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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

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The Tucker-Cruz interview is two hours long but this is my favorite line so far

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Today’s London Standard has a big report on how the capital “isn’t working”. It blames immigrants, especially Muslims, and the lack of “White British”. It asks “if there’s a minimum number of natives” at which London must give it up its status as the UK capital. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/lond...

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The best definition of I've seen yet of what genAI does: generate "answer-shaped objects".

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

Gutted, McDonalds have turned down my offer to redesign Ronald again.

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You don't get gratuitous boobs in your early evening pre-EastEnders BBC factual programming opening credits any more because of woke.

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Really glad I put that extra insulation in the loft last winter

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My Armageddon outfit.

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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

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🇺🇸 There is always a tweet...or three

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Rare Non-Shit Thing Klaxon

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Hackney wildlife is insane!

submitted 27 days ago • 34 comments

#Infantino definitely has 'Can’t ejaculate unless wearing socks' vibes #FIFA #FIFAClubWorldCup

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(What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?) 50% of podcasts have fewer than 50 regular listeners. More than 2000 weekly downloads puts you in the top 5%. The tail is very long. And there is only real funding money in the top slice of the top slice of the top slice, at 20,000+

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Bloody hell

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#Infantino definitely has 'Can’t ejaculate unless wearing socks' vibes #FIFA #FIFAClubWorldCup

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? A majority of the world’s insect species have no living expert who can identify them.

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

✨👏🏾STANDING OVATION👏🏾✨

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This should hang in Tate Modern with the title "Why We Are Where We Are". ~AA

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Monday

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Punk rock kid buskers (‘The Whops’, tiktok) near the Edgware Rd. They run into Paul Simonon, play Death or Glory for him. He asks if they know The Guns of Brixton. They do -

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What's your sign?

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I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC

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"I'd like to add you to my professional profile on LinkedIn."

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When Sabrina Carpenter’s teenage fans walk into their local Tower Records to buy her new CD I think they’ll be shocked by its raunchy cover art

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

You mean is it on fire? The #FT doing the Lord's #content work

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You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

120GBP to look like a robot sex offender.

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'Why Getting Arrested is the Summer's Must Have' - Me in tomorrow's Daily Telegraph

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