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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

On this day in 1663, Samuel Pepys was horrified by the lack of scrutiny and the embezzlement potential of government procurement. Just sayin'.

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Do I live in a yellow submarine or not? If only the English language had clusivity, confusion about issues like this could be avoided.

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Kinda worried what happens if I don't do the survey...

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The unexpected tease of something incredible. Mustn't let hope run away with me but damn it feels good.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Menu items include 'This Salad Tastes Like My Vagina'.

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just finished Camp Damascus by @chucktingle.bsky.social. I would love love love to see a film adaptation of it.

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just caught the latest news from Americaton D.A. (District of America).

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Next they'll be telling us that Mitch McConnell is dead!

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP

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Kitty (now Doggie Dog) @bathematician.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Kind of a long title but this movie sounds wild

A cinema billboard showing
THE BRUTALIST
BABYGIRL
NOSFERATU
FROM GROUND ZERO

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

In the meantime, you can access the censored Amnesty reports on gender critical groups here. Make sure they cannot erase these documents from the internet. Like a snowball. dn711306.ca.archive.org/0/items/amne... A growing threat. archive.org/download/rep...

dn711306.ca.archive.org

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Bex @bexg93.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

🚨 The archived version of the suppressed Amnesty report into the anti-trans network operating to dismantle human rights in the UK has been "excluded" from the Wayback Machine. JKR is working very hard to scrub its existence from the eyes of the public. Thankfully, I kept screenshots.

A screenshot of the Wayback Machine page when trying to access the suppressed Amnesty report into anti-trans organisation and networks in the UK saying "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine".

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My life often feels like it's hanging in the balance, but I get a bit of solace knowing some of the dreadful people I've managed to outlive. Ann Widdecombe, Lindsay Graham, Chuck Norris and now Rod Liddle in 2026 alone. Quote post with someone you're looking forward to outlasting. Farage, for me.

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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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Todays Moth @todaysmoth.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Todays moth: Horama plumipes Found from Central America to Texas! Wingspan around 4.5cm! Family Arctiidae #moths #mothposting

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oscar | Angel Diaclasis out now! @pepperbloom.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

trans people will exist longer than the usa

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

AI forced down our throats > Many new data centres > Hardware prices skyrocket > Consumer hardware corps can't get components, pivot toward cloud computing > This becomes the norm for consumer devices > Govt surveillance, censorship, control becomes easier + more ubiquitous than ever. Just watch.

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

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Mike 🏳️‍🌈 @lpoolmike.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Alan Turing, born on this day in 1912. Helped save this country only to be persecuted by it.

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

'Copacabana' by Barry Manilow ends with the repeated refrain 'Don't fall in love'. A rare message in popular music, I find.

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꒰ᐢ..ᐢ꒱颖琦Gwyn @gravenmyth.com · 16/06/2026

whenever anyone I know admits to using ChatGPT this appears above my head

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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 17/06/2026

All uses of AI are costing someone… this sucks as the Game UI database is such a valuable resource.

Edd Coates talking about the game ui database being scraped

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

People keep trying to label me as 'nomadic' rather than homeless and it's getting on my wick. I have no income. I have no place to go back to. I have no realistic employment prospects. This isn't a lifestyle choice I can drop whenever I want.

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Just been looking at the stats for cis-on-cis violence. Extremely troubling stuff.

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Just had a realisation: Andrew Tate is a drag king. He doesn't know it, but he is.

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I am the kind of lonely That loops back into itself, And makes me withdraw. I pass by the cute boys Speaking their language That trills like a mandolin And wonder whether, If I spoke and understood, Things would be different.

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I think I've said it before but as another domino (Kickstarter) falls to the prurient whims of Visa and MasterCard, it really feels like we need a new and uncensorable payment network, and it feels like this is what crypto was made for.

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

It's lucky for ABBA that they weren't called Carlos, Ulrike, Niccolo and Timotea.

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

All I really want is a husband who's financially comfortable and has lots of free time but is still radical anti-capitalist, will accept me and my many quirks/foibles and let me work on my weird shit instead of getting a real job, and is also hot, charming, funny, kinky etc. Is that so much to ask?

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I love this essay very much!!!!

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

They're named Labour after another famous source of extreme pain

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I had a lovely tarot session yesterday but it basically told me I need to trans tf up. Hmm...

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Suffice it to say I will not be voting for the Poundland Nazis.

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Tamsin the Sword ⚔️ Monster 🧌 @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 16/04/2026

This is the single funniest thing I have ever seen Bluesky staff do.

BEAT @beatskelton.bsky.social • 1h
I THINK WE'LL KNOW THE SITE IS FULLY BACK ONLINE WHEN HE FINALLY CAN LOG IN LONG ENOUGH TO DELETE THIS.
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Karl Olson 🌸 Ultraklystron
@karlrolson.com
Good thing i screencapped it

BEAT @beatskelton.bsky.social
I THINK WE'LL KNOW THE SITE IS FULLY BACK ONLINE WHEN HE FINALLY CAN LOG IN LONG ENOUGH TO DELETE THIS.

Why @why.bsky.team • 8d
Looking forward to what the "ai sucks ackshoeally" crowd has to say about this one.

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Engels Foodcake @shellcollector.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

they finally made this into a film, thank god

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RiverTriesToMakeStuff @rivertries.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Peter Magyar's politics may not be a huge upgrade overall, but he is at least significantly more fuckable than Orban, and for that we should be thankful.

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