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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"I sure could use a warm beverage to help me sleep easier tonight" The calming bag of chamomile tea:

Berix @berix.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

That final paragraph really hits the nail on the heard regarding this entire issue: There hasn't been a low *quantity* for games for a dozen years. The problem is that while churn out junk products has gotten faster, quality takes care & skill to develop, & no AI model can accelerate good taste

"The other piece of Sweeney's announcement is that it'll make game development faster, that Epic Games can make more stuff in less time. And I don't know, man, but do we even want that? Why is that the goal? Hundreds of games are released on Steam each month; more are released on mobile. A lot of it is already pretty bad. Generative AI is making it worse. I don't think the problem with video games is that there aren't enough of them, or that Fortnite content isn't being released fast enough."
Excerpt is from the Aftermath article: https://aftermath.site/epic-sweeney-ai-star-wars-fortnite/

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Happy Canadian #Thanksgiving! We did our family meal yesterday, but in addition to the olives, cheeses, and crisps for the appetizers, plus some apple crumble pie with ice cream, we decided to do something unique and heathier for my father and the rest of the family on Sunday 😊

Maple & sage chicken skewers with a kale, apple, celery, and cranberry salad

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just the two of us We can make it if we try Just the two of us (Just the two of us) #catsofbluesky

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There really are that many furry airline pilots and traffic controllers?

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Spooky board game except the slasher movie villains and monsters are replaced with classic D&D monsters. It's apparently more complicated than the original, but I found it a tense but very fun coop game!

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If the kind of advisers the party has today were around in 1941, they would've told FDR he should try to appease these type of clowns:

Americans protesting involvement in World War 2 in 1941. They are carrying signs with slogans such as "Hitler has not attacked us; Why attack Hitler?" and "Why not peace with Hitler?"

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One of my favourite recurring moments online is seeing Americans in awe that No Name is a real brand of products in Canada, and that you can buy products that look exactly as minimalist as these:

Four No Name branded products. In order, top left to bottom right, clockwise, the products are cola, cocoa, apple beverage, and mayonnaise.

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It was VERY much a splurge, but out of all of the food vendors that, I opted for the lobster roll. 26 bucks with the taxes included, but the lobster's seasoning and especially the texture were incredibly good! Definitely worth the splurge. Also, beer camper/trailer!

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Downtown Winnipeg's got a cute lil street festival going on this weekend called, well, The Weekender! It's always a joy seeing all of unique and interesting local vendors at these sort of events, but I love the local art the most. The collaborative displays in the 1st pics are especially sweet 😊

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"WHAT, $9.999?!? There's no *WAY* that could be right!!"

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still not how to feel about the fact that anyone can fabricate video evidence with little to no friction or regulations other than:

Two screencaps of Captain Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of The Black Pearl. In the first screenshot, he looks normal: "You best start believing in post-truth societies,"
In the second scene, he know looks like a frightening ghoul: "YOU'RE IN ONE!"

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I know many people are turned away from things like states, concepts of power etc. It's generally a good impulse to wish to avoid becoming a tyrant, even a "benevolent" one. But even Liberalism had to rain literal hellfire in WWII to protect equality between man. Pacifism is a surrender of agency.

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the effort of one side, you aautomatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside of such a war as the present one (meaning WWII in the original quote's context).
In practice, "he that is not with me is against me."
George Orwell

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Peter Cullen reminiscing on his brother's words before he auditioned for Optimus Prime are something that'll always stick with me. "Be strong enough to be kind." It takes real strength to be kind in a world of hostility, hatred, & danger. Especially in the real world. Rest in peace, Peter.

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I don't know who keeps leaving birdseed for the neighbourhood pigeons at this corner, but thank you kind stranger(s) for helping our feathered friends 💜 #pigeon #pigeonsky #birds #urbanwildlife

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Such is the way of the Elf!

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

You know things are becoming utterly bleak for workers' future prospects when not even The Economist of all papers can put a positive spin on what's happening to labour itself:

Still, no ambitious scheme seems likely anytime soon. The government guards its pennies when contemplating subsidies, and Xi Jinping, China’s president, has professed an aversion to “welfarism”. As more robotaxis take to the streets, ride-share drivers will have to scrape by. So will Mr Li, the actor, while his bosses flourish.
In an office tower in Zhengzhou, Zhang Lei runs Mengchang Media, a studio. “AI-crafted microdramas—creativity beyond imagination,” reads one slogan. Mr Zhang used to have ten crews shooting every day.
Now, row after row of humans called choukashi—literally “card-drawers”, an AI-era term that calls to mind randomly drawing cards and hoping for a good one—write prompts specifying, for instance, a close-up of a character’s furrowed brows, “his expression full of gratitude and expectation”. Software spits out seconds-long scenes that a choukashi tweaks and sequences. There is not a cameraman, lighting crew or actor in sight. ■

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Out of all of the decisions that Judge Alsup made in the Anthropic case, the reasonings behind that fair use ruling were especially baffling given the implications. The destruction & hoarding of knowledge for profit is "transformative?" That's not transformative; That's strip-mining the commons.

Regardless of its original intentions, the federal judge in the copyright lawsuit from authors against Anthropic, William Alsup, found that Anthropic’s creation of digital copies of the books was legal specifically because the books were destroyed.

“Here, every purchased print copy was copied in order to save storage space and to enable searchability as a digital copy,” Alsup wrote in his ruling. “The print original was destroyed. One replaced the other. And, there is no evidence that the new, digital copy was shown, shared, or sold outside the company.”

This, Alsup said, was “clearly transformative” and therefore qualified as fair use under Section 107 of the Copyright Act.

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Christopher Nolan is conservative in the classical sense if you know anything about his filmography. Heck, even just the Dark Knight Trilogy has a lot of anti-Occupy Wall Street messaging, for 1 example of. The issue those right-wingers have with Nolan is that he's not a *racist* conservative.

Twiter post by Neil Renic (@NC_Renic)
"Right wing culture really is in a nadir. The Odyssey has plenty of themes that would resonate with small-c conservatives - sacred tradition; home and rootedness; generational duty, etc. All ignored in favour of naked racial animus."

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Got an actually pretty awesome thrift store laptop find with an 8 dollar 2009 ThinkPad (SL510)!! It smelt like a chainsmoker when I opened it which *really* made me think twice, but I got it anyway. Still needs a new drive and power supply but this is gonna be a fun lil fixer upper!

A Lenovo ThinkPad SL510 open in a thrift store

The RAM, CPU, and hard drive slot of the afforementioned laptop The RAM is occuyping both slots and the CPU cooler looks fine, but the hardd drive was removed from this particular unit

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Oh nooo the feds found out I'm not actually Canadian and now they're hauling my ass back to Gateway Country!!!

An old photo of a Gateway Country computer store's front signage

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I don't get why HDG is so controversial today on BlueSky!! Hot dip galvanization helps prevent outdoor metal from rusting from rainfall and weather!! It's a pretty awesome industrial technique, plus it looks cool aesthetically too :0

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Even former US Presidents recognized this, especially in the wake of WWII:

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why is YouTube advertising me an AI slop video that's *feudalist propaganda*? Lmfao

A sponsored/advertised YouTube video titled "Medieval Peasant Life Sounds Nothing Like You Think." The thumbnail features two AI generated images that claim that a "dirty and sad" peasant is a "myth", while the supposed "reality" shows another AI image of that same peasant eating with his family.

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This says a lot about Society! ⤵️

A crude cartoon mural of a cow milking a man.

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The question of the day, if not the year:

Yeah, sure, the public will become very rich, says the man who has used his position as president to inside trade his way to insane wealth. And how, exactly, will “the public” get back this money? And how will the government ensure that if the currently quite-inflated AI market drops that “the public” isn’t left holding the bag?

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I don't mind at all! Orbs are free for all who ask nicely ^_^

Alyssa theRailgun Enjoyer (@girl-mech.bond) is now being pondered in one of Orb Mistress Daerie's Bluesky famous Orbs!
Original artwork was created by @mikasackerman4.bsky.social

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Crusty Squirtle JPEG shirt jumpscare:

A shirt featuring a blown up low-resolution image of the Pokemon Squirtle on it. It's behind a shopping store window that's reflecting some cars on the street.

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Statements like that, despite what the White House Twitter Interns may think, are probably the most effective communist propaganda out there today. Even moreso when it's heard by demographics that are already despised by the current leadership even IF they are patriotic.

A comic where a white stick figure says "I hate that the government is against my trans and immigrant criends, but this is still MY countr-" before he is shoved by a blue figure with the American flag for a head onto a side with red stick figures. The red side catches him, which prompts the blue American to yell "Why are you siding with the bad guys?!"

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Definitely a thought-provoking version of this type of quiz with a twist I shall not spoil. I always end up in the Lib Left space on these, but then again I am honest with these quizzes unless I'm specifically trying to figure out how the scores get calculated.

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I got Mamdani. I don't know how many people are potential results on this specific quiz even if I thought it was a pretty good and relevant one otherwise. Sorry you got a bad pundit man though :<

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

She LITERALLY went XD on this very #Caturday!

A grey tabby cat in mid yawn, with her jaw all the way open and eyes closed.

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Neither cat has really been big into boxes per se, but Freya especially loves my laptop bag! All of the cats when I was living at my old house did too, funnily enough 😹 #Caturday

A grey longhair cat, laying down on a polyester laptop bag

The same cat, but flopped over slightly more in a playful manner

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Never before has this meme been more applicable:

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

One orb comin' right up, new friend!!

Orb Mistress Daerie helps your buddy eric @ericplais.bsky.social‬) get inside one of her signature crystal orbs!
Original artwork was created by @mikasackerman4.bsky.social

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

"Three quarters of Canadians back a full ban on social media for those under 16" I'd like to see what demographics they got for that polling result, but good God is that a disappointly high number of people who support these bad social media bans 😬 (From the front page of the Winnipeg Sun) #cdnpoli

A paragraph from the front page of the Winnipeg Sun newspaper for June 11th, 2026. The full article is about a proposed social media ban for people under 16 by the Canadian federal government.
online harms could be exempted, allowing kids under 16 to keep using them. The bill is not expected to place any restrictions on minors using AI chatbots.
The push for restrictions on youth social media use has wide public support. An Angus Reid sur- vey released in late March found three-quarters of Canadians back a full ban on social media for those under 16, while 13 percent oppose it and five percent strongly oppose it. Among households with children, 70 percent supported a ban.
LOGGING-OFF CONTINUES ON A2

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

There isn't really a conspiracy by corporations to make truth impossible to ever verify again online, but this carelessness in allowing photo-realistic AI generations is going to hurtle civilization into an irreversible post-truth society nonetheless

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

First meal of the summer made with help from the herb garden! It's been way too long since I've made this pasta dish. The romaine, fresh tomato at the very end, plus the oregano and basil really give a lovely fresh taste that balances out the spicier and heavier chorizo and Parmesan

A pasta dish in front of several green herb plants

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

post a poster you used to have in your room, apartment, or house. It was a very good reproduction print I got at a small town comic con several years ago. I usually don't get posters, but at the time, this one was just *the* perfect fit for my room

The japanese poster for Army of Darkness

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Post something that is random or else you're about to have a disappointing June.

Dale Gribble from King of the Hill, tearing a tuxedo in the middle of a rodeo with a large crowd.
"Listen up, homosexuals and so-called bisexuals"

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Berix @berix.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Sylvie is disappointed in many humans tonight... (She says that a lot though so don't take it too personally)

A close-up of a grey tabby cat's face with its eyes half closed, looking a bit grumpy

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