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Alex Ashpool

@alexashpool.bsky.social
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A human online resisting the AI slop economy. Games, hobbies, musings. Consulting, design and marketing. I also have a blog at manastone.ca . Occasional YouTube content at www.youtube.com/@AlexAshpool

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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hey, we're gaming.
A screenshot from the game Batomon Showdown which shows the player reaching Mater Rank.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Time to get spooky.
A windows style prompt with a skull. It says "Time to Get Spooky!" And the responses are "Yes"and "hell Yes."
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good for them.
A CTV news article link that reads Taylor Lautner and wife Taylor Lautner announce their first child.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is more slop than game.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Jesus.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Bluesky has some juice because you can be talking to Jimmy Roberts, ecommerce manager from Patterson NJ, and the second you question them they turn into 5 Star General Johnathan Roberts and outline the 15 year victory plan against Iran.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
What an absolute unforced error. This guy is offended that One Page Rules has clarified a "no AI" art policy and he's just self-reporting that he uses AI and getting roasted. He makes wargaming content, why even bother using AI? Just to have terrible looking cartoon orc thumbnails? Clown shit.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Before crypto mining this is what we used to leave idling on our family computers.
The game screen from "progress quest." A character sheet with randomly generated items and quests fills bars and progresses automatically.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A bouquet of flowers spilled on a car floor.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Beyond parody.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Do you think maybe you had a part to play in that, Tara?
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The new Crazy Taxi game is using generative AI, so skip it. We don't need this AI slop garbage @sega-west.bsky.social .
AI Generated Content Disclosure  describing that SEGA is using generative AI in the making of Crazy Taxi World Tour.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Sounds about right.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Make it stop.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Haha Vampire Survivors endless mode go brr.
A screenshot of vampire survivors that is almost impossible to parse because of too much stuff on the screen. The clock reads over 100 minutes.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The original tweet by Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social that reads

Subscribing to a block list of every journalist who was at WHCD is pretty dumb, a lot of us go to random shit for work all the time it's not some political endorsement
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
"Plus, it’s likely that I shouldn’t be expressing an opinion about any of this given that, while making the packed lunches this morning, I was happily listening to the soundtrack to The Phantom of the Opera."
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Most believable sockpuppet.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
"We've integrated AI into our systems to produce our sales and financial data. Staff can verify the numbers but AI will produce them." The AI producing them:
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Profile says it all.
Molly Fisher's bluesky profile, where they self describe as "uneducated but curious."
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Inshallah
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
1996 "This new game will be a fun toy for the children." 2025 "Oh sick,"
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Nothing to do on New Years Eve? Want to spend some time in a surreal, kafka-esque world? Want to put on a stream that will confound anyone who is spending New Years Eve with you? Just love trains? No commentary stream of Gadget Mindscapes and Past as Future. Welcome the future in style.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Yeah I read theory.
A copy of a paperback book on a wooden table, titled "The Third Force A Novel of Gadget" by Marc Laidlaw.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Trump kills innocent fishermen but sure wouldn't it be funny ha ha if the boats had trafficked children and he let them through?
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Zionism actively destroys your soul and your brain in real time, I swear to God.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Hi Ike, just wanted to stop by to say go fuck yourself, and may you some day introspect enough to feel remorse for your defense of a fucking genocidal apartheid state. No response required, and you can add me to your shitty little block list now. Thanks.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Just visited the Whitehouse and look at the bathroom.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
No there isn't.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
No they aren't.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
No they haven't.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I am not usually one to get upset on behalf of the Quebecois. I'm gonna make an exception for the worst looking poutine I've ever seen.
An image from some kind of article. Potato wedges served with cheese curds and overcooked looking falafel drizzled slightly with gravy and green onions.

Text reads: Israeli Food Poutine. Israelis have developed and continue to enjoy a delicious cuisine rooted in the uniqueness of Israeli society itself. Learn how to make this classic Israeli poutine.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
At the Whitehouse having the time of my life with the President, who is definitely still alive. He's just out of frame, laughing too.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Lol. Lmao.
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Alex Ashpool @alexashpool.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
There's something wrong with MY Stacy.
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