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HalloweeNKBTN

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Cis-het white limey. Chilli fiend. Comedy lover. Possibly ADD without the H. Pro good, positive, kind, helpful things. Anti Bad Things. Purveyors of Bad Things get blocked, probably.

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HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · Jan 20

Apologies to anyone legitimately in need, but I'm blocking any "I'm from Gaza, please donate at gofundme" accounts. I've no way to verify you are. For those affected you have my deepest sympathies, and I hope my monthly Amnesty International and UNICEF donations go towards making life better for you

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3h

I suspect most of this will be met with yawns by people insisting it’s old news, even the bits that are about literally breaking the law. The details are embarrassing because all the lads knew what was happening: the people doing it are barely able to stop bragging about it.

Uncovering Starmer's Fraudulent Politics

I was privileged enough to score an invite to Tuesday morning's presser for Paul Holden's The Fraud , a forensic examination of the shenanig...

averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 5h

There's a more secure alternative to texting via your phone's native messaging app. Signal is a free app that employs end-to-end encryption and we have a step-by-step guide to help you learn how to use it. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

How to: Use Signal

Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.38.6 iPhone: 7.5.1 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time required: 15-20 minutes Other reading: https://signal.org/ https://support.signal.org/ https://signal.org/blog/ Table of Contents Download and Install Signal Register and Verify...

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 11h

(C) John Finnemore

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 11h

Sixty two stop counting Seventy just run
Ninety Nine the revolution of the magpies has begun!

Two Hundred no more sorrow
Five Hundred no more fears One Thousand for how long the magpie empire will last in years

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 11h

Twenty one for Jerry Twenty two for Tom
Twenty three - where are all these magpies coming from?
Twenty five no seriously Thirty this is weird
Forty Eight from where have all these magpies suddenly appeared?

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 11h

Fifteen for a pencil
Sixteen for a pen
Seventeen to hear these options once again
Eighteen for pepper Nineteen for salt
Twenty for an accident in which you were not at fault

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 11h

Eight for a wish
Nine for a kiss
Ten for a chance you must not miss
Eleven for a wasp
Twelve for a bee
Thirteen for a coffee Fourteen for tea

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 11h

One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl
Four for a boy
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret never to be told

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 14h

Well... at least electric cars are getting much better, I guess? I think that's about it.

Cami @cafiffle.bsky.social · Jul 9

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 14h

I read an introductory bit of lore once that basically said all that, followed by "...and these are the *good* guys"

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 14h

Well this is quite a fun game. Should take you 15-20 mins to complete, depending how good you are. Hint - untethered balls can also be nudged.

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 18h

Bullshit pop-therapy books like "men are from mars, women are from venus" or anything by Deepak Chopra are probably actually good for the type of people who read them

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 1d

We’re just normal men

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 18h

Oh yeah! Whatever film that particular Jack Nicholson impression was from, I never saw it

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

ACTUALLY, I have a theory that most books enter a cultural "uncanny valley" 20-25 years after release, where the culture has shifted just enough they're not contemporary anymore, so new readers can't directly relate, and they stay in the valley for about 50 years until they're clearly historical

madoccassia @madoccassia.bsky.social · 1d

Is there, like, an interregnum during which a book should be gracefully retired, until such time as it becomes "a classic, an artifact of its times"?

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 18h

This but for my bank account details

Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 1d

My most popular tweet ever on the old place was literally an off the cuff quip ahead of Christmas about how millenials don't keep address books

They search WhatsApp chats for "address" every damn time

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

There's a whole thing about the externalization of memory that fascinates me.

What's crazy is that it isn't new. Just a continuation of a long tradition of progress that started with the birth of writing.

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 18h

Years ago Andy Burnham was one of the proponents of non-digital ID cards. The only good thing about Cameron getting in was that he shelved the plan.

Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 19h

Labour want to bring in digital I.D. and many people do NOT like it. Are they right? Are they wrong? And what is the “Lethal Trifecta” that makes the plan so risky? @hannahfearn.bsky.social, @jonnelledge.bsky.social, @hern.bsky.social and @mattgreencomedy.com discuss 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 18h

Other than friend and family landlines (of which I've got about a dozen, including a couple I can't remember who they're for)

- Mine
- My first mobile number
- Works network admin mobile
- 2 taxi firms
- 3 work numbers

But that's it. Only 3 mobile numbers and one of them hasn't worked in 25 years

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 19h

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 1d

@wrestleme.bsky.social Mark posted this and I claim my £5

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 1d

My girlfriend has her dad's ashes in an urn on the mantelpiece. Lately I've started picking it up and doing a, quite frankly, incredible impression of Paul Bearer from WWF in the mirror. If she caught me, I'd be dumped, but it's SUCH a good impression.

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 1d

We have a winner! Everybody - tag @luvlysmiler.bsky.social and shout "NEEEEEERD!" but add emojis of trophies and medals and whatnot too!

Victory is a poisoned chalice

luvlysmiler.bsky.social @luvlysmiler.bsky.social · 1d

Oo it's the vampire one! carpe jugulum 😊

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 1d

In my head canon, your mom would've made a great Nanny Ogg! My condolences x

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 1d

In a way, me too. Definitely the most fun of the witches

HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 1d

Narp. You have two guesses remaining, and still have the opportunity to phone a friend

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....