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Cursed Soviet vehicle: Trolleybus Artillery
the funniest loading message i've seen in a while 😂
one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar
It's wild how many c-suite assholes don't realize they're out there telling people not to buy their products when they do this
"Tom Clancy's trans daughter is into 40K" is a sentence that has probably never been seen before in human history.
It sounds like Spanish national airport operator AENA is very much over Ryanair and MOL. Haven’t seen something this… forthright in quite some time, and goodness me, forthright it is. www.aena.es/en/press/sta...
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Outstanding news that should be shared.
I know he made it, but I prefer the shorter "enshittening"
From @dominionmediatv.bsky.social
no blender, but: microwave, mince pie, ice cream
especially the "fresh from in-store bakery" mince pies still, they are delicious but too soon - we've barely left summer
The guy that ordered 8 fighter jets to perform a low altitude fly-over in an effort to drown out Epstein survivors is the same guy who wants you to believe he's innocent.
had to draw this
Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:
if there's ever a case for locking up someone & throwing away the key, he's right there
I can only blame myself, but if there's 1 video game feature I'd like in real life
there's nothong for it, we'll have to put them all down
Local News: Derbyshire woman bites police officer, inspired by dog @scarletrix.bsky.social
America: You'll Settle for Less!
"Computer science isn't political!", they said. "I'm just going to develop AI products for startup cash and to draw cute girls", they said. "You're over reacting and making everything political", they said. We need ethics training in engineering.
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![*a watercolor painting of a racoon in a small red hat* I yearn for mischief :]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e5fsahwc7poic267vjmnbpvs/bafkreigmfnqxscib3yn6shorgoqs2ycz4xci7ovl3imjalo6gklgb6psuu@jpeg "Click to view full size")
The Far-Right bias is institutional. They want to make it easier for the Far Right to spew their bile because they believe it too.
we can safely assume he's on the list
This sums up this payment NSFW fiasco pretty well.
sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this
The son of a Canadian soldier who helped liberate Groningen in 1945 is looking for the rightful owner of three bronze statues his father took as war booty. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/09/son-...
good morning
coolcoolcoolcool
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Microsoft Word to begin saving people's documents in the cloud *by default* Reminder that LibreOffice is free and a good drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office software: www.libreoffice.org www.theverge.com/news/767522/...
yeah, saw that one a while ago my data's staying local & out of known untrustworthy companies, thanks
www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/m...
* "our documents"
here's your news rundown: -the weather (still sucks) -the government still sucks -(which government?)(yes.) -transphobes still everywhere -pseudoscience still a religion -the UK still fuuuuuucking sucks -the US still fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucking sucks -venture capitalists suck
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3xA...
The debate around freedom of speech, including online is important but it’s useful to note that incitement to hatred, targeting a particular individual or group, is considered a type of hate crime in the UK, especially if it includes incitement to violence.
Silence, deerwolf 🤐 🪡: @madefuryou.com
Startling a French person
SS chief embarrased he arrested a friend of The Party
or welded the hinge pin
they gonna do the "No Russian" level?
The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.
is the tip of the radium iceberg
the one time you hope their medical textbooks are old enough
There are no good corporate custodians. Giving up control of something run by the community to business interests has inevitable consequences.
sometimes obnoxious enough I'll decide I don't really need to know what's on the page. If it's important, a competing site will probably have it will less bullshit
Nine to Nine - Amazing Phil https://www.tigerknight.com/99/misc-59
To borrow from Graham Linehan's apparently protected tweeting format: If Wes Streeting in a trans friendly space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.
saw it recently & was surprised how little is around it. few offices, tram stop up the road. with the shopping bag, I expected it to be outside a big shopping centre
"The Tooth Worm as Hell's Demon,” 18th century. The two halves open up to reveal a scene about the infernal torments of a tooth worms which people believed caused cavities in the past. Complete with mini skulls, hellfire, and naked people wielding clubs.
and unlike Reform, this attack doesn't involve suddenly adopting all their policies
it used to be so simple
As a navigation officer with a specialisaton in safety of navigation, this cartoon has always appealed deeply. Sadly, I do not know who to credit with it.
Twin Peaks was much closer to real 80s than any 802s-core vaporwave
Jokes are no laughing matter m.youtube.com/watch?v=YeMn...
Just reminded of the power of the media. Remember when a bacon sandwich took down a politician and now we're at spray paint shit flags anywhere you want, on your nan's head, it's good actually, without question.
The whole “the genie is out of the box, we just have to live with this.” Bullshit is just that. The world is a graveyard of ideas and technologies that didn’t pan out. NFTs Crypto Nuclear powered cars Asbestos Radium glassware The rail gun Inflatable furniture 3d tvs The list goes on.
How else can we clog up the clankers
Fellow ‘Bluesky Elders’ will remember that the site was set up to pivot away from quote-tweets and dunks, but unfortunately I’ve found the perfect image to quote-tweet dunk someone with.
“It’s actually eight inches when it’s ready to fire,” mumbles red-faced Admiral
reshared for alt text, this is basically the story again and again but the CEO money burning hype machine is the only thing about AI that works as intended
You ever see something that maybe makes you wanna get offline for the rest of the day and also maybe go lay down in a field somewhere while you contemplate how your life choices got you here and also maybe just kinda vanish nebulously like a specter into the void? … Nobody? Just me? …‘Kay
Words of wisdom
Same, mine was a mix of I need to not be paying rent when I eventually retire & a lot of "inheritance from grandma"
I've paid for all the storage, I'm gonna use it
Bluesky growth discourse
missed the "n" first time rejected humanity, where did that bring you? to me, Dio
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
I could legit put "uncle" on my profile, but I won't
Company Icebreaker Team leader: let’s go around the room and share a fun fact about ourselves, Beth? Me: Erm, I ate my twin. TL: in the womb? Me: no, I was five, fun fact, as they were identical legally it’s like chewing your fingernails. TL: Me: *Collects P45*
POV You're on a date with Xenia
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
America sabotaged its own ability to produce 2D animation because executives thought 3D CGI was both the replacement for 2D as a medium as well as the artists themselves. Now we kinda suck at all of it while everyone else caught up on both, since we outsourced all of it.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail updated for Britain in 2025.
Furry has always been queer. Furry has always been punk. Furry has always been counter-culture. And these values are specifically why the fandom is so amazingly positive and powerful as an entity.
Rookie numbers y’all.
They're using the St George's cross like a socially acceptable swastika just like they use 'biological' as a socially acceptable discrimination.
An important PSA from Batman
Over the past decade, one of the major focuses of this blog has been the depiction of labour unions and the struggle for workers’ rights in science fiction and fantasy. Let's share some articles about the subject, and talk about some works of SFF that tackle workers' rights well. 1/X
Car that small he could park up at right angles to the kerb & not stick out past the other cars
everyone who is treating unblur like science really needs to look at "white unblurred obama" again
though still more planning than "grabbing a tin of red paint from B&Q"
ah, stencil
what a flagshagger. about the only time there's a flag in my place is because Morrisons wrap their butter in it
checking smart meter faq & one of the questions is "help, my display's in Welsh" that's the default language on these displays, and they've got instructions for how to access the language settings from Welsh :D
though I'll applaud anyone able to paint a recognisable dragon on a roundabout
We made Jack leave & brought BS to success, in spite of The Company
Colin Elves 
