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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19h

Me to me: Why would you ever ask a question on here?

Me to me: it will be different this time

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 2d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 1d

📯Huge Opportunity for Public Space Improvement

Do you want to see a joined-up #BeeNetwork in #GreaterManchester?

Then have your say on this impressive proposal for Seymour Grove.

It's ambitious on paper, but local Councillors need confidence that there's public backing to approve it.

A computer generated image of a street scene with small text stating Option 1 - One-way cycle lanes on each side - view south on Seymour Grove at Junction with Chatham Road

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willow @witchfuneral.quest · 2d

is anyone else getting tired of the victorian / middle earth aesthetic discord has been using? guilds were fine but this is a little excessive

discord context menu that lists

"send to the gallows
enroll as royal guard
stop the tomfoolery
behead postehaste
seize this user
inform of a malicious plot"

as available options

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 2d

The process of making a good photo:
1. go to far off place and take photos
2. develop film
3. return to far off place to take good versions of those photos

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Jack Kelly @jackkelly.uk · 3d

A night shot on the Ashton Canal in Manchester. Happy with how this looks, given it's a handheld shot. #photography

A black and white photograph of a chemical/industrial plant is seen on the far side of a canal, at night. The plant is full of bright lights, and the sky and ground around are all dark. A reflection of a large building can be seen in the surface of the canal.

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Jack Kelly @jackkelly.uk · 6d

Billboard sprites will never *not* be a useful optimisation.

Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 7d

just spotted that cyberpunk does doom-style sprites for distant cars and characters... amazing

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Jack Kelly @jackkelly.uk · 7d

Damn, I was hoping for “won't”. Good to have a definitive answer, though. 👍

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 7d

vx-underground: Discord Zendesk breach is 1.5TBs of age verification photos. 2.1 +million photos

Spent this morning try to cross-verify, as news about the breach is going viral on Twitter

vx-underground &
@vxunderground
X.com
Chat, we are cooked Discord is being extorted by the people who
compromised their Zendesk instance They've got 1.5TB of age verification related
photos. 2,185,151 photos tl;dr 2.1m Discord users drivers license and /or passport might be leaked. Unknown number of
e-mails
4:04 AM • 10/8/25 • 245K Views

Discord Previews
@DiscordPreviews
Follow Update: We have become aware that the perpetrators of this attack claim to have obtained 1.5 TB of age-verification photos totalling 2,185,151 images, which they are now
using to extort Discord.
Size:
1.50 TB (1,653,569,999,674 bytes)
Size on disk:
1.50 TB (1,658, 159,304,704 bytes)
Contains:
2,185,151 Files, 0 Folders

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 9d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 9d

Say hello to literally the only protesters outside Tory conference this year

Two protesters holding up a sign saying “pedestrianise the M6”

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 10d

They brought the post back lol. Finish the job. Ban Singal. Rescue your platform.

Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 10d

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social · 10d

Surprisingly yet pleasingly complex - the tile elements required to reconstruct a Roman roof over the House of the Faun, #Pompeii. Beautiful watercolour, pencil, and ink illustrations by Pasquale Maria Veneri dating to 1843 on display in the National Archaeological Museum
In Naples.

Watercolour showing different tile elements both flat (tegulae) and curved (imbrices) and antifixes and water spouts needed for a Roman roof

Plan of the House of the Faun in watercolour showing the reconstructed rooflines.

Reconstruction of a roofline in plan and section

Full image of the three elements as one watercolour illustration

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Jack Kelly @jackkelly.uk · 12d

Haven't watched it again since it was in theatres, but it was so good!

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 12d

This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK.

Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 13d

every single time, jesus

- 60,000,000 people signed the petition 'stop murdering babies'
- the government responded: 'we are committed to baby murder for inscrutable government Reasons'

just take down the petition website, come on, i disabled the google news feed, you can do this, i believe in you

Petition Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

2,760,587 signatures

Government responded

We will introduce a digital ID within this Parliament to help tackle illegal migration, make accessing government services easier, and enable wider efficiencies. We will consult on details soon.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 12d

Cool that the Bluesky CEO is succumbing to Musk's curse: being a needy loser, but not the exact kind of needy loser you have to be to write funny posts.

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josh @lobstereo.bsky.social · 16d

photo of parked car annotated to where I think I should be able to destroy it for blocking pavement

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 18d

“My wife went to Riyadh to see an edgy comedian”
“Jimmy Carr?”
“No, she went of her own accord”

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boreian 🇨🇦 @boreian.bsky.social · 18d

if wrestling is fake explain this 🤼

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 21d

DEUS EX REMASTERED!!? Why was I not informed immediately?

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 21d

it's been long enough now that i feel like i can break my silence on this:

samsungs (allegedly) $200-$200K bug bounty program paid me just $5000 for the "High Severity" vulnerability that would've allowed me to supply chain attack their whole cloud environment.

maia.crimew.gay/posts/i-hack...

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 23d

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 28d

A surprising number of people seem to regard Nazism as an understandable and natural reaction to heavy eye makeup.

David Clark @david-k-clark.bsky.social · 28d

The Spectator now lurching towards fascism by analogy, including an interview with Andrew Tate (they’ll regret that). Of course, the Weimar comparison is daft. There’s no interesting culture for a start.

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Alariko @alariko.bsky.social · Sep 15

Stairs

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