Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Bruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle Herald 251624620
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.social#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 28/09/2026*The term "critical systems" causes unnecessary fear and anxiety *Sure, we do have some now, but they're "critical" because somebody says so, not because they're necessary to us as historical actors *Where are the critical systems of the 18th century? They're nowhere to be found 11514
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialm-rd.bsky.social @m-rd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Similarly, I was NOT aware that regular cruise goers refer to it as cruising until my mother’s 67 yr old pal told me with great enthusiasm how much he & the wife loved it. Go cruising a couple of times a year, apparently. 1251
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialDavid Simpkin @simplerdave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I have asked, following my many long years in am dram and panto, that when the curtains close on my coffin, they then open again and the coffin comes back for an encore. 1453
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My Uncle, a lifelong anarcho squatter, had his coffin described as "by his standards a spacious studio" and "the most he's ever paid for accommodation." 31176
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's my opinion that most funerals benefit from a few laughs, my Dad's, an alcoholic, included the line "You join us here today to bury Tim, of course, he always told us he wanted to be cremated but the crematorium wouldn't risk it." 31064
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One of my best ever memories is when I explained the term cottaging to my dad. Who had recently bought a cottage with my mother and went there most weekends. He’d be telling people he was into cottaging. “Oh, that’s why people kept asking me ‘are you off cottaging this weekend?’ and laughing”. 61528
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For any confused Americans, dogging is a traditional British term for walking the dog, if you're ever over here and see someone with their pet make sure to tell them how much you love dogging. That nothing makes you happier than seeing that wagging tail and panting mouth out on the heath. 4574697
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialJo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Add ‘red diesel’ to their lexicon of picturesque elements of English rurality. 715116
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialArthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Maybe the "very English" aspect of it all is that the entire thing turns out to be an embarrassing mistake. 1116220
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My God. This is the center of Kyiv. A civilian building, a historic one, built in the 1850s. Russian terror knows no bounds. They are attacking and killing Ukrainian civilians just because they can. If Russia is not stopped, it will expand its terror and violence. 16478182
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialEddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵On Feb. 26, 1931, the INS under the orders of Herbert Hoover deported up to 1.8 million people to Mexico. An investigation in 2004 revealed 60% were U.S. citizens. Pull up a seat🪑. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.history.com/articles/the...history.comThe Long History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America | HISTORYSchool segregation, lynchings and mass deportations of Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens are just some of the injustices... 731093734
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialStephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today in 1975, the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex at Nekoma, North Dakota, became fully operational, defending 150 Minuteman III ICBMs at Grand Forks AFB with 30 Spartan and 70 Sprint antiballistic missiles—armed with 5-Mt W71 warheads and 1-kt W66 enhanced-radiation warheads, respectively. 1305
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialRev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 28/09/202621 year old Arkadii Petrov was a refugee who returned to his home country to help defend it. Prayers for his family, and the school and community in Kirkcudbright 05517
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialWaitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 28/09/2026No...for reenactments to be...realistic, there need to be people being horribly maimed and killed. Everything else is sanitized cosplay. And you don't need Nazis for cosplay. The Clean Wehrmacht is the cockroach of historical myths. 1711420
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026Taylor Swift Surpasses Geppetto The Incredible Waltzing Horse As Most-Awarded VMAs Artist theonion.com/taylor-swift-surpasses… 2797369
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialJames Barham @nowthenthee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026250 soldiers surrendered and Russian SM loses its mind, in WW2 whole Soviet armies surrendered during Barbarosa. Proportion here comrades. 1193
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialleajacobsen.bsky.social @leajacobsen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today's Public Service Announcement 0244
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialT. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Final result after a full year of using the Shutter Declutter app: 17,428 photos+videos erased 🤯 Plus it provided an opportunity to relive a bunch of old memories (some of which were better than others 🤪) 2261
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialMatthew Rowley @mbrowley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Not the point of Cory’s post but: I had an itch between own my shoulders. Felt amazing when my husband scratched it. One night I described where it was. “I know,“ he says. “Same spot as always.” It what, now? Cancer, y’all. Rogue flesh the size of a matchbox car. Not visible from the surface. 1402
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"President Donald Trump suffers ego injury from mild-mannered Canadians, initiates geopolitical standoff with Canada and issues annexation threats" is a mid-tier South Park plotline from 2005 unleashed on the world 471335222
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialSen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 28/09/2026The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives 211286225
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialkurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 27/09/2026grimly hilarious that jack left because this site attracted folks into *consensual* sex 0675
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Bluesky's originally envisioned user base was *literally* meant to be all the sex pests at the Silicon Valley orgies @faineg.com has been talking about. Jack Dorsey *left* when trans people showed up instead of the expected Harry Potter sex cultists. 5773217
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend. 772052435
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.social🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 28/09/2026prenatal exposure to music and development/neurogenesis in the hippocampus 2541
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialShivvers in Fear 🙀 @shivvy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026Let’s go, I love these: 0194
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 24/09/2026I'm currently the only one of three disabled trans people in my household who can work, but 16 months of being bedridden and an ongoing chronic migraine issue has left us very broke. If you can spare a few dollars, it'd really help, thanks! ko-fi.com/fooneturingko-fi.comSupport Alice Averlong ❤️Become a supporter of Alice Averlong today! 4226296
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Explaincars Drama: QRH = quick reference handbook, which in this case was presumably used quite literally to handle the wasp kinetically 2327
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialJill "Bury a Friend" Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then... 12715375
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Air to Ground Message: CAPT SEAT BROKEN LEANING ALL THE WAY BACK PLEASE ADVISE MX WILL CALL ON AT THE GATE Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA Type: Embraer ERJ-145 A: #abb005fb43f F: #f173e3d6ad5 011
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialThe Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 28/09/2026Are You Ticklish? 120624
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.social🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 28/09/2026was trying to explain Kairos to my freshman and I asked them what they remembered about the summer of 2020 and they didn’t remember anything because they were in elementary school 171883
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialAnnelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 28/09/2026As usual, great stuff from Cory. This essay digs deep into the myriad kinds of things that are lumped into the idea of IP, and makes a very interesting argument about how to think about the “P” part 0142
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialAnne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 (Part of a longer thread; essay version available in a link further up thread) 0336
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialD.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This works, btw. It's actually pretty incredible and heady just how powerful it is in practice. Every time I've done it the impact is pretty memorable. 3347110
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026fucking reallythehill.comEducation Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ studentsThe Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati… 672170719
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialNash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word. 434563903
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialDj @djsoke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026At least in VA it seems like the Trump admin VBM actions are just making people return ballots faster Loudoun is at 99% of 2025 total requests, 106% of the same day. Returns are >5k vs 1675 same day 38314
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialdisc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I usually try to explain it like this: picture Will Menaker as Cornell West. Now imagine they're Cuban. Doesn't look so much like the Brooks Brothers Riot was caused by adult Bluey fans floss dancing now, does it? 1467
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Explaincars Drama: occasionally, dispatchers will offer to send the lyrics to "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by Eiffel 65 to the printer. 0132
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 28/09/2026I've been going back-and-forth with a local franchise business about their car wash machinery programming and chemicals and they probably think I'm autistic so they have to not yell at me 4451
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 28/09/2026To be fair, the UK recently got a world record for the stupidest possible answer to this question 2212
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/06/2024The courage to say "shut the fuck up" or "stop being a piece of shit" to an asshole who is your boss or relative, beats whatever imagined courage is required in some batman fantasy violence scenario 129763
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.washingtonsun.comWhite House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With TrackersThe White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets. 721291861
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialIda @idaem.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Gas $24.49 per gallon (an overnight jump of nearly $8 from the previous $17.75 rate).Diesel $10.33 per gallon.Prices Are So High: Noatak lacks river barge access because the local river channel is too shallow so every drop of gas &stove oil must be flown in via cargo plane, driving up costs. 0111
Reposted by @sww1235.bsky.socialTProphet @tprophet.org · 28/09/2026If you think gas is expensive where you are, try rural Alaska 041
