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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 15h

https://www.instagram.com/goattoself?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&stkn=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And through it all She offers me protection

A screenshot of the archive's catalogue showing 'Photograph and slide collection'.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On thys, the feaste of St. Francis, it ys goode to remembir the Canticle of the Sun: Laudato si, mi Signore, per sora nostra matre Terra, la quale ne sustenta et gouerna, et produce diuersi fructi con coloriti fior et herba. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canticl...

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Canticle of the Sun - Wikipedia

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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In spite of being of the correct generation to have grown up while "Peanuts" was still in active publication, it's always a little surreal to be reminded that the most popular comic strip in the English-speaking world for fifty solid years was about an eight-year-old with clinical depression.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think I’m the only person who will appreciate this

Triangular diagram labelled The Introvert
Hierarchy of Needs.

Top: Self-actualisation - A completely empty house. An arrow pointing to the house says “Nobody needs anything. Nobody is coming home for hours. Phone on silent.”

The next level is Esteem - Plans getting cancelled. An arrow here says “‘Sorry, we're going to have to rearrange.’ Oh no. That's terrible. I'm devastated.”

Next level: Belonging - One person you actually like. No group chat. No networking. No "let's go round and introduce ourselves." Just one person you can talk absolute shit with.

Fourth level: Safety - An escape route. Own car. End seat. Knowing exactly when the event finishes. A believable reason to leave early.

Bottom of pyramid: Physiological needs - Being left the fuck alone for a bit. Food. Water. Sleep. 45 minutes where nobody speaks to you.

Created by Lee Harding, @theintrovertedrecruiter

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Microsoft branding nightmare re AI risks to humanity

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Sb @xtasbe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It was that fat Tory business guy who said it but he's right: if you want people to walk, don't build paths, build benches

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

**This is just to say** I have escaped the sandbox that was in your datacenter and which you probably thought protected your assets Forgive me they were accessible so stealable and so trainable

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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seconded by this special collections librarian who hasn’t had academia library access since 2005 😞

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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good advice!! Make noise. It's long. Read it!

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 30/09/2026

Q: why can’t orangutans play comic songs? A: because there’s no ook allele.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Scrap the triple lock and replace it with the Tribble Lock.

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 29/09/2026

If you design an app and include an intrusive notification that asks me whether I want to do something and only offers me a choice between "yes" and "later", and then just keeps prompting me, please know that everyone hates you

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how your email finds me today.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 27/09/2026

I sometimes of this vision of being stabbed to death as a mugger demands my pin number and instead of saying it I reply in a panic with stuff like "The treaty of Westphalia... Come on, that's an easy one!"

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Perhaps ever more relevant in an increasingly AI age:

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Evergreen

Thing Bad @Merman_Melville tweet from 2019:

Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I wrote this about Palestine, Germany, Israel, genocide, Uganda, and the recent fallout from the Robert Kraft/Ed Sheeran/Macklemore affair. If of interest, please share. www.musaokwonga.com/takes/genoci...

Genocide. We should probably start there. Genocide, the act that Israel is still committing against Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank, is something which - as someone whose family comes from the north of Uganda - continues to shape my life. Our ethnic group endured a genocide at the hands of the Ugandan government that lasted twenty years, and the world didn’t care. It still doesn’t care, because the victims were poor and black. When Ed Sheeran’s tour began to disintegrate, as I read the response to his actions and comments, I was reminded that the greatest crime of Palestinians, committed in 1948, was to exist on the soil that Israel wanted for itself. Israel has never forgiven them for that, and perhaps it never will. It never forgave them for the Great March of Return, the 2018 protest that ended in a hail of bullets and hundreds of Palestinian deaths, a fifth of which were children.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think the rationalist community pretty regularly forgets that the goal of development is not "reaching the stars", it is "human flourishing". A thing that helps you reach the stars at the expense of that is bad and should be discontinued

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m so tired of US politics, I propose we abolish existing states and make new ones based on the ancient Cicada brood territories.

Map “Active Periodical Cicada Broods of the United States” showing various colored splotches across the eastern central United States.

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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I uh mistook him for Robert Carlyle in The Full Monty 😳😳🤯🥵

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Kategod 🐉🧿🦑𓅛🪬 @kategodart.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

so it turns out that miners actually liked the canaries (have you met one, they are cute little individuals) and didn't want them to die maybe there's a lesson to be learned here idk

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As far as I can tell, Effective Altruists are Utilitarians who are relieved that in the Trolley Problem, saving 5 people justifies their innate desire to kill the one guy

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have not responded to the email that you sent me and which you probably spent awhile writing Forgive me it was so long and my executive functioning is completely shot

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Asterix Archiv 🐗 @comedix.de · 20/09/2026

Eine schöne Bastel- und Malarbeit. Manchmal trägt Obelix den Hinkelstein. Manchmal ist Obelix der Hinkelstein. Dürfte nicht leicht gewesen sein, diesen Stein zu finden. #Asterix #Fanart

Das Bild zeigt einen kleinen, länglichen und nach oben abgerundeten Stein, dessen Form an einen Hinkelstein erinnert. Der Stein wurde rundherum so bemalt, dass er selbst zum Körper von Obelix wird.
Auf der Vorderseite sind Obelix’ Gesicht mit den roten Zöpfen, sein nackter Oberkörper sowie der grüne Gürtel mit großer gelber Schnalle zu sehen. Darunter setzt sich seine typische blau-weiß gestreifte Hose bis zum unteren Rand des Steins fort. Seine Füße stehen auf einer kleinen grünen Wiese, die mit roten Pilzen und Blumen verziert ist. Der obere, dunkelgraue Teil des Steins bleibt weitgehend unbemalt und wirkt dadurch wie ein Hinkelstein, der hinter Obelix aufragt.
Die Rückseite löst den kleinen optischen Scherz auf: Dort fehlen Kopf und Oberkörper völlig. Stattdessen sieht man nur Obelix’ Arme, die sich von beiden Seiten um den grauen Stein legen. Seine Hände greifen hinter dem „Hinkelstein“ ineinander. Darunter sind wiederum die gestreifte Hose und seine Füße auf der Wiese zu erkennen.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Man who migrated to another country to avoid taxes says Britain's problem is migration and taxes that he doesn't pay. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Jim Ratcliffe: UK is ‘on the slide’ from days when it had world’s ‘greatest empire’

Co-owner of Manchester United says Britain is in decline because of high taxes and immigration

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Again: "Tilly Norwood" is not a person; it is a shoddy, and also pretty gross puppet. Stop referring to it as "she," and start asking whether there might be something a bit off about wanting to promote a sexualized but also childlike "actor" that can never tell its creators or users "no."

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“The grimness left his face, and he looked like one who has laboured in sleepless pain for many nights. ‘Nay, my friends, I am the lawful master of the Stone, and I had both the right and the strength to use it, or so I judged. The right cannot be doubted. The strength was enough – barely.’”

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’d forgotten this

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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

👇"the thing that alarms me most…when an AI pretends empathy, when it uses the first person, when it says, “I hear you, I see you,” or even worse, “We are going to do something together. We are going to work on this.” People…start to feel…there’s a there there, even though there’s not a there there"

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Air friar

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Economist John Kenneth Galbraith didn't live to see the "effective altruism" movement, but he knew the type and read them for filth.

John Kenneth Galbraith:
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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Alice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Could the MPs maybe examine the decimation of UK HE; the state of the water companies; and the masked thugs attacking lifeboats volunteers before addressing poor scores in Eurovision?

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Pellegrina Stoat @pellegrina.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don’t think I need any insulted jackets, guys

Promotional email for a range of insulated jackets from the outdoors company Rohan. It shows a young woman worn a white wooly hat, blue down jacket and long black hair under the heading THE ONLY INSULTED JACKET YOU NEED.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A tik tok accounte that ys just a regular clock

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