Reposted by ToasterSargoth (discursively endogenous feliform) @longersky.com · 07/09/2025The famous sociologist slash rhetorical scholar Kenneth Burke once posited that self-help book fill a function by making you feel like you are doing the thing, without necessarily leading to you actually doing the thing. I sense that this notion, formulated in the 60s, might be relevant again 122979
Reposted by ToasterHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor 03527740
Reposted by ToasterHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 11128273535
Reposted by ToasterWill Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Far Right's response to RAF Fairford (whilst I make poached eggs) Let me know if you'd like to see more of me cooking whilst talking about politics I am REALLY good at one of those things 2377
Reposted by ToasterAlex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026With alt text. I yelled 1297123
Reposted by ToasterJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed 3444551064
Reposted by ToasterIn Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things 461408190
Reposted by ToasterFoucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I love humor that transcends language 016943
Reposted by ToasterEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026So far the only retort from the AI boosters appears to be “2025 doesn’t matter” and I’m not kidding 25857110
Reposted by ToasterDr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 28/09/2026Not that it counts for much now but Rafah had been inhabited for over 3000 years and appears in the book of Maccabees. Now it's just gone. 03621
Reposted by ToasterJohn Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Sorry, I saw your message, but I also saw nineteen other phone alerts that same minute. My brain evolved to evade predators. I will not improve. 232770
Reposted by ToasterJames Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Think it's important to grasp that when people like Ovenden use phrases like "rapidly medicalised layabouts" they get a little thrill like they're daring to break taboos, but actually they're repeating the tiresome but orthodox belief of their coterie. (Cf his treatment of Diane Abbott.) 312230
Reposted by ToasterTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 27/09/2026Transphobia is genuinely an elite fixation that is much less popular than most politicians and media outlets would have you believe. 102009541
Reposted by ToasterMark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I know it's late in his career but I'd like to see Tom Jones release a follow-up song called 'It IS Unusual', which focuses on rare but documented phenomena like Halley's Comet. 1923926
Reposted by ToasterRuth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“The tribunal found a clear pattern of the university trying to shut down complaints made by Wyn in a bid to protect itself from reputational damage” If preventing reputational damage is Cambridge’s aim, it’s not doing very well atm. thetab.com/2026/09/07/c...thetab.comCambridge professor wins tribunal after exposing alleged staff bullyingWyn Evans, a professor of astrophysics, told the tribunal in June that he had witnessed a 'bad history of misogyny' within the Institute of Astronomy 13115
Reposted by ToasterBrainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026In 2018 I wrote an hour-long comedy show about mental health, toxic masculinity, and how close the world has come to nuclear war. I think those things share a LOT of traits. Running through the show was the story of Stanislav Petrov, who saved the world on this day in 1983 youtu.be/kU9_3bOe_8Iyoutu.beGuy Kelly's Letter of Last Resort - Full ShowYouTube video by Guy Kelly 05319
Reposted by ToasterDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you think "employee needs to consume fluids to function" is a dealbreaker for your business, I have *terrible* news for you about AI... 1406
Reposted by ToasterPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2073042276
Reposted by ToasterKOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Australian Institute of Marine Science This timelapse captures just over two years of coral growth, between May 2011 and August 2013, in the central Great Barrier Reef. The footage was taken by our fixed underwater camera at AIMS' weather station at Davies Reef. linktr.ee/AustInstitut... 22959271
Reposted by ToasterTuring Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The reason we should actually crack down hard on racist agitators, and yes, using the force of the state, with the courts, and the police, and power, is not because it can cure racists from being racist. I don't know what can. I don't care! You shouldn't be allowed to say and do these things 67912
Reposted by ToasterCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls” 431651428
Reposted by ToasterVictoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 23/09/202680 hours of embroidery! This aerial landscape is directly inspired by Dartmoor and I'd say I have another 30-ish hours to go? I'm now starting to fill in the fields for the sheep, the tor area will be done last as I'm still deciding whether I want a slope or not 😅 I hope you like it! #art 1714512660
Reposted by ToasterJosh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Naming my cat Rich but beating people with a tire iron if they don’t pronounce the ch as a Xhosa aspirated click consonant. 1233021
Reposted by ToasterBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves. 10380912791
Reposted by Toaster~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I would argue that paying people cash to attack refugees is, in some ways, actually not very Christian at all. 1216
Reposted by ToasterEnd Political Homelessness Now @raaleh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026In the “first they came for…” Martin Niemoller poem, he doesn’t specify who “they” is who comes for all those people. I think we have our honest to god “they” here. 120525
Reposted by ToasterSam Antics @dsoart.com · 22/09/2026Grant me the temerity to resent the things I cannot change, the cowardice not to change the things I can, and the stupidity to not know the difference 212028
Reposted by Toasterdan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right 3069241689
Reposted by ToasterMark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My tour rider is water and coffee AND a request that the stage be dressed with a step ladder decorated by the tech crew in any way they see fit. Hats off to Leeds City Varieties tech. Salut x 313914
Reposted by Toastermattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 21/09/2026great news! | patreon.com/lubchansky 111730349
Reposted by ToasterBethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The free rider problem is the defining factor in whether someone is left or right wing, this is because if you think free riders are a problem you tend not to be intellectually curious enough to understand long chains of cause and effect. 17532
Reposted by ToasterCowbo Bebo at his Computo @dochaus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026RIP to Tilly Norwood, who was accidentally uploaded into a Quake 3 Arena match and gibbed by a rocket launcher instead of the SFM machinima she was supposed to appear in. She is survived by her closest kin, Gal Gadot. 173047797
Reposted by ToasterJason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Local story takes quite a swerve just before the page turn. 21624127
Reposted by ToasterThe Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 19/09/2026OKAY FINE YOU CAN HAVE A CHURU 33131273835
Reposted by ToasterMartin Rosner @hotpaper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026comic about imagining a guy to get mad at 324539
Reposted by ToasterBrainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Wait. Hang on. First, beastiality isn't a blocker to joining the FBI, and now the FBI is suggesting that other agents don't trust ladies. Sounds like SOMEONE is in the pocket of big kangaroo, if you know what I mean. 98115
Toaster @toaster.codes · 18/09/2026If Chris Packham is the next David Attenborough, Hussein is the next Adrian Chiles. 010
Reposted by Toastersexy pride month lukedovician @beardynoise.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We are 48hrs from Allegations droppingstatic.klipy.comIt's Happening MemeALT: It's Happening Meme 2183
Reposted by Toasterflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What I take from this is that a presumably substantial chunk of the British security services and our state apparatus are absolutely wowed by the Israeli government’s murderous fascism, they swoon and gasp with delight at the mass killing of anyone they deem a threat. 1013337
Reposted by ToasterHK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Is he the only politician whose obsession with bathrooms is actually good 214115
Reposted by Toastershaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 17/09/2026you just know that posting "i'm just trying to start a polite conversation about who deserves human rights" will not be marked 'toxic,' but anyone responding 'hey fuck off with that' will earn +5 toxic points 5454861217
Reposted by ToasterDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Have you found a solution for the situation with Ed's opening acts?" "Sure have" "And it's not another mortifyingly embarrassing misstep that'll just make him look even more ridiculous, as I specified?" "Yep... wait, *not*???" 2253