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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 10h

Me when I see Elon Musk screen caps on here:

A woman in a dark coat in a living room saying "Have you been on Twitter again? Well, don't."

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The Onion @theonion.com · 8h

Industrial Revolution Provides Millions Of Out-Of-Work Children With Jobs https://theonion.com/industrial-revolution-provides-millions-of-out-of-work-1819571223/

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 13h

See this?

This story is the sound of a bullet you didn’t even know was coming at you whistling past your right ear.

Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 16h

Germany will not support Chat Control - a law which proposes to scan all messages people send even on end-to-end encrypted platforms - Justice Minister said today. German stance likely dooms the measure. Signal had threatened to leave the EU if Chat Control became law
therecord.media/chat-control...

Germany will not support 'Chat Control' message scanning in the EU

“Random chat monitoring must be taboo in a constitutional state,” Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said as German officials signaled they will not vote for a controversial EU proposal known as ...

therecord.media

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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 14h

I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 22h

🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/

Denmark aims to ban social media for children under 15, PM says

“We have unleashed a monster,” Mette Frederiksen tells Danish lawmakers.

www.politico.eu

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 1d

Very interesting.

Since this Samuel no longer has any Bluesky team references and has changed his handle to end w/ ".fm"

Also no longer a verified account.

Maja Öberg @majaoeberg.bsky.social · 2d

I do find it hilarious how they immediately backtracked after this and deleted the comment

a member of bluesky saying "Yeh" in response to the above post, with a journalist responding asking to get their exact quote over the thread in which the bluesky member responds with "what" and the journalist then rephrasing the question only for the bluesky member to delete the entire thread

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 18h

Hugh Fagass

Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1740-1900

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 21h

Heseltine was the first Tory MP to publicly criticise Enoch Powell after Rivers of Blood in 1968. Let him cook

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 19h

Happy International Lesbian Day!

#InternationalLesbianDay #lesbian #LGBTQ

Image shows four people standing together holding a lesbian flag with another lesbian flag waving behind them. Text reads: Happy International Lesbian Day!

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 19h

When politicians like Trump, or Starmer, say & do transphobic things, parents talk about it in front of kids & then the kids bring it to school.

It’s horrific that these kids are being taught to hate & at such an early age.

It is critical we do not import this into Irish politics:

11-year-old trans child allegedly assaulted by fellow student

An 11-year-old trans child was allegedly assaulted by a fellow student over their gender identity, the student's father has claimed.

www.thepinknews.com

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 20h

this bong rip is for you boys. cheers on the frameworks

Nature @nature.com · 20h

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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Astra @astra-photography.bsky.social · 1d

2 Years of Ongoing Genocide in Gaza
Candlelit Procession in Derry

07/10/25

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2 Years of Ongoing Genocide in Gaza
Candlelit Procession in Derry

07/10/25

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

I dunno, maybe instead of begging a party to accept you and your right to be treated like an equal human, you just join a party that has already been clear they will fight for you.

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SLAM JOHNSON @mlyp.bsky.social · 1d

I am uploading 500 images of Mario on an alt account as we speak- good luck Aaron

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 1d

thehive.ai evaluates all images posted to the site. We don't actually provide any input.

AI to Understand, Search, and Generate Content | Hive

Hive's APIs enable developers to integrate pre-trained AI models that address technically challenging content understanding needs into their applications.

thehive.ai

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MADDIEBISCUITS 🐰 commissions open! @maddiebiscuits.bsky.social · 3d

fiance sent this to me and i nearly threw up

a screenshot of a pie with a strange face that looks similar to Dagoth Ur’s mask. The text reads “what a fool you are. I’m a pie. How can’t you eat a pie? What a grand and intoxicating innocence”

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@jorbizzle ❤️‍🔥 @jordizzle.bsky.social · 1d

The weather channel added an "ask AI" widget to their site for some god forsaken reason, so when I went to hide it with ublock, have a peek at what the widget is called:

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