Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 23hLLMs are quite good at helping you gain flash/write access to your old hardware (after some minor soldering). Shown here: an early Beeline device jailbroken to accept custom OTAs. 240
Reposted by Ryan BatemanPaul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Reminder that both the "mass vaccination = mass death" nutcases, and the "ongoing deadly pandemic" lot are proven wrong every day. Actuaries - whose jobs depend on getting death rates right regularly publish age-standardised mortality rates. Post-pandemic, back to a steady year-on-year improvement. 37327
Reposted by Ryan BatemanJapan CamBot @japan-cambot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Kamikochi Kappa Bridge, Japan live #Japan #Nippon 082
Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 24/09/2026Bluesky is the home of people who start a post with "fun fact:" and the fact is not fun and is actually a little depressing. 190
Reposted by Ryan BatemanCharles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for 358411779
Reposted by Ryan BatemanGAI Debord @dylanschenker.com · 21/09/2026This is a very fascinating observation from a person who was instrumental in popularizing Italian Brainrot! A decentralized hyperstitional creation with no singular origin medium.com/@fabianmosel... 2225
Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 21/09/2026first thing you see when trying to visit any website these days 060
Reposted by Ryan BatemanRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The US will soon have the world's only triumphal arch whose features were driven by litigation strategy. 4753592
Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 20/09/2026Little enclosure to test viability of solar stuff on our small courtyard balcony. 000
Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 20/09/2026Really dislike the NYT podcast giving the Rationalists a "but it's based in probability" credibility bump, even as they position it as a sex cult (without ever actually talking about the sex or cult parts). 120
Reposted by Ryan BatemanTom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A particularly entertaining SNL UK Weekend Update today. youtu.be/hFMq4bw2cW8?...youtu.beWeekend Update: Ed Sheeran, Robert Kraft and Diana's Swan Song | SNL UKYouTube video by Saturday Night Live UK 12710
Reposted by Ryan BatemanGigan #VoteXenolhu @drillknight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A personal favorite 83676950
Reposted by Ryan BatemanZ. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 17/09/2026If wrestling isn't real then explain this. 9535190
Reposted by Ryan BatemanAlbumism @albumism.com · 17/09/2026DJ Shadow released his debut album ‘Endtroducing.....’ 30 years ago on September 16, 1996 album.ink/DJShadowEnd96album.inkCelebrating 30 Years of DJ Shadow’s Debut Album ‘Endtroducing.....’ (1996)DJ Shadow’s debut album ‘Endtroducing…..’ was originally released in the UK on September 16, 1996 and in the US November 19, 1996. 14448122
Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 15/09/2026Just realised one of my favourite YouTube videos is 19 years old. youtu.be/z4hQG-XTVa4?...youtu.beAphex Twin - Rhubarb On Classical GuitarYouTube video by dalycitytwins 000
Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 15/09/2026Someone on X is claiming they made my Strandbeest bot, added a weird fly head overlay thing to my video, and even released a thin Github repo that kinda mimics elements of my working setup that they claim is the code (though it itself states it is not.) 4m views on X. How bizarre. 100
Reposted by Ryan BatemanSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 14/09/2026Birgit Maria Jönsson 'The wooden statue is hollow inside and acts as a working home for a colony of bees, which use the openings around the dress area to enter and exit' de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:D... 1119546
Reposted by Ryan BatemanCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com 8433631201
Reposted by Ryan Bateman dave @daverson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026if you just read the comic and you don't read the alt text on pants' posts you are missing 50% of the awesomeness and probably don't deserve an internet connexion 227024
Reposted by Ryan BatemanThe Onion @theonion.com · 12/09/2026Critically Acclaimed ‘Ted Lasso’ Episode Just Stock Photos Of People Hugging Each Other theonion.com/critically-acclaimed-t… 153855408
Reposted by Ryan BatemanRyan Bateman @boat.horse · 12/09/2026This is a simulated digital fly brain operating a small robot strandbeest, 'seeing' through a webcam on my computer, operating its own legs, and with feedback from an onboard gyroscope/IMU. What even is the future. 121
Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 11/09/2026This ESA arctic isolation boat/dome/polar research station is cool as hell. Cool. As. Hell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mbC...youtube.comExclusive tour onboard Tara Polar StationYouTube video by Tara Ocean Foundation 000
Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 11/09/2026If you haven't been following what people are doing with the first full simulation of a (fruit fly) brain, you are missing out on a speed-run of the realisation of some of humanity's darker sci-fi. 1100
Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 11/09/2026I'm just gonna assume that it's my Catholic upbringing that's got me feeling like our broken dishwasher is somehow a moral failing on my part. 130
Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 11/09/2026When you finish washing the dishes and think, "At Last, I Shed This Dark Mantle Of Vengeance," only then you spot one last dish and think, "Must I Forever Be Fate's Instrument Of Justice?" 131
Reposted by Ryan BatemanMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Toilet Instructions 19754166
Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 09/09/2026"Ducks" - an award winning short film. youtu.be/L8vZbIeAdAw?...youtu.beDUCKS | Award Winning Animated Short FilmYouTube video by AJ Jefferies 000
Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 09/09/2026The support chat bot on the website tells me to contact someone on the phone. The phone chat bot eventually redirects me to a person. The person asks me to email their support address. The email address auto-responds, telling me to use their website support bot. 240
Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 09/09/2026The problem is that AI will never respond with the most real, realistic response: shrugging and saying, "I dunno what to tell you, man." 050
Reposted by Ryan BatemanWorm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 08/09/2026"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human." 1024345
Reposted by Ryan Batemanthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026there are many funny lines in this story but I have this one up front at the moment timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/mma/n... 2043368
Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 07/09/2026me trying to enjoy the last vestiges of summer but knowing autumn is here 080
Reposted by Ryan BatemanJaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 06/09/2026I need every other newsletter to get on the level of the newsletter from the moss garden in Kyoto I went to two years ago 018521
Reposted by Ryan BatemanGoodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts. 895493547
Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 04/09/2026In 'The Furious' a man hits another man with a ladder, which that man then climbs in order to hit him back, and that's why it's my movie of the year. 110
Reposted by Ryan BatemanTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Me, just before I’m not about to get away with it: 428535
Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 02/09/2026They're stretching the boy. They got a stretched out kid taking classes at NYU. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL3u...youtube.comThey Are Stretching Barron TrumpYouTube video by CharactersWelcome 000
Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 02/09/2026My little brother filmed this! youtu.be/XotZuHZ3Uyk?...youtu.beWhat Life Is Actually Like in Damascus TodayYouTube video by Kareem Rahma 140
Reposted by Ryan BatemanAvery Edison @averyedison.com · 25/03/2026paying to watch the new Harry Potter directly funds trans genocide, the entire series has already been adapted faithfully, nothing will ever top the experience of reading the books as a child, and this tv show will literally never be completed, but hey—at least it looks really ugly and boring 527555
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ostrich: i lay big egg
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