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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

had never before considered that the inflatable costumes offer pepper ball protection

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 15h

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

A power strip with the plug end plugged in to one of the sockets

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · 13h

Attending online! Full of interesting tidbits, from what a C18 valet did immediately after unpacking his master's belongings (find a fellow English servant and go drinking) to what these journals don't include (surprisingly, servants rarely wrote about their actual work). #18thcentury #academia

Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 13h

Just listening to @richardjansell.bsky.social talking eloquently about servants and their journals on the grand tour @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social

A photo of a seminar room with an audience facing forward. The speaker is at the front behind a podium

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 13h

In the recent controversy over Jimmy Kimmel’s cancellation, I was reminded of the epic “I’m fucking Matt Damon” song that Sarah Silverman sang to him.

But I had no idea Kimmel then retaliated with his own song full of music & Hollywood royalty

youtu.be/TwIyLHsk2h4?...

F*@#ing Ben Affleck

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

youtu.be

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Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social · 12h

#TodayInQueerHistory
October 8 (1970)
The Daughters of Bilitis, an early Lesbian Rights group in the US, were raided by police during a meeting in a private member's club in New York.

This raid and the harassment from the police spur the group to be more politically active.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 11h

The world is not ready for post-Keith Urban Nicole Kidman

Vulture @vulture.com · 11h

Nicole Kidman can’t stop, won’t stop making new projects: She’s had eight come out in the past two years, with six more on the way. ‘Why stop? You’ll have to tie me down, tie me up!’

Nicole Kidman Says You’ll Have to “Tie Me Up” to Stop Her From Working

Nicole Kidman can’t stop, won’t stop making new projects: She’s had eight come out in the past two years, with six more on the way. ‘Why stop? You’ll have to tie me down, tie me up!’

www.vulture.com

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Heather Wallace @burntcopper.bsky.social · 6h

the town centre pubs are nearly empty by 10:30 in my town.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

Have you ever noticed that old clothes online sometimes look better than old clothes in your closet?

Why is that? 🧵

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 22h

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1668

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 20h

LIVE SCENES FROM WALES
#WorldBollardAssociation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 18h

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue looks curiously at a pie which Green has placed on a plate on the table, while Green looks at him with joy and pride.
Green: I have made a sidequest pie!

Blue listens patiently as Green goes on.
Green: Flour from the mill we visited once, mushrooms that we gathered with your mom, homegrown parsley and basil... Almost all ingredients were things we've made or gathered on adventures!

Both foxes turn back to look at the pie.
Blue: How does it taste?
Green: Bad.

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Outbursts Of Everett True @everetttrue.bsky.social · 18h

East Oregonian
Pendleton Oregon
July 01,1925

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 17h

1591) Lesbianbot. Is just a tiny lesbian!

A small, spherical robot with banded arms and legs and an antenna. The bobble of the antenna has a little female symbol on it, and the robot is lifting up its arms, smiling joyfully with its eyes closed.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 22h

Final paragraph also delightful

Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 1d

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Heather Wallace @burntcopper.bsky.social · 7h

I live in corvid and seagull country. the toucan's not getting a look-in.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 16h

It's said that pigs are the only domestic animals raised solely for their meat, but actually they did serve a useful function as waste disposal before the widespread adoption of indoor plumbing. They'll eat you because they'll eat *anything*.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

i have met a number of pigs, including pigs i later went on to eat (we have small farmers in our family) and quite frankly, getting to know pigs has made me feel even less bad about eating them

they would 100% eat us if given the chance

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 15h

It’s World Octopus Day. There were 4,200 Lego octopuses inside the shipping container that fell off the Tokio Express back in 1997. We found our first Lego octopus soon afterwards but didn’t discover another for 18 years. #WorldOctopusDay #oceanplastic

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 13h

Suddenly, I noticed a faint smell of tuna. I looked over at my office partner, Dr. Hunt. She was grinning by the machine she'd built.

"It works!"

"Nice," I said. "What is it?"

"What you smell is the ghost of tuna!"

I felt something brush against my leg. The office filled with ghostly purring.

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Anthony Hurd @anthonyhurd.bsky.social · 9h

Happy international lesbian day. ❤️

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Heather Wallace @burntcopper.bsky.social · 7h

night night hookland.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 9h

Goodnight from Seb Horner, trapped on the wrong side of the A3450 by knowledge that the Half-there Folk hold court in its underpass. Goodnight from Harriet Rain, waking in darkness and switching on bedside light to find apported swan feathers engulfing her bed. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 8h

You look fabulous today!
It's not easy to pull off that bold mix of rumpled sweaters, exhaustion, and the dusty darkness of a cluttered used bookstore.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 19h

Gay Studies, Queer History, Queer Theory (They/She)

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 19h

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Heather Wallace @burntcopper.bsky.social · 7h

same. one grandad was maintenance at various airfields and one was a pilot for lancaster bombers. becasue that one was middle-class, not working class.