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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2h

No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

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Not Anyone You Know @slowcrush.bsky.social · 53m

With a bit of salad cream? Banger

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A— @guttermachinations.bsky.social · 6h

we've reached unbelievable levels of unsexiness, rampant ugliness; when you think it can't get any worse, we discover even baser levels of sexlessness

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Gene, Vampire Hunter 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @avin-oops.bsky.social · 5h

Acorn turning up at the bailiff jamboree is quite funny, fair play

ACORN the union @acornunion.bsky.social · 6h

🔥 The days of bailiffs & debt collectors sitting around at conferences, enjoying a buffet, & discussing how to line their pockets at our expense are over.

You turn up at our door, we’ll turn up at yours.

🔗 Join the fight for a Bailiff Free Britain: acorntheunion.org.uk/bailiffs/

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 14h

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 21h

we’ve gone so far past “sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine” re: internet freedom, to an internet that’s run off and robbed from all the sex workers in order to replace them with planet-destroying simulations of sex workers

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

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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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 22h

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Not Anyone You Know @slowcrush.bsky.social · 23h

This post brought to you by drivers raging that over half a million people visiting Hull Fair in one week means more traffic

Not Anyone You Know @slowcrush.bsky.social · 23h

Working on a theory that if we had much better public transport people would be noticeably less dickhead-brained than if they spent half their life in a car.

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Polari Press @polari.press · 11d

After launching them at Queeriosities last weekend, the A3 Risograph posters are now up on our website with all profits going to the Sameer Project in Gaza: polari.press/throw-sand-i...

A poster that says “Throw Sand in the Gears of Genocide” against a monochrome image of a bunch of poppies in red.

A poster that says “Throw Sand in the Gears of Genocide” against a monochrome image of a bunch of poppies in green.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting, isn't it? If someone brown-skinned recent immigrant called a microwave a "mee-cro-wah-vay" this would be viewed very differently to national culinary treasure™ Nigella Lawson doing so.

children of the corncob @bisk.sureis.sexy · 1d

fuck off with this shit you racist cunts.

i forgot the word "tumbledryer" the other day so i called it a tumbley bumbley and english is my only fucking language.

abolish the home office.

Changes to the English language requirement were first reported in May when the government published their early plans in the immigration white paper. The new standard requires people to express themselves “fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expression” and to be able to communicate flexibly in social, academic and work situations.

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Not Anyone You Know @slowcrush.bsky.social · 1d

My feet absolutely honk after climbing.

There has to be a way to monetise this.

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Not Anyone You Know @slowcrush.bsky.social · 1d

Haha I just dug up my mate Dan’s number from the dregs of my memory and same

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Not Anyone You Know @slowcrush.bsky.social · 2d

Statler and Waldorf star in...

21 Jump Street

Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 2d

Inverse Muppet premise: take a movie and replace one character with a Muppet. Everyone else stays human.

Not Anyone You Know @slowcrush.bsky.social · 2d

Every day we stray further from God’s light

A drive-thru essentials kit in Halfords: holders for chips and dips that you clip to the air vents in your car

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Not Anyone You Know @slowcrush.bsky.social · 2d

I work in theatre and Arvon comes up a lot as a recommended retreat.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 2d

State power.

Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 2d

God it's so gross hearing reporters talk about Israeli "hostages" but then refer to Palestinian "prisoners held without charge" like what's the material difference between these two categories?

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Not Anyone You Know @slowcrush.bsky.social · 2d

Check its pockets when it gets home

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Not Anyone You Know @slowcrush.bsky.social · 2d

Someone shared this image of a burglar caught in the act on the neighbourhood Facebook group

A ginger cat caught climbing through a bathroom window, its back legs still in the gap and it dangling down headfirst

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 2d

I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.

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Not Anyone You Know @slowcrush.bsky.social · 2d

Looks beautiful though!

Not Anyone You Know @slowcrush.bsky.social · 3d

RIP Hull Fair weather 🪦 You had a good 745 year run, but the fossil fuels were too good not to burn.

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Not Anyone You Know @slowcrush.bsky.social · 3d

Is the Pope actually Chicago footwork pioneer Tha Pope? youtu.be/TpLb2Vmoncc?...

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 3d

It's true that the lack of a codified constitution and parliamentary sovereignty in the UK on paper means a fascist government would have a free hand to do anything.

But as we've seen with the US, a codified constitution is just as much of a gentleman's agreement as whatever the UK has.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 3d

um. i don’t think this makes finding love even weirder. i think lying or tricking ppl in to sex is abusive

it’s funny how trans women can be tried and convicted of a sex crime if we have consensual sex with a cis person yet cis ppl can do… whatever this is to each other and it gets a cute write up

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely to build a whole fake persona …

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