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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This can't be real "Yarram Herd Services Committee vice chairman Aaron Thomas said the loss of 100 cryogenic cylinders of cattle semen will be a "huge blow" for the farmers." www.newsweek.com/fire-bull-se...

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Massive Semen Explosion after Blaze Hits Bull Artificial Insemination Farm

Fire at Yarram Herd Services in Victoria, Australia described as a "major blow" for farmers.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When I was a kid in peewee hockey, I scored a goal on my own team's net by mistake but i think this guy might have me beat.

A Yankees fan gets escorted out after interfering with a home run by a Yankees player, which ultimately led to the Yankees losing a third game in a row to Tampa Bay.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When I was a kid in peewee hockey, I scored a goal on my own team's net by mistake but i think this guy might have me beat.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The 'what he actually meant was' people, even the left leaning well meaning ones, got this terribly wrong.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 07/10/2026

on October 7, a chunk of my family were nearly wiped out. my teenage cousin had been here in Toronto for my sister's wedding, we sent him back, and two days later the attack happened. the kubbitz my family is from was attacked, but there had been just enough forewarning.

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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My thoughts on the 700+ LLM papers on math and mathematical physics is less concern that LLMs can replace me and more concern that everyone from leaders to the population at large is willing to pretend that LLMs can replace me because "stop supporting research" seems have worldwide appeal.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The insane British airbase story happening right now is more Slow Horses than the show itself, it's wild

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Okay, not the bluesky climate expert Dave Roberts, that was confusing for about a minute.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The research posted in this thread is nearly 4 years old, and homeless populations change fairly quickly, so maybe things changed since the last presidential election.

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers deserves to be in the same conversation as The Thing and The Fly when it comes to providing new angles to the story. A pod people sci-fi/horror for a generation experiencing post-Watergate paranoia.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So in my mind I remember it as typical Verdi (in the vein of ballo or trovatore) as opposed to otello and Falstaff, (which I think of as half belonging to Shakespeare with verdi shedding all the hoary old Italian conventions). But yes, he absolutely did write three Shakespeare operas 🙂

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Right, I forgot. But in my defense Macbeth is a far more traditional structure with the Shakespeare plot pasted on to it, while the other two were composed later and are more through-composed.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 03/10/2026

but really, this post is just me reaffirming that I am not interested in whether they can do math because the primary function of LLMs is to help centralize, justify, and validate power, and they are doing that successfully already

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/10/2024

Zombie fiction is, at its core, about the fear of seeing your own body age and decay. Ghost stories are about the impossibility of grappling with the past. Vampires are about what if you got so horny you died

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Verdi did write two Shakespeare operas and they're considered his best.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Traviata is almost entirely people at parties plus music. The main Mozart operas offer a lot more plot, if that's what you're looking for.

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Arran @arrannz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Reasonable AI Centrists are becoming as irritating as the cultists. Yes, we can grant the premise that it's "sort of useful for some things". That doesn't make ANY of this actually worth it.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know some AC/DC fans who would become downright homicidal if they heard this

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I just saw project hail mary last night and tbh I'm getting a rocky vibe off this bit

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Frankly my dear, I am relatively indifferent to your plight in light of the events preceding this moment." Needs work.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Both Johnson and Hannity appear to have quietly removed their tweets with no "we regret the error" message, but your point still stands.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's Greg Land, but Liefeld did draw the captain america.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The suspicion was he used porn screencaps as references for women's faces. That's by far not the only example...

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Or this guy who was so famed for drawing women 😉

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just imagine accurately drawing this guy in art school and then getting an F.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just imagine accurately drawing this guy in art school and then getting an F.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Men in Kilts guys are kicking themselves

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I also saw Tender Loving Care tonight, and if this is Mike Leigh's final movie, as he says it likely is, what a high note on which to end a singular and utterly distinguished writing-directing careers. This one starts as amiable, even cheerful "minor" Leigh, then sneaks up and guts you. >

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No, but episodes no more than four minutes long each are a brave choice, that's for sure. I'll hit the follow button; worst that can happen is I'll hit unfollow.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That's fair. It was a husband and wife team low budget pandemic project, so the writing and two voices were all they had.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'Iamineskew' is what put the original writer and producer on the map to begin with. Only on the second listening do you really realize the overarching metaphor for that series.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The same people have a pod drama out called 'Our Wars Have Ended.' It's also terrific but they release a new episode only every third week! B. Nair is in that show too.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love it when someone drags something I hate but I haven't yet been able to articulate why.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, he did use to own the national post so I think they have to let him write the occasional column

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oof, that's getting very near the hotel foundations....

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-

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

This... should not make sense but it does

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

I really hope that isn't her dog down there, because that's what it looks like

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

"Boss, I got those photos of Susan Sarandon, real gorgeous and iconic, just like you wanted." "... wait, what?"

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

"... b-b-but he owns a PR company so he can't be allowed to....!"

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I took a look at their version of Jack London's 'To Build a Fire.' It was an odd and stilted experience, to say the least.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'd love to know what they're chanting/singing, I cant tell if it's for or against

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is that some shitty AI slop photo they made for the post?

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It would be hilarious if he said a word right then and it was 'toast.'

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I so want to say who this reminds me of but he'll block me in five seconds and write a very angry 20 part post

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