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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 4h

Additional frogs have arrived at the ICE building, this is not a drill.

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mick @midofo.bsky.social · 8h

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

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Magabala Books @magabalabooks.bsky.social · 1d

🖤 📖 Cover reveal 📖🖤

'Going Fishing with Nana' is an educational children's picture book written by Frances Haji-Ali and Lindsay Haji-Ali, illustrated by Karen Briggs.

📆 Out 14 October.

Cover designed by Jo Hunt.

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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Further evidence our 'government' has literally ZERO clue what it's doing with this shitforbrains policy.

TikTok? : Bad

YouTube? : Bad

SnapChat? : Bad

4chan? : Totes Fine

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

4chan unlikely to be included in Australia’s under-16s social media ban, eSafety commissioner says

Julie Inman Grant says message board will need to comply with other codes which will also include age assurance for sites hosting violent and adult content * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The eSafety commissioner is not expected to block children from accessing 4chan as part of the under-16s social media ban, despite it being labelled one of the “darker” places on the internet. The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, was asked by independent senator Fatima Payman in Senate estimates on Wednesday night whether 4chan, the message board often referred to as the engine room of the internet, would be considered one of the sites required to prevent under-16s when the social media ban comes into effect from 10 December. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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mick @midofo.bsky.social · 1d

Aha

mick @midofo.bsky.social · 1d

How does the Baudin's lose votes?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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mick @midofo.bsky.social · 1d

I, for one, was not expecting "The Protocol Wars" to be this bad

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 1d

lol. here is a (multipart) rant on atproto from May 2023 all of which turns out to have been how this bsky thing worked out urbanists.social/@sam/1103399...

Sam :verified: (@[email protected])

Fucking Christ the @protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit I've ever looked at. It is complex solely for the sake of being complex and still suffers from *all* of the same problems as Mastodon. Yo...

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mick @midofo.bsky.social · 1d

That has actually been in my head for awhile

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mick @midofo.bsky.social · 1d

Without having watched this, are you familiar with Lone Wolf and Cub?

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mick @midofo.bsky.social · 1d

sorry I am allergic, please don't post about this

mick @midofo.bsky.social · 1d

do the poms call this bracken or something? fucking woeful shit imho

mick @midofo.bsky.social · 1d

Like a shit load of zamia palms without a jarrah forest, that aint gonna be good land in any way, shape or form

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mick @midofo.bsky.social · 1d

fucking awful looking country tbh

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mick @midofo.bsky.social · 1d

I never really knew what a "moor" was when reading the hounds of baskerville as an aussie kid, but this pic closes the circle for me

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

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 3d

JP Acosta v @acosta32jp.bsky.social • 57m
AMERICA
WELCOME TO JAGUARS FOOTBALL

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TheBarracksLawyer @intrepidcapitalist.bsky.social
We're in the middle of a civil war where municipal police and federal police are shooting each other and you want use to watch some stupid game like we're in the Colosseum during the fall of Rome. Fuck your football game, release the Epstein files

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

A woman says “Bank of England flags risk of
'sudden correction' in tech stocks inflated by AI” And a man opens a calendar to see Ed Zitron, the smiling man

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Climate Analytics @climateanalytics.org · 1d

"Asia is at a crossroads: while these countries haven't yet gone down a high carbon capture and storage (CCS) route, many have tailored their CCS policies to protect their fossil fuel industry, especially in Japan, South Korea and Australia," @billhare.bsky.social told The Times of India.

Asia’s CCS plans could add 25 billion tonnes of extra emissions by 2050, risking the Paris Agreement’s warming limit goal: Report - The Times of India

Environment News: A Climate Analytics report warns that deploying carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Asian countries could add 25 billion tonnes of extra GHG emissions

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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mick @midofo.bsky.social · 1d

I remember seeing someone evolve that flow chart(?) awhile ago before this got published in the mainstream media, can't remember who it was though

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mick @midofo.bsky.social · 1d

LOL, this article forgets that she didn't write all of the songs on her previous albums, like who even are Max Martin, Aaron Desner, Shellback and Liz Rose

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Becinator @artdragon86.bsky.social · 2d

*walks into cafe*
Me: Hey, can I have a sandwich?
Server: Yes, it comes with lettuce, tomato and dogshit.
Me: I don't WANT dogshit on my sandwich!
Server: My manager measures my performance based on how many dogshit sandwiches I sell, so if you don't want one, this conversation is not interesting.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3d

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> Lol the timing; I work in IT for a large publishing company - and my god the meetings with microsoft sales team is all AI AI AI COPILOT COPILOT COPILOT.
> I had to flat out tell their VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

The Senate has the power to jail her for contempt. AFAIK it never has, and won't

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 2d

Home Affairs Sec Stephanie Foster exposed as overly determined Not to Answer & take things ‘on notice’

Shoebridge “You’re taking on notice your failure to answer on notice, Q’s I asked u on notice, about Q’s that u responded on notice, to answers u haven’t given on notice”🤯ffs #Estimates

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