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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 9h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 15h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 18h

Cyclops (long-range takedowns, absolutely has a plan for this already)
Magik (transportation, close combat, makes everything look even more like a metal album cover)
Jubilee (who else am I gonna hang out in an abandoned shopping mall with?)

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Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 19h

The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Nazca Lines. The Sistine Chapel. Would any of these have existed if not for committing to the bit? Of course not!

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Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 19h

Committing to the bit is humanity's greatest power

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Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 21h

There was an hourlong special that actually got into it, but it was only released on VHS in Estonia.

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Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 1d

@tambourine.bsky.social Happy birthday!

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

Lee Pace in The Fall is the result of a decades-long experiment to see what happens if all the hotness for an entire generation is concentrated in the body of a single man

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Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 1d

[smirks in xbox]

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 5d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 2d

This week's listening

A four-by-four grid of album covers. The top left album is MAYHEM by Lady Gaga.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's gonna be my next D20 watch after I finish Unsleeping City S2

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Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 2d

just like the grandparents in charlie & the chocolate factory

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 2d

THE LONDON ECONOMIC

"We should all be angry that we had 14 years of Tory austerity. They shut our libraries, they shut our community centres. And then to say integration is a problem - how do you expect people to integrate if you've taken away their services?"

-ZACK POLANSKI, GREEN PARTY LEADER

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 8d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 3d

Hope you're feeling back to normal soon!

Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 5d

I've been saying this for years

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Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 5d

Hah, wonderful!

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Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 6d

Found an old folder featuring @adlaim.bsky.social

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Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 6d

Honestly, we could do with a Dolly Parton too powerful to be constrained right now

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Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 6d

You are a malevolent and baleful spectre, and we're lucky to have you.

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Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 6d

As with all quasi-faschy efforts, the enemies of AI are at once weak and effeminate, while also being dangerous and multitudinous.

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 6d

If you're a RPG designer in (or near enough) to London and want to run a promotional intro game in our little shop, get in touch. We've got a weirdly large pool of TTRPG-curious people chatting to us every day. NAB THEM BEFORE 5E GETS THEM!

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