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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 6h

Sure they were. If they were nice liberals like Kerensky, the revolution fails and the other corrupted scum that were dining on the Russian peasant continued in their corpulence.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 9h

Notably this problem is also solved 100% without any AI and instead, at zero cost, by journals adopting format-agnostic initial submissions (as many journals have already done)

Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 9h

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 16h

Meanwhile their ABC buried the lede: “MetLife, whose US parent company posted a US$4.5 billion profit last year”

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 19h

A terminal cancer patient is told her failure to declare a UTI has voided her insurance policies, leaving her struggling to pay her mortgage and care for her children in her final days.

Dying mother loses life insurance after failing to declare UTI tests

A terminal cancer patient is told her failure to declare a UTI has voided her insurance policies, leaving her struggling to pay her mortgage and care for her children in her final days.

www.abc.net.au

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Jim Penola @jimpenola.bsky.social · 19h

Def missing out on some great stuff as ‘Not A Hardcore WTF Guy’ but this bit from the latest Welcome To Hell World (@lukeoneil47.bsky.social) makes me feel less bad about that

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 19h

*allegedly

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 1d

Chapeau!

Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

media.tenor.com

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 1d

It’s bed time on the arse end of the world so I hope we will both have lovely dreams soon.

Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 1d

Stone the Crows that’s a beaut Bruce.

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 1d

I was sent an advanced screener to watch this film and oh, it is SO good.

It premieres this week at the London Film Festival. Tickets all sold out there, but find another way! It's worth it.

youtu.be/npwmcJxgLic?...

ORWELL 2+2=5 - Official Greenband Trailer - In Select Theaters October 3

YouTube video by NEON

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 1d

I paid for years thanks to David Conn’s magnificent work but couldn’t keep supporting them due to their TERF editorial policy. There’s hope now that that Freedman is gone. One wonders if they can get Ingle out as well.

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine masked goons come up to you and demand “papers”.

Land of the Free my hole.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 1d

I am so sorry for this horrible experience

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cam smith @sexenheimer.bsky.social · 2d

Is Linda Reynolds really such a despicable person that she doesn't have a single person in her life who cares enough about her to tell her to stop? What a truly miserable existence.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 1d

You've seen happy, healthy, waving Israelis released by Hamas. But have you seen Palestinians released from Israeli prisons? Those are the ones that can barely walk, skin and bones.

Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 1d

"He spent 22 years in occupation prisons... Samer Abu Diak from Silat al-Dhahr, south of Jenin, brother of martyr Sami Abu Diak, is unable to walk as a result of being subjected to torture for several hours prior to his release."

www.threads.com/@sndnewsa/po...

#Israel #Palestine #PalestineNews

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 1d

So many weird bros whose interpretation of well thought out popular literature is the polar opposite of what the author is on the record as saying the character/story was about. What a bunch of turds.

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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Thiel citing Alan Moore's Watchmen in his Antichrist lecture series feels like sacrilege.

Screenshot from Guardian article on Peter Thiel's Antichrist lecture series, that reads: "In his second lecture, Thiel also explores the idea of the antichrist through four works of literature – Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Alan Moore’s Watchmen graphic novel and Eiichiro Oda’s manga series One Piece. Thiel states that identifying the antichrist is possibly “hard to do in the present and always sort of controversial”, but that “you at least identify the antichrist in literature”.

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

Direct quote from Thiel's lecture follows: "The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work."

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 1d

Tremendous

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes I wonder whatever happened to Jamie Oliver

But then I comfort myself with the knowledge that he’s probably around Delia’s cooking up another terrible take on “foreign” food.

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 2d

“it would be great if we could stem the flow of poison that America sends our way, seeping, as it does, from that proverbial septic tank.”

Never gets old.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2d

Gonna start a thread of articles I re-read every time I have an excuse, because after this thread I am thinking a lot about @cormacmccafe.bsky.social‬'s "No Yanks on the Thread" piece.

Feel free to add your own.

I Should Be Able to Mute America

The rest of the world should not have to know the name Bari Weiss

www.gawkerarchives.com

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 2d

This is Bluesky

Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · Nov 27

I feel like I've accidentally followed too many Americans and now I have no idea what anyone is talking about.

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Shaun @zooropean.bsky.social · 2d

So much for another relic from my childhood:

cordcuttersnews.com/mtv-is-shutt...

MTV is Shutting Down Its Last Music Channels, Marking the End of an Era | Cord Cutters News

Paramount Global has delivered a devastating blow to music fans worldwide, announcing the permanent shutdown of five iconic MTV music channels by December 31, 2025 according to the BBC. For 44 years, ...

cordcuttersnews.com

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Christoph Fischer @beautysurroundsyou.com · 2d

The magnificent dead trees of Namibia's Deadvlei draw beautiful graphical shapes against a neighbouring red dune, towering more than 300 m/ 1000ft above. A unique, almost surreal scene, so typical of Namibia!

#bluesky #landscape #travel #nature #landscapephotography #photography #naturephotography

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