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deadshock @debbshock.blue · 5h

well, my autopsy came back negative. what does that mean

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Jay Rigdon @jayrigdon.bsky.social · 6h

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

Two announcers, Jason Garrett and Dan Hicks, stand in front of a sign that reads "Big Turd" thanks to how they are blocking it

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 7h

Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%

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Sean D. Sollé @sd.solle.uk · 7h

I immediately thought of …

Everybody is Dead dave - Red Dwarf Clip

YouTube video by Duane Dibbley (The duke of dork)

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

I’m no expert, but wouldn’t shaming someone’s humiliation kink be indistinguishable from showing you’re an ally?

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 8h

US: NO KINGS

UK: fewer dukes if it’s not too much trouble

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Sean D. Sollé @sd.solle.uk · 8h

"We need a jolly upbeat jingle to promote our new cut-price burger campaign"

"Hey! What about the song that AllMusic called 'one of the most vivid evocations of adolescent heartbreak ever waxed'?"

"Perfect!!"

Burger King 99 Cent Great Tastes Menu 1999 Commercial | It's My Party

YouTube video by CRT Afterglow

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Micah @rincewind.run · 9h

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 8h

Kashing them in their lies.

A tweet from Liam Nissan says: “You sure about that?” It includes a photo of a lavish bathroom with marble counters and a chandelier, filled with stacks of boxes labeled as documents. Below, a tweet from “FBI Director Kash Patel” reads: “Anyone who threatens our national security will be held accountable,” alongside a screenshot of a news article about John Bolton being indicted for mishandling classified documents.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 12h

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 10h

They'll cast these rallies as "angry" but everyone there is plainly having a great time because it's fun to get together with like-minded people to engage in the oldest American tradition: telling a tyrant to eat shit

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1d

The pitch for generative AI is that “all you need is an idea”.

Any artist knows that any piece of work is the result of thousands and thousands of ideas, required at every stage of the process.

The notion that a piece of art bears the thumbprint of *one* human idea is fucking hilarious.

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Joanna Abena Fianu @joannafairtrade.bsky.social · 20h

This reminds me of a woman who employed me to do admin in her business in 2008. We weren't busy so one day she gave me a sheaf of about 12 pages of hand written notes saying

"This is my idea for a book. While you're quiet I want you to write it and get it published"

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 14h

the baby has sort of learned to say “fish” in that she can point at a fish and say “PISS” which is close enough and much funnier

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sısıɹɔ˙ʎʇıʇuǝpı @identityxcrisis.bsky.social · 20h

Who’s your favorite reoccurring (that is not part of the regular cast but kept showing up) sitcom character?

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Sean D. Sollé @sd.solle.uk · 14h

And here's Ms Swift using "meow" as an adjective six minutes into her appearance on the Teen Choice Awards 2019 …

2019 Teen Choice Awards | FULL TAYLOR SWIFT MOMENT HD 1080

YouTube video by Enchanted

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 14h

During a government shut down, the US government directed all their agencies to violate the Hatch Act to troll half the population of the country on a niche microblogging site would not have been on my bingo card.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 14h

One thing I’ve learned in 30 years of being online and involved in social movements online: none of this means anything or moves the needle on anything unless journalists like you, and they don’t like you, so you may as well just have fun with and be the entertaining cabaret in 1932.

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Not JPo @notjpo.bsky.social · 14h

Who called it singing out loud in the car when seat belting was right there?

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 15h

it is my pleasure to report they are indeed mad as fuck on the other site over being blocked and ignored. keep up the excellent work everyone

Free the World @PatriotVerity
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I joined Bluesky 6 hours ago, have not said anything rude or abrasive, and I'm already blocked by over 58,000 people.

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Sean D. Sollé @sd.solle.uk · 15h

Aug 12th, 2019!

Taylor Swift

Ok I got this one *rolls up sleeves* Meow - {meeee-yowwww} noun adverb verb or (as seen tonight on the teen choice awards) an adjective. Noun form: A feline greeting. Can be used to express ‘throw.....

taylorswift.tumblr.com

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Sean D. Sollé @sd.solle.uk · 1d

It's seven months later and I'm still sad that we only have six minutes of Yoz's fab talk — surely at least one nerd saw the broadcast-quality tripod-mounted camera and adjacent mixing desk, looked at their own phone and thought "challenge accepted"?

Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · Feb 26

found decade-old video of a talk I gave about Winamp and why it may be the greatest app ever made

here I am showing a CAD-like plugin (origin unknown) for designing buildings that pulse in time to music

video is here but only the first six minutes have audio, alas archive.org/details/NotA...

Screenshot of video from a conference talk at NotACon 10: "The Winamp Imperative" by Yoz Grahame.
Most of the screen is taken up by a capture of a Windows XP desktop running Winamp. There are several windows open; the front-most window shows a white-on-blue grid with red blobby outlines on it. At the top of the window are the words "Top-Down Designer", and at the bottom left corner, "Floor 1".

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · Feb 26

found decade-old video of a talk I gave about Winamp and why it may be the greatest app ever made

here I am showing a CAD-like plugin (origin unknown) for designing buildings that pulse in time to music

video is here but only the first six minutes have audio, alas archive.org/details/NotA...

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Jen @brokemycoccyx.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, you wanna get a bag of those mini Reese’s cups and toss them in each others mouth from opposite sides of the couch or nah?

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