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finalstrawman.bsky.social
🍉🌲🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💛 Just a man in a midlife second childhood hoping to microblog his way to health, happiness and having some financial security. I like playing with words and appreciate the craft of those who create with other media. All my ADs in HD, all my beers <1%
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With all these apps I can apply for work, learn about new topics and have all my tasks backed by ambient music/ discussion! I'm sure this is a productive use of time and not a phone addiction

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there’s a new website for Iain Banks, which contains on the FAQ page this vital nugget of information iainbanks.co.uk

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Don’t. worry about it.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Very cynical piece from Lammy, framing things to make It look as if devastating cuts to international assistance are the only option.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Es ist Krankwoch #krank

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art posted this today and it’s still cracking me up

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

the based crowd should bring back joe camel, the world’s coolest and most oppressed fursona

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

When you say "this is a simulation" you mean "so I can do what I want bc other people are pretend" when I say it I mean "we are ruled by mere fictions, imaginary lines going up and down, pretend lines on maps that don't actually exist, & we should break free to be happy" we aren't the same!

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

I don't know that I'll ever be able to hear the quotative like without flinching - I don't know what this says about me besides failing at stoicism

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

YOUNG MAN, there's no need to feel down i said YOUNG MAN, pagliacci the clown you can SEE HIM he is playing in town you should go and have a good time

submitted 4 days ago • 70 comments

Bluesky shitpost: you're either the sk8er boi or the one saying l8er boi. No exceptions. Comments: excuse you, I am special. I defy categorization. I demand you alter the constraints of your joke to acknowledge my multitudes. I was in the gifted program at school.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

This is incredibly smart by @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, a lesson Democrats have to learn fast. There will be no a-ha moment for the electorate. You can't wait around for people to realize how bad it is if they'll invariably wind up blaming the Reverse Vampires. You just have to fight, right now.

submitted 8 days ago • 172 comments

When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first The moral here isn't to tell the truth It's to never co-operate with Nazis

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

Fuck off

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

In real life when I throw myself into someone else's conversation I'm imposing, on here I get likes and thus I'm never going outside again. I hope all the systems required for me to sustain myself are being managed and maintained responsibly

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

xkcd.com/743/ This comic from 15 years ago could now add a fair few other ubiquitous tech behemoths to the last panels

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Please stop with the generative AI. It's garbage, theft, making us less capable. Image by www.nobodyssweetheart.com

submitted 15 days ago • 33 comments

Imagine being privileged enough to be apolitical.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Thought of the morning: there's a difference between imagining being in someone else's shoes and imagining being in someone else's shoes while having their feet

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Uh, no! Don't ever comply! Legality =/= Morality. Slavery was legal. Segregation was legal. The holocaust was legal. Don't comply even when they make this stuff legal! Jfc!

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Pete Hegseth isn’t DEI. Daniel Penny isn’t DEI. That’s not what DEI is. They’re just grossly unqualified for their jobs and add no value that any replacement legacy job applicant wouldn’t bring. So stop saying “it’s DEI” like it’s a clever commentary on the situation. It’s not.

submitted 22 days ago • 590 comments

In a crowded field, this might be the most pathetic announcement in professional football.

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

I wrote for Slate about how a conservative think tank plans to "identify and target" Wikipedia editors who it claims are abusing their position—a dangerous escalation that shifts the fight from debating edits to going after the editors themselves. slate.com/technology/2...

submitted 22 days ago • 36 comments

yes. please. trans tech friends. make this happen. not on discord, either.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Woke up. Chose violence. #art #capybara

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

we used to be a proper country

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Lol. Lmao even.

submitted 24 days ago • 84 comments

if this isn’t a game about shouting non-sequiturs at other ravers in the smoking area i’m gonna be fucking livid

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

free!

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

there are so many ways to get around the fact that you can't draw. for my ttrpg prototype I instead took photos of the city with my own camera and then got on YouTube to see some tutorials on how to glitch art something didn't need to burn a forest to get my images

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

No 👏 more 👏 billionaires 👏

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

William Turnbull, Head, 1960 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1123531

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

[super high meh meh voice] “but there's no scientific evidence proving it's bad to shove a fork into an electrical socket” that’s what you sound like, climate-change-deniers, that’s you

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

So, you know how every French person in your feed was extremely happy about an old fascist dying a few weeks ago? Well, you'll be happy to learned that someone absolutely DEMOLISHED his tomb stone (Seeing the news, I was expecting a little graffiti but NO it was even better 😭)

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

I'm not saying my life is going well but I'm listening to a lot of Lingua Ignota of late

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

⚽ Next match ⚽ CCFC vs CCFC at the seaside on Saturday as the Men's First Team visit @scefl.bsky.social leaders Canterbury City in Margate. 📍 Hartsdown Park 🚇 Margate 🎟️ £8 | £5 concessions | £2 U18s | U5s free 🍻 Bar & food www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/01/29/c...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments