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David Hills

@wanderingteacake.bsky.social
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I wrote that book Transition 55, and if you're not careful I may write more.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 4h
As a composer one can't always be too choosy, but after agreeing with the agency to score a short corporate film I realized the client was a sort of mini-Palantir. Made it as dark and foreboding as possible, to warn anyone listening that only evil herein lies. Bastards loved it.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5h
Most people don't realize dumb is spelled with a B
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 6h
No mate. I haven't seen any dogs walk through here at all today.
Dog sits on sofa wearing hat and boots
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h
The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 14h
Can we please have a "Daleks exterminate Iggy painfully" option
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14h
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Laura Lexx @lauralexx.bsky.social · 18h
Right, people of Hastings… make your minds up are you coming or not? As the numbers stand with that show I’m going to have to pull it. I’ll decide tomorrow… the show is on Wednesday and it’s not viable on current numbers so if you’re coming - please book. www.lauralexx.co.uk/live
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Live shows and events
Website for Laura Lexx, an award-winning comedian, author and actor
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 07/10/2026
Spectrum Allocation xkcd.com/3307/
Comic: Modern Spectrum Allocation Chart. [Long line of rectangles of different widths in shades of gray. From top to bottom: radio (shouting), TV test patterns, 1G cellular, radio (music), radio (static), reserved for zeppelin navigation, TV channels 2, 5, 7-13, 16, 17, and 28 with 2G cellular in between, interference, WKRP in Cincinnati, spaceship beeps, all other TV, car dealership ads, numbers stations, weather balloons, amateur radio, HAM radio, “weather balloons”, *Choosing Texas* 24/7, [extra large rectangle] boat captains say they need this for something and we don’t ask what because they’re scary, the secret radio waves that make planes stay up, defunct satellite phone company, radioastronomy, radioastrology, [extra small rectangle] all modern wireless infrastructure, death rays, LoFi hip hop beats to relax/study to, security guard walkie talkies, amateur military satellites, left open in case aliens try to call, one brand of garage door openers with a lot of political pull.]
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We'll have a full analysis of the Conservatives' proposed inheritance tax cuts tomorrow. But, for now, three charts. 1. Who would benefit from the cuts?
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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You can’t draw a bum without drawing a bum crack - that’s the bottom line.
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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Exactly 💯
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

kittydesade

Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
RIP Jeffrey Archer, not a day goes by when I don't think about the judge in his 1987 libel case (which Archer "won" by doing a bunch of perjury) summing up for the jury by going "would a guilty man have such a hot wife". one of the most insane legal moments of all time
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They will have to invent books after stealing our books to feed their machines that then killed books.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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12tone @12tone.nebula.tv · 06/10/2026
Williams, 37, then unleashed her response to the DHS’ statement in an Instagram Story post Monday: “And may I suggest all Nazi bitches suck on my fat d***.”

A DHS representative did not immediately return The Independent’s request for comment.
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David Hills @wanderingteacake.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I haven't got past the second episode either. Can't quite explain why, it just feels sort of... hollow.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 06/10/2026
firefox-official on tumblr: "DO NOT sleep during the day. Youll be like What the hell later"

firefox-official: "oh man i say that but then i lay down all cozy ..."

firefox-official: "What the hell"
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And by "violating banking laws" CBS News means former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert molested boys he coached for wrestling in high school, boys as young as 14. To-may-to/to-mah-to!
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Bon Hanson @bonhanson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not your typical 'cat stuck in a tree' call. A baby bobcat got stuck on the top of a power pole in Kelowna. He waited until the rescue man reached him in the lift and said, "No thanks, I got it," and shimmied down himself. 😂🤣 www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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Baby bobcat stuck on Kelowna utility pole prompts rescue effort
Around midday Friday, the Okanagan Humane Society received a call from witnesses and a foster volunteer, who said a baby bobcat was stuck up a utility pole on Mayfair Road in Kelowna’s Rutland neighbo...
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just remembered I've got my People Who Think They're Furniture Club committee meeting tonight. I've got to go because I'm the chair.
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i truly do think one of the most harrowing parts of military funerals is when they rip the fallen soldier in half
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Originalism, folks
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
CNN making this sound more mysterious than it is. It was Yersinia pestis, the plague, the researcher died because she inhaled it into her lungs and developed pneumonic plague, there is no danger but to those directly exposed in the lab. Fear-mongering in the time of global terror is a sick choice.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah, this may be it: 1989 Teamsters were put under federal oversight bc they’d been mobbed up forever. Ever since they’ve looked to Repubs to help them end the consent decree. Nothing was more important to them I looked, & sure enough, DOJ just ended federal oversight teamster.org/2026/09/u-s-...
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U.S. District Court Grants End to 37-Year Federal Monitorship of Teamsters Union
(WASHINGTON) – After nearly four decades, the U.S. government has officially ended federal monitorship of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, followin
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Laura Lexx @lauralexx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
youtu.be/Kp4hkdRcHkI?...
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Slinky
YouTube video by Laura Lexx
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Laura Lexx @lauralexx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that while I'm trekking up and down the country touring my new show Yo-Yo, I've put my previous full show Slinky up on YouTube for anyone to enjoy for free...
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PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 04/10/2026
Dear Bluesky pedants, as Editor Kat has already suggested, anyone arguing poisonous vs. venomous is welcome to try eating the bees to find out.
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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OK yeah in fairness this is incredible content.
HERE FARAGE ARGVES WITH BIN
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David Hills @wanderingteacake.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"used synthetic AI focus groups to gauge public opinion" So he falsified his results then.
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 03/10/2026
I can hear the screeching U-turn that happened during the naming of this business
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At the time of the sentencing the judge who oversaw the case, Todd Lang, seemed to appreciate the use of AI. 

"I loved that AI. Thank you for that. As angry as you are, as justifiably angry as the family is, I heard the forgiveness," judge Lang said. "I feel that that was genuine."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
$100 to the first reporter who asks Eric Schmitt what he plans to do next now that his political ambitions are over
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“You're not an Ai influencer”, the sickest of burns a pope has ever received
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Honestly guys isn’t this a bit weird? This is a bit weird
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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A Happy #DayOfDredd to all who celebrate.
The album cover for 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' by The Beatles, except the Fab Four and their cardboard friends have been replaced by Judge Dredd and his impressive gallery of allies and enemies. No, I'm not going to name all of them, and yes, while it is quite possible that the character you really like isn't in there, I make no apology for their absence. Batman, Predator, Alien and The Biker Mice From Mars are all missing because I wanted this to be a tribute to Rebellion.
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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looking forward to #totp tonight
TVGoHome
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
please help… my son…
photo of a forklift w/ a pallet jack sitting on its forks like it was an adult carrying a child across its arms
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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most disappointing video you’ll see today.
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David Hills @wanderingteacake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'd like to think they'd list the permutations in a random order, and let the reader drive themselves mad finding which one is missing and therefore presumably not recommended.
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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Metal detecting is the closest you can get to time travel." The first episode of 'Detectorists' aired on this day in 2014.
The image of Calvin and Hobbes strolling carefree across a log bridge, above a tiny waterfall, with their arms outstretched. Hobbes is now Andy and Calvin is now Lance (Detectorists).
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Actual LOL
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David Hills @wanderingteacake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That PIN code one is just *chef's kiss*
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David Hills @wanderingteacake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A dangle?
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026
[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is an actual post by the White House touting their “super intelligence.” They’re so incompetent, they spelled United States wrong. If you don’t believe me, click the link. x.com/whitehouse/s...
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