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I'd been pound foolish, I could see that now. Video Gamey * Sciencey * Equality * Irelandy * Leeds Unitedy #lufc he/him

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · Jul 6

Yeah my Mario has a flying saucer and a submarine so what 🤷 #mario #Nintendo #gameboy #retro #retrogaming

Check out my sub says Mario. BAM! 100 points

Yeah blasting seahorse bosses in my submarine

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Matt Egan @mattegan.bsky.social · 2d

Hell yeah. One of my earliest memories of ER is fans telling the Nazi magazine sellers to do one. Bremner takes a lot of credit for speaking out, and then Wilko, but it was ordinary decent fans deciding 'through it all together' means *all* together. #lufc

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Swords | The Webcomic @swordscomic.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm... Swords.

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 1d

Rip Mickey Pierce, his actor Patrick Murray passed away this week

stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 1d

Oooooh Pet-er Smith bam bam bam bam

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 1d

"I would smear the bejaysus out of her, simply because you've nothing to lose... you've got to create a fear... in my experience, nothing works like negative campaigning."

They're really openly saying the quiet part out loud now aren't they...🤔

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 1d

Skateboard

xkcd.com/3152/

4-panel comic. (1) [person in the sky unpacks skateboard from parachute bag] I guess this is on me. I should really keep my skateboarding gear and my parachutes in different-looking bags. (2) [person looking down at skateboard as they fall] (3) [person falling wile holding skateboard in one hand and phone making “beep beep” sound in the other] (4) (person still falling with skateboard, now talking on phone] Hello, Pro Skate Parks LLC? I’d like to place an extremely expedited order for a 600-foot halfpipe.

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 1d

Significant blow today for Stella O'Malley & her anti-trans advocacy organisation Genspect, as their spurious defamation action against Irish therapist, Leonie O'Dowd, is added to "The Gallery of Shame" by CASE (Campaign Against SLAPPs in Europe.) www.the-case.eu/gallery-of-s...

Gallery of Shame – CASE

www.the-case.eu

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Graham Smyth @grahamsmyth.bsky.social · 1d

A big old Leeds United survey.

Have your say.

#lufc

www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/footba...

Big Leeds United Survey: We want your views on transfers, Daniel Farke and 49ers

Today we launch our Big Leeds United Survey and we want to hear from you!

www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 1d

A great christmas haul so it was

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2d

Right wing FG candidate for Irish President, Heather Humphreys, being called out for her anti-trans nastiness by noted feminist & women’s equality campaigner Ruth Coppinger TD. Whatever your views on human rights, you can’t claim that Humphreys would be a president who was inclusive.

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ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 2d

Who knew that you had to have a characteristic from birth for it to be worthy of human rights? Bye bye protections on religious grounds, age grounds, martial grounds, even maternity

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 2d

This is great

youtu.be/wubkrBd3-gg

#boc #boards #music #pdp-1 #retro #retrocomputing

Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer

YouTube video by Joe Lynch

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rubot @rubot.ie · 2d

This mug is clearly branded to let you know it is endorsing Friends the television series and not Friends, the social concept

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Daniel/Moxco @leedsista.com · 2d

Massimo Cellino wanted the credit, and #LUFC fans wanted a good local left-back.

But Charlie Taylor wanted the Premier League.

From A-Z since 1992, and big-time Charlie:

Charlie Taylor ⭑ From A-Z since '92

Massimo Cellino wanted the credit, and Leeds fans wanted a good local left-back. But Charlie Taylor wanted the Premier League.

www.leedsista.com

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 3d

Burglar says asking occupants for use permission would 'kill' the housebreaking industry.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 3d

There's a long way to go that's for sure.
Here's the link to the article in case it gets moved down the bbc football page linked above
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Josh Cavallo: 'Football still has an issue with homophobia'

Australian Josh Cavallo, who moved to England in July to join non-league Peterborough Sports, says football has got

www.bbc.com

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Billy Morris, Leeds Books @billymorrisauthor.bsky.social · 3d

My pal the footballer…Some more of Tony Levison’s Albert Johannesson photos. Tony is the little lad in the photos taken in the early 60s. His dad owned Project records on the same Harehills parade as Big Jack’s shop so got to know a lot of the players.
#LUFC #LS65 #ALAW #60sLeeds #Leeds

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 4d

It is a wonderful thread

stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 4d

ASAW review of the #lufc v Spurs match. The listener question askers probably aren't as handsome as the Bournemouth review askers but ya can't have everything

All Stats Aren't We @allstatsarentwe.bsky.social · 4d

Also available to all listeners via Acast.

shows.acast.com/thegameofthe...

Ep. 360 - Tottenham Hotspurs(H) Review | All Stats Aren't We

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 4d

The same ever giving thread

stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 4d

It's the same thread!

stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 4d

We can mute a thread here, now we've gotta be able to follow a thread, cos I need alerts for this juicy one #speirgorm

Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 5d

Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 4d

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 4d

"As the US author Ta-Nehisi Coates recently said of the Democrats, “if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy”. The same applies to the Labour government."

It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones

In making dissent a privilege, not a right, Labour is crafting a repressive toolkit. Imagine it in the hands of a Farage government, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

www.theguardian.com

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