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Clownf1st
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Bon viveur, futility enthusiast, founder of Milli Vanilli, compulsive liar.
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eizebasa.baby
This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.
A photo that appears to have a "gettyimages" watermark but the watermark is actually painted directly on the bridge.
January 29, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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jslovechild.bsky.social
I'm definitely up for this.
January 29, 2026 at 7:42 PM
clownf1st.bsky.social
Was going to read but I'm "trapped" on the sofa by the boy. Watching the Louis Theroux Scientology film.
A fawn and white whippet flopped across my leg and under a blue Oodie.
January 29, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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flintlock.bsky.social
"Anderson said he had weapons in his bag, and inside the bag was a barbecue fork and a pizza cutter, according to the criminal complaint."

This needs to be a feature film.
January 29, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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guilhernunes.bsky.social
capybara playing guitar and its friend frog
painting of a capybara playing guitar and drinking wine at the door of a house with its friend frog dancing
January 29, 2026 at 7:57 PM
clownf1st.bsky.social
Why not retrain as Helena Bonham Carter?
January 29, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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joshuadysart.bsky.social
Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 9h
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'

• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War

• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind

• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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quintinlake.bsky.social
Come hear me share some of Britain's finest bathing spots at @hatchards.bsky.social Piccadilly next Wednesday 6.30pm 🎟️ is.gd/Xazks7
January 29, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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mangmangmang.bsky.social
Why egg? Egg embodies
Neon sign reading Why Egg? Egg embodies
January 29, 2026 at 6:49 PM
clownf1st.bsky.social
Bring Me The Feet of Alfredo Garcia
January 29, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social
Go to Quintin's event! His photos are amazing. And he kindly let me use one for my avatar sign.
quintinlake.bsky.social Quintin Lake @quintinlake.bsky.social · 9h
Get to know some of the people I met while walking around the coast of Britain for #theperimeterbook at my Hatchards Piccadilly talk next Wednesday, 6.30pm 🎟️ is.gd/Xazks7 #London
January 29, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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dsquareddigest.bsky.social
This is just so crazy because if you end up in 2035 with an educated elite population who don't believe they owe anyone else because they paid for it themselves, how do you think they're gonna vote?
implausibleblog.bsky.social Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18h
2026: Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves, "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to"

2020: That time Labour leader Keir Starmer said he would scrap university tuition fees
January 29, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social
One of the most popular AI chatbot apps in the app stores exposes millions and millions of user conversations: www.404media.co/massive-ai-c...
Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations
Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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ionawonderbox.bsky.social
Not all heros wear capes
Weirdly, I once dated someone with a similar name. I had to double-check that it wasn't this guy. It isn't, thankfully. Anyway, the post is a screenshot that says: Chris Bakke ® @ChrisJBakke I've started joining every Google Meet 30 seconds early. When you join early, everyone's virtual note takers join early too. I spend the first few seconds screaming about how I'm on the Titanic, we've just hit an iceberg, the end is near, and I need immediate assistance. I then do the rest of the meeting normally. When the meeting ends, everyone gets an emailed transcript where the Al summary is: "Chris hit an iceberg, is trapped on a sinking ship, and general Q2 pricing updates"
January 29, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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oisinmcgann.bsky.social
I know the idea of a submarine built by a schoolteacher and operated by Irish republicans sounds like the kind of maritime escapade @dreadships.bsky.social would write about, but it was actually a serious thing.
oisinmcgann.bsky.social Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d
I've never understood how nobody has ever written a novel about this before, but there was a brief time when the *Irish republican movement* possessed the first fully functional submarine.

Yes, you heard that right.

A short thread . . . 1/

#SpeirGorm #JohnPhilipHolland #Submarine
The full cover, back and front, of my novel, Steel-Plate Subversive. Overall, it’s a deep blue and sea green, the colour of sea at night. On the front, the view is from above, looking down at the deck of a small, steel-grey submarine at night. The hatch in the low-profile turret is open. A bearded white man in a green woollen jumper and brown flat cap is in the open hatch, holding a Thompson submachine gun. He’s lit from below by the red light inside the submarine. The title is vertical, in orange, down the left side, and the tagline is in white, much smaller to the right: ‘Irish revolutionaries, British spies, German mercenaries, and a submarine that shouldn't exist.’ My name is in white at the bottom. The back cover shows the same submarine in the harbour of a small town at night, racing away at speed. The blurb reads: There's something out there in the water. A shaky truce has been established in Ireland's War of Independence. In 1921, as negotiations begin in London to finally free the Irish from British control, a young intelligence agent named Esther Sinclair discovers that a nightmarish weapon has gone missing in France. Akiko Regan and her cousin Liam O'Leary have made their own discovery: Akiko's father, Michael, is the leader of the mysterious rebel group known as the Selkies. Michael is an engineer who trained under the famous John Philip Holland in New Jersey. At the start of the century, Holland's designs had established the submarine fleets of five nations. But the Irishman's very first submarines were built for the Irish republican movement. The Royal Navy have no idea that a Holland vessel has heen operating in the Irish Sea. Michael had hoped to shield Akiko and Liam from the ongoing violence. Now, however, the family find themselves drawn into a crisis that threatens not just their lives but the future of their country. There’s an Arts Council of Ireland logo across from the barcode, to acknowledge funding for the writing of the book.
January 29, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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richardkadrey.bsky.social
Good morning
a piñata telling a dominatrix with a paddle, "Don't hold back."
January 29, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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scalzi.com
I mean, feel free to unfollow me if I am insufficiently pure for you. Otherwise, unless one lives in a stick lean-to and drinks naught but pure rainwater, all any of us can do is choose what level of hypocrisy we live at and with. I wrote about this, in fact:

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/03/12/t...
January 29, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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danneidle.bsky.social
The report in full taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/01/29/w...
Who secretly owns Britain? Map of hidden UK property owners
Explore an interactive map of nearly 100,000 UK properties owned by offshore companies. In over 40% of cases, the real owner is hidden.
taxpolicy.org.uk
January 29, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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stuhennigan.bsky.social
Stonking #Bookpost from @manchesterup.bsky.social again this week, w/thanks to Becca as usual. Their trade list, esp the pop cultural stuff, is peerless. Have a shufty, there's 40% off everything atm too - bargains ahoy 📚
Two paperback books side by side on a filthy carpet. On the left, Caroline Aherne: Rebel In Disguise by David Scott. On the right, Manchester Must Dance by Mike Pickering. Both published by Manchester University Press
January 28, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
Commonplace books used to be much, much more popular.

Unlike journals and diaries, they're indexed, cross-referenced, containing bits and pieces of stuff you'd come across, whole pages copied out of other books, etc.

Like personal wikis.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonp...
Commonplace book - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 29, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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mrchrisaddison.bsky.social
Pretty sure he’s trying to hide the scar he got trying to steal a medallion off a woman in a bar fire in Nepal in the 1930s.
lincolnproject.us The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 2d
He's now wearing one glove to hide his rotting hand.
January 28, 2026 at 7:35 AM
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davidclewis.bsky.social
‘The current vibe is tiny dick energy,’ said Barry Loser, 23-year-old co-founder of an AI start-up that creates wankable images of household furniture.
January 29, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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lukesteuber.com
oh god

oh GOD OH NO oh Jesus, what do I do

HELP
A meme with top text that reads, “Me at 3am imagining how I would do cpr on a giraffe instead of sleeping.” Below the text is a cartoon-style illustration showing a man in a blue shirt and gray pants performing CPR on a giraffe. The giraffe is lying on the ground with its long neck stretched out. The man is depicted in three sequential poses: performing chest compressions on the giraffe’s neck, running along the length of the neck, and giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to the giraffe’s head.
June 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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January 28, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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gregjenner.bsky.social
Nothing better in football than a goalkeeper scoring a decisive goal in injury time
cjzero.bsky.social CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d
Many are saying Benfica
January 28, 2026 at 10:23 PM