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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 4h

Can't believe I've once again been passed over for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the piddling technical grounds of "never having actually written a book"

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Proud ‘n short @proudnshort.bsky.social · 6h

You know what I love most about this picture?? The range of wonderful people. That’s my London, that’s my greens, that’s why, secretly inside me, no matter where I live, London is always home. The very best of luck tonight @zackpolanski.bsky.social , for you have the best of people behind you

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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 10h

Report from the frontlines of the Holborn & St Pancras byelection: the Greens are still out knocking doors, while the Labour activists have gone to the pub

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 15h

Oct 8th 1984 - After catching their first ghost at the Sedgewick Hotel, business quickly picks up for the Ghostbusters with more paranormal sightings. On Oct 8th they were featured on the front page of USA Today. 📽️📅 Ghostbusters (1984)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Ghostbusters" (1984): First, the Ghostbusters, wearing their iconic uniforms with proton packs, stand in a lavish hotel interior, engaging in a serious discussion with a man in a suit. Second, a woman with curly hair sits in a living room, watching a news broadcast about the Ghostbusters on an old-fashioned TV, with a cityscape visible through the window blinds. Third, a newspaper headline "Ghost Fever Grips New York" features an image of the Ghostbusters team.

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Tom Sykes @tgcsykes.bsky.social · 16h

I don't know about you but it's enjoying these kinds of rights and freedoms in this country that really makes me want to fight and die in an unwinnable nuclear war against Russia, China or anywhere else where they censor people who disagree with their elites.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19h

*The fucking Guardian* is now printing columns by fash crank Israel partisans demanding that the government Take Swift Action against protestors, Muslims and migrants, as an urgent defence of national security.

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

holy shit this might be one of the most offensive cartoons i've ever seen

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 07/10/2026

The Italians won’t tell you this, but this is how you do a truly great carbonara

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Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My non-Blueskying wife has been following this conversation and adds this contribution:

An old yarn advert, dating from the 40s or 50s. "I've robbed the rainbow - to make you GAY", thr jester representing Jester Wolls (for gayer garments) is saying to a confused-looking woman in a blue knitted dress, as he unravels a rainbow into balls of wool.

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 09/03/2025

…🤔 Your belly button is just your old mouth. …🙃

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You know what? I’m feeling generous today. This is Chapter 13 of Space Opera, justifying why in the world sentience would be determined via an interstellar battle of the bands.

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Ben JJ @benjjgeo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Greens don't get an alloted slot of media attention that they can choose to fill how they want. If they do something "bad" the media splash it everywhere. If they do something good, the media ignore it.

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This isn't even in the menu at this cafe, so as best I can tell, he ordered it specially and is now angry with the restaurant for his own choices.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Once again, the framing on this sort of stuff is so poor: a) the Labour right have already made clear they’d rather disembowel themselves than share power w the left b) if compromise is impossible, why should the Greens agree to a coalition with the party of genocide support and legitimate concerns?

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Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

OPPOSING GENOCIDE MAKES ZIONISTS FEEL UNSAFE

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Darren Mark Skilton @darrenmarkskilton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So the Greens aren't pandering to the 'genocide doesn't bother me vote.' Good on 'em 💚

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

1. I myself proposed a plan to Frank, without anyone else involved, for this evening with dinner. It was a long and very positive conversation. 2. I know how much he loves dinner and the weight he carries in the world, and even more so, the weight he has had on my lap for 5 consecutive years.

Frank, a handsome tabby cat, on top of thr wardrobe

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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd is currently being enthusiastically dunked on by western Discourse Guardians for the supposed incoherence of this post & I gotta say the irony metre jst exploded cos Mohammed wrote an entire book addressing exactly the rhetorical policing of Palestinian resistance

Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdk.. 1d

Your definition of Zionism does not matter. Nor does mine. Zionism is defined by its material manifestations. The purpose of a system is what it does. And the Zionist system does racism and genocide. Simple. Please spare me the arrogant insufferable graaating Oxbridge debates. Your opinions are irrelevant. People are dying.

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cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social @cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The press and broadcast media are never gonna let Greens win If the party doesn't work out a way to sidestep them, it's doomed anyhow. Might as well have an open discussion about the true nature of zionism in the meantime.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cats are a community resource

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lads. I've found the absolute zenith of AI slop meets poppy fetish. Which is your favourite way of remembering the events of the war to end all wars? sewmuchclothes.com/collections/...

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reading the news, it would be easy to believe that the Green Party has adopted a policy to expel its Jewish members, prevent them from attending synagogue or at the very least scrutinise their activities outside the party. *None of that has happened* 🧵

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s so funny to imagine what the UK could be like if it took seriously any of its cultural icons—that aren’t wizards, Shakespeare, or in possession of good fortune but in want of a wife. We could have Tyranid statues at Heathrow. Perhaps a grisly frieze depicting Servitor conversion at Gatwick.

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Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Labour do NOT understand how strongly people feel about Palestine and how many people joined the Greens as single issue voters about it. yes, a lot of people are not having academic-grade discourse about what Zionism is; they just want the horrible genocide unfolding in front of us to be stopped

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is truly so crazy to me that anyone sees trans people as a threat to their gender identity rather than as a welcome and exciting expansion to it. My life and relationship to my own gender are only enriched by knowing trans women and being in conversation with them about this whole “woman” thing

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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Different jurisdiction of course, but I recently had to contact the NUJ about AI slop and they confirmed this is potentially defamatory over here, among other legal issues

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many

Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Put it this way: if the Greens, Kneecap and Gary Lineker are prompting enraged all-channels screaming fury but e.g. an army seizing, depopulating and ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon of its racially undesirable populace doesn’t make anyone blink, then I am going to conclude - bullshit

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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Jeffrey Archer's only worthwhile contribution to culture was inspiring the Araucaria cryptic crossword clue "Poetical scene with surprisingly chaste Lord Archer vegetating (3, 3, 8, 12)"

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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Again, let's just stop & remember that age-based legal restrictions on access to social media/online services are a bad idea & infringe the rights of young people to speak, access information and arts & culture, find community and play. Then look at the madness involved in trying to make them work.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 04/10/2026

Tiffany Sloan is a joke stealing AI generated stand-up comedian that has amassed a following of 350K users on Instagram. AI is supposed to transform the world and it's doing it in the worst and dumbest possible ways. buttondown.com/natebowling/...

buttondown.com

The Joke Thief

The AI Powered Joke Thief (or Fine, Somebody Wants This)

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

If you read the list of ingredients for barbeque flavouring for crisps it will mostly be exactly these ingredients!

It is possible to buy crisps that are not ultra-processed, when the ingredient list simply reads “potatoes, oil, salt”. But if you want a flavour other than plain salt, such as barbecue or salt and vinegar, you run into ingredients that are markers of UPF including colourings and flavourings. I wanted to see if it was possible to recreate those chip flavours at home.

I thinly sliced two potatoes, soaked them in water to remove the starch, then patted them dry and placed them on a baking tray in a single layer. I sprayed them with oil and sprinkled on some seasoning mixture before baking. I tried to make a barbecue flavour using smoked paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, brown sugar, and salt. For salt and vinegar chips, I used vinegar powder and salt.

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David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

None of the claims made here are true, but that's beside the point. What matters is the suggestion that certain people should not be subject to purity tests, while others should. For example, raise Palestine and you will be asked if you think Israel has the right to exist.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It seems unlikely that a BBC editor who e.g. made a film that “accidentally” accused Tory staff of screaming “Hitler was right” at colleagues and later quietly clarified this wasn’t correct, in an election year, would ever work in current affairs again.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/10/2026

no....no!!!!!

lowly worm is now driving the trolley problem trolley :(

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pubs should have an additional charge for how long it takes to make a drink. Pint, no charge. Complicated cocktail, 20% price increase. Coffee, 50% price increase, 85% if it's busy.

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Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

I've been on the internet so long, I've paid for eBay purchases with a cheque

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Danger Tum World Cup. You start out small, with a good-natured fluffy housecat where the tum is not a trap, and go up the levels until you reach a bad-tempered tiger. Points awarded for the volume of purring extracted and lacerations avoided.

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M. Derbecker @mderbecker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Seen just now on the Montreal metro. She was very soft.

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