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Alicia @foodycatalicia.bsky.social · 11m

This escalates quickly

⚜️ Fritz von Runte ⚜️ @vonrunte.bsky.social · 18m

Good morning 🌞
Here's a story for you. I buy and sell music. It's my thing. Records, CDs, cassettes.
Some dude bought a £4 cassette off me on eBay.
His energy was intense for someone buying a £4 cassette. I noticed how much importance he was giving it, so I checked the item. (1/3)

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 5h

look we all know it's weird but WOW is it weird to be a 40 year old man on a group chat with other 40 year old men where you're just gassing each other up to talk about how good Hitler was or whatever. obviously it's bigoted and disgusting but also just big nerd shit

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 1d

You've gotta read quite a long way through this before you reach the bit where the Greens are polling level with Reform among British Indians www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Support for Reform UK increasing among British Indians, poll shows

Exclusive: Survey finds 13% of British Indians back Nigel Farage’s party compared with only 4% at last election

www.theguardian.com

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 9h

This is incredibly sad and pathetic.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 2d

A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required

Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you | TechCrunch

A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required

techcrunch.com

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 11h

If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 11h

I’m old enough to remember a time when saying this would’ve seemed rather a moral open goal, as opposed to the type of thing the Labour prime minister would conduct a few polls on before he made up his mind what he thought.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 11h

"People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to ‘go home’. This is their home.” - @eddavey.libdems.org.uk on Conservative proposals to strip people of indefinite leave to remain & deport them
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported

Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16h

"Please provide a review of every experience you have" culture has truly peaked, I have just been asked to review the facility where I went to get a Coast Guard-mandated drug screening

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🎃It was a Hotblack night🦇 @invalid-handle.com · 18h

Failing to earn their crust. Sounds like they’re stuffed. I wonder if this news will be topped?

Dave. Just Dave. @davidwhittam.bsky.social · 18h

Just saw that Pizza Hut in the UK could be folding. I think that officially makes it Calzone Hut. Eyethangewe. I’m here all week. Try the veal.

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 19h

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are in bed. Green has just woken up, bleary-eyed, while Blue is still sound asleep. Green narrates.
Green, narrating: You might wake up at 5 on a cold, dark monday to the sound of someone scraping frost off their windshield.

Still sleepy-eyed, Green turns towards sleeping Blue.
Green, continuing to narrate: But you are warm, safe and cozy, in bed with the love of your life.

Closing his eyes again, Green cuddles up to Blue.
Green, narrating: One of life's sweet, fleeting moments of pure and perfect bliss.

Blue wakes up, both foxes are bleary-eyed and half-asleep.
Blue: Can you get off me? I need to go pee.
Green, still narrating: Very fleeting.

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RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 20h

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-w... (free to read)

At Gail's, what is the human cost behind a £5 loaf of bread?

The economics and migration behind the Gail's expansion. Words by Sasha Patel and Ben Jacob. Illustration by Kruttika Susarla.

www.vittlesmagazine.com

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 20h

On the Prince Andrew thing: I suspect most people couldn’t care less which titles he has or how he uses them. The point is that *he* cares about them, and that the king – who has clearly forced him into this declaration – wanted to deliver a smackdown of his brother in public so that we’d all see it

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 22h

AWS is down, post Scottish Wildcats

A Scottish Wildcat, a tabby patterned wild cat looking angry in a field of Heather.

A Scottish Wildcat, an angry looking wild cat with a tabby pattern hiding behind a tree.

A Scottish Wildcat, an angry looking cat with a tabby pattern skulking behind some rocks.

A Scottish Wildcat, an angry wild cat with a tabby pattern staring up furiously with a dusting of snow.

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 1d

ISRAEL BREAKS CEASEFIRE should be such a simple headline to write and yet no western news outlet seems capable of it.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 22h

This is so important.

Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 4d

Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾

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Alicia @foodycatalicia.bsky.social · 22h

I've never had a mince pie with whipped cream - seems like something that would be nice if the pie was warm, which you can't do if the cream is already inside.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 22h

Breaking news: Amazon’s cloud business was hit by an outage on Monday. Websites including Snapchat, Lloyds Bank and BT were all suffering from disruption www.ft.com/content/f9d1...

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

Failure to return the shopping cart to one of the cart returns if you are able is a sign of someone who does not value the social contract.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23h

"Last week your screen time was up by 21%." Of course it was, you judgemental robotic twat: I'm writing a book.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

“Grandpa, what does ‘awesome’ mean?”

“Well, back at one point, it was a word used to describe the planet’s great unfathomable wonders, although now it generally means ‘Thanks for emailing me that PDF’.”

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

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🎃Simon Threadgold🎃 @dimwittedly.bsky.social · 1d

If it turns out the Sumo lads robbed the Louvre, I will experience a level of pure joy I haven’t felt since the previous millennium.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 1d

My wild controversial opinion is that we do, actually, owe it to strangers to take basic precautions and engage in actions that ensure the safety and well-being of others, to make the world accessible and non-hostile and easy to navigate.

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Alicia @foodycatalicia.bsky.social · 1d

Oh that face!

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Drew Starr @thedrewstarr.bsky.social · 1d

My wife teaches 2-year-olds and has one kid who is obsessed with "Cape Cod Demon Hunters," and don't you dare try to tell her it's actually "KPop Demon Hunters," because you are just wrong, you dumb adult, you.

Same kiddo spent most of June singing the chorus of "Hot To Go" to herself.

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Alicia @foodycatalicia.bsky.social · 1d

I got a paperweight and there was a little buffet at mine, Camden Council must have been feeling flush.

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