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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the UK has three industries: higher education, whisky, and Games Workshop.

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

hate prepping for job interviews. just give me the job i’m good for it

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

actually deciding to learn a kylie song was a mistake wtf is this

picture of a fragment of sheet music in treble clef. there are several notes high above the normal clef and one is labelled G???

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i love having a corporate job. team is discussing in the chat what our department’s name is an no one is sure

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

teacher called my saxophone “a beautiful instrument” and i felt like a proud parent

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

we are trying “magic” by kylie minogue, which seems like will be a fun exercise in learning good articulation

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i’m re-reading dracula and got to the bit where mina is like “the nun taking care of jonathan told me he’s been through it but assured me it wasn’t because of another woman. it hadn’t even occured to me that jonathan might cheat. on me? lol. lmao, even”

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i feel a similar way about andy burnham as i do my office printer. it’s been useful to have but i do not trust it and the moment it starts making weird noises and acting up our truce will be terminated

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my spouse is a bad influence because i will say “look that charity shop has a signed photo of the cast of the vampire diaries in the window” and they will say “it’s only £9 let’s get it and put it in the living room”

a framed photo of damon, elena, and stefan from the vampire diaries that has been signed by ian somerhalder, nina dobrev, and paul wesley

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this month they’re playing a game called “we’re cancelling your injection appointment with 6 hours’ notice! how does a new appointment in a month sound” i’m gonna lose it

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

does anyone have fun suggestions of pop songs i could try to learn on sax? i’d be doing the vocal line so doesn’t need to be a song that has saxophone in it. my teacher is banned from choosing for me after suggesting coldplay

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my gp surgery loves to play a fun game where i request my t prescription in good time and then my gp just doesn’t approve it and then i have to show up at the office and say “hi i can’t come to the injection appointment that you scheduled if you don’t approve the thing they’re injecting”

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This article is the latest in a series emerging from our AHRC project (@leannemccormick.bsky.social @charlielynch.bsky.social @mauricejcasey.com) on 'Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation'. Other pieces to look out for... 🧵

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i do not like companies sending me messages in whatsapp. that’s where my friends live. fuck off back to emails, company

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

have been off here for a while bc of the News and don’t know what to say in the face all of this so i’m just gonna start saxophone posting aka just talking about my journey learning saxophone

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

i don’t know anything about dream science but i do know that my wife and i regularly have coordinating stress dreams. like they’ll have a dream that they missed their train and i’ll have a dream that we were supposed to meet up but they never showed

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 25/08/2026

hey does anyone know what kind of software museums and hobbiest collectors use to organize information about physical artifacts in their collection? im gonna put some questions and requests for terms in a thread here. i will try to add updates with what is already answered. (x-posted to bloblove)

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

1. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours.

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

my partner asked me if they should send my american family condolences for dolly

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 25/08/2026

Fed back, into the (undoubtedly data-scraped) machine. Highly recommend registering your objections. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

ec.europa.eu

European Commission - Have your say

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We are told to ignore the racism of Hegel, Kant, Locke etc because they were just "men of their time". So what do we do with the racism of current academics? Are they too just "men of their time"? What is this "time" that seems to make racists of men?

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

ok everyone now let’s bully kit harrington he seems like he’ll break easy

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

finished reading ‘call me by your name’. i haven’t seen the film since it was released but remember it leaving me with a deep sense of melancholy. i finished the book feeling a similar way, but it was the section of the book that isn’t in the film that got me to those feelings

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

reading classic british queer novels is wild because the protagonist will go “If only this nation allowed the natural love of those with their own sex to flourish, all would be will. Also. Unrelated. Every poor person is stupid and I hate them.”

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

why don’t they put hooks on the back of the stall doors in men’s toilets i still have stuff to hang up

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

at what stage of planning permission did they contract the evil wizard to curse to m62

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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

completely real question i had to answer for the hospital im getting top surgery at

a surgery form. the question being asked is "what are your pronouns?" the only answers are yes or no.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Yvette Cooper confirming that NHS guidance is coming forth shortly banning trans people from single sex wards. She waffles about ‘alternative provision’ but let’s be realistic here, this will massively massively disadvantage trans people’s care. Fuck Andy Burnham

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

went to the dentist earlier and half of my face is still numb so i’m currently placing a lot of faith in my muscle memory for performing tasks like “drinking from a cup without spilling”

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Adorable Assassin Ace 🏴‍☠️ @gaythanksbye.northsky.social · 11/04/2024

got so much love and respect for self made men* *trans mascs

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

You'd have to read to the thirteenth paragraph to discover the pull quote for the title was from Marcus Siding, a 23-year-old Swedish man living in Sweden that wanted to become a cop, but his ADHD diagnosis at the age of 12 barred him by law from becoming a Swedish cop Seems relevant

'“When my ADHD diagnosis was removed, it was a relief’
Rates of conditions such as ADHD and autism seem to be ever growing, but some adults diagnosed in childhood are happy to be free of their labels”

Excerpt From
“‘When my ADHD diagnosis was removed, it was a relief’”
The Times and The Sunday Times
https://apple.news/AdYlGGpX0SrG-Joy7OuhgMg
This material may be protected by copyright.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Four years ago, a coordinated right-wing smear campaign condemned Monticello for "going woke." Bridget Gillespie was working there at the time, and she gives this revelatory inside account of the harassment staff endured and ultimately how the institution buckled. Amazing piece.

prospect.org

What Broke Monticello - The American Prospect

How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My dad just told me that in the 80s their local grocery store used to sell t-shirts with their slogan “THE BEST MEAT IN TOWN” and when I tell you I need one of these shirts

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

coming home from a party I encountered a tesla with delorean-style doors and it was one of the most baffling drunk experiences ive ever had. the doors could only be opened by the driver using the big ipad and the door handle was completely flat. why are we messing with technology we’ve perfected

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

adobe acrobat update coding team count your fuckin days

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

get the children into information management classes immediately im not playing around

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

At the party to celebrate my British citizenship we held a vote to pick a new national anthem and the version of “All The Things She Said” from Heated Rivalry won so everybody note that down

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

me when the local pharmacy raises all their prices

Wikipedia article page header for “fuck-me boots”

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

steinbeck’s “east of eden” seems to be doing a pretty clear ‘the settling of california is the biblical creation of the world’ thing has anyone thought this before

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

one of the worst parts of microsoft teams is you can’t write >:(

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Microsoft is planning to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but it needs more voices. Sign here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

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Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!

Microsoft wants to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.

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dr lois, local friend 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️ @supitslois.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

my American father has joined a whatsapp group of British football fans travelling to the US and they are teaching him bad words

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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

[AFTER KEIR STARMER RESIGNS] ME: PAL: ME: PAL: Lot of human rights abuses for a hu- ME: A LOT of human rights abuses for a human rights lawyer!

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It's so exciting being a freelancer in the arts & ents industry (one of the UK's biggest industries) bc about once a month the gvt have a new proposal to kick you in the head & you have to fill in a dry consultation form explaining why kicking you in the head would be bad for business, not good

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autogynephagia @cas.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

trans healthcare is largely cis doctors telling you that transitioning is going to be a big disappointment and then being completely wrong over and over for their entire career

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