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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 1h

Just for fun and your knowledge, I'm going to be running a history of queer romance course next year through the Uni of Liverpool. Online and for everyone. I *think* it's the first of it's type in the UK but I could be wrong?

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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 3h

coroner: it appears the subject died of multiple tab wounds

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6h

Philadelphia held its first parallel parking championship over the weekend www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 13h

I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions

Jeffrey Archer, former
Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Publisher says author died peacefully at home
'between writing sessions'

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Helen Damnation @helendamnation.bsky.social · 7h

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

quote from rolling stone article
"After Parton died, Seaver purportedly wrote in another message: “I just sold 29 million dollars worth of ammo to Haiti. I’m not exactly a media person, Danny. I’m literally an international arms dealer and mercenary.” '

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 23h

For 'professional' reasons, I am a member of lots of small town Facebook groups. This bloke has been appearing in towns across Sussex (Horsham, Redhill, Crawley, East Grinstead) with no apparent explanation. This is precisely why I stay subscribed to these groups.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 14h

You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.

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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 21h

Well, this is terrifying. 'Cause anything that says my work has any ai on it is, mistaken, to put it lightly.

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Helen Damnation @helendamnation.bsky.social · 23h

if a poem's not meant to be read out loud whats the fucking point of it at all?

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026

it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA

theguardian.com

Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

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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!

forbes.com

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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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

chat is this good

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A customer just tried to use an employee discount code that ChatGPT gave her. I work at a high-end clothing store and clocked in to my manager telling me about the most unhinged interaction from yesterday. A woman walked in asking if she could use a 40% off code she got online. We don't have any sales running, so my manager looks at the screen and realizes ChatGPT straight up handed this woman a real employee's internal ID number.

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Helen Damnation @helendamnation.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

someone in this train carriage smells incredible. jesus christ.

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Helen Damnation @helendamnation.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

no for me for the same reason im glad hannibal and will didnt smooch (i want them monsters not men)

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

adding '5 British doggers' to the list of surprising defeats for the US military, alongside the IRGC, Viet Cong, and geography

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“If you make the least damn bit of noise,” replied Samuel, “I will send you to hell.”

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today, Oct 4, is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi: the day when you can bring your pets to church for a blessing.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The good men, the friends and lovers even, say to me later "well why didn't you just tell that creep off" as though I wouldn't be accused of starting shit, as though they'd stand up for me and not interrogate me to make the creep comfortable instead. Experience tells me most men will do the latter.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What did Ta Nehisi Coates say? He said: people who do not draw a line at genocide, will not draw a line at democracy. And the British political/media class already demonstrated they will gladly fuck everyone and wreck everything if pushed, when they forcefully shoved Boris Johnson into Number Ten.

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Helen Damnation @helendamnation.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

just had someone open their car door into my leg so hard they nearly wiped me out.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good. Juries are important, not so much for the decisions they make, but for the decisions they prevent others form being able to make. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/oct...

theguardian.com

Ministers drop plans to cut jury trials in England and Wales after outcry

Critics say scrapping of plans, which aimed to increase judge-alone trials to deliver swifter justice, leaves court system and victims vulnerable

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Be under no illusion: this is a significant victory for everyone who stuck their neck out and defended jury trials, day after day, clause by clause. But it is not a comprehensive victory. Magistrates should not be allowed to send people to prison for two years.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

thank you to @mgiraldi.bsky.social, who pointed me to the insta acct for the photographer (www.instagram.com/kevinlohmanp...). the story and the other two photos are 24k gold.

kevinlohmanphotography
Santa Cruz, California
Are You Kidding Me?
Can this Great Horned Owl's eyes get any bigger?
I'm excited that my photo "Are You Kidding Me?" was selected as one of just 43 finalists in the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, from more than 10,000 entries representing 112 countries!
The story behind it is just as crazy. I was photographing this seven-week-old owlet when a squirrel suddenly launched from a nearby branch and landed directly on its head, knocking both of them out of the tree.
And believe it or not, a squirrel knocked this same owlet out of the tree THREE TIMES that morning! Fortunately, the owlet was fine and eventually settled down next to its mother.

(photo depicts a squirrel in mid-flight from a tree branch, apparently about to attack an owl who has the most "are you fucking KIDDING me" look in history)

second photo showing the squirrel in question making contact with the owl like the lil furry-tailed (if short-sighted) badass he is

third photo showing the squirrel in question making contact with the owl like the lil furry-tailed (if short-sighted) badass he is

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Helen Damnation @helendamnation.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ooooh the vourdalaks on film four tonight

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The family cat on Christmas morning before everyone has cleaned up the wrapping

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Helen Damnation @helendamnation.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"a little bit of crime" "the chain broke" swerve, they will never make me hate you

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Helen Damnation @helendamnation.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

someone got into the maze and got lost and people were trying to guide them out by shouting before it got too dark to see. such a beautiful evening.

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Oblique Strategies @obliquestrategies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Destroy -nothing -the most important thing

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Helen Damnation @helendamnation.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the only thing more amusing to me than centre pull yarn balls is when you pull too much out and have to stuff it back in

ball of blue and gold flecked yarn with a gape at the end and a strand of yarn coming from the midfle of it

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.

Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland is attacked by rogue owl during chaotic photoshoot.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 02/10/2026

You know, I'm beginning to think positioning ourselves as the world's shopping centre might not have been the best idea.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the reasons Dracula works and is good is cause it’s about every single middle-class British neurosis and paranoia AT ONCE

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Helen Damnation @helendamnation.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ngl i've got so much wrestling to catch up on and my heart just hasn't been in it at all. just too much sadness so close together.

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Helen Damnation @helendamnation.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i go shopping with my mum so she has someone to push the trolley for her, but god she needs to start behaving better in shops.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026

Butterbutt. An older comic.

A four-panel comic titled "yellow-rumped warbler poem". In panel 1, a yellow-rumped warbler stands on a branch in a late autumn scene, and says "Fall is here." In panel 2, the warbler watches a brown leaf fall to the ground, and says "Winter's near." In panel 3, the warbler faces the viewer as brown leaves fall, and says "Need some cheer?" In panel 4, the warbler is showing its luminous yellow rump, and cheerfully says "See my rear."

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.

Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ET

As the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"BRITAIN BECOMES DUMP FOR THE NAXI EXILES. Scores of Jews and other exiles are being smuggled into England in small foreign ships, for £25 a time." Daily Mirror, 1938. Sound familiar?

Headline: Britain becomes dump for the Nazi exiles

SCORES of Jews and other exiles, abandoning their homes in the Nazi terror, are being smuggled into England by the captains of small foreign ships who slink inside the three-mile limit at night and put ashore their human cargoes for £25 a time.
This smuggling, once sporadic, is now a racket earning thousands of pounds weekly for captains of French, Dutch and Belgian trawlers.
It was exposed entirely at Hove, yesterday when two foreign seamen were gaoled for smuggling a German in at Shoreham harbour last Monday.
Britain's immigration officers are helpless. They know that Hitler is dumping his unwanted people here. They cannot stop other Mid-European Governments seizing on Britain's lethargy to lower their own unemployment figures.
Every day refugee Spaniards, Jews, Ger mans and Austrians are slipping into Britain Employment agencies are inundated by fran-tic appeals from foreigners who, scared by European unrest, want British security.

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

YOU ARE A VICTIM OF THE RULES YOU LIVE BY

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Lætus @bajamothblast.vanadiel.network · 02/10/2024

now that it's october im legally allowed to post this

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