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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The meme from the Spider-Man film where Willem dafoe says I'm something of a scientist myself.
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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today marks a very special day in science fiction literature. May I present to you, "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury:
THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS
By Ray Bradbury

The computer house buzzed awake. “Good morning, everyone,” it said. 

Mr. Raynes woke up. He gave a big stretch. His wife was a robot and said “It’s a beautiful day today, my dear.”

“Yes, Mrs. Raynes” said he.

A program ran inside of her cybernetic brain, or “cy-brain”. It calculated the weather and other things.

“It may rain tonight, darling,” the robot mistress of the household said to her master.

He was scrolling through his phone, which was not just a telephonic device, but one with a video screen that could broadcast information from any corner of the earth. There was one application called, ironically, “Blue sky” he was looking at. 

“Goodness me,” he intoned, “today is a date of great import. I must be the first to virally post that a story about soft rains coming mentioned this very date!”

He continued to intone. “August 4, 2026. That is the date of today.”

“You will collect hundreds or maybe even … calculating, calculating … thousands of likes, my husband.”

“Oh, look,” he splurted out, walking to the window. A rain began to fall.

“Let us thank God the Father and Christ the Son at His right hand,” said his faithful electronic wife.

“In gratitude, Lord, we look to Thee as our protector. Guide us through dark times and fair. Lead us as a shepherd past the temptations of iniquity and sin, and shelter us your devoted from the wickedness of others until we may join Thee again at the Great Reunion in your kingdom of Heaven. Of Thee, this we pray. Amen,” said Mr. Raynes.

“Amen,” said his robot wife, whose “cy-brain” was connected to the computer house through a “wireless” information relay protocol.

They were both Episcopalian.
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CSketch @csketch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Oh my god I think I found the video.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 04/08/2026
#OtD 4 Aug 2011 Mark Duggan was shot and killed by the London Metropolitan police. In response, days of rioting broke out across the UK, in a British precursor to the #blacklivesmatter movement stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1040...
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This might sound elitist, but I don’t think the people liking the Peanuts slop posts should have rights
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 01/08/2026
#OtD 1 Aug 1993 Joy Gardner, a 40-year-old Jamaican woman, died in north London, a few days after police tried to deport her. They held her down and wrapped 13ft of surgical tape round her head, suffocating her stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8055...
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Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Erling Haaland if he played bass in Tame Impala
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: an old man lies in a hospice bed, glancing out the window as day breaks. There is a woman asleep on a small couch next to him. The man thinks to himself, “dang, that was stressful. Wouldn’t mind a chill one next time.” Panel 2: the cycle of death and rebirth continues on, represented by the samsara wheel of life, along with splash text which reads: REINCARNATE-O! Panel 3: a solitary duck swims peacefully along the water. It thinks to itself, “nice”
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
To get casual fans caught up, the new Avengers movie should start with all the characters doing a rap where they say who they are and what their deal is
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ceej @ceej.online · 26/07/2026
“The Bluesky Experience™”
ceej
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you have somehow made the exact point of my post, in a reply to my post, without having understood my post
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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz355bs
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"Do you feel good about yourself? Are you happy with your life?". No, and no. Are these supposed to be gotcha questions? They're super easy.
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No Backstories @nobackstories.com · 16/07/2026
But seriously, fuck England and the United Kingdom. Viva España.
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No Backstories @nobackstories.com · 16/07/2026
hoy me siento español!
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al-boo @captainacabairbud.myatproto.social · 14/07/2026
nice joke, lol, reminds me of this unrelated political thing i can’t stop talking about
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No Backstories @nobackstories.com · 07/07/2026
The Nazi Collabotation derby on the cards.
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No Backstories @nobackstories.com · 06/07/2026
CORRUPCIÓN
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 04/07/2026
"On paper, RED ROOMS is the ideal horror movie for a person like me, which is to say, a coward. It would be a misnomer to say Pascal Plante’s film has no violence though—it is violence, a bloodless film rich with blood."
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Red Rooms (2023): Seeing Is
On paper, Red Rooms is the ideal horror movie for a person like me, which is to say, a coward. It's a bloodless film that is rich with blood.
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Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"The atmosphere here is absolutely incredible. And here to ruin it is Lee Dixon"
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
.. and where is the arrest warrants for British far-right who flooded Belfast and incited the violence? Danny ‘Tommo’ Thomas was pictured metres away from this incident with masked men. Thomas was involved in travelling to France to export far-right violence too. [1/2]
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Expect this to be the story for the next few years at least: it’s not that politicians (and their media hangers-on) have been failing the public, or trying to impose their own unworkable desires, or that *they* are at fault. The problem is that the electorate are all greedy, self-centred pigs.
Matthew Syed • @matthewsy...• 22h
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Starmer was hated. Says far more about the electorate than the man. Impossible to govern when people want welfare, triple lock, tax loopholes, NIMBYist vetoes, while also hating the low growth, high debt economy this entails. Starmer was a good man leading an ungovernable country
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The most duplicitous UK politician in my lifetime.
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
We don't talk about Starmer as a narcissist because he's so boring and we expect narcissists to be flamboyant, but he absolutely is, and this is absolutely part of the script when a narcissist fails. 'How could you have failed me? Why didn't you work harder for me?'
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
So how did we get here, with Starmer on the way out after two years? To some extent, it does go back to the beginning. It was not an enthusiastic victory for Labour. Getting rid of the Tories was the top reason people voted for them in 2024, though with their message of 'Change' also resonating.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Vote Reform. Or we will house *dangerous migrant centres* in your village. And if you vote Green, it will be even worse for you. It's beyond disturbing. The chill wind of threat, thuggery and menace of a kind never before seen in Britain.
Today we announce a new policy:


In order to deport all illegal migrants in
Britain, Reform will need to detain tens of
thousands at a time.


Migrants will not be able to leave these
detention centres, and each will be held
there a couple of weeks before being
deported.


So here's our promise:


A Reform government will not put any
migrant detention facilities in any
constituency with a Reform MP.


Nor will we put them where Reform
controls the council.


And of the remaining areas, we will
prioritise Green controlled parliamentary
constituencies and Green controlled
councils to locate the detention centres.


Put simply, if you vote in a Reform
council or Reform MP, we guarantee yPut simply, if you vote in a Reform
council or Reform MP, we guarantee you
won't have a detention centre near you


If you vote Green, there's a good chance
you will,


This is an important exercise in
democratic consent, not just for our
mass deportation policy, but for where
the detention centres are placed


Given @ZackPolanski openly advocates
for open borders, I look forward to their
warm embrace of this policy
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No Backstories @nobackstories.com · 09/04/2026
so drunk i'm googling world's most expensive tic tac
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
It’s Toshiro Mifune’s birthday. Here he is drunkenly getting ready to shoot people but Lee Marvin stays cool as a cucumber for a very good reason.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Gentlemen, you can’t protest against the war here! There’s a war going on!
Shabana Mahmood MP ~
@ShabanaMahmood
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I have approved the Metropolitan Police's request to ban the Al Quds march.
I am satisfied doing so is necessary to prevent serious public disorder, due to the scale of the protest and multiple counter-protests, in the context of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
Should a stationary demonstration proceed, the police will be able to apply strict conditions.
I expect to see the full force of the law applied to anyone spreading hatred and division instead of exercising their right to peaceful protest.
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The great screenwriter Charlie Kaufman on art & AI www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Sure, but the problem here isn’t a failure of understanding: it’s that the people in charge are very cranky right wing reactionaries who despise those people, and would rather crash the bus again and again than ever seriously court their approval.
Morgan Jones @morganjOnes.bsk... • 36m
l've written about why Labour needs to update its understanding of the UK's political landscape - and get that there are many, many other places for voters to go, and some of them are preferable to others.
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No Backstories @nobackstories.com · 31/10/2025
"I’m not like normal white people. Ever since I was young, I knew." – Sean Penn (2025); me (2007).
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
What was it that attracted that rich guy - the one who offered a masseuse a free horse, in payment for a handjob - to buying a website where everyone was talking about elite sex criminals, then filling it with Nazis denouncing feminism as a plot to destroy civilisation? Perhaps we will never know.
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Arbeitology @arbeitology.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
When your average pink faced St George’s cape wearer says they’re “Christian“, they don’t actually mean they read the bible or go to any services - they just mean they’re “not Muslim“ 🤷🏻
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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The greatest minds in history are on the case
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No Backstories @nobackstories.com · 11/09/2025
A million pounds says this is Joaquin Phoenix.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 10/09/2025
Liberal politicians if you are so disturbed just pretend Charlie Kirk was a Palestinian child and you’ll get over it in no time
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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Drastic move from Mandelson but to be fair he is off the front page.
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No Backstories @nobackstories.com · 12/08/2025
If there are any young people listening, for goodness’ sake don’t spend £1,000 a day on crack. — Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling (1994)
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Gary From... Manchester Morgue! @killertunes.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Our little independent horror podcast is growing! We've been blessed so far to talk to the art director from Ghostwatch, Richard Drew and The Surrender director Julia Max. We've got another special guest coming soon - he directed a very scary movie when COVID first reared its head. Stay tuned!
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No Backstories @nobackstories.com · 07/08/2025
Few things I’ve thought of: 1. “He’s the Jackie Chan of racism.” 2. “This is Jackie Chan racism!” 3. “This racist is Jackie Chan.”
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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
In order to last maximally long in bed, I think in the moments prior to climax of the least erotic thing possible (children).
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I would rather die than create an account to continue
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Gary From... Manchester Morgue! @killertunes.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Good morning everybody, I hope you're having a great day. If you're looking for a horror movie podcast to listen to, don't forget our latest episode is up - a retrospective on 28 Days Later and madS (2024) as a companion piece. Check it out! #horrorsky #podcast episodes.fm/1802719820/e...
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Listen to from wherever you get your podcasts!
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No Backstories @nobackstories.com · 21/07/2025
spitting in all my housemate’s potted plants (for fun, not spite)
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Gary From... Manchester Morgue! @killertunes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Good morning, friends. If you'd like some light reading, head over to the new blog where our Ken has gone and done a review of 28 Years Later! livefrommanchestermorgue.blogspot.com/2025/07/28-y...
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28 Years Later - film review (spoilers)
2025 was the year when giant zombie penises, Jimmy Saville, and the Power Rangers somehow ended up in the discourse of a single film. I’m no...
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No Backstories @nobackstories.com · 19/07/2025
Re: Manchester Airport copper brawl. Fuck the police.
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