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Engels Foodcake @shellcollector.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

although I looked this up/fact checked it and found a forum thread of people saying that there are technically a bunch of regulations around horse ownership in Ireland, it's just that nobody pays attention to or enforces them

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/09/2026

Look, I don't know if that's true, but air travel is one of the safest forms of travel, so THANK YOU FURRIES, FURRIES WIN AGAIN

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Gemma Bristow @konallis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Who doesn't remember where they were the day the mile-high dog attacked Pisa?

Commemorative plate marked '26th Incontro Internazionale, Pisa 2008', painted with the image of a Newfoundland dog looming above landmarks of Pisa (including the Leaning Tower).

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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.

The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”

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Engels Foodcake @shellcollector.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Honestly I increasingly think a lot of it is people who know about IT but not about philosophy arguing with people who know about philosophy but not IT. Obviously as someone who knows about both everyone should just listen to me.

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Meri @meri.garden · 06/09/2026

one of my least favourite leftist trends is people deciding on some moral stance as an individual and then telling people if they disagree they are ‘crossing a picket line’ there’s something so neoliberal about conflating an organised workplace with ~online vibes~

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

French people in 1830:

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You know those Saw sequels where Jigsaw is already dead but he's set up a bunch of deathtraps that can keep going without his input? That's our entire culture and Jeffrey Epstein.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Well, happy 29th anniversary to the greatest ‘reverse ferret’ ever issued by a media outlet

“We apologise for the Princess Diana page one headline DI GOES SEX MAD, which is still on the stands at some locations. It is currently being replaced with a special 72-page tribute issue: A FAREWELL TO THE PRINCESS WE ALL LOVED.”
Statement published by the National Enquirer, August 31, 1997

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is one of the best observed jokes about the era we live in I’ve ever seen.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 25/08/2026

see responses/quotes for many mirrored copies (save a copy yourself while you're at it)

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

'The area of the National Trust’s Holnicote estate where rivers have been returned to their natural courses and wetlands have been restored have remained green and lush during the five heatwaves across the summer.'

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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show

National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/08/2026

I guess it's kind of hard to view the dismissal of one grublike phrenologist as a major hit to free speech after major American universities have in the past year banned the use of words and eliminated entire departments in the hopes of pleasing the senile president

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/08/2026

Students and faculty beaten, expelled, and blackballed for protesting Israel's brutal occupation of Gaza is fine but heaven forfend that a Belgian university gets a bit fed up with little Charlie Spectacles' thoughts about African IQ

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Engels Foodcake @shellcollector.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

and in the mean time, we all get a neat mechanism that flags if a given restaurant owner is able or unable to tell, by visual inspection, whether something looks like 'meat' or 'a teeming mass of maggots'. That seems like useful data to have!

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You want to live like spreadsheet people You want to see whatever spreadsheet people see You want to sleep with spreadsheet people You want to sleep with spreadsheet people like me? But she didn't understand She just smiled and held my hand

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

between ‘autism/ADHD isn’t real,’ ‘postpartum depression isn’t real,’ and ‘being transgender/nonbinary isn’t real,’ it’s impossible not to see the outline of the overarching strategy: the systematic erasure of every modern moral obligation of compassion and justice. This is just where it starts.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Many people think this but it's not true! Data centers are a small rounding error compared to agriculture. And it pains me that this is the case as a golf hater but golf no longer consumes meaningful amounts of water as most courses in the southwest have switched to graywater irrigation

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think the ultimate test of this is actually Boris Johnson. Boris *was fired from his first job* for making up stories, only to go on to be hired into a prestigious role at the Telegraph and spend years lying about the EU at Brussels. And I mean literally lying here; not bad punditry.

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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We will eat you.

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Engels Foodcake @shellcollector.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It sounds like a cool list. The kind of list anyone would want to be on.

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Engels Foodcake @shellcollector.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Anyway have I pitched X-Men 3: The Last Stand to you for YFBMP recently? I know I have at one point but Briar says I should pitch it again.

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Engels Foodcake @shellcollector.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Briar made this case to me once and I said 'this is the very definition of a skill issue' and I stand by that point.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 11/08/2026

quit whining about paywalls and figure out how to do the reading or shut up

NO INVESTIGATION, NO RIGHT TO SPEAK
Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn't that too harsh?
Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and
know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?
It won't do!
It won't do!
You must investigate!
You must not talk nonsense!

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Frankensteins Did 9/11 @christhefriend.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It deives me crazy when I hear astrophysicists talking about we're all specs of dust compared to the vastness of science. You never hear atomic physicists talk about how we're all a bunch of giants. Reference bias.

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Engels Foodcake @shellcollector.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

funniest part was this bit. like yes I am gay and no I don't want to buy crypto.

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Engels Foodcake @shellcollector.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

90% of the people in this quiz look like therapists, with the remaining 10% split between student ID, uber driver and guy who's gonna try to sell me crypto. anyway, apparently I like androgynous people who look a bit irish, which is going to shock precisely nobody esp if they've met my husband lol.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Compound bow First developed in the Ancient World Can't be drawn by just a random guy Tensile strength to make bronze arrows fly

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/08/2026

thinking about what one trillion dollars of investment in clean energy would look like and getting so mad i need to lie down with the lights off

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Hate everything about this. The question, the results, the culture that would produce it. So it's said, British Pakistanis have contributed immensly to this country and they deserve so much better than this shit.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Don't stay on twitter so long you stop believing in sunscreen" sounds like an idiom people 200 years in the future will be using but won't remember what it means

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Azure Emerald Empire @azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

They should make a Whiplash that’s about worldbuilding instead of jazz

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

phenomenally well-expressed

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Engels Foodcake @shellcollector.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

In many ways I think I'm actually more concerned about AI than the median Bluesky poster, in that I think it's likely to have a lasting and largely negative impact on society, beyond some cringe pictures. I simply don't think a disorganised and unsustainable boycott is going to change that at all.

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Engels Foodcake @shellcollector.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Every time I get a wave of blocks for a post about AI that's like 'this technology is complex and has both upsides and downsides', I get to feel like a heroically beleaguered centrist columnist being all 'they can't hANdle my NUANCED and Moderate BELIEFS'

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Engels Foodcake @shellcollector.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

the only unambiguous message of WHN

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

i've heard that "the wine-dark sea" is meant to refer to a property of, like, lustrousness and depth rather than actual color, but also today the toddler was staring at the sea, pointing at its bands of color flowing outwards and shrieking in (accurate) delight: "green sea, blue sea...PURPLE sea!!"

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dame @dame.is · 08/08/2026

i talk about AI discourse using the phrase “purity culture” cause ultimately a lot of what we’re seeing now is 100% the exact same shit that you see in evangelical christianity “where’s the line?” “what’s acceptable and what’s not?” life just isn’t that simple, you’ve lost the plot, you’re a cop

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

cartoon cat now going door to door trying to shock people

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Kris Naudus @lampbane.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Shop at places with signboards like this instead

Chalkboard sandwich board sign that says:

Another weekend.
Another iced hibiscus tea

[drawing of a fox man lying on his stomach holding an iced drink]

With my beautiful fox boyfriend
God I love him.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/08/2026

I was in one of these recently and it was no big deal. I'm still a closed loop individual of individual sapience. There's definitely no humming of the collective mycelium spirit in the back of my mind. Don't worry about these

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”

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