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I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

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Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.eurosky.social · 3h

Realized there's also this evergreen . . . Innsbruck, you were ever whatever we were hoping for. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bZJ...

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Chanson: Innsbruck, ich muß dich lassen

YouTube video by Jordi Savall - Topic

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 5h

yet again, I am asking, just how long ago people think the Second World War actually was

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J. Clark🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🇭🇰🇵🇷 @clarkjosephf.bsky.social · 10h

Actually, there is a sharp line to be drawn between science and the humanities. The difference is methodological: The “scientific method” consists of publishing papers formatted in two or more columns; whereas humanities papers are arranged in just one column.

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Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.eurosky.social · 5h

I basically only listen to classical music, but here's one that once upon a time started to redefine what classical music can be to me. mu.social/profile/soph...

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Merriam Webster out here fighting for its life

Merriam-Webster & @Merriam..•18h
'Goodbye' is an alteration of "God be with you."

Sean Kress• @SKress7514 • 16h
Do you have evidence to back this up? If so can you explain what "good night" , "good
morning" and "good evening" are alterations of?

Merriam-Webster & @Merriam..•15h
what

Sean Kress & @SKress7514 • 14h
I was genuinely asking the question because the only thing I find on the internet is that it is basically a slur from the original.... I assumed there was a better explanation for it than that as it seems a little unlikely given the good night, good morning etc haven't been slurred into something else too. Sorry if you saw that as offensive.

Merriam-Webster @ @Merriam...•14h S
It is not related to 'good night/ day/morning.'
The 'good' in those do not come from 'God.'

Sean Kress @ @SKress7514 • 14h
So the internet suggestion this it is just a slur is what you are basing that on too then?

Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Merriam-Webster's etymology follows established linguistic scholarship, not unverified internet suggestions of a "slur."
"Goodbye" is an alteration of "God be with you"; "good" in greetings like "good morning" has separate origins unrelated to "God."
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goo…
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goodbye blog.oup.com/2022/02/if-god..
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We are the dictionary.

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Thomasatanimørket 👻🧛‍♀️💀 @gladwold.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Her, ja. Har dessverre ikke serien som bildet er fra.

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Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Late night watching EAST OF EDEN (2026). Key takeaway: Hoon Lee has one of The Great Voices. Damn what a voice!

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Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Watched 9 TO 5 with wife, and we laughed our arses off. Not sure all of it was quite as funny as that, but it hit just the spot today. Also, this is a severely under-memed movie.

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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 17/10/2026

There...she's not...there is no belt

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Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

A chest organ suitable for baroque continuo playing, probably. Also a bigger home to put it in, because we don't really have any space left in this one with all the other instruments.

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Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Idly wondering how many people Trump needs to knife in the back before US media stop with the "close ally" nonsense.

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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 16/10/2026

Though we're waiting on her formal resignation, note that the unofficial conversion at the moment is one Zacharia = 0.64 Scaramuccis = .16 Trusses

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Guilty🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I love when politics goes international.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Bad news, GoT fans.

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Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Guillermo Montesinos as the driver of Mambo Taxi in "Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown"

A staged photo of Guillermo Montesinos in costume leaning casually on his taxi. He has hair dyed shining white and is wearing a yellow jacket. The doors are ajar, showing the most dementedly decorated inside of a taxi you could possibly imagine.

Seats are fake leopard skin, the steering weel cover is a matching fake snow leopard skin. Everywhere there are glossy magazines hanging by laundry clips. It has every piece of internal car decoration frippery you can possibly imagine everywhere.

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Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Bambi was strangely unattractive to me when I watched it with the kids.

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Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Allright, listen up US class of -26, now we're going practice our daily German. Repeat after me: "Zersetzung"

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Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Europeans: Yet another datapoint for why we should carefully copy the US on freedom of speech law and tell them to get bent on basically everything else.

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I'm just relieved the courts arent alive to see it come to this

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/10/2026

thank you jason statham for continuing to make movies for me, personally the original has a scene in which a scammer tries to bribe statham with nfts and is immediately tied to a truck and driven off a bridge and there has never been anything more laser-targeted at me in my life

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Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

You could hardly tell these days, but the level of cursedness of the things I needed to search to parse the parlance when I first got here . . . and that was still well after the alfhogian days, mind you.

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Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

Being on Ye Olde Twittre taught me that Urban Dictionary is often the best reference. Moving to Mastodon and BlueSky taught me the keyboard shortcut that opens a private browser window prior to searching.

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psychoSoph - Comic @psychosoph.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

🗳️ People, can you help me out with your thoughts? 🔎 A lot of you have told me that the dark speech bubbles are hard to read. 🎨 Would you prefer white font? Does this design change bother you, or would you love it? #science #psychology #neuroscience #sciart #psychscisky 🧪 #comic

Soph asks with examples of speech bubbles: Should I keep the black font in the dark speech bubbles that a lot of you find hard to read? Or should I change to white font which is easier to read but will change the style of the comic design?

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psychoSoph - Comic @psychosoph.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

🗳️ Leute, könnt ihr mir mit euerer Meinung aushelfen? 🔎Viele von euch melden mir zurück, dass die dunklen Sprechblasen schwierig zu lesbar sind. 🎨 Lieber weiße Schrift? Ist die Designänderung für euch unangenehm oder wäre es super? #Wissenschaft #Psychologie #Neurowissenschaft #comic

Soph fragt anhand von Sprechblasenbeispielen: Soll ich bei den dunklen Sprechblasen bei der schwarzen Schrift bleiben, die viele aber schwieriger lesbar finden? Oder auf eine weiße Schrift umsteigen, die besser lesbar ist, aber etwas den Charakter des Comic-Designs verändert?

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Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

Very nice column. Includes pithy primer on what that Navier-Stokes kerfuffle was about.

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Not many people know that AA Milne had a much smaller brother called AAA Milne

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David (he/him) @dkbell0.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I just heard the phrase, "god gives his funniest battles to his most unstable soldiers" and damn if that doesn't hit

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Left-Hand Vs. Right-Hand Traffic On Railway Lines In Europe Notice anything weird? More about how this happened: brilliantmaps.com/left-hand...

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Backrooms To The Future @gswilkinson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Abbananarama bsky.app/profile/soph...

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Jeff Yates @jeffyates.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Ce psychodrame sur la supposée disparition de "bots russes" suite à des frappes ukrainiennes sur des centres de données est vraiment déprimant. Hallucination collective. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/229...

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Non, les frappes de Kiev en Russie n’ont pas démantelé de réseau de bots au Canada

La destruction des centres de données russes n’a eu aucune incidence sur l’engagement suscité par le contenu politique circulant sur X au Canada, selon une analyse préliminaire.

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Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

I know, it's those braincells that go ape tits crazy whenever someone puts things in the wrong kitchen drawer.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 14/10/2026

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Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

The Tuberville quote "there's no reason to get up there and argue about differences of opinion" is truly one for the Louvre of Politics.

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Liza Minnelli Outlives @lizaoutlives.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Liza Minnelli has outlived Kimberly Guilfoyle's tenure as ambassador to Greece. Don Jr.'s ex was fired after the White House realized she wasn't very good at concealing corruption.

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yes, feel free to use my art for protest posters. Please, no altering the drawing or text. And I know many other cartoonists offer this as well- just ask them.

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"

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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

*looking at the worst post of my life* I must not post. Reactive posting is the mind-killer. Dunking is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the Bad Take. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. When the TL refreshes there shall be nothing. Only I remain.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Behold!! On this Indigenous People’s Day, the first page of the first number of THE CHEROKEE PHOENIX (1828)- featuring the Cherokee Constitution in English & Cherokee, in the syllabary created by Sequoyah. An epic milestone in Native American history and the history of print

Picture of the newspaper - with an engraving of a great Phoenix at the top, and double columns of type below, with English and Cherokee juxtaposed

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Kenan Habul @kenanhabul.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Vilken klusterfuck utredningen kring "skolskjutningen" i Örebro verkar vara. Jag förstår att vissa, inte minst inom polisen, verkar tro att "kollegorna" gjort allt de skulle. Men inte enligt den här recensionen. Herregud. www.sydsvenskan.se/kultur/svens...

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KRÖNIKA: Svensk polis begravde frågan om det värsta massmordet i Sveriges historia

Mattias Beijmos förstklassiga journalistiska verk om massmordet på Risbergska skolan i Örebro kokar ner till ett…

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 11/10/2026

One step closer to the ur-treat, the treat that contains all treats within it

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I want to see empty exhibits in British museums, that contain only the story about what they once contained, and why they had to be sent home. The space would be no less profound for me www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Oxford ceremony marks return home of kiwi feather cloak

The kahu kiwi, given to a British doctor in 1900, was "crying to come home", Māori campaigners say.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We Europeans should not focus on Trump, who will be gone in two years. But on the United States. That country elected this man as leader. The country itself is responsible. It can no longer be treated as a reliable ally regardless of who is next elected.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I wonder if Americans in general understand the damage being done. There is a ground war in Europe. Russia has invaded its neighbour, without any justification. And the United States is now siding with Russia. What do you think we Europeans think of that?

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