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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 1h

www.404media.co/usps-to-put-... <- these cameras will be wired-in to FBI databases about 24 hours after they go live, who the fuck do they think they're fooling

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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’

USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.

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The Other End @theotherend.bsky.social · 4h

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ka92 @ka92.bsky.social · 6h

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

don't waste your life trying to pursue political or military greatness: way way more people in 2026 know who Ea-Nasir is than like, the guy who was the king of Ur when he was alive

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At our company we have a couple QA guys who do this annoying behavior, where we fix a bug and then when retesting it they find a NEW bug but instead of filing a new bug they write the new bug in the comments and re-open it

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wonder if someone got a macrophone/vore fetish from this scene in a 1988 Gumby short where Pokey almost accidentally eats Gumby, I'm going to say ... yes

Screenshot from 1988 Gumby short where Pokey is eating a malt ball off the floor with a lovingly-animated claymation tongue

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I removed a 3.42 GB package on my computer called "CoPilot AI" and then checked add/remove programs a few minutes later and now Edge browser takes exactly 3.42 GB. I'm guessing "removing" it just shifts its data under an app you want to keep

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is just a new rehash of the Foxconn factory scam. There won't be any steel plant

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know there aren't a lot of dollars to open news sites right now, but I still say there's a huge untapped market for a video game site that's JUST about video games and doesn't spent 60% of its time talking about fucking animes

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"New" Outlook: I'm on our company standup meeting for 7 minutes. Suddenly I get a meeting reminder ding-- what meeting is it for? The one that started 7 minutes ago that I'm already on

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An interesting thing Star Trek TNG did (on purpose?) is in season 2 re-introduce the Romulans with their new and improved badass green scary-looking starships, and then not once, not once, do they actually fight one. Or even fire at once

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If I turn on my vacuum cleaner and it starts sucking, does THAT "stir a debate on AI emotions", why or why not?

Headline: "Robot cries on command stirring debate on AI emotions"

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it actually doesn't rain very often in the pacific northwest. i visited seattle for a couple days one time and it didn't rain the entire time i was there

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'll make a deal: I'll memorize the lyrics to Choosin' Texas if you memorize the dialog of at least one episode of Space: 1999 season 2. There will be a quiz

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As always, when people get weirdly prescriptive about shit like this, it’s helpful to ask yourself what you’d have to do to satisfy them. Spend an hour every week listening to every different radio station your car gets to make sure you’re in touch with a broad cultural spectrum?

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 27/09/2026

Make sure you have the volume set accordingly. youtu.be/xxyHHuT0fv4

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Diabetus @diabetus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My 9 games

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

GamerGate started WAY before Covid, there were people when Fallout 3 came out in 2008 with teary-eyed whining fits because Bethesda programmed it so you couldn't violently murder children in it

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ka92 @ka92.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think the whole thing went in the dumpster when the best idea they had for the climax of Ep 7 was "the Death Star, but TIMES FIVE!" Like two kids arguing on the playground: "my guy has 10 times Superman power!" "Yeah well my guy beat up Goku and Incredible Hulk and has 30 times your guy power!!!"

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10,000 Motivated Rats @bombsfall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

21st century tv list, no real order Sea Ghost (2017 reboot) Lizzie Borden vs American Peaky Blinders Mormon Gothic American Ninja Warrior: ICE Edition Who's Got The Fetish UK Having Family True Detective (Season 1) Hamlet (Season 4) The Supplements

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This happened in the wild west all the time

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Outbursts Of Everett True @everetttrue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Seattle Star Tuesday,August 04,1908

MR.TRUE IS WALKING DOWNTOWN WHEN A MAN HE KNOWS POINTS A PISTOL AT HIM
MAN WITH PISTOL: DON’T BE FRIGHTENED EVERETT, IT ISN’T LOADED! JUST BOUGHT IT ABOUT HALF AN HOUR AGO
HE PULLS THE TRIGGER… CLICK

P2- WE SEE EVERETT HAS TAKEN THE PISTOL AWAY FROM THE MAN AND THE MAN IS LAYING IN THE OPENING OF A BROKEN WOODEN FENCE

EVERETT: DON'T BE FRIGHTENED , MR. JOHNSON I JUST WANT TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT MY DEATH NOTICE WON'T APPEAR IN TOMORROW'S NEWSPAPERS!!!

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s crazy that if history had gone very slightly differently, 3dfx would now be the biggest company in the world

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think a lot more people on Bluesky would leave alt text if they FIXED THAT STUPID BUG where if you click the "leave alt-text" button the text field isn't focused and so you start typing and it goes nowhere!

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I was playing some of Elder Scrolls Online's old (2014) content yesterday and had one of the new companions with me and when he saw Cadwell (voiced by Cleese) he said this completely out of nowhere:

Dialog subtitle from ESO show companion Zerith-var expressing complete disgust at the character Cadwell. Saying the name itself leaves a foul taste on his tongue

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ms. pac-man, manual, excerpt, atari 2600 (1985) archive.org/details/ms.-...

text:
1. the beauty queen of video games
(below, an illustration of ms. pac-man, red cheeks, lipstick, red bow tie in her hair, long boots, smiling, arms raised, spotlight shining on her.)

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

YOU ARE THE WEASEL MAN. YOU SHALL ABSORB TOTAL PAIN!

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm sorry but it won't count as steampunk until you have a character named Fontaine

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026

ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🔵 +18.5 Noticing circles 🔴 -38.3 (!!!) Scrolling too quickly American Institute for Being Disappointed by Posts (9/23, 631 respondents)

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Liar lies. NPR gives them airtime to spread their lies to more people.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's called film "footage" because camera operators initially held the cameras with their feet. That changed after a film shoot in 1931, when an operator got a foot cramp and was forced to hold the camera in his hands. The "footage" he got that day was extraordinary. That man's name? Hans Cameraman.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 24/09/2026

This guy is FUCKED

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And imagine if Iranians could materialize 47 Godzillas in downtown New York City!!! You wouldn't be worried about gas then!!!

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Fluff with fork" Making rice: good Recording porno: no good

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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Disable gambling ads:

Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Sponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Manage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026

look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 23,1960

P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE WALKING TO SCHOOL
NANCY: I HEAR WE HAVE A NEW ART
TEACHER FROM OUT WEST
P2- NANCY AND SLUGGO HAVE ARRIVED AT SCHOOL AND ARE WALKING TO THE ART CLASS
SLUGGO: YEAH---SHE COMES FROM RANCH COUNTRY AND SHE'S TOUGH
P3- NANCY AND SLUGGO AND THE OTHER STUDENTS ARE AT THEIR DRAWING PADS AND THE ART TEACHER IS STANDING AT THE FRONT OF THE CLASSROOM WITH A VERY STERN EXPRESSION
TEACHER : DRAW YOU VARMINTS

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Impeaching Trump IS her job. She took an oath to do it!

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wonder how much of my phone's storage is full of pictures of my own porch with various boxes on it

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nancy 9/23/26

Nancy is reading a trendy fashion magazine that says “Trend alert! Boys love long hair. Grow!!” Nancy takes the advice, and grows out her hair spikes. Sluggo is stunned by her beauty.

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Diesel price is a problem, but this policy is Dicking With Things and they're not calculating the overhead from Dicking With Things. Especially if they're doing it only for 90 days, which means a lot of exporters might decide to just wait it out

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Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As students return to campus, there’s a “chill” in the air ... @theonion.com

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