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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 10h

I think the last genuinely funny thing he did was A Fish Called Wanda, and that was almost 40 years ago.

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 03/10/2026

Oh right, I remember now, about a decade or so ago. Even Rescue Bots have had two toys!

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 03/10/2026

Actually now that I think about it, literally the only BM toy they’ve done since BM was a thing is the core class Cheetor a couple of years back?

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 01/10/2026

At the risk of being glib, isn’t that pretty much just Netanyahu? Apart from that decade or so from 99-09, he’s been PM pretty solidly since Rabin was killed.

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 01/10/2026

Rusted-On Bingo tea towel arrived! Glad to have a proper one of these beauties, and to be able to contribute to glioblastoma research in memory of @kudelka.bsky.social

The top half of the Rusted-On Bingo tea towel, designed by the late Jon Kudelka.

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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Who defends the poor if the poor are selfish?

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 30/09/2026

I still haven't got past the fact that they're called Hugging Face; did they want to call it Facehugger but felt it was too on the nose?

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Alien Romulus Facehugger Attack Scene

Alt: Alien Romulus Facehugger Attack Scene

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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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Dr nick nobody @nicknobody.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

TFW you think you’re very clever but you accidentally perfectly described Deputy PM Richard Geelong Grammar Marles. #auspol

Post by ALP propagandist Van Badham describing the Victorian Liberal leader as a monied, arrogant connected Tory, which neatly defines the Labor deputy prime minister

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 29/09/2026

I’ve felt this way for some time; given a choice between doing the good and decent thing, or the expedient thing, Albanese will choose the latter every time. He’s been lucky on one or two occasions that they happen to have been the same thing - even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 26/09/2026

The cultural switch frustration! Took me hours to work out that you flick American switches UP to turn them on (in Australia it’s down).

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 22/09/2026

It does feel a bit science fiction distant future, doesn’t it? Blade Runner 2031.

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 20/09/2026

Alpha Centauri, the original sequel to Civ II.

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 18/09/2026

See also: Australian Labor Party

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 18/09/2026

Bring on the AI bubble popping.

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 18/09/2026

The students are using AI to write, and teachers are using AI to mark. No-one’s teaching and no-one’s learning, it’s just AI talking to itself.

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 18/09/2026

Listening to teaching colleagues talking about training AI to mark student work and honestly I just despair for my profession.

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

my worry about ai isn’t that it will become sentient, it’s that the cognitive impact of outsourcing critical thinking to computers combined with the proliferation of slop making it increasingly challenging to validate information will dissolve society’s already-tenuous grasp on consensus reality

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 14/09/2026

The Doctor changes, yet does not change. Also, there's no revealed inner journey for the Doctor - they always get there before you, without leaving any marks in the snow.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

it's two things, to me: 1) trans rights matter because trans people matter and deserve rights, not just because failing to stand for trans rights is a bellwether for inauthentic progressivism more broadly 2) if you can't be trusted on trans rights you can't be trusted on anything

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 13/09/2026

I remember when George Christensen pulled this shit where he went to retire, but then defected to ON at the last minute, lost his seat, but he walked away with about $100K-odd, and ON got the public per-vote cash from his personal vote. You can see why they do this cynical crap.

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 09/09/2026

This works as a piece of art, but it is photoshopped; the original photo (taken of Alice Weidel in around 2020) is identical but without the “microphone shadow”.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026

For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 08/09/2026

We’re asking very similar questions in an increasingly plaintive tone here in Australia as well.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is superb. Simon doesn't write much, but when he does, it is so on point, thoughtful and informative. Have a look

simoncopland.substack.com

No, the ‘feminisation’ of schools is not to blame for the rise of the Manosphere

And having more male teachers will not solve the problem either.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 02/09/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

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Shawshank Redemption: Iconic Rain Scene

Alt: Shawshank Redemption: Iconic Rain Scene

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 02/09/2026

For a moment I thought this was a reconstruction of a man called Norman Conquest, who I imagined to be a British light entertainment figure from the early 1980s.

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 01/09/2026

Yeah, running out of space it real.

A wall of white track shelving filled with Transfotmers.

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Soft Fruity Red @comfort-zone.org · 28/08/2026

I met him at a con in Adelaide about 14 years ago or so. Got the obligatory photo and signing and he was just so warm and kind. He also held my original Optimus Prime figure for the photo, so that’s a lovely touchstone now as well.

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

this is one of my favorite visual jokes of all time. i think about it several times a week.

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