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Holly Brockwell

@hollyqueenofspayeds.com

Just because: a Smol Paul classic

December 13, 2024 at 7:13 PM

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Marsh Davies

@marshdavies.bsky.social

I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.

November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM

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shauna

@goldengateblond.bsky.social

“[Eventually] humanities depts will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.”

really important thread ⬇️

Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 2d

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

November 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM

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Sardonicus

@sardonicus.eu

Edvard Munch’s The Sun, 1909

a bright and blazing sun over a landscape

November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM

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Emily Hare

@emilyhare.co.uk

Last chance for EU folks to buy from me in time for Xmas! I send the last EU post tomorrow. After then I won't ship till the new year.
What do you fancy? Something super fun like a mini book of monsters perhaps?
buff.ly/G5alCXt
#monsters #cutemonster #xmasgift #gift #gifts #books

image ofa pile of square books and the cover has some colourful grinning little monsters on it and the text says 'mini book of monsters'

a happy looking dino-like monster sitting on his haunches with eyes closed and mouth open, singing the song of his people. He is dark blue with a green tummy and pink nose.

a fluffy little monster sitting facing us so you can see the soles of his back feet which have long claws. He is a rich brown and he has long fuzzy ears and some purple horns and bright green eyes.

November 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM

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Bodega Cats

@bodegacats.bsky.social

November 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰

@katrinal10n.bsky.social

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.

tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.

🧵⬇️

LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 2d

The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them

A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.

November 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM

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priscilla page

@priscillapage.bsky.social

damn Sooty

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15h

Two splendid historical moments to celebrate today: the 25th anniversary of the news of Sooty the guinea pig’s sexual excesses, and the 1,009th of Edmund ‘Ironside’ II getting done in by being stabbed up the bum while on the privy. Possibly. As you can see, we’re starting with the ‘Romeo’ rodent...

Press cutting: Guinea pig harem says ‘hello Sooty’. Photo shows a white guinea pig with black ears, nose and feet looking out through some chicken wire, captioned “Pen pal: Sooty after his one-night stand”. Text reads: A GUINEA pig called Sooty had a night to remember after escaping from his pen and tunnelling into a cage of 24 females. He romanced each of them in turn and was yesterday the proud father of 43 offspring. Staff at Little Friend's Farm in Pontypridd, South Wales, have now secured Sooty's pen and begun looking for homes for the guinea pigs. His owner, Carol Feehan, 42, said: "I'm sure a lot of men will be looking at Sooty with envy. "We knew that he had gone missing after wriggling through the bars of his cage. "We looked for him everywhere but never thought of checking the pen where we keep 24 females. We did a head count and found 25 guinea pigs-Sooty was fast asleep in the corner. "He was absolutely shattered. We put him back in his cage and he slept for two days."

November 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM

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Holly Brockwell

@hollyqueenofspayeds.com

I will be sharing Smol Paul content all day to celebrate his fifth adoptiversary. If you'd like to help us (now a registered charity!) continue our work helping wobbly cats, please contribute, we're going to REALLY need it next year

www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...

Donate to Holly's Merry Moggies cat rescue (registered charity number 1215708, woo!)

Thank you for helping us help the disabled, different, and 'difficult' kitties of Nottingham and beyond, often when no one else would. Seeing the difference in a kitty who thought there was no hope ...

www.paypal.com

November 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM

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Holly Brockwell

@hollyqueenofspayeds.com

5 years ago today, Pandemic Year. It had been a month since I opened my "side project" (lol) cat rescue in the spare room of my flat in London.

I saw an ad for a male kitten with "balance & walking problems" who urgently needed a home. And so it began. HAPPY SMOL PAUL DAY!

Four pictures of a ridiculous tuxedo baby who had no idea how pampered he was about to be. Look at his silly little face, he's got no clue about anything

November 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM

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Scott Myers

@gointothestory.bsky.social

Tom Stoppard: "I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead."

November 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM

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Tokusatsu GIFs

@tokugifs.bsky.social

Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)

November 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM

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John Rogers

@johnrogers.bsky.social

It was Downey who coined the phrase in the LEVERAGE writers room “future episodes do not win out over present episodes”. Trust me, you’ll have more ideas. You’ll die full of them.

Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · May 21

WRITING TIP, something simple but it catches many of us out: if you have a great/fun idea for your story, *use it now*.

Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.

Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.

November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM

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Martin Calladine

@uglygame.bsky.social

Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.

Headline from The Onion:

Opinion

Here's Why It Would Be A Mistake To Do Anything That Inconveniences Rich Assholes

by Some Rich Asshole

November 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM

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Rob Delaney

@robdelaney.bsky.social

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday.
The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal.
"My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.

November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM

Vanessa Yardley

@msness.bsky.social

Having a tough time with stress and pain management right now so I got myself a cheap video projector in the sales. Now I have a view at night when I can’t sleep 😁