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Barleybap @barleybap.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that time that techbros and major corporations told us jpgs of terrible monkey art were going to change the world, people were like "Nah pal, I'm good", and within just a few years it all fell apart spectacularly? That was rad. Let's do that again.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 2d

Once upon a midnight dreary
As I pondered murder, weary
How could witnesses be hearing
Speech of Turkey, Minsk, Japan?
Suddenly there was a knocking
At my door - its shadow shocking
The killer, here, to knock my block in!
Ohhhh. It's an Orangutan.

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Lizz 🎃 @flouncysinatra.bsky.social · 9d

His empire grows ever larger... 👀

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 9d

AI is a lack of consent machine whose greatest strength has been convincing people that other people’s boundaries are to be negotiated with

And that people who tell you no are defunct

Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 9d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Cyriak @cyriak.bsky.social · 10d

I made an intelligent piece of paper

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Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 11d

Tis the season.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 12d

I love my country. I just happen to love most of the bits racists hate, and I hate what they’re doing to it. I want better for it and for us.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 19d

The only problem with people working illegally in the UK is that them working is deemed illegal

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 22d

Couldn't get to sleep last night because my brain decided it was of huge importance to write lyrics to the theme tune from Fawlty Towers so here it is…
(thanks brain)

The sheet music for Fawlty towers. Underneath it (in the correct places) is written:
Won’t you come and stay in our hotel, Where things they may not go so very well, 
As Basil…

The sheet music for Fawlty towers continues... Underneath it (in the correct places) is written:
…shouts and cries
While Sybil rolls her eyes
And Polly tries to help Manuel
(Please don’t ring the bell)

There’s a rat that’s being hid a–

The sheet music for Fawlty towers continues... Underneath it (in the correct places) is written:

–waaaay
Oh and a salad that’s seen better days
Oh there’s a missing door and
Please don’t mention war
And then you’re…

The sheet music for Fawlty towers continues... Underneath it (in the correct places) is written:

Sure – to have – a pleas–ant. stay.

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Lizz 🎃 @flouncysinatra.bsky.social · 22d

Wait I just realised the Cursed covers are pink, then purple... third instalment in blue by any chance???

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Criag @craigpsutton.bsky.social · Sep 7

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

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Lizz 🎃 @flouncysinatra.bsky.social · 29d

As the single listener who was waiting for Genius Game Part 2 on IJAG podcast thank you so much for the shoutout @ivanbrett.bsky.social

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · Sep 11

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

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Lizz 🎃 @flouncysinatra.bsky.social · Sep 11

Happy bday princess sho!!

Lizz 🎃 @flouncysinatra.bsky.social · Sep 10

Good luck with the new scary thing! Try being even newer and scarier yourself to intimidate it?

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Sachaaaargh Coward 👻 @sachacoward.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm genuinely disturbed.
I'm living in a country that is passionate about defending the 'free speech' of those who would incite violence against minorities, but equally passionate about arresting people for calling a genocide a genocide.

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Lizz 🎃 @flouncysinatra.bsky.social · Sep 1

I'm so glad it didn't hurt, Z ❤️ let's go your reproductive organs let's go

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Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · Aug 30

Knowing the difference between a purview, a bailiwick, a wheelhouse and a forte isn't my thing i'm good at.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Aug 27

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

arstechnica.com

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · Aug 24

Amazing how such small numbers have been identified as the voice of the nation when, for comparison, 100,000 turned out for trans pride last month in London.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Aug 24

"CROWDS wave flags" according to the Daily Mail caption of this picture

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · Aug 23

Is YOUR child Poesting? Know the signs:

LMAO = Lacrimose Melancholy And Ornithology

BRB = Bird Remains Bothersome

PMSL = Primate Murderer, Sleuth Learns

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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · Aug 22

Digital illustration of red drawing on a mottled black background. An inverted five pointed star with a goat’s head ears and horns inscribed within the five points. The star itself is inscribed inside a circle. At each point is an inscrutable character which could actually be the letters MIWHT. Within the circle between the points of the star in an occultish script are the words ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

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Lizz 🎃 @flouncysinatra.bsky.social · Aug 17

This will be in my head forever I fear (complimentary)

Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · Aug 17

Oh look, it's Claire's Accessories
A branch of Claire's Accessories
My daughters like to go there with my wife
They both love Claire's Accessories
For all their hair necessities,
They've got those two as customers for life.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Lizz 🎃 @flouncysinatra.bsky.social · Aug 17

I'm grateful for your grateful things, for they have inspired me to start listing my own grateful things (privately)

Lizz 🎃 @flouncysinatra.bsky.social · Aug 17

Watching Strange Days (1995) and jumpscared by the "Right here! Right now!" sample from Fatboy Slim... was anyone gonna tell me that was Angela Bassett's voice?!?