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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 7h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 11h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Chain Bear @stuartcb.bsky.social · 9h

Fucking hell, Urchin is a lot but really well done. Oof.

Chain Bear @stuartcb.bsky.social · 12h

"I have a plug, Greg. Can you recycle me?"

Poster on a tube train that has a car surrounded by appliances. The text reads "Gaze into my eyes tube riders. Anything with a plug, battery or cable can be recycled"

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Ireland Simpsons Fans @iresimpsonsfans.bsky.social · May 27

Barney asking "hey, aren't you that guy everybody hates?"
Nick Clegg replies "oh, my, no. I'm Nick Clegg."

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 17h

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Chain Bear @stuartcb.bsky.social · 16h

Naturally I meant gun* violence

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 21h

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.

buff.ly

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 1d

Bit niche I think, but apparently this parking spot is reserved for female rock climbers.

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Chain Bear @stuartcb.bsky.social · 23h

It's INSANE people really thought you were going to come out in favour of fun violence and murder just cause it's the other side.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Rik Godwin @rikgodwin.bsky.social · 1d

Nick Offerman, best known for his role as Mr Sclubb in Sin City (2005)

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Chain Bear @stuartcb.bsky.social · 1d

I meant to say increasingly but got autocorrected. The above is still true though

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Chain Bear @stuartcb.bsky.social · 1d

It is incredibly staggering just how bad Labour are

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck Simon Wessely, fuck Wes Streeting, fuck Labour for consistently making life worse for the people they should be helping

Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 2d

Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 1d

Thing I learned today:

The shard was digitally added to the London skyline for the film “Children Of Men” made in 2007 to make film more authentic

Footage of film children of men showing London on 16th November 2027 with the shard building in shot

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

This website would genuinely be so much better if there was a special Discover tab for Americans that only show them posts by other Americans so the rest of us stop getting aggro from their most brain fried centrists who seem genuinely bewildered by context and angry that other places exist

Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 2d

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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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 1d

Graham could write Anna Karenina but Tolstoy couldn't remind Judi Dench about her night in a gay club

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Troisnyx | actively seeking work @troisnyx.bsky.social · 1d

So you see, we fucking told you, Starmer, that proof of ID was a terrible idea

Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach

Video game chat platform tells users that driver’s licences and passports were among the forms of data accessed via a third-party customer service provider

www.theguardian.com

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Chain Bear @stuartcb.bsky.social · 2d

Yessss

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 2d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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Chain Bear @stuartcb.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 6d

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Telephone Friend @ironyhat.bsky.social · 2d

Do You ?

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 2d

"should we not be mean to AI?" should I write cusses in a crossword puzzle? what the fuck are you talking about, keep this shit to yourself you bug-eyed lunatic

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Chain Bear @stuartcb.bsky.social · 2d

When I throw an orgy but I'm modest about it.

A still from a movie. Four middle aged Japanese men stand aggressively in a doorway. The caption reads "Okay. Let's have some of your normal noodles"

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