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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 6h

very good to know! was so happy when the adult turned up and tried to scare me off

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 9h

When matte paintings go hard.

A matte painting of an impossibly intricate labyrinth from the 1990 film Hellbound: Hellraiser 2. The effects were by Cliff Culley from what I can find.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 18h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 18h

work work

Tumblr post:

video games are all about meeting a little elf
outside the city gates that says 'ah... the pernicious
weed!' when you give him a healing herb and then
finding yourself fifteen years later saying "ah... the
pernicious weed!" to yourself in the shower

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 18h

George Miller, 80, easily able to coast out the rest of his life and affirm his legacy as an old school filmmaker who stayed relevant and made shit that lasted in and compelled the culture for the better part of 50 years, absolute optimal goals for any artist, is getting into the slop game

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 18h

i believe he actually can do this though

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 18h

went back 15 mins later and it hadn’t moved, but suddenly a big squirrel ran down a branch and started kicking off so i assume that was mam. just went back to check a few hours later and it was gone! feels like the best outcome i could have hoped for, hope the little guy makes it

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 18h

on the school run this morning we found a dazed young squirrel motionless on the pavement, likely fallen from a tree. no others around we could see or hear. picked it up, tried to warm it and in time it opened its eyes, yelped and started moving. left it in a secluded spot nearby

a young grey squirrel sits in a cloth bag with eyes closed

a young grey squirrel sits in a cloth bag with eyes open

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 5d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 1d

Very much the dead internet. All those comics marvel did with ugly great big AR symbols on top of gorgeous art, evey qr code on the back of every book. All now filled with the equivalent of digital landfill.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

Yikes. Just got a message from my child’s school: some children’s books by Andrew Cope (inc. Spy Dogs, Spy Cats, and Spy Pups series) have a printed URL at the back. This used to go to the author’s website, but now goes to an “adult content” site.

So, yeah… be careful with that URL 😳

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 1d

I think of this image a lot

Elon Musk wielding a chainsaw, celebrating the starvation of human beings due to DOGE's coup of the U.S. government

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1d

And the -transition period- from 'we trust video because that's what our eyeballs and brains are trained to do' to 'anything that appears on a screen, moving or not, static or not, interactive or not, is a potential scam or agitprop' s going to be hellacious

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👻45 SECOND UNSKIPPABLE YOUTUBE AD👻 @lowqualityregen.bsky.social · 1d

Having this person doing some work in your house and trying to find common ground by explaining that you're not sold on digital ID either

Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1d

See yer da’s got a new car.

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 1d

to be clear: you can drive a souped-up uninsured car with a fake numberplate at over 130mph while evading police, hit-and-run someone who later has his leg amputated, concoct an elaborate lie about it all, and be allowed to drive again in less than 6 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Merthyr Tydfil hit-and-run driver caught by Ring doorbell - BBC News

Anthony Tregonning reported his car stolen in an attempted cover-up before admitting he hit a worker.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 2d

loads of racist shitheads rioting outside hotels housing desperate asylum seekers who are treated abysmally cos some Sunday Times Rich List cunt is creaming off obscene profits makes my heart swell with patriotic pride 🇬🇧 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper - BBC News

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of "terrible" conditions as accommodation provider makes millions.

www.bbc.com

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 7d

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 6d

what idiot called it thinking with your dick instead of

a Co-op delivery lorry with the slogan “We’re member driven” emblazoned on the trailer

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 7d

In all honesty, it’s not rhetoric any more. It’s not narrative. I’ve experienced more racism in the last 4 months than I can ever remember. The wheels are off in the UK and it’s being led by 3 political parties.

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 8d

lol I had been wearing it for about 3 minutes when I left the pharmacist and went to a newsagent and it inflated just as I grabbed a drink from the fridge so I just stood there on standby mode holding the bottle and failing to look normal until it finished

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merritt @merrittk.com · Nov 18

You're finally awake! That was a pretty big bump of ket you did. What? X? The Department of Government Efficiency? What are you talking about? Get up, we're about to land on Little Saint James

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tom @tomwalker.bsky.social · Jul 17

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 8d

wearing a blood pressure monitor armband for 24 hours which automatically inflates and squeezes every hour overnight, fascinated to find out how my dreaming brain interprets it

a shot from the closing scenes of Carrie (1976) with a girl in white approaching a wooden cross grave which has “FOR SALE” written on it and is graffitied

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Help Mohammed and Heba @mohammedandheba68.bsky.social · 8d

I write this with tears in my eyes، I can't take it anymore.

I'm completely exhausted. I suffer in silence.

All that matters to me is keeping my family safe, Please help me buy healthy food.

If you’re scrolling, PLEASE leave a dot . If can't donate.

gofund.me/7ab95312c

@mommunism.bsky.social 🩵✅

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 9d

very funny imagining the samsung upper management email chains as this tweet nears 20 million views and thousands of people dunk on him like, “what kind of bozo wears a smart ring”

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