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Tamara Bumps in the night @moiness.bsky.social · 1h

Adverts before AI: Here is our thing. Buy it it’s great! Adverts after AI: You know cats. And dogs. We all like cats and dogs. Buy our thing. It’s like someone fed in the last million years of Thought for Today.

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Matt Rosser @matt.cymru · 1h

The punchline in a banned episode of BBC Wales show 'Frank Hovis's Pub Quiz. Q: Name a band which includes a body part in their name. Frank (John Sparkes): "Of course you could have also had Big Country" #nottotp

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beckydubs 🇳🇿 @beckydubs.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

My sister, in her 40s, needs a knee replacement. We’re talking bone on bone. She got a letter the other day saying her first specialist appointment (that is just to talk about it) will be in 2028. Not 2,3,4 or 6 months. Not even 12. 16 months away. Just for the FSA. #nzpol

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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

watching Americans discover Danny Dyer through the #SNLuk sketches on YouTube has been very fun.

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Shaking My Bits To The Hits @weirzone.bsky.social · 23h

OMG DID I MISS IT? Genuinely screen-grabbed the YouTube closed captions trolling Woo Gary Davies the other day #totp

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 1h

Good point I’ve rarely seen made. Nesta was set up with a £250m endowment (1998 value) to support the arts (as well as science and tech) and it has stopped funding the arts… www.ft.com/content/b7c6...

respectively. Nesta, an innovation agency originally established in 1998 with a £250mn National Lottery endowment to support science, technology and the arts, has now stopped funding the arts. The

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Sophie Fern @sophiefern.bsky.social · 37m

They are IoSOs, eh? (Invertebrates of Strong Opinions) (Obvs)

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 1h

Tidying my teeny tiny urban garden, I unexpectedly disturbed a large lady wētā amongst the herb pots outside the kitchen window. Both of us JUMPED in the air and said “Absolutely not!” She bounded off towards a shady corner… and nekminnit, trimming the spiraea, I think I met her fella? #nzgardens

A lady wētā making a run for it; I tried to lift her back up amongst the potted herbs but she wasnt having it, and fair enough.

Just around the corner, a wētā lad, giving me the spiky eyeball for trimming his hiding place. Sorry, man! The house needs painting, and also next year’s spiraea blooms depend on a good trim now!

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Dave Pumpkin 🎃 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 1h

Banananrama. Nana. You've got to have a system... #TOTP #NotTOTP #1986atTheBBC

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AJRedЯum @ajred.bsky.social · 1h

Hang on, what the fuck was this? #notTOTP

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 2h

Where Eagles Dare was on & it reminded me of Harry Enfield’s superb but forgotten ‘Norbert Smith: A Life’. It’s a mockumentary about the British film industry featuring excellent parodies of various genres includes this great pisstake of Eagles, The Wild Geese etc at 35.54 youtu.be/Bb5h6sgVnmE?...

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Upscaled - Norbert Smith, A Life (1989) [couchtripper][U]

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Phil Norman @mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 1h

Q: Which Weatherfield bookie wrote the scurrilous memoir I'm With the Band? A: Pamela Des Barnes.

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Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 28m

That explains something I'd been confused by this morning

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Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 30m

Me too - it's such a good image 😁 and therein lies the problem - I reflexively reposted it myself the other day, then thought "better check the replies" and sure enough, someone had pointed out that the sign was off.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 1h

Says there, ‘Rock Me Amadeus’ was the only German language number one. Really ‘99 Red Balloons’ should have been first, but the record company insisted on the English version. Even the Yanks took the German version. The AMERICANS. #TOTP

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Dave Turner @mrdaveturner.bsky.social · 1h

Falco’s grave is a banger #notTOTP

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 2h

my tiny Moon painting Spacetober Day 17 🌝

Mini clay moon hand painted in a shadowbox frame

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Brynnester @brynnester.bsky.social · 3h

[Two Opticians getting married] Priest: For better or worse? Better or worse? Better or worse?

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Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 49m

Took a while, but I got there in the end Minute Cryptic - 18 October, 2026 "Oh well. Cry and undo tie" (2,2,2) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (14,540 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

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Minute Cryptic

Minute Cryptic is a free daily cryptic crossword clue. Solve today's puzzle, learn how cryptic clues work with free guided courses, and build your solving streak.

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 2h

This is really important. There are no “back office workers” vs “front line”. If the back office isn’t ordering supplies and doing the maintenance and cleaning the floors and everything else that needs to be done, who do you think does the work?

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Humdog @humdog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have neglected my contributions to #morningwalk and #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport Here are September blooms from my garden

Red fuchsia blooms with purple centers dangling in front of a forest view of redwood trees and duff with a giant birdbath

Sedum Autumn Joy in pink bloom with bergenia and geranium leaves as well as drooping spent pink calla blossoms

September flower aster in lavender blue and a decorative water sprinkler. Behind the blooms are a white dog rear end and a newly emptied flower bed awaiting replanting.

Roseanne geranium blooms in purple flower in front of homemade cement mushrooms speckled with blue glass.

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Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · 1h

If your account was suspended, email moderation@blueskyweb.xyz and we will help to get you back into your account. (We also emailed all compromised account holders.) Only enter your Bluesky password in the Bluesky app, bsky.app, or bsky.social.

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Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · 1h

We're aware of a phishing attack that has compromised more than 4,500 accounts. The attack spread through posts promoting a fake offer of a government payment. We have temporarily suspended the compromised accounts and are working with their owners to secure them and restore access.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 5h

The view from the summit of Aran Fawddwy mountain in Eryri/Snowdonia earlier today 🤩 A grand panorama looking south, taking in the Breiddin hills at Welshpool to Pen y Fan in the Beacons 👌 📷 My own

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PJ Taylor @thepjtaylor.bsky.social · 1h

Do watch the documentary about the making of We are the world. Huey Lewis comes across as such a great bloke #totp #nottotp The Greatest Night in Pop - Wikipedia share.google/jPNGK26oZK54...

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The Greatest Night in Pop - Wikipedia

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 19h

Big bowls and vases today!

Large very bowl. Black clay. Freshly thrown.

Small vases. Black clay. Freshly thrown.

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Chris Meredith @thenerdgatherer.bsky.social · 2h

Belated congratulations to Corinne Drewery and Andy Connell of Swing Out Sister for getting married recently. #nottotp

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

British artist Tom Phillips, one of Eno’s mentors and friends from his Camberwell School Of Art days. A detail of this painting 'After Raphael' was used for the cover of Eno's Another Green World. After Raphael (oil, pencil & chalk on canvas, 1974) #ContemporaryArt

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 2h

Otterly gourd times with the Asian small-clawed otter family at Zoo Boo! 🎃 The otters are loving exploring and interacting with the massive, 200-pound carved and decorated pumpkin as part of their fall fun enrichment! 📹 Video (and pumpkin carving) by animal care staff Marco

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 2h

Some sort of Marvel movie climax happening south of the river it seems

Beyond the pigeon netting over my balcony, a massive blue laser shines up into the night sky over London. Maybe the winter wonderland?

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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 2h

This Dutch-sung cover of Elvis Costello's "I Want You" slows the thing down even more than the original.

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Raymond van het Groenewoud - Ik wil je

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AJRedЯum @ajred.bsky.social · 2h

Ooh is that Sandy off Goodfellas on the end? #notTOTP

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Krystal Chandelier @krystalchandelier.bsky.social · 4h

This headline buries how large this cut is. It implies that the charge is something like $100 and now it's $80. No it's $27.14 going down to $7.20. Insane. Cruise chip passengers get a tax cut, meanwhile Kiwis get tax (sorry levy) increases under this govt. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

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Cruise ship passengers to be charged $20 less for travelling to and from NZ

Cruise ship passengers will be charged $20 less for travelling to and from New Zealand.

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 2h

Nausea and vomiting are common after surgery, which may be partly related to the noises patients are exposed to, even under general anaesthetic. Wearing noise-cancelling headphones while on the operating table reduces the risk

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Noise-cancelling headphones prevent vomiting after surgery | New Scientist

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 13h

#caturday 🎨 Angela Smyth

Illustration of a cat wearing a cape riding a penny farthing.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 6h

My teenage children, who have never set foot in NYC, go around saying "Help me, Mamdani!" whenever anything goes wrong and/or they can't figure out their homework, just to give everybody a sense of the scale of this man's presence in the culture lol

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Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 1h

Was...was that the inspiration for both Cher's If I Could Turn Back Time video and Under Siege?

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AJRedЯum @ajred.bsky.social · 2h

G_R_A_P_H_I_C_S #notTOTP

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Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 1h

@brislen.nz that Pink Panther image appears to be AI, I'm afraid

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 3h

TLDR … too early to really tell. But the initial figures are quite positive. Give the people trains.

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Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social · 3h

In grape news, there’s a variety of red grape in Marks and Spencer at the moment called Be-bop and they’re incredible

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2h

Bilbo Baggins letter to Gandalf

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Matthew Turner @thewalkingfool.bsky.social · 4h

“[T]hey are the most amazing penguin species … They do not fit any penguin mould. What we know about penguins, you throw it all out of the window.” Uncovering the secrets of New Zealand’s elusive ‘jungle penguins’

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Uncovering the secrets of New Zealand’s elusive ‘jungle penguins’

The tawaki, or Fiordland crested penguin, known for its prominent yellow eyebrows, has for years baffled scientists with its unusual habits

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Tairāwhiti Doc @tairawhitidoc.bsky.social · 5h

Morning (no sun to be seen), Sunday, 18 October from Makorori Headlands, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 7h

20 Points for a Pigeon

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

“Eliminate the friction, and you eliminate the thrill of overcoming it.”

Making music is hard, especially when you’re a beginner. But does that fact justify using AI to do it? In general, hardship is a reason to skip an activity only if that activity doesn’t have some other value that compensates for the hardship. For example, the effort involved in hiking to the top of a mountain is a reason to take the cable car only if hiking to the top doesn’t have a value that compensates for the effort. And so, using AI to make music only makes sense if music-making has no value that compensates for the hardship involved in learning to do it.
Thus, the promotion of AI music-generation software tacitly construes music-making as what I’ll call a “purely telic” activity. (I’m drawing on the MIT philosopher Kieran Setiya’s discussion of “telic” activities here, telos as in “end” or “goal”, in his excellent book Midlife.) A purely telic activity is one directed at a terminal state of having done something (the “telic” part), where the activity has no value beyond that of achieving the terminal state (the “purely” part). Construed as a purely telic activity, music-making has no value over and above that of having produced a piece of music, and so the more efficiently you can get to that point, the better. AI music generators make perfect sense on this view. The problem, of course, is that the purely telic view of music-making is false. For a musician, the point of making music isn’t merely to end up having made a piece of music: the actual making is part of the poin

That’s not to say that making music is pleasurable all the time. It often involves moments of friction: the high note you’re not hitting, the rhythmic “lock” that just isn’t happening between you and the drummer. But when you push through those moments of friction and get to the other side, what awaits can be some of the most exhilarating, transcendent experiences it’s possible to have as a human being. Those moments more than compensate for the hardship that the friction brings. In fact, they require the friction. Eliminate the friction, and you eliminate the thrill of overcoming it.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 20h

my favorite thing about these unholy creatures is that as babies they are capable of looking like the bratz doll version of a goat and they just slowly morph into this

absolutely stunning baby damascus goat, white with long ears showing a blush pink skin near the ends

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

me too, damascus goat. me. too.

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Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 3h

I've now got bad cat superstar going round my head to the tune of the Fugees' Ghetto Superstar

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