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Janeishly (she/her) @janeishly.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I've been on Bluesky since November 2023. I've enjoyed it. People used alt text, people agreed to disagree. Not any more. I've seen more hatred and abuse on here in the last few days than I ever saw at Twitter. I'm not staying for that. I'll keep my account, but I'm done with this platform.

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Janeishly (she/her) @janeishly.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I'm sorry to read this opinion. Until a few weeks ago Bluesky felt like a pleasant place, where you could express opinions that others might disagree with but still have a respectful conversation (exactly what you're saying about anti-vaxers, in fact!). But now it's become as toxic as Twitter.

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Aubrey Wood - BANG BANG BODHISATTVA paperback and audio out now! @briewoodfiction.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

this is seeing a little bump of shares wtf. buy my fucken book

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Apparently it’s world introvert day which is basically my Christmas Day. I’m giving myself the present of a solo stroll. Here’s my illustration of another solo walker…The Visitor from The Signal Man by Charles Dickens. Enjoy your day fellow introverts 👊🏻

A black crosshatched pen and rolled ink on white paper illustration of a man out walking in the countryside. He wears a long coat and bowler hat, he stands on a gently sloping hillside, leafless trees either side of him. An eerie foggy glow behind him as the last light of the setting sun makes him and the trees a silhouette on the hill. Spooky and atmospheric.

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Fellow human artists, please spare a few moments 👇

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 370 Kalendis Ianuariis, mures temptant deambulare (On the first of January, the mice try to go for a walk). Minimus manum Silvii tenaciter prendit, ne ventus filium auferat. (Minimus holds Silvius' paw tightly, in case the wind carries his son away).

Photo of Minimus and Silvius, the Latin mice, on a windy first day of the year. Silvius' little feet have left the ground, but Minimus is keeping him safe.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Daily bunny no.2822 knowss all their neighbors

A bunny arrives at a row of ramshackle buildings along a canal in a city. They are inhabited by some friendly-looking birds, rats and other bunnies. In the background a tram goes by, and behind it a clocktower is visible from one of the wealthier parts of town.

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Janeishly (she/her) @janeishly.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Unsubscribe from Netflix, unsubscribe from Spotify, do not comply with their insistence that you consume only slop.

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Janeishly (she/her) @janeishly.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Maybe too slow, but they've come out beautifully exactly because of that, so...

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

From today, Paris t+ metro/RER/bus tickets exist no more, no more carnets of 10 either. Metro/RER tickets now €2.50, good for the whole ile de France area with a few exceptions (e.g. airport links). No longer valid on buses, a bus/tram ticket is €2. www.seat61.com/changing-sta...

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How to change trains & station in Paris by metro or taxi

A quick guide to changing trains & stations in Paris using the metro or RER or a taxi, from Paris Gare du Nord to Paris Gare de Lyon, Gare d'Austerlitz, Gare Montparnasse, Gare de l'Est and Gare de Be...

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🍂Violet Vanguard🍂 @violetvanguard.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Copied (with permission) from a discworld group I’m in if anyone can help even if it’s just a share

Hogfather million to one chance search

Hi everyone, this is a huge longshot but wondering if any of you lovely folk might be able to help. My partner just told me that her dad (who sadly died more than 20 years ago) gave her a hardback copy of Hogfather, but it got lost in one of her moves not long after he died.

I doubt we'd ever find it, but it would be an amazing New Year miracle if we could discover it and I could buy it back if it's still out there. It's signed in the front cover "To Anthea" and probably says from Dad or similar.

Like I say, it's a million to one chance...

Thanks for reading.

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Janeishly (she/her) @janeishly.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I've never even heard of LFGSS, which sounds like an amazing community, but it's quite obvious how this is all going to go for small online groups generally and why it's a fucking stupid idea. www.lfgss.com/conversation...

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LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced) | LFGSS

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Janeishly (she/her) @janeishly.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

You see, this is when I remember all the great music I heard during the year. How could I not have mentioned Julie Christmas?

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zaphmann.bsky.social @zaphmann.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

My 2024 Video of the year: IDLES Rock Out To Hey Duggee's 'Stick Song' | CBeebies youtu.be/_aY2a9uB-p8?...

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IDLES Rock Out To Hey Duggee's 'Stick Song' | CBeebies

YouTube video by CBeebies

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Janeishly (she/her) @janeishly.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Ha, I wonder where you heard about that?

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Janeishly (she/her) @janeishly.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

British people - have a look at this thread, and then tell me you're not thinking of leaving Bluesky too? It's full of America-is-the-only-country types, old shouty people, mansplainers, and the too ignorant to realise they're ignorant.

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 369 mures omnibus amicis "annum novum faustum felicem" optant (The mice wish all their friends a happy and prosperous New Year)!

Photo of Minimus, Minima and Silvius, the Latin mice, standing on a shiny plate among gold and silver pinecones.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Daily bunny no.2821 has survived another year

Bunnies depict the end of the Anime "Mobile Suit Gundam". One lone bunny in a spacesuit drifts in space towards a small space vessel. Other bunnies, his crewmates, all happily come out to greet him, arms outstretched.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

23) Mufflebots. These paired robots automatically find your pet on a predetermined date and protect their precious ears from loud fireworks and other alarming noises. #SmallRobotsRemastered

A pair of robots in the form of earmuffs - each round disc that fits over the ears is an individual robot, with a smiling face and little legs on the bottom. They are connected by a arched hoop, and the robot in the front has a two-penal read out towards the top of its front surface that reads "5" and "11", in classic 'seven-segment' digital display font. Both robots face the same way, curiously, so that the rear robot's face would actually be pressed against the wearer's ear. Presumably this is to ensure they walk in the same direction.

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Janeishly (she/her) @janeishly.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I'm an immigrant, and I must say he does have the kind of face you'd want to punch. Hardly unprovoked though.

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 31/12/2024

As we descend into 2025, remember: * Western governments are terrified of collective action and don't know how to deal with it * Join a Union * For every billionaire there are millions of potential Luigis * They're literally killing us and the planet we all live on and they must be stopped

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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

🕊️❤️‍🔥

No Explosions
Naomi Shihab Nye

To enjoy
fireworks
you would have
to have lived
a different kind
of life

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Daily bunny no.2820 has an abundance of caution

A family of bunnies is going mushroom gathering. One of them stumbles upon a ring of rare mushrooms, and gestures excitedly at their find. The second bunny, with one eyebrow raised, flips through their mushroom identification book incredulously. The rare mushrooms look extremely suspicious, and are colored a sickly purple and green.

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Who wants a free printable Minimus (and family) calendar for MMXXV? Find one here: www.minimuslatin.co.uk/fun-stuff.html #2025calendar

Photo of Minimus, Minima and Silvius, the Latin mice, in a rowing boat. The text above reads "fasti familiares Minimi anno MMXXV" which means, the family calendar of Minimus 2025

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Boo'dbeard 👻 @badbeard.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Hey everyone, here's Sushi! #ProofOfCat

A ginger tom cat gazes up at me from his radiator basket tube.

The same cat sleeps fitfully in the tube. His head rested on his paws.

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

My Genre Grapevine report on "AI and the Enshittification of Life" is out. I spent a year wading through the slop of generative artificial intelligence to show what happened with the programs in 2024, how they affect artists and writers, and where we go from here. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/ai-and...

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AI and the Enshittification of Life, or My Year Wading Through the Slop of Generative Artificial Intelligence | Jason Sanford

Get more from Jason Sanford on Patreon

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Dr Rehaminator's Monster Cock @drrehaminator.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

For those of you that don't want to donate to individual GoFundMe campaigns for Palestinians that are suffering a genocide in real-time, because you'd rather donate to a "credible" cause, this Sunday you can put your money where your mouth is. I'll be raising money for the PCRF

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Janeishly (she/her) @janeishly.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Me: carefully chooses wines for both Christmas and New Year that aren't overtly oaky Systembolaget: neglects to mention the overwhelming fake flavour of oak in both I'm so fucking sick of this stupid monopoly and their *terrible* taste in wine.

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Janeishly (she/her) @janeishly.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Here's a thought for 2025: Let's stop kidding ourselves that governments are just misguided. They know how to fix the environment, the wars, the inequalities. They simply don't want to.

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Janeishly (she/her) @janeishly.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Like I say, self-esteem problems. If you'd rather talk to a machine than try to work out what's going on in your actual conversations, the problem is not the "pretty girl".

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Waltham Forest Archives @lbwfarchives.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Snow at Chingford Old Church. Waltham Forest in Winter. 📷 VHM photo collection, available in our Searchroom. #chingford #walthamforest

Photograph, late 19th century. A low fence divides the foreground from near left to middle right. Snow covers the road in front of the fence, and the ground of the churchyard behind. Chingford Old Church is in rear centre, the church tower on the left, and the church roof covered in snow.

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Janeishly (she/her) @janeishly.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Yeah, I'm utterly baffled by why anyone would waste their own actual time on chatting to a bot. Self-esteem problems much?

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Janeishly (she/her) @janeishly.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I feel like "Because it had the right amount of tits" says an awful lot about our society right now, if you substitute "exciting claims to be the future" for the word "tits".

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Janeishly (she/her) @janeishly.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

"if all technology is just magic we don’t yet understand, then any old bollocks can be marketed as technology"

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Hopes for 2025 include - realisation that many of those speaking out against what is happening in Gaza have the same values as those who spoke up in 1930s while governments did very little or indeed profited from dehumanisation and murder

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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I wouldn’t turn down an honour. I’d go along and when the king got his sword out I’d produce one from under my skirt and fight him.

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soOolient 🎃 @solient.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Writing, drawing, and other types of creation are how many of us try to communicate with the world. Telling us you've enjoyed our thing is the only for-sure way we know the transmission has been received.

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 368 sol breviter lucet (The sun is shining for a short while). Silvius in grumulo stat et simulat se talpa esse - sed manus nimium parvae sunt! (Silvius stands on a molehill and pretends to be a mole - but his hands are too small!)

Photo of Silvius, the little Latin mouse, on top of a crumbly molehill in bright afternoon sunshine.

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Matt Pogue @kyloson.com · 30/12/2024

Good morning BSky fam! This morning's "Profiles in Idiocy" is an easy one - futurism.com/the-byte/fac.... They're just fscking with us now. Why in the hell would you buy ad space on a platform filled with AI bots *they* created? There's only one right answer to that question.

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Facebook Planning to Flood Platform with AI-Powered Users

Meta says it envisions Facebook as being filled with AI generated characters that exist on the platform the same way as human users do.

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Janeishly (she/her) @janeishly.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I think that on the whole, I've had enough of things I hate but can't change being rammed down my throat by total strangers. I feel like, for me, 2025 should probably be the first year without any social media. I could spend that time more usefully doing something else. Anything else, really.

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Tracey No™️ @traceyno.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Quick things, ranked Usain Bolt < Cheetah < Light in a vacuum < Wikipedia changing all the is’s to was’s when someone dies

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Andrew Kinsey @andrewkinsey.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Arguably one of Jimmy Carter's greatest achievement is bringing the world to the brink of eradicating the Guinea Worm. From 3.5m cases a year in the 80s to less than 15 the last few years. It's an astounding public health achievement.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Daily bunny no.2818 meets the family upstairs

A bunny at the top of a flight of stairs investigates a room full of old-fashioned memorabilia, coins and books strewn about the floor. A family of mice, who call this room their home, eye him cautiously.

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 367 Silvius in abiete festivā insidet et militem Romanum inspicit (Silvius is perched in a festive fir, inspecting a Roman soldier). musculus ei stridet, sed miles tacet. (The little mouse squeaks to him, but the soldier is silent)

Photo of Silvius, the little Latin mouse, sitting on a Christmas tree twig and trying to have a conversation with an embroidered Roman soldier ornament.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Daily bunny no.2819 enjoys their humble abode

A bunny sits atop their ramshackle, one-room treehouse, contentedly smoking a pipe. The treehouse is the only structure or tree in the area, in the middle of an empty field.

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