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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 13h

THE BLUNDERS (1976): A series of PIFs starring the titular family of careless drivers. Each episode veers from naff comedy to graphic horror as the unlucky victim is sent head-first through the windscreen. Extra point for the creepy 70s-era letchery in this episode, too.

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Dr. Travis Langley @drtravislangley.bsky.social · 17h

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 16h

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“Tensions between Venezuela and America soared following the attack, but Machado insisted to The Sunday Times that Trump was right to bomb the boat.
"I totally support his strategy," Machado said.
"And I've said on behalf of the Venezuelan people that we are very grateful. I think it is the right thing to do. It's courageous. It's visionary."”

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 16h

Ha ha ha ha. Left the SNP to join the party *Alex Salmond* founded citing her concerns for women’s safety, only to find they’re not on the same page. Fucking amazing.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: Ash Regan has quit the Alba Party

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 22h

No post-war pm so wholly personified the grief, resentment, thwarted entitlement, undiminished sense of God-given superiority, and constant, seething anxiety that someone, somewhere, was getting away with something, all of which define Britain after Empire.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23h

What happened to anyone who seriously threatened to reverse any part of the Thatcherite revolution? Who was it that enforced those penalties. There’s your answer, and there’s who is to blame.

The Guardian Y @theguardian.com
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Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? |
Martin Kettle

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 22h

Wait… what?!

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 1d

First look at "Primal" Season 3 (by Genndy Tartakovsky).
Coming January 2026 on Adult Swim.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1d

#WATCH | Ceasefire? What usually happens in occupied Palestine is that Palestinians cease, and Israel fires.

Now live from Al Rashid in Rafah, Israeli forces prevent Palestinians from reaching the south via the road 👇

(Credit: Al-Jazeera, Irlandarra)

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 1d

"Yes, we've never used AI," Marvel EIC CB Cebulski said when asked by a fan whether Marvel will speak out similar to Jim Lee. "They've really gone to great lengths to detect AI... We never used it, we will not be using it, and we don't condone it in the Marvel Comics division."

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 1d

Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first stage of the US government’s “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict.”

The agreement offers the prospect of relief after two years of unimaginable atrocities—but is no substitute for action to protect human rights and ensure justice.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't a "why can't we all get along" kumbaya moment. Its a moment to understand all the ways in which the people who created OpenAI, Anthropic etc claiming that their machine god will bring utopia, are the actual "existential risks" to humanity.

Raising billions of dollars to "save humanity."

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 1d

Fifa top brass presumably having a nice relaxing week.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

A soccer match between Argentina and Puerto Rico, originally scheduled for next week in Chicago, has been relocated to Florida amid the immigration crackdown in the city, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press.

Soccer match between Argentina, Puerto Rico moved from Chicago to Florida amid immigration crackdown | CNN

A soccer match between Argentina and Puerto Rico, originally scheduled for next week in Chicago, has been relocated to Florida amid the immigration crackdown in the city, a person familiar with the de...

www.cnn.com

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Shubbabang @shubbabang.bsky.social · 2d

The image is a six panel black and white comic

Panel 1- A small child is being told "You'll want kids when you're older!" The child responds with "I don't think so..."

Panel 2- The same child, now a teenager, is being told, "You'll change your mind when you're older." To which the teen responds, "I doubt that"

Panel 3- Now an adult, someone off screen asks them, "Aren't you thinking of having kids?" To which they respond, "Nope"

Panel 4- The same person, an older adult now, is being told, "better have kids soon, or it'll be too late!" to which they respond, "That's fine"

Panel 5- Now elderly, they are once again asked "Don't you feel like you missed out?" to which they say, "Still nope."

Panel 6- They are now in their death bed, clearly close to death. The nurse says, "Shame you didn't have kids, don't you regret it?" To which the person says "You know what just kill me already"

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 1d

Casting no shade, I’m an unutterable dork myself.

a woman in a blue dress is standing in front of a brick wall and says `` game recognizes game '' .

ALT: a woman in a blue dress is standing in front of a brick wall and says `` game recognizes game '' .

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 1d

In a rapidly changing world, it’s good to know Young Conservatives are still the unutterable dorks they always were.

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 2d

Are they hoping to start a Young Tory cosplay trend on TikTok
www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine being a Tory and dressing in the seventh Doctor’s clothes. The seventh Doctor who defeated Thatcher-analogue Helen A, who fought race-hate, destroyed Nazis, stood against nuclear bombs and battled climate change. The anti-Tory seventh Doctor. Imagine how much of an idiot you’d have to be.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 1d

It's funny how good the Labour Party is at "liberalising" things like gambling and boozing when there are multi-billion industries backing it, and so bloody awful at liberalising anything else.

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

Just not sure this is the answer to low UK productivity

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, Bill Burr, for being paid handsomely to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival for Saudi Arabia’s “oppressed people.” Very courageous.

Does he actually believe the total nonsense coming out of his mouth? Come on, man. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Bill Burr is lashing out at critics for slamming his appearance at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. During an interview on the “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast, Burr said he does not “give a fuck what all these phony fucking people are saying.”

“The general consensus is, ‘How dare you go to that place and make those oppressed people laugh, you fucking piece of shit. I can’t believe you went to that place. I can’t find it on a map, and this bot said I was upset about it so now I am,'” Burr said about the outrage over the festival. “It’s one thing to wear clothes made by sweatshop labor. It’s quite another to go to the factory and make ’em laugh. I can’t believe how much anger I had about this issue after it went viral

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 2d

Jim Lee's impassioned words about why DC will never use AI have already won New York Comic Con.

Jim Lee On Why DC Will Never Use AI: “AI Doesn’t Dream, Feel, Or Make Art, It Aggregates It”

The President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics spoke out at today's Retailer Day at New York Comic Con.

comicbookclublive.com

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Terry Anderson @terrytoon.com · 2d

A lawyer who can’t extemporise. Amazing.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 2d

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

Surely not the miracle technology that’s going to rescue us, and Britain in particular

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

www.theguardian.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Brian Box Brown @boxbrown.bsky.social · 2d

if AI biz was started by $5 trillion stolen in armed robbery from a bank it wouldnt be allowed to continue on. but since it was made by robbing artists of $5t worth of value, its fine.

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Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 2d

This reminds me - on a much smaller scale, but still chilling - of that photo of a smiling, happy Priti Patel joining in an immigration raid. There is something truly repulsive in being entertained by others’ suffering, through state enforcement.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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