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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 3h

But, to your original post, I had exactly the same thought the other day and that was my conclusion

DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 3h

I think they exist but Google ignores them in favour of corporate pages. On reflection, maybe that's not entirely Google's fault but a sign that corporate pages are specifically adapted to have "good SEO"

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 22h

Fiji is experiencing an alarming HIV outbreak at a time when we have more tools than ever to diagnose, treat and prevent HIV. It is a warning that progress against HIV is not self-sustaining and to end the epidemic we cannot become complacent bktitanji.substack.com/p/hiv-is-not...

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HIV Is Not Done With Us

Fiji’s rapidly growing epidemic is a warning about what happens when complacency, vulnerability and retreating resources give the virus an opening

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For some people, it really is "Super Intelligence" and they're telling on themselves...

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Zuul: Choose the form of your destructor! OpenAI: It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man

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Ghost Busters Stay Put

ALT: Ghost Busters Stay Put

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's literally a Last Action Hero quote to demonstrate wealth undeserved by ability

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Last Action Hero 180

ALT: Last Action Hero 180

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is there a blue tinge to his skin under the presumably fake tan? I wonder if he's on colloidal silver!

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wife and I watched it, she having read book. Both enjoyed it. Beautifully made. Apparently simplified with a tidier ending and various characters made more appealing/nicer, but not massively divergent from book.

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Kavanaugh Stops" coming to your Reform-led ward soon!

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New rule: you only call it Super Intelligence if it's smarter than you

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is great, though I suspect experiencing the waves for real would not be as calming!

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026

I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Difficult to imagine a less useful mnemonic than this Not only does the "A" really mean "Cover", it's not even an ordered sequence of actions. I wonder if @rlssuk.bsky.social can shed light on whether this mess was a consequence of AI or "committee brainstorming"? Difficult to tell

"Splash safely" promo with S.A.F.E. mnemonic for
Supervise
After use cover it
Fence it
Empty it

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I also don't think I've ever listened to Ka$h talk before, so didn't realise how funny his efforts to be intimidating and manly are

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

On top of the bestiality and "look in the White House" jokes this is eliciting: "Manhunt" is a noun

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In more direct response to your quip, you don't need to dive into the problem of the BBC implicitly forgiving his sexual assaults etc since they're explicitly giving him a free pass on plenty of other egregious behaviour

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't remember the exact context. But the pattern I've noticed is the BBC will only use mildly critical phrases like "unconventional" or "without evidence" if the act in question is particularly egregious. Otherwise it's pure stenography and a FedSoc member or NewsMax CEO for the counterpoint

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm still fuming at BBC landing on "unconventional" a couple of years back

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Relatedly, I get annoyed by the BBC's "Trump said, without evidence..." approach to balance. For one, if that's the line, it should be used *every* time he says anything. For two, they only roll it out when it's not UN-evidenced but flatly contradicted by reams of available evidence. So pathetic

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The most revealing thing here is the applause. These people only speak to vetted, friendly audiences

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Groups responsible for important monuments should start pre-emptively defending them by randomly announcing "we'll never change the name to Trump Rock/The Grand Trump/etc"

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Decided to check out who gave this a like and suspect many of them are ironic

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Left out "and my kids have rickets" but otherwise a perfect distillation of the end point of any "make x great again" movement

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's not a star wars vibe they were going for, and the specificity of this remark makes me think this is actually someone making a joke at Trump's expense

"Inspired by the... Starship Trooper uniform."

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

How many recursions do you think you can pull off? And will definitely have to decorate one room like the real house it's in (or vice versa!)

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Extending the metaphor: what to do about people who *do* get a hard-on for his fascism-light routine? Any answer except for ostensibly left-wing parties having courage to plainly say "I've heard you but the answer is no" on faith that majority anti-fascists will vote for them because they said no?

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hypothesis: doing something that looks a little like a Nazi salute, but clearly isn't, is a good way to run defence for Elon Musk and other right wing elements who actually do throw Nazi salutes but claim they didn't

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yeah, they want the bar for standards of evidence on efficacy and safety to be as low and easy to climb over as possible, but at least they want a bar and not just "feels"

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Astonishing concept for an eclipse photo montage!

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Same. Though I haven't blocked many people so perhaps they're being mass reported and banned or there's an algorithm thing going on

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I've moved onto the next stage of realisation that what I actually want is "try being nicer to each other" to be popular

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Are inapt metaphors the new click bait? Are the navy feeling jetlagged?

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I want to see the results of the survey of how many men are doing 1 of these things, 2 of them, or all 3 *simultaneously*.

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm not seeing the pleasure fringing the pain, though... This seems more Biblical than Barkeresque!

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So, what did that UK emergency alert say? I was too busy stabbing at the phone to make the awful buzzing sound stop that I didn't read it and then it vanished with no apparent way to view it in silence

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Most succinct summary of this shit show I've seen so far...

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I also think the comparison of vaccine hesitancy, as a consequence of misinformation, with hesitancy around antiretrovirals for HIV is extremely apt given the terrifying parallels between what's happening in the US now vs South Africa's murderous descent into AIDS denialism 20 years ago

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Made myself a pinhole camera for the eclipse today. Should've done the maths first. Needed it to be over a metre long for a reasonably sized image! Oops. Still, fun craft project

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

You don't need to ask Sweden, this child killer already has direct experience in India bsky.app/profile/drea...

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ivory1.bsky.social @ivory1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Gardening motivation for this week's #MondayMotivation. 🌱

Meme by Rdg Sp8. Plants are actually farming us by giving us oxygen daily until we die and decompose so they can consume us.

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Remind me who exactly caused people to lose faith in public health? bsky.app/profile/drea...

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I don't disagree in principle. But part of the success of the far right, at least in appearing more significant than they are, is down to committed/organised flooding of online channels with copy-pasta talking points, so you can't fully judge the author/publisher based on volume of comments.

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Almost total solar eclipse in UK this Wednesday at ~6pm. Woo!

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Thanks for the heads up. Had completely blanked on this!

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Yes I acknowledge it makes sense in context but “I need my car to meet criminals” is now my favourite basis for an attempted exceptional hardship plea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Best-selling crime author Lynda La Plante has been disqualified from driving for six months, despite tearfully telling the court a ban would end her writing career.
The 83-year-old author and screenwriter told Lavender Hill Magistrates' Court she needed her car to meet criminals and sources for research into her next works of fiction.

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