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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When I was a lad I used to be afraid of Moira Stewart. Used to hide behind the settee when she was on.
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
School photos must be one of the last great rip-offs in the digital age. Eighteen quid for four 4x6 photos that you could print out in Boots or Tesco for less than 20p each! Plus, who has an optical drive these days to pop a CD into?
Price sheet showing, inter alia, four 6x4 photos for £18, three 7x5 for £24 etc.
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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter
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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 04/10/2026
Nice! Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, was launched 69 years ago today.
Sputnik 1
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Me and my grunge friends would’ve killed A.I. with hammers I can tell you that much
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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nige @nigecube.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎶 Somewhere over the rainbow... 🎶
A pie on a set of weighing scales
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Rich Neville @richneville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Me and my friends would have killed it with hammers, I can tell you that much
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Cllr Brian Smyth @briansmyth99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wish the urgency and fight on both sides of the Garvaghy Rd row was the same around the demise of Lough Neagh. Sure, it's only our drinking water. Stormont couldn't care less.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every time a coworker mentions using an LLM for work, I take the rest of the day off. Why should I do the work if they're not going to?
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amos @fasterthanli.me · 27/09/2026
"grok" was such a good word. why'd he have to take it from us
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Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Chris Columbus will direct Gremlins 3, and it’s now heading to cinemas in 2028, a year later than planned. filmstories.co.uk/news/gremlin...
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Gremlins 3 | Release date moved, but it's definitely happening this time
Chris Columbus will direct Gremlins 3, and it's now heading to cinemas in 2028, a year later than planned.
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Colin J Donnelly @cjdonnelly72.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Spectacular Moon over Queens University tonight🌕
The Moon over Queens University Belfast.
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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
BABY DON'T HURT ME DON'T HURT ME NO MORE
steeple of the church at Dublin Airport with large lettering on the side reading GOD IS LOVE
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 26/09/2026
oh so hey the robot i built and programmed - and received over four million pounds for doing so - “broke containment” (killed an entire infant school). shame there was nothing that could have been done about that except maybe… giving me more money?
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
calling in sick to the kickflip factory and confusing everyone as to whether i'm coming in or not
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 26/09/2026
ai lawyer [addressing jury]: people said it was a mistake for my client to hire an ai lawyer, but I will prove that he’s innocent prosecution: objection! ai lawyer: i appreciate the pushback because you know what? i messed up. i ignored the evidence that he’s obviously guilty. the defence rests.
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anyway. Reminder that if you're a historian - particularly a postgrad - doing a research project your brainworms tell you only you care about... DM me. It's more interesting than you know. Talk to me. We can do a pod ep. It's all about framing. I hope those who've been on already would agree.
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Josh Foreman @josh-foreman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This tracks
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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
there has never been a “computer did it” defense. why is there one now.
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just seen Danny Tommo referred to as "Captain Thugwash" and seriously, that's excellent work.
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Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss
ALT: Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/09/2026
Free newsletter: I estimate that ~50% of AI chip sales - $200bn to $300bn+ - are sitting in warehouses, with NVIDIA selling hundreds of billions of GPUs years in advance. Data centers take way longer to build than hyperscalers are leading us to believe. www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the-ai-chips/
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
you ever realise you're living in an entirely different cultural landscape to most people, how the fuck does this have 15 seasons
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Putting fake signs on empty stores. Lol
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Don't work harder or smarter. Work darker. Use your knowledge of ancient magic to call upon the old gods. Turn all CEOs into newts & ferns. Cover all data centers in moss & wildflowers and let the raccoons have them. You deserve a rest.
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Mr John Robertson @robbotron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I regret to inform you I have written the whole poem. Ed Sheeran’s “The Raven” awaits you at www.facebook.com/johnrobertsoncomedy
A photo of some blurry text on a laptop screen, mostly the title “Ed Sheeran’s The Raven” is visible.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This video is quite something. (And to sum up Bart's analysis, the COLREGS very much start tapping their feet and saying they don't care WHO started it by the point it gets to this dangerous nonsense)
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johngirvin.bsky.social @johngirvin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Day off activities now include taking Boy to the GP and possibly hospital as he still can’t walk after doing a Rugby on Saturday.
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
wait, *what*???
Tales of the Unexpected is officially getting a reboot, with Toby Jones spotted filming in Saltburn-by-the-Sea. There are also some huge names confirmed for the new series, including Imelda Staunton
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Your feel-good story of the day: This 12-year-old kid who went viral at the 2021 Tour of Britain has signed for a Dutch grassroots club and development team that's a feeder partner of Team Visma-Lease a Bike (the team of the rider who gave him the bidon). www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/...
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 17/09/2026
Battlestar Galactica started 48 years ago today. 🫡
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The slide in today's Code Craft & AI workshop module that kills your agentic dreams.
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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Arguably the greatest song to be recorded 4 times by 3 iterations of a band under 3 different names and in 2 languages, and then remixed once before it reached number 2 (eventually scoring a number 1 when it was covered by my mate's little brother's band a decade and a half later)
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just seen a complaint that Blue Sky doesn't contain nearly enough silliness, so, y'know...
Royal Navy monitor HMS Marshal Ney. It's basically a hull, a spotting tower, and a honking great pair of 15" guns perched atop a tall cylindrical turret, the type of which usually has  fair maiden lowering her hair for a fairytale suitor, or at least a lad with a fetish for blondes who keep tripping over their ponytail. It's a deeply silly ship.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 17/09/2026
unsure if it's a me problem, a you problem or a little bit of both but christ Bluesky is feeling dour these days, every time I open the app I have to ready myself for 75 Very Serious Debates About Serious Issues, whatever happened to getting jiggy with it, don't make me spend more time on Instagram
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KM @sudox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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johngirvin.bsky.social @johngirvin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Another end of an era. My mum had to get a new front door lock today so the key I've had for about forty years now no longer works.
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026
True story.
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johngirvin.bsky.social @johngirvin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have a teenager now 😬👴🏻
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Kevin Perry: That Is So Unfair!
ALT: Kevin Perry: That Is So Unfair!
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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 15/09/2026
look at Voyager 1 over there bragging by putting in 49 years and then calling it a light day www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...
bbc.co.uk
Nasa's Voyager 1 approaches one light-day away from Earth
The spacecraft was launched nearly 50 years ago, and since then, has been moving away from our planet and further into space. Find out more here.
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Nic Boothby @nicboothby.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Anti-immigrant protesters have been directing abuse at the UK’s leading blind people’s charity, the RNIB, accusing it of helping small boat migrants after mistaking it for RNLI...
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Blindness charity targeted by anti-migrant protesters after being mistaken for RNLI
One person accused the blind people’s charity of ‘deliberately overfilling our great country with illegals’
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hallucinating AI robots wrote an article in one of the largest English papers in the world saying I quit writing to become a gardener. I did not! Instead, I wrote about them. Read on: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...
A fake AI generated article about me in the July 2026 Times of India. No i did not quit writing to become a gardener, as they claim!
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 15/09/2026
I'm so excited about this. I love ghosts, especially these mad ones. youtu.be/iLKGXt5JHKk?...
youtu.be
Ghosts: The Possession of Button House - Official Trailer
YouTube video by LionsgateFilmsUK
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Nathan Rabin @nathanrabin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm less than $ 250 away from reaching 50% funding for my 11th book and 2nd satirical novel, Maniac Pixie Dream Girl, with 17 days left. The next two weeks are generally a barren desert for backers, so every dollar is especially appreciated. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/n...
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Maniac Pixie Dream Girl
From Nathan Rabin, author of Weird Al: The Book (with Al Yankovic), former head writer of The A.V. Club, and the man who coined the phrase Manic Pixie Dream Girl, comes the ultimate parody of the trop...
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johngirvin.bsky.social @johngirvin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have survived to the end of another work day. Just ten more years to go.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anyone know why a newspaper owned by the Fourth Lord Rothermere, who inherited a fortune from the Third Lord Rothermere, who inherited his money from the Second Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the First Lord Rothermere, is so strongly opposed to inheritance tax?
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johngirvin.bsky.social @johngirvin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's curtains for Zoosha!
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