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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 14h

Watching a 1972 documentary about the development of one of the great snacks.

A man's pencil pointing at three possible names for what are headed 'Potato Rings'. The options are: 1. Ringlets; 2. Hula Hoops; 3. Oodles.

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Scornflake Ghhhoul @scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s the year of our lord 2026 and people still fail to see that workers are actual humans, not abstract units of work delivery. And humans have lives, loves and dependents. Why on earth should they be expected to sever those ties?

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We made companies legally liable for the products they advertise and sell 50 years ago. If Amazon has become “too big” to effectively regulate the goods and services it markets and sells, it needs to be broken up.

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German court rules Meta liable for fake ads on Instagram, Facebook

A German court has ruled that Meta is liable for fake advertisements posted by third parties on its Instagram and Facebook platforms, and ordered the ‌U.S. tech giant to remove such content and pay d...

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026

Imagining people who do evil things to be devoid of empathy is a way of comforting oneself, because we all know that we feel empathy and therefore are not the kind of person who could do *that.* It’s much scarier to know that a conglomeration of circumstances can turn basically anybody bad.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.

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Gavin @schofig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a lot of stuff like this that shares more DNA with Joe Rogan than people would like to admit.

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Gavin @schofig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But if you're producing a factual show about a historical topic and you're discovering the Wikipedia summary during the actual show, maybe you shouldn't?

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Gavin @schofig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To be clear I'm not talking about a btb episode there, just a similar sort of online podcast thing with the same sort of tone.

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Gavin @schofig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I saw one recently where someone was basically reading out a wikipedia page while stopping for either them or the cohost to make a quip about it, and it really seemed like this was the first time they'd read this page.

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Gavin @schofig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm really disappointed in how much left wing stuff online is just people doing an 'I Reckon' reaction on topics they've only recently discovered.

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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If your primary way of learning about history is listening to podcasts where some guy giggles and makes fun of it while not having any specialist interest in the subject then you probably know even less than nothing

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🖖🏳️‍⚧️T'Lynn🦇David🦇Cooper🏳️‍⚧️🖖 @awholedamntown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, this movie was so good that it short-circuited my usual "Shitty Esoteric Reviews" nonsense. #Filmsky #Letterboxd

FLOW (2024): 5 star review
"I genuinely... I genuinely don't know what to say. This is beautiful."

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Mark Medina @markmedina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You don’t want a new Halo game. You want to be 15 again. It’s the same reason Call of Duty “isn’t fun anymore”. It’s not really any different than it used to be. You’re just older now and there are a million of them. No MP FPS is gonna make you feel like a teenager again.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

once again the actual "story" behind Tilly Norwood is how the company's PR firm continues to get these stories placed in ostensibly legit outlets over and over despite zero demonstration of the supposed phenomenon being written about ("AI movie star Tilly Norwood") being real

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Gavin @schofig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm actually working on some gold minis right now - my Sanguinary Guard aren't finished yet but they are very golden!

A set of sanguinary guard in gold, not yet finished.

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Gavin @schofig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The blood angels chapter consists of 10 companies of 10 squads, split into Battleline, fire support and close support. Their job is to sit on the spaceship doing nothing as the entire Sanguinary Guard and Death Company deploy alongside just the senior staff, yet again.

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

some of you may not grasp this because you only regularly speak to a ten person reading group who are afraid to go outside, but in the real world, most normies' political views are determined entirely by osmosis from what is floating in the air, which means less bad stuff floating = better

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Gavin @schofig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wouldn't be surprised if it's something like that. The same thing happened with his werewolf movie, all the press coverages talked about it being in Old English and he had to clarify that it's Middle English.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah I don't think we quite understand how much labour the past involved

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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ok I'm going to be a killjoy - this is both 1) terrible satire of TTRPGs and 2) terrible satire of Olivia Rodrigo. Look, I wrote a joke for you: "Olivia Rodrigo's TTRPG is homage to her love of AD&D 2nd Ed and Vampire: The Masquerade, is identical to Daggerheart'. Boom theonion.com/olivia-rodri...

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Olivia Rodrigo Releases Fantasy Tabletop Game ‘The High Winter Elves Of Girlville’

LOS ANGELES—Calling the effort the purest distillation to date of where she is as a dungeon master, pop star Olivia Rodrigo released her long-awaited tabletop roleplaying game The High Winter Elves Of...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

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Shades @agentshades.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think the internet has really given a lot of people a Sadly skewed perspective on getting good at things. You can watch all the technique videos, get all the fanciest tools, know all the theory of a thing and the reality is that you will still suck at it wheb you actually do it AND THAT'S OK.

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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Among all the other problems with her hiring, distributors and PRs for any of this week’s new releases must be raging at this.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 13/09/2026

"DVDs are out of date and pointless, but I'll happily watch a crap version of the extras somebody ripped and not actually pay the people who originally created them for the privilege" fuck OFF

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ah yes, the nation of Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens, there definitely is nothing of close ‘social or economic value’ they provided than that of maths.

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Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Basically this is the reason I don't use AI in my core work, because like we can't remember phone numbers now our mobiles do it, you lose a skill you don't use. And unlike outsourcing phone-number-remembering, these skills matter.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 09/09/2026

The teeth in the photo are from 1909, its a model made based on real ancient dental work but from 2400 years ago, not 4000, also not Egyptian but Phoenician, from Sidon, today Lebanon. This account has half a million followers on instagram.

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As someone who enjoys gaming but spends only a few hours a week maximum (and often goes weeks without playing) I genuinely feel the bliss of ignorance. I thought the Zelda game looked lovely, it will be one of the like 8-10 games I play this year and will make me feel nostalgic about being 9 🫶

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Sonic Spookhammer 🎃 @sonicsledgehammer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On becoming an elected public servant you should have your social media accounts deleted, your phone smashed into little bitty bits, and be forced to actually speak with the people in your constituency rather than desperately hoovering up comment sections like they're instant, reliable polling.

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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There’s so much wrong with the far right but it’s so depressing how deeply, wilfully uncurious they are. How entrenched in their myopic world view that the very concept of another culture strikes them with fear and rage. How sad and unfulfilling a life that must be

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

When I was unemployed during the Great Recession, everything on the TV was about how you should hate the unemployed. Every time I got a job there'd be other staff who just hated the unemployed but not me. I was okay. They've done this to so many groups since and they have got so much better at it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026

“this person is bad so their work was always bad” is also a really dangerous view to take because it leads to - unconscious or not - a bias towards “but I do like this other person’s work, ergo they must be a good person” which, as we have seen over and over, is simply not true

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Gavin @schofig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Another building finished.

There's now a pair of large ruined medieval style buildings

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you live in Wales and support trans people please consider signing this? And please share widely!

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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Exceptional work, BBC!

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Gavin @schofig.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm going to see that tonight too!

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I am honest to god in favour of almost any compensatory mechanism for oil and gas workers you can think of because, you know, why not. But their industry simply needs to be killed and we cannot reach any kind of productive consensus until we agree on that basic principle.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 03/09/2026

a lot of people doubted how much the british media genuinely cared about integrity in academia and now is a great chance for the british media to prove that they’re not just gullible racists!

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Gavin @schofig.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've been meaning to get back to that game for about two years now, I just sort of stopped after the first six levels

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Gavin @schofig.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I almost finished one of the two buildings, I just need to let it dry overnight before I add a bit of weathering.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.

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