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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Staggered that I haven't heard of this before. This is *amazing* and I'm seriously considering making the trip out to Hannover to see it in person
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Shittest Matrix reboot ever
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We have begun an incremental rollout of Earth 2.0. Users who have been experiencing issues with their Earth 1.0 install should update as soon as possible as support for this system has already terminated.
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Fantastic long read on the Lebedev-era Standard. Or as the Standard itself describes it (gleefully quoted in the piece itself), “a shameless attempt by a wannabe rival to denigrate London’s newspaper”. www.the-londoner.co.uk/falling-stan...
the-londoner.co.uk
Falling Standards: How Evgeny Lebedev saved — then sank — London’s newspaper
‘Everyone was being run ragged by his absolutely ludicrous requests and tantrums’
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Fascinatingly literal translation from Czech here (would usually be labelled "pull")
Door labelled "sem (hither)"
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Concerning
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great to see @eurcorrespond.bsky.social covering @jonworth.eu's longest train journey project. europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/from-fi...
europeancorrespondent.com
From Finland to Portugal by train in just 125 hours
Last week, Jon Worth, a railway activist who advocates for better cross-border train travel across Europe, completed the longest train journey in the EU – from…
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I was very sad to hear about the death of Cassandra Wilson. Saw her at Ronnie Scott's when I was a teen & adored her singing - a formative experience. Here's looking at you, kid.
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026
great art articulates eternal truths
script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
   [They do not log off]

                                  CURTAIN
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Make a band deadly: Peter, Paul and Typhoid Mary
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Make a band deadly: Taking Heads
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Many years ago I was working on a story idea based around a God who was omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient and responsive to prayer but nonsentient, with no judgement or awareness. I couldn't make the story work but wish I hadn't given up now.
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
These pots are stunning.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This Friday is my birthday! And my publisher just gave me some *audiobook codes* for The Dragon Has Some Complaints, so I'm celebrating with a giveaway. All you have to do to enter is 1) follow me on here 2) reskeet this post 3) reply naming one of your favorite monsters!
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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ents on the move www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Peekaboo island: the floating forest confounding nature watchers in western Canada
A 150-metre-long island appeared from nowhere on Williston Lake, British Columbia; vanished, then reappeared 20 miles away
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Oh shit the person who did this amazing work is (a) on here, (b) seems to have a load more great rabbit-hole content and (c) WHAT THE FUCK HAS HARDLY ANY FOLLOWERS. Alas I don't have any followers either but if you see this please boost them because going by the green bottles post they are boss.
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm heartsore. To lose these two magnificent, beautiful people so close together... It feels desperately unfair.
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Three things all around the same time: the Greenham Common Peace Camp. The Miners' Strike. And the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. My god it's like I was created by a lazy scriptwriter.
phm.org.uk
Greenham Common Peace Camp - People's History Museum
A history of the Greenham Common Peace Camp, the Greenham women's protest against nuclear weapons at RAF Greenham
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
As a teenager I picked up an ARC from a secondhand bookshop in London that blew my mind. A few years later I had to buy a new copy as it was falling apart (I'd bought others as gifts, but not for myself). I was shocked to discover quite a lot of changes. I hadn't realised at all.
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Caimh/CK McDonnell @caimhmc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BARGAIN ALERT! To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the million-selling tv-bound infuriatingly-inaccurately named Dublin Trilogy, the first three books are a scandalous 99p/99c on kindle. Grab ‘em now and tell a friend! amzn.to/4wI7nhK
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Long queue and passport checks at the Lithuanian - Polish border. Looks like the army as well as police ("Border Guard" hi-viz but military fatigues). A proper passport check, too, not just a glance at the covers. @aoifewhite.bsky.social
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I must admit I thought this would finish at 100 but the beating off will apparently continue until morale improves
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Jeremy Markovich @ncrabbithole.com · 21/08/2026
Of all the uncles out there, this man may have been the uncle-est. The uber uncle. www.ncrabbithole.com/p/the-limous...
ncrabbithole.com
The Limousine-Driving Playboy Uncle who created “Big T!ts Potato Chips”
Every so often, a picture of an old bag of potato chips rockets around the internet. But how do we know it’s real? How did it get the name? And did the people who came up with it actually know what th...
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Love it!
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I like this idea. I've a suspicion there are some gaps in the numbers but a quick look at some of the big ones suggests it might have legs.
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Bought before I forget again
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Well it wasn't totality but that was way cooler than I expected. Admittedly being on a beach in Latvia didn't hurt. Nor did taking the boat out for a wee paddle in the waves in the strange light. Still, the sun and moon show took top billing. Good job those two, well done
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Close encounter with the real Blackadder yesterday
A black adder at the side of a road. Black adder's head raised
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Tokyo Sexwhale @tokyosexwhale.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Not tagging cos I'm not that kind of dick but there's a poster I really like who's become addicted to the whole "roses are red..." meme and it's soooooo annoying. They're not even good at it.
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Robert Ramsay @robertramsay.org · 04/08/2026
Russell T. Davies said that if you want to write a dialogue that sounds convincing, write it as two monologues, because no-one ever listens to anyone.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 29/07/2026
Love will always conquer hatred. Unity will always conquer division. And lightness will always overcome darkness.
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Sadiq Khan has a post sharing support for the queer community after the attack in Berlin. It's simple but beautiful. And comments and quote skeets are off, presumably because he knows London's Muslim mayor sharing such a message is going to be an inevitable magnet for hate. I feel sad.
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A lot of concussed-kitten readings of that t-shirt today. The idea it was an actual threat, incitement to or endorsement of violence is idiotic. Obviously the fake outrage is to be expected but a lot of generally quite sensible people are being very very silly about it.
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Today I saw a snake catch a fish! It must have been a grass snake, given where I am (Czechia).
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Samantha Mathis and Christian Slater both looking devastating in Pump Up the Volume (1990).
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Family of sparrows at the feeder today. One was clearly mummy's favourite: although the little ones can obviously all fly and feed themselves (and they're all as big as she is), mummy was still feeding just this one.
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Chris Weston @westonfront.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
In honour of The Odyssey's release: you've heard of "Elf on a shelf". Here's...
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
If you read the rest of this thread, well, obviously you have only yourself to blame.
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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I gave Ajax this ball and in exchange he gave me one of my gel earplugs that has been missing for a week that he *somehow* knew was hidden in that specific plant pot under that particular leaf.
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
A few days before Christmas 2016, a grey Land Rover paused in front of a bank of mirrored windows at this checkpoint on the border between France and Switzerland. What happened next revealed just how looted art worms its way into museums. A 🧵 about my article: hyperallergic.com/why-do-so-ma...
Screencap from a "Chasseur de Trésor et Fouilles Illégales: Genève au Cœur d’un Trafic d’Antiquités,” RTS, February 12, 2023, www.rts.ch/info/regions/geneve/13760278-chasseur-de-tresor-et-fouilles-illegales-geneve-au-cur-dun-trafic-dantiquites.html
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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
It’s happening! VALENZIAGA will fall. Category is: Science-Fantasy EXTRAVAGANZA! Think Drag Race + a gay Game of Thrones + Chronicles of Amber. High drama & high CAMP! 200+ people already pledged to make this book happen! LATE PLEDGES STILL OPEN! #booksky www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...
Cover of THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF VALENZIAGA, done as a stained glass piece, with a drag queen, Aurora Thunder, breaking through and shattering it.
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This is appalling. I'm seeing lots of gloating posts on Bluesky about petrol shortages in Russia and Crimea and sure, it's good to see Ukraine's attacks having effects - but triumphalism is premature if other nations can't and won't supply the interceptors Ukraine needs to protect civilian centres.
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
It's not the first time & won't be the last that I'm sharing something wonderful in the sure and certain knowledge that my minuscule follower count means it will go utterly unnoticed but bloody hell Martyn's work is amazing.
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
With trans rights under attack as never before, we need to show our support for the trans community. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/d23a8a
goodlawproject.org
I stand with trans people | Good Law Project
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Fuck I wish I was dead
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I started following Tom because of the sheep thread. The cow thread is just as marvellous. If you've seen neither, congratulations! You get both at once you jammy buggers
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I know designers who use subtext and they're all cowards #pride
A box for Aubergines / Eggplants called "Purple Pride"
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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is astonishing work. The wedges paper had a big impact on my thinking at the time. It's deeply troubling to learn how strongly it was shaped by BP - especially as part of that shaping was the lay-friendly style that made it hit so hard with me. I feel intellectually soiled.
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