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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 11h

Trying to enjoy a day in the park and some obnoxious twat decided, though it rained yesterday, to deploy his leaf blower. No matter where I go in this 185 acre park, I can still hear him. I wish him ill.

Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 12h

"verified" adults. Sure, Sam. Boiling the earth's finite water supply for chatbots.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

Average operator attempting to conduct a raid with the Anduril google glasses NODs flashing 38 different icons in front of their face:

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 3d

Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete during the Aegean Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago! 🤩

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

From the Aegean Bronze Age, Minoan clay vessels with black handpainted decoration.on a pale biscuity-coloured slip

Top left - clay flask decorated in Minoan ‘Marine Style’’ with an octopus with tentacles writhing around the body of the vase. Additional motifs such as seaweed and rocks represent the seabed. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC

Top right - clay rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head. A rhyton is a type of pouring vessel used for filling cups or making liquid offerings. There is a pouring hole at the bull’s mouth. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1375 BC

Bottom left - Nautilus vessel - clay rhyton depicting the seabed with nautili, corals and seaweed. From Phaistos Palace, 1500-1450 BC

Bottom right - Basket shaped rhyton decorated with double-axe motif. There is a small pouring hole in one of the bottom corners. From Pseira, 1500-1450 BC

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 1d

People don't like slop or garbage doled out to them and will tune out. And that is all Bari Weiss and her team are capable of: slop and garbage.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 1d

Insert: shelf joke

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

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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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 1d

They can't even spell correctly?! This is what happens when you abandon woke/DEI/CRT - incompetence and laziness

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 3d

frog

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 3d

Step inside a Rocky Rococo Pizza Parlor for something just as specific and kooky

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 4d

Literal cucks

Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 4d

Ravenous (1999)

Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 4d

I know it's a dead meme/"joke", but that BS TikTok scolding feels like something out of Orwell's 1984. Citizen, your content violated the joy of the platform.

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 4d

He is still going on about milkshakes? What a dweeb.

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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 4d

ICE isn't supposed to detain pregnant women except in extenuating circumstances, but our reporting found that the Trump administration appears to be detaining pregnant women at alarming rates in deplorable conditions.

Read my latest for @theintercept.com

theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i...

The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention

The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions.

theintercept.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

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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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 5d

Possible rise of an already elected pope? The brain drain at The Washington Post is so evident.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 5d

What's with all the branding?! Restraint is the name of game, Kash.

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Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 5d

Joel Osteen and his kind looking around, befuddled. "Is he talking about me?"

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 5d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 5d

The FOMO of it all. Only available for 10 hours! This definitely won't be saved to someone's Google Drive and dispersed!

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 5d

May show otherwise? What is the wishy-washy weak equivocating?

How about shoving into the headline how many domestic terrorists have turned out to be explicitly right-wing?

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