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Boo-ly, Li'l Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · Jun 28

you have a right to be angry

Drawing of Little My, a small girl in a red dress, sliding down a hill. She is drawn by Tove Jansson from the Moomin series. The text reads: "WHEN you're angry, then you're angry," thought Little My, peeling her potato with her teeth. "Sometimes you have to be angry. Every little creature has the right to get angry."

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 6h

Let's Get Badger Tattoos

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 7h

I can imagine that doing image recognition over all your photos is expensive, so they might want to discourage you from deleting all the stored metadata. But that supposes they actually delete the information when you flip that switch.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 7h

Oh wow, I know so little about arcade games before the silicon era.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 8h

Wow, vector graphics and editable bitmaps! Luxury!

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 8h

For your TikTok algorithm posts of course!

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 8h

I’m shocked by the quality of the graphics!

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 8h

Games had more straightforward names back in the day!

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 8h

If she says I’m prey coded should I run? 😳

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 11h

The "you wouldn't download a car" screen but it reads "you wouldn't scrape all the art ever made and use it to create an Anime titty generator"

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 10h

Oh yes, does any of you lot following me play Pokémon Go? If you’d like the occasional postcard of a stink pipe my code is 322020847058

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 11h

Cambridge trans girl who calls her bottom surgery the reality checkpoint?

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 11h

"Doesn't appear much as you approach it from the car park"

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🦇🤘 Rigg-or mortis 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 12h

Every time the world conspires to make me thoroughly depressed I come across something wonderful like this and start hoping that humanity isn't irredeemable after all.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 14h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Sable, Public Universal Momfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 12h

saying "thank you for your service" as part of aftercare

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 12h

Weirdly electoral reform is still currently Reform policy. Can’t imagine them sticking with that as soon as it looks like FPTP suits them.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 12h

In an unreported case

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RM Griffiths @rmgriffiths.bsky.social · 13h

The Cut Throat Trial by @barristersecret.bsky.social is a superb legal thriller. I loved the drip feed approach by using the perspectives of different actors in the trial. It manages to be pacy, gripping, shocking, and yet, truly believable.

I’ve been recommending it to everyone.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 12h

The legislation does not specify but I will charitably assume m^2

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 12h

One of those bits of legislation that makes me go “oh good grief”. Get your tape measures out to work out where you can put things in your shop.

(D) “prohibited distance” means the smaller of 15m or the square root of 3% of a, where a is the store’s relevant floor area

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 12h

Or they could sell coke in five litre buckets.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 12h

Because I’m me, I looked at the legislative basis for this. It’s this regulation from 2021. It explicitly prohibits free refills, but not paid refills. So I think it would be compliant with the regulations for Nandos to offer full fat coke without refills for £2, or with refills for £2.10.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 13h

Dunno, it looks like it reads Stansted to me. Lyrics fit too.

Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 13h

Metal #ClassicsTober25 Day 12: Styx

Sinister 🇳🇱 Cross the Styx

Cross the Styx (1992)

Death metal

"Souls drowned in the blood of Oblivion
dragged in the stream of the inflicted access
zymotic slime of substracted skin
into damnation tortured infinity"

#ClassicsTober

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 13h

Same but it depends who’s wearing the chunkier boots 🥹

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 13h

I wonder if they’re allowed to sell an extra large coke which is twice or thrice the size.

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