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Anisotropic

@anisotropic.eurosky.social
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frequent reads, occasional writes. he/him.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
TERF now a slur somewhere between cis and batty boy, for those keeping up at home.
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
once again reminded how the designer of the furby sincerely believes they are alive radiolab.org/podcast/more...
CALEB CHUNG: Well, I have to ask you, when is something alive? Furby can remember these events, they affect what he does going forward, and it changes his personality over time. He has all the attributes of fear or of happiness, and those are things that add up and change and change his behavior and how he interacts with the world. So how is that different than us?

JAD: Wait a second, though. Are you really gonna go all the way there?

CALEB CHUNG: Absolutely.

JAD: This is a toy with servo motors and things that move its eyelids and a hundred words.

CALEB CHUNG: So you're saying that life is a level of complexity. If something is alive, it's just more complex.

JAD: I think I'm saying that life is driven by the need to be alive, and by these base primal animal feelings like pain and suffering.

CALEB CHUNG: I can code that. I can code that.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Sorry it’s just intolerable that Labour MPs can now get away with quite literally posting that trans people make them uncomfortable *because they are trans* and our expectations are so lowered that we just don’t expect any action to be taken at all.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 15/10/2026
the "agentic" vision of computing is a spam world where everyone has their own personal army of spam bots working 24/7 on their behalf choking everything with spam to try and get one over on the next guy. and that's just not something that can really... exist, long term?
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
There’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth
Marc Haynes’ story: As a 7 year old in about 1983, … I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore Sitting at the departure gate, ... told my granddad i'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. …so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?" As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and signs the back of my plane ticket... I'm ecstatic, but …I glance down at the signature. … it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. ...I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, … so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore...
"he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. …he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone …and thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said.
I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now. Many years later, I was working on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him the story. He …had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely. And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."
I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The advent of social media meant Normal People come to learn that around 20-30% of the Rich People Countries are perennially mad stupid fascists, while they in turn never-quite-learn-but-keep-bumping-into-the-fact-that they're not the Silent Majority they thought they were. A normal century ensues.
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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 11/10/2026
I agree and it always makes me think of how people interact with the ship’s computer in Star Trek. It never uses first person pronouns. Instead of “I can’t do that,” it says “unable to comply.” Instead of “I don’t know,” it says simply “unknown.”
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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Three points are not enough. Now is the time for the twelve-pointed seatbelt; like an occult star clamping you to the seat, like a gray polyp between your body and the road—you will not merely survive the impact. You will THRIVE
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Lisa Severn @lisasevern.uk · 11/10/2026
The BBC charter section 6.4: "...the BBC should accurately and authentically represent and portray the lives of the people of the United Kingdom today, and raise awareness of the different cultures and alternative viewpoints that make up its society"
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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The media’s complete double standards in the way they attack the Greens vs issues with bigotry in other parties is a huge problem because 1. It breeds resentment and undermines desperately needed solidarity between different groups 2. It reduces anti racism to a tool to beat the Left with
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
YOU NEED MORE POTATOES THIS WEATHER — Claude Atkinson (for the British Potato Marketing Board), 1930s
A poster featuring an image of a plate of baked potatoes  radiating a Heavenly light. underneath, a couple of line drawings of chefs in tuques respond with delight
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@hudlion

sometimes, I think it would be worse to be an insect and wake up one morning and find you had been transformed into a guy with a job
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Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"I hate that fucking bear"
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
got into it with this guy myself
a bunch of AI bullshitme cooking this guysecond coursefuneral
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The version of Zionism the Israeli government put forward is racist" is a completely defensible and true statement. But that's not what the resolution says, is it?
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Unfrozen Caveman Librarian @latefiennes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Original Tweet: “I like Hole better than Nirvana”

Quote Tweet: “me leaving the monastery”
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another morgan @mheslin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar
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Carmen @nemrac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Wallace And Gromit Train
Alt: The chase scene from Wallace And Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
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Anisotropic @anisotropic.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Meme with two captions, at the top, "my dog when he's eating" with a dog wearing a tricorn hat superimposed on the Gadsden libertarian flag; at the bottom, "my dog when I'm eating", with the same dog now wearing a ushanka superimposed on the flag of the Soviet Union
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mcc @dryad.technology · 03/10/2026
Cisgender people, particularly in the UK, please read this growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just in time for my birthday – TERMINUS has been awarded 5 stars by @gonzohistory.bsky.social in the @forteantimes.bsky.social ! 🥳 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 To celebrate this happy confluence of events, I'm offering 15% off both Darkened Hill & Dale and TERMINUS on my web shop this weekend. ☺️ shop.patchworkfez.games
A close-up of the final paragraph of the review of TERMINUS in the Fortean Times. It reads: 'In its evocation of a specific kind of contemporary British urban strangeness, Terminus creates a unique and memorable setting for a story of a liminal space brushing against cosmic horror. ★★★★★'The full text of the review of TERMINUS in the Fortean Times magazine, held by me. It's unfortunately too long to fit in this alt text.
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Andy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good morning. 'Batman's aff his Nut' by Robert Florence.
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Jake (Real) @jakemhs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1954)
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Anisotropic @anisotropic.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
conversely: you are making a video game. it's mostly stealth sections, with lots of clever mechanics to support that. you need a climax. have you considered... a straight-up boss fight without any stealth involved?
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Phantom of Heilbronn, also referred to as the Woman Without a Face, was a presumed female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at 40 crime scenes across Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009.

In March 2009, investigators concluded that the supposed serial killer did not exist, and the DNA belonged to a woman who worked at a factory that made the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An interesting read. engelsbergideas.com/essays/smrs-...
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SMRs: a short history of a nuclear pipe dream
Small modular reactors (SMRs) were first conceived for military use and deployed on polar bases. Seventy years on, their record remains dismal.
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Teaching the new intern all the keyboard shortcuts except for one that I can use to defeat him if he ever chooses to betray me
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Tawny Code Cat 🖥️😺 @tawnycodecat.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I decided to look up the study www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and for at least one of those numbers, it's even worse. The A.I. agrees *49 percentage points* more than humans, who only agreed 39% of the time, i.e. the A.I. agrees 88% of the time, or 126% more often than humans (left side in figure)
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Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence
Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...
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Chalk is WagWagging :neodog_flag_gay: @chalkllate.yeen.town · 23/09/2026
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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
✨Bullet Shattered Cafe windows in Paris 1944 by Photographer Lee Miller✨🇨🇵💥
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Fat Fucking Chud Ass Clown @kastor.sh · 23/07/2026
It’s finally out
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Anisotropic @anisotropic.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
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The Telltale Traces of the US Military’s New ‘Bladed’ Missile - bellingcat
The R9X is now the US military’s weapon of choice when targeting individuals. Here’s how to identify the aftermath of an airstrike.
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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 27/09/2026
the bleakest bit of this is that he only knows his companionship has enriched their lives 'to some degree'. i think chewbacca might have men's mental health.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 26/09/2026
this kind of outcome was predictable the moment so-called "agents" became productized. the Spam Economy azhdarchid.com/imagining-th...
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Imagining the Car but not the Traffic Jam
Your typical example of how AI can make life better is analogous to saying
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
@sticky_ssb

New rock paper scissors just dropped

(screenshot of headline and picture of a cow fighting a cop)

K-9 Bites Cow, Deputy Tases K-9, Cow Kicks Deputy
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 18/09/2026
Tomás Bjartur (@BjarturTomas) on Twitter: "cyberpunk is utopian fiction. the corporations are competent, the mafia sells amazing biotech for a reasonable price, and capsule apartments are abundant and cheap"
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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
[sees a guy eating a sandwich] nice to meet a fellow bread head! yeah, i can’t go a day without a slice or two haha. got a pretty sick toaster setup at home, thinking about upgrading to four slots – heard good things about breville’s 2026 lineup. entry-level marg is so tasty now,
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh, Viz.
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Every time I watch an episode of The Boys and hear Billy Butcher say "These supe cunts", I can't help but think of an x-rated version of The Clangers
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@texaninnyc

Hi @U2 big fan. I notice that your guitarist uses a lot of unresolved sus2 and sus4 chords that build tension but never release it by going to the tonic. Is that why he's called the Edge. Please respond.
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Anisotropic @anisotropic.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
just migrated to eurosky.social very easily using move.eurosky.tech
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EU-HAUL - Start Account Migration
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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
one of the more astute takes i've seen is people describing genAI as "the machine gun of computers" and nowhere is that more pertinent than hacking
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Lots of people think Taylor Lorenz is paid off by social media but I think the relationship is closer to a Chaos cultist: she worships Phone, works tirelessly to spread the influence of Phone and weaken the veil between the real world and it’s domain, and in exchange she is given boons by it.
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Anisotropic @anisotropic.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
I'll get the obvious answers in before the rush: Silent Cartographer, Fort Frolic, Ravenholme, and Jindosh's Clockwork Mansion
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 13/09/2026
one of the things I appreciate about this thread is that I don't think you can really understand the infosec stuff without understanding the ideological commitments the people making these have; like for them sandboxes and guardrails are a cop-out /
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