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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Literary Cat Co. is a #bookstore & cat lounge in Pittsburg, KS. Like every independent bookstore, it fights every month. The text underneath its Instagram post shows the relief of having made yet another. Support your local bookstore. The books they don't have, they can order for you!

An Instagram post that shows a sign in a bookstore which reads:

TO KEEP YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE HERE, WE NEED TO SELL *750* BOOKS A MONTH
JUNE 832
JULY 830
AUG 855
SHOP LOCAL♡ IT MATTERS

Underneath the post, the bookstore says:
WE DID IT!!!! Because of y'all, we made August!! THANK YOU!!!!

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The only Strait I want associated with Trump is a jacket with the fastening up the back.

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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One would hope that each night she carefully and surreptitiously unpicks her day’s work

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Martin Price-Phillips @mpricephillips.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One neural connection away from getting it.

A screenshot of a Facebook post from Reform UK Councillor Dr Charlie Latchford, who represents Longbridge and West Heath in Birmingham. The post reads "Think of the number of Potholes Highways could fix this autumn instead of spending your money on taking down national flags from lampposts."

The accompanying image reads "£2.6 million diverted from highway maintenance and pothole repairs to take down our national flag."

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 22/08/2026

your internet dad is here to remind you that you really should be printing out those 2fa backup codes rather than just clicking ok alright son talk soon

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Mind Frighten 🎃 @porgus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Begging Harry Potter fans to grow the fuck up already and find another media franchise

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

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The Failed Anarchist Revival @failedanarchist.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

taxes don't actually "raise revenue" - they take money out of circulation. at the moment, that money has piled up in the pockets of the very wealthy and gives them inordinate power in the economy - whether they invest actively or not, it ends up buying the assets we need to live

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

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Sinclair Research @sinclairresearch.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The ZX81 had a FAST mode and a SLOW mode. FAST mode turned off the display to run programs quicker. SLOW mode kept the display on but ran like treacle. You could have speed or information, but not both. Modern software has the same problem but pretends it does not.

ZX81 screen showing: The ZX81 had a FAST mode and a SLOW mode. FAST mode turned off the display to run programs quicker. SLOW

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Photo featuring a sculpture of a vertical piece of jaggered driftwood inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass, sited on a pebble beach by the sea at sunset or sunrise

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 05/06/2026

They're lucky none of the games are at Stamford Bridge

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19/05/2026

Today’s newsletter reveals the unrestrained and wasteful token burn inside one publicly-traded company (Zillow) and breaks down the cold, hard truth that AI is - for hyperscalers, for AI labs, and for customers - simply too expensive to ever pay off. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-expensive/

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AI Is Too Expensive

If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, in...

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now.

First, I’d created 2000 free-text responses and labelled them ‘UK’. Then I copied and pasted the exact same 2000 responses but labelled these ‘US’. Finally, I combined them to create a dataset of 4000 total responses, and jumbled them up.

Despite the responses being identical for the UK and US, Copilot produced a rich, detailed summary of how US and UK respondents differed.

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

the absolute funniest outcome is they delay the leadership contest to let Andy Burnham run in a by-election and he loses it to the Greens

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

"trump pac-man" Cartoon: Jawad Morad (Belgium)

A pacman maze filled with dollar bags and oil barrels and Trump's head eats them like pacman.

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Oliver Mason @ojmason.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

@colingorrie.bsky.social In the UK I believe _snuck_ is used as well. Hard to tell introspectively, but I‘ll keep an eye on it.

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Kassandra @kasst.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

#BrexitBrokeBritain It also broke the Conservatives & it continues to break Labour

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The basic issue is that the UK economy, not very dynamic at the best of times, has been shown not to function for growth outside the single market. Nobody has a solution for this and every government since Brexit has collapsed whilst pretending there are other solutions.

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Oliver Mason @ojmason.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

@peteashton.com @pete.social.coop.ap.brid.gy Thank you for adding up the votes. It is very encouraging to see that Bham is equally Green and Labour as Ref*rm, especially when the latter get all the headlines.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

At the risk of suggesting something for which I do not have easy answers, I think we have to fundamentally rethink town centres because the market is no longer a reliable driver of vitality there. It can't just be "the shops" anymore

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 08/05/2026

In 2024 Labour won a stonking mandate for what can only be described as “anything but the Tories.” They utterly failed to read the room and spent ~20 months being Tory-lite. So this election the voters went “ok, anything but Tories and Labour.”

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

"You can't let a bunch of lunatics have a nuclear weapon." Donald J. Trump, May 5, 2026.

Photo of Trump, Vance, Rubio and Hegseth.

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Loving the way Hannah Spencer manages to observe Westminster through the eyes of an ordinary citizen without getting drawn into its bubble. She has her standards, and she doesn't doubt them even when all around her are different. It takes strength to be the odd one out. She's her own woman.

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theweeman7.bsky.social @theweeman7.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

LET THE DUCK IN, YOU SHITS.

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Guido Kühn @guido-kuehn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

2020 wurde ich wegen dieses Cartoons nach kurzem hin- und her für Facebook und alle Metaprodukte auf Lebenszeit gesperrt, weil er gegen die Konzernrichtlinien verstößt. Wo die Richtlinien Nazis schützen, kann kein Platz für mich sein. Seither poste ich diesen Cartoon jährlich an Führers Geburtstag.

Eine Frau geht wütend schimpfend an einem Naziaufmarsch vorbei. sie ruft den Nazis zu: Ihr Gottverdammten Freizeitnazis!!! Jedes Jahr Führers Geburtstag feiern und jedes Jahr aufs neue vergessen, sich zehn Tage später eine Kugel in den Kopf zu jagen! Schande!

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 19/04/2026

This is what Facebook does too. Even if you choose not to provide Meta with all your data by having an account, they have it because your family and friends have snitched on you, uploading their contacts to share your email and phone, uploading photos of you, sharing location when you hang out… etc

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Dr Joe Baker @jsbaker.co.uk · 18/04/2026

Please consider signing this petition about returning the privatised water industry into public ownership, after it's diabolical history of wrecking our waters — petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

petition.parliament.uk

Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership

Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public sh...

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Graham Lee, D.Phil @iamleeg.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

A new interaction pattern for AI-augmented coding assistants: Write Down TODOs www.patreon.com/posts/write-... #softwaredevelopment #aisoftware

patreon.com

Write Down TODOs | Chiron Codex

Get more from Chiron Codex on Patreon

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Craig Hamilton @craighamilton.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Someone on here once suggested that if an individual’s personal wealth gets to £999,999,999.99, they should automatically get forcibly removed from the game and a nice certificate that says “Well done”.

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 05/04/2026

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

It has come to my attention that not all of you are aware that this exists. So, here it is. It exists. Dozens of channels of randomized music videos and bumpers. Choose your era and return to your childhood. Bookmark it for when you need to escape back. wantmymtv.vercel.app/player.html

wantmymtv.vercel.app

MTV REWIND - 33,000+ Music Videos • Zero Ads • Zero Algorithms

Experience MTV's golden era with 33,000+ music videos spanning 6 decades. Free 24/7 streaming. No ads. No algorithm. Just press play.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

You can really tell America is winning this war when the president panic posts “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards” at 5 am on Easter Sunday along with an extension on their deadline

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Oliver Mason @ojmason.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

@davidallengreen.bsky.social But, surely constitutional tools are not strong enough if they can be not enacted as in this case?

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frank n furter @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

today I am thinking about how leisure centres should just be free. no charge. go in and lift them heavy things & swim a few laps because the benefits to you and society at large are profound and far-reaching.

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Real Al Bundy @realalbundy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Die #CDU nannte Minister #Habeck (Zitat): "Schlechtesten Wirtschaftsminister aller Zeiten." Ich finde, wer in Kriegs- und Krisenzeiten noch Klima- Umweltschutz auf Kurs bringt, sich mit Scheiße bewerfen lassen muss,nur um 1 Jahr später von seinen Hetzern kopiert zu werden,war doch recht stabil. 😎💪

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

AI’s gameplan: deskill you then charge you.

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Elizabeth Freedman @elizabethf100.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

A company being awarded UK Government contracts👇🏻

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

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