Groucho Merckx
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Mostly cat pictures. 🇵🇸 Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. He/him
Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI
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Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI
SAN MATEO, CA—After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him, James Parker, a local guy who sucks at bei...
https://theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being-a-person-sees-huge-potential-in-1850488022/
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Shoaib M Khan
about 2 hours ago
Green Party leader
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
has been cleared in an investigation over claims he failed to pay council tax while living on a London houseboat.
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
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Zack Polanski cleared in GLA investigation over London houseboat council tax
The Greater London Authority (GLA) launched a probe after receiving two complaints about Mr Polanski’s alleged misconduct
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/green-leader-zack-polanski-gla-investigation-london-houseboat-council-tax-b1286609.html
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If I was an England cricketer I would simply bowl competently at the tailenders
#TheCricket
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Simon Kuestenmacher
about 9 hours ago
This made me laugh. Here is a London Tube map of the digestive system. Source:
buff.ly/23pvsjh
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Joad The Wet Sprocket
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Anna Mazzola
about 15 hours ago
Breaking up all future literary events with obligatory ‘hydration breaks’ where I just shout BUY MY BOOK for three minutes.
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Jaded_In_Montana🐸
about 13 hours ago
Mural in San Andrés Cholula, Mexico
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Micah
about 13 hours ago
at last, a worthy target for all the lawyers who tried to bankrupt every teen with kazaa installed circa 2002
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~daniel_barker~
about 20 hours ago
I know FIFA is endlessly and inventively corrupt but it still seems singularly loathsome that Ronaldo is allowed to play today because he's a special boy and the rules don't apply to him.
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lit_patches
about 20 hours ago
Ulysses by James Joyce v2.06: Fixed mom or dad sending duplicate mail if you change gender later.
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Shera
about 23 hours ago
filmed what i thought was a very lovely bird of prey for ages in the park, marvelling at the beauty of nature even in our big cities, only to be informed what I was filming was a £35 hawk decoy from screwfix
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William B. Fuckley
1 day ago
one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic, and logistical endeavor" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost"
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Network Rail
about 23 hours ago
👀 Ever wondered what the heat from a steam engine looks like through a thermal camera❓ Our Air Operations team captured this footage while doing some thermal imaging surveys of the overhead lines in Carlisle. Find out more about our team in the sky: 👉 https://bit.ly/4ouy7QB
#AirOperations
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Prof PB Ottom
1 day ago
my conspiracy theory around the online safety act and digital ID is that a significant part of it is MPs wanting to criminalise criticising them online
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HK
2 days ago
Out on a run and came across a couple having a break up. The woman yelled that the guy cared more about “his YouTube videos” than her. Fully expected it to be some Andrew Tate shit until he sheepishly said “trains mean so much to me but you’ve never understood that”
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Sarah Jackson
1 day ago
The Fab Four: queerer than u think!
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LRB Bookshop
1 day ago
"speed 2: crewes control". sandra bullock finds herself aboard a tandem pedalled by tom crewe and paddy crewe, which will explode if its speed drops below 12mph
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Rob H&ynes
1 day ago
Yet again today, muting someone only mildly idiotic, when a private sticky note would have served the purpose far better. Please,
@bsky.app
, can we have personal per-user notes.
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why don’t Europeans jUsT FiT aiR cOnditiONiNg
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It must count as workplace bullying to pick Archer then give the captaincy to the man who wrecked his career by bowling him into the ground again and again
#TheCricket
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Bodega Cats
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote
1 day ago
They must have signed the Persian original as proposed by Iran and unprofessionally translated, with minimal changes and no evaluation by professional State or Treasury staff. Baaically an Iranian diktat. Extraordinary.
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weeder
2 days ago
Soup brand that comes with a little sidecar can of soup for your cat
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Your unproblematic #3 fave
1 day ago
thinking about this again for reasons
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Major Partagaz Enjoys Cerveza Cristal
YouTube video by FishEnds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt5z4IkD-qE
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Hazel Southwell
1 day ago
out painting a pride flag on my pub, as one does. passing fella: is that a pride flag me, bracing for a Discussion: yes passing fella: sick, have a good day
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Sarah Jackson
1 day ago
My Beatle thoughts are in this lovely fanzine!
wontyoucomeouttoplay.substack.com/p/your-story...
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madeline odent
1 day ago
Most of these estates have historic public right of ways over the grounds. You may have to show a ticket to get through the front gate but if you check the OS map, 9/10 times there’s an open door in a boundary wall somewhere that you can just walk through.
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Amra Watson
2 days ago
Mike Tapp MP asks Zack Polanski: “Do you support Palestine Action?” When answering a political question could risk arrest, that's not confidence in democracy. It's a power saying, "Know your place." That's not a healthy direction for any democratic society.
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still last
2 days ago
Happy 10th
#BobbyBullshitDay
to those who remember. (Lord Professor Robert Winston whining in 2016 about central London's cycle tracks like C3 on Victoria Embankment causing "measurable pollution increase 7x EU limits" He <never> provided any evidence to support his claim (Sorry, a day late)
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Definitely got an REM one bought at Glastonbury in 1999. Think I got rid of my knockoff Bluetones one from a dodgy guy outside the venue a few months earlier
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rahaeli
2 days ago
Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done
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LRB Bookshop
2 days ago
accordion player outside the BM currently in the middle of a magnificent rendition of "bella ciao" if you are nearby
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QuoProQuid
2 days ago
eyes popping out of my head as I read through the alleged items in the US–Iran MoU. #7 alone is something that would not survive any contact with the US Congress
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Dave Gilbert
2 days ago
Hi all! We'd like to nab some fresh testers to play through Nighthawks before the final sprint to launch. If you're interested, please DM me or
@richardcobbett.bsky.social
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Maia
2 days ago
world war three was caused by the war reparations imposed on the united states by iran at the treaty of geneva
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Loukas Christodoulou
2 days ago
One of my favorite pictures is this one by Whitey Schafer from 1940. It was created to break all of the Hays Code in just one frame.
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Evie 🏳️⚧️🎮
2 days ago
Every pitch I’ve heard for how AI can make my job more efficient starts like this
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~daniel_barker~
2 days ago
"Obviously this won't work but what else are we going to do? Figure out a better plan?"
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Aliette de Bodard
2 days ago
Grace, élégance (The basket was full. The cat decided to get a little space by throwing everything out).
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sasha
2 days ago
Ten years since Jo Cox was assassinated and one thing is clear: her assassin’s politics have, more or less, triumphed, and with the connivance of Cox’s own party no less.
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Berlin Olympics, 1938
2 days ago
That lass who boots him in the gonads is legendary
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Colin Randall
3 days ago
@michaeltanner.bsky.social
this may interest you though I barely scratched the surface of Barry Dransfield’s exceptional career(s)…
salutfolk.com/2026/06/15/b...
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Barry Dransfield RIP: the rarest of talents - Salut! Folk
Colin Randall writes: mortality was the unwelcome reality that occured to me as I reported with sadness the death of Barry Dransfield, an extraordinary singer
https://salutfolk.com/2026/06/15/barry-dransfield-rip-the-rarest-of-talents/
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Doug Mack
3 days ago
One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths
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How a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to Cape Verde
A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/24/space-echo-mystery-behind-cosmic-sound-cabo-verde
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Alex Hern
3 days ago
A good plain-English description of why I think it’s completely legitimate to say the Supreme Court fucked up _as a matter of law_
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...
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Nathan Goldwag
3 days ago
PRODUCER: You make that adventure movie about seaplane pirates? HAYAO MIYAZAKI: Sure did boss, real fucking suffused with the melancholy, cynical guilt of having survived the Great War and watching the world slide into fascism, just like you asked. PRODUCER: what
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“Better a Pig than a Fascist”: Porco Rosso & the Biennio Rosso
Porco Rosso is a wonderful movie, but also a very strange one. It’s a comical, pulpy adventure story about a heroic Pig who fights seaplane pirates over the Adriatic Sea. But it’s also …
https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2019/12/14/better-a-pig-than-a-fascist-porco-rosso-the-biennio-rosso/
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The Spaceshipper 🚀
3 days ago
Studio Ghibli turns 41 today!
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I was grouchotendency originally on the old place, as an admission of being the world’s most half-arsed Marxist. But I deleted that account, started a new one, and got really into cycling
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BeijingPalmer
3 days ago
printing out my bluesky posts and leaving them scrumpled up in hedgerows for British teens to find
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The Spectre Haunting Europe
3 days ago
My 'I definitely wasn't involved in the decision not to prosecute one of the most prolific pedophiles in world history' T-shirt seems to be provoking many questions which have already been answered by my shirt.
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