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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 7d

i mean you asked for that one

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 17d

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48.

Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

After his condemnation and censure, McCarthy continued to perform his senatorial duties for another two and a half years. His career as a major public figure, however, had been ruined. His colleagues in the Senate avoided him; his speeches on the Senate floor were delivered to a near-empty chamber or received with intentional and conspicuous displays of inattention.

The press that had once recorded his every public statement now ignored him, and outside speaking engagements dwindled almost to nothing. Eisenhower, finally freed of McCarthy's political intimidation, quipped to his Cabinet that McCarthyism was now
"McCarthywasm".

McCarthy died in the Bethesda Naval Hospital on May 2, 1957, at the age of 48. His death certificate listed the cause of death as "Hepatitis, acute, cause
unknown"; previously doctors had not reported him to be in critical condition. It was hinted in the press that he died of alcoholism (cirrhosis of the liver), an estimation that is now accepted by modern biographers. Thomas C.
Reeves argues that he effectively died by suicide.

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Robin Bougie @robinbougie.bsky.social · 19d

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25d

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 25d

Worse for who? OpenAI? Users? Society at large?

The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 26d

The cure is likely to be worse than the disease.

Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow

The cure is likely to be worse than the disease.

tcnv.link

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 25d

(You will always be @mihi_tr even though I’m quite confident you’d have deleted your Twitter account ages ago.)

Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 25d

We think of you fondly every year, Michael/@mihi_tr. You might be gone, but you’re still a role model. ❤️

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performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · 26d

oh well, onward and upward

REPORTER: Mr. President, my condolences to you, Sir. My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. [unintelligible]
How are you holding up over the last day and a half, Sir?
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks? They've just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they ve been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years. And it's gonna be a beauty. Absolutely magnificent construction. We just started, so it'll get done very nicely.
And it will be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually.

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · Sep 8

I can officially confirm that the loops are looping.

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · Sep 8

There are now about 5 full CPU cores out there being occupied by this while loop. I am not proud.

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · Sep 8

If there was any doubt that I was a Serious Engineer doing Serious Engineering, I would like you all to know that I've just completed the multi-week rollout, affecting thousands of nodes, of... a shell while loop that spends most of its time sleeping.

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · Sep 8

even if there are apologies due I don’t think they need to come from you! hello from CO 👋

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · Sep 8

Snowy egret friend!

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · Sep 8

Dear urban planners, I am begging you to understand that this is not what a creek looks like.

A wide, shallow, and heavily canalised urban “creek” in Denver. The walls of the are engineered with large rocks and the channel itself is featureless and flat. The whole thing is contained by large concrete flood walls.

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · Sep 8

say what you like about america but damn if the sausage patty isn’t one of the greatest breakfast food items anywhere

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · Sep 8

We’ve been waiting an awfully long time for anyone in the NYT Opinion section to not be an utter coward. Finally.

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · Sep 7

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

www.nytimes.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · Sep 7

I’m sorry, “the vice president’s mother was a drug addict so we’re allowed to just extrajudicially murder anyone we vaguely handwave as being part of a cartel” is a real argument people are making? in public? under their own names?

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · Sep 7

Uwu but hawwv you considered the epistemological standpoint of da vice president, including his twauma

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 5

just an ongoing embarrassment that this barely sentient meathead is secretary of defense

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5

Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · Sep 5

Fascism is an aesthetic movement for people with no sense of aesthetics.

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · Sep 5

My god the kerning on "U.S. Department of War" is itself send-them-to-the-Hague-worthy.

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · Aug 31

llook we’re alll trying to work out how this spellling error was alllowed happen

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MPWERED @kelvin1.bsky.social · Aug 31

'The findings add weight to a growing body of evidence that beavers may be acting as ecosystem engineers, reshaping waterways in ways that benefit not just their own survival, but that of entire landscapes.'

How Canada's buck-toothed national emblem could help fight wildfires | CBC News

New research out of the western U.S. suggests dams and ponds built by beavers can slow floods, store water and even create green firebreaks in wildfire-prone landscapes.

www.cbc.ca

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · Aug 31

if we do ever create intelligent machines this bunch of silicon vallley chucklefucks will have utterly burned the term “AI” so we’ll have to come up with a new one

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · Aug 26

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Aug 26

National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC

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Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · Aug 25

You do that and I will promise to always let you know when I find some new Kunst on the street.