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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!

@standplaatskrk.pl

eraserheadadult on tumblr: "tbh the current default state of operating systems & internet browsers looks fucking indistinguishable from when i gave the family desktop one billion viruses downloading Free Neopoints Hack in 2005 "

eraserheadadult: "not to be a millennial but back in my day getting blasted in the eyeballs by ads on your desktop the instant you turn on your computer used to mean something was extremely wrong"

December 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM

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Slideshare Gems

@goodslides.bsky.social

December 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM

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Mac Themes Garden

@macthemes.garden

Sin's Board 2000 - Sin Kubota
https://macthemes.garden/themes/d0fe1e23cc6b-Sins-Board-2000

A preview of the Mac theme "Sin's Board 2000" by "Sin Kubota"

December 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM

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amy brown

@amybrown.xyz

it’s like Anthony Bourdain said: once you’ve been to San Francisco, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Marc Andreessen to death with your bare hands

December 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM

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public health guy

@publichealthguy1.bsky.social

christmas on bluesky

classic meme of the young male clubber: The club is bumping, the ladies look good, the alcohol is flowing.
There is much pain in the world, but not in this room.

December 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM

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Mac Themes Garden

@macthemes.garden

Christmas Time - Kevin Douglas
https://macthemes.garden/themes/5c41e1624c8f-Christmas-Time

A preview of the Mac theme "Christmas Time" by "Kevin Douglas"

December 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM

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Mac Themes Garden

@macthemes.garden

Christmas Eve - Waynne Warren
https://macthemes.garden/themes/ac8e84de6acd-Christmas-Eve

A preview of the Mac theme "Christmas Eve" by "Waynne Warren"

December 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know

December 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM

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Emily Gorcenski

@emily.gorcen.ski

The US Navy has neutralized an airborne reindeer-led UAP off the coast of Venezuela, suspected of carrying fentanyl into the US

December 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM

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David_j_roth

@davidjroth.bsky.social

This is how I want people to be posting on Christmas. Do not try to convince Mark Cuban's goofy ass that universal healthcare is right. I want to see pleas for character actors to cleave them in twain with a broadsword. I want people volunteering to get kicked down the Exorcist steps by Alicia Witt.

Jesse Raub @jesseraub.bsky.social · 1d

debi mazar punch me in the stomach for $15 challenge

December 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM

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jason grinblat

@jfg.land

"One present on Christmas eve" has turned into mayhem. My children are pelting me with candy canes and shouting "Excess is praxis!" They are quoting Georges Bataille. Please help me

December 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM

Josh H

@jfhbrook.bsky.social

I cried today. Some much needed catharsis.

December 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM

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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ

@ciara2001.bsky.social

"average person knows 3 sex offenders" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person knows 0 sex offenders. Journalism Georg, who lives in cave & is pals with 10,000 sex offenders and enjoys their dinner parties and their funny anecdotes, is an outlier adn should not have been counted"

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 4d

The Times, just protecting women again today

Send Andrew a Christmas card? Of course
We all have some dodgy skeletons in our historical cupboard of friends — and the choice to support or abandon them
Libby Purves @LIB_THINKS

Just as the nation posts or types out a Christmas salute to friends and kin, along comes a more squalid pictorial avalanche from the US justice department. The latest photos from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation appal more than they surprise: he was a rich man and a networker. He knew who to court, how to make use of courtier-houseguests, and how to keep any future blackmail-power on his side (always have a photographer handy).

So there he is with Michael Jackson and Bill Clinton and rock stars and tycoons, snapping them in hot tubs and jets, on islands and at dinners. Or, even better, sprawling in black tie across multiple female thighs in the Jacob Rees-Mogg Commons-front bench position, like poor dim Andrew. The latter certainly paid his dues, enabling Epstein to pose himself at Royal Ascot, Balmoral and Sandringham as well as Downing Street, Mar-a-Lago and hedge-fund mansions.

The drip of pictures is pretty grim, not least for any unfortunates who didn’t really know or like the man and were blind to his activities but get branded “Epstein friend” by the flashbulb. It can happen, even to semi-public innocents: heaven knows how many secret monsters I may have grinned alongside at book or charity events.

So spare a kindly Christmas thought for any poor wretches who never accepted more than an unwanted drink and long to have their faces black-boxed like the victims. Still, at least they can publicly deny friendship, as long as they don’t get exposed like our former prince for secretly carrying it on. Or, like his wife, denying it then sending Epstein a reassuring message saying she didn’t mean it and he is a “supreme friend”.

From youth, we have all had the odd friend who behaves badly

December 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM

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Megan Greenwell

@greenwell.bsky.social

The thing that gets me here is: even if there WAS something missing from the story, Bari doesn’t have the qualifications, the experience, or the earned respect to make that call. This is why newsrooms need leaders who have edited news stories!

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4d

My god.

From Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues, posted by the NYT Michael Grynbaum:

I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.

December 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM

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Ray

@sireviscerate.myatproto.social

FRED: You know who really fuckin sucks? My uncle, Ebenezer Scrooge.

FRED'S WIFE: Oh man, fuck that guy, I hope his dick falls into a mud puddle.

SCROOGE: This is what they say about me when I'm out of sight?

GHOST OF XMAS PAST: Well...

FRED: We can totally see you. Get out my house.

December 22, 2024 at 6:49 PM

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merritt

@merrittk.com

posting online,

December 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM

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Better Things Are Possible

@internethippo.bsky.social

It's not possible for my empire to have problems. My courtiers are always nervously smiling and telling me everything is great

September 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM

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good hyuck, babe!

@markpopham.bsky.social

THE GRINCH: and to all a good night!!!

*five minutes later*

CINDY LOO WHO'S MOM: hey can we talk? thanks for bringing back the presents and cutting the roast beast but - did you talk to my kid?

THE GRINCH: uh, yes, uh, when I wa-

CINDY LOO WHO'S MOM: okay so don't ever talk to my kid again

December 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM