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@queerash.bsky.social

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Queer, bi, br*tish, cis, lefty, extremely hot, ENM, he / him 🏳️‍🌈⛓️🍉⬆️economist | researcher | nsfw | just a guy replying too h*rny for polisky, too political for h*rnysky

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · Jan 11

also your regular warning for anyone who follows me because of my stunningly witty political-ish posts:

i am largely just a horny shitposter / shit hornyposter

it's called having range, darling

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 38m

why does young David Tennant look so much like Winona Ryder

Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 1h

Sorting DVDs that had been in storage and, babes, have I a double-bill for you.

DVDs of Casanova starting David Tennant and Crime & Punishment starring John Simm.

Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 42m

we're cosymaxxing, we're autumnpilled, we're in our knit era

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OnlyFangs @onlycans.bsky.social · 1h

All My Snoos Gone

web3 is going just great @web3isgoinggreat.com · 12h

Reddit shuts down its NFT avatars project

August 28, 2025
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=reddit-shuts-down-nft-avatars

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Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · 1h

Being asked on question time if you would nationalise large breasts

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 4h

well at least she's gracious enough to say that she'd "probably" choose housing the homeless guy and the single-mother-of-three over the trees

*probably*

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 15h

Gordon's Alive!

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Daniel @deargodwhatnow.bsky.social · 16h

Not a fan of the Soviet Union but you have to admit that 'cosmonaut' is just a phenomenal term. Just sublime

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 17h

ohhhh baby it's amazing. one of my favourite games of all times

Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 17h

immigrants will now have to beat all decks in Balatro on gold stake

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 17h

your bf's sexts are about to get more generic but also probably better

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 18h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Chat @oofadoofa.bsky.social · 18h

setting up a saw trap for myself:

if I can beat my ADHD & remember this before using the mouse again I'm fine, if not I get stabbed in the wrist four times

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 19h

this is grooming

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19h

95-year-old Frank Uryasz Jr. identifies as a Swiftie.

It was his 32-year-old occupational therapist who introduced him to Taylor Swift’s music during a therapy session. His favorite Swift song? “Timeless (Taylor’s Version).”

Man, 95, leads a 100-member Taylor Swift fan club in his retirement home

Residents of Omaha’s Remington Heights independent and assisted living community are determined to convince Swift to visit for bingo.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 19h

All immigrants should have PhDs in biblical history IMHO

Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 19h

Will Sharpe is a shoo-in for the Markiplier biopic

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 21h

The teaser trailer for ‘AMADEUS’ starring Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany has been released.

Premieres in December on Sky.

Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 19h

Or in American politics, a real spring chicken

Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 19h

American financial institutions

George from Seinfeld saying I gotta focus, I'm shifting into recession mode

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 20h

I think there's always a temptation to go "this person seems decent and only did these things for politics, it's probably not how they really feel"

But ultimately have to remember that they still actually did them, and doing them for political expediency doesn't absolve them

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 20h

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 22h

Sinatra was such a fox

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23h

Frank Sinatra on what it means to be an American in 1945

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like it really displays someone who quite frankly stopped engaging with "Literature" many, many years ago

e.g. since 2000 "old straight white men" probably represents only ~20% of winners of the Booker Prize

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 1d

they probably do but could be that local systems have emerged from local contexts; e.g. if you've got fewer senior staff, you aim to protect their time more

as well as individual hospital leadership prioritising different outcomes, e.g. wanting everyone triaged within X time vs discharges etc.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 1d

epistolary novels should have guns in them

Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer will come out for home grown British naturals only, of a respectable, decent, manageable size

Samantha is the spectre haunting bluesky 👻 @bolshevikmilf.bsky.social · 1d

the labour party opposes big naturals, how can starmer possibly hope to win like this??

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Samantha is the spectre haunting bluesky 👻 @bolshevikmilf.bsky.social · 1d

the labour party opposes big naturals, how can starmer possibly hope to win like this??

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 1d

will preface with a compliment that you look far far better now, but these pics are giving Unabomber vibes

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