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Tyron

@tyron.bsky.social

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Raise taxes, repair the country. Inspired by joy, sobriety, Marcel Duchamp, Kelis, Mata Hari, and those hallucinations I used to have.

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · Jul 3

what people think the gay lifestyle is vs. what the gay lifestyle actually is

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 8h

An example of the government not having a project: only yesterday the government was trumpeting new measures to make it easier to build things. We'll work out who actually builds stuff later on.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 9h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Daniel @deargodwhatnow.bsky.social · 4h

If you understand this message please throw away your phone and send yourself to the fields

Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 4h

anonymous submission

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M @captainmeg.bsky.social · 4h

Open the schools!

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 4h

anonymous submission

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 4h

Screaming at how queeny this photo of Mikhail Khodorkovsky from 2004 is

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 1d

Here comes a single semi edition

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This sodding organisation

ESC Discord @escdiscord.com · 1d

🚨 The vote to determine Israel's participation in #Eurovision 2026 will no longer take place in November, the EBU has confirmed today.

Instead, an "open and in-person discussion" will take place at the EBU General Assembly in December. No vote is currently planned.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 4d

Israel highlighting how many 100s of aid trucks they will now allow into Gaza is a tacit admission that they were using aid as a weapon of war, by the way. seems weird not to talk about this

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 3d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 3d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 2d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 2d

Chris Morris as the newsreader on The Day Today

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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 2d

You see this (unsurprisingly) a lot in the tech space - in particular the view that something must be inevitable if you put enough work into the “prerequisite”.

Eg: if we pour enough resources into developing LLMs, we will surely eventually create AGI.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

Completely agree with this - there is a lot of terrible policymaking where you can see the direct echo of “this guy played a lot of Civ as a child and teen”.

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 3d

Genuinely think the concept of the tech tree has done a lot of damage.

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Imaginary Gay Chart @imaginarygaychart.bsky.social · 2d

“Sympathy is a knife” by Charli xcx debuts at #1 on the Imaginary Gay Chart this week! From the 2024 Grammy-winning album, brat, “Sympathy” pulls the curtain back on Charli’s insecurities and feelings about being in the orbit of another artist experiencing unimaginable levels of success.

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 2d

feels quite cursed knowing there are definitely people who lost their virginity at T4 On The Beach

Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 2d

you can't even spell prague! @mewseff.bsky.social

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 2d

lmao at how posh the Windsor McDonald's is

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 2d

what

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

Completely agree with this - there is a lot of terrible policymaking where you can see the direct echo of “this guy played a lot of Civ as a child and teen”.

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 3d

Genuinely think the concept of the tech tree has done a lot of damage.

Tech-Based Teaching @edutecheditor.bsky.social · 3d

“Since 1991, the video game Civilization, now in its seventh installment, has become one of the most successful game franchises ever. That means millions of kids have grown up with Civ as one of their formative ways of thinking about history.” (via @jstor.bsky.social) #AcademicSky

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 2d

"come and be my rat czar" still lives in my head rent-free

Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 2d

i wouldn't be voting Cuomo

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 2d

The main thing I've learned from this is that Katy Perry has a remarkably tasteful yacht: a 1960s Feadship designed by Carlo Riva. Restored by Feadship themselves very elegantly about a decade ago with the addition of a fold down bathing platform and a smart if slightly bland interior.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 2d

they are just so conceptually well matched (derogatory)

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