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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Doctor says, ‘Treatment is simple. You need to hear a joke in the Pagliacci format.’

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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mrs. Dalloway said she would trigger the libs herself

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

intervening in the literature to say that none of it matters

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And in that way he is a litmus test of British vibes, a model citizen in that he is totally devoid of charisma, Eros, even of desire. Ed Sheeran being “political” would reflect a wanting of change, and in that way, would usurp the entire British image of accepting what you’re given

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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

*New York Accent* A! I’m sloppin here!

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He’s the Keir Starmer of the music industry

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh you welcomed your first baby? I've welcomed dozens of babies. Any baby is welcome around me.

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The lead guitarist in a band is responsible for motivating the group’s other guitarists and ensuring they reach their targets, as well as monitoring any underperforming guitarists and providing them with extra support where necessary.

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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yet more evidence for the theory that all of Andy Burnham’s political career can be explained by ‘his special interest is public transport and it got out of hand’

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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Benny Feldman @feldfrog.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Real Gs move in silence like a breathtaking video of owl flight

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jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

i don't need AI to be productive. i do it the old fashioned way, by neglecting my relationships and physical health

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

responding to a diss track with a song called Genuinely Thought We Were On Good Terms

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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

vets got sooooo lucky rhyming with pet

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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

just written the first 'but this is outside the scope of this research' footnote of my PhD

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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

DID YOU KNOW Britney Spears' voice in 'Oops... I Did It Again' is layered with a guiro scrape to make the vocal fry sound extra raspy from The Musicology of Record Production by Simon Zagorksi-Thomas (2014):

In the vocal performance of Britney Spears’ (2000) single ‘Oops! . . . I Did It Again’ there’s a pronounced vocal rasp on many of the vowel sounds that is a common signifier of emotional angst. The ‘creaky voice’ has this emotional significance because it is the result of tightening the neck and throat muscles in a way that restricts the passage of air through the vocal cords and, of course, this type of muscular tension is associated with stress of various sorts: it is a fairly universal characteristic of angst-ridden vocalisations. During the recording of this single the Swedish producer, Max Martin, decided that the natural rasp in Ms Spears’ voice didn’t convey the sense of angst effectively enough and hit upon a novel way of exaggerating it. He took a short recording of a guiro scrape1 that was provided in the percussion set on a Yamaha keyboard and positioned multiple copies of this sample in the recording at many of the moments when the creak occurred in Ms Spears’ vocal performance. These were then processed to blend in with the vocal sound but to provide a pronounced emotional creak.2 As soon as you listen to the track with this in mind it becomes obvious, but without knowing about this ‘trick’ it sounds like an exaggerated performance technique. I’ve mentioned the notion of sonic cartoons earlier in this book and elsewhere (Zagorski-Thomas 2015), and this example – the deliberate exaggeration of a single characteristic of a recording in order to influence the listener’s interpretation in a particular direction – provides an extreme illustration of the concept.

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ceej @ceej.online · 31/07/2026

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Top brands liked by fans of a few of Spotify's top artists

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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I believe it is only a matter of time until drinking pasta water becomes a viral health hack

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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

chess is already complicated, instead of saying someone is playing 4D chess we could just say they’re playing chess

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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

What are your favourite Beatles? Mine are John, Porg, Jarl, and Ringoon

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

They wouldn’t have been able to do a Barbenheimer for The Odyssey and Barbie, the two options are The Odyssie and Barby

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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The cinema thought I had just brought a normal rucksack in with me to see The Odyssey, little did they know that inside there…. a delicious Greek sandwich

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Normal Guy @guy-normal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

concerningly Mancunian heart surgeon: Let's just say we do things a little differently here 😏

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Every Starmer speech is incredibly fascinating because he appears to live in a completely parallel reality to basically everyone else in the country. He never seems to ask the question "if I've done such a good job, why has my party drafted a mayor to drag me out of office?"

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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Actually you know what it is

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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

All the official Starmer Leaving coverage has the tone of somebody retiring, or graduating, or saying goodbye to a beloved pet, or Frodo sailing off into the Gray Havens, rather than somebody being forced out because they are near universally disliked

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

You can sing 'it's a dinosaur' to the main theme from Jurassic Park, which I think must have been the intention

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It's called The Odyssey because the odyence will see it

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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I have just seen a small boy feed an entire fresh Gregg's sausage roll to a seagull, wiggling the sausage roll in the air, laughing with pure joy, cheered on by his overjoyed, bursting-with-pride father

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I think if the Norwegian manager and Haaland had a baby it would look like The Giant from Twin Peaks

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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Here's the truth, and I gotta be honest I'm not a big goose anymore, I promise (honk, honk)

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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Here are loads of steps that millions of people must make every single day so we can avoid the one simplest step of stopping rampant profiteering

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I sometimes see people singing to a baby and I have to laugh. What a waste of music! There is basically zero chance that that kid has the music theory to understand even the most basic harmonic progressions they’re throwing at it.

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ceej @ceej.online · 28/06/2026

For fifty years, fans, critics, and scholars have debated the meaning of the Eagles’ acclaimed 1976 recording “Hotel California.” Our new paper uses advanced AI analysis to finally reveal the hidden truth: it’s about what if there was a spooky hotel

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

BINGO - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELEATEN FLYIN IN HELL AND THERE SCREAMMEN "I DIDNT HAVE THIS ON MY BINGO CARD I WASNT AWARE WE WERE PLAYING BINGO AT ALL I FREQUENTLY MISS SOCIAL CUES MUCH OF LIFE FEELS LIKE AN ARCANE RITUAL WHOSE TOME I DONT POSESS" - MORE WRITING ON THIS AT patreon.com/dasharez0ne CHECK THAT OUT ASSAP - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Keir Starmer feels "betrayed"

Keir Starmer's pledges, including economic, social, and climate justice, promoting peace and human rights, common ownership, defending migrants' rights, equality, and many more things that sound worthwhile. The tagline is another future is possible.

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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Wherever I Get My Podcasts, That’s My Home

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 29/05/2026

You mistake; the musician likes me not.

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

taking into account how different the sphinx's frame of reference must be, i think you gotta consider that riddle a pretty strong attempt. probably worked really hard on it

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 21/05/2026

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

13.147 A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from a separate or single-sex service for their own sex might be to prevent discomfort or distress for other service users.

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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

hey john. its your cousin marvin. marvin cage! you know that new sound youve been looking for? well listen to this *hangs up phone*

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The map's form: music It shows: seasons Its purpose: to record legends

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Our political and media system has been sitting in a pot of social media water, slowling boiling itself in a targeted foreign far-right propaganda campaign and seems unable to notice it happening. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sun...

A circular diagram showing how Far Right Narratives are fed into Platform Aplification algorithims, and then media and commentary take up the points thinking them representative of public discussion, leading to the political system reponding and adopting some of them. This leads to a shift in the real public's perception of what matters, and ends in a ligitimisation of those fringe positions.

"This report tells us two things. The first, and most important, is that most people are decent and that the more they are exposed to discussions of controversial things, the more likely they are to decide to support the decent position.

The other thing it tells us is that we have political and media institutions which are completely incapable of recognising when they are being targeted by foreign interference campaigns. "

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