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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 11m

To the kitchen!

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 23h

“Before we crack on with the meat raffle, could the owner of a yellow Vauxhall Corsa please move their vehicle? Dave from the mobile discotheque says he can’t get his van in”

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 29m

I am intrigued.

Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 39m

absolutely www.rhubarbandlavender.com/recipes/roas...

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 2h

A generous time.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 3h

carousing and loose women. And maybe some coffee.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 3h

vice. Nothing but vice.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 3h

Exactly!
Maybe get myself a book and some coffee.

Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 3h

The Facebook class action lawsuit involving my data and what not has given me... 37.95. American dollars. Thank you very much.

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 4h

Let's hear it for the protester who remembered Shut The Fuck Up Friday:

"Once in custody, Korol declined to waive her Miranda rights and speak with any federal officers before she had a lawyer." www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Band member accused of interfering with arrest of another during Portland ICE protest, feds allege

"Who’s assaulting who is the real question?” said Oriana Korol's dad. “She was on the sidewalk playing music when the federal officers just bumrushed the band.”

www.oregonlive.com

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Wendy WooOoOOOoo @wednesdaygj.bsky.social · 5h

I was up at 4.30 this morning to drive the teen to the train station. They’re off to Alton Towers.

Came back and made this at about 6am.

I know how to optimise my time!

So Disappointed @sodisappointed.bsky.social · 9h

Cripes (Commander in) Chief!

Terry makes an awfully good POTUS. Must be the petted lip…

Thanks to @gazzalw63.bsky.social for this inspired suggestion!

Terry’s #plasticenehalloween Horror Week begins on Oct 24. We’re still looking for a few costume suggestions before then

SoDisappointedPod.com

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 5h

I have decorated my house for Halloween and I feel right with the world. Or at least my own personal world of adorable pumpkins and skeletons.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6h

String cheese is the only body count I recognize. Mine is 7.

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22h

I wonder how much string cheese I can eat in one sitting

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MonsterKing @cerromerussell.blacksky.app · 6h

Gummies and Sofas together conspire to give you the hardest sleep of your life

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 6h

It's a fancy tuna melt kind of Thursday.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 12h

This guy converts discarded plastic fishing nets, which would otherwise end up in landfill, get burned or, worse, find its way back into the oceans, into high-value raw materials used in 3D printing.

His recycling process has less than 3% of the carbon impact of producing new nylon.

- That's cool.

Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 13h

‘When I pass piles of fishing nets, I see piles of money’: a one man recycling revolution on the Cornish coast

Determined to find a solution to the discarded plastic nets, Ian Falconer found a way to convert them into filament for 3D printing, for use in products from motorbikes to sunglasses

www.theguardian.com

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 9h

You really do hate black people

Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 9h

The key is to go for something unhinged. I did one where I was in the bath eating cake. My other advice is "have photo in front of large piece of art" it distracts a bit.

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 11h

Ok, give me some advice for taking writerly headshots when you have a round face and hate every single photo of yourself for the last five years?

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 11h

With @pablovich.bsky.social on Disneytime Rotadraw, @bobfischer.bsky.social and @georgyjamieson.bsky.social on Why Don't You...?, @gfrancie.bsky.social on Fruitopia, @whenisbirths.bsky.social on I Hate J.R. by The Wurzels and more...

timworthington.org/2024/10/23/t...

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: The Wheatmeal Man Came Round Every Thursday Week

Highlights from Looks Unfamiliar featuring Suzy Robinson on Crown Court, Danny Kodicek on Fox Tales, Bob Fischer and Georgy Jamieson on Why Don’t You…?, Paul Abbott on Disneytime Rotadr…

timworthington.org

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 11h

A similar thing happened to me about 25 years ago, when I was a preteen. It was a nightmare.

Now, thanks to AI, so many young girls all over the world will have to live that same nightmare.

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · Aug 11

it's 30 years later and this still happens.

Jenna Ortega revealed in an interview with The New York Times that she quit Twitter after seeing explicit images of herself generated by Al when she was a teenager. She also became inundated with messages from fans that ranged from "disgusting" to "absurd."
"I hate AI," Ortega said. "I mean, here's the thing: AI could be used for incredible things. I think I saw something the other day where they were saying that artificial intelligence was able to detect breast cancer four years before it progressed. That's beautiful. Let's keep it to that. Did I like being 14 and making a Twitter account because I was supposed to and seeing dirty edited content of me as a child? No. It's terrifying. It's corrupt. It's wrong."

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 17h

That is a great experience. I miss the ice cream sandwiches from home.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 17h

how were they?

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 17h

But I was obviously his cover while he was buying drugs.

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social · 17h

Sometimes random memories from my childhood surface and adult me pauses and says, "wait a minute... my father took me a biker club house..." (he did. Nothing bad happened to me there. I was allowed to run around with the other feral children.)

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 3d

Most of rural Alaska is Alaska Native. Bonus donating to support Alaska Native people on Indigenous Peoples Day.

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 3d

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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