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I hope this leads to some actual punishment for the decision makers, not just lower ranked scapegoats. (Read Pete's book for why this needs to be the moment that commercial interests and their government enablers are brought to account and their peers scared into giving a shit about human lives.)

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 1h

With alt text. I know someone who actually did this

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On my first big overseas client conference, I was at a dinner seated next to a drunk client who kept trying to fondle me under the table. I was young, distressed, and had no idea what to do. I moved my legs as far away from him as I could, moving into the space of the man next to me, who then started patting my legs! The Regional Manager was a French woman who caught my eye, gestured for me to go to the bathroom and when I came back had switched chairs with me. What happed next was epic. A few minutes after I sat back down, she raised her hand with his hand captured in hers and announced loudly "Does anyone know whose hand this is? I found it in my lap." There was dead silence at the table. She threw his hand back at him and said calmly "next time I pick it up with my fork." Then she started a new conversational thread and things moved on. After the meeting she found me, gave me a hug, and said seriously "Never be afraid to make some noise. It is their shame, not yours."

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 2h

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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BMcG @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

hope you're all taking your ʙᴏɴᴇs

pot of vitamin d tablets with a sticker on top that says bones

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 4h

The BBC's new director general's brain is smaller on the inside.

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Sargoth (discursively endogenous feliform) @longersky.com · 07/09/2025

The famous sociologist slash rhetorical scholar Kenneth Burke once posited that self-help book fill a function by making you feel like you are doing the thing, without necessarily leading to you actually doing the thing. I sense that this notion, formulated in the 60s, might be relevant again

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OnlyFranz @protopigeon.lol · 19h

The Balrog with a speech bubble which makes it look like he's saying the quoted post, "Gandalf you cunt"

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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes life doesn't send you answers. It sends you a cat that lies down next to you and makes everything a little easier.

Jinx the tabby bobtail cat with her two front paws curled under her belly. She’s sound asleep.

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 15h

Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16h

I’m actually gonna pop this one out of the thread and tag her because @nigella.bsky.social this was really a beautiful moment! Thank you for saying it!

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 21h

Just no. Sorry but I’m actually rolling my eyes a bit at some of the gushing. We’re in an existential battles against the forces of bigotry and Burnham is failing. No amount of Labourite ‘charisma’ is going to dissuade me from viewing that as a core moral failure.

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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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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 21h

Ten minutes in and me and the tattoo artist are starting to have doubts about my |L|L|A|N|F|A|I|R|P|W|L|L|G|W|Y|N|G|Y|L|L|G|O|G|E|R|Y|C|H|W|Y|R|N|D|R|O|B|W|L|L|L|L|A|N|T|Y|S|I|L|I|O|G|O|G|O|G|O|C|H| knuckle tattoos

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

Anyway if Meta is doing this with your texts I’m not sure what’s stopping them from ingesting your whole hard drive so you should probably assume they are.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

and it is also very important for me to point out that the coat of arms he designed for himself when he was knighted in 2000 is the greatest coat of arms on these isles because it is literally a coat of arms (and "NEVER ASSUME" is a banger motto) www.reddit.com/r/heraldry/c...

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From the heraldry community on Reddit: Sir Paul Smith CoA

Explore this post and more from the heraldry community

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026

All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.

Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Imagine you are participating a light bit of dogging in a quiet farmers field in the Cotswolds & the next thing happening is the President of America is claiming credit for catching you in the international news & there’s now a photo of you on every major news outlet in the world?

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Construction History Society @constructionhist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, this looks pretty disastrous for researchers into English structures. How on earth could this have happened so suddenly that #HisttoricEngland had no warning?? Their risk register and risk management must be pretty weak. www.sarsen.org/2026/09/hist...

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Historic England’s Vanishing Archive

Historic England’s photos didn’t vanish. SmartFrame did. Then they broke their own links. Not just the aerials. The lot. Historic Englan...

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Basically she has a choice: -implement trans segregation -get yelled at by the telegraph And oppressing an entire minority is a lesser, frivolous cost to her

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Robert Ramsay @robertramsay.org · 28/09/2026

I don't see how this is news.

Headline from the Fairfield story: "Men 'panicked' when they saw woman"

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 28/09/2026

A very funny thing is happening where our lovely autistic audience is so horrified with the weird numbers that everyone’s trying to fix it at once, causing further weird numbers. Have we accidentally stumbled on the world’s most neurodivergent marketing strategy???

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Real "one always tells the truth, the other always lies" vibes, and yet both would say "I have never once been fed". Much to consider.

Two daft black cats stand either side fo an open door

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was once on the phone to a Dell support person, they asked me to restart the (rather high end) PC and when it beeped strangely they said "Oh, that's the problem, your CPU has fallen out". I thought it was a joke, it wasn't.

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When Smeagol is your Evri courier

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

makers of one of the most popular bluray players in the world mystified by the concept of physical media

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am now keeping this on speed-dial

Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026

LOUDER FOR THE BACK ROW

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Evie Nyx @evienyx7.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At this point in my life, "friends with benefits " are just my friends who have health insurance

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well, look who just invented slavery again

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss. A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.

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Thadrin @thadrin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"A curse on both your fucking houses." Feels like a decent shout. Mercutio deserves it.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026

Dark day back home, lads. Drumcree standoff in 2026 wasn't on my predictions for this year. Wouldn't be surprised if in 20 years from now, this is seen as one of the cascading moments that led to the end of Northern Ireland.

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Ukobach @uk0bach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The even cooler part is how they deployed a bunch of new rules that have not reduced the slop, but DO serve as a Sword of Damocles, hanging over the head of any legitimate channel that might, say, engage in speech that Big Daddy Google doesn't like.

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SazCaz @sazcaz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"I want Burnham to succeed and keep the fascists out" seems to be a mantra for people to repeat while they entirely invent a man and party that doesn't exist

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ok but then what do I do with the other 53 minutes?

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We are using our Octopus Energy power down hour for sex. We turn off all the appliances and go to bed for a hot session. Three times a week fun uninterupted by tech or bad telly, plus we get a free hours electricity on a Sunday.

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

[Americans in 1348] oh no creg's got the pleg

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Bob Heller @bobheller.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

If you put a lasagna on top of another lasagna, it’s no longer two lasagnas. It’s one giant lasagna. THAT is the power of lasagna.

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sports hall on a Saturday. Weirdly not standard (yet)

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