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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 1d

[pulled over]

DOG COP: you ran a gray light

DOG DRIVER: but it was still gray when i went through the intersection

DOG COP: no it was gray

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Sean D. Sollé @sd.solle.uk · 4h

Exactly.

(Glares at Anna Del Conte).

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Sean D. Sollé @sd.solle.uk · 4h

"Meanwhile".

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Sean D. Sollé @sd.solle.uk · 5h

See kids! Piss in enough bottles and you CAN have a day off!!

Odd Thomas [redacted] DO 🪓 @tom.medsky.social · 5h

I talked to an amazon driver a few minutes ago and she was given the day off with pay because they rely on AWS for their delivery logistics. So there's one good thing about today. Bezos is eating shit for this.

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 1d

If my knowledge of French is anything to go by, those jewels stolen from the Louvre will be dans la piscine avec Marie-Claire.

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 17h

Police are now looking at the possibility that a masked man with a striped shirt and a sack with SWAG written on it may be a person of interest.

BBC headline, with accompanying photo:
“Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre”.

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Odd Thomas [redacted] DO 🪓 @tom.medsky.social · 5h

I talked to an amazon driver a few minutes ago and she was given the day off with pay because they rely on AWS for their delivery logistics. So there's one good thing about today. Bezos is eating shit for this.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5h

highlight of this article is ken burns burying a street interview tiktok guy in an early grave www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Next: Thompson Street, named after William Thompson, a "not very distinguished" general. A car with a Vermont plate nearly grazed Burns, but he was unfazed;
Vermont was not yet a state during the Revolution, "so how can he hit me?" He passed a Marc Jacobs (not a general) boutique and hit Wooster Street, named after General David Wooster. As he crossed Greene ("You cannot say enough about the importance of Nathanael Greene"), a bro in a backward cap started filming Burns on his own smartphone and asked, "What do you do for a living"
"Ignore strangers," Burns said
"Hey, a stranger's a friend in disguise," the bro replied.
"I'm just teasing you. I'm a filmmaker"
"Have you made something that I might have heard of?"
"Doubtful," Burns said, and scurried away. He stopped at Mercer Street

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 5h

Just needs an ai Trump in a plane pouring "brown liquid" over it.

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 5h

Can't believe I've missed out on enjoying a real life heist and a crown dropped from a motorbike. No Kings is right.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 6h

Hard to imagine any worse optics than an AI slop video of the president literally dumping shit on h...wait...sorry, we're getting some breaking news now...

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 7h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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Sean D. Sollé @sd.solle.uk · 6h

Me (with a mouthful of food): "Mmmmph mmf mmmmphrrs mmph?"

My dog: "Did you say 'shall we go upstairs then?'"

Me: "Mph!"

My dog: "Thought so. Doing that, however, does bring us somewhat closer to the fireworks, with which - as I have explained on many occasions - I am extremely uncomfortable".

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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 8h

WIFE: *reading the news* There was an AWS outage today and the cloud was down.

ME: *not looking up from my phone* that's called fog, Sharon

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 7h

It's a Royal Cock Out

(Is this anything?)

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 1d

God: Any other requests?

Angel: Ooh! Do a cow in sunglasses, holding a cigarette!

God: No problem.

A lightning bolt with a branching pattern in the night sky, with power lines visible in the foreground.

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Cosmic Clau @cosmicclau.bsky.social · 20h

this meeting could have been profanities scrawled on a bathroom cubicle wall

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 8h

this tweet also remains the truest thing written about how the underlying architecture of the internet works

Telecommunications as a whole, which also encompasses The Internet, is in a constant state of failure and just in time fixes and functionally all modern communication would collapse if about 50 people, most of which are furries, decided to turn their pager off for a day.

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Sean D. Sollé @sd.solle.uk · 7h

… which makes this such a beautiful cultural nugget.

Does it work without the context?

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Sean D. Sollé @sd.solle.uk · 7h

This is brilliant — thank you for quote-posting, and thank you @zaichishka.bsky.social for reposting the quote post!

What's particularly astounding is that I'd completely forgotten those engineering announcements — "the broadcast will continue in sound only/black and white only" — until just now.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 9h

They deployed this in only the second episode.

archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 10h

Alexei Sayle's Stuff (20th October 1988). "Well, we apologise for the absence of Alexei Sayle in this week's edition of Alexei Sayle's Stuff. We're attempting to right the problem, but in the meantime the programme will continue in Leslie Crowther only".

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 10h

Alexei Sayle's Stuff (20th October 1988). "Well, we apologise for the absence of Alexei Sayle in this week's edition of Alexei Sayle's Stuff. We're attempting to right the problem, but in the meantime the programme will continue in Leslie Crowther only".