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maureenpickering.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/angrypic... The last colony and exploding imperial myths.
Scotland: The Empire's Last Colony
How Scotland’s Elite Sold Scotland, Helped Build Britain’s Empire, and then Lost It
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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herranenaika.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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lswisnom.bsky.social
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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hansmollman.bsky.social
Oh yeah I hadn’t thought of that
A headline that reads “want to gather your own firewood? Why owning a woodland might be the answer”.
October 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
The Farce Will Be With Him... Always.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 21
Trump: "We have Darth Vader. You know Darth Vader, right? Darth Vader is a man who is sitting -- is that Darth? Stand up please. Does everybody know -- they call him Darth Vader, I call him a fine man. But he's cutting Democrat priorities and they're never gonna get them back."
October 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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jameschalmers.bsky.social
This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
Denise C. @SpudBenBean · Follow A woman who rang ABC Sydney radio said she found out about the Optus outage from her cat. The cat has an automatic wi-fi feeder (connected to Optus) & when breakfast wasn't delivered at 6:10 am, the cat went to the bedroom to lodge a complaint with management.
October 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
jhietaniemi.bsky.social
Brilliant video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW6I...
The Colour that Ruined Filmmaking (and our homes)
YouTube video by Jesse Senko
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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tlecaque.bsky.social
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.
October 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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nerdjpg.com
Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
October 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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dreadships.bsky.social
Even now a crack team of Scottish culinary scientists are racing against time to discover a way to deep fry it.
juux.com juux @juux.com · Oct 9
omg part deux
A can of Irn-Bru Winter Bru
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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lauspalo.com
Ja toivoisin että eri näkökulmat yleistyisivät. En sano että tää mun katsaus on "totuus" sen enempää kuin nämä tyypilliset julkisuudessa kiertävät tilastot ovat "totuus", mutta ne ovat erilainen näkökulma jotka täydentävät toisiaan. Nyt tuntuu että Suomeen mahtuu vain yksi näkökulma samaan aikaan.
Vähemmän tunnettuja tilastoja Suomesta
Minkälainen maa on Suomi, kun tarkastelemme sitä vähemmän julkisuutta saaneiden tilastojen valossa? Katsotaan, ja verrataan Suomea muihin pohjoismaihin!
lauspalo.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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keithwdickinson.bsky.social
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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askylitocean.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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jmkorhonen.fi
Olen löytänyt kanssahallitsijan. Hän tulee johtamaan itäistä maanpiiriä rautaisella tassullaan.
October 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
Just your annual reminder to raise a glass to Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov who on this date in 1983 saved ALL our lives when he decided to wait for evidence in stead of passing on the message that could have caused armageddon.
September 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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amagire.bsky.social
"of course ChatGPT is full of errors when it comes to my specific area of professional or technical expertise, that's why I only use it for other stuff, where I can't tell if it's bullshit or not"

📰🗞💥
September 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com
Panel 1. image of a huge nuclear plant. “Reactor Overheating” 2. A worker in a hazmat suit works at a computer. The screen reads: “Press cancel to avoid critical overload” 3 - 9. The worker continues to type at the computer. The screen changes in each panel and reads: “Enter password to confirm” “Incorrect password” “Incorrect password” “Do you want to reset your password?” “Reset link has been sent to your email” “Please choose a new password” “New password can't be the same as old password” The colour gets hotter in each panel. Starting blue in 1 and ending in red in 9. Panel 10. Wide view. The entire earth is blown up.
September 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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jojalonen.bsky.social
En sano, että FBI:n johtajan muistopuhe, jossa hän lausuu Charlie Kirkin olevan nyt Valhallassa, olisi suoranaisesti äärioikeistolaista retoriikkaa. Se vain sattuu olemaan kutakuinkin sama, mitä Hitler sanoi Hindenburgin hautajaisissa.

Elämme tällaista sattumien aikaa.
September 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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mccartneyjoe.bsky.social
An interesting and elegant apparatus to overcome once and for all the difficulties of conveying green peas to the mouth, as designed by William Heath Robinson, illustrator, 1872 - 1944.
#WyrdWednesday
A mechanical wonder of pipes and spoons ensures that peas from a plate end up in the mouth of the recipient.
September 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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hntdove.bsky.social
I'm sorry, but genetic engineering is getting out of hand.
Abercrombie and Fitch bag with ripped male torso and bottom half of face. A cat in the bag gives top half of face.
September 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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danielwcarlson.bsky.social
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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pjvphotography.bsky.social
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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anthrogeek.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM