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Megzigzag
@megzigzag.bsky.social
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Art, film, a dash of politics and funny animals.

Bristol via N Wales and Hackney

www.megansinfieldartwork.com
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Megzigzag @megzigzag.bsky.social · Nov 30
Probably should share some of my art on here. Here are a couple of old favourites. I love trying to find some beauty in less obvious places.

#digitalcollage #grimart
An artwork of an old derelict redbrick pub with a towerblock behind it. An artwork looking up at a grey and blue towerblock with a grey sky. An artwork of an concrete wall with a small electrical box and a strong shadow.
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b3ta.com
Artist: S-Crimmy https://b3ta.com/board/11423341
From the 'Movie Poster Recycling' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/movieposterrecycling/popular/ #MoviePosterRecycling
b3ta loves the way you move
December 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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esqueer.net
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from r/LegalAdviceUK by user Fun-Blueberry-2147. The post describes that the user’s sister, who has schizophrenia, admitted herself to the hospital after believing someone was communicating with her through her smart fridge, which turned out to be an LED screen advertisement. The post explains that she spent two days under monitoring with medication adjustments and that the specific ad she saw included her name, making it especially distressing. The user questions the legality of such targeted or unsettling ads on smart appliances in the UK.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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janehill.bsky.social
I’m gonna keep sharing these ovarian cancer symptoms whenever I see them.

I will add - from personal experience - diarrhoea and fatigue.

Get it checked! Remember, there’s no routine screening for ovarian cancer.
Symptoms of ovarian cancer No appetite/ feeling full quickly Needing to wee more Bloated tummy Tummy pain If symptoms are persistent, ask your GP about ovarian cancer. Target Ovarian Cancer
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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harrywallop.co.uk
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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robmanuelyeah.bsky.social
Nope. I don't know why it felt important to spend 15 minutes of my life doing this today instead of my todo list.
December 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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bookshop.org
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
megzigzag.bsky.social
Me experiencing the My Bloody Valentine gig last night...

Loudest gig I've ever been to but bloody amazing.
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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leftoblique.bsky.social
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.

www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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cpaguk.bsky.social
We’ve joined 100+ others in calling for the government to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the best start in life. By fully scrapping the two-child limit the government can deliver a decisive shift in children’s opportunities, and in the UK's potential.
As this government recognises, every child deserves the best start in life. But a record 4.5 million children live in poverty. Their life chances are being held back and their potential wasted. They deserve better. At the Budget, the Chancellor has a unique chance to change this. By fully scrapping the two-child limit she can deliver a decisive shift in children’s opportunities, and in our country’s future potential. We have come together as diverse organisations who recognise that turning the tide on child poverty is crucial for children, and also for wider ambitions on housing, education, health and national growth. Reducing child poverty will boost family budgets, and local economies. It will reduce household debt, and cut the huge future costs of poverty faced by our schools, hospitals and other public services. Every day the two-child limit remains, in any form, it pushes children into poverty. Now is not the time for half-measures. Now is the moment for the Prime Minister and Chancellor to hear the voices of the UK’s children and take this vital opportunity to do the right thing. Abolishing the two-child limit in full will set millions of children’s lives on a path to a brighter future, and help to rebuild a stronger, fairer country and economy.
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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theonion.com
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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nickmotown.bsky.social
Jimmy Cliff. Ahh man. None finer. I still think this is one of the greatest vocal performances I ever heard.

youtu.be/twf7LhQIBkQ?...
Jimmy Cliff- Many Rivers To Cross
YouTube video by rockyfl86
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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weratedogs.com
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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gabyhinsliff.bsky.social
will admit i don't fully understand this but POETRY OUTFOXES AI is the best case for preserving English degrees i have ever heard. 'all the teenage girls who were really into Sylvia Plath at one point vs tech bros' is the battle for civilisation we deserve
cstross.bsky.social Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 16d
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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mattthr.bsky.social
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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lucyprebblish.bsky.social
So that hero guy who saved all those people on that train has left hospital, just in case you missed it because no fucker is keen to draw attention to it www.bbc.com/news/article...
Rail worker who saved passengers from stabbings leaves hospital
Samir Zitouni's family say they are "really happy" but that he faces a significant recovery.
www.bbc.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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clbergpowers.bsky.social
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
ips-dc.org Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 24d
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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ryanlostintx.bsky.social
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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citizenscreen.bsky.social
Happy 56th anniversary to “Sesame Street,” which made its broadcast debut #OnThisDay in 1969.
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
Page from a 1960s primary school English textbook with a lovely cartoonish illustration of a red haired white girl in blue shirt looking at a cockatoo on a black perch. It is in the centre bottom and takes up about a third of the page, above is black serif text which reads Have you ever noticed? Every day we "see" things without really looking at them at all. On the way to and from school look at just one thing that you have often passed but never looked at very closely - it may be a street lamp, a small plant in a hedgerow, someone's front gate, the wall and windows of an ofice building, the balcony of a house, an object in a shop window. You are a secret service agent, and exact knowledge of this object is your password. Your life depends on it. Learn it by heart, and then describe it to the fellow agent who has to test you by your knowledge.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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paulisci.bsky.social
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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weratedogs.com
This is Lukas. It's his first time swimming. He's kinda nervous, but we think he's doing a great job. 13/10 (TT: lukassss707)
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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vizcomic.bsky.social
Picture of the gaudy gold excrescences attached to the door of the White House Oval Office, with the sign reading 'The Oval Office' evidently printed out on sheets of A4 stuck up with Blutak. And we've added another one reading 'No Gurlz'.
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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evilbatwitch.cryptoanarchy.network
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
Rude Rude or impolite, including crude language and disrespectful comments, without constructive purpose. Highlighted Off, darkened Warn, and darkened Hide buttons.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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derek.bike
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM