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Derek @derekdesanges.bsky.social · 28m

Ah so you've learnt what not to do from working with Kieron

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Nu Pogodi! Enjoyer @lameposting.bsky.social · 1h

Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 5h

The owner of Twitter just reinstated the accounts of several Nazi who had been suspending for violating Twitter's rules about doxxing other users. Now here's another piece on Bluesky's intellectual diversity problem.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1h

wish I could tell all the new arrivals "welcome, we block don't engage" but it's not really true any more. now we argue like a bunch of basic ass twitter users. we go into other people's mentions and carry on interminable arguments with zero laffs. welcome, we used to be cool

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 1h

Nothing says "cyberpunk" like doing what a billionaire tells you to do

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 1h

nothing says “cyberpunk” like owning a $100,000 vehicle

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 40m

Seeing a suggestion on here that Nazis can't be punks

Sadly this is not true

There's a whole song about what they should do

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 36m

I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

A pink Hello Kitty ride-on car amusement with the words "get in loser we're going crying"

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 4h

And take part in the consultation, please.

The Hampstead ponds have always been inclusive. They MUST remain so.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 3h

This is why we need data privacy.

This is "felony murder" but for things like linking to Teen Vogue piece which talks about Plan B.

Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 13h

The politician in South Carolina who has introduced a bill redefining contraception as abortion also wants people who share websites to be charged with aiding and abetting homicide.

When asked why his bill redefines contraception, Cash admitted he believes certain forms of birth control are “an early abortion.” When pressed about allowing homicide charges against abortion patients—which could mean the death penalty in South Carolina—he shrugged it off: “It’s wrong to kill an innocent person.”

And when asked about whether someone could be criminally charged for calling an abortion clinic, or sharing a clinic website with a friend, Cash compared it to “sharing a website to find a killer to rub your wife out.”

“If you’re aiding and abetting the killing of an innocent person,” he said, “you’re going to be held accountable.”

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 2h

I don't a) want to hear from fascists or b) believe that fascists want to hear from me or are going to read anything I write. Why should I be on a platform with them? So I can hear about all the people they think are sub human? I'm good without that, actually.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 16h

Welcome new people. I was asked at dinner last night whether Bluesky was an echo chamber. I said it doesn’t matter, because what I want from social media isn’t to talk to young republicans taking a break from their group chat, but to read things I want to read but that I might have missed.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Jun 12

The thing I want most from social media is for people to share things that I might want to read or watch that otherwise I wouldn’t read or watch, whether news, commentary, books, movies, tv, games to play, whatever. Bluesky does this. /4

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 2h

The use of LLMs for military decision-making might give pause to anyone familiar with the models' well-known propensity to confabulate fake citations and sycophantically flatter users.

Army general says he’s using AI to improve “decision-making”

“AI is one thing that, as a commander, it’s been very, very interesting for me.”…

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2h

They have gone further on treating those with mental health issues, and those who are neurodivergent, as an "issue to be solved" rather than people to be supported, which, arguably due to increased salience, has contributed to increased discrimination. 3/5
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‘Alarming rise’ in mental health stigma in England, research shows

One in 10 people unwilling to live next to someone who has been mentally ill even if they have recovered, Mind reports

www.theguardian.com

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Andi Watson @andicomics.bsky.social · 7h

Waiting

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1h

You're writing this down right? Good. As I was saying my car sucked so bad my wife left me. Yes I can spell my name for you.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 20h

“I know I make people feel uncomfortable! That’s my entire brand.”

Climate Defiance interrupting a Cuomo presser in the best possible way.

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Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

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Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 7h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 10h

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏

Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.

In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

The Absolute Units art. Three giant sheep hover over the English countryside.

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Derek @derekdesanges.bsky.social · 8h

What word the verb be for bedazzling something with teeth? Bedentzling?

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 8h

I would like someone, anyone, to stand up at a tech conference full of AI bros praising genAI and ask them 1) why are there are just so many tools for making fake nudes and 2) why does every genAI art tool that people use for porn generate pics of women who look somewhat underage?

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 8h

You can't insure it. It hard to drive. It's ugly. It's a hard to park as a real truck but can't do truck things. It falls apart. It rusts which is why you rarely see an unwrapped cybertruck. If someone *gave* me a cybertruck I'd junk it for metal and use that money as a down payment on a Honda

Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 8h

Americans Raced to Buy Any EV They Could Last Month — Except for the Cybertruck #Climate

Americans Raced to Buy Any EV They Could Last Month — Except for the Cybertruck

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 10h

The EHRC removed the "interim guidance" that has been devastating the lives of trans people for months from it's website.

We wonder why...👀

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 8h

Having said that the yanks were online pointing at the strawberry sando and doing the "British food is gross" thing they do, despite it being Japanese. So I feel like they don't deserve access to the good 7-11 either.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 8h

To be fair I guess M&S tried to give us a strawberry sando this summer and everyone screamed and cried and puked about it, so maybe we don't deserve it.

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