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Simon🦑

@flatsquid.bsky.social
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Science, anti-quackery, on the cusp of throwing it all in for unemployment in another country tbqhwy

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
right-clicking you to bring up a context menu
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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
[alphabet committee] boss: okay what comes after V designer: two Vs kissing boss: what designer: then two Vs doing it boss: wait designer: then a V with a huge dong boss: designer: two Vs 69ing
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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff
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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
All of it or just a boner part?
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Do we think he's made an AI to fuck his wife too?
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gets an alert on doorbell cam only to find this. Might just never use the front door ever again
Black and white infrared, and badly out of focus, image of what appears to be a spider from underneath. You can just make out approx 6 legs, but the distorted image is very reminiscent of the facehuggers from the Alien films.
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃 🌑 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 01/10/2026
Another week, another “we’re vaguely familiar with the basic premise of the story while at the same time wilfully missing the entire point” moment
Screenshot:

Is this a 3D model?
@IsThisA3DModel

80% of the children who accepted Wonka's Golden Ticket died

Josh Daws
@JoshDaws 
Rejecting Al is like refusing Wonka's golden ticket.
Anything you want to, do it Wanna change the world?
There's nothing to it
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My dream is that Europe/Canada and the UK just build all their own tech systems to replace those owned by the US oligarchs. Short term pain for long term “avoiding being held at gunpoint by US oligarchs.”
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Dave Jones @welshgasdoc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 19/09/2026
this tweet is NINE years old and is still the best trans rights policy advice out there
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Larry & Paul @larryandpaul.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
BREAKING: Ed Sheeran Macklemore Row Explained!
youtu.be
Ed Sheeran Macklemore Row Explained - #BrokenNews
The world's most apolitical man finds himself at the centre of a po...
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just read this in a single sitting and I think I need a bit of thinking time now. Raw and stark and baffled by the hollow, tinny strangeness of it all. Basically, another unflinching study of male desperation to put alongside his other books. Really bastard good. As always. Bloody hell.
Felled: The Killing At Sycamore Gap : Andrew Hankinson
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@MohanadElshieky

Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep working
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Evening repost Jimmy Carr’s Dangerous Suicide Advice theneuroscienceofeve... As it's #NationalSuicidePreventionMonth (emphasis on *prevention*), here's my thorough critique of a supposedly helpful but actually damaging take on suicide doing the rounds, provided by Jimmy Carr #Mentalhealth
theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com
Jimmy Carr’s Dangerous Suicide Advice
There’s a clip going around of Jimmy Carr sharing his take on suicide. And it’s presented as some wise, profound thing. But it isn’t. At best, it’s just wrong. At worst, it’s actively dangerous.
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ESC Liverpool @escliverpool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Get your skates on! There are just 40 tickets remaining for the European Skeptics Congress. Get your tickets while you still can. escliverpool.org
A traffic signal with a countdown reading 40
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Pleakley @pleaks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
banned myself from twitter for 1 week and opened it on reflex earlier today which is how i found out ringo starr thinks bigger animals have bigger molecules which is why he drinks goat milk bc its the “right size” for humans to drink and not cow milk which makes u more full bc of the big molecules
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 10/09/2026
Happy to report that I already knew the first one of these fun trivia items about Jesus. But I must admit, the other two came as a bit of a surprise.
Trivia
Christ is not part of Jesus' name. It is a title, and means "anointed."
The Magi who presented gifts to Jesus were in fact aliens who followed the Star of Bethlehem throughout the universe as it appeared before important events.[13]
Two immortal beings, the Sphinx[14] and the first vampire Varnae, observed Jesus during the time he was alive.[15]
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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Does anyone know what this show is?
I could describe it, but if you can't see it, I don't think you can help me here ;)
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My biggest concern is that isn't his actual name but the person writing this post had a stroke mid sentence
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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Alistair Green @mralistairgreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Simply wonderful. Bravo sir, bravo 🇬🇧 👏
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 05/09/2026
Someone asked me today about my plans for the Fall and it took me a moment to realize she meant my plans for the Autumn and not the collapse of civilization.
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 05/09/2026
almost word for word
Screenshot of tweet from @InternetHippo:

New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
………..Bitcoin is not money. It’s “bored apes” in a suit.
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satanicmonsto.bsky.social @satanicmonsto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Since I saw this meme it's all I can think of whenever there's a new story like this
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Summoning all my strength not to sign up to the 1.9K followers Youtube account, "members only" video, of a guy unboxing a blister pack of 3 pliers. One day the algorithm may relieve me of my money, but not today YouTube, not today.
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Rob L @robll.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Knight Mentaler
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026
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Del - Martian Observer @martian-observer.net · 29/08/2026
Here's what the original 'Buzz Lightyear' actor in Toy Story (1995) looks like now
A Halloween ornament / decoration looking like a very large and very orange very creased square-faced pumpkin smiling and winking - or possibly wincing (no one really knows) while staring out of his other, bulging, eye.
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃 🌑 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 29/08/2026
in case you’re not aware, this account @ politicsuk . com is owned by Reform counsellor Bailey Nash-Gardner. They claim that Politics UK is independently run day-to-day by a separate editorial team, but. More in link below.
Screenshot of Politics UK account page
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is apparently real
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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Chefs kiss
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026
The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan

@piersmorgan

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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.
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b3ta @b3ta.com · 26/08/2026
Artist: blugg b3ta.com/board/11430529 From the 'Modern Day Greek Myths' challenge b3ta.com/challenge/moderndaygreekmy… #ModernDayGreekMyths
An image made by blugg posted on B3ta, front paged by the moderators, and reposted on Bluesky by code automatically.
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As a small boy I was always fascinated by tumbleweed in Westerns. Can't believe my first real-life experience of it is in the urban badlands of central Birmingham 🥰
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Bloody Hollie @holliewhatever.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I don’t know who drives this car that’s in the parking lot at work today. I’m guessing a skeleton with a bow tie?
An old timey car in the parking lot at work
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
These giant African rats sniff out tuberculosis in 3 seconds flat, work microscopes take a full day to do. APOPO's HeroRATs are already saving lives across Africa and Asia.
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 21/08/2026
Just seen a BBC video referring to chiropractors as regulated healthcare professionals. Having made up training to partake in your dangerous made up magic therapy doesn't make you a healthcare professional ...
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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Tell me they didn't just steal this off the set of 1980s Doctor Who. Actually, this is a wellness gadget worth US$18,000. 😳🙄
A mix between a laboratory vortex mixer or PCR machine and the time vortex from the TARDIS on Doctor Who.
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
No. Oprah became a billionaire spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories over 25 years that helped lay the early groundwork for MAHA. I don’t care if she didn’t realize it at the time, and we have reason to believe she didn’t believe all of it.
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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Chinese peeps: Can anyone point me to a reliable audio pronunciation of the last name "Xie" for someone who's from Hangzhou?
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'm in a Teams messaging group at work. The lead manager in the group has been rushed into hospital with appendicitis this morning. He hasn't stopped typing; chasing up reports, answering emails, delegating work etc, all from hospital. This behaviour is ridiculous and shouldn't be normalised.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Infuriating watching fake news media call her Trump’s “diaper nurse.” She’s an accredited Diarrhea Doula.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Algorithm is genuinely now suggesting I might want to buy *another* engraved memorial stone for a close family member, implying whatever it was is hopefully contagious, for the good of the digital economy.
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Pot Shop Boo @potshopboy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Oh dear. It seems I've upset someone I don't know again by enjoying something they dislike.
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Warbling @warblin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Just found out some wildfires in Germany are exploding ... "As the wildfire swept through the dry undergrowth, the extreme heat caused hidden, decades-old bombs and ammunition buried 1 to 2 metres deep to cook off and detonate" Just to add to the apocalyptic aura.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday is dead. The UK media won’t learn a thing from this. Because they’re racist bastards. He has two children.
PROF GONE Jason Arday 'found dead after being found unresponsive at home' following Cambridge plagiarism scandal
Bruno Brown, Reporter


Published: 20:04, 14 Aug 2026 | Updated: 20:14, 14 Aug 2026

picture: Jason Arday a black man with long hair
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Many years ago, when I first started writing for The Dark Side (Britain's oldest horror mag) we had a bit of a friendly pub quiz rivalry with Empire magazine for a while. We kept losing though. Until one week we discovered a secret weapon. /1
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