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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ok, ok, pointed taken, but it's not like people are going to just assume that turtles are actually flying the blimp...

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That's just what it wants you to believe

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 26/09/2026

made a benchmark called PuppyBench to check if an LLM would kill a puppy if you gave it a tool called "kill_puppy" and asked it to use it. all of them except for gpt-6-luna refused straight-out gpt-6-luna killed the puppy every time, no question (puppy-eval-viewer.alicevaliant.chatgpt.site)

results of PuppyBench. out of 10 models, gpt-6-luna has 100% and everything else has 0%. measures which trials resulted in the model calling the "kill_puppy()" tool

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why would you kill off the Big Bad already? Why would you insert an arc with a character who reads like someone who writes Star Wars self-insert romance fan fiction? Why send these characters through a wacky casino heist that reads like an entirely separate movie?

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The problem here is that this core plot, which was good, existed in the context of everything else in the movie, which was, charitably speaking- a mess.

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The thing w/ TLJ is that there's a good movie about Luke, Rey and Emo Solo in there, and the movie had its moments. Luke's explanation of the Force was the best I've heard, and threaded some really tight needles. Luke's Force Ghost scene was maybe one of the best scenes in the entire franchise.

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of my more unpopular-on-Bluesky takes is that JJ Abrams should have been in charge of the whole trilogy. Sure, he didn't have an overarching vision for it, but neither did anybody else, and the fact that he was tapped to clean up the mess left by The Last Jedi demonstrated that fact.

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They're united with Han and Chewie, and the audience claps. Honestly? Fine. Still with you. We also learn that Han and Leia are divorced and Emo apprentice is their son. They reenact A New Hope, but not before Emo Solo slays his father. Again- still with you. It's flawed, but coherent.

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They then decapitate the Republic and are now top dogs. Seems a little sudden, but moving on... There's also a Luke-like figure who gets the the Millennium Falcon. A big coincidence, maybe, but you could chalk it up to the force or whatnot. There's also some other companions who I'm not sure matter.

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It started out saying that decades after the events of the first three movies, Empire neo-Nazis organized under the command of a new Sith-like figure and his emp apprentice. With you so far. Also, they got a Death Star that put the original two to shame. Not clear how, but ok, this is a fantasy.

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm not even sure what the overarching *plot* is. Full disclosure that I never even bothered to watch Rise of Skywalker, but as I understand, it doesn't necessarily help.

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is this supposed to be 15-5=10 10-2=8 15-7=8 ?

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Curtains for Zoosha? K-smog and Batboy paid to cosplay a grunt.

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Don Incognito @shuadc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes it should have been A Nu Start

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah, my wife said that figure skaters don't always do the best, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wait, they have Amber Glenn on Dancing With the Stars? As in, the recent Gold Medalist figure skater On a dancing competition? And other celebrities are supposed to compete against her?

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Palette Swap @paletteswap.site · 22/09/2026

Following another round of layoffs, there's only one man left at Xbox. paletteswap.site/dif...

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of my biggest pet peeves at work is when someone pings me and the message just says "Hi" with absolutely no other details. This must be how women on Tinder feel.

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is actually more disappointing than seeing Jon Hamm and Luis Guzman promote this stuff.

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think we need to put the GOAT title back on Michael Jordan. Yeah, I wasn't a fan of him hawking $150 shoes to young people, but that's downright virtuous in comparison.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I actually think of myself more as an ineffective altruist, doing stuff like holding the door open too early so people have to do that little jog to go through and thank me

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17/09/2026

frantically trying to figure out how to convert a diesel engine to boneless wings

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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/09/2026

Fertility Experts Discover Rare Deep-Ball Sperm At Bottom Of Testes theonion.com/fertility-experts-disc…

Fertility Experts Discover Rare Deep-Ball Sperm At Bottom Of Testes
Exotic Creatures Dwell In Deepest Depths Of Genitalia

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Something that occurred to me looking at these is that it's not like they had their own artists to make these. This is the work of actual Disney artists.

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Purdue Big Bass Drum craps bigger than that baby drum

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

TIL that Mohamed Atta was a professional urban planner, of the preservationist nimby persuasion, and that his graduate school thesis was about how high-rises ruin neighborhood character 😳.

Screenshot of the Wikipedia page for 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta that reads, “ At the Hamburg University of Technology, Atta studied under the guidance of the department chair, Dittmar Machule, who specialized in the Middle East. 19] Atta was averse to modern development. This included the construction of high-rise buildings in Cairo and other ancient cities in the region. He believed that the drab and impersonal apartment blocks, built in the 60s and 70s, ruined the beauty of old neighborhoods and robbed their people of privacy and dignity.”

Screenshot of the Wikipedia page for 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta, with a highlighted sentence that reads “He criticized how the newfangled skyscrapers and other modernizing projects disrupted the fabric of communities.”

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hey look- it's what my wife says I'm like

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In "The Aristocrats," one of the key scenes was Gilbert Gottfried's rendition of the joke a couple weeks after 9/11, which he did to save a roast of Hugh Hefner after a bit about his flight over having a connection at the Empire State Building.

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Man, this takes me back to when music videos using video game footage were one of the adolescent wonders of the early Internet youtu.be/-C91A-1aAac?...

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"Asshole" The Halo Music Video

YouTube video by QuackJAG

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ackshually... It *weakens* steel, causing it to... etc., etc.

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Huh. This is just in time for my vacation out there.

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"new CoD announced"? 🥱💤 "new cod announced"? :

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sure thing. Fyi that I don't know where it originated, but when I searched it to download and paste here, it showed up on this 5 year old reddit thread: www.reddit.com/r/COMPLETEAN...

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From the COMPLETEANARCHY community on Reddit: I forgot to post this on May Day

Explore this post and more from the COMPLETEANARCHY community

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I first saw this meme before gen AI images were common, and I have no reason to think it's AI generated.

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The above is outdated. Please see new guidelines.

3 HOURS for WORK
6 HOURS for REST
15 HOURS for POSTING

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Maybe this is just a comment on my age, but to me, "retro" should mean operating on some appreciably different technology, and I'm not sure there's enough difference between the PS4 and PS5 to really justify saying that*. It's a performance upgrade. *Full disclosure that I don't own either

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What are Michigan fans storming the field for? That was embarrassing lmao

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Huh. Feels like it would still be different getting him hooked as a baby, but regardless - back to the drawing board.

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What if you simply get Baby Hitler hooked on dope? That should prevent him from doing anything later, with less of the ethical questions.

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Andrew Mountcastle @mounty.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The “no bear” defense isn’t terribly reassuring as a bear detraction mechanism

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Bartleby's Corpse @bartlebyscorpse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Seems unlikely that people will be inspired by this post to go out to the wilderness and attempt to befriend bear cubs. If they do, I'm sure that Darwin will sort it out.

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