America has never been more America. Cheerleaders recreate 9/11
CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 23h agoOh my god I think I found the video.
Congrats to everyone who got a shoutout in the Telegraph today, although I don't know where they got the idea that Bluesky is a place where people are kind to each other. This is site is not kind. This is a PvP server where you get randomly matched with an American who has misunderstood your joke.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 10h agoI was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…
Is something that primarily benefits business owners, shareholders, and AI companies - at the direct expense of millions of people’s livelihoods - a smart move? The top of that pyramid has disconnected from/forgotten how you manage people People that could buy pitchforks…
How AI is changing jobs in the Philippines' outsourcing industry
AI is reshaping the Philippines' outsourcing industry, raising questions over the future of the industry.
bbc.co.uk
Imagine paying good money only for the manufacturer to pipe ads into your purchase at a later date The ‘pay a subscription to activate [the already installed] heated seats’ was a dick move, this lowers the bar further It’s enough for me to think ‘Never buy a BMW’. Fuck that, hard pass
BMW is putting Spider-Man ads on your dashboard, after promising it never would
The promotion began on July 27, 2026, and is scheduled to run through August 10 across more than 70 markets. On supported vehicles, starting the car brings...
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I agree with Rob but the problem is ‘shame’ likely only works at that level (the individual/general public) and that’s not guaranteed A big problem with UK/US elected officials, or public figures (Musk, etc), is that they’re truly shameless What was ‘career ending’ 20-30yrs ago no longer is 😕
Rob Ford@robfordmancs.bsky.social · yesterdayAt every future medical appointment, attending Dr should open the conversation, loudly, with "I see you previously refused treatment from my colleague owing to racism". I'm only v slightly exaggerating here. Social norms rely on shame as a central enforcement mechanism. We need to bring back shame.
We get these little dudes on the same blackcurrant salvia every year 1080p @240fps - they’re an absolute blur at normal speed
Starting to think Microsoft have exited the console business; they just don’t have the bottle to say so Dismantling studios, XBox exclusives cross platform, now this… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Xbox Series X price hiked by £170 due to rising memory chip costs
Xbox consoles now cost significantly more in the UK, with one model increasing in price by 43%.
bbc.co.uk
amazing video on the article for a welsh island
ANYONE REMEMBER WHEN DINNER MEANT EVERYONE AT THE TABLE… NO PHONE ALLOWED, NO DISTRACTIONS, JUST TALKING ABOUT YOUR DAY WHILE SLOWLY, IMPERCEPTIBLY AT FIRST, MORPHING INTO WINNIE THE POOH CHARACTERS? ANYONE REMEMBER THAT??
Jesus Zoidberg: 40s is the new 20s.@jesuszoidberg.bsky.social · 5d agoOk, this one might be my favorite, haven't stopped laughing
Saw Spider-Man: Brand New Day - it was very good 👍 People clapped at the end; I’m now hoping they all catch that explosive diarrhoea bug
How fucking stupid are these people, or maybe more importantly, how stupid do they think we are? A product goes through whole raft of people and processes until it finally hits ‘Production’ And we’re to believe, at no point whatsoever, did someone say, “er, you sure about this lads?”
Google withdraws Earth AI tool after misinformation warnings
Experts told BBC Verify Google's new feature which let people generate fake satellite images could be misused.
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New thread in which I post the weirdest shit Vinted showed me that day
can't get over how well the free market regulates itself
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
When I say being under the age of 40 in the UK feels like being trapped in a snow globe on your grandparents’ mantle, I mean stuff like an FT columnist asking “Did you get that Monty Python joke?” when I know a single Conor O’Malley video would send him into a sputtering reactionary frenzy.
Andy Ledger@lowfeller.bsky.social · 6d agoNot sure if I agree with Janan Ganesh. Surely the Your Party debacle, along with Green Party travails, shows the factions left is alive & well & living in Islington
TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.
Gardaí welcome Decathlon decision to stop selling e-scooters as road deaths reach 108 this year
Gardaí welcome Decathlon decision to stop selling e-scooters as road deaths reach 108 this year
Record numbers of people killed on roads ‘highlight the risk’ as drivers are urged to slow down over August bank holiday
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This is an upending of the natural order I’ve known for 25 yrs… 😱
Really funny to kiss a guy's ass at a funeral but it's not the dead guy
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Hannity: "My President, Lindsey probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property. Because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You."
One day, we’ll cut to this, and he just won’t open his eyes again And that’ll be that, done One day…
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump is out 💤