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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · 8h

the woke mob is coming for @dashiellwood.com

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 9h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · 1d

just put the fries in the bag bro

Bitmap Books @bitmapbooks.com · 2d

Monday 6th October 2025

Dear supporters of Bitmap Books,

Although I stand by the fact that Moses’ comments were ill-advised and insensitive, the whole thing blew up and was made much bigger than it needed to be. Moses has publicly apologised for any offence caused, as has the original poster of the comments who did not intend to cause this much trouble. I do not feel that this warrants an author losing his livelihood and ruining years of hard work to produce the book.

Despite multiple accusations to the contrary, Moses freely agreed to donate his royalties to charity. There was no coercion from me, however we both recognise that due to an increasingly stressful situation that decisions were rushed on both sides. I’m pleased to say that Moses and I have spoken again today, we stand together, and have agreed that he will receive 100% of his royalties.

Maybe I was hasty in my response, and I’m happy to admit to that. At the time I sincerely thought I was doing the right thing to diffuse an increasingly difficult situation. I will commit to donating all company profits from this first print run to the charity, Special Effect.

The bottom line is that is that Moses has apologised for his original comments, and will now be paid the royalties that are rightfully his.

Moses and myself have received a large amount of personal abuse and threats over the past few days. We hope that this statement will bring some closure to what has happened.

Sam Dyer, founder of Bitmap Books

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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · 2d

second generation immigrant but go off queen

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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · 2d

every other pub is a tourist trap for americans cut us some slack

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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · 3d

megabonk is a fun game that makes me wish i was illiterate

izzy @rurf.bsky.social · 4d

there weren't that many battles in that movie and they were all pretty spaced out

izzy @rurf.bsky.social · 8d

big fan of how the trainline app appears on nothingOS

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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · 12d

he is out of options and has turned to the demon that lurks in the ashes of his fireplace, tony blair, who promises lavish rewards to entice the desperate into trying to implement id cards

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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · 14d

dash you exclusively play games about anime women

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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · 14d

hope you two have fun!

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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · 20d

this is the kind of marketing that i think could convince someone mark zuckerberg was an alien completely from first principles

izzy @rurf.bsky.social · 21d

hi! pikmin expert here. they usually only freeze like this when your wii u is experiencing a hardware fault

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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · 25d

they're skipping straight ahead to phase 3, which will have a single pillar: "please be nice to me"

izzy @rurf.bsky.social · 25d

kevin roose's entire output is just ai glazing so unsuprising that he'd fall for this, despite the fact that live translation has been available on smartphones for years

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 27d

The most egregious thing I’ve seen posted online this morning are people who are talking about how disturbed they are to see such brazen violence on their timelines at a moment where it is basically impossible not to have seen videos coming out of Gaza

Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 27d

Political violence is bad but me and my mates need to set fire to this hotel because it contains people I don’t know personally but don’t like the idea of. Political violence is bad but I support the right of a country to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians because I’ve deemed them terrorists

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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · 27d

i'm just surprised they didn't hit his big ass head

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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · 28d

jk rowling draw a clock challenge

onion person @junlper.beer · 28d

hate posting about jk rowling but she has devolved into posting a very obviously ai generated video to smear trans people, i think she’s genuinely unwell

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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · Sep 7

its crazy that gorn 2 came out this year considering it feels like it was written in 2009

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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · Sep 5

this is how i feel when i think about battleborn too

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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · Sep 5

has anyone been able to beat this boss in silksong yet? i'm really struggling

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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · Sep 4

that must be a really small battery

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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · Sep 3

i dont want to eat ted cruz. i cannot imagine a less appetising meal than ted cruz.

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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · Apr 24

fun lore detail: in warhammer age of sigmar, the flesh eater courts are societies of cannibalistic ghouls who share a collective delusion that their vampiric masters are actually virtuous knights and divinely appointed monarchs.

this is a reference to

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izzy @rurf.bsky.social · Sep 2

im guessing you instalocked sheep

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