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I'd been pound foolish, I could see that now. Video Gamey * Sciencey * Equality * Irelandy * Leeds Unitedy #lufc he/him

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · Jul 6

Yeah my Mario has a flying saucer and a submarine so what 🤷 #mario #Nintendo #gameboy #retro #retrogaming

Check out my sub says Mario. BAM! 100 points

Yeah blasting seahorse bosses in my submarine

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Sir Michael @sirmichael.bsky.social · 6h

It's hard for us to appreciate the true scale of Mount Everest. So to put it in a context that we can all understand, here's a comparison chart showing the height of Mount Everest alongside other tall things

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23h

Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 23h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 22h

My favorite way to make myself depressed is Soviet time capsule messages

www.russiabeyond.com/history/3266...

Soviet time capsules: messages from the past with lessons to teach us in 2017
"We're a little jealous of all you who are celebrating the centenary of our Soviet motherland"
Arkhangelsk
"You are talking with representatives of other galaxies about scientific and cultural collaborations"
Novosibirsk
"You have eliminated harmful bacteria and viruses, ageing and sickness"
Tiraspol
"We address you, those who don't know what war is"
Okulovka

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revenant @notrevenant.bsky.social · 2d

forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.ph...

wrote up a bit of info on a less common US revision of Micro Machines for the NES, featuring a pretty nasty bug, discovered just a little too late and then worked around by using a PLD to patch a single *bit*. this is what day one patches looked like in 1991!

front view of a NES cartridge PCB, featuring ROM, RAM, and two logic chips

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 2d

I understand what this chap is trying to do but imo this is just another step in handing the flag itself to the far right.

If you need to deface the flag for it to be welcoming or acceptable, you are ceding enormous ground.

Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 2d

To “add to the noise”, a designer creates new, welcoming flags. As the council considers whether to take down the tricolours proliferating across the city, Dan Eames is aiming to add to them.

To “add to the noise”, a designer creates new, welcoming flags

As the council considers whether to take down the tricolours proliferating across the city, Dan Eames is aiming to add to them.

www.dublininquirer.com

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 3d

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz349bs

IT SEEMS to me that the
major advantage of print
media over web content is that with
print, the reader is not deluged with
aggressive advertising. This is why I
always enjoy reading my print copy
of Viz with a nice cup of tea and a
shortbread biscuit, unencumbered
by unwanted adverts. But not just
any shortbread biscuit. A Barbara's
Orkney Shortbread, with its sweet,
oaty taste and delicious crumbly
texture is the only one for me. Yes,
Barbara's Shortbread. Much nicer
than Mora's Shetland Shortbread,
which is fucking horrible.
Barbara Q. Sauce, Hoy

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 3d

Hahaha I'm still thinking about "some of us unfortunately might be Southampton"

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 3d

This is amazing

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 4d

in my humble opinion it is journalistic malpractice for a verified account to be sharing garbage AI-generated news videos because they're too stupid and lazy to verify their sources

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Matt Egan @mattegan.bsky.social · 6d

Hell yeah. One of my earliest memories of ER is fans telling the Nazi magazine sellers to do one. Bremner takes a lot of credit for speaking out, and then Wilko, but it was ordinary decent fans deciding 'through it all together' means *all* together. #lufc

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Swords | The Webcomic @swordscomic.bsky.social · 5d

Hmm... Swords.

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 5d

Rip Mickey Pierce, his actor Patrick Murray passed away this week

stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 5d

Oooooh Pet-er Smith bam bam bam bam

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 6d

"I would smear the bejaysus out of her, simply because you've nothing to lose... you've got to create a fear... in my experience, nothing works like negative campaigning."

They're really openly saying the quiet part out loud now aren't they...🤔

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 6d

Skateboard

xkcd.com/3152/

4-panel comic. (1) [person in the sky unpacks skateboard from parachute bag] I guess this is on me. I should really keep my skateboarding gear and my parachutes in different-looking bags. (2) [person looking down at skateboard as they fall] (3) [person falling wile holding skateboard in one hand and phone making “beep beep” sound in the other] (4) (person still falling with skateboard, now talking on phone] Hello, Pro Skate Parks LLC? I’d like to place an extremely expedited order for a 600-foot halfpipe.

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 6d

Significant blow today for Stella O'Malley & her anti-trans advocacy organisation Genspect, as their spurious defamation action against Irish therapist, Leonie O'Dowd, is added to "The Gallery of Shame" by CASE (Campaign Against SLAPPs in Europe.) www.the-case.eu/gallery-of-s...

Gallery of Shame – CASE

www.the-case.eu

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Graham Smyth @grahamsmyth.bsky.social · 6d

A big old Leeds United survey.

Have your say.

#lufc

www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/footba...

Big Leeds United Survey: We want your views on transfers, Daniel Farke and 49ers

Today we launch our Big Leeds United Survey and we want to hear from you!

www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 6d

A great christmas haul so it was

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 7d

Right wing FG candidate for Irish President, Heather Humphreys, being called out for her anti-trans nastiness by noted feminist & women’s equality campaigner Ruth Coppinger TD. Whatever your views on human rights, you can’t claim that Humphreys would be a president who was inclusive.

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ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 7d

Who knew that you had to have a characteristic from birth for it to be worthy of human rights? Bye bye protections on religious grounds, age grounds, martial grounds, even maternity

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 7d

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

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stivvers! 🦜🦚 @stivvers.bsky.social · 6d

This is great

youtu.be/wubkrBd3-gg

#boc #boards #music #pdp-1 #retro #retrocomputing

Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer

YouTube video by Joe Lynch

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rubot @rubot.ie · 6d

This mug is clearly branded to let you know it is endorsing Friends the television series and not Friends, the social concept

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Daniel/Moxco @leedsista.com · 7d

Massimo Cellino wanted the credit, and #LUFC fans wanted a good local left-back.

But Charlie Taylor wanted the Premier League.

From A-Z since 1992, and big-time Charlie:

Charlie Taylor ⭑ From A-Z since '92

Massimo Cellino wanted the credit, and Leeds fans wanted a good local left-back. But Charlie Taylor wanted the Premier League.

www.leedsista.com

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 7d

Burglar says asking occupants for use permission would 'kill' the housebreaking industry.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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