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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 10h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 43m

Only because they don't even try mention Llandudno ..

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 45m

Um.

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 13h

Sometimes I feel my German privacy-loving heritage singing deep in my soul!

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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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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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 17h

Big Macs 🤷🏼‍♀️ when I went veggie for some years, I even asked for the veggie burger with Big Mac sauce, but it wasn't the same. No idea what it is about Big Macs. No other fast food does it for me. But Big Macs...

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 19h

Spectacular article, seriously. Totally off the wall 😹

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

www.science.org/content/arti...

Yes, your pet might eat your corpse. That’s a problem for investigators

New study aims to help police, forensic pathologists, and others determine whether cats and dogs have interfered with crime scenes

www.science.org

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 19h

THE STORY 😭 "one cat was still sitting inside the man’s emptied chest cavity"

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 19h

The pic! The caption!! 😭😭😭

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 19h

Didn't really think I needed to consider being eaten by pigs OR dogs today, but now it's stuck in my mind and the rabbit hole beckons... 🙈

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

Data indicates that dogs are considerably MORE likely to eat their owners after they die than cats are.

I like to periodically remind people of this

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

we spent thousands of years breeding dogs to like humans and collaborate with us - we have more of a “begrudging standoff between equals” thing going on with pigs

However to be fair dogs eat humans way more than most people know or want to know

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 1d

I did bring up a couple of days back that BlueSky is at risk of becoming the Keir Starmer of social media platforms.

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 22h

Worst. Timeline.

🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, New Yorker

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 1d

Sorry but you actually can’t hold me accountable because the computer did all that bad stuff. Unrelated, the computer is now alive.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Transgender windmills on every corner

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Stephen Miller in a gray suit, white shirt, and gray tie.

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Ela hadert @elareale.bsky.social · 2d

Jemand: "Können wir jetzt endlich mal über den Elefanten im Raum sprechen?"
Elefant: "Ja Mann! Ich habe kaum Platz hier, kriege nichts zu essen und werde einfach ignoriert, was soll das!"

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 1d

Who knew Americans like coffee and beef 🤷🏼‍♀️

Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 1d

Now I want doughnuts 😬

Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 2d

Had quite a lot of doughnuts to eat for my birthday but I managed it 😮‍💨

krispy kreme bag with birthday box inside

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 2d

Henceforth the red robes will only be worn as an away kit when the Canadian Supreme Court is playing the US one.

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 2d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

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CrazyMyra @outonthemoors.bsky.social · 2d

Today, in Jay's blue skies

Single-panel cartoon by Gary Larson from 1984.
A guy in red parachuting gear, falling earthward with his ropes attached to a grand piano. A big black ship's anchor is shooting out of his backpack.
Caption is: "Murray didn't feel the first pangs of real panic until he pulled the emergency cord."

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DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like the UK is an even more dramatic own-goal than we are, because Lanour right now is like an alternate universe where Harris won & decided to implement like 80% of Project 2025 anyway because she liked Republicans more than her own voters.

Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 2d

#BBCNews - Starmer urges students not to protest on 7 October
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Keir Starmer asks students not to join protests on 7 October

The prime minister says it is "un-British" to hold pro-Palestinian protests on the second anniversary of Hamas's attacks on Israel.

www.bbc.com

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

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