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ka92 @ka92.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

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ka92 @ka92.bsky.social · 1h

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 7h

Best part: "'My wallet was stolen and my Italian ID was inside,' she said. With a looming holiday, she contacted the Italian embassy to ask what she needed to do, but to her frustration quickly realised that it would be faster to gain Belgian citizenship than to wait for a remade Italian ID."

brusselstimes.com

Why so many Italians are getting Belgian nationality

Belgium appears to be an easy place for Italians to come and be themselves. Many of those who do, love it and choose to formally become Belgian. But why?

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Metal Gear Solidarity @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 7h

i solved infinite personal music by taking loads of ecstasy in my 20s and now i can dance to the sound of a reversing lorry

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 8h

When will Go Comics understand timezones? Well not today (BST)

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 8h

He now looks like The Dry Devil in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, both are psychopaths, but obviously Dry Devil isn’t permanently wet or oily like Thiel

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 9h

Yesterday Google Gemini told my brother in law that Andy Burnham was not the PM. Very super, much intelligence.

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve been there! People on the volcano grow huge round turnips, and the schoolchildren have helmets as part of their school uniform because it sometimes rains rocks.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 21h

Just saw folk who join the uncritical rush towards AI referred to as "LLMings", and I am stealing that.

static.klipy.com

Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings

Alt: Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Scotland reintroduced 50 wild cats into the Highlands marking an important milestone for their conservation work.

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you remember at most 21℃ in September?

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Joël Reland @jreland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What's that Andy? You want to look at the different options for the UK's relationship with the EU? If only someone had set them out already... ukandeu.ac.uk/introducing-...

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Evri are testing delivery robots in Barnsley

A photo (I assume) of a two-legged, wheeled robot with a blue box on top heading towards a suburban house

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There really is a foreign actor planning bombing atrocities at RAF Fairfield, he appeared in Home Alone 2

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Birmingham should have a huge music/art festival called Birmingman in the West Midlands' equivalent to Black Rock Desert

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sexy pride month lukedovician @beardynoise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a subject matter expert I'd like to say that it's only dogging when straight people are doing it. If they're all dudes then it's cruising

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What *should* be big news is that someone called an anti-terrorism hotline, nobody answered it, and then, it seems, there was a conspiracy to pretend the authorities were already on the case. OTOH I'm on Team Oil Thieves and it looks like we're going to beat Team Doggers and Team Flytippers

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God, yeah, whatever could lead you to speculate that they might be fuel thieves?

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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These threats are not regarded as some far-off or remote contingency: disastrous impacts, for instance on the UK’s food supply, could be expected as soon as 2030, it warns. One person who had seen the whole report described it to the Guardian as “apocalyptic”. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant?

Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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

MAN VS TOFU 2: In this shockingly graphic sequel to the original hit video (8 likes) I molest some Chinese supermarket firm tofu to show how it differs from big chain supermarkets' firm tofu. It wobbles! You can cook things other than stir fries with this. Warning: Explicit thumbing

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

*wiggles eyebrows conspiratorially*

BBC story about the RAF Fairford arrests is right next to one about Trump's diesel export ban, which mentions diesel prices rising in the UK.

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

Me: "I've just unwillingly learned about The Hampstead Heath Fuck Tree which-" A: "THE WHAT!?" Me: "The Hampstead Heath Fuck Tree" A: "Oh I thought you said hamsters, it's your accent"

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it’s quite possible, stay with me, that Donald Trump had no idea what he was talking about when claiming they’d been under surveillance for a long time

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

They're out on bail. The probability of hilarity is going up

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

Graffiti is social media and this one is quite Bluesky-ish

Street art mural of a woman with long black curly hair, looking up, framed by either a frilly orange and yellow curtain, the aurora borealis or something abstract. Two people have written on it...

Someone has used a black marker pen to write "Jesus wasn't white LOL!" on the mural...

To which someone else has replied "It's not Jesus..."

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

"Curiously, towns with Russell Group universities had 32% more instances of STI diagnosis than towns without them" (Manchester Mill)

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

Matcha, mochi and red beans as a selling point made up 50% of my purchasing decision

A Japanese frozen dessert that looks like a green cat's paw, on a small white plate

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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

I really think people like this should have to wear the logos of their sponsors on their clothing when they are being interviewed

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He holds a number of paid positions as an adviser for lobbying and consultancy companies.[51] He is paid chair of the Purpose Defence Coalition, members of which include arms manufacturer Leonardo, which has "extensive links" to Israel’s military.[52] He is paid chair of the Purpose Business Coalition, members of which include Leonardo and oil company BP. He is a paid senior adviser to Rud Pedersen, a lobbying company with expertise in security and defence, which has oil and gas companies Glencore and Enwell Energy as clients.[53

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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the rare point where a news story actually feels Tolkienian

Farmer who called 999 saw 'large group of hooded and masked men' near RAF Fairford, she tells BBC

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026

Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.

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

"Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation" No it's actually unchecked billionaires that will cause the deaths, Bill, and it's already started.

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

If we’re letting a US base in the UK bomb Iran and somehow it’s also nothing to do with us I think we should let Iran bomb the base too, to remain neutral.

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Grae Hall @graemation.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Picking up the 17yr-old from a party. "Some of my friends were talking about people they know who do MDMA" "Ok..." "And I said I didn't know anyone doing that A-level." "What?" "I thought it stood for Media, Design, & Mixed Art!"

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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Andy Burnham has inspired me to announce that I too will possibly do something great that everyone will like, sometime in the future

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also under current proposals they won't be allowed to be social care workers after 2028. Ministers still don't seem to understand their own plan.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Kids, now it is time to take drugs

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sometimes I see a Bluesky comment that's Bluesky in it's purest most Bluesky form, like the "Haha, the new Silent Hill is just literally England"

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Chris Scullion @scully1888.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Was looking at the Silent Hill Townfall concept art and my jaw dropped. Was back in my hometown tonight so I had to go and take a photo. There are many ways to mock my beloved Coatbridge, but “your home’s so miserable it was used as concept art for a Silent Hill game” is a new one for me

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Burnham: Obviously it was completely wrong of Slasher Bob to kill 27 women because he thinks women in public places are slutwhores. That is abhorrent sexism & poisonous Burnham: also uneccesarry as we are banning women from all public places next week due to reasonable concerns they are slutwhores

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