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Sam
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Expect mysterious stuff & whimsy, plus politics; 'staying neutral' allows the oppressors to win. Non-binary, she/her. In Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Wow holy fucking shit. As someone in recovery, this is a living nightmare even I didn't see coming. Very cool. These are death machines that sometimes make kiddie porn. Simple as.
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.
"Who on earth gives that advice?"
www.sfgate.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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We sent a formal complaint to the BBC over its repeated misgendering of trans people and use of terms like “biological male”. We’ve also written to the Women and Equalities Committee, DCMS, and the Minister for Women and Equalities. Now we need community action.

📢We now need your help! 1/3
We’ve today formally written to multiple public bodies about BBC reporting on transgender people.

Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6
January 2, 2026 at 4:34 AM
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Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.
NEW: Plans for secret U.S. raid to capture Maduro leaked to the Washington Post and New York Times before it happened, but both decided not to publish to protect U.S. troops - Semafor
January 4, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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January 4, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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In 19th C Warwickshire it was believed to be unlucky to keep egg shells in the house. However they could not be disposed to by burning as an old belief said that if egg shells were burned, the hens would refuse to lay.
January 4, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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"Personal Geopolitics"
New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped
January 4, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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Lie To Him is a solo roleplaying game about deception. A tarot deck and a wooden block tower will guide you in creating a unique narrative.

When we reach 50 pre-saves I will unlock a 10% early bird discount on pledges! Please share with anyone you think might be interested.

bit.ly/4jsFYLY
January 4, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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This, but for Labour
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 4, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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Vampires are always impressively neat for beings who can't use mirrors
January 1, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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It continues - to describe those who continue to defend actions like this as “apologists” doesn’t seem to be enough.
January 1, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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Back to peddling my weird suggestions, in case this festive timeless void hasn't been strange enough for you. A gift of sorts - a folklore/folk horror starter pack. Go find yourself some winter ghost stories, standing stones, possibly even a wassail.
Anyone craving more folklore and folk horror in their bluesky lives might like the starter pack I made. I'm always adding to it, especially trying to include artists, musicians, performers, morris dancers, mummers, etc. Let me know if I'm missing anyone :) go.bsky.app/LXSZqSM
December 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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I hope tomorrow night you are all blessed by the New Year Good Luck Lemon Piglet ❤️...
December 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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The BBC is really showing its arse with its editorial guidelines recommending the use of a pseudoscientific dogwhistle in reporting that mentions trans people.

It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.

New piece:

oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
‘Biological male’ is a pseudoscientific dogwhistle
The BBC should be better than this.
oolong.medium.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Users are noticing Twitter/X has added a Grok-powered AI image editor that lets anyone edit any image on the platform, including other people’s artwork using text prompts.

Artists warn there’s no opt-out or consent, raising concerns over unauthorized edits and misuse.
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Ignis fatuus.
October 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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In rural areas of the county, people would visit their bees hives at midnight on Christmas Eve to hear the bees “sing their Christmas carols” in celebration of Christ’s birth.
#FolkloreSunday
December 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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I hope fans of stiles know that they are notorious for attracting ghosts and malevolent spirits on Halloween, as such creatures are drawn to boundary lines. Many mentions in @folklorewales.com book on Welsh ghosts!
A stile for the red squirrels.
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Everything is fine
When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦
December 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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To oppose trans people's rights and freedoms you break so many social contracts. We keep saying that trans rights are human rights, but conversely, human rights are trans rights, because the second you decide some people don't deserve the same rights and freedoms as others? You start to lose it all.
September 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice
December 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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1. There is no conspiracy. This is all publicly available information that has been up for months.
2. "Trans mob"? "Militant group"? "Gender Warriors"? We are FLATTERED
3. This you @dailymail.co.uk?
December 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Die kleine Hörnchenfamilie im April. 🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️
(Minus 🐿️, das zu dieser Zeit in einem Keller saß, aber gerettet und zu Mama zurückgebracht werden konnte.)

#balkonhörnchen #squirrels #eichhörnchen #squirrel
December 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Talking about the Yule Goat, lets talk about the Julbocken and Julebukking. There is an old Scandinavian tradition of dressing up as the Yule Goat, and going door by door singing Christmas songs and asking for candy. In Finland, the Yule Goat (Joulupukki) has the role of a gift giver, like Santa.
December 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM