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Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"Broadsword calling Danny Boy, come in Danny Boy"

Without naming the Film, say a line that would make any true fan immediately recognize the film?

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Pretty sure hypermedia warfare and technolegal entanglements is code for "not understanding obvious jokes on Blue Sky"

Notice in one of the Cambridge Colleges - don't ask me which, I've walked around hundreds of the bastards today - directing attendees for the Symposium on hypermedia warfare and technolegal entanglements. If they are the people who don't get obvious jokes on Blue Sky I hope it leads straight to the river for the dunking they richly deserve.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Everybody agrees that the stock market has gone insane. AI dictating investments, meme stocks, castrated regulators in the US and UK, and utter bollocks like crypto infecting everything. Yet all of us are forced to invest our pensions in it. We need to be talking about this.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 05/06/2026

Classic. This Danish road safety advert is more accurate than quite a few Viking films & tv shows... and photo shoots... ;) But above all, it's very, very funny: youtu.be/pD-f45TbvEw?...

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A helmet has always been a good idea - 893

YouTube video by Rådet for Sikker Trafik

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Adam @adam35.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

my fav thing about The Youth™️ is that a song can be out for 46 business seconds and they remix that shit into the hardest track you’ve ever heard in your life

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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A great feature to add to BlueSky would be the ability to leave a little note for yourself when you block or mute someone so you can remember why you did that.

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Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Introduce yourself with ten bands or acts you’ve seen live. Midnight Oil Frazey Ford Elvis Costello Screaming Meemees Simple Minds Prince Damien Jurado Lloyd Cole The Members UB40

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Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The anti-wokeism trifecta: * Scaremongering projection * Carry Big Business's water * Culture War the most trivial thing

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026

relentless poll chasing + contempt for your political base + a total absence of principle or vision = political disaster www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

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Opinion | Democrats Should Pay Attention to Keir Starmer’s Fall

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

You've probably been wondering: "How many eels is a cottage worth in 14th C. England?" This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for HistoryExtra , but here's an excerpt! 🗃️🧪

Table showing cost of items in the 14th C., and the equivalent value in eels. The table has 3 columns: "You want to buy", "It Costs", and "But in eels?" The table shows you that:

2 doz. eggs costs 1d, or 6 eels
A gallon of the best ale costs 1.25d or 8 eels
1 sheep costs 1s 5d, or 106 eels
1 cow costs 9s 5d, or 706 eels
A 2-story cottage costs £2, or 3,000 eels

The d. here means penny, from the latin "denarius." There were 12 d. to a shilling (s), and 20 shillings to a pound (£).

As far as I know, no one was buying cottages with eels. This is more to give you a sense of relative costs. But wouldn't it be interesting if you could buy a house with eels?

This chart leaves unanswered the question: "What about the next-best ale?" and suggests and entire spectrum of ale gradations. Which makes good sense, of course. But also, you certainly wouldn't want to spend your eels on inferior ale!

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

BREAKING: GLOBAL ECONOMY FALTERS AS TANKERS HELD UP AT HORMUZ. 'ALL MY APES GONE', CAPTAIN SAYS

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Old enough to remember how Mahmood went to Denmark to see how being racist makes you unbeatable in elections. www.ft.com/content/e20a... Danish premier’s party suffers its worst election result since 1903

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Danish premier’s party suffers its worst election result since 1903

But Mette Frederiksen may still secure a third term in office because her rightwing rival fared even worse

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Karl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

It’s the TOFU*—Trump Only Fucks Up—trade now. *believe this was originally a @katie0martin.ft.com suggestion

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

It just feels like, across the board, journalists have become unmoored from reality. Maybe it’s Twitter. Maybe it’s the Overton window. Maybe they’re just tired. I have no idea, but things really, really have changed.

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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Carney, Starmer, Albanese, the Axis of Ambivalence.

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Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Nations trying to whitewash racist policies by referencing sensible Denmark are only going to end up embarrassed by their 2 decades of extreme etho-nationalism #DKpol

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Feels so much like we’re living in an era where those on the inside of politics think they’re all moneyball-ing their way to success, while those outside of that bubble look on with increasing bemusement around what exactly the guiding principles of parties actually are.

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Hendrik-Jan @slowpokedj.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Europeans after managing to prevent the collapse of NATO for another 1-2 weeks… #Europe #Rutte

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 14/01/2026

We regret to inform you that Keir Starmer has once again told a joke. My SKETCH of PMQs. thecritic.co.uk/come...

Even if the delivery was fluffed, it was a fair point, and if there was a good reply available, the prime minister didn’t opt for it. He said that Badenoch had reversed her own party’s positions on many issues. But that was not all. Perhaps aware that he would be attacked on his many changes of course, he had come armed with a Mark One Joke, specially constructed for him at a Labour Party Experimental Humour Research Establishment in Aldermaston. It was winched into place by a team of boffins in white coats, who then retreated to a concrete bunker and observed the results through smoked glass.

Here it is: “Don’t get me started on consistency: the Tories had five prime ministers, six chancellors, eight home secretaries and 16 housing ministers. They had more positions in 14 years than…” — readers of a delicate disposition should shut their eyes now — “…the Kama Sutra!”

The detonation of the Mark One Joke was an awesome sight. Everything within a thousand yards was flattened instantly.

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Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

“I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn”

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Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Dataviz explores Milkshake Duck

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Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The Field of Bollocks Four Bollocks and a Funeral

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Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Choose a CEO & get “not a good listener” and “doesn’t take feedback well even if delivered constructively” - shocked I tell you, shocked #NZPol

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Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

My unscientific reckon is that we have to ride out this global Fascism wave until the lead poisoned generations have aged out.

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Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

New Zealand's business geniuses remain undefeated* * (as reverse indicators) #NZPol

Mood of the Boardroom: Business leaders’ optimism hits highest level since 2016
Tim McCready
NZ Herald·
3 Oct, 2024

Gross domestic product fell much further than forecast in the June quarter with manufacturing sectors declining 3.5% and construction continuing to crater

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Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

BBC will no longer broadcast ‘high risk’ performances

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Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Whether it's austerity, bailouts or whatever legal nonsense this is; we are in the grips of 'Government of the people, by the assetholders, for the assetholders'

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Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The banality of evil - Journalism edition I wonder if she thought at the start of her career that she'd end up providing cover for the world's leaders by attacking a young band

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Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

If you see this post your getaway vehicle

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Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

We intuitively know this is happening most places but nice to have clear stats. Still, sTOp tHe iMmiGrAntS !

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Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The "good" Techbro describing extortion as negotiation Overton Window goes woosh

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Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

People been comparing to Hitler, Franco, Peron, etc. but it's getting more Pol Pot & Year Zero by the day

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Soxic @soxic.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

It's Friday y'all!!

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

We were the undisputed leaders at making shitty things that will make society more shitty but now CHINA has pulled ahead of us. This is intolerable, there CANNOT be a shitty thing gap!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

“My campus is fine, but there are campus speech problems elsewhere” “My community is fine, but crime is a huge problem nationally” “My personal financial situation is fine, but the economy is terrible” “My immigrant neighbors are lovely people, but there’s a border crisis” Etc. Etc. Etc.

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Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Sadly, I know way too many people who would read this & still oppose doing anything

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Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Me, liking comments in a BlueSky debate thread from people I've never met, on the skeet of someone I barely know who doesn't follow me back, that has nothing to do with me, and never adding a comment

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 14/07/2024

All the calls for “everyone” to “cool down the rhetoric” etc feel like how families so often put the burden of keeping the peace on the family members who are already working hardest at that, since the difficult/abusive folks are unfixable/cannot be reasoned with.

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