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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3h

Where would this business be, if it wasn’t for “pretending not to understand things you understand very well, just so you can squeal and snort and be a prick about it”?

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 9h

Dev times so long you could start at the end of the ps4 era and release on the ps6...

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 20h

>90% of the enjoyment of drink craft beers is trying different craft beers. I absolutely do not ever need an app for that.

Also streaming algorithm recommendation systems do not work very well

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 20h

Inventing an app which will allow brewers to sell less beer.

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 21h

Ah yes, the tricky AI problem of matching beer drinkers with beers they might like. Ignoring the small issue that a beer doesn't take too long to drink and in a lifetime you could try many different beers, work it out for yourself and enjoy yourself along the way

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 1d

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 1d

Ok grandad, this just makes it sound like you've never typed "Erika Ishii Big Naturals" in to an AI image generator.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 1d

me more than four years ago

tweet from march 19th 2021

I have a sitcom pilot ready to go where the main character is a woman in her 30s who makes the worst possible decisions constantly. I originally wrote it for myself to play the lead but am willing to now make it a man in his late 50s.

pic of starmer

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 1d

Saw that too. Like, an amusing comic book but very cringe to base any part of your personality around it as a 50 year old dude

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 1d

Say what you will about this playground but it'll provide an ideal space for some teens to do some underage drinking.

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 1d

Auditioning for the role of "Well actually guy" the mansplaining super hero in the upcoming marvel movie

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 1d

The answer is still "piles and piles of money" and all that says about their character

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 1d

He was broadly right about monopolies but he's a privileged wealthy white guy so all his other opinions are about as worthwhile as you might imagine follow from there.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

Best part of this is the subtle aside about how it took them so long to know to be mad about this because it’s not a movie for children

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 1d

At least 12 adults can supervise one child on the duck-sprign

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely delighted/amazed to imagine any human having to spend real, actual time in their life workshopping "it was lovely to meet you".

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 1d

The change in vaccine eligibility this year is especially infuriating

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 2d

My "favourite" estimate here is that if we'd actually started in the 90s it was projected to cost about 1% of global gdp for about 30 years. We'd be done by now. It'll now cost many multiples of that and we still might not manage to keep the climate habitable

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

One of the many things I wish I had been wrong about is saying that back in the nineties, our leaders looked at climate change and said: We can’t do shit about this without measures we find unacceptable, so future generations will just have to deal with it via machine guns, fences and attack dogs.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsk... • 2d
"I don't think we can mitigate for climate change."
- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 4d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, looking in the current covid green book info/guidelines I don't think you'd qualify anymore.

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