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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 9h

There are NOT machine-made clothes. If there were, your clothes would be made in the country you live in (where the customers are), or in China (where machines are cheap). They’re made in Bangladesh or India or Indonesia because that’s where the LABOUR is cheap. Your clothes are made by people.

Joyce Carol Oates says: “This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to
different consumers.“

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 8h

I will never forget all the cynical gainsaying and disinformation about the strike on Al-Ahli hospital ten days into Israel’s destruction of Gaza. ‘Fog of war’. Almost three years later, fewer than half of Gaza’s hospitals remain even partially functional and there is no fog. Only dust and rubble.

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New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza

Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire

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Nicholas Ray Gun Virus @oldcremutius.bsky.social · 8h

Looking at the most obvious trend in the World: "It's a real head scratcher."

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

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Nicholas Ray Gun Virus @oldcremutius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Someone is going to end up winning a BAFTA for a pretty bad comedy about the Fairford arrests called "A Very British Bomb Plot".

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Nicholas Ray Gun Virus @oldcremutius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another win for the theory that "everything is gender".

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kara🐆 @karaonza.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

toys r us event store in new york ~2016. i used to date the person on the left. PAC completely no-sold the giraffe head and stared the human down directly in her eyes (neck star) what a worker

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Watched Burnett's wonderful To Sleep with Anger (1990) last night. The whole movie is amazing, but the scene where Sheryl Lee Ralph cries while serving dinner is especially brutal and heartrending. I went to look at the script and found this interesting description.

Image of Sheryl Lee Ralph crying while serving dinner

"INT. DINING ROOM - NIGHT
Linda is busy serving everyone, running in and out of the
kitchen bringing more things, and removing used plates, etc.
Linda's eye is swollen and discolored. The guests look at
Linda's eye and then cast a naughty-boy glance at Babe
Brother.
Linda stops serving to pay attention to an elderly man, who
deliberately bends one of her spoons. She catches another man
putting a fork in his pocket and an elderly lady putting a
cigarette out in one of her plates.
As she is about to confront the man about pocketing her
spoon, a peal of LAUGHTER forces her to turn around only to
witness a lady knocking over a glass filled with a green
drink with her elbow. The stain spreads across the table
cloth in an even manner like a single wave. She watches it
move from one end of the table to the other.
Harry is seated in the middle. The composition hints at The
Last Supper."

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Dan @golazodan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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WrestleTalk @wrestletalk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

AEW has announced that PAC has passed away

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

lol how did I miss this I just got an email advertising a prize for 1 MILLION dollars to 5 ‘social scientists who tell controversial truths at great professional cost“. The head of the committee is Roland fryer, it’s got Vanderbilt report alums, and it’s bankrolled by Bill Ackman And NerI Oxman.

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Nicholas Ray Gun Virus @oldcremutius.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In a case that comes before the US Supreme Court this next term, International Partners for Ethical Care and a group of parents are suing Washington for providing trans healthcare to homeless trans youth. In essence they argue that Washington is making homelessness preferable to living with them.

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Nicholas Ray Gun Virus @oldcremutius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*Wearing a Women Won't Wheesht t-shirt and shaking my head at Genghis Khan as he gestures towards a concubine* "Non-motile gametes, chief."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That's just fraud, my dude. Even if you use an AI agent. It's just fucking fraud.

Nikita Bier: Hello computer,

Find every Amazon purchase I ever made.
Call the number of the manufacturer.
Say you’re not satisfied.
Request a refund.
If they decline, threaten to leave a bad review.
If they decline, find the CEO’s phone number and ask him for a refund.

Now, repeat the same process for items I never even purchased and see if you can get them to send me money.

If they ask for a recipient, generate an image of one and send that.

Do not stop until you’ve collected $1 million in refunds.

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Nicholas Ray Gun Virus @oldcremutius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

White Flight is not the same thing as claiming asylum, you daft racist.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What gets you booted from Substack? Andrew Tate still seems to have a newsletter there while charged with: 10 counts of rape, 3 of trafficking for sexual exploitation, 3 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, & making/distributing indecent images of a child. possessing extreme pornography.

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Once again, speaking as a professional archaeologist: "English" is not an ethnicity in any meaningful sense. You only have to go back about 1,000 years before everyone in Europe has the same group of common genealogical ancestors. Humans have lived on the British Isles for almost a million years.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 23/09/2026

So I think maybe I just figured out why @timeshighered.bsky.social has not reported anything negative about James Orr. I could very well be wrong, but here we go: In 2024, THE signed an agreement with Hungary's Culture and Innovation Ministry which oversees Hungarian higher education..

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Fa-ghoul-tha Christie @joelnb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We will never reckon with the rise of the extreme right, in the UK, US or anywhere else, if we don't accept that a lot of them - most of them - are motivated by their own hatred (and the potential to monetise same) and not by the shadowy hand of Russia that conveniently absolves us of introspection.

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the government not being willing to stand behind the RNLI is incredibly bleak

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 23/09/2026

[a british journalist, as they are led up the gallows steps with their hands tied and a hood over their head]: a lot of everyday people support this, you know

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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

(3)Worse, relying on the Security Services for "Counter Disinformation " will very likely lead to UK Govt backed Disinformation, as it did in the past with eg Information Research Division or the Integrity Initiative

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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

(2) It ducks the argument, it ignores the big pushes of far right, often dishonest /fake news/ propaganda by US + UK commercial actors - Twitter/X/ Elon Musk / The UK media. It relies on the MI6/ Security Services (who view eg Musk as legitimate)....

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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

(1)Burnham's "Russian Disinformation " push looks like instead of confronting far right arguments directly he will try brand the far right as "Russian Influence " Its a cowardly strategy that failed eg re Trump. Better to address far right propaganda straight on than this bad plan...

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Nicholas Ray Gun Virus @oldcremutius.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What do you even say about this? Gosport is more than 90% white and more than 90% of residents were born in the UK. There's a removal centre on the old Haslar site, but this is not a place that has ever seen a lot of immigrants and you've got people responding this way.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 22/09/2026

I found out about this because someone told me that the character, 'Lechsinka' (which is very much not a real Polish name) supposedly does not understand the word 'detective.' And the Polish word for that is......... 'detektyw.'

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

5. After around 30 hours at sea, the dinghy was intercepted by the RNLI and those on board transferred to two lifeboats. Two lifeboat personnel tried to secure the empty dinghy. Thomas yelled abuse and knifed the dinghy to deflate it - with a rescuer still on board.

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Nicholas Ray Gun Virus @oldcremutius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Don Ho holding dual Taiwanese and French citizenship really seems to focus his 'activist' tendencies (anti-CPC and it's allies/pro-European and "Je Suis Charlie"). I know he gets grief for the CPC stance, but I wonder if he cops much flak for not mentioning other topics.

Notepad++ releases since June that include "v8.9.7 - Slava Ukraini" and "v8.9.6.4 Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration"

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

- Jason Arday was a Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism. In the week after he resigned, fifteen national outlets wrote 163 articles about him. - In the week after the Channel 4 film, the same fifteen outlets wrote 14 about Orr.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You’ll recall that the idea that these people are just a bunch of dull-as-fuck austerity Tories in right-on clothing was hateful tribalist insanity, the very poison that was destroying our democracy. And yet

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Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff

The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

while i'm going on about ron, he was the one who told me about britain keeping spanish anti fascists in a chorley, lancashire based prisoner of war camp between 1944-46. just in case you needed reminding of how much this country loves camps. files.libcom.org/files/Spanis...

five proud spanish lxds standing in front of the sign they made so people wouldn't think they were fash prisoners.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

is it not a bit odd that we have to keep begging labour pms to condem fascist violence?

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 22/09/2026

imagine if lawmakers wanted to change a law. treason!

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Shehan Jeyarajah @shehanjeyarajah.com · 21/09/2026

How much help does Arch Manning need?

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do you ever read a series of words

Includes exclusive Hanks for our troops pumpkin brulee

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anything that makes people’s lives better and easier just boils these people’s piss, they cannot bear the thought of it, it appears to scald them

The Times and Sunday Times O @thetimes
Yes, WFH was vital during Covid, but the emergency's over

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 19/09/2026

Right-wing politics is laden with contradictions, but "We're the movement of authentic, traditional masculinity who have to ask for help sounding tough from the calculator" is one of the funnier ones.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"We're seeing weekly protests against migrants.. whats that tell us about where we are as a country?" Taj Ali: "I think we've become increasingly divided.. the work is on us, its not going to come from the top.. its going to come from ordinary people who refuse to look away"

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

it's so cool that we have to pretend a chatbot is a person it's so cool to see it be treated with more personhood than basically any minority

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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

mmygod

the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky post

today's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"

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