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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Do you happen to have any grey poupon?

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

SuperVillain backstory: UNLOCKED

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Based on the schedule slip on Irish Reunification, it may be running a little late.

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You definitely have a case for plagiarism. Sue the bastards!

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“It was a different time”

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Plague death reported in Siberia” is the first line in a dystopian B-movie, barely intelligible through the crackly AM radio in our hero’s 1978 AMC Pacer as he pulls into a small town on the edge of nowhere.

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“…We've been struggling in an unrelenting climb (Lenting climb) We were hardly up and walking Before money started talking And it said that failure is an awful crime”

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“…suspected Zodiac killer Ted Cruz…”

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s like Zillow for evil lairs!

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“I’m colorblind?” (when overhearing a conversation from across the room)

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What’s the deal with the tiny guy playing the tiny piano?

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Remarkably, I can verify that its effects reach as far as the West Coast. Newsom is considering issuing a state of non-urgency, with naps highly encouraged.

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sixteenth grade - college graduate

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Russian judge only gave him a 7.1

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For a given value of “real”.

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s about ethics in gaming journalism.

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And everything they know is worng.

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We’re gonna be sorry either way, tbh.

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seventeen years of decorative gourd delight!

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23/09/2026

Oh do listen

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Some days - quite often, lately - this timeline terrifies and disgusts me. And some days there’s Jethro Sheeran.

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Big If True @burk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Trans" is not a policy.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026

If a man with this tragic sense approaches, not fire, but another manifestation of original power, like the splitting of the atom, he will do so with fear and trembling. He will not leap in where angels fear to tread, unless he is prepared to accept the punishment of fallen angels. - Norbert Wiener

The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our pro-tection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment. It is a dangerous world, in which there is no security, save the somewhat negative one of humility and restrained ambitions. It is a world in which there is a condign punishment, not only for him who sins in conscious arrogance, but for him whose sole crime is ignorance of the gods and the world around him.
If a man with this tragic sense approaches, not fire, but another manifestation of original power, like the splitting of the atom, he will do so with fear and trembling. He will not leap in where angels fear to tread, unless he is prepared to accept the punishment of the fallen angels. Neither will he calmly transfer to the machine made in his own image the responsibility for his choice of good and evil, without continuing to accept a full responsibility for that choice.
I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much "know-how" he may have, has very little "know-what." He will accept the superior dexterity of the machine-made decisions without too much inquiry as to the motives and principles behind these. In doing so, he will put himself sooner or later in the position of the father in W. W. Jacobs' The Monkey's Paw, who has wished for a hundred pounds, only to find at his door the agent of the company for which his son works, tendering him one hundred pounds as a consolation for his son's death at the factory. Or again, he may do it in the way of the Arab fisherman in the One Thousand and One Nights, when he broke

Let us remember that there are game-playing machines both of the Monkey's Paw type and of the type of the Bottled Djinnee. Any machine constructed for the purpose of making decisions, if it does not possess the power of learning, will be completely liter-al-minded. Woe to us if we let it decide our conduct, unless we have previously examined the laws of its action, and know fully that its conduct will be carried out on principles acceptable to us! On the other hand, the machine like the djinnee, which can learn and can make decisions on the basis of its learning, will in no way be obliged to make such decisions as we should have made, or will be acceptable to us. For the man who is not aware of this, to throw the problem of his responsibility on the machine, whether it can learn or not, is to cast his responsibility to the winds, and to find it coming back seated on the whirlwind.
I have spoken of machines, but not only of machines having brains of brass and thews of iron. When human atoms are knit into an organization in which they are used, not in their full right as responsible human beings, but as cogs and levers and rods, it matters little that their raw material is flesh and blood. What is used as an element in a machine, is in fact an element in the machine. Whether we entrust our decisions to machines of metal, or to those machines of flesh and blood which are bureaus and vast laboratories and armies and corporations, we shall never receive the right answers to our questions unless we ask the right questions. The Monkey's Paw of skin and bone is quite as deadly as anything cast out of steel and iron. The djinnee which is a unifying figure of speech for a whole corporation is just as fearsome as if it were a glorified conjuring trick.
The hour is very late, and the choice of good and evil knocks at our door.

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