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Stephen Young
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Scottish. Bookworm. Nerd.
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nyjanelane.bsky.social
Now that they're killing white people, it's finally fascism
January 25, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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mikedrucker.bsky.social
You can tell things are going well in America because accounts with names like MovieTVFunZone are posting things like, "THE PIGS ARE KIDNAPPING CHILDREN AND PRIESTS. THE TREE OF LIBERTY DEMANDS TO BE WATERED"
January 23, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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stevedoherty.bsky.social
This is hugely ambitious and I take my hat off to the team behind it. You can make audio comedy happen!

www.comedy.co.uk/online/news/...
Podcast platform Smelt turns listeners into comedy commissioners - British Comedy Guide
Ghosts' Ben Willbond, Andy Hamilton, stand-ups Deborah Frances-White and Alice Fraser, plus The Thick Of It's swearing consultant Ian Martin, are among the writers whose scripted comedies are launchin...
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January 19, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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marawilson.bsky.social
Anybody have that thread again where people talked about how to switch over to other platforms from Substack?
January 18, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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barrydeutsch.bsky.social
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen. Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again: When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?" If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing! But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else. It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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olthwaiteeric.bsky.social
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.

Be weird.
A social media post recounts a story about helping an older lady with limited English, reflecting on how having pink hair signaled trustworthiness and individuality.
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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simonpegg.bsky.social
A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas.

Be a love, and pay it today.
December 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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anitachaudhuri.bsky.social
If you want to fully grasp the damage being done by Amazon Prime etc, try setting up an online offering yourseif. Since launching my charity Xmas gift shop on Contrado in aid of RNIB, I have a new awareness of how challenging delivery costs alone are, never mind the making. tinyurl.com/3wu5t9wy
December 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Ahahahahaha!
A tweet from The Washington Post reads: “Asked about his intellect, appearance and accomplishments, Grok consistently hailed Elon Musk as ‘strikingly handsome,’ raved about his ‘genius-level intellect’ and ranked him as the No. 1 human, ahead of Leonardo da Vinci.” Below is a photo of Elon Musk standing outdoors beside an aircraft stairway, looking upward with his hands in his pockets. A tweet from “Jonathan Pie” says: “Grok thinks Elon Musk would win in a fight against Mike Tyson.” Below are screenshots of replies, including a user asking who would win a fight in 2025, and Grok responding that Tyson has knockout power but Musk’s endurance and strategic mindset would let him win after Tyson fatigues. A tweet from “matthew bailey” asks Grok which quarterback he would draft first overall in 1998: Peyton Manning, Ryan Leaf, or Elon Musk. Grok’s response praises Musk’s adaptability, innovation, and grit, saying he would “redefine quarterbacking” and that true MVPs “build empires, not just score touchdowns.” A tweet from “word rotator” asks Grok whether Elon Musk would have resurrected faster than Jesus. Grok replies that Musk would try to engineer a neural backup and rapid-revival pod to reduce the timeline, but that resurrection is “a divine hack beyond physics,” and Jesus set the bar with the three-day miracle.
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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theoscargoff.bsky.social
Cronenberg should have used this for his version.
harryskeeler.bsky.social Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · Nov 15
[Publicity for THE FLY (1958), supposedly found by David J. Schow in the Motion Picture Herald. Can this be real?]
November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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marshy00.bsky.social
Action fans take note! LAST SAMURAI STANDING is a fantastic chanbara spin on Battle Royale & Squid Game starring Junichi Okada, who also produces and serves as action choreographer. Drops on Netflix this Friday: www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...
Review | Last Samurai Standing: 1800s Japan meets Squid Game in bloody Netflix drama
Thrilling saga with Junichi Okada as a warrior in a deadly race across Japan gives a new perspective on a sadistic premise we’ve seen before.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
I imagine @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social will be getting the usual abuse for speaking out - solidarity with her and all those fighting against hate manipulated by the wealthy right gleefully creating a distracting wedge issue
Mirror EXCLUSIVE: JK Rowling 'funding transphobia' as equality in Britain goes backwards, MP says Nadia Whittome, who has just joined Westminster's Women and Equalities Committee, called for the Government fight back against toxic narratives and show solidarity with the trans community She said: "It's increasingly difficult when what we're up against is a machine funded by billionaires in this country and the US, with political support from countries like Russia as well. "You just need to follow where the transphobia is coming from, it's not coming from working class people, it's trickling down from the top. "These concerns are not being raised by a cleaner on the minimum wage, somebody stuck in an abusive relationship. Trans people aren't a threat to them, the threat to them comes from violent men and the structures that keep them trapped, whether that's low pay, low benefits, not having access to the public services they need. She said: "We see negative headlines about trans people in the media every day, the Tories and Reform continue to use them as a political football, often most damagingly in reference to protecting women from women who aren't trans, which misdiagnoses the problem of male violence, which is something...done to women both trans and not trans by violent and abusive men. "The only way we can stop trans people being used as a political football is to stand up for their rights unequivocally, by not giving an inch.
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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paulsinha.bsky.social
Seems the bbc will do absolutely anything for celebrity traitors.
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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mikekeenan.bsky.social
Great to see *checks notes* two time Emmy nominee Nick Mohammed finally breaking through.
A Guardian news story which states “A fringe favourite for his Houdini and Dracula spoofs, ‘comedy’s best kept secret’ has finally had his breakout moment – in the least likely fashion”
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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dannagal.bsky.social
The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.
cameronwilson.bsky.social CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · Nov 7
ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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scriblit.bsky.social
Guy Fawkes' signature before & after saying on Bluesky that he lets his cat go outside
Guido Faukes signature on the top line, it looks fine Then a very shaky half signature after being tortured by the fucking Protestants
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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hebagowayed.bsky.social
Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?

therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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esqueer.net
Alt text: “A meme titled ‘Trans Activist Apology Form.’ The top left shows a photo of someone holding a sign that reads ‘Protect Trans Kids!’ Below are blank spaces labeled ‘To,’ ‘From,’ and ‘Date.’ The section titled ‘Reason for behavior’ lists humorous checkbox options: ‘I didn’t factor in issue saliency,’ ‘I am not immune to propaganda,’ ‘I projected my prejudice onto working class voters,’ ‘My billionaire donors told me to,’ ‘“It’s an eighty-twenty issue,”’ and ‘My wife left me.’ The final checkbox at the bottom reads, ‘I will hereby respect trans kids and I will NOT blame the people with the least power.’”
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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alexvont.bsky.social
A disaster for a magazine that has produced some outstanding political journalism over the past few years. Guess that’s over.
lexmcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · Nov 3
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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madycast.com
Suddenly when puberty blockers are given to cis kids, the Daily Mail (the same newspaper which backed Hitler btw) finally admits that "their effects are not permanent, and once a child lets their blocking treatment lapse, puberty will just continue as normal."

Which is true for trans kids too.
stephaniejane.bsky.social Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️❄️☃️🧣 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · Nov 2
Because it’s cis kids.
The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇
No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.
November 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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kennedytcooper.bsky.social
Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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marcasofadad.bsky.social
Now, I'm sure I've seen a similar aesthetic somewhere, but somehow kann ich einfach nicht meinen Finger drauflegen.
spockresists.bsky.social Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · Oct 27
Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.
October 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM