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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 6h

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 6h

Jfc this is dystopian www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h

Portland 🔥

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 6h

Amazing!

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 1d

First, they ignore you. Then, they laugh at you. Next, they jack up prices to be you. Then you win.

The Birds The Turtles and The Beast @turtlebee.bsky.social · 2d

The Frog Costume has gone from $25 to almost $40 on amazon over the last week. There's an army brewing.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 18h

I believe in Trump bringing a peace deal to Gaza just as much as I believed him bringing a peace deal and nuclear disarmament to the Korean Peninsula in 2018

Jesus. Journalists do your fucking job

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Glen Le Lievre @lelievre.bsky.social · 16h

The high ground

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 7h

Timeline cleanser

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 21h

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 21h

An underreported aspect of the Gaza ceasefire: The business deals that Trump's family made with Gulf Arab states gave Trump a personal stake in restraining Netanyahu — my piece @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 7h

Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 17h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 17h

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MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Jeff Boone @jeffreyboone.bsky.social · 1d

Straight title doesn’t indicate the wicked comedy in this piece (Stewart Lee among the righteous!) www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chappelle and Jimmy ...

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · Aug 2

Yeah fucking hell, all I knew was unrequited love for years and years and it never turned me in to a mad frothing incel.

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Aug 2

Narratives about how hard it is for teenage boys, and subsequently men, to deal with romantic rejection are so weird to read, as a woman who was also once a teenager. Until you realise that they’re entirely built on the premise that girls and women are the gatekeepers to sex and relationships.

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 1d

Arty Ficial- my cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Can AI really replace humans when it comes to the arts? | Fiona Katauskas

It depends who you ask

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 1d

How can anyone think someone this insecure is strong?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

My choice for the Nobel Peace Prize this year:

Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 2d

ChatGPT's guide to Winning At Work
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Climbing the corporate greasy pole, ChatGPT style: the Stephen Collins cartoon

If I tell you what you want to hear then you’ll think I’m a god!

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2d

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 3d

Watch Hannah Einbinder on the first episode of our newest show 'Beyond Israelism' NOW - exclusively on Zeteo.

'Beyond Israelism; is hosted by Jewish American activist @simonerzim.bsky.social and is an extension of the hit documentary @israelismfilm.com.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 2d

Another Inklings is up this afternoon! Subscribe FOR FREE NO STRINGS. Seriously, three dumb gags a week are good for your mental health and the only reason I'm still plugging away at it.

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It's another Desert Island Friday...

and someone's taking care of business I do love a Desert Island cartoon. As long as you suspend your disbelief the possibilities are endless...and you're contributing to the great cartooning traditio...

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 3d

"German authorities registered approximately 3,200 right-wing extremist-motivated crimes committed by people up to the age of 24 in 2020. Last year, the number was more than double, at over 7,100....most of these crimes were committed by male adolescents between the ages of 14 and 17."

Omas gegen Rechts Wetterau @ogrwetterau2017.bsky.social · 3d

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AfD wirkt. Ihre Dominanz in den sozialen Netzwerken zeigt dieses Ergebnis.

Rechtsextreme Straftaten junger Menschen nehmen stark zu

Die Behörden registrieren mehr als doppelt so viele rechtsextreme Delikte junger Menschen wie noch 2020. Die Bundesregierung sieht neue Gruppierungen und soziale Medien als Treiber.

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