Reposted by axelamcc @dryad.technology · 1h*History professor at front of classroom* "Now as we've discussed, it's possible for a state to manufacture consent. But what happens if you accidentally manufacture *too much* consent?" *Presses a button on clicker* *Photograph of Donald Trump appears on screen* 1375
Reposted by axelaLady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 2hevery now and then i remember how the rwby x justice league movie decided that batman's conflict should be that he wants to stay in the world of rwby because he has superpowered bat wings there 1531322
Reposted by axelaLady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 2h"Woah, I didn't realize they made a RWBY and Justice League crossover," you may say. And that's where I need to inform you that they made four of them. 1420710
axela @axelak.bsky.social · 3hstatic.klipy.comF1 Ferrari Pit Stop PerfectionALT: F1 Ferrari Pit Stop Perfection 160
Reposted by axelamcc @dryad.technology · 5hIn Bush era gestures at green tech, we briefly got excited about biodiesel. But in the US that meant corn, and experts got upset because corn biodiesel is negative EROI. I saw one person describe it as "a corn disposal method". In that sense, I posit Bitcoin and AI to be "compute disposal methods". 17626
Reposted by axelaX ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 4hhonestly re: reverse engineering it just kinda blows to see your fun hobby get completely blown up by AI shit and people who love the slop machine because it's faster. AI art and shit at least *most* people correctly loathe + shun it, but too many people think that code isn't similarly creative. 12568147
axela @axelak.bsky.social · 6hAnd as always, the pro strat for getting your radio request played is throwin in a little "it's my birthday 🥺" 020
axela @axelak.bsky.social · 6hstatic.klipy.comThor: Bruce Banner's Birthday SurpriseALT: Thor: Bruce Banner's Birthday Surprise 370
Reposted by axelamcc @dryad.technology · 14/10/2026What is interesting is that there are various "settlements" by which creators of *some* types of work (e.g., books, but NOT computer software) can get a small check for being scraped by anthropic, but there is no way to say "you may not incorporate the things I made into your language model product" 28823
Reposted by axelaghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14/10/2026terrible move. history tells us the correct play is to abandon the city and defeat your adversaries at sea 752072260
Reposted by axelaJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public. 73144355417
Reposted by axelasarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14/10/2026just sitting here thinking about my most humiliating social interaction again 21112872
Reposted by axelamcc @dryad.technology · 14/10/2026Computers are a sociological bootloader for surveillance schemes 2367
Reposted by axelaAria Winningson @aria.labeledrude.online · 14/10/2026happy sickos day to all who celebrate 3550852141
axela @axelak.bsky.social · 14/10/2026once again i'm begging bisky to make blocking force an unfollow 030
axela @axelak.bsky.social · 14/10/20261k followers 🎉🎉🎉 About 30 are unblocked, and a few of those are on thin ice 140
Reposted by axelaJayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 13/10/2026It's rarely good to look at the comments, but someone commented on this Baklava recipe. "Is it Bakmagma when it's still in the oven?" And I bow to that person. 413034
Reposted by axelaJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026can’t believe OpenAI had someone on staff who thought it was appropriate to record everything that people around him said 252969415
Reposted by axelaweird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 12/10/2026 1340881140
Reposted by axela🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026We're speedrunning toward a future where news orgs are forced to use AI to create photos that are no longer available from archives, and if I have to explain to you why that's bad then you're already too broken to be part of society. 41255475
Reposted by axelaDan Gerstein @pebby.net · 13/10/2026Why genAI your food signs when you can express the human chaos in your own soul with beautifully janky writing. (Royal Egyptian food truck in Berkeley) 612935
Reposted by axelaÖzgür Toprak @ozgurtoprak8303.bsky.social · 12/10/2026🚨WATCH: NASA REVEALS THE NIGHT SKY FROM MARS — A VIEW UNLIKE EARTH’S NASA has shared a rare glimpse of the Martian night sky. Unlike Earth, Mars has a much thinner atmosphere, meaning less atmospheric scattering of light and a different view of the cosmos. 24316113
Reposted by axelaGreenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA 124120184375
Reposted by axelaJennifer @feistywiddershins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This Indigenous People's Day, I wanted to promote the incredible handmade leather work by my good friend Tommy, Native Necromancy on fb, @amealformaggots on insta. He is Lenape of the Turtle Clan. You can see his work in person at both Gonzo Glass Studio and Cerridwen's Hearth in Mount Holly NJ. 930241300
Reposted by axelapixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike. 11190061525
Reposted by axelaJoshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Was recently watching a West Wing episode from season 2 (about a decade pre-Citizens United) and they lamented that all of the spending on all of the races cost a total of $400 million (just under what Musk has already spent on this cycle). 083
Reposted by axelaPoint Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Zoo Boo is creeping into Point Defiance Zoo Oct. 17–18! Come dressed in your favorite costume for trick-or-treating, spooktacular games, pumpkin-loving animals, and even UNDERWATER pumpkin carving! Plus, keep an eye out for some giant new visitors… Trolls are joining the fun! 🎟️ pdza.org/zoo-boo 110412
Reposted by axelaDaniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do" 52999221700
Reposted by axelaAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 12/10/2026I just accused my sister of "being a big fan of colonialism" because she said she was on the side of the oxygen-producing cyanobacteria that caused the Great Oxygen Catastrophe of the Paleoproterozoic, 2.46 billion years ago. 820524
Reposted by axelaLawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Now, here's a question to peer-reviewers who are doing the same thing: Have you breached any confidentiality when you use Pangram? 26022
Reposted by axelaJack Ververis @jverv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026New video! Blaseball was a game of randomness and death and fire. So why was it, for many, so comforting?youtu.beWhat a Fake Baseball League Understood About DeathYouTube video by Jack Ververis 43412
Reposted by axelamagical clunico freestyle @cluniies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026always retweet the no hustle mizuki comic forever 0972514
Reposted by axelaBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts? 224154762611
Reposted by axelaIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Good morning, Bluesky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYNS...youtube.comBuffalo MC - "Stop and Bust a Move"YouTube video by Bill McClintock 012026
Reposted by axelaashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/10/2026if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time 7362531361
Reposted by axelaFunranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Every community manager/mod in the world read this story, raised an eyebrow, and realized there was another solution to their bot problem. 441163357
Reposted by axelaHell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 10/10/2026r/bonecollecting is currently beating the shit out of an OP who picked up a human femur because Claude told them it was a camel bone 191911413
Reposted by axelaChristine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Today's the 10th anniversary of the original release of Ladykiller in a Bind on October 10, 2016. I've got a whole lot of thoughts I'll share next week, but today, I just want to express my gratitude to everyone who's been here supporting me since then. I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart 😭 1544083
Reposted by axelaChokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent. 9585227
Reposted by axelaGriffin J. Griffin @gendergriffins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Just got my flu and Covid vaccine! Did you know YOU can also get vaccinated and help protect your immunocompromised friends and neighbors? It’s true! 42911
Reposted by axelaone dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 09/10/2026the Catholic Church racking up PR wins by saying shit like “we shouldn’t bring back public executions” and “your Claude app isn’t sentient” 265804965