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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 7h

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life

and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

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Rimou @rimou.bsky.social · 20d

Spreadshit

Chaleur Art ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 🔞 @chaleurart.bsky.social · 20d

Il paraît que Spreadshirt permet désormais de modifier les designs mis en vente à la volée par IA. Avec aucun moyen d'opt-out apparemment.

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI

Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…

pivot-to-ai.com

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Eedeedee @edyieeiyde.bsky.social · 6d

There are no paid protestors.
They are protesting bcs they are NOT being paid!

Protestor math...
2.86 M U.S. military currently UNPAID
+
300K govt workers FIRED by DOGE
+
15M paying 2X MORE for healthcare
+
BANKRUPTED soybean farmers

= MILLIONS of UNPAID protestors for No Kings 10/18/25
#NoKings

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tamaranth @tamaranth.bsky.social · 12h

"One of the cardinal rules of writing fiction is that protagonists must solve their own problems and achieve their desires through their own agency."
Just came across this sentence in a book review and I disagree. Growth and change are as important as problem-solving.

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Ourania @ourania.bsky.social · 1d

NYC #noKings sign with a picture of a frog saying “we will not be boiled”

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 17h

At least 38 Palestinians have been killed as the Israeli army commits 47 violations of ceasefire agreement.

Israel continues deadly attacks on Gaza, closes Rafah crossing

At least 38 Palestinians have been killed as the Israeli army commits 47 violations of ceasefire agreement.

bit.ly

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 1d

We are going to fucking win

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17h

I've got lots of things to say about Jeremy Clarkson.

Really not worth it. He knows his game is over and so is resorting to personal attacks.

Piss him off instead and
Join.greenparty.org.uk

Jeremy Clarkson article that says if you can't sort out your teeth you can't sort out the country.

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tamaranth @tamaranth.bsky.social · 16h

Mad? Senile... Behaving like a toddler.

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 21h

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 16h

And isn't it interesting to see how this egregious power crazed fool would treat well over half the citizens he professes to represent.
He only represents the bitterest, the stupidest and the lowest of the low.

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 21h

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 2d

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d

I’m reading this now. I may print a copy and keep it in my pocket for those occasions when someone tells me that “the real world doesn’t work like that”.

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d

I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...

The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman

Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.

www.londoncentric.media

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Ximena Cearley @sojourncircus.bsky.social · 1d

The whole story is even worse. The ICE agent, having allowed the family to put the dog in the bathroom so he wouldn’t be a problem, waited until the dog owner was outside in their truck getting their ID, entered the home, busted into the bathroom, and shot the dog

*for no fucking reason*

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tamaranth @tamaranth.bsky.social · 2d

Bodies, eh?

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

I was a lifelong supporter of being alive. Then I learned that Megan McArdle, Ben Dreyfuss, and Josh Barro were doing a podcast together.

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tamaranth @tamaranth.bsky.social · 2d

I am a convert to discbound notebooks, which can be very DIY or several hundred pounds worth of nice covers and metal discs.

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 4d

Donald Trump says crime in London is going through the roof. In reality the latest figures show that murders in London in the first nine months of 2025 were lower than in any year since monthly homicide records began in 2003, and 2025 saw a 7% drop in knife crime.

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gummitch (aka gummitch_uk) @gummitch.bsky.social · 3d

Dear Google Nest, By this action you have shown that your support for smart home thermostats cannot and will not be guaranteed. Explain to me why anyone in their right mind would buy ANY smart device Google recommends?

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tamaranth @tamaranth.bsky.social · 5d

they have been friends for a long time, and I assume she doesn't believe the accusations. Her choice -- but I wish it hadn't spoiled the gig for so many people.

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RockNews @rockmusicnews.bsky.social · 6d

#Patti Smith #Rock #Uncut

→ Go to article

www.uncut.co.uk

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Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net · 6d

Today marks five months since the release of THE INCANDESCENT. As we swing into the grimmest bit of the school year, spare a thought for the teachers you know, for whom a demon infestation would make very little noticeable difference to the dark tunnel that is the back half of the autumn term.

Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net · May 13

THE INCANDESCENT is a book about money and education and status symbols, about loving your career, about demons, about magic, about fantasy school - but most of all about how 'school' is always a kind of fantasy. Available now!

US: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/unti...

THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh, in US (black) and UK (pink) hardcover editions.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 7d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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tamaranth @tamaranth.bsky.social · 7d

Possibly one of my top ten gigs ever (i.e. since 1984)

Brian Grant @briangrant.bsky.social · 7d

So Patti Smith has just DESTROYED the London Palladium. What a gig.

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