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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4h

Labour is telling you VERY LOUDLY who to vote for if you value human rights. And it's definitely NOT LABOUR.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 17h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4h

Tl;Dr: lots of supposed free speech, anti cancel culture, activists are travelling to Oxford to try and cancel George Abaraonye for exercising his free speech.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 4h

And this morning the Shed is a particle, travelling at a speed hitherto considered unimaginable…

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 3h

Can't believe I'm sat in a traffic jam with Jamiraquai AND Banksy.

A car with Jamiraquai and Banksy stickers

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SRM @mrspoipoi.bsky.social · 1h

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Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social · 10h

Redville Zoo's sea otters hold hands so they don't end up as pelts in the Redville Zoo gift shop.

Redville Zoo @redvillezoo.bsky.social · 10h

Redville Zoo's sea otters hold hands because we value love and family.

Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social · 12h

Crazy Zoo Facts:
Sea Otters sleep holding hands as a pledge of unity and devotion to Ottriaxus, Demon God Of The Night.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 8h

Daily bunny no.3108 will grow into a beautiful butterfly

A very small bunny munches on a leaf, like a bug or caterpillar. The leaf is the same size as the bunny, and the bunny is beneath a flower in someone's yard or garden. It is a warm autumn day

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 5h

Thinking of starting a new #MuseumBums subscription service #MuseumPits... Who's in? 👍🏛️💪

Dancing Satyr by Antonio Frilli, from the @uffizigalleries.bsky.social, Florence 🇮🇹
👍🏛️🍑

A photo of a satyr dancing, they've got one arm above their head showing off a lovely armpit

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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 5h

15th October 2025 07.36

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 4h

I toyed with “That band’s Spinal Tap” and “That singer’s a Von Trapp”, but anyway: thanks to…

Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 4h

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 4h

Roses are red
Some paper’s foolscap

Silly Metro headline: Teacher sacked after telling pupils about lad 'left bleeding from dildo mishap'

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 3h

The journalists sat down in the auditorium inside the machine.

"Welcome!" the professor said, "When I press this button, we will instantly travel faster than light."

"How much faster?"

"Infinitely."

"Where will we go?"

"Around the whole universe."

He pressed the button.

"We're back!"

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 3h

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1675

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 3h

He later wrote that “army life in 1941 and ’42” consisted largely of “awful boredom”, but then he got the chance to join the Special Operations Executive. “Can you imagine a Whitehall government department – you know, all respectability and red tape – teaching you to be a gangster?”

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 3h

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Keith Henry @k17.dev · 2h

They'd have to pass a new (and extremely unpopular) law to make driverless cars legal here first, and even then as the only person in one you'd be culpable for all accidents.

You trying to boost Waymo's share price? This story is bollocks.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 2h

Absolutely not

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 2h

London’s famous black cabs are about to get some new competition: robotaxis.

Driverless Taxis to Take On London’s Storied Black Cabs

Waymo plans to launch a robotaxi service in the U.K. capital next year.

on.wsj.com

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 2h

Tag yourself, I'm

RAIN
RAIN
BARKELS

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 4h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 4h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Heather Wallace @burntcopper.bsky.social · 1h

If you see this, QTP with a sword ⚔️

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Heather Wallace @burntcopper.bsky.social · 1h

I am she/her, because I've always been 'this is my body, this is how it works, job done'

#InternationalPronounsDay

Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 3h

I am she/they, partly out of resounding enthusiasm for the singular-they, partly out of a lack of any particularly strong feelings about the matter one way or another?

#InternationalPronounsDay

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 4h

I am They/Them, but don't mind He/They too much, and fully understand why people would automatically default to He/Him so don't get annoyed when it is a genuine mistake, I do when they continue if, and I rarely do offline, I have corrected them.
#InternationalPronounsDay

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 3h

Tell me your heart doesn’t lift at the idea of a *thirty metre* mechanical centipede suit with an irritable blue whale piloting it marching along a major road to demand an end to sonar booms and ocean plastics *in person*.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 3h

Mech suits for whales so they could come on land and fully express their feelings about humans. Especially orcas.

I guess that makes me the crazed villain?

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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AAAAH-riadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 3h

so these are the people you're making a bed with. Oooh, here's a picture of them calculating the angle of your mandible! And this one is a comment thread about your pelvic width! Isn't that fun?

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