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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 48m

Life for the civilians who survived in Gaza is in ruins. They're homeless, jobless and hungry, and rely entirely on our direct donations to survive and rebuild.

Please give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can feed her children and make a home. And to others. ❤️ 🙏

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1h

What horrifies me about this is that it is highly unlikely intelligence services etc didn’t know about Epstein’s activities long before this which means that child abuse is just something to turn a blind eye to (see also Cyril Smith, Al Fayed etc etc)

Guardian story - Tony Blair
Tony Blair met Jeffrey
Epstein in No 10 on advice of Peter Mandelson, documents reveal
National Archives papers show how then MP pushed for 2002 meeting between PM and
'young and vibrant' financier

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 2h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 1h

We haven't picked ourselves up from 2008, yet, but the now-inevitable AI crash will be four times the size.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Dorothy Parker Fucks @dorothyparkerfucks.bsky.social · 1h

Tweet from @dril: turning a big dial taht says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 10h

When "all of this" is over and the centrist pundits and politicians are kissing Musk's ass again, don't let them. Don't let anyone ignore that Musk is a mass murderer.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 12h

My big conspiracy is that due to our overall systemic decline in both cultural literacy and actual literacy we have spawned a generation of people who don’t even know how to get horny anymore

TheGamersician 🎮🎶 @thegamersician.com · 1d

🤦🏾‍♂️

Speak for yourself lol

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 12h

Here's hoping my cholesterol gets me before the men in the masks!

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 7d

So much for the tolerant left, they said as their murder victim screamed obscenities at them before she died.

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 6d

If you know, you know...

Also... yikes!

Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 6d

New BLADE II review dropped.

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 5d

Twitter vs Bluesky.

Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · Apr 28

A huge group of people are in a giant hole in the middle of a rolling field. There is a large sign with an arrow pointing to the hole that says "HOLE." Suddenly the group's attention turns to a new hole, complete with a giant sign with an arrow pointing to it that says "NEW HOLE." One person points to the new hole and says "hey look! Someone made a new hole!" The mass clamours out of the old hole and makes a bee-line toward the new hole. It's chaos. One person, now situated in the new hole says "this feels like how the old hole used to feel." Another person nods in agreement.

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 4d

Healing news.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 4d

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 4d

Makes me sad Bigelow didn't do more genre films. She could have rivaled John Carpenter for the impact on sci-fi and horror. I blame misogyny.

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 2d

Note to filmmakers - if you put generative AI slop in your film there is no chance in hell I will ever watch it.

Amber T @blondekwaidan.bsky.social · 5d

Getting real tired of this shit honestly

A clearly AI generated picture in VHS HALLOWEEN

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 2d

I'm a 50 year old filmmaker with a bad back but I'm going to end up dying in a street somewhere because I fucked up reloading my rifle or I accidently sat on a grenade in some stupid firefight with the fash. Fuck you, capitalism. It was supposed to be heart disease in my 90s. This is all so stupid.

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 2d

The best Predator film and it's not even close.

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 2d

You will soon stalk, hunt, and take down Prey in theaters:

reactormag.com/prey-predato...

Prey Is Finally Getting the Theatrical Release Director Dan Trachtenberg Says It Was Made For - Reactor

The 2022 film is showing as part of a Predator double feature.

reactormag.com

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 2d

A man dressed as a frog is doing more to resist fascism in America than the entire Democratic Party.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 2d

Why does he always look like he's defecating?

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 2d

It was the first time members of Congress were put on record about whether they supported or opposed the president’s war in the Caribbean.

Fetterman Is Sole Democrat to Vote Against Blocking Caribbean Drug Boat Attacks

Republicans in the Senate voted down an war powers bill to block Trump's deadly attacks on alleged Venezuelan drug boats in the Caribbean.

interc.pt

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 2d

This is bullshit. My mum called me up the other day to complain about all the AI adverts she's seeing these days. She can't tell the difference between SD VHS and 4K but she knows shit when she sees it. She said she can always tell it's AI because "they can never get the trousers right".

She's 75.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 2d

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 2d

The main reason why Tony Blair has turned his swivel eyed gaze back towards the Middle East is because he can't believe he left some people still alive there since his last slaughter twenty years ago and he wants to come back and finish the fucking job.

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 2d

They all look like murderers.

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 2d

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 2d

Take a look at the linked article. The images reek of white entitlement, the men all look like psychopaths and all the women look like startled trad wives.

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 2d

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone checked under their beds for bodies?

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 2d

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck it. It's the October 10th. I'm going into full Donald Pleasence Devil's eyes monologue in the old Myers house mode and I shall not leave it until at least February.

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 21h

I'm out for a walk. A squirrel just unambiguously threw an acorn at me. Nature is against me today.

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