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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 37m

A good example of why direct inflation adjustment of this sort is more deceptive than clarifying when applied over very long stretches of time where consumption patterns are very different.

Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2h

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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 19m

I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 8h

🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/

Denmark aims to ban social media for children under 15, PM says

“We have unleashed a monster,” Mette Frederiksen tells Danish lawmakers.

www.politico.eu

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 1h

New drag king name: Artie Zankoffi

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 9h

New bio, thank you Tripadvisor

Screenshot of a one star trip advisor review of an hotel which reads a potential death trap wrapped up in tired glitz

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2h

But frankly, if your business is entirely run on Stealing Things That Don't Belong To You And Selling Them, I'm fine with you not having a business anymore.

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, I wonder if it might have been that we had a longer dialling code to get to us, but being about four years old at the time I never needed to know it!

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 3h

How commonplace were four digit phone numbers? When I was a kid in the Outer Hebrides we had one, but then we got a six digit one when we moved to Kent so I just assumed they were a weird island quirk of some kind…

Russell Parker @pussellrarker.bsky.social · 17h

Watching ‘Melissa’ (1974) and goodness, Peter Barkworth’s phone number is a familiar one. What are the odds eh (he asked, rhetorically)

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 4h

The invocation of queerphobia to justify indiscriminately dropping bombs on people - including, inevitably, *queer people* themselves - is so obviously morally bereft that I can't believe it even needs pointing out, especially to supposedly intelligent people.

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

She’s not wrong as Israel would exterminate them just as Israel exterminates everyone.

It’s the same stupid argument for the past decade. These people think that Queer Palestinians don’t exist, that they’re not also being starved to death and bombed from the skies by that genocidal state.

World+
HERTA MÜLLER
"In Gaza, the Queers for Palestine would not survive for half an hour."
By Jan Philipp Burgard
Editor-in-Chief WELT Group
As of 04.10.2025 | Reading time: 11 minutes

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 4h

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 4h

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 9h

Just to be clear, an English degree - learning to critically assess texts - is actually one of the most dangerous for people such as Badenoch.

An educated population, able to bring hundreds of years of context to statements in a dawning age of AI slop and attention-seeking dishonesty is also vital.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 11h

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 9h

“How to potentially reach Heidi Klum (though not for NFT opinions)” has me wheezing

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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 10h

oh my fucking god I'm wheezing. I was trying to find the tweet where Heidi Klum posted her shitty NFT and asked what people thought of it. I searched 'heidi klum do you like my nft'.

This was the AI resullt.

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 9h

Neighbours giving the opening titles a complete overhaul even though it’s only on for like another eight weeks is the attitude I need to be channeling

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 15h

this is who bsky banned for life

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22h

“we’ve got a good relationship with the developer” you are the LABOUR PARTY you have got NO BUSINESS having a “good relationship” with a private developer

Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 22h

Vandals and crooks

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 20h

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 19h

re: the trailers, I had to sit through that goddamn Dylan biopic not that long ago, not enough time has passed for there to be a Springsteen one already

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 20h

Went to see The Smashing Machine tonight; still can’t stop myself mentally adding “Gromit” to the end of the title

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 1d

There's something very "Ford Prefect" about a process that arrives at "Harper Collins" as a sensible name for a pornbot

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d

Ah but do you get pornbots like Jonn?

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry folks we're not allowed talk about politics in our respective countries because america is in bits or something

Natasha from America's Next Top Model telling someone offscreen "I just wanna tell you that some people have war in their countries"

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 1d

the sunbeam enjoyer

A beautiful tuxedo cat is sitting on a wine-red sofa in a sunbeam. She is looking into the camera and has clearly been playing with a laptop charger that is lying next to her.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 1d

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border

In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

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LiLBazula 👻 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 1d

'Loss of life'. Passive voice strikes again

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social : "I see the appalling loss of life in Gaza"

Who's killing them? The country that you're supporting, arming, trading with, providing military assistance to, the country whose soldiers you're training & whose senior officers you're hosting. You're complicit.

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