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fae⁷ @onthistangent.bsky.social · 5h

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 2h

It used to be "you can't eat your cake and have it too". This pedantry was one of the reasons they caught the Unabomber.

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Colm Kavanagh @colmkavanagh.bsky.social · 4h

23 years ago, today.
Goodison erupted.
90 minutes after the game, we're in a taxi, heading down Hardman Street, and got a call from a mate -
"You'll never guess where Wayne is now?!"
"Haven't a clue!"
"Back home kicking ball on the street with his mates!"
#UTFT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJu...

Remember the Name ... Wayne Rooney! (best copy)

YouTube video by Suraj Kolarkar

www.youtube.com

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 5h

It's incredible just how on the ball trans people were about those US think tanks influencing British politics, going to great length to detail all these links and connections, only for it to fall on deaf ears because of how aggressively trans people were frozen out and disenfranchised.

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 18h

bittersweet seeing parts of the lethargic british press sluggishly get around to wondering if US far-right religious think tanks are working to influence british politics. they are, yes! it is not secret! do your jobs better!

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 6h

Wouldn’t want to have to clean that one out

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 6h

I have a question about vampires. If a vampire gets invited into a home by the dwellers and then another vampire comes to the home, can the first vampire invite him in or does it have to be the home dwellers again?

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 7h

Goddamit I knew the voice but couldn‘t place it

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 9h

#OtD 19 Oct 1920 Sylvia Pankhurst was arrested and charged under Regulation 42 of the Defence of the Realm Act with attempting to cause sedition in the navy by editing and publishing two articles in the Workers Dreadnought paper stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9141...

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 22h

A reminder that when people talk about "the markets" deciding this or that or the other, they are putting a veil of anonymity across a small number of people who all think the poor have it way too good and that the job of government is to punish them.

Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 3d

If you could ruin a few people's lives for us, that would really make us feel better, like we could trust you, you know?

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 23h

Ask your doctor if laudanum is right for you.

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 1d

Was fully expecting a forward defensive shot and a prod of the wicket with the bat.

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 1d

Google Photos just showed me a montage of The Pizzas I Have Eaten.

Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 1d

eu.usatoday.com/story/sports...

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d

Like, it's not a very nice topic to talk about, but normalising picking up after your dog is such a massive victory for civic life in this country. We had a dog growing up and it never even occurred to us to do that, except in our own garden.

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 1d

If everybody in the country went to university, then all the toilet cleaners would have degrees. How you feel about this very much depends on what you think the purpose of education is and how you value people who do manual labour, and I would love to hear the answers of politicians and journalists.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'Results show that 45 per cent of respondents agree that too many young people go to university. Around a quarter (23 per cent) said the current number is about right, and 10 per cent said not enough people go to university.' 2/3

Almost half of Britons think too many young people go to university | YouGov

yougov.co.uk

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 1d

That was satisfying

Unzoomed #639 5/6 🔴🔴🔴🟡🟢⚪️
unzoomed.com

Unzoomed

Identify cities using satellite images in this daily puzzle game, where each guess zooms out for enhanced clues.

unzoomed.com

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 1d

absolute wankers run this place

follow Alexis on masto:
beige.party/@amutepiggy

Hi there,

A Bluesky account you control
(@amutepiggy.bsky.social) posted:

"i do not wish for violence, okay. i wish for the
president to die from something that is funny"

This post violates our Community Guidelines
regarding violent or threatening speech. This
includes, but is not limited to, the following:

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ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 1d

Oh look, they've only gone and f-f-fucked up the penguins

iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 1d

Omg

"We made some changes to McVitie's Penguin and Club earlier this year, where we are using a chocolate flavour coating with cocoa mass, rather than a chocolate coating. Sensory testing with consumers shows the new coatings deliver the same great taste as the originals," the McVitie's owner, Pladis, said in a statement.
Club's classic advertising slogan citing its chocolate content is no longer in use, replaced by: "If you like a lot of biscuit in your break, join our Club."

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 1d

Tbf there is a third - "here‘s how we will solve social problems with technological solutions. Everybody else who tried this was using the wrong protocol"

Wootmaster @wootmaster.bsky.social · 4d

bluesky devs only make two types of posts:

"HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE MY USERBASE SINCE STARTING THIS SITE"

and

"i liek cats. upvote for more"

Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 4d

Stop calling them "cats." They're house gremlins. We just happen to like them

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

i know the desire to fight with these sick freaks is strong but resist the urge and just block. it’s better for your brain.

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 1d

It was DNS btw. If something makes zero sense based on the observable facts, it’s always DNS.

Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 2d

imo, the fight or flight mechanism we evolved over 100,000 years to handle leopards in the long grass is complete overkill for an SSL certificate chain of trust issue on a Friday morning.

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 1d

The silence of the Westminster lobby as one of their own backs calls for me — an elected Member of Parliament — to be deported is telling.

No condemnation, just bootlicking of their proprietors and jostling for Zone 2 dinner party invites.

Our media class is rotten to the core.

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Wootmaster @wootmaster.bsky.social · 4d

bluesky devs only make two types of posts:

"HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE MY USERBASE SINCE STARTING THIS SITE"

and

"i liek cats. upvote for more"

Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 4d

Stop calling them "cats." They're house gremlins. We just happen to like them

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted to hear that Gary Larson is drawing again. Digitally this time but you wouldn’t know it to look at them. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff

A Gary Larson cartoon called Trouble Brewing. It shows Ed’s Dingo Farm next to a nursery

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 1d

So it is! I was only joking, I shoulda realised someone would have done it.

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