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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 2h

Making the AI subject to the Home Office citizenship process would definitely make it kill us all

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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 4h

& as various people have pointed out, financial literacy in the UK is not high

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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 4h

Not so much time value of money ("discount rate") as rising financial desparation among the nominal middle class

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 17h

My go-to example of this is that until very recently the most commonly cited example of "good unproblematic art comes from good unproblematic people" was Neil Gaiman.

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Daniel @deargodwhaat.bsky.social · 19h

More generally, wasn't Music Hall type singers or the whole genre absolutely enormous, and essentially never recovered from the invention of television?

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 7h

A *poem*?

Headline from a Daily Telegraph article:
"Accountant calls police after being asked to attend meeting".

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

genuinely do not understand how some people enjoy interpersonal conflict, I am going to have to have an uncomfortable conversation with someone and I would rather fight a rabid badger

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The Town That Dreaded @sundownmcmoon.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

In case anyone's confused as to what's going on here, this is how the cast of Cleopatra (1970) is introduced to clear things up.

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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 19h

#CelebrityTraitors Nobody: Not a soul: Your local non-denominational queer church that has a great knit and natter group:

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 19h

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Geraint @geraintg.bsky.social · 23h

SHOP ME: Hello, have you got any Quorn? S: Yes, what variety? ME: on the Quob? S: Please leave

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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 20h

This has the advantage that if someone says the system cannot possibly work a whole nation turns up in their mentions to tut at them

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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 20h

I think this shows how easy it is to dissipate time and energy on nerd wrangling; the question on the ballot should be "should the UK use the Welsh, Scottish or Northern Ireland voting system?"

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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 22h

I suspect a lot of corps would simply AI them in

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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 23h

Everyone wants to read theory, nobody wants to lift theory

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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This seems fairly pointless to secure against, because either of the pilots can crash the plane on landing or takeoff if they are suitably determined

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You can tell exactly when Poland became a major power in European politics, because EU institutions very suddenly started calling history's most famous female physicist by a double-barrelled name

Graph of British English usage of Marie Skłodowska-Curie, shooting up in the late 2010s.

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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That’s Life! was just incredible. Its two most famous moments are a man being movingly celebrated by the now grown Jewish children he got out of Nazi Germany & a dog saying “sausages”. No other programme has ever had that range.

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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Everything is gender, but especially eggs

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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Simply wait for the UK to become a low income economy, then rejoin the EU so Brits can emigrate to find work

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French New Wave Memes @fnwave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

reading your posts for filth

close up of Anna Karinia reading a paperback book

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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, yes; the (FT excepted) media have no plan or policy beyond getting some sort of conservative back in charge, so they're not going to look too closely

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The temptation to do the Morecambe and Wise ‘he won’t sell much ice cream going at that speed!’ line every time an emergency vehicle goes past with the siren on.

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David KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today is the last day of Michael being 0. Tomorrow is her first birthday. I've been looking back at photos from mid-December, when we first met her. She was quite small.

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this is great fun out of context

Ronaldo and Jesus have been at odds for several days.

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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm not convinced that account is real

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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is one of those feats that can be claimed by Germany (Zuze), US, or UK, depending on the precise definition

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

youtube premium is giving me three free months of discord nitro. crunchbucket plus is giving me ninety free days of splorb. fubo ultra is giving me a complimentary fortnight of bonk concierge. grackle platinum is giving me six years of squak. quibi eternal is giving me three fiscal quarters of tobi.

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Goggle Bob @gogglebob.com · 30/09/2026

Going back in time exclusively to explain to Peter Lorre how he dies in 1964, but is integral to a Looney Tunes legal thriller in 2026.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s particularly cruel to do this to Garbo, who protected her privacy and peace but it’s not surprising she was chosen. After all, she told the world “no” and AI pushers love to run roughshod over consenf www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future

Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI

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Meredith 🏁🏳️‍⚧️ @nightmere.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the definition of A Little Guy

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caffeine anxiety ego death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A Datsun 510 that my dad "fixed up" from salvage. It had holes in the floor, the cabin would flood with the smell of gas when you turned left, and you had to start it with a screwdriver and some custom switches under the dash. Doors didn't lock and barely closed

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 30/09/2026

I'm 17 episodes into a Twilight Zone (1959) watch and I'm quite convinced it's the greatest show ever. Each one is a small jewel of a complete movie that fucks off in 25 minutes and then Rod Serling smokes at you and tells you to come back next week.

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

TIL active lightning rods are a thing. look at this angry bastard. it tries to, faster than Zeus himself, fire its own lightning (early streamer emission innit) back at the sky to beckon a strike to hit it instead of something more important. long live the fantastical hubris of NF C 17-102

brochure ad for the Indelec Prevectron 3 Connect IOT connected lightning rod. it is a cone-shaped metal thing with several pointy things at the tip aimed at a center upwards spike, a large metal band just beneath that, and several sharp looking triangular spikes aimed downwards in a cone. a bit beneath it is a small solar panel.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Amused by people replying to this who went down the inevitable wikihole and discovered this wasn't just my usual whimsical pony and (von) Trapp

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m not saying Alexei Sayle’s Stuff is the greatest sketch show ever made, but it’s in the Top 1.

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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Guessing that during the fight someone stood on one of the rudder pedals really hard and the hydraulics put it in a position it could not survive at that speed (!)

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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Right-click on my works, ye mighty, and despair

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 30/09/2026

Waverley's station pub on the other hand is just embarrassing

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Oda Rygh @odarygh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

HEY! Listen!

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly

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gryphoneer @gryphoneer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's especially silly to die on this hill if you remember that shirow masamune originally wanted to call his manga just "ghost in the shell" with those exact english words, but his editor insisted on a japanese language title because he thought readers were stupid

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James Beckett @kickthebeckett.com · 29/09/2026

No, SungWon is absolutely correct here. The insistence on sticking with the Japanese title when there is already a perfectly acceptable English one is utterly asinine. Nobody does this in Japanese literature, or film, or any other art form. It's just the anime nerds who insist on being obtuse.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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