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Ervin Sperla

@ervinsperla.bsky.social
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European. Interested in linguistics, politics, science, humour. Good to be here.

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Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · 1h
He has all the arrogance and entitlement of a stereotypical ex-public school, but will forever be remembered as the recipient of one of the best ever burns on Twitter...
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 7h
Simple solution: just don't do it. The US desire to find 'clean' ways of killing people is ultimately to try and absolve themselves of what they're doing: killing people. There is no clean and morally pure way of taking a life - and particularly not of someone whose entirely within your power
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Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 18h
🎯 'A man raped her' instead of 'she was raped.' Have you ever read a headline that reads "A bank was robbed by a suspect?" Nope. It's "A suspect robbed a bank."
Christina Ricci in front of a patterned wall with the text: Maybe we should start talking about how many men out of 3 will sexually assault someone... instead of how many women out of 3 will be assaulted. Lets shift the ownership..
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
36 minutes before the hearing started.
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Ervin Sperla @ervinsperla.bsky.social · 22h
Linguists approve
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Pascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 23h
Tapping the sign
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 23h
I mean, play better
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Astros players frustrated by fan jeers after Game 1 loss: ‘I was pretty pissed’
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The number of people arguing City should keep titles they cheated* their way to is frankly mindboggling *subject to appeal etc etc etc
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Ervin Sperla @ervinsperla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well, it's consistent with everything else they are doing
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theplasmawolf.bsky.social @theplasmawolf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He's not joking. He's just wrong. Maybe he knows he's wrong and says it to desperately sell AI to people who know they don't want it. Maybe he doesn't know how wrong he is. Whichever of the two options applies doesnt matter.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just saw folk who join the uncritical rush towards AI referred to as "LLMings", and I am stealing that.
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Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings
Alt: Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings
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Ervin Sperla @ervinsperla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Noooo, you can't do tha... ... well, actually - PLUS imagine how much it will annoy the Italian food purists!
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Ervin Sperla @ervinsperla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The home of the brave, bravely litigating against toddlers with no legal representation. The best country in the world
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Ervin Sperla @ervinsperla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lead a live that doesn't make you the only possible guess for this post
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah yes the circle of life
• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister: "In 2015, we had a deal, we remained committed to that deal, it was the US that withdrew with zero justification"
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reni 🦌 @reniadeb.com · 27/09/2026
two households, both alike in dignity
a jar of lao gan ma crispy chilli in oil next to a bottle of heinz garlic mayo
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Pascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎧Got a new pair of headphones - unlike the old pair, the battery on these is replaceable, with a guide included in the box Thank you EU law 🇪🇺
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Rowdy Rebel @rowdyrebel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I also have White Coat Syndrome & need my bp taken 3 times for accuracy. 😱🫨🫤🩸
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you guys broke watergate
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This some advanced tankie "thought". Russia has a UNSC seat & world's largest amounts of land, gas, oil and NUKES. Russia also has no agency over our own actions and so cannot be held accountable and therefore must be excused and appeased.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You have to get a very long way through this BBC report before you learn which party runs the council which took the decision to close all these nurseries www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
South Tyneside Council nursery closures decision 'devastating'
Councillors confirm that all 10 Stanley's nurseries in South Tyneside will close by July 2027.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Black squirrel rolls up its baby for a getaway: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
but then we'd have to invade a foreign country?!
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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Orthodox Marxist who denies being so and instead frames everything in MAGA terminology "If the hardworking people of heartland America arise - people of all the nations! - we can throw off the deep state and make our countries great again! Nothing to lose, man!"
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
single issue voter, and the issue is... cheese
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Ervin Sperla @ervinsperla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Savage
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bye bye American pie, drove my Chevy off a cliff as directed by AI
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Ervin Sperla @ervinsperla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Zuckerberg (really): "I don't understand the" pervert glasses" thing, we are doing the right thing here"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's a neat thing! My mom retired after 25+ as a children's librarian at public libraries yesterday. (It was very cool! Hundreds of former Story Hour kids arrived, some as adults!) I let Ed Markey's office know in case they wanted to send a nice email back and they sent this! He's still got it!
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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I still can't get over how much better the old Yamato Transport logo was.
Old Yamato Transport logo. A black cat walking along, holding her kitten by the scruff.New Yamato Transport logo. Still the same black cat and kitten, but now the cat is standing still, only 2 legs visible instead of 4 on both cat and kitten, and there are no lines marking the boundary between the kitten's head and her head, or between her head and her body.
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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 23/09/2026
what's scary is that i could totally see myself being swallowed up by that shit, had i stayed
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Ervin Sperla @ervinsperla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
associate membership offer revoked instantly
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Ervin Sperla @ervinsperla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Considering British Airways for your next flight? You've come to the right thread...
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/09/2026
see now this, this is time-honoured british piss-taking
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tony Blair 🤝 Viktor Orbán "The EU should be an Europe of sovereign nations"
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Before and After….
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A post from “kavishj9611” that reads: 

“All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?”

Panel 2:
And Orange Guy and a Pink Guy are standing in a room that has two pipes in it. Both pipes are pumping raw sewage into the room. The characters are waist deep in it.
Orange Guy says smugly “Ok Mr “I don’t want to be in a room that’s filling up with raw sewage” let me ask you this”

Panel 3:
The sewage has reached their chests. Pink Guy is gagging. Orange Guy smugly continues “If all this sewage disappeared right now, could you get through the day without it?”

Panel 4:
The sewage is almost up to their eyeballs. Orange Guys says “Look at that shit floating past your face. Are you willing to give that up?”
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Percy is determined to get his stick home: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
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Ervin Sperla @ervinsperla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not fundamentally unserious at all
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Russell Parker @pussellrarker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Such a sad decline from his Sherlock/Doctor Strange heyday www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow...
glasgowlive.co.uk
Burst Cumbernauld sewage pipe leaves smelly 'Pringles tube sized keech' on path
The issue is said to have been reported to Scottish Water after a pipe burst, spewing raw sewage onto the path behind Drumpellier Gardens.
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Milo 😾 : Momma, Ah want a "Blabbermouth" button installed asap! 😾😼😂 (Cr @wordypaws) #dog #cat #wordsmith
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
lol
A series of tweets that reads "we didn't have a measles outbreak until we let in four years of millions of people pour over our border" 

"I live in Honduras. We vaccinate" 

"I live in American we can choose if we want the shot or not" 

"I know and that's why you have measles and we don't"
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Israel has increased its military sales to the UK every year for the past 5 years - up 1/3 in the past year. At Arms Fairs, Israeli firms advertise their kit as “battle tested in Lebanon”. There is no shortage of buyers, including from the UK and EU. Money from misery. #FrontlineClub
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lorna Finlayson on Ed Sheeran
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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions
In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As chance would have it I was just speaking to an EU diplomat formerly closely involved in Brexit and his view was "25 years and 75%". Others will differ in their views, but none will think the UK accession is linked to "reform"
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