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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 5h

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islieb @islieb.bsky.social · 23h

Der Comic zeigt eine schwarz-weiße Strichzeichnung von einem Menschen und einem Pinguin.

Links steht die menschliche Figur und fragt: „Wieso seid ihr Pinguine immer so cool?“

Rechts steht der Pinguin und denkt in mehreren Sprechblasen:

– „Ich bin nicht cool, ich tu nur so.“

– „Meistens versuche ich, irgendwie den Tag zu überstehen.“

– „Gewitter machen mir Angst.“

– „Nachts wünsche ich mir jemanden, der mich in den Arm nimmt und drückt.“

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 10h

this might be more a digital editor's problem, which the DM really has buckets of. the ridiculous signing in procedures, i tried to increase my membership payment and the link didn't work, the app is absurd.

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 12h

Neo colonialism being the best option Palestinians currently have for staying alive is just so bleak.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

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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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 18h

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 12h

and unfortunately, as with migration, the topic will be left entirely to the right to shape the narrative.

Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 12h

Looks like the DM is experimenting with AI 🫣

Daily Maverick @dailymaverick.co.za · 12h

Half of developing countries in debt distress or at risk of it 165 civil society groups urge South Africa to take action US taking over leadership of G20 in December By Andrea Shalal A total of 165 organizations on Monday criticised South Africa for failing to make progress on debt sustainability...

Groups blast lack of progress on debt issues during South Africa’s G20 presidency

www.dailymaverick.co.za

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 14h

I laughed way too hard at this 🤣🤣🤣

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 1d

🤡, even.

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 1d

If you need something to make you feel better about your competence at life, this is for you.

South Africa's finance minister accidentally named the wrong M. Maseko to the Public Investment Corporation board: former treasury official Mpumelo Maseko instead of ex-PIC employee Mpumelelo Maseko

Shocking name mix-up: Godongwana to reappoint ‘right’ Maseko to PIC board | News24

Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana says he will appoint former Public Investment Corporation employee Mpumelo Maseko to the asset manager’s board after asking namesake Mpumelelo Maseko to resign.

www.news24.com

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 1d

Have been increasingly noticing the raised fist in Trump world, guess it's another page from the playbook being adopted.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

nice

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

"Their blatant stupidity is why they’re so popular. It’s the uncomfortable truth underpinning pretty much everything that’s happened in pop culture — including politics — since the 2010s social media revolution."

The Great Dumbening

Read to the end for it’s Tronin’ time

www.garbageday.email

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 1d

In fact, you still can't do any of that UNLESS it involves AI - in fact, AI's only superpower that I can see is undoing the entire edifice of copyright and contract law.

Sweet Daniel @dansheehan.bsky.social · 1d

For like 20 years, you weren't able to make a YouTube video featuring a popular song without getting hit with an orbital laser. I don't understand how every single one of these deeply litigious companies is okay with turning their copyrighted IP into sludge people can pay another company to make

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so old i remember the tapes long before the comics on TV ;) So i can *hear* this 💜

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 1d

Ok but that's genuinely funny - did he really say that? 😹

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 2d

this is just to say

I have rebranded
the streamer
that won
the oscar

and which
is already the name
of your
connected device

Forgive me
the brand identity was new
and so vibrant

Variety @variety.com · 2d

Apple has rebranded its streaming service Apple TV+ to Apple TV — which is the same name as its connected smart TV product.

“Apple TV+ is now simply Apple TV, with a vibrant new identity,” the company announced on Monday.

Apple TV+ Rebrands to Apple TV, Ditching the Plus Sign for ‘Vibrant New Identity’

It's just Apple TV now, no plus.

variety.com

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 2d

All that stuff our parents told us about hard work and keeping your nose clean? Lies, nothing but lies. Sigh.

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 2d

Wheeeeeeeeeeee 😹

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Lady Jek @ladyjek.bsky.social · 2d

500km/h trains in a country where the train tracks regularly get carted off? 🤔

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 2d

France has flown Madagascar's president Andry Rajoelina out of the country, RFI reports.

Ex prime minister Christian Ntsay and businessman Mamy Ravatomanga, a close ally of the president who protestors blamed for a lot of corruption, reportedly flew to Mauritius on a private jet on Saturday night.