Move over, Freud

Randy Butt www.findagrave.com/memorial/121...

Randy Butt (1953-2013) - Find a Grave Memorial

Randy Butt was born October 20, 1953 in Shenandoah, Iowa, the son of Kenneth William Adam and Jacquelyn Delores (Bangs) Butt. He passed away on Friday morning, April 5, 2013 at his home in Shambaugh, ...

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Ooh a text notification. Ah, I'll deal with that later. Better leave the notification so I don't forget. Ooh a text notification.

The thing I really hadn't expected was that racism's renaissance would be so....whiny.

@labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 13h ago

So called "race realist" objects to being "smeared" as racist

Julie Burchill after submitting another dogshit article

I'd say "contactless payments come to America" has the potential to be about three days of transatlantic bluesky content, possibly taking in US aversion to automatic speed cameras and something about food consumption.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 15h ago

WALMART WILL INTRODUCE CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS AT SELECT STORES BEGINNING AUGUST 24.

In her latest Substack @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com has written a bunch of thoughts about her feminism that is a nice selection from the straightforward to the nice and chewy youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/behold-my-...

Behold! My feminist manifesto (ish)

Behold! I have had a thought.

youngvulgarian.substack.com

No context advice

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 13h ago

my official comment: go outside.

The Betsey Book Quiz (sponsored by @bertsbooks.bsky.social) was very jolly on Tuesday, here is the covers round. These all begin with P (not The P..) how many do you know? Next quiz is 15/09, answers later! @zenoagency.bsky.social

I am ‘have to convert baby announcement weights into lbs and oz but use kilograms for everything else’ years old

I googled her name and she’s a health policy researcher who writes think tank reports about gambling harms, we have found the patron saint of UK Bluesky

Qagggy!@qagggy.bsky.social · 23h ago

UK transit nerds are next level.

We have just had proper rain here for the first time since June - and I have just come to realise that the purpose of Test cricket as a ritual in England is TO MAKE IT RAIN IN THE SUMMER. We have angered the gods with The Hundred and we must return to the old ways.

genuinely had no idea bluefin tuna used to be common in the north sea, and this is a facinating thread on why we didn't eat them 🐟

Cab Davidson@gnomeicide.bsky.social · 21h ago

Tuna used to be plentiful in the north sea. But no, you're not misremembering, there are no traditional recipes on the east coast. We didn't used to eat it. We just killed it. Sad thread on why. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is literally me

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford@ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 21h ago

This cheeky chimney pot once let out smoke from a merchant’s house in the High Street of 14th-century Oxford. It was found when excavations were made for new buildings in the 19th century. Made of unglazed, fired clay, you can see where the facial features have been moulded by hand.

At NT Holnicote estate where rivers have been returned to their natural courses and wetlands have been restored it has remained green and lush during the five heatwaves this summer. This contradicts claims by some rightwing commentators, who have blamed rewilding for causing wildfires. #rewilding

Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show

National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding

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39 years ago, in hardback, my first novel was priced at £9.99 (£36 in today's money). My new one will be £20 if you pay full price. Books have become such a ridiculous bargain, really. (Thought prompted by visiting the booking site for a West End play where the few remaining tickets are £215 each.)

Does every UK train operator send out riddles about your future journeys with them or is it just a Trafnidiaeth Cymru thing?

Talking about the benefits Holidays With Pay Act, in an actual advert for union-busting AMAZON is cognitive dissonance so strong I’m surprised their heads aren’t visibly vibrating like a gong.

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · yesterday

Please watch this to the end.

My humps, my humps, my lovely lady lumps, check it out! - Song of Songs 7:3

Jonathan Edward Durham@thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)

Higher education is good, actually.

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · yesterday

we've done boomer, what's your most millennial opinion?

You see a disappointingly large amount of AI graphics in smaller church spaces and it is really making me nostalgic for the good old days of parish event posters using terrible clip art and at least three fonts, one of which was always Papyrus.

Clippy@theclippy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Modern poster slop generated by AI is making 1997 Word Art look a WHOLE lot less crappy.

Yes. You are what you put out into the world. If you were a genuinely nice person you wouldn’t be a bully for money, obviously

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · yesterday

One of the things us an industry need to stop doing is perpetuating the 'they say this on social media, but they're a sweetheart in real life' about awful people I've had other journos say this to me about some of the most pernicious grifters over the years, some of who crossed many lines this week

There are DOZENS of us

fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social · yesterday

Whenever I use a cash point and it says "Take your card and your cash will follow", I involuntarily sing "Be colour blind, don't be so shallow" like I'm in En Vogue.

got called racist in Ghent University earlier lads tell us what happened lad I got called racist in Ghent University ye but why I was being racist in Ghent University? yeah it was in Ghent University

Josh Drescher@joshdrescher.bsky.social · 2d ago

That didn’t take long.

I found the clip of Andy Burnham DJ-ing during lockdown (If memory serves, it was to raise money for EatWellMCR.)

Can't stop thinking about this friend of mine who got off heroin around 30 years ago, but is finding his new addiction to social media (Facebook in particular) impossible to kick, despite it destroying his marriage... And I just think we need to reckon with what's happening to our brains every day.

How I Met My Boyfriend (actually a bit from Column A, a bit from Column B, and it was on The Other Site because we are old now) @salvey1.bsky.social

Cheryl Lynn Eaton@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm shocked people still use dating apps. Meeting someone off the strength of a single profile? Nah, let me see 2 years of your BlueSky account so I know you aren't a serial killer.

This is constantly overlooked in all the frothing, ableist news coverage. Mad that it took a (very good) lobby correspondent to do this. It’s not even her job.

Ailbhe Rea on the New Statesman podcast is the first journalist I’ve ever heard explain to the masses (or at least listeners to the New Statesman podcast) that being disabled is much more expensive than being able-bodied.

You are always allowed to shut down trauma dumpling. That's your pierogitive.

horror Ewacui@ewacat.bsky.social · 2d ago

The phrase I cannot get rid of from my brain today is "trauma dumpling"