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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 1d

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 14h

There is an increasing amount of compelling evidence that becoming a billionaire destroys your cognitive ability. I think it should be banned.

SexyAlexWattsEsq @alexwattsesq.bsky.social · 14h

Why are so many of these people completely mad and obsessed with Catholic fan fiction?

Candybaz @barryodonovan.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Thiel is quite, quite mad.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks you! 😊

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 12h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 9h

I is special delivery? 😍

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 10h

People are weird.

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 10h

They are Smokey (the grey) and The Bandit (the black & white)! We think they’re about 4-5 months. We’ve had them for a couple of weeks. 😍

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Lexykin 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷💜🩷💙 @lexykin.bsky.social · 11h

Oh I wish I could be as chill as my kittens are about it already being Sunday evening 🥲

A little tortoiseshell kitten is snoozing in a cream coloured hammock, her head resting on her crossed front paws. One back paw and the tip of her tail are dangling off the side of the hammock.

A tuxedo kitten is dozing off on a dark blue couch among cushions and throws. One white tipped paw is visible in front of her chest. Her eyes are almost fully closed.

A little grey tortoiseshell kitten is fast asleep on a circular cushion in a cat tree. Her face is squished against the side of the cushion, clearly extremely comfy. She has her back to a window with autumnal trees in the distance. Near her is a planter with cat grass.

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 11h

Same.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 11h

They have taken my spot on the sofa, but I couldn’t possibly move them! 😍

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 13h

Anyway, these are the best Jesus metaphors in nerd pop culture, I will not be explaining any further than what goes in the Alt text nor shall I be accepting notes

ET. Came from the stars. Loved kids. Told us to be good. Performed miracles. Was killed by those who did not understand his message of love and peace. Came back to life. Returned to the stars.

Buffy Summers. Never asked to be the chosen one. Very important relationship with mother. Battled agents of hell. Used love to save. Wood & crosses are very important. Small but very faithful band of followers. Died for us, and came back for us.

Superman. Raised by stepfather, doesn't really understand his very powerful birth father. Wacky demigod powers, but wants to live as a common man amongst the people. Speaks truth to the powerful.

Data from Star Trek. Complicated relationship with egotist father. Miraculous powers. Speaks up for the voiceless. Persecuted by those who don't understand him. Sacrificed self & returned from the dead, changed.

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Clayton is c. soûle @csoule.bsky.social · 13h

This is the universal truth we are all suffering the consequences of atm

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15h

When you’re that rich no one ever tells you to shut the fuck up so you think everything you have to say is interesting

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 14h

There is an increasing amount of compelling evidence that becoming a billionaire destroys your cognitive ability. I think it should be banned.

SexyAlexWattsEsq @alexwattsesq.bsky.social · 14h

Why are so many of these people completely mad and obsessed with Catholic fan fiction?

Candybaz @barryodonovan.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Thiel is quite, quite mad.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 14h

We’ve got a good friend who moved to Florida from the UK about 10 years ago & has gone fully down that rabbit hole. It’s really hard to see.

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 14h

Weird af.

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, that’s definitely true, but I just don’t get how they make as much money as someone like Theil when they so clearly don’t understand reality. Maybe reality is just broken.

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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah if you're outsourcing flirting to the machine I do think you're on the road to destroying the parts of you that make being alive worthwhile.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15h

Peter Thiel: no see, Goofy is the anti-christ figure, Mickey Mouse is Jesus.

Interviewer: what about Donald Duck?

Thiel: a demon charged with pursuing me

Interviewer: Bugs Bunny?

Thiel: also the anti-christ somehow

Interviewer: Elmer Fudd?

Thiel: *spits* Satan himself

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 14h

When I read things like this is wonder how these people who have no ability to understand the world in front of them become so rich and successful. Are they not like this to start with & the vast wealth breaks their minds? Because otherwise I just don’t get it.

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 14h

It’s very funny to see him say this about Ozymandias, maybe the only character in Watchmen who can’t be correctly described as an antihero

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 16h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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OnlyFangs @onlycans.bsky.social · 17h

forensic strategy sir

Wikipedia article entitled Category: Roman emperors murdered by the Praetorian Guard

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t care if it’s cringe, suck it up and put on the fucking frog suit

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 16h

Chris Morris as the newsreader on The Day Today

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 16h

THE RESIGNATIONS OF PRIME MINISTER LECORNU WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16h

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu appointed by Macron for the second time yesterday is already threatening to resign if “conditions are no longer met”. (France Elects)

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