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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 5h

Esther Dung Dang Ho

United States, Census, 1940

Alan Fresco @alanf.bsky.social · 6h

It wasn't a girl it was a bloke that says he thinks he's a girl. If he was a girl then there wouldn't have been an issue. Just thinking you're something doesn't mean you are that thing.
That said getting the law involved seems over the top to me.

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Alan Fresco @alanf.bsky.social · 7h

Outside of N. America most towns and cities are like this.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 21h

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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Alan Fresco @alanf.bsky.social · 1d

So what did he mistake for an elephant?

Roger Hutchinson @rogermiles.bsky.social · 1d

The test that Trump keeps boasting about acing - “I had to point at an elephant, then it got difficult.” Professionals use it to monitor dementia, substance abuse, Alzheimers, stroke effects, etc.
Where’s that nuclear button, exactly?

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 1d

I think someone coined Man Of The Paypal.
With him it’s almost always about the money.

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 1d

I just keep thinking how very Big Bang Theory this is 😂

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history:

The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!

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Alan Fresco @alanf.bsky.social · 1d

"well son that's a question we all ask ourselves for many years, but eventually most grown ups recognise that life is pointless and ultimately shit. What would you like me to read for you tonight?"

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Habu @flyinghabu.bsky.social · 2d

Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky.

But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭

#Astrophotography

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon taken from my backyard

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 2d

so simple and so perfect

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorry, did Temu Mel Gibson here just sat that the baby is *in* the placenta?

Is there any aspect of human biology this lumbering science experiment of a man can't get wrong?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 3d

One Small Step: my SKETCH of Kemi Badenoch, a leader unconstrained by reality.

One small step… | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

“I thought you’d like that one!” Kemi Badenoch shouted as the Conservative Party rose to its feet to cheer. She chuckled happily. There’s nothing Tories like more than a tax cut, and she’d just…

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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 2d

Another ‘narco submarine’ found in the Solomon Islands, after it sailed all the way across the Pacific(!). This is the 3rd publicly reported example there.

Note that it’s empty and the outboard motors have been removed

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 2d

Subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz349bs

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Alan Fresco @alanf.bsky.social · 2d

A career in engineering or science can be extremely rewarding and there is a chance that you might change the world.
I think my soul would have been destroyed if I'd spent years working hard to get an arts degree only to find I ended up working in a call centre.