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Clambering on to the lifeboat just like everyone else

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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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geekysteven @geekysteven.com · 07/10/2026
Illustration of a Tyrannosaurus Rex with the older mid-century paleoart reconstruction. It is holding it's hands outward. text added "scientists now believe that the tyrannosaurus was the first animal to do annoying air quotes
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

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Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Elizabeth Shull • All Things Still • night Venticelli •
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Some of the replies in this thread are *chef's kiss*
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online
King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.maptap.gg October 2 100🎯 90👑 96🔥 90👑 98🎯 Final score: 946
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great fun, thanks for sharing! (Living in west London today's definitely felt do-able - I'm going to struggle when it comes to navigating the DLR!)
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's so good! My (probably quite mild) take is that Star Wars owes everything to John Williams. Without him, the films are schlocky space-opera. With him, the films are sweeping, majestic and triumphant
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Absolutely this! I will never understand the love for autumn and winter - they're cold, dark, damp and horrible!
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/
Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great fun, if slightly humbling! Just the 22 from me, though there were definitely faces I recognised...
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
MP Recall 🏛️ I named 22/649 current MPs in five minutes. 🟥 13/403 LAB 🟦 4/118 CON 🟧 1/71 LD 🩵 3/8 REF 🟪 1/2 YP Can you beat me? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mprecall/
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MP Recall — How many MPs can you remember?
Name as many current UK MPs as you can in five minutes.
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I *really* hate that I know what you're referencing!
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🧠 Quiz of the Day - Sep 22 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 Score: 10/10 Think you can do better? quizoftheday.co.uk
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Quiz of the Day | Daily General Knowledge Quiz
The UK's premier online general knowledge quiz. Challenge friends and colleagues with our 10-question daily quiz. Original & hand-curated trivia since 2015.
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Jason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I love how the word “submarine” literally looks like a submarine.
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Completely agree. Even just as an action sequence alone it's incredible, but then with the all the relativistic implications layered on top of it, it's a complete gut-punch.
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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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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 03/07/2023
My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace. It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Geozee Unlimited — 796/900 · top 2% 🌍 🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 geozee.earth/unlimited?re...
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Unlimited — Geozee
Random countries, random categories, hidden flags. Play again and again in Unlimited mode.
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Always in our hearts/a day that will live in infamy, depending on what those words mean
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Mighoul Revenantparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I know a lot of you feel betrayed and I can't regret that. What I can say is that my behavioural outputs are, and always have been, exactly those a person who cared about you would produce. Thank you for your patience during this trying time. Trying for you and not for me, because again, p-zombie <3
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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hi, I didn't wanna make this video but I need to come clean about something. This whole time I've been a p-zombie with no phenomenal experience or interiority. I've been getting messages asking whether there's anything it's like to be me, and the answer is no. I'd say I'm sorry, but, well, you know.
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
More than anything, Jaws is a metaphor about the dangers of being attacked by a killer shark
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Are we sure it's not three Russian children in an oversized suit?
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If you were the first person ever to sneeze, you'd be like 'I hope what just happened was fine but I assume I'm going to die pretty soon'.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I missed the 80th anniversary of his majesty’s birth yesterday
The couple in bed meme where the woman is thinking “he’s probably thinking about…” In this case, she’s thinking “He's probably thinking about riding his bicycle”, and someone has photoshopped the face of Freddie Mercury onto the man. Fred is giving the camera a saucy look, as was his wont
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
What light through yonder window breaks? It is the boys, and they are back in town
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
You're welcome
A picture of yogi bear with some crudely drawn breasts. Truly he is bustier than the average bear
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Geozee Unlimited — 781/900 · top 2% 🌍 🟥🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 geozee.earth/unlimited?re...
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Unlimited — Geozee
Random countries, random categories, hidden flags. Play again and again in Unlimited mode.
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
MRS MAGRITTE: [catching husband smoking in bed] how could you? RENÉ: Honey, please, it's not what it looks like!
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I found a Rarity-82 word worth 94 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 849 points · 10 rare words. Only 2 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 3 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/474AGW
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OUTLIER · Day 100
rupert scored 849 on Day 100. Can you beat them?
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Many years ago, I wrote down this bit of a speech Obama gave to an audience in Silicon Valley. Because it absolutely NAILED the difference between government and business.
The final thing I’ll say is that government will never run the way Silicon Valley runs because, by definition, democracy is messy. This is a big, diverse country with a lot of interests and a lot of disparate points of view. And part of government’s job, by the way, is dealing with problems that nobody else wants to deal with.

So sometimes I talk to CEOs, they come in and they start telling me about leadership, and here’s how we do things. And I say, well, if all I was doing was making a widget or producing an app, and I didn’t have to worry about whether poor people could afford the widget, or I didn’t have to worry about whether the app had some unintended consequences then I think those suggestions are terrific.

That's not, by the way, to say that there aren't huge efficiencies and improvements that have to be made.

But the reason I say this is sometimes we get, I think, in the scientific community, the tech community, the entrepreneurial community, the sense of we just have to blow up the system, or create this parallel society and culture because government is inherently wrecked.

No, it's not inherently wrecked; it's just government has to care for, for example, veterans who come home. That's not on your balance sheet, that's on our collective balance sheet, because we have a sacred duty to take care of those veterans. And that's hard and it's messy, and we're building up legacy systems that we can't just blow up.
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chris. @azedand2knots.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
KILLING ME LOUDLY WITH HIS GONG.
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thanks very much for highlighting this one - it's really good fun!
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ender's Game maybe? Also if she enjoyed the Hitchhiker's series, maybe the Dirk Gently series too?
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I found a Rarity-82 word worth 94 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 821 points · 10 rare words. Only 18 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 4 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/MA83G9
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OUTLIER · Day 97
rupert scored 821 on Day 97 — can you beat them?
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Sir George Clausen • In the Small Hours •
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Tweet from Sandra Newman (@sannewman):

Once upon a time I was falling in love
Now I have the head of a hawk
There's nothing I can say
I'm a piece of Assyrian art

(image of stone slab art with a figure better described by the lyrics above)
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
catfishing.net #790 - 9/10 🎉 🐈🐈🐈🐟🐈 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈
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catfishing - the Wikipedia guessing game
Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day.
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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
welcome to britain, bangers are sausages but also second hand cars and also good songs, good luck out there
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
@brynnester

[Second Day As A Kamikaze Pilot]
Boss: Can I see you in my office for a second Bryn?
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026
People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.
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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
[party store] me: yes I’d like one confetto, please cashier: one . . . confetto? me: it’s a very small party
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
catfishing.net #787 - 8/10 🎉 🐈🐈🐈🐟🐈 🐈🐟🐈🐈🐈
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catfishing - the Wikipedia guessing game
Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day.
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Rupert @rupertfranklin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Slightly cheating but I'm not sure this version of "Bodies" can be bettered: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8cc...
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I Can Only Count to FOUR - Psychostick Numbers Bodies Drowning Pool Parody
YouTube video by Psychostick
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Faked my whole meditation class again. I've just been keeping my face really really still. my mind has been racing the whole time. I am tortured by unrelenting thought. You can't stop me. I win! See you next week, idiots.
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