Temporary Bat

Temporary Bat

@saredra.bsky.social

Climate, international shitshow, human & environmental rights & whatever interests me. Irish, she/her. Mostly harmless but inclined to bite or at least relentlessly mock bigots. Irrational fear of harmonicas. Not actually a bat.

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Imperialist wars of aggression are bad. Ukraine is one. Palestine is another. If Russia/Israel win, Ukraine/Palestine are no more. If you're fine with one and against the other, please unfollow/don't follow. You're pro-genocide or anti-genocide, there's no "but just one little genocide plz?" to it.

At some point some critical bit of internet infrastructure is going to have some problem in an update and a bunch of coders who had to learn in the AI age are going to have to try fix it by deciphering spaghetti.

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So that's going well then.

Nome@nome.bsky.social

Literally the first shot of this "historically accurate" Odyssey movie shows a boat that A) Has no steering oar. B) Is under full sail *and* full rowers while entering a cave, presumably to dock inside.

Having now listened to his nonsense, jfc, skin thinner than Elon Musk's ego has an Orangeman not allowed to intimidate his neighbours.

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I had a longer & more explanatory thread about the Kim Jong Un death rumours but Bluesky ate it because how dare you switch apps to check a story. Short form, all of this seems to come from Xie Wanjun, exiled leader of the (banned democracy party) CDP, who produced rather a lot of specific details-

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Fkn twerp. His "enemies" were children being helped by USAID.

Shawn Tiemann@shawnt.bsky.social

It’s a legitimate threat from the richest man in the world but he’s also sooooo fucking lame. Who talks like this lmao

Spectacular levels of petty spite, with a superb outcome (srsly, those are great fish drawings. And very definitely in lots of shapes.)

HulloThere@jethroreading32.bsky.social

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

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I’ve slept on it now and when I woke up, I was still still mad about it. This morning, I’m going to ring the constituent office of my local FF TD and tell him just how mad it made me. Then I’m going to call the constituency office of my local SF TD, and ask if Matt Carthy’s support is their view.

Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social

No, I’m still mad about this consent business. I don’t think it is enough just to say it.

She lives in a castle and hobnobs with a baroness. But the elite are eg people on disability and people who don't think immigrants and trans people should be eliminated. Kristian is an idiot.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social

We might laugh at this or stare at it in pure disbelief but yes, this is the reactionary mind on display here. The smartypants people calling me a witless ignoranus on social media are in fact a globe-bestriding tyrannical elite that must be destroyed. Like Godzilla, but worse.

Just what are we doing here? These are students. They've worked through hell to get into universities, why are we doing this to them?

I had a longer & more explanatory thread about the Kim Jong Un death rumours but Bluesky ate it because how dare you switch apps to check a story. Short form, all of this seems to come from Xie Wanjun, exiled leader of the (banned democracy party) CDP, who produced rather a lot of specific details-

- from & about two notoriously secretive countries. The cerebral hemorrage, reaching out to China, which medical team & hospital, dispatching troops, coup by the sister, raised hostilities at SK, etc. Given he seems to be the only source, I am dubious that no-one else picked up on any event -

- and he got all of it. He also was the source of the Xi Jinping's stroke at BRICS rumour & in 2022 posted a doctored image indicating armed resistance in Hanan (there wasn't). Anyway, I've got no more expertise than any other net spod, but my bullshit antennae are twitching. 🤷‍♀️

Get out the vote and a coup are exactly the same things, that sorts that then.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com

I mean, that's legally wrong. But, if it was true, you supported Louisiana, Missouri, Texas, Ohio & Florida seeking to punish Facebook & Twitter for banning Trump after Jan 6th?

I do hate having to be suspicious of images now. Yeah, there was always photoshop, but you needed a bit of skill for photoshop to be convincing. And nearly as dangerous is defaulting to thinking everything is AI, ofc. >.>

Temporary Bat@saredra.bsky.social

As a heads up, that pink panther photo is almost certainly AI generated. The CRS text on the logo is mangled & proportions of the figure very odd. I ran it through a couple of detectors and they came back with AI too (although I'm not sure how good they are either).

What in gods name is Schiff trying to accomplish here, because this is not gonna help.

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov

My first stop was Alberta, the only province not boycotting Californian wines. I spoke to provincial leaders about the importance of the Canadian market to California farmers and the importance of continuing close collaboration on dairy, beef and energy trade.

She did, in fact, endorse Harris, but either this person is confusing her with Tlaib or is just doing support manufacturing for deporting her. Could go either way. 🙄 ridiculous country.

Pleasebury Doughboy ✨@plsburydoughboy.bsky.social

I know a lot of people won't want to hear this but Ilhan Omar withholding support for Biden and Kamala has a clear correlation to her potential deportation

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I would hope this man gets absolutely everything he deserves but I don’t see how we could fit it all in before the heat death of the universe

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looked up mine and this is killing me lmao

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social

Amazon users are discovering a bizarre "About You" page that reveals what the company thinks it knows about them One woman found Amazon had determined she "has flat buttocks"

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...okay, i'll take the conspiratorial plague meeping over that.

Anthony L. Fisher@anthonylfisher.bsky.social

Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site

No-one's ever explained to my satisfaction why a monotheistic god would have any gender. Or dimorphic sexual characteristics. Like, it requires a "di" for a start.

Michael@fleerultra.bsky.social

it's funny, i was just the other day workshopping a bit that was like, if god is binary and a man, then what do we think his body fat% is? like obviously he lifts, but does he lift to get bulk or to be lean and cut? is he on T? HGH? etc but they're doing it totally unironically

Under a normal admin, sure, but under this one? Hard to say, the Fairford thing was nonsensical on the face of it. It could lean several ways, none of which are particularly sensible.

D. Earl Stephens@dearlstephens.bsky.social

📌The headlong rush to remove those B-1s from an allied air base in UK is NOT NORMAL. The intelligence necessitating such a chaotic withdrawal must have been daunting, and again points to the shoddy planning that went into this idiotic, unnecessary war. The world is far more dangerous place now.

Infinite goddam facepalms.

RoseMarie@rosesbloom24.bsky.social

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro will face President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the runoff of a presidential election, after the challenger took some 47% of valid votes in ‌the first round on Sunday, beating the forecasts in most private surveys. Madness. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

That poor sod Simon Andreisz does not deserve to be having his name dragged through the mud by insinuations the way it is. He was a whistleblower on banking corruption in 2016 and was fired & blacklisted. Seperate to this, he highlighted Lutnick's name in the files under his initials.

He was ostracised, ended up needing therapy for psychological trauma and eventually committed suicide. People insinuating shit about him for the Epstein drama should recall he was a human being who appears to have tried to do the right thing and is not "related to Epstein case".

(His own name appeared only by other people talking about the whistleblowing case.) Just...knock it off a bit, people. It sounds like the poor fecker couldn't catch a break without people doing this to him after his death for retweets and gossip.

Everyone doing wild Drama over the research lab plague incident needs slapping. No, pneumonic plague is not coming to get you. You should be more concerned about flu season.

Update: SUCH A SLAPPING. The majority of people meeping are a *long* way away from it and actually get cases of plague annually that they don't go into little furry panics over. 🤦🏻‍♀️ It is treatable with antibiotics, enough with the dramatics.

Fourteen times Yadav bribed his way out and then taunted the women that they were next. But oh noes, they got him first, bad wimmins, should have patiently been kidnapped, raped, acid attacked, occasionally burned alive and murdered until society was bothered.

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