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Kate but spooky @magickitten.bsky.social · 1h

I feel like I’ve just been smacked in the face with the concept of ‘dweeb’

Kate but spooky @magickitten.bsky.social · 1h

And biblically accurate

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 3h

This is just to say

I have eaten
3kg
Of cola bottles

Which was
Medically
Ill advised
And bunged me up
Completely
With gelatin

Forgive me
I had a hankering
And also
Ate a carvery

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Kate but spooky @magickitten.bsky.social · 2h

Slops get slaps

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

If I see you posting AI slop, it's an instant block. Even if you think it's cute or says a lot about society. If you are purporting that some AI slop is real news, I will report you for misinformation, and then block you. Sloppers should be marginalised.

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Kate but spooky @magickitten.bsky.social · 2h

Who on earth were they asking?!

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 2h

GCs doing their thing, being utter ghouls about the suicide of a young trans person. Claiming a lack of news coverage as a victory for their cause.

Alice’s death got coverage because my family sought press attention to highlight the appalling state of trans healthcare.

As for saturation coverage…

Screenshot of a post on X by anti-trans SEEN in Journalism ®
@JournalismSEEN
X.com
“A very big shift. There was saturation coverage of the death of Alice Litman, very notably on the BBC. This is the extent of the coverage (so far) of the death of Leia Sampson-Grimbly.
Is guilt setting in at the media's role in telling minors they were born in the wrong body?”

The tweet is accompanied by a screenshot of a headline in a local online new outlet
“Teenage girl took own life waiting for gender dysphoria treatment”

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 2h

I went to see The Word For World Is Map and I would just like to observe that Ursula K. LeGuin was a gift to humanity in so many ways.

A print of Ursula's map of the Labyrinth of The Tombs of Atuan.

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Rev.P.W.Brown @revbrown.bsky.social · 2d

At least in this event, the oppo was skipping round off the ground the way their designed to be used.
But all because of the fear of an unarmed inflatable frog.
SMDH.

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Fat Apollo, baby! @fatapollo.bsky.social · 4d

Made it easier to share with credit

Panel from original Batman comic book, a brooding Bruce Wayne is thinking out loud: "CRIMINALS ARE A SUPERSTITIOUS COWARDLY LOT. SO MY DISGUISE MUST BE ABLE TO STRIKE TERROR INTO THEIR HEARTS. I MUST BE A CREATURE OF THE NIGHT, BLACK, TERRIBLE.. A. A..."

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The frog costume guy stands in opposition to ICE thugs in Portland

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Terror Camp @terrorcamp.bsky.social · 3h

📣 TERROR CAMP V PROGRAM ANNOUNCED!

Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam...

We’re thrilled to bring you a fantastic line-up of presentations for Terror Camp V, from deep dives into Inuit texts and polar history to queer naval fiction & scurvy. Find out what we've got in store! 🤩

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Kate but spooky @magickitten.bsky.social · 3h

Relatable

Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 3h

Hello, Error! :D

A cropped photo from Zelda 2 (NES). Link is talking to a portly man in a purple costume inside a red brick house. He says “I am error.”

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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 8h

This remains one of my all time favourite pieces of writing.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18d

IT IS TIME.

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

buff.ly

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 3h

The data centres being built now will be derelict by 2030.

Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 4h

“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic...Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 8h

anyway, I am pleased with this column, I think it is good, I hope you read it rather than just shouting at me for what you think it might say

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

By Jonn Elledge

Illustration by Roy Scott / Ikon Images
“Acomputer terminal,” Douglas Adams once wrote, “is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.” In the same way, while the platform known in happier times as Twitter is famously not the real world, that’s never meant it can’t affect it.

One of the less upsetting ways those effects can manifest is outlined in a new report from “reputation management consultancy” (euch) Montford Communications. Posting to Policy explores the way wonks, politicos and shitposters alike drive government action through the raw power of their takes. “A niche account posts something punchy. It lands,” the report explains, with more full stops than is acceptable anywhere but LinkedIn. “Traditional media pick it up. Politicians respond. And policy follows. This is the ‘posting to policy’ pipeline and it’s fast becoming the new normal.”

Not all the examples the consultancy gives of this pipeline in action are entirely convincing. The “Nick, 30 ans” meme may have generated discourse, but it has not, as far as I’ve noticed, led to attempts to actually rethink intergenerational fairness; and while Robert Jenrick’s fare-dodging video made some waves, the shadow justice secretary is not, appearances notwithstanding, a shitposter. The most persuasive example offered is the transformation of Motability from a worthy but obscure scheme allowing those in receipt of mobility allowance to lease cars, to a “something must be done”-level spending scandal through noise on X alone.

Montford’s argument isn’t wrong: it’s abundantly clear by now that things that happen on the internet rarely stay there, and while hacks and wonks hang out on the same platforms as those with actual power it’s unsurprising that ideas sometimes migrate from the former to the latter. That, though, does not mean these conclusions are either new or significant. I can think of things I put on the internet ten years ago that g…

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 5h

The utter inability of legacy news media to be able to deal with being straight-up lied to is one of the primary drivers of this mess.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Kate but spooky @magickitten.bsky.social · 4h

Started the day with an incredibly relaxing - and incredibly good value - pedicure and Japanese-style head spa, including facial, hair cleanse and mask, and head, neck and shoulder massage, from Carly at Green and Bloom Organic Beauty. If you’re in St Leonard’s/Hastings, I can’t recommend enough.

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Kate but spooky @magickitten.bsky.social · 7h

Unsolicited bic pic

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Rob from Chicago (Sleeper Service) @robfromchicago.com · 1d

Portland right now.

Kermit the Frog sitting in his swamp and paying his banjo, singing:

Fuck you I won't do what you tell me Fuck you I won't do what you tell me Fuck you I won't do what you tell me

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 23h

It’s tradition that when you see the frogs, you show them respect 🫡

(Someone should do the Creed cut with the footage)

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Kate but spooky @magickitten.bsky.social · 18h

Just had a sudden, visceral millennial remembrance of the W7 eyeshadow palettes that were dupes of Urban Decay, my gosh those were good…

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 9d

"we shat the bed so comprehensively, for so long, that just going back to the standards we used to adhere to in less than a generation is literally impossible" is a bold line to take for an business hoping to avoid going into administration