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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 4h

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 5h

- Grim that media barons are buying up mainstream media and making them fascism-enabling propaganda engines

- ULTAGRIM that so many of the big-name journalists escaping that fire are voluntarily leaping directly into a completely separate newsletter website trap set by the same fascists

Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology

Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as “thought leaders,” researcher warns.

arstechnica.com

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Northsky Social Cooperative @transrights.northsky.social · 1d

In the meantime, if you are concerned about your safety on Bluesky, we encourage you to make a local copy of your Repo and Media Blobs using our downloadable tool: github.com/NorthskySoci...

Steps:
- Login with Bsky credentials
- Backup Repo (saves a .car file of posts)
- Backup Media (saves media)

Releases · NorthskySocial/pds-migration

Backend Application for user PDS migration. Contribute to NorthskySocial/pds-migration development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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The Devouring Mother @ragnell.bsky.social · 16h

I've found it!

The gender neutral term is Failspawn.

I repeat, FAILSPAWN.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 21h

Let me preface this with a reminder that I often have incredibly vivid, detailed dreams

The dream I woke up from today is no exception

David Bowie was recording a new concept album (yes, he knew he was dead & that wasn’t going to stop him from rising to this moment)

The album title:

LACRIM/OS/A

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Hasn't the weather been strange lately @thefallingdream.bsky.social · 15h

"new research" fuck off I saw this trotted out about 6 years ago and it was well said then, anyone shaming asthmatics for choosing to BREATHE should try leading by example, and choose not to. Go on, I’ll wait.

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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · Oct 24

One, two, Freddy's coming for you, three, four, better lock your door, five, six, grab your crucifix, seven, eight, eight, I forget what eight was for but nine, nine, nine for a lost god and ten, ten, ten, ten for everything, everything, everything, everything

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Hasn't the weather been strange lately @thefallingdream.bsky.social · 1d

again: if I was a russian troll farm this would be the perfect moment to make a bunch of sockpuppets that lean hard into the worst stereotypes of ignorant, self-absorbed americans and just go around aggressively doing that at as many posts from outside the usa as there are minutes in a working day

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Hasn't the weather been strange lately @thefallingdream.bsky.social · 2d

*Uno reverse*

Screenshot of the above post from the discovery tab

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 3d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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Hasn't the weather been strange lately @thefallingdream.bsky.social · 3d

everyone in silicon valley needs cult deprogramming NOW

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Hasn't the weather been strange lately @thefallingdream.bsky.social · 3d

oh, I'm about to scroll down to some dogshit take this morning aren't I?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

I see people on social media who have gotten their feelings hurt sometimes continue to lash out online and I wish I could reach across the screen and just say: "I see that you are hurt and you need to log off now."

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Hasn't the weather been strange lately @thefallingdream.bsky.social · 4d

I know it's like, the least of the things about him, but I loathe the way he pronounces his surname, in Polish it's beautiful and the way he says it is neither. Up there with "the way Temu Caligula says China" for trivial irritants that push me over the edge. "Slee waah" fuck yourself.

Hasn't the weather been strange lately @thefallingdream.bsky.social · 4d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8b8...

Faith No More - Midlife Crisis (Official Music Video) [4K]

YouTube video by UPROXX Indie Mixtape

www.youtube.com

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Hasn't the weather been strange lately @thefallingdream.bsky.social · 4d

👏👏👏

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · Aug 28

Whenever people ask me my five ideal dinner guests living or dead I always say Luigi Mangione and then whichever four billionaires I'm most pissed off with.

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Hasn't the weather been strange lately @thefallingdream.bsky.social · 4d

oh, mood

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4d

Bandcamp friday:
@ghostcopnyc.bsky.social
@emmaruthrundle.bsky.social
@thefallingdream.bsky.social @unwoman.bsky.social @androidlust.bsky.social @divideanddissolve.bsky.social @thehallucination.bsky.social @dessadarling.bsky.social
@chelsea-wolfe.bsky.social
@clppng.bsky.social

All got stuff

Merch from LINGUA IGNOTA

linguaignota.bandcamp.com

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 5d

As a frequent user of the ponds, it disgusts me that terfs are taking a beautiful place and pouring their hate into it. Please fill in this survey if you want to protect this space for all women and make trans women feel. PS the ducks think terfs suck. And the friendly fox. And the crows.

Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 7d

The Gender Critical have already inundated this survey with their disgusting views on banning trans people from using the ponds.

Would be a shame if we inundated with trans positive views on not banning trans people.

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

Public Consultation on Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds | Commonplace

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

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Hasn't the weather been strange lately @thefallingdream.bsky.social · 5d

Moon Walker does it again

Moon Walker - The List (Official Music Video) | New Rock Song 2025

YouTube video by Moon Walker

www.youtube.com

Hasn't the weather been strange lately @thefallingdream.bsky.social · 5d

"the number of people who are just idiopathic shitcunts is actually vanishingly small, for everything else there's trauma" -Jean-Martin Charcot, probably

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Hasn't the weather been strange lately @thefallingdream.bsky.social · 5d

I really need to misuse some legal stimulants and work out how to set up my own PDS, because this is not a place of honor

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