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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 21m

Good that as society we've broadly given up on customer service as something that's worthwhile

Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 22m

Tell you what the continued maintenance of the self isn't half a pain in the arse

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 28m

Proscribe JK Rowling

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Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 1h

work work

Tumblr post:

video games are all about meeting a little elf
outside the city gates that says 'ah... the pernicious
weed!' when you give him a healing herb and then
finding yourself fifteen years later saying "ah... the
pernicious weed!" to yourself in the shower

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 1h

Hits October and a month before my birthday and suddenly every material want i could have no longer exists

Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 1h

Class how I'm always having notions of stuff to buy myself 9 months out of 12

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, and it turns out the guy with the umbrella is definitely a new breed of activist

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 3h

Dutch : Arthur I've seen the future and its AI

Arthur: i dunno Dutch seems like snake oil to me

Dutch you gotta have faith in the vision old friend, that's what's gonna get us through

Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 4h

Genuinely think riffing as Arthur and Dutch about anything is close to a guaranteed laugh from me as you get6

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

it is wild how much people just lie lol

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 6h

Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years"

The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.

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Riley @raaleh.bsky.social · 5h

… and then the agent says, “wow that’s quite an act, but what do you call it?”

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 15h

Amended Kafka, Esq. tweet

Following JD Vance and shaking my head the whole time so the people on the bus know I disagree with him

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 14h

it’s funny when people act like we it would be too complicated to have a national system of providing something that’s less complicated to provide than healthcare in a country with nationally-provided healthcare

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21h

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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👻45 SECOND UNSKIPPABLE YOUTUBE AD👻 @lowqualityregen.bsky.social · 22h

Having this person doing some work in your house and trying to find common ground by explaining that you're not sold on digital ID either

Andrew R @excelpope.net · 22h

See yer da’s got a new car.

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Chris Higgins🔜 @higgins.games · 22h

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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 1d

“Our companies need access to all the things right now to avoid bankruptcy, I’m afraid ‘complying with the law’ is completely out of the question. What, do you want CHINA to win? Anyway on the plus side if everything goes to plan it’ll destroy your livelihood LOL.”
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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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Terminally Von Der Leyen @ciaran.operationglad.io · 23h

Getting ready for the Dua Lipa concert

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Duncan @ketaminedrams.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Daisley in 2025. Thought hw stopped being relevant when he could no longer write pieces one handed about Ruth Davidson

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 1d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it’s a playground for rich swine to run wild, pay no tax and never have to worry about the servant class voicing their insolent opinions and greedy demands. The way it should be, as far as these people are concerned.

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The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech
It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers
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UK must emulate UAE or go bust, says Reform UK's Richard Tice - Arabian Business: Latest News on the Middle East, Real Estate, Finance, and More

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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climp @climp.bsky.social · 1d

No, please, nothing fancy. An ad-supported-tier funeral is good enough.

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 1d

loads of racist shitheads rioting outside hotels housing desperate asylum seekers who are treated abysmally cos some Sunday Times Rich List cunt is creaming off obscene profits makes my heart swell with patriotic pride 🇬🇧 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper - BBC News

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of "terrible" conditions as accommodation provider makes millions.

www.bbc.com

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merritt @merrittk.com · Aug 17

men used to get unrealistic expectations from porn and women used to get them from romance books. now everyone gets them from playing immersive 100 hour videogames where an elf with a shadowy past comes to know love again through your shared adventure and offers up their glistening elf body to you

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