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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 2h

🧠 Be a sentient raccoon. 🦹 Obey the urge to do crime. 🗑️ Eat trash to gain power. 💎 Collect Shiny for your growing Horde. 🦝 Live that best trash panda life! 🎲 Fast playing Motif d6 system. 👇 Start your quest of chaos today! www.drivethrurpg.com... #TTRPG #IndieGame

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Brooke from Let’s Not Date @letsnotdate.bsky.social · 2h

Novel reading is the ruin of modern women. 😔

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Azzy @azzydm.bsky.social · 3h

Just my daily business now that I have a toddler.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 6h

A fuckup so dumb even NYT homepage/headline writers have no choice but to describe it accurately

As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falters

A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.

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Mikey (They/Them) @psychoticdreams.bsky.social · 5h

I am set through Friday with getting to work. I can probably survive calling out Saturday and Sunday. I'll be able to cover six hours of one day with sick time. Still if I could get enough to get to work one more day I'd be happier: ko-fi.com/psychoticdre...

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Schlockluster Video @schlocklustervideo.bsky.social · 5h

On September 29, 2020, Cruel Jaws was released on DVD and Blu-ray in in the United States by Severin Films.

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Anastas2002 @anastas2002.bsky.social · 5h

I have no words. @scorchtheground.blacksky.app might, though. She once described someone as dressed "like a sentient bowl of crunchberries," so I will defer to her expertise.

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InaneDragon @inanedragon.bsky.social · 5h

LLMs do not "understand" correlation. Understanding presupposes consciousness. Nothing about LLMs indicates consciousness. They are random number generators backed up by statistical models, whether the numbers correlate to the next word or the next pixel, they're random number generators.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12h

The AI bubble bursts when the money runs out. That could be when AI startups and model labs can't raise like they used to, or AI data center developers balk at 11% interest on their debt. Or, perhaps, the growth just slows and the party ends. www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/

Every single day — even on the weekends — someone asks me either how or when all of this breaks, and my answer is simple: when the money runs out.

Eventually, AI data center debt is going to become untenable for those raising it, because 11%+ rates on already-meager margins makes the maths a little impossible. Once this happens, there will be a fundamental reevaluation of the value of all AI data center debt, which may lead to a sell-off of the underlying bonds and associated debt, which will make any investor deeply entrenched in the GPU credit business extremely nervous and, in some cases, unable to exit their positions in anything short of an embarrassing fashion.

This isn’t likely to happen due to moral or ethical reasons, but as a result of creditors realizing that they’ve got way too much risk tied up in projects that regularly make the news for not getting built. At some point these projects become too risky for even the most mold-poisoned private credit fund or brainless Japanese bank to stomach, and the timeline will accelerate based on either Treasury rates or further data center developments facing cashflow or construction problems.

On the venture capital side, it’s unclear how much dry powder actually remains, how much of it could be deployed into AI startups, and whether it’ll be a case of ‘running out of money’ so much as a moment where everybody gets spooked about AI and stops investing entirely. This would be accelerated by any cashflow issues across any major AI startups, any downrounds (IE: raising at a lower valuation), or failed acquisitions, such as when Anthropic walked away from buying Decart for $6 billion earlier in September.

And really, the biggest sign is the most obvious one — the deceleration of Anthropic and OpenAI. If they aren’t going to pay those $1.3 trillion in compute bills, the jig is up for AI data center demand.

The signs are already there that something is up.

Per Irrational Analysis, Anthropic’s record-breaking “$65 billion in annualized revenue run rate” from July 2026 may have been calculated in the single-most-deceptive way I’ve ever heard a startup do so:

Last month, there was a whole kerfuffel in AI/semis/finance circles on Anthropic July ARR. Two numbers were going around. I don’t remember the numbers and frankly it does not matter. You will see.

One ARR number was the traditional “trailing 28 days * 13” number. Personally I hate this venture-capital clown metric but whatever a lot of people use this.

The traditional ARR number was bad and implied deceleration in growth. So the people massively long Anthropic came up with a new ARR number that was July 31st * 365 days.
That’s right folks. If Irrational Analysis is right, Anthropic’s revenue on July 31, 2026 was $178 million, and because the other calculation — 28 days times 13 — created a lower number, the company chose to go with something that should, at a minimum, have investors hiring lawyers and demanding real, tangible answers about how run rate is calculated. Every single reporter with any Anthropic source that can speak to run rates should be screaming at them for clarity, because this is some sub-Enron bullshit.

Even if you don’t trust that analysis, another from TickerTrends surfaced by Callum Williams of The Economist shows Anthropic’s annualized run rate plateauing since, it seems, the beginning of June, and as Williams said, if this is even broadly correct, it’s really, really bad.

Williams also another TickerTrends chart showing OpenAI’s revenue growth had continued to climb…but was showing the initial signs of a slowdown.

Neither of these companies can afford to slow down, in part because of their massive compute obligations, and in part because their massive valuations are based on them being able to pull in, at least in Anthropic’s case, between $190 billion and $200 billion in annual revenue within the next two years.

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 8h

As we approach the end of the month it's a good time for me to beg/schill/entice folks to support my Patreon.com/LardeSouza I post larger versions of new work there and loads of stuff from my Larchives every month. Also occasional NSFW pin ups and jokes.

sexy bird lady cartoon: I'm too sexy for my tweet

cartoon bikini cheesecake pin up with a literal wedge of cheese for a head
Hey! Gouda looking!

cartoon: a pair of robots playing stringed instruments. One looks like b-9 from Lost in Space but dressed for a Ren Faire and holding a lute
The other looks like Robby from Forbidden Planet, wearing sandals, shorts and a hawaiian shirt and holding a Vulcan lyre. They are both standing on a pock marked lunar surface against a sky of stars

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12h

Anthropic's numbers are as bad as my worst expectations, and it's impossible to see how it manages to make good on its spending commitments. OpenAI and Anthropic are toxic companies with rotten economics, and should not be allowed to go public. www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/

In any case, these numbers are as bad as I’ve always thought they’d be, if not a little worse. I don’t see how this company becomes one that can afford its $518 billion in compute commitments, nor do I see how it magically works its way out of the economic equivalent of septic tank.

This company will, if allowed to go public, likely lean on the very same junk-grade/high-yield debt that AI data centers and neoclouds like CoreWeave currently need, and it will do so at volumes of somewhere between $50 billion and $100 billion a year for a company with few assets, endless losses and a CEO with the grace of a drunk elephant.

Anthropic is not the future of technology, nor is it the next Google, nor is it the next Microsoft, nor is it, to quote Reuters, capable of “[transforming] the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet.”

It is impossible to rationally argue that the economics of OpenAI and Anthropic make any real sense. To claim that this is “just like Uber” or “just like Amazon Web Services” or “just like the Dot Com Bubble” is to bury one’s head in the sand or, on some level, want to know less about the world. This is serious, dangerous, and should not be seen as “business as usual.”

We must treat OpenAI and Anthropic as what they are: economic disasters waiting to happen.

To do anything less is to directly invite danger to the door of every investor that’s allowed to believe that they’re funding the next industrial revolution.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 11h

This is why we need strict campaign finance reform in place NOW. The Roberts court opened a floodgate of endless corporate dollars into our politics, and corporate "speech" dominates both parties.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 15h

THE DIVINING HEART (2005)  Acrylic on Canvas - 36" x 24"   "Stepping stones" of ammonite fossils represent the lessons of history and are the only havens of safety for the figure in the foreground. #art

A dark haired beauty stands on a spiral fossil that rises barely above the surface of shallow water. A path of these ammonite stepping stone meanders out across placid water past a natural breakwater of rocks but doesn't quite reach the horizon. She doesn't appear to notice the path forward; she's stopped to admire a red glass heart that dangles from a cord. Her eyes aren't fixed on it though as her thoughts retreat inward. The pure white cloth draping her body spills down to reveal the bare skin of her back.

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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 29/09/2026

In case you're wondering what former American Atheists president David Silverman is up to, he's celebrating genocide.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A federal judge just blocked FEMA from withholding anti-terrorism funds from local governments that don't change how they run elections. It's the latest blow to Trump's attempts to rewrite election rules.

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Schlockluster Video @schlocklustervideo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On September 28, 1985, The Gorgon was screened on The World Beyond.

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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 28/09/2026

Reminds me of the RCMP destroying their war criminals investigation files Why leave a trace of the crime, right? #cdnpoli

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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An AI-enhanced version of a grainy image that appears to be authentic and shows several men being arrested in relation to the ongoing incident at RAF Fairford is currently being shared on multiple platforms. A SynthID check reveals that the enhanced image was generated with OpenAI.

AI-enhanced version of an authentic image showing arrests at RAF Fairford

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

KING OF THE DEAD (1977) Gouache on illustration board - 24” x 14” I had the good fortune of working on Elric early in my career. The books by Michael Moorcock have proven to be enduring classics in fantasy. #art #booksky 🪐📚

Elric holds the slender black blade of Stormbringer as he turns in surprise toward a menacing skeletal figure. His gold cloak billows as he pivots, and the gold chain gripped in his other hand slackens as the ruby amulet bobs weightless with sudden motion. Arms flexed wide, the threatening figure grips a black trident. Beneath a horned helm, its skull is set in a deathly howl that exposes its fangs. With eyes flashing, a mass of figures skulk among smooth pillars in the background. Several of the ape-like humanoids flank Elric in the lower foreground.

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My Glock system went rogue and issued 9mm agents which accessed the internal organs of several victims. Please give me billions of dollars to help me regulate the behavior of the gun whose trigger I keep pulling.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I understand that when people say this website might as well be Twitter there’s nuance to that statement and their frustrations with Bluesky are 100% justified But when I see the way this userbase reacts to abuse victims coming forward vs the way Twitter does? It’s night and fuckin day.

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God @thegodshow.com · 27/09/2026

ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News are resuming their coverage of Trump without CNN. It’s bullshit.

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Damn The Networks For Caving To Donald

Picket crossing traitors.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That's so wholesome.

Stephen King's novel It is dedicated to his parents, who both worked full time as circus clowns.

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born2balive.bsky.social @born2balive.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The New Yorker posted exactly how I interpreted the whole visit.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 27/09/2026

These dipshits picked the worst year possible to antagonize what was already a pissed off electorate.

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🇨🇦TheArtGun🇨🇦 @theartgun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Experts” “believe” “estrangement” “epidemic” Experts must not include psychologists or counselors or therapists if changing therapy practices is leading an “epidemic” (distinct negative connotation) Sounds like something a bitter parent who expects perpetual gratitude and deference would say

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 26/09/2026

Radio Dead Air Tech Q&A tonight at 9pm ET. It's not just you: hard data says Windows 10 has been more stable and less prone to bugs than Windows 11. We'll talk about it! Send your tech questions to requests@radiodeadair.com twitch.tv/radiodeadair

The logos for Windows 11 and Windows 10 on a divided screen, one above the other.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

👏 Register to vote 👏 Verify your voter registration *and* polling place. Make a plan to vote, and cast your ballot early and in-person if you can. (Early voting begins on 10/19 in TX) Make sure others are prepared as well. Drive people to the polls if you can.

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Diamanda Hagan @diamandahagan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Because the Internet Archive loves us all the extended cut of evil dead 4 (with 6 extra mins of gore) is up there waiting to be watched.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

HUGE: Autozone workers just won the first ever union at the company. Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today. These workers will now join the @uaw.org.

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lookcaitlin @lookcaitlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Robert Bausch #1986 h1.nu/1EEHL

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Art by Dave Dorman for Aliens: Tribes graphic novel written by Steve Bissette (Dark Horse, 1992).

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.

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Timothy S. Brannan "Tim" @timsbrannan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Witches of Appendix N: Manly Wade Wellman I will admit, I did not know the name Manly Wade Wellman when I began this "Witches of Appendix N." I had read the name in the list, but that was all that I knew. #AppendixN #witches #dnd #ttrpg theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/09/the-...

Manly Wade Wellman - The Complete John Thunstone

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