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spooky enjoyer @ryotlgf.bsky.social · 5h

nice chumba you got there. be a shame if someone wumba’d it

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 3h

these days, they throw you in jail if you say "veggie sausage". It's unclear what you're supposed to say instead

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 1d

Keith Urban just trying to go about his goddamn business.

Image shared by Geoff The Toking Mongoose with the following alt text: AEW wrestler Orange Cassidy sitting on a chair with his feet up playing with a rubix cube while other AEW wrestler Thekla does her trademark spider pose where she arches backwards and walks on her hands and feet while looking at Orange

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 4h

Look, I just wanna get this out ahead of what you're going to hear: it's an honour to be nominated, especially in such esteemed company as Vincent Racismè and Guillaume Bitpièce de Monnaie

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 4h

*LECORNU SAYS MACRON TO BE ABLE TO NAME NEW PREMIER IN 48 HOURS

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

You have been aiding and abetting a genocide for two years, you gray-scale printout of a human being.

You get to lecture precisely *nobody* on what's morally right or wrong. Double fuck you.

Genocide supporter lecturing people on morality

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 4h

I'm the most famous eel historian in the world! How is that not great?

Also, I've met tons of wonderful people & made some of my very best friends. I've been able to launch a whole new career as a mapmaker & artist. I've been profiled in TIME, saved some eels, & shared the spaniel with the world.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 18h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 7h

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 8h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 5h

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 5h

Mad to me that the centrist UK commentariat still insist this never happened and nothing needs to change.

Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 6h

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Pesky Spookter @peskysplinter.bsky.social · 4h

Edit of All Computers must shut up meme changed to All Seppos and Burgerlanders must shut the hell up. To all americans you do not speak unless spoken to. And I will never speak to you. I don't want to hear Thank you from a Yank, I am a divine being. You are a Murican you have no right to speak in my holy tongue.

There are 3 no signs of a US flag, a cowboy, and steryotypical American tourists.

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Red Tickseed @redtickseed.bsky.social · 5h

Red naturals-seed

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CheapShow @cheapshow.bsky.social · 5h

Day 8!!
Beware The Pumpquim!
Whatever that means!
#Halloween #Countdown Calendar
#TheSimpsons #TreehouseOfHorror
youtu.be/Lu-awZOhqoY?...

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NTom64_HFC @ntom64.bsky.social · 5h

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Collapse faster! @maketotalcollapse.bsky.social · 5h

Turns out that 3D printing psychotic episodes doesn't make money and in fact burns a lot of money.

Imagine my shock.

Sora 2 Has a Huge Financial Problem

How will OpenAI stop Sora 2 from burning through cash as users generate countless resource-intensive AI videos?

futurism.com

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Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 5h

🚨NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS KLAXON
🚨NOBODY NEEDS THIS KLAXON

HIRE ME AT 10 MILLION A MONTH FOR MORE TIPS

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P.G. Wodelouse 💀 @pgwodelouse.bsky.social · 6h

Well, that was mint

Pit and The Pendulum (Corman, 1961)

A man in search of his wife approaches a mist-covered castle atop a cliff

A deceptive woman is trapped inside an iron maiden, her eyes expressing incredulous terror

The pendulum swings closer and closer to a stricken man bound to a stone table

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 6h

It's amazing how they're completely overestimating any public sympathy for this "AI" shit.

Like they did for NFTs.

And crypto.

And the metaverse.

And rich people.

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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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 5h

There's a reason most of the good movies "based" on real serial killers take so many liberties. Leatherface and Norman Bates are interesting, theor real life inspiration markedly less so

AJ DISMEMBERS! @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 6h

Here's the thing, most serial killers are boring cunts. Fred and Rose West, who I have spent a lot of the past month looking up visual reference of, were boring cunts. Being fascinated by serial killers is being a boring cunt on a meta level.

AJ DISMEMBERS! @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 6h

I don't give a fuck about Ed Gein. He's boring and so is the American Horror Story guy. Sorry if your Netflix subscription fooled you into thinking this might be a conversation starter.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 6h

It's Wednesday. You need some eels in your life, right? And some otters?

Here you go!

A scene of otters & eels, from an early 15th C. copy of Gaston Phoebus's Livre de la chasse. Eel blood is toxic to mammals, but otters don't care. They love them some eels.

Can you blame them?

A medieval painting of otters playing in a pool, chasing and catching eels and other fish. There are 10 adult otters, and what look to be 2 younger otters in a den at the base of a tree. They are all doing serious otter things: playing, eating, cavorting, eating, gamboling, eating, swimming, and eating. They are having a good time. For now.

It can't last, though. This pond seems way too small to support all of these otters, and the painting has a border around it. They can't leave, and soon they will turn on each other in a bloodbath that will make the Donner Party look like a tea time at the Rotary Club. If you check back with these otters in two weeks, I suspect you'll find only carnage.

That, though, is a problem for Future Otters. Today's otters are carefree, with spotless souls.

Source:
Morgan (MS M.1044 fol. 28r)

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Electronic Dan 🟦 @electronicdan.bsky.social · 6h

Apparently, Disney's partnership with the BBC over Doctor Who included Disney travelling back in time to put some Mickey Mouse product placement in classic Who.

#drwho #whosky #doctorwho #classicdrwho #thearmageddonfactor #tvsky 📺

A photo from The Armageddon Factor, where Shapp is standing in front of two white circles in a way that makes it look like he has Mickey Mouse ears.

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 6h

At this point, I have zero tolerance for liberals. You either understand what's happening, or you don't. You either feel a sense of urgency, or you don't. If you still think voting for parties and defending shitty politicians is the way forward, you're part of the fucking problem.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 9h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Katie ⚔️ @lovejoyactual.bsky.social · 7h

she licked my armpit when i picked her up so i told her it was gross and now she’s pulling this face

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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 8h

Hippocampus carousel figure at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut.
#31daysofHalloween

Centered in a corner of a museum is a wooden hippocampus (serpentine fish lower half, horse upper half) carousel figure. To its left a partial glimpse of a colonial man statue, to the right a statue of a Native American and a poster of the same statue.

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