy Wonka Factory; the salt domes & salt glaciers of Iran's Zagros Mountains. What are they and how did they form?

A fairy-castle looking mountain structure made of salt in shades of orange, red, blue, brown and yellow. Think stalactites of salt in the open air, but layered in shocking color shifts.

I can't find the photographer who took the photo, but it comes up on a lot of sketchy Iran tourism sites.

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SamH (he/him) @badlyshavedpotato.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

Time to set up another standing order.

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A campaign for *MSF* to be banned as a terrorist group (on the paper thin basis of claims about 2 past employees) is the product of the UK Govt being willing to divorce any meaningful conception of societal threat from its use of proscription powers. Govt needs to wake up to the madness of this:

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Easy to donate: rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Spooky Old Mark Monro | He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Need to harness the power of Bluesky, so reposts are appreciated. If anyone here, or anyone you know attends Bangor University (the Welsh one) and needs a room for the upcoming year, get in touch. One of my son's housemates has dropped out at the last minute, so their house is one short.

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SamH (he/him) @badlyshavedpotato.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

I also set up a standing order to RNLI around the same time for the same reason.

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SamH (he/him) @badlyshavedpotato.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years ago I was working as a contractor for IBM at a client site. At 9.30am I got a phone call from the agency asking if I was ok with a 10% pay cut. I laughed at them, and said no. All the other contractors received similar phone calls. The SysAdmin said he'd quit if they tried to do that. 1/

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Our planet is very old. We, on the other hand, are not. And when I say "not", I probably cannot convey to you how astonishingly, eye-swivellingly, knee-tremblingly non-old we are compared to the Earth under our feet. But I'm going to try. Please wish me luck. 1/

Photo of the Earth seen from over the crater-pocked brown-grey surface of the Moon, from Artemis II.

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Cultist of Sooty @cultistofsooty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You are one of the necessary ones who must stay in the world. Whoever is reading this - yes, I mean you. The world needs you.

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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It’s a year today since this happened so I thought I should post this which will never not be fcuking hilarious

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

From the local paper on Portsmouth (local press can often be far more useful in these kinds of situations, I'm finding) - the RNLI were denied entry to both Portsmouth and Southampton ports and according to this piece were threatened with legal action: www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...

portsmouth.co.uk

RNLI 'disappointed' with ports' communication over migrant rescue

The RNLI were denied entry to Southampton and Portsmouth ports

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SamH (he/him) @badlyshavedpotato.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

McVities Jaffa Cake Digestives. Well good. Would recommend.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 08/09/2026

It won’t stop these reprehensible, cowardly pieces of shit attacking the RNLI, but here is a handy link to donate rnli.org/support-us/g...

rnli.org

Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, ever. (And in my case, neither Claude nor Grok, either.)

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan

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