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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 15h

The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 16h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 1d

Her hubris is the ugliest part of her diseased mind.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

How many women and children is she hurting by forcing the Scottish government to waste so much money on these ridiculous law suits?

When your hate is the only thing that matters...

SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 1d

Her hubris is the ugliest part of her diseased mind.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 2d

Sharing this beautiful slice of British reggae; "Handsworth Revolution" by Steel Pulse. The good people of Handsworth and Birmingham don't deserve the likes of racist Robert Jenrick in their streets.
youtu.be/A3LFvaAD2-Y?...

Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution - 01 - Handsworth Revolution

YouTube video by ReggaeRootsChannel

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 3d

If they find any immoral culture, can they let me know? It departed decades ago

Daniel @deargodwhatnow.bsky.social · 4d

Have to say, this is quite weird

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Ian Evans @snavenai.bsky.social · 3d

I love Octopussy. It's very silly but I smile the whole time. Despite it being one of the more light-hearted films, the rush to defuse the bomb is also one the most tense 30 mins in a Bond film

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 3d

Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun.

joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...

Where nobody knows your name...

Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.

joelmorris.substack.com

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 3d

Hostility towards Greta Thunberg continues to be an AMAZINGLY reliable red flag, especially when it comes to guys, and not just on the Right.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 3d

“The day I stopped believing in the audience myth”

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 3d

Packed hall for Toby Young.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 4d

Why are pumpkins orange? They could be green or white or purple or whatever, but we’ve selectively bred them to make them bright orange. Like carrots. Is orange intrinsically spooky?

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Félix the Rover @therovercomics.bsky.social · 5d

Supervillains were invented so that superheroes would stop trying to make the world a better place and would rather spend their time defending a meaningless status quo instead.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 4d

I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life

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johnw60.bsky.social @johnw60.bsky.social · 4d

Where’s the condemnation of the far right for this from Starmer and Mahmood ? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' - BBC News

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.com

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 4d

This happened last night and I hadn't heard about it until this post, so went to the BBC News homepage. You have to go all the way down the page, below recipes for 30 minute meals, and you find it as a text link in 'politics'.

screenshot of politics section on BBC News website that says Mosque fire being treated as arson and hate crime
Who is Japan's 'Iron Lady' Sanae Takaichi?
When music meets football - can you beat our lyrics quiz?
'We were having dinner and a tree crashed into our house'
Harrods sets aside more than £60m for abuse compensation

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 6d

your core users are people who have already demonstrated a willingness to abandon a more popular social media site for another, in the most part for disliking the politics of the people who run it. write this on a big whiteboard somewhere in the office

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 5d

what they actually have to sell here is twitter but without the bigots and obnoxious CEO, & they seem determined to piss all that away as fast as they can

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 5d

The T-shirts!

A Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson, signed by Jane Goodall.

A male gorilla is sat on a branch looking embarrassed as a female gorilla grooms him, saying "Well, well - another blond hair. Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 7d

As it’s National Poetry Day, I’m reposting this thread about how Christopher Strachey used one of the first computers in the country to generate queer poetry.

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · May 16

Another lesson from history about AI.

This is from Christopher Strachey, who worked on the University of Manchester, one of the first digital computers in the UK.

This is from 1954. His assessment of people's attitudes towards computer 'intelligence' vs the reality still stands up today.

When people discover that my job is concerned with electronic computers there are two questions they usually ask. The insecure or politically-minded, and those who have read one of Norbert Wiener's books, usually want to know how long it will be before these machines take over their jobs. The others want to know how far machines can actually think, either because they want to marvel at them or because they need to be reassured that in fact no machine can ever really think in the way a human being does. Before we can discuss either of these questions without being actively misleading, it is essential to get a clear idea of what sort of things these computers can do and the way in which they do them.
Electronic computers by themselves are not capable of doing anything at all. They are merely devices which can carry out a long sequence of instructions very rapidly.

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Ian Evans @snavenai.bsky.social · 6d

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Ian Evans @snavenai.bsky.social · 6d

I loved Morrissey but couldn't give him any money or be in his audience now.

Now I know how bad he is, some of his lyrics sound v different. I'm pretty sure A Rush and a Push is about expelling foreigners and people on benefits. It sounds super far right when you know what he's like.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 9d

JK Rowling never 'lived in poverty'. That is a lie.

Everything she says here she's saying about herself. As usual.

josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · 9d

this is the most miserable woman alive. she’s alienated herself from everyone who ever loved, respected, or trusted her and sees any attempt at conciliation as an underhanded attack. she is in a mind jail of her own creation that will just grow more and more isolated as she marches to the grave

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 8d

The bit that upset me the most was when she was given a secondhand teddy and doll’s house for her daughter and she’s so disgusted by these gifts that she leaves them out on the pavement for the binmen. Just a really nasty piece of work.

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