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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 5h

When I get that feeling
I need saxophone cleaning

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 14h

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10h

Lib Dem's Daisy Cooper calls for an assessment into the threat Elon Musk poses to UK democracy after Tommy Robinson said Musk is paying for his legal fees

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 1d

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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maxanene.bsky.social @maxanene.bsky.social · 1d

Innit tho!

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

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maxanene.bsky.social @maxanene.bsky.social · 1d

Oh God, you're right. Ugh

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maxanene.bsky.social @maxanene.bsky.social · 1d

Let be honest, it's not GoT they want to put Marilyn Monroe in is it.

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maxanene.bsky.social @maxanene.bsky.social · 1d

Or 'anging by a thread.

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maxanene.bsky.social @maxanene.bsky.social · 1d

Waited for the Frisbee, wasn't disappointed.

Also, I feel like The Prodigy had their part to play in the death of these films.

Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 1d

Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.

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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 1d

Some 98yo fireplace designer called Spigboobs will die. And suddenly your whatsapps are full of 'I can't believe Spigboobs died.' You'll ask: 'who the hell is Spigboobs??' They'll ask 'you've... not heard of Spigboobs?'

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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maxanene.bsky.social @maxanene.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, a prick?

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, yeah, it’s nice for the morally superior people to point out that immigrants aren’t actually going to need A level English, but that’s not really the point. What’s the message?

The usual one: we’re going to be TOUGHER on those evil immigrants trying to infiltrate our precious bodily fluids.

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R Phelps @greygosling.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like a good hook for the UK press to discuss whether the UK government should be on a Nazi-run site like X and not say, on here, and whether Ofcom is doing its job.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them

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maxanene.bsky.social @maxanene.bsky.social · 1d

So do I and I was born here. There's gonna be a whole lot of peri/menopausal women on their way out.

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children of the corncob @bisk.sureis.sexy · 1d

fuck off with this shit you racist cunts.

i forgot the word "tumbledryer" the other day so i called it a tumbley bumbley and english is my only fucking language.

abolish the home office.

Changes to the English language requirement were first reported in May when the government published their early plans in the immigration white paper. The new standard requires people to express themselves “fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expression” and to be able to communicate flexibly in social, academic and work situations.

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 1d

Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1d

Not seeing enough analysis of how Gaza will be rebuilt or what fate awaits the many Palestinians who decide “we have to try our luck abroad, there is nothing here for us but rubble”.

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maxanene.bsky.social @maxanene.bsky.social · 1d

Too kind

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Public Benjamin @publicbenjamin.bsky.social · 1d

“I wish they would of done this sooner.”

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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maxanene.bsky.social @maxanene.bsky.social · 1d

He's with the Angles now

Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 1d

RIP to Harald Godwinson who died 959 years ago today you would have loved Buckinghamshire Archives xx

A bit of the Bayeux Tapestry where Harold Godwinson gets shot right in the eye by an arrow.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 1d

Nineteen Eighty-Four is an absurdist rom com about the practical difficulties of having an affair, which Orwell wrote a dystopian exploration of totalitarianism to disguise the fact he was either having an affair, or had spent six months pondering exactly how he would do it if he did.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 1d

The T-Rex infantry only go into battle with small arms.

No, you shut up.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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maxanene.bsky.social @maxanene.bsky.social · 1d

Things that kept me awake last night

Wondering how old Sheila Hancock is.

She's 92!

What will keep me awake tonight I wonder.