Wonkish

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Soft leftie, former Labour staffer, tech/climate nerd, and follows US politics a lot for a Brit. He/they + 🏳️‍🌈, @captainwonkish on the bird site.

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When the France election results are good

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.

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1/ Let me explain one way that today's Trump immunity decision threatens the survival of the Republic. Under today's ruling, a President would be immune for any way in which he used the military (a "core function"), even to kill American citizens in America. Theoretically, the soldiers who . . .

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on bluesky you have the standard shitposters, the dudes who spend all day in discords but only post once a month, the doomers, movie posters, and gooned up zoomers, the hornyposters, the discourse obsessives, discourse haters and subtweeters, the foodies, the

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The project is complete. The feline has expressed her satisfaction.

I gutted an old CRT TV today. It's eventually gonna be a cat bed. 3

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Just being trans is considered porn. And since people making porn should be imprisoned, it's a direct line to jailing the trans community. Vote for the candidate who won't imprison people for being who they are.

I'mma say this for all the people in the back. Don't vote for a person. Vote for your rights, for the rights of others. On page 5 of Project 2025's 180-day plan they openly call for outlawing porn, recommending imprisoning anyone who creates it. Are you an NSFW artist, or like the art? THIS IS YOU.

I don’t believe in slut shaming people, so why must my immune system be so keen to try to slut shame the plants and trees simply trying to fuck?

Stupidly underrated.

Quote skeet with one of your favorite films that isn’t a hit

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The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

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I keep seeing a factoid to the effect that the euro area and the US economies were the same size in 2008, but America is now 44 percent bigger. Folks, that’s just the exchange rate. At purchasing power parity, nothing like that has happened

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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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The cost of solar panels dropped by a mind boggling 99.8% from 1975 to 2022. That is why I told Freethink: “When you look at the cost trajectory, it’s incredible.” www.freethink.com/energy/solar...

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[At the gay club] HIM: Dude what’s in your pocket? ME: I’m doing the handkerchief code thing. HIM: That’s a semaphore flag. Where did you even get this? [Meanwhile, at sea] SAILOR: Sir the merchant frigate has indicated it’s a bottom into blowjobs

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It's Pride Month. No more burying your gays. Resurrect your gays. Form an undead army of gays. The sky's the limit.

The official song of today.

Schadenfreudewww.youtube.com Schadenfreude by avenue Q

Dear god. Just got a notification from Facebook that unless I write out a whole thing begging them to opt me out, which they can ignore, they're going to use anything/everything I've ever posted, including photos, for whatever AI purposes they like. And of course, the objection process doesn't work.

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I am convinced that the worst thing about the internet is that it allowed people who historically would have been considered the worst person in town and totally ostracized for their perpetual bad vibes and opinions to find out that they have thousands of global allies and after that it was so over.

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800,000 imprisoned people in the US produce $10 billion of value each year through their labor. $2 billion for private industry. The state of Alabama alone makes $450 million off the labor of incarcerated workers. We have a word for this. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

@techconnectify.bsky.social Finally watching the simmerstat video, and to be clear, as a British person, *these* are Hobnobs 😉, and they are delicious, especially the kind with chocolate on one side.

Hobnob biscuit - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

Gourmet Makes is dead. LONG LIVE CLAIRE RECREATES!

I Tried Making Homemade Drumsticks | Claire Recreateswww.youtube.com I Tried Making Homemade Drumsticks | Claire RecreatesIn her exciting new YouTube series, "Claire Recreates," Claire Saffitz tries to recreate beloved childho...

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"This week, the unthinkable occurred on our [REVERENT ADJECTIVE] campus. An [INFLAMMATORY COLLECTIVE NOUN] overtook the historic [CENTRAL CAMPUS LOCATION NAMED AFTER PROBLEMATIC DONOR]." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/uni...

University President’s Response to Student Dissent Mad Libswww.mcsweeneys.net To our treasured [COLLEGE / UNIVERSITY NAME] community, This week, the unthinkable occurred on our [REVERENT ADJECTIVE] campus. An [INFLAMMATORY CO...

Today in "Are you kidding me with this?" Siri bugs:

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Reporting on the Labour party is like playing a particularly disappointing game of pass the parcel. Each month another piece of paper is removed. Yet rather than reveal a pack of sweets, or a toy, each unwrapping only reveals another crushing disappointment www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...

The Great Disappointmentwww.adambienkov.co.uk Keir Starmer’s message to the country is that everything is broken and we’re going to do as little as we possibly can to fix it

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as someone who is, still, going to vote for Biden because I’m so convinced of the threat of Donald Trump - a very utilitarian perspective on voting - it boggles me how many folks who hold similar views don’t understand how ineffective self-righteous yelling is at convincing anyone of anything

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Remember the good old days of comedy where people didn't get OFFENDED by everything and Lenny Bruce got arrested for swearing, Mary Whitehouse had a platform for years on end, the Christian right bullied a cancer charity in to refusing a donation from Jerry Springer the Opera...

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I needed this today @alt-text.bsky.social

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Tom Tomorrow rocks

@pfrazee.com Hey, is it a known bug that even if you mute a post, the notification link will still get badged via interactions to it? When you click it, it either shows the muted post for second before it disappears like the UI went "oh shit we forgot", or there's just nothing there at all?