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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is beautiful writing about what happens when strangers on the internet narrativise you, based on 30 seconds of video 👇
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Tuffcub @tuffcub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am going to get into so much trouble for this, but hey, I own 1/5 of the site. Read the text under the images.
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Mr too tired for a halloween name @laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...
Twitter post by that cunt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon expressing solidarity with Ed Sheeran (not reposting the exact text because fuck whatever he has to say)
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Paul Renfree @elpablo79.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have owned this for so long and will be checking out mine in the morning!
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"It is a technofeudal fantasy of frontier developers like Sam Altman and Elon Musk to enclose the general intelligence of humanity in a statistical model, accessible only by chatbot, and censorable by them personally."
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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Paul Renfree @elpablo79.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Great piece about a brilliant animator and I echo their final thoughts
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Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰 @computerjames.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
the only video worth rescuing from my deleted twtter
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Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Coyote vs. Acme. screencrush.com/coyote-vs-ac...
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Paul Renfree @elpablo79.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP to another great
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Paul Renfree @elpablo79.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP Dolly Parton, an absolute legend and seemingly one of the best people ever
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Paul Renfree @elpablo79.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Kind of the same with an imaginary cloth
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Lloyd Bridges as Admiral Benson Blocks Ears
Alt: Lloyd Bridges as Admiral Benson Blocks Ears
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weinberg @weinbergs.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
who the fuck cares what AI can learn from this horrible occurrence?
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Paul Renfree @elpablo79.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I guess she really wants the new HP TV show to succeed
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Alan Griffiths @alanji.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Paul Renfree @elpablo79.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Go on Maguire! It's only a friendly but it really feels like it matters
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 14/08/2025
This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Farage looks like a man who tried to nonchalantly jump over a low wall to take a shortcut, caught his leg on it and almost fell over, then tried to style it out while also looking accusingly at the wall, before walking off, trying to hide a limp.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 10/08/2026
Sad to discover ET's grave didn't get the world heritage site treatment Dobby's did
roadworksE.T. "Dead" in a ditch scene
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weinberg @weinbergs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"Would it kill you to call one movie Evil Dead Kindness?" -- Sam Raimi's mom
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This piece by Jeff Yang (aka @originalsp.in) was so satisfying to edit. It covers different aspects of The Odyssey and contextualizes them as examples of political filmmaking through allegory—the tale of a 21st century empire reeling from karmic blowback. www.rogerebert.com/features/the...
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The People from the Sea: How "The Odyssey" is About America
A reading of Christopher Nolan's blockbuster as a commentary on the current state of America.
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Paul Hayward @paulhayward.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
On Infantino's plan to sell the World Cup to oligarchs... Surprise, surprise...
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weinberg @weinbergs.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
by smashing them with a rock at every opportunity.
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John Hudgens @johnhudgens.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Wow, Marvel is going crazy with the crossovers on this new Avengers film... :)
AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY poster - Doctor Doom kneels in front of a tapestry of Vigo the Carpathian?
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Paul Renfree @elpablo79.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Well this World Cup Final could create the greatest finale youtube.com/shorts/67A8g...
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Trump calls to 'cut off all trade with Spain'
YouTube video by NBC News
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
mandatory reading
"SAM NEILL
- If you were to commit a murder, how would you do it?
- It's got to be big! No slipping something into someone's drink, that's just pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a stain on the road. There's probably a couple of people I'd put under a steamroller, but I won't say who they are, otherwise when they see a steamroller coming their way they'll be on full alert. And steamrollers don't go very fast..."
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The Norwegian national World Cup team is being met by a sea of people in front of the castle downtown Oslo.
nrk.no
Siste fra VM: Velkommen hjem!
Videoklipp fra NRK
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weinberg @weinbergs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Rest in peace, Sam Neill. It has been a joy to watch your work over the past several decades. What a talented, classy, brilliant actor. By all accounts he was also just a great guy.
Sam Neill
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Taylor Payne @taylorpayne.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
If there's ever an asteroid heading towards earth threatening to wipe out the human race I think we just send Dan Burn out to head the thing back past Jupiter...#NUFC
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Text which says “My 7 year old has learnt how important it is to spell properly after took him to a sweatshop for his birthday, as requested."
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Dimitra Rizou @ahoyuniverse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Solutions to all the world's problems #cartoon
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber
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Jim Caris @jimcaris.eurosky.social · 18/06/2026
Two days ago, a man in Hull was sentenced to 26 months in jail (suspended for 18 months) and 250 hours of unpaid work for selling CDs containing "unauthorised remixes of well-known tracks"
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I think England should probably practise playing football during half time.
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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Oh just fuck off. He and his ilk are as thick as pig shit and an embarrassment to all life on earth
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weinberg @weinbergs.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
paywall-free link to @willbunch.bsky.social's latest piece.
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Elon Musk egged on a race riot, then became a trillionaire. What are we even doing? | Will Bunch
Elon Musk’s climb to obscene undeserved wealth while wrecking a civil society is the essence of our broken century.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🧵England players who don't look like footballers. 1. DAVID SEAMAN. Looks like your mate's dad at primary school. Has a Vauxhall Carlton and when he drives you both home he says "Guess what mum's got for afters? Angel Delight!" and laughs when you both cheer (met him recording a pilot btw).
seaman playing for englandme playing it very cool meeting a legend
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Ceinwen Langley @ceinwenlangley.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.
The Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin asks his dad to come play in the snow with him. His dad initially says no, because he has to work. Then, angry at himself, his Dad goes out to build a snowman with Calvin. As the Dad works into the night to make up for it, we see Calvin’s mum lifting him up to give one of the few, if only, kisses he ever gives his dad in the Calvin and Hobbes run. His dad is content. It’s a textless comic, and it’s lovely.
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Paul Renfree @elpablo79.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Signed
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Jackson O'Lantern-Brien @sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The relentless pursuit of justice and dealing out of real, meaningful consequences is the only way to deal with these people. Otherwise, we’ll end up where the US is, with absolute elite impunity.
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Bilal Zafar @zafarcakes.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I've changed my mind about A.I. it's clearly very useful.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 16/05/2026
As a technologist for 30+ years nothing makes me feel more seen than this post
The classic:
Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart.

Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.
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daniel harris @danielharris.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I wrote about Michael Carrick and the way we talk about football www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Michael Carrick has earned the right to bring equilibrium to Manchester United | Daniel Harris
It would be foolish of the club to undo a winning, entertaining formula by turning elsewhere for a permanent head coach
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
How many karate kicks should you do during a job interview
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Scene from Red Dwarf. The boys from The Dwarf are observing a fascist poster which reads "BE A GOVERNMENT INFORMER. BETRAY YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS. FABULOUS PRIZES TO BE WON"
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