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Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 2h

Oh man, this is a bit special.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h

British.

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 5h

A story in three parts

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5h

Gaza has around 20,000 unexploded Israeli bombs amid up to 70 million tonnes of rubble, posing a massive threat to Palestinians, as removal is blocked by Israel’s ban on heavy equipment, according to the Government Media Office.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0

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Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 3h

I think Bread Washing did a session for Marc Riley and Gideon Coe last week

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Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 3h

22. 23 and above is still practically a quarter, but 22 is nearly 20, at which point everything starts to slip away and I'm no longer in control of my life.

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Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 4h

I mean, each to their own and all, but this had me gasping...

A testimonial from the Only Fools And Hearses website that starts "The funny thing is we don’t even know if Ethel was a fan of Only Fools and Horses. We just know she was a funny woman and liked a laugh..."

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Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 4h

And that is a *very old* Channel 5 logo, going back to the Richard Desmond days.

Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 6h

Hopefully we'll see the results before 2037!

The Cure have recorded 13 songs for new album

On their website, The Cure revealed they have recorded 13 songs for a new album and also have a live concert film, recorded in London, on the way.

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Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 6h

And while looking that up, I found this:

Google result for the Only Fools and Hearses business in Fleetwood, England. Website at www.onlyfoolsandhearses.co.uk

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Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 7h

It's like that Only Fools And Horses funeral in reverse

LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.social · 1d

Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino in Pulp Fiction (1994)

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 8h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

share.google

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Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 12h

Suffering my Gary Barlow tax gags while listening to All Saints twice for the third week in a row should be a BlueSky rite of passage by now.

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Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 13h

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Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 13h

Agree! This one tends to hold up okay for a while, but definitely starts to creak when it can't cope with the big jump in posts after half an hour or so. I tend to just end up using the TOTP hashtag and clicking on 'latest' at that point...

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Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 16h

Tapping the #TOTP sign for the new newcomers

Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · Aug 8

For any new Blueskiers who need to know:

Fridays 7pm to 9pm UK time: the #TOTP hashtag is a blaze of live and hilarious musings on the #BBC4 Top Of The Pops repeats of varying quality
The rest of the time: #TOTP hashtag is generally reserved for secure password protocols or summat like that

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Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 22h

I certainly don't want to be thinking about their holes, that's for sure

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Donna Rees @donnarees.bsky.social · 1d

"We are pausing the bingo with caller supremo Gaz to make an announcement, can the owner of the orange Datsun Cherry, reg MN55 GBZ move it please, cos it's blocking the pie delivery van..."

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Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 1d

"And now, we moved on to liars..."

Kim Jong Un standing in front of a microphone wearing a pleather jacket, accepting the Father Ted Golden Cleric Award. That last part may not be entirely true.

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Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 1d

Blimey...

Screenshot from the BBC iPlayer, with the option to watch live Sumo wrestling at the Royal Albert Hall, London

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Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 1d

(referring to Vance, not Liam, for the avoidance of doubt!)

Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 1d

Woody and Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story. Buzz is gesturing as if pointing out all his surroundings to Woody. The picture is captioned "Snowflakes. Snowflakes everywhere"

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Dr Luke Steubenstein 👹 @lukesteuber.com · 1d

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Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 2d

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 2d

www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

Cartoon of a plesiosaur. Seen from the side, the top line of its shape is echoed in ripples up the page, reminiscent of the artwork for the Joy Division album Unknown Pleasure. Caption: Unknown Plesiosaurs

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