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Been teaching myself Unreal and built this moody office scene while learning the basics of lighting, VFX, camera control, animation, cinematics, and blueprints. Wanted to make it feel convincingly cluttered and lived-in, which involved placing 600+ props by hand. Sound up for maximum atmosphere.

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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 4h

Hi Moore. I'm a Protestant. My brother and a grandfather were in the Orange Order. I grew up in a Loyalist area. You could reasonably say it was my culture and I think the Orange Order, to use your words, is sectarian and seeking dominion over others. Most Protestants do, so you're talking balls.

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☠️ Skulls and Sheets 👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 5h

Have a quick Little Mari getting involved in the leaf action that her older sisters have had monopoly over

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

VOTE NO on Pro 75 (the 'TAX DRACULA' bill.) If we try to tax Dracula, he will simply move away to Texas.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14h

But Black Dynamite, *I* approve of massive violence against entire civilian populations and expansionist genocide

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You often find that people who want to support the notion that 'Zionism equals racism' haven't thought through what its implications are.
Adam explains them here
Adam Langleben @adamlangleben • 5h
Let me explain why its a far right motion. The impact on the Gov of Israel is Zero. Netanyahu couldnt give a toss about the GPEW. But the impact on British Jews is this: it becomes official policy of the Green Party to crudely decide whic...
• Robb Masters @robb_masters • 5h
"The far-left are passing a far-right motion."
Do these people hear themselves?...

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KP McDonnell @wildecard.eurosky.social · 12h

For our international listeners, it rhymes with 'tinfoil hat'.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16h

I would simply note that our Brane Genius political/media class has fought to the bitter end to inflict austerity, war, Boris Johnson and diamond hard Brexit, Keir Starmer and Peter Mandelson on us all, like it or not.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 18h

While Millennials and Gen Z blame each other for ruining society, the same monsters that have been ruining society since before we were all born are laughing their asses off. Generational divides are made up, and that’s fine until they’re weaponized to keep us fighting over complete bullshit.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 03/10/2026

I keep thinking I've found the day's most sketchable moment, and I keep being wrong.

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Spicy Bonus Content @spicybonuscontent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

THEY ARE MERELY EXCHANGING LONG PROTEIN STRINGS IF YOU KNOW OF A BETTER WAY, I'D LIKE TO HEAR IT

Bob Dole and Bill Clinton hold hands during a Simpsons Hallowe'en episode

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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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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

they're AI generating Feyd-Rautha to own the libs, sorry lads you've gone full Harkonnen. whooooooo could have foreseen

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

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Tara O’Connor @taraocomics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Of course they named it “Alpha School” 🤭 Alpha, of course, being the earliest, buggiest and most unstable stage of testing tech LOL

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Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

200,000 children living below the poverty line. That should be unfathomable in a country with so much surpluses and wealth. A windfall tax could at least make energy somewhat more affordable and stop gouging from the energy providers who are making super profits.

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C Volkmann @sailshipearth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Think about it. Then head to @swanireland.ie and sign their petition against open pen salmon farms, and then get on to your public representatives and tell them to get MPA legislation over the line this year! Thanks #speirgorm #magicalcreatures

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

something extraordinary is happening on Garvaghy Road Northern Ireland. Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary. quick 🧵

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Allan @allanartist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Orange Order have applied for a parade in Portadown ONCE A WEEK for the last 28 years. [via Reddit] #speirgorm #garvaghyroad paradescommissionni.flexigrant.com/downloadfile...

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This guy's not wrong.
According to paragraph 9 of the Parades Commission's determination:
Portadown District LOL No. 1 have complied with each and every determination issued by the
Commission since [1998], of which there are over 1.300.
That's over 46 determinations from the Commission per year over the 28 years, almost 1 per week.
For 28 years. | guess the brethren of Portadown LOL No. 1 take a couple of weeks off every year for
Christmas, summer holiday in Benidorm, etc. Then they get right back to harassing the Parades
Commission. And it finally paid off.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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KP McDonnell @wildecard.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Then why not enact the recommendations of the proposed committee as soon as they're complete? More dangling carrots that will never be delivered. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Worth noting that Ravi Ruia, the Indian billionaire behind the Iowa steel plant Trump touted yesterday as bringing back American industry, has massive funding from Russian state companies. Here he is on the Kremlin website talking with Putin about it. en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/59216

Ravi Ruia: Your Excellency, friends here. My name is Ravi Ruia, I am the co-founder of the Essar Group in India, along with my brother Shashi Ruia. Your Excellency, we are involved with Essar Group in different businesses. We are in the oil refining and exploration business, in spill manufacturing, power generation, port infrastructure, metals and mining. Our total revenues are around $15 billion a year. Your Excellency, in the last two years, with active cooperation and assistance of VTB Bank, we have been instrumental in bringing in a large investment from the state-owned oil company Rosneft into India, which has given access to Russia to a very large market in India of over 1.25 billion people. It is a total investment of almost $13 billion, which is the largest investment ever made by a Russian private company into the Indian private sector.
And it has given a big, major outlet for potentially Russian crude into India and access to over 4,000 to 5,000 filling gas stations in India where our product will be directly given to Indian consumers. Your Excellency, we are also looking at how else we can bring in more Russian investment into India, which would add to the growth of both Indian market and access to Indian population as well as add to Russian export. For instance, in the power generation sector, India genuinely believes that there is large potential for Russian power equipment to come into India as the Indian power generation is growing. This is the background of our group.
We are now looking at, Your Excellency. My question to you, Your Excellency, is the economic growth in India is at 1.5 percent. And now that the oil price has recovered, what measures do you envisage to take it to a sustainable high level of 3 percent? Thank you.

Andrei Kostin: Do you mean in Russia?
Ravi Ruia: Yes, in Russia.
Vladimir Putin: First of all, I would like to say that we have really good constructive relations with India, thanks also to our friendly personal ties with Prime Minister Modi, who is a serious politician and a really reliable partner.
It is largely thanks to his efforts that we are moving our relations forward in many fields. Yet we are not satisfied with the current state of our relations. It is beyond the capabilities of both India and Russia. We can increase the volume of our trade and economic ties and mutual
investments manifold, yes, many times over.
One of the investment projects you have mentioned is, indeed, the largest foreign investment in the history of the Indian economy - the acquisition by Rosneft, if l am not mistaken, of a stake worth $12 billion in one of India's largest oil refineries. I hope it is not the last investment of this kind.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This story has really annoyed me. These tech billionaires LARPing as aristocrats bestowing their noblesse oblige on the local peasants. Just think about how many sports clubs you could fund if you taxed Facebook properly.

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a frightful hobgoblin stalking throughout Europe @supermathskid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh so it was only ever meant to criminalise *as terrorists* people who threw some paint, then. Cool cool cool cool cool

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KP McDonnell @wildecard.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

It is so hard to hold acceptance and hope in my heart at the same time. Please let this yield a speedy treatment.

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Stiofán Ó Donnáin Dálzéil 🇵🇸 @donnans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remember their faces, the Quinn brothers Jason (aged nine), Mark (aged 10), and Richard (aged 11), who when Garvaghy last exploded in July 1998, were murdered in their beds by Loyalist petrol bombs. A fragile peace bought with the blood of children, now being ripped apart.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

OMFG they tried to spin this as a thwarted terror attack by the Iranians, but it was actually just a bunch of grifters from London trying to pike red diesel off yokels. Wild shit.

Looks like the Fairford five were fuel thieves

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KP McDonnell @wildecard.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

"Bouncy Castles"🤣 Plural🤣 Of course they're all in on generative slop. #Speirgorm

Accidentally hilarious generative slop poster for a loyalist 'Drumcree Family Support Event'. I know what each of those words mean independently but I have no clue what they mean in conjunction. Your guess is as good as mine but there will be gazebos and a burger van, with free mini orange flags for the kids. Ooh and stickers are available!
Bring your own chairs though, fuck your knees.

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G @geraldineishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Surely Irish journalists will be asking Jennifer Carroll MacNeill about the status of her links to this man who proudly participated in chants at the match on Sunday? #SpéirGhorm

Screenshot of a video posted on Reddit, captioned: “In yesterday’s National League game against Ireland, home fans chanted the name of an army organisation”

Screenshot of a Facebook post with a photo of Yoseph Haddad & Jennifer Carroll MacNeill together at Irish government buildings.

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DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This tidbit was in the article. 🎈💥 ? "Goldman Sachs warned Friday that AI hyperscalers, including Meta, need to generate roughly $300 billion a year in AI services revenue just to break even on their capital spending—and $1 trillion annually to earn meaningful profits—spooking investors."

finance.yahoo.com

Mark Zuckerberg Loses $9 Billion In A Day As Goldman Sachs Pours Cold Water On Meta Stock Rally

Zuckerberg’s $9 billion loss was the biggest single-day drop among any billionaire Friday.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026

All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah see that’s the problem you tried to see the movie without purchasing the Day One Ultimate Edition, you can’t expect it to have all the movie in it

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KP McDonnell @wildecard.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Let's fir a second imagine they actually do this and there's a referendum in say 5 years time. They know the information space is heavily stacked against them, with every major social media platform being manipulated by everything from corporations to foreign governments.

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The residents of Garvaghy Road and their supporters spent another day in high spirits today. With plenty of food and hot drinks and of course some amazing live music. They settle in for another night of peaceful dissent. Fair play to them all, they're legends ✊

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New word: CLICKWALL. (n) The opposite of clickbait. A headline so unappealing, promising so little reward even by the standards of these things, that it is physically impossible to tap the link to the article.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Siri, show me the deliberate destruction of eight decades of American-led international diplomacy and cooperation in one photograph:

Screenshot of a September 28, 2026, post on ex-Twitter by right-wing foreign policy analyst, professor, author and former Trump Department of Defense senior policy adviser Matthew Koenig, showing the lobby of the US State Department adorned with 200 American flags:

“The US State Department lobby used to display the flags of the roughly 200 countries with which the US maintains diplomatic relations. Now, it displays 200 American flags, to remind State Department employees who they work for.”

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 28/09/2026

Any Spanish speakers, or people who are good at reading old cursive, we are trying to identify as precisely as possible the birthplace this person. This is their birth certificate (page 8 here: web.archive.org/web/20190626... ). Many thanks for any assistance!

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 28/09/2026

Masterful gambit with gas prices what they are. Perfect closing argument.

Trump Sharply Scales Back Fuel Economy Rules for New Cars
The move marked the final step in the administration’s efforts to dismantle policies aimed at speeding the shift to electric vehicles.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An Irish #painting. "Sligo Sunset" came out of a time I was in the northwest feeling alone and happy as I looked across Sligo Bay from Strandhill at Blackrock lighthouse and beyond to the glory of Donegal. The sun was going down but it came up again the next day. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Wide panoramic format in acrylics. View across lilac water past a narrow strip of black rocks reaching out from the right. A white and black lighthouse stands centre-right close to far edge of the water where behind it there is a low strip of land running horizontally across the whole painting, slightly higher on right tapering down to slightly lower at the left edge, made of a patchwork of olive green fields, and topped with a line of dark trees that are silhouetted against in the distance a large long blue shape of a mountain ridge that tapers down at either end. Behind it the sky is pale yellow and above the mountain the sky is in rising bands of orange, pink and lilac. Signed bottom right in dark blue, Liam Daly

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Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Shot. Chaser.

Screenshot of the BBC website. Picture showing Ed Miliband at a podium.
Headline: Foreign secretary addresses Israel-Gaza war
Text: Miliband says Labour will stand against antisemitism wherever it finds it, and stand against those who seek the destruction of Israel.

But the foreign secretary says this "cannot justify the suffering the Netanyahu government has inflicted in Gaza and the West Bank", adding that it is a "stain on the conscience of the world".

He says to those who have been "moved and outraged by the plight of Palestinian people - we hear you, you were right".

“Under Andy’s leadership, we have reset our approach. We call out ethnic cleansing by the settler terrorists in the West Bank, we call out the evidence of war crimes in Gaza, we call out Israel’s illegal occupation of Gaza," he says.

Screenshot of the BBC website. Picture of a pensioner being dragged by 4 pigs through a car park.
Headline: More than 50 arrested at Palestine Action support rally
A pink arrow highlights that this story is less than a day old.

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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is us too 🇮🇪 #speirgorm

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