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nicky woolf

@nickywoolf.bsky.social

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Former Guardian internet reporter, now making investigative podcasts Finding Q (into qanon), The Sound (into Havana Syndrome), Fur & Loathing (into a gas attack on a furry convention in 2014) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fur-loathing/id1739333983

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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 17h

it can't even touch it. it's like - it's like - if anyone can't understand *why* it's because they don't know what makes humans human. and that's sad for them

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 17h

something like that bsky.app/profile/infi...

Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 17h

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 17h

AI can't even tell me why I'm crying right now

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 17h

this book is a tremendous piece to show any AI evangelist. because there is no way, no way on earth, any LLM could write this. I will consider my entire career a success if I ever write a single sentence like he did

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 17h

apropos of nothing I'm rereading Reaper Man and it is gobsmacking to me that Terry Pratchett and Donald Trump are the same species existing in the same universe. like, I don't know why this is what brought it home to me, but. jesus christ what happened to us

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 2d

Taylor Greene continuing to execute the extremely rare "reverse Fetterman"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

CNN: Marjorie Taylor Greene says Republicans have no healthcare solutions. What do you say to her?

REP. PETE SESSIONS: She needs a couple more years in office and she would learn that we do have ideas on the table

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4d

THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 4d

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 4d

omg

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Klaproth @klaproth.bsky.social · 5d

SWIFT: Trav, honey?
KELCE: (looks up from first edition Krazsnahorkai in original Hungarian) (pauses rare Steve Reich LP, Japanese pressing) Yes?
SWIFT: What rhymes with "thighs"?
KELCE: Hmm. "Belies," perhaps?
SWIFT: (under her breath) Oh for fuck's sake

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 4d

the @bsky.app team know that suspending @erinbiba.bsky.social kills this place stone dead right? they can't possible be so blind as to not know what this is doing

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 5d

My story is now up: www.economist.com/united-state...

What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism

The worst excesses seem designed to produce content

www.economist.com

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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 5d

that escalated quickly

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 5d

lmao

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 6d

this is delightful

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 6d

a Wikipedia editor with the username Vigilantcosmicpenguin explained, "I contacted Brian David Gilbert with a request for freely licensed photographs. He delivered."

gilbert poses after his pizzas fall on the floor

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 6d

we only recognise one King here. and it's Alfred the Great

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 6d

the t-shirts have been misread, they're just massive fans of the King's Arms on tooley st

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 6d

isn't the king's army already just, like, yknow. the army

Daniel @deargodwhatnow.bsky.social · 6d

Have to say, this is quite weird

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 7d

earlier @jamesrball.com said they look like something you'd see painted on the shoulder of a warhammer 40k space marine and now I can't unsee it

Mark @dcwritermark.bsky.social · 7d

Kash Patel’s challenge coin looks like a heavy metal poster in a 14-year-old’s bedroom.

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 7d

the agent in the striped tshirt looks like if gamergate was a person

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 8d

a cartoon character is dancing in a room with a sign that says ' r ' on it

Alt: Professor Zoidberg woop-woop-woop-wooping out of a room

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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 8d

looking forward to the British tabloids currently discussing Travis Kelce's penis discovering what football position he plays

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 17d

wow @theonion.com nabbed 32nd place off @barackobama.bsky.social!

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 17d

if you can look at it without catching poster’s madness, the list of who actually gets engagement here is pretty interesting. somewhat dire at the top but quickly it’s real and high quality posters.

bluefacts.app/top-reach

The Top 1000 Engaging users of the last week (updated daily) | BlueFacts

View the most engaging users on Bluesky by total number of likes and reposts, updated daily.

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 26d

there was actually a really good explanatory webcomic I saw on here a bit ago, I'll see if I can find it

nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 26d

no