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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 47m

Do they still plan on hiding every show from anyone who might watch

Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 1d

How is this not an Onion headline

click.email.variety.com?qs=4fcd74758...

Apple TV+ Rebrands to Apple TV, Ditching the Plus Sign for ‘Vibrant New Identity’

It's just Apple TV now, no plus.

click.email.variety.com

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 2h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 8h

Secondly, I would like to take this quote and make it the background of every official in DESNZ. Trying to be too clever-clever never works. Trying to exclude all edge cases makes bad policy.

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1h

That’d probably result in him having to change his top more than he gets free kicks though

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 5h

Oh no not again www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 3h

New obsession

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 2h

I think they’ve just announced their new logo is an Iron Cross too

Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 3h

Surge.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 3h

Latest YouGov government approval ratings, 11-13 October 2025

Approve: 14% (+1 from 4-6 Oct)
Disapprove: 69% (=)
Net: -55 (+1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3h

Part of the reason many Germans supported the Nazis was that there really was a lot of violence in the streets & they wanted order. But much of that violence was carried out by the Nazi paramilitary SA.

So the Nazis presented themselves as the solution to a problem they intentionally created

NPR @npr.org · 5h

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

n.pr

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm an article about how formal dress will save conservative values, sure would be a shame if the author dressed like shit

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 19h

X is quite literally funding the defence of the domestic extremists the government is prosecuting but they still won't stop using it

Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 22h

If true, it's an open question which of them this reflects more badly upon.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 8h

Adorable conspiracy theory - going to say if you ask the average Welsh man to choose between Zulu and Independence, you may as well become used to 1000 more years of the Saes

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 9h

Also acting isn’t just putting the costume on someone. This will never be able to show you how they would play the part. The best they’ll ever be able to do is how some techbro would play it with her face & why would you want that

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19h

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

October 10, 2025

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 17h

People don’t want to hear this but the principle consequence of making I-P an omnicause is the creation of a million new antisemites who, as a nice bonus, are unequipped to address any other issue sensibly.

Russell Cohn @russellcohn.bsky.social · 20h

Wanting more housing is apparently a thing you can blame on the Jews now.

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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 20h

1% of Reform voters say Liz Truss is the best Prime Minister of the past 50 years leading to the inexorable conclusion that one of the surveyed was Danny Kruger.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

On the centenary of her birth, Margaret Thatcher is Britons' top choice for best PM of the last 50 years

Margaret Thatcher: 29%
Tony Blair: 12%
Harold Wilson: 6%
Boris Johnson: 4%
Gordon Brown: 3%
David Cameron: 3%
John Major: 2%

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 20h

Probably keeps asking Pete Townsend for research tips too

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 20h

Tommy Robinson immediately panicking when stopped by police because of the “information about vulnerable girls” on his phone is another sign that he got the idea of hanging things from lampost after yet another nightmare about his future

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

your tactic of protesting in an inflatable frog suit which gets normal people on your side is far inferior to my tactic of posting about laser blinding helicopter pilots which is both wildly illegal and, were it to succeed, would put basically *everyone* against me

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

From Robert Jenrick's video - in which he did not see a single other white face on a brief trip to Birmingham, despite his video showing that he did.

"He must have been walking around Handsworth with his eyes closed" writes Dan Cave

www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/a-notorious-...

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1d

See I think her personality fits well into it because she’d never stay on anything long enough to learn anything but this also means a pretty high chance she accidentally gets into 5G conspiracies

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 1d

these are not "AI clips of European cities changed by migration", these are constructed videos designed to propagate a certain worldview - designed by the people this subhead describes as "seizing on" them

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

In an AI-generated, dystopian vision of the British capital, a video shows Big Ben smouldering above piles of rubbish and London crowds dressed in traditional Islamic garb.

Far-right leaders are seizing on such AI clips of European cities changed by migration to promote racist views
u.afp.com/Smz4

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1d

If she hadn’t won she’d surely be doing the Jenrick style roaming. Presumably at the same time he was too

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 1d

they've invented a kind of guy who accepts Nietzsche's critique of Christianity while still insisting they're Christian

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

there's genuinely quite a lot of 'christianity is a religion for losers' stuff on the new right and well yes! that is the point! it was a faith of slaves and women, as the romans sneered.

Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 1d

Donald- So I just admit that I was wrong and I get to go into heaven?

Jesus- Yes my child. I paid the price for your sins when I died on the cross

Donald- But I have to admit I was wrong?

Jesus- Yes my child.

Donald- I like messiahs who weren't crucified.

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