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Kiwi in London, building surgical software

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This is the only time I've felt that my vote counted in 16 years of life in the UK.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer's avatar lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social
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jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava

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Dan O’Sullivan's avatar Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social
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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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That's one way of looking at it. Another is that only 38% of the constituency voted for right wing parties. Normally that block is monolithic and ends up in power. This time, the natural majority (52%) of left wing voters, we're able to be reflected in parliament. Reform fucked the tories.

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Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] - in my Brain Damage arc's avatar Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] - in my Brain Damage arc @alexandraerin.com
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"Your AI girlfriends are neither girls nor friends." is not even the second most barbed point in that string

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They say cats are treated in Istanbul is lovely

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I've been waiting for a true socialist analysis. So glad Aegon of Astoria was working on one

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It's so nice blocking people on Bluesky

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Exactly, these "thinkers" just handwave over the part where society figures out a way to distribute wealth out to people. Ignoring that we very much exist in a system that excels at concentrating it.

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A very fun series, hope they make another season!

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Existential Comics's avatar Existential Comics @existentialcomics.bsky.social
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What's cool about looking back at the history of college protests is that 19 year old students have been right about every single American war, and the esteemed Harvard educated opinion writers at the New York Times have been wrong about every single American war.

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David Farrier's avatar David Farrier @davidfarrier.bsky.social
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in 2022, i spent a year reporting on abuse at new zealand's largest megachurch. it's leader, john cameron, resigned. today, in a podcast, he says victims should shut up. please RT: www.webworm.co/p/hatewatching

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The future producer of “Himbo Heist”'s avatar The future producer of “Himbo Heist” @legalminimum.bsky.social
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Clowning on dorks like this guy is almost the only reason I miss Twitter. They just haven't migrated here (yet?).

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Google Photos Try not to send me photos of dead friends and pets: Challenge Level Impossible

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Framling's avatar Framling @framling.bsky.social
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It didn't have to fucking be like this Software finally gives us the ability to actually solve problems once and for all. You can make a tool to solve a problem, and give a copy of that tool to anyone who wants it But the owners of everything panicked and insisted we manufacture scarcity instead

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Incredibly evil. Incredibly stupid. What a combo

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illumi's avatar illumi @illumi.me
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this is art

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The UK version goes something like "Yeah I own 10 rental properties, but my grandad worked down a mine, so I'm working class"

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Luke O'Neil's avatar Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social
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Sorry to do this to you here but I want you to know an illiterate bluecheck has done a long thread using Bukowski quotes as grindset hustle culture inspo.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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i have already seen like a half dozen “bet you’re sorry now” columns about kate middleton and it’s like, no, no, i am not, i don’t work for a website or a magazine or a newspaper, direct your shaming at your group chats.

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See, yesterday I thought this poster was photoshopped

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It would be such a weird house to live in. Because it's two terrace houses partially joined up. Like to get to a bedroom on the 3rd floor from a bedroom on the 2nd floor you'd go up and down 6 flights of stairs.

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It's such an emotionally traumatic process... all you want is for those little clumps of cells to make it. You've seen photos of them.

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CPAC 2024. WE ARE ALL ENBY.

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George Penney 's avatar George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social
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So in "What's Happening in Small City New Zealand" today, a guy in a BMW honked a person in a wheelchair getting into a car, outside a hospital. And a nearby construction worker calmly walked over and tipped his lunch of biryani and butter chicken all over the BMWs windscreen. And people clapped.

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It's so frustrating, these policies just DO NOT WORK.

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Every generation aging into crankery means you have people who grew up with Grace Jones and Prince going “wasn’t none of this gender stuff in my day”

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I find it so fascinating that From Software patches descriptions in Elden Ring. When people uncover inconsistencies or draw conclusions that don't match their intentions. Nobody else has this attention to detail

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kilgore trout's avatar kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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happy anniversary to this post, featuring one of the greatest kickers of all time

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These wasps are the Omar of the insect world

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While this is true, I feel like every progressive man in tech understands that we've played a part in creating an inequal future. It's not what we hoped for. The outcomes have been gross.

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