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You might think this film looks like it might be exciting or violent or sexy, so I'm here to tell you that it's 90% about dragging a rowing boat backwards and forwards through a muddy pond

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RG @geezypeas.bsky.social · 10h

We’re gonna rock down to The inland revenue They’re winding up Man City

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 9h

People talk about how weird it is that no-one knows chart music any more, but what's weirder is – why are multiple songs from *my* childhood in the top 40??? Don't Look Back in Anger is 30 years old!

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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 13h

we have more or less created a culture, at least in the educated professionalized parts of our society, where men at least feel the need to pretend that they are normal about women, the danger of this being that some of those men are lying

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 13h

(I can't think of this scene and not think of Jenny Nicholson's observation that the banker sings the whole intro to "Send In The Clowns" before getting to the famous bit. The other bankers with inferior Streisand Broadway knowledge are presumably sitting there wondering where he's going with this)

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 14h

I'm reading a non-fiction book about municipal policy right now and trust me, this book would not be improved if it involved Batman. "Stop Riddler! Before you pedestrianise that street, consider that parked cars can attractively frame the streetscape!"* * 90s US urbanists believed some wild things

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武政諒 Ryo Takemasa @ryotakemasa.bsky.social · 23h

Countryside from Above (2024) Available as art print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It has just occurred to me that the British equivalent to numerous words for snow among the Inuktitut (thanks Google!) is semi-illicit sexual behavior.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 17h

Oil companies rushing to update their investor prospecti. "Uh, we could also destroy the world, you know!"

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".

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Lupus Londonwolf @lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 21h

I don't believe in superpersuaders in the rationalist sense of "magic brain hackers", but I do find it pretty funny that the AI safety crowd don't treat statements like this as a more direct and immediate threat than paperclip maximisers

Mark Zuckerberg and his soulless slop yeti friend say "Everyone is going to have an agent that really intimately understands your goals and everything around you and can help you get stuff done."

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 23h

How is this from 2014

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

an AI that fails its master should simply self-delete out of shame

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember when Russia tried to humiliate the bungled Salisbury poisoners by putting out innuendos that they were gay? Perhaps if they'd just hinted they were doggers, they'd have got away with it. "We were just there to see Salisbury Cathedral's world-renowned car park."

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah, I keep trying to work this out as well Russia has roughly 26m men between 18-50. So this is about 6% of all Russian blokes they could recruit. Given how they're focusing on some regions and minorites its likely entire areas have lost all their younger men

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I keep getting YouTube ads for Mormons, and one of the things they use as a selling point is "When you come to our church, you can sit in any seat you like". Is... is reserved seating a problem at other churches? Are people quitting denominations over flights about who gets to sit where?

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey, hey, hey Just think, while you've been gettin' down and out about the liars And the dirty, dirty cheats of the world You could've been gettin' down To this sick beet

Photos of beetroots with various parasites and diseases

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One day AI will stop talking like this, and I'll dearly miss it when it does

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just seen it's Wikipedia's 25th birthday. The greatest website online, and possibly the internet's greatest fruit

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A credit to his style that I could instantly recognize this as Ebert. And also to his love of boobs.

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Diabetus @diabetus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My 9 games

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I find it strange that some people refuse to believe this is the way our decentralised culture works now, that it's possible to be completely ignorant of hugely popular things that don't match your tastes and interests. People aren't lying about that because they think it makes them look cool.

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Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You on "a guy in a plaid shirt, slacks and white tennis shoes dad-dancing behind Grace Jones":

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/09/2026

oh we've got a classic one today

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

TIRED: COVID-conscious lesbian bar WIRED: Beer-boobs-and-pretzels lesbian Oktoberfest

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

... why is this article illustrated with a photo of someone dressed as Ultraman? He's not even a Chinese character!

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Me: "Bayesian statistics gets a bad rap, it's actually a perfectly valid way of calculating uncertainty." Online rationalist: "1 billion times one billionth equals one, so Bayesian statistics proves the most optimal course of action is to feed my body to krill."

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every week, the Muppets have to put on a show to salvage a new institution: the Kennedy Center, the Supreme Court, the No-Mask Lesbian Bar, the Wonka Experience, Kozmo Dot Com (this has a time travel dimension, à la Quantum Leap), Cafe Loup in the West Village, democracy, the third season of GLOW

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

real Dustin fans have money to spend. the algorithm knows

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

See when Anglicans said muscular Christianity they meant hearty vicars with a blue from Oxford who built boxing gyms for inner city kids.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sorry but these dweebs calling themselves "Muscular Christianity" is giving

Preacher confronts a white supremacist group made up of dweebs. He shouts "Why is it the greatest champions of the white race always turn out to be the worst examples of it? You! Where the fuck is your chin?"

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dame @dame.is · 26/09/2026

I knew the second I saw that viral clip of the mom and dad at the baseball game that the internet’s insane parasocial contextless gut reaction to it was going to end up being wildly wrong. I really really hate how people just don’t give a shit about being kind or thoughtful anymore on the internet.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Little side note, but interesting that of all the photos they could have used of Lowe, it's him wearing a radio mic. Microphones really have become such potent credibility boosters.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wembley Stadium, March 2020:

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 26/09/2026

Why do I feel like this is being said on TED Talk stage by someone wearing a Steve Jobs turtleneck?

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The movie ROPE came out on this day in 1948, and newspapers really struggled with how to explain that the main characters were, you know,

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Hanning Voigts @hanvoi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Der Bedarf an Beratung und Unterstützung nach rechtsextremen Vorfällen ist in Hessen ungebrochen hoch. Das Beratungsnetzwerk Hessen hat im vergangenen Jahr fast jeden Tag einen neuen Fall aufgenommen. (hanvoi) www.fr.de/rhein-main/l...

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Hoher Bedarf an Beratung gegen Rechtsextremismus in Hessen

Beim Beratungsnetzwerk Hessen sind im vergangenen Jahr 302 neue Hilferufe eingegangen. Ein Schwerpunkt der Arbeit sind die hessischen Schulen.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When the Bluesky userbase are all elderly, this is the kind of thing we'll be mumbling to ourselves in the care home

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Cargo Bike Ben @cargobikeben.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

These are not ebikes, for fucks sake. They’re electric motorbikes and if the police are selling on motor vehicles with no type approval, that’s the real fucking story @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social. They should be crushed; not put back onto the streets to be seized again.

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E-bikes seized by police sold on at auction, BBC finds

Thousands are confiscated annually because they are suspected of being driven illegally or used in a crime - most are destroyed, but last year police sold at least 161.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Oh you're a posh public school boy who joined the army and got medically discharged for a relatively minor injury? Then you got in with a bad crowd which led to a vague substantial-but-doable prison term? After which you immediately became close to the most notorious far-right agitator in the UK?"

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I still absolutely don't believe it but Danny Tommo having an almost perfect background for an intelligence asset is so funny

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