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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 1h

Bonnie is lovely

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 4h

I looked through all the photos and then had to look at the floor plan to realise.

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 5h

No but it would absolutely end the relationship.

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 8h

ChatGPT: It's not just for pushing people towards suicide, it can help with accidental drownings, too

Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 9h

Two people check tide times with ChatGPT, almost die.

uk.news.yahoo.com/restaurant-b...

Restaurant boss saw two people about to do something deadly so he grabbed his megaphone

He ran out of the restaurant and warned the pair to turn back

uk.news.yahoo.com

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 7h

www.worldofmoose.com/products/ven...

Cartoon of a Venn diagram. Two circles intersect, the intersecting area is a wedge shape so that the left hand circle looks like a pie chart. Caption under the left circle: Pie charts that wish they were Venn diagrams. Caption under the right circle: Venn diagrams that wish they were pie charts

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 7h

Forgiveness for breaking it without asking, or for never fixing it?

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah but they never go back and fix those afterwards do they

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 7h

Essentially this “war on Portland” has turned into an advert for the city for the rest of world. It looks like there are a lot of great people there.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Portland has fallen!

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 7h

Depends how stale they are and how depressed I am.

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 8h

It was something I assumed was illegal until I saw this, and then I thought maybe there weren’t laws about this because nobody thought they’d be necessary because nobody would be this ridiculous.

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 8h

I had genuinely assumed there were laws about offering trips in what looks like a badly converted combo boiler to a mass marine grave.

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 8h

Murphy was the little known inspiration for Don Henley’s line “we are all just prisoners here, of our own device”. Although he didn’t resent the subsequent success of Hotel California, he did wish Don had helped him find the key to the padlock.

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 9h

I thought these were an American thing - primarily for disposing of murder weapons and occasionally bodies in crime dramas.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13h

You know the Politco article about the Young Republicans praising Hitler and spewing hate speech?

They redacted every slur except the R word.

That tells you everything you need to know about how pervasive ableism is.

No social justice without disability justice.

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 10h

It's good how someone who has been paid a fortune to write newspaper columns and books - and certainly far, far, far more than actual journalists and writers- admits he just can't be arsed to actually write and farms it out to AI instead, isn't it? 🫠

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11h

In today's least surprising news

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 10h

“Just to play devil’s advocate…”

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 10h

And was despised by everyone else in their seminars

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 10h

Of the year?! I wish it was just an annual event.

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 10h

(The scansion is appalling I know, but it was in the original, it’s in keeping)

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 10h

Signs saying no blacks and no Irish?
They were just having a bit of a laugh
Now give me misty eyed nostalgia
As I eulogise the old tin bath.

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 10h

Almost like badly rhymed doggerel
Can make the past have appeal
If you overlook all the bigotry
And pretend the problems weren’t real.

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 10h

The kids were a lot more contented
Well the ones not given a smack
And not those who caught polio
lying in iron lungs on their back.

And not anybody disabled, into institutions they go,
And kids who felt same sex attraction were very sternly told no.

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 11h

This timeline is broken

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Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · 21h

Neurologically speaking, there's no such thing as 'useless' subjects or 'rip-off' degrees

Insisting we should only teach useful subjects is like saying science should only do research that gives positive results

If you honestly believe that's how anything works, *your* education was the wasted one

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 11h

I think something happens to Dom and Matt has to rescue him, deploying cosplay skills etc in the world of espionage

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