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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 19h

you mean the skinny young German lass who puts cumin, garlic and paprika in literally *everything* and then goes "pepperrrr"?

I quite like her, and some of the food she makes genuinely looks like it tastes good.

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 1d

autistic people are going to be next

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 1d

literally what I was going to comment, too

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 1d

urgh I have only seen like two or three short clips from the oevre of Mr Beast but it was enough to give me a visceral reaction whenever I see him mentioned or pictured - that guy has BAD JUJU and his degree of success genuinely terrifies me

Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 1d

Why do these people need wizard robes in the first place. It's absurd.

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 1d

thin ice

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 1d

it's so stupid - like, why is it any more "attention seeking" to choose a name for yourself than to insist that people forever call you whatever unhinged nonsense your Millennial parents came up with in a postpartum state of exhaustion

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 1d

fun fact: gripping your steering wheel with your genitals is not only considered a social faux pas, it's also a violation of the Highway Code

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 1d

"keir starmer is such a colossal twat."

eloquent and to the point - no notes

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 2d

motherfucking Teen Vogue, once again putting all the "serious grown up" news outlets to shame

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 2d

I would like to see someone do the maths on the climate impacts of asthma inhalers vs the impacts of car size inflation

people are driving to the supermarket in vehicles the size of literal fucking tanks and you want me to feel bad about using an inhaler that helps me literally BREATHE

fuck off

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 2d

powder inhalers are rank

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 2d

why? because dipshit investors have sunk a hundred billion dollars into OpenAI and they're realizing they may not make the thousand percent return they were promised so they're now desperately shoving ChatGPT it into EVERYTHING to force it down our throats until we vomit money

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 2d

the only acceptable type of "critical embrace of AI" is to put it in a vice that will crush it into dust

Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 2d

the Open AI CEO is a whiny lil dipshit Nazi gobshite with a face that looks like it just got smacked with a cold dead salmon, no matter how many absurd camera angles he's photographed in

Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 2d

my brain is so rotted I read "AI Capone" and was immediately like oh god is this some new godawful AI bullshit I have not yet heard of

anyway who says environmental lawsuits aren't sexy - have you even SEEN Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 2d

at least everything else is going well in America

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 3d

fuck this shit

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 4d

(Trust me I am a coastal planning specialist.)

Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 4d

Nevermind the boring Hampstead posh twat ponds - when are we finally gonna sex-segregate the sea? I call dibs on Bognor for the cis ladeez. The cis lads can have Blackpool. TERFs go by the sewage outlets in Morecambe. Trans people get the Atlantic. The ***Transatlantic***.

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 4d

To be honest, I believe Greta Thunberg has more courage and integrity in her little finger than the entire German establishment put together.

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 4d

What exactly is the fucking Guardian playing at with that headline and photo? Read the article and it becomes clear that Thunberg and other detainees are alleging that they're being deprived of food, water and sleep, among other things. After being kidnapped from a vessel in the High Seas!

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 6d

I am surrounded by ***grown ass adults*** who are unable to grasp how it works

this shit is melting our stupid monkey brains

I hate this timeline

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 6d

ok, fuck you for unnecessarily shitting on autistic people in this context

autism doesn't have environmental "causes", it's just a name we give to a segment of the normal human spectrum of human people

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 6d

investors have poured hundreds of billions of dollars into OpenAI

I work in environmental conservation and sustainable development - dealing with the climate crisis, environmental injustice and biodiversity collapse

my sector needed that money

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