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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 3h

Ok ok ok ok ok

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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 8h

I would be too

Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 8h

Home alone, tonight I'm reaching for the stars

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 1d

The cat licked some lasagne bits from the container, licked it clean, and now he has a taste for lasagne.

I'm not sure if this makes me Jon

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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 2d

Edinburgh

(In Glasgow it's pronounced almost like "Embra")

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 2d

Am I right in saying that two test pilots died to develop the SR-71? If yes, why are you continuing this line of conversation?

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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 3d

Jonathan please no 🤣

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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 3d

Those two dead pilots are e loxactly what I'm talking about. Of course the Blackbird did its job: also it was groundbreaking and we are still nerding out about it decades later.

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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 3d

The SR-71 is a very dumb starship made of dreams, swears, titanium, and corpses of dead teat pilots.

It's so pretty goddamnit. But we don't need it.

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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 3d

Some people can read, but cannot read.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 3d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 4d

The CEO wants more TERFs but all the smut folk gone, apparently

Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 5d

Naga chilies have the nature of Naga

And they will fuck us up

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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 5d

It seems Bluesky is cooked.

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 5d

deleting *this* post is such incredible "put it in the paper that i'm not mad" energy—it doesn't even tag Jay. i'm so serious: deeply cooked website

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🌱Elaine Lithgow 🌱 @elainelithgow.bsky.social · 5d

Been reading through Lord Have Mercy Upon Us by @caesar-ink.bsky.social and I’m still obsessed with the index/random encounter table/dust jacket.

Such a clever feature. I long for a bookmark version tho, just I find reading a book with the dust jacket on to be a bit awkward.

A photograph of a role playing game book where the dust jacket folds over and lines up with notches on the edge of the book to provide a combination index and random encounter page

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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 6d

It's been a hot minute since I launched the Norton Utilities.

Jeez I forgot I had a very good assembly book by him.

Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 6d

Considering how badly you were doing, that's a whole lot of flowers.

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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 6d

No, but apparently he thinks it's needed to criticise religion

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The REAL Texas Paul @paulsrockinbluesky.bsky.social · 7d

here's a reminder that discord has adopted a new arbitration policy, which means you have under 30 days to opt out of it

Opt-out. You can decline this Agreement to Arbitrate-and no other provision of these terms-by emailing an opt-out notice to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com within 30 days of September 29, 2025 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate Disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs. If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, Discord also will not be bound by it and there shall be no arbitration agreement existing between you and Discord, whether under these or prior arbitration provisions. If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, you may exercise your right to a trial by jury or judge, as permitted by applicable law, but any prior existing agreement to arbitrate Disputes will not apply to claims not yet filed. If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, you will not be opting out of any other provision of these terms and you agree to be bound by all other provisions of these terms, which shall remain in effect as allowable by law

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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 6d

Unless you have a PhD on religion you too know nothing about religion, I guess.

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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 6d

a man with red hair and a beard is standing in the woods

ALT: a man with red hair and a beard is standing in the woods

media.tenor.com

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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 6d

When I started reading DK there were about 6 strips on the website and I already could tell both the protagonist and the author were lesbians.

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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 6d

As expected, the idiotic UK age verification law took only one month to turn from a massive liability to actual harm to those who live in the UK. Write to your MP and complain.
www.theverge.com/news/792032/...

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

www.theverge.com

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