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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 20/06/2026

Americans still insisting to me that attack helicopters are a normal & fine way to mark the start of a football match. The fact that this has been so normalised that people cannot see how weird it is is part of the problem. Healthy democracies don‘t mark the start of a kickabout with gunships.

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Ether @tidal-ether.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

𐑲𐑥 𐑑𐑮𐑲𐑦𐑙 𐑬𐑑 𐑩 𐑯𐑿 #shavian 𐑒𐑰𐑚𐑹𐑛 𐑪𐑯 𐑥𐑲 𐑓𐑴𐑯: 𐑡𐑨𐑓𐑤! 𐑪𐑯 𐑥𐑲 𐑤𐑨𐑐𐑑𐑪𐑐 𐑲 𐑕𐑑𐑦𐑤 𐑿𐑟 𐑦𐑥𐑐𐑽𐑾𐑤, 𐑚𐑳𐑑 𐑲𐑝 𐑢𐑪𐑯𐑑𐑩𐑛 𐑑 𐑑𐑮𐑲 𐑞𐑦𐑕 𐑒𐑰𐑚𐑹𐑛 𐑕𐑦𐑯𐑕... 𐑚𐑦𐑓𐑹 𐑦𐑑 𐑦𐑜𐑟𐑦𐑕𐑑𐑩! 𐑲 𐑕𐑷 𐑞𐑦𐑕 𐑝𐑦𐑛𐑦𐑴 𐑩𐑚𐑬𐑑 𐑿𐑟𐑦𐑙 𐑩 𐑡𐑦𐑯𐑧𐑑𐑦𐑒 𐑨𐑤𐑜𐑼𐑦𐑞𐑩𐑥 𐑑 𐑥𐑲𐑒 𐑩 𐑥𐑳𐑗 𐑚𐑧𐑑𐑼 𐑷𐑤𐑑𐑻𐑯𐑩𐑑𐑦𐑝 𐑑 𐑒𐑢𐑻𐑑𐑦 (𐑯 𐑩 𐑢𐑻𐑕 𐑢𐑳𐑯). youtu.be/188fipF-i5I?...

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You're wrong about QWERTY

YouTube video by Atomic Frontier

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xkcd Bot @xkcd-bot.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Where Babies Come From xkcd.com/3127 (alt-text too long for a BlueSky message, see image alt-text instead) Explain xkcd: www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/…

Historians: Contemporaneous documentation of the initial events is often sparse, and in fact people often get testy and uncooperative when we urge better documentation for the historical record.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/07/2025

This is exactly the kind of work the Catholic Church should be doing. Glad they’re stepping up. 🙏🏽 Archdiocese of Los Angeles launches program to help families impacted by immigration raids. The raids have made immigrants worried to leave their homes.

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Daniel @c418.org · 01/07/2025

I find it funny that a guy called pirate software got really upset at the notion that if a publisher takes down an online game, some fans will do some software piracy to create fan made servers to get it back running.

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𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 | Shavian @shavian.info · 25/06/2025

I have released a new Shavian keyboard layout, 'Shaw JAFL', for use with the Keyman app. The layout has been designed with carpalx to minimise typing effort, with common letters in the home row and compound letters built up by typing their parts (e.g. 𐑩 + 𐑮 = 𐑼). www.shavian.info/shaw_jafl_ke...

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Shavian alphabet info - Shaw JAFL keyboard layout|𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑨𐑤𐑓𐑩𐑚𐑧𐑑 𐑦𐑯𐑓𐑴 - ·𐑖𐑷 𐑡𐑨𐑓𐑩𐑤 𐑒𐑰𐑚𐑹𐑛 𐑤𐑱𐑬𐑑

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I seriously think the Social Internet is 21st century cigarettes. Complete with secondary smoke causing a lot of harm in nonusers.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

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Andrew Gardiner @ajgardineresq.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The #NoKingsDay protests were overwhelmingly peaceful, an estimated 5 million Americans standing up to Trump's attempt to turn their country into an hereditary kleptocracy. #NewsCorpse must have done a lot of digging to come up with this one case of unrest (↘️) ...

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Providing homeless people with housing: - reduces crime - increases employment - improves health - does not increase reliance on social benefits. 80% of the costs are offset by the benefits in the first 18 months. Evidence from the US

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𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 | Shavian @shavian.info · 11/06/2025

𐑨𐑑 𐑤𐑰𐑕𐑑 𐑥𐑴𐑕𐑑 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑑𐑧𐑒𐑕𐑑 𐑦𐑟 𐑕𐑑𐑦𐑤 𐑞 𐑐𐑮𐑦𐑟𐑻𐑝 𐑝 𐑛𐑦𐑤𐑲𐑑𐑓𐑩𐑤𐑦 𐑦𐑒𐑕𐑧𐑯𐑑𐑮𐑦𐑒 𐑣𐑿𐑥𐑩𐑯 𐑚𐑰𐑦𐑙𐑟.

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Andrew Gardiner @ajgardineresq.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Bolt scoffs at "Albo the Catholic". He'd much rather believers listen to him, a talking head for billionaires ("eye of a needle", anyone?) whose support for Catholics is marked by a staunch defence of ... George Pell. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, Lucifer's Lips: #NewsCorpse

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Eugenicists are so stupid.

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Ether @tidal-ether.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

My girlfriend just made me jump out of my skin because she said "look at the time!" because the clock said quarter-past 12 and we had to be at a friend's birthday at 1pm. It was daylight savings last night, I've been played it's only 11 o'clock.

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Ether @tidal-ether.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"ChatGPT hallucinating my will to live on a Sunday when I have to go in to work the next morning" - My girlfriend just now, for no apparent reason (it's 0120h on a Wednesday morning...)

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Ether @tidal-ether.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I got #mastodon recently. I've been enjoying exploring what's different and what's the same as BlueSky. I had some choice paralysis deciding between the different servers, but settled on the default mastodon.social.

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Mastodon

The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

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Ether @tidal-ether.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I think it'd be cool if big platforms like YouTube had some way that you could set up an ATprotocol account linked to your url on that platform. I imagine the decentralised nature of such platforms would make it hard, but it could reduce the need for 'THIS is me, THAT is a scam account' PSAs.

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Ether @tidal-ether.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

" I loooove having **zero (0) hours of sleep** on the day I have to get a bajillion things done!! 🤩🤣✨️🌈🌟🙃🙃🙃🙃 "

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Ether @tidal-ether.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

𐑘𐑹 𐑤𐑦𐑐𐑕 𐑴𐑯𐑤𐑦 𐑑𐑳𐑗 𐑓 𐑓𐑹 𐑤𐑧𐑑𐑼𐑟 𐑝 𐑞 𐑐𐑦𐑯𐑚𐑧𐑤: 𐑐𐑦𐑯 𐑚𐑧𐑤 𐑥𐑰 𐑢𐑱

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Ian Farquhar @ianfarquhar.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Australia urgently needs to make regulatory investments in drug safety, air safety, food safety. U.S. regulation is no longer reliable, and the international community needs to reconfirm anything that they claim. The group of countries whose regulation can be trusted no longer includes the USA.

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Mighty Haunter @mightyhunter.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there. The show must go on.

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Ether @tidal-ether.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

𐑲'𐑥 𐑩𐑚𐑬𐑑 𐑑 𐑕𐑑𐑸𐑑 𐑞 𐑓𐑻𐑕𐑑 𐑝 𐑑𐑵 𐑖𐑦𐑓𐑑𐑕 𐑑𐑩𐑛𐑱. 𐑢𐑴𐑯'𐑑 𐑓𐑦𐑯𐑦𐑖 𐑩𐑯𐑑𐑦𐑤 𐑔𐑮𐑰 ⸰𐑭𐑥 𐑑𐑩𐑥𐑪𐑮𐑴. I'm about to start the first of two shifts today. Won't finish until three am tomorrow.

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Ether @tidal-ether.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

"People who believe in a correct way of speaking conveniently never believe their way of speaking is the incorrect way."

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𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 | Shavian @shavian.info · 27/01/2025

𐑢𐑳𐑯 𐑝 𐑞 𐑑𐑮𐑴𐑐𐑕 𐑦𐑯 𐑩 𐑤𐑪𐑑 𐑝 𐑮𐑲𐑑𐑦𐑙 𐑩𐑚𐑱𐑑 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑦𐑟 𐑣𐑬 𐑦𐑑 ‹𐑢𐑧𐑯𐑑 𐑯𐑴𐑢𐑺›. 𐑲𐑥 𐑯𐑪𐑑 𐑖𐑫𐑼 𐑞𐑦𐑕 𐑒𐑨𐑯 𐑑𐑮𐑵𐑤𐑦 𐑚𐑰 𐑕𐑧𐑛. 𐑣𐑬 𐑥𐑧𐑯𐑦 𐑹𐑔𐑩𐑜𐑮𐑨𐑓𐑦𐑒 𐑮𐑦𐑓𐑹𐑥 𐑐𐑮𐑩𐑐𐑴𐑟𐑩𐑤𐑟 𐑸 𐑕𐑑𐑦𐑤 𐑦𐑯 𐑛𐑱𐑤𐑦 𐑿𐑕 𐑥𐑹 𐑞𐑨𐑯 60 𐑘𐑽𐑟 𐑭𐑓𐑑𐑼 𐑚𐑰𐑦𐑙 𐑐𐑮𐑩𐑐𐑴𐑟𐑛? ·𐑛𐑧𐑟𐑼𐑧𐑑 𐑥𐑱 𐑚𐑰 𐑞 𐑴𐑯𐑤𐑦 𐑳𐑞𐑼 𐑦𐑜𐑟𐑭𐑥𐑐𐑩𐑤. 𐑥𐑴𐑕𐑑 𐑐𐑮𐑩𐑐𐑴𐑟𐑩𐑤𐑟 𐑸 𐑯𐑧𐑝𐑼 𐑿𐑟𐑛 𐑰𐑝𐑩𐑯 𐑩 𐑛𐑱 𐑭𐑓𐑑𐑼 𐑞𐑺 𐑐𐑮𐑩𐑐𐑴𐑟𐑩𐑤.

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Year Progress Bot @yearprogress.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Dems would get much more traction finding and promoting people saying what they know and experience. What has more impact, This man speaking his mind or the Dems speaking “in unison “ ?

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

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Ether @tidal-ether.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Just came back from camping with my friend for hia burthday and... Wow. I missed a lot.

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Ether @tidal-ether.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

𐑦𐑓 𐑴𐑯𐑤𐑦 𐑲'𐑛 𐑜𐑮𐑴𐑯 𐑳𐑐 𐑮𐑰𐑛𐑦𐑙 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯, 𐑲 𐑢𐑫𐑛 𐑯𐑪𐑑 𐑣𐑨𐑝 𐑞𐑦𐑕 𐑐𐑮𐑪𐑚𐑤𐑩𐑥!

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Shout out to my fellow mispronouncers of words we have never heard spoken, but only read. 👍

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Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I would like this comic I drew in 2017 to stop being relevant pleeeaaaaase

I wake up in the morning.
I sit at my computer.
The internet screams at me that the world is on fire.
I am overwhelmed by the deluge of bad news and faceplant in front of the computer.

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Ether @tidal-ether.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Cars are incredible machines that will continue to be a vital transportation solution in the future. But regular people shouldn't need one. Streets full of giant metal boxes that only use 1/10th their volume for their occupant are obviously inefficient once you cast off the biases of car-centrism.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 11/01/2025

My son is enjoying his book but says "I really need it not to have a sad ending." He's reading 1984.

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Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

real ones know that the tv you play your video games on doesn’t matter— it’s what’s in your heart that determines your experience.

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Give "Control Salt Delete" kid a medal you cowards

A list of snowplow name suggestions from kindergarten thru 4th grade classes including "Control Salt Delete"

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Andrew Gardiner @ajgardineresq.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

"Government spends $18m to promote policies pre-election." 😱 Does anyone recall #NewsCorpse moaning - across multiple mastheads - about 𝙎𝙘𝙤𝙈𝙤'𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙 $340𝙢 𝙨𝙥𝙡𝙪𝙧𝙜𝙚 on taxpayer-funded ads before the 2022 election? Me neither. #auspol

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Ether @tidal-ether.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Books make for such satisfying present shapes; a nice aesthetic square package wrapped nicely (extra points for a bow!)

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The sax in Men at Work’s ‘Who Can It Be Now?’ would make a great car horn.

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Ether @tidal-ether.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I LOVE Titanfall II. I played it on a beat up office PC from 2012 last year, had to have it running in windowed mode on lowest graphics but still thought it was beautiful. I even started to get OK at the movement and multiplayer.

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Tar-Míriel's wife 💍 @islandofnumenor.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I can't believe there's people finding out about THE ODYSSEY because of the new Nolan film and complaining about spoilers. Sir please it was written almost 3000 years ago what spoilers are you talking about.

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Magdalen @atmosphaeria.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

IDK who needs to hear this, but you're allowed to like one part of a band's discography and not the other. You don't have to know the whole history of a band to be a fan. You can just simply LIKE the music. You don't need to know names of every album or song or band member. You can just LIKE music.

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

DOSTOEVSKY: Is it ok to take the law into your hands and kill a class enemy? EVERYONE: Wow this is such a profound difficult question. This is the greatest book of all time LUIGI: Is it ok to take the law into your hands and kill a class enemy? EVERYONE: NO, duh. That's obviously wrong

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Ether @tidal-ether.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Neither, I leave the second vowel unstressed as a ə. 𐑲𐑼𐑯, or perhaps 𐑲𐑩𐑯 as I have an arhotic General Australian accent. #shavian

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