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ceej @ceej.online · 2d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 2d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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saskwatch @saskwatch.bsky.social · 1d

An update from Lemn:

Screenshot of facebook post from Lemn Sissay posted yesterday: "You may have noticed my poem RAIN has left the building on the corner of Dilworth and Oxford Street, in Manchester. Have no fear. It will return brighter and stronger. @globalstreetart are making sure of that. Watch this space.
#landmarkpoetics"

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adam @kumerish.bsky.social · 2d

brambles

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saskwatch @saskwatch.bsky.social · 6d

the unbelievable crescendo www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkSZ...

Sigur Rós- Ára Bátur (Royal Albert Hall London 03/10/2025)

YouTube video by Jonny Green

www.youtube.com

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · Aug 20

Drifting Thoughts • 2021

Digital illustration of a figure standing in a dark field. The top half of the figure's head is missing similarly to a piece of broken ceramic. The opening in their head emits a smoke-like substance that floats into a cloudy, green sky.

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Jacques O'Lantern @ass.golf · 6d

Starting to think that pareidolia monkeys making a pareidolia machine was maybe not a great idea

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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · 6d

Isn’t this marvellous?

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saskwatch @saskwatch.bsky.social · 8d

Sigur Ros last night, with London Contemporary Orchestra, and surprise Anna Lapwood signature Royal Albert Hall organ finale!

interior of the Royal Albert Hall before the performance, tiers upon tiers of seating, with the 'mushroom' sound diffusers suspended from the dome

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saskwatch @saskwatch.bsky.social · 8d

what's the line "art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed" but nah maybe everyone can get disturbed

Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 9d

Boy Staring at an Apparition — Goya, c. 1824
Carbon black wash, with watercolor and scratching, on ivory
5.9 x 6 cm

On the right a pale boy mouth wide open in shock is recoiling from a large, uncanny, terrifying faceless figure

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saskwatch @saskwatch.bsky.social · 9d

The initial government response has to be given within a couple weeks so it isn't super early guidetoprocedure.parliament.uk/articles/xfT...

Hopefully if the heat stays on and they know it's this unpopular they'll find a way to indefinitely postpone the scheme and never talk about it again

What happens after an e-petition has been accepted? - MPs' Guide to Procedure - UK Parliament

Read guidance for MPs and their staff on 'What happens after an e-petition has been accepted?' in the House of Commons.

guidetoprocedure.parliament.uk

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 10d

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Victoria Maderna @victoriamaderna.com · 14d

Day 27 of #septempera - the connoisseur.

Painting of a boar in a sweater with a mushroom basket, holding and smelling a mushroom.

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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · 13d

From the diary of Samuel Pepys today in 1665

So I to bed, and in the night was mightily troubled with a looseness (I suppose from some fresh damp linen that I put on this night), and feeling for a chamber-pott, there was none, I having called the mayde up out of her bed, she had forgot I suppose to put one there; so I was forced in this strange house to rise and shit in the chimney twice; and so to bed and was very well again.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 14d

Found a secret door in the back of my washing machine. Behind it a tiny room with rows of mice fast asleep in odd-sock sleeping bags.

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saskwatch @saskwatch.bsky.social · 14d

trying not to pay too much attention to the situation but last week the union jack draped over the Mancunian Way overpass was flanked by an EU and a Palestine flag and today it's three union jacks, but at least the middle one is in pride colours 🤷‍♂️

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saskwatch @saskwatch.bsky.social · 15d

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terror @weedlejuice.bsky.social · 15d

Have you guys seen this

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15d

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is

- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)

- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)

- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

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saskwatch @saskwatch.bsky.social · 15d

identity data should remain messy and difficult to reconcile across services and we should have to fall back on trust and an accepted amount of rule bending in everyday life petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 16d

COUNCILS DON'T NEED YOU TO PROVE YOUR IDENTITY IN ORDER TO REPORT A POTHOLE. THEY DON'T EVEN NEED YOU TO *REVEAL* YOUR IDENTITY.

Public backs ‘super ID card’ which could be used to report potholes

Ministers have recently said they are considering introducing a form of digital ID for adults in Britain

www.independent.co.uk

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saskwatch @saskwatch.bsky.social · 15d

Digital ID is one of those reasonably practical ideas that I'm dead against for weirdo ideological reasons, but also it obviously won't help at all with any of the things they're trying to use to sell it

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 16d

worldbuilding: it's easy and fun

screenshot of two tables. text is as follows:

NU-CIGARETTE BRANDS (1D6)
2-3
LUNGFVCKERS (disgusting stunt cigarettes for punks)
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Dark Horse Extra Tar (for grown-ups only)
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Steamboat Williams (old-fashioned taste)
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Razzberry Ices (heavily flavoured, for ex-vapers)
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Double Standard Reds (completely average)
8
Double Standard Blues (as above, in a blue packet)
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Amazon Basics Cigarettes
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Samsung Smartdarts (app reminds you to smoke)
11-12
Godseye Golds (very expensive, very smooth)

SYNTHETIC ALCOBEVS (1D6)
2-3
CANPAGNE (canned sparkling wine analogue)
4
Kikkoman KICK (developed from legacy soy sauce stockpiles)
5
GUNCH (unidentifiable flavour, very alcoholic)
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Dogbone Draught (masculinity-themed alcopop)
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OzBoz (Antipodean-style “lager” with a koala mascot)
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Buckfast 2: BUCKFASTER
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ScrumpMax XL (ruinous apple-flavoured ethanol)
10
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Vodka (incorrect, you can and will)
11-12
McWiddie 10yr Old (single malt marketed at children)

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saskwatch @saskwatch.bsky.social · 16d

I have regular nightmares about accidentally working on a project that receives as much love and attention as SM64 and having Kaze Emanuar call out my bad decisions 30 years later www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZcb...

Mario 64 wastes SO MUCH MEMORY

YouTube video by Kaze Emanuar

www.youtube.com

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 16d

Our friend the Canadian Toad likes to spend the winter underground below the frost line, and create small mounds known as mima mounds that can contain hundreds of toads! (photo by Chris O'Donoghue)

A green and brown toad with a cream-colored belly! Their back is covered in lots of large, spiny bumps!

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 17d

new Tony Hawk game but it's just him doing normal stuff like going to the grocery store or waiting in the airport security line

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