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Mr. Sure

@mrsure.bsky.social
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Very occasionally makes music: soundcloud.com/mistersure Otherwise you'll sometimes see me post music, art, book recommendations, things of this nature . He/him 🏳️‍🌈

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404 Media @404media.co · 16/07/2026
Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Media.
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How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars
Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Media.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/08/2025
Here's a bonus ep of Better Offline. I report on how OpenAI’s new "router-based" ChatGPT-5 makes it impossible for OpenAI to cache the static prompt for any model or tool it uses every single prompt, doubling token burn for mediocre gains. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline
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Exclusive: How GPT-5 Actually Works
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 08/22/2025 · 29m
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Deke Fanboy (welcome back lad!) @sjbrewer.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
That Kudus touch in slowmo
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
If you need more ideas on how to explain to a TD (who may get their secretary to print out emails and then handwrites the replies in fountain pen) why this is a bad idea, I have a few extra ones here (no paywall) www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-b...
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The Gist: A Bad State of Affairs
This week, the talk has been about empowering the state. This is the Gist.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Please read this piece by the irreplaceable Olga Cronin explaining why the Government’s plans to legislate to break encryption are a Bad Idea, and then explain it by email (good), phone call (better) or personal visit (amazing) to your local TDs. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Opinion: Letting gardaí access our WhatsApps and chats to investigate crime could backfire
Forcing companies to create access pathways would insert vulnerabilities that could be exploited
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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
"Bluesky is dying" Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.
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two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field .
ALT: two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field .
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Mr. Sure @mrsure.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I call your "creamery" and raise you my local cake/ice cream/cafe shop called RYM CAFE. I giggle every time I go past it. What possessed the owners to name it that...😅
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Really, very seriously, the UK tax & finance system is dedicated to preserving the advantages accrued to people who are already rich, at the expense of supporting everyone else to be merely, modestly, prosperous. It’s a foetid, stagnant system, one that a Labour Party should be ashamed to support.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
lol and may i add lmao
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Why are house prices so high?
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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Israel is now bombing my father’s hometown of Yazd, so in lieu of talking about how terrified and furious I am in this moment, let me tell you a little about Yazd. 🧵
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled. LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.
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Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
After the measles outbreak in Texas began, @iwriteok.bsky.social reached out and asked me if I'd be willing to do a special series for @coolzonemedia.bsky.social. Today, we released the first episode of Anti-Vax America, a five episode series that run this week. Enjoy. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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Anti-Vax America: Viral Texas - It Could Happen Here | iHeart
<p>The viral measles outbreak that began in West Texas has taken the lives of two children and one adult, and has reached over eight hundred cases, with thousands potentially exposed to the disease. T...
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Hypoautonomic, BS @hypoautonomic.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers. This thread will dive into its activity. 🧵 1/x.
The Alt National Park Service account.  887 thousand followers.
"The officla 'Resistance' team of the U.S. National Park Service.  Our Website:  www.ourparks.org
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
do not install any app from Facebook or Meta on any device. Ideally avoid installing ANY social media app. Login through a browser. I highly doubt Facebook is the only company pulling this shit www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-...
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“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.
You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Amms 💚 Green Party 💚 @ammsland.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Analyzed 30 years of UK trans media coverage across 12,000+ articles. Found coverage exploded after 2016, with public support dropping 18% as stories shifted from rights-based to threat-based narratives. Shows manufactured controversy, not grassroots concern.
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 10/06/2025
So grim to see in numbers
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Mr. Sure @mrsure.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Was wondering about this, definitely have felt that change watching recently published videos
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 10/05/2025
The Cass Review gets peer reviewed and absolutely shredded Cass is the Wakefield of our time. A scandal in broad daylight
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Mr. Sure @mrsure.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This is the dumbest take, we do absolutely not have to hand it to someone who did the absolute bear minimum
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
In 2022, Curtis Yarvin (Peter Thiel’s “in-house philosopher”) wrote that, “it is Russia’s fate to again to restore order in Europe,” but “Trump needs to let Putin really know it’s okay to do it.” Yarvin added: “There is only one way to send this message unequivocally: withdraw from Europe.” 1/
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This "debate" about who should use what toilet doesn’t benefit anyone. It doesn’t fix the underfunding of women's refuges, NHS waiting lists leaving women in terrible pain, mums skipping meals to feed their kids. How about we get on with tackling the real issues affecting women?
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Handy variety of blocklists here for accounts that are follow-farming, where you can block by selecting the threshold for the number of accounts they're following.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 04/02/2024
The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?
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Mr. Sure @mrsure.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
An excellent article to explain the madness of last week's ruling
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
New Gist: Trans rights are Data rights An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act. (Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin) www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
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The Gist: Trans rights are Data rights
A UK court has made a decision defining genders which has put it at odds with a less noticed, more important, decision from the CJEU. This is the Gist.
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Sequaia @sequaia.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Incredibly good. Its longish, but I really recommend reading.
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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
Death knows I never age but every time I google a slang term he slides one bead over.
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Section 28 didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from a society where 75% thought homosexuality was wrong. From a society that feared the sight of a man in drag would corrupt. From a society that believed ignorance was better for children than any knowledge of gay lives. 🧵 1/16
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Mr. Sure @mrsure.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Fetch me my blood boy!
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ms. ceej wolf @wolfears.net · 11/11/2024
some free goodies for you. i sampled my Casio PT-50 synth’s drums and chords. you can tip if you’d like as well. all WAV files, plug-and-play, optimized for loops. drum samples: ihavewolfears.gumroad.com/l/we50pack chord samples: ihavewolfears.gumroad.com/l/we50chordp...
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electronic drum sample pack
16 drum loops
16 fill-insWOLFEARS
WE-50 vol. 2
casio chord sample pack
major, minor, diminished, sus 4, minor 6th, 6th, major 7th, minor 7th, dominant 7th

108 chord variations
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Gareth Southwell @garethsouthwell.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin". www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Human art for human stories
Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao as teenagers sitting on the curb in front of a basketball court. They look at each other as Aran ties his shoes. Both a peach soda drink in front of them and there is one basketball in front of Aran. In the back we see two guys play at the basketball court. City houses, a subway override with a train passing and the city skyline in the back. It’s a warm early summer evening, sun still out, and the colors are warm and soft. Digital art of original character Aran who sits depressed in his bedroom on the floor in front of his bed. He’s surrounded by unpacked moving boxes, and his black cat who tries to comfort him. The room and colors are darker and muted but there shines some bright red light from outside in and casts some light on Aran and the ground. Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao as adults, at night in their local nyc neighborhood, kissing.
Tao sits on his bike while Aran stands in front of him and slightly bends down to kiss him.
Behind them the street and some houses and a traffic light. Above a dark sky with some stars. It’s a hot night and they both wear shorts and shirts.Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao as young teenagers in their neighbors backyard. An older man, the neighbor, is with them, as they play around an old car that is hooked up for repair. Aran is all excited and looks at the open engine room while the man explains it to him. Tao sits in the roof of the old car playing with a basketball. The backyard is cluttered with some junk and car repair parts. Some smaller single family houses in the back. It’s a hot late summer day. The grass is already yellow. And the overall colors are warm and saturated.
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Grudging Signup @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I definitely lean toward the bullshit machines side for reasons cited right there in the introduction but I’m willing to read more and this free course looks super interesting!
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Mr. Sure @mrsure.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Asteroid whispers I to Reeves'ear: managed decline
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 05/02/2025
1/🧵 The Cass Review final report was quietly amended in December 2024, just before the permanent ban was announced, and it seems to have gone unnoticed. While most of the changes were minor and clerical, two of them were significant. Both changes relate to informed consent.
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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 08/01/2025
ok but what about five baby foxes playing in the snow, though, did you even consider that
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███ACTED @vicjager.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.
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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I use Google home for my shopping list and after all these years it still doesn't know what cornichons are. Fucking fridge getting the Cornish game hens in and gaslighting me about it.
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 03/01/2025
Someone on Reddit searched for (the non-existent) John Wick 5, and Google spared no expense to lie to them.
Massive Google slop that’s all fake.
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Mr. Sure @mrsure.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Digital asbestos is a great phrase to sum up this shower
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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
In news that will surprise no one, “the liquified natural gas (LNG) fuel … is less climate-friendly than previously claimed.”
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Glen Sannox: 'Green' ferry has higher emissions than diesel ship
One transport expert tells the BBC it might be better to run the new CalMac ferry on diesel.
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
me at 16: my stomach is an indomitable furnace on a steam engine anything I throw in there will be annihilated into fuel me at 38: I have to actively maintain the bacterial balance on my gut biome or I don't get to poop right
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David Lewis @davidclewis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Deeply unfortunate typo in this Guardian review of the Spurs v Man United game www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘Ten senior players were missing for this quarter-final, Timo Werner the latest to go down with illness on the day of the game, but Postecoglou was rimming with praise for his makeshift side.’
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