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bm @brologue.net · 02/10/2026

I've used Ollama/Mistral to do some OCR and that's about it. Not at my PC to check but iirc I've got an i7-14700KF and an RTX 4070 Ti. Ideally, I'd like to keep everything local

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bm @brologue.net · 02/10/2026

Never been a software engineer proper (only an amateur tinkerer). But I've got the competence to learn. Working in a university library, as an assistant, is the dream—although I would genuinely suffer *any* job, even retail, if I knew this hypothetical system would up the odds of an interview.

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bm @brologue.net · 02/10/2026

I just think that if it's now common practice for employers to screen CVs with AI, before it reaches a pair of human eyeballs, then fuck it, I might as well try to respond in kind and see what happens.

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bm @brologue.net · 02/10/2026

CV fluffing/adjusting it to job criteria, assessing how good a match I am, that sort of thing. CV writing has always been a black box to me, either because I'm shite at selling myself or I don't hit the right keywords. Or both.

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bm @brologue.net · 02/10/2026

Been thinking about building one of these workflows you've been posting about, got any links on where to start? Not done a lot of coding in a while but this job market's hellish all over

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026

just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026

It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.

Text in the center reads: 20 Years Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2026, clarkesworldmagazine.com

(right) Cover art for issue 241 by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

(left) Cover art for issue 1 by Tomasz Pietrzyk is "The Town of the Towers" and features a surreal town of yellowy white distorted towers with reddish orange roofs that overhang the towers and rise to a point. Mishapen dark windows and doors are scattered about on the buildings. Orange sky gives the entire piece a warm tone.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wrote about being chronically single, and about visiting a psychic to find out what's broken about me. she had some interesting things to say! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-most-u...

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The Most Unlovable Man in New York City

On being chronically single and my visit to the love psychic

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veery @veery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

lord have mercy

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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bm @brologue.net · 26/09/2026

Reading The Last Continent now (had to skip Interesting Times) and I thought the whole Wizards series was doomed to bore. Glad I've seen myself wrong. If I'd read it sooner it definitely would've influenced my thesis LMAO #Discworld

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bm @brologue.net · 25/09/2026

I'm Sam Vines and I'm a Posting bastard

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bm @brologue.net · 24/09/2026

archive.is/xXCaH It's a walkable town, St. Andrews, as all university towns are—which must come as a shock to the crowd who find out that people actually live here.

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bm @brologue.net · 24/09/2026

There is much emphasis on how to declare and justify the use of genAI but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of codifying what these technologies are/aren't besides 1.1/calling them "tools."

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bm @brologue.net · 24/09/2026

st-andrews.ac.uk/policy/acade... I was told by one of my tutors back in April that St. Andrews would put out a policy on using genAI in teaching, and here it is. *On first skim* there is nothing that tips me off, but I'm sure others will find some bits worth questioning.

st-andrews.ac.uk

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bm @brologue.net · 24/09/2026

The thesis is in with absolutely zero help from the editor

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bm @brologue.net · 21/09/2026

walking into the bar for that neck oil, the bartender says what kinda neck oil and i says that fruity kirkland signature over there with a slimline t, the way he woulda loved it

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bm @brologue.net · 21/09/2026

Tim Verfaillie is a fictitious Belgian painter who evaded Wikipedia editors for over 13 years: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

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Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/Tim Verfaillie - Wikipedia

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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bm @brologue.net · 08/09/2026

Well-Known Fact™: There are only three RPGs provably known to exist: Final Fantasy 7, Persona 5, and Expedition 33. Any other game being marketed as an RPG is a psy-op

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bm @brologue.net · 02/09/2026

this twitter(.)now shit is a social experiment i do not want to be a part of

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Kye Fox @kyefox.com · 25/08/2026

Using AI to evaluate which of a website's 3475 partners to accept cookies from

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bm @brologue.net · 25/08/2026

(I mean, it isn't; every pirate wants to be an admiral, etc.)

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bm @brologue.net · 25/08/2026

It's not a crime to scrape the web when Grok does it epic chud bacon style #nitter

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bm @brologue.net · 25/08/2026

Note: this is a hypothetical. I don't have a project like that in the works right now. I'm just casting a net because I want to believe that there ARE writers/artists/etc lurking who would form an affinity group.

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bm @brologue.net · 25/08/2026

I'm reading a book on collaborative worldbuilding—judging from my own experiences, any time I've ever asked folks on the web to work on something together, I seldom get a response. It's an ideal I agree with, of course, but I find the collective action problem to be a persistent hurdle.

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bm @brologue.net · 25/08/2026

I'm scouting for people who would be interested in a collaborative #worldbuilding project with me, if such an opportunity was available. The premise? Let's say: A #Discworld adjacent satirical fantasy world that strives to pick up where Pratchett left off.

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bm @brologue.net · 21/08/2026

holy shit, TWO skongs

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bm @brologue.net · 19/08/2026

The plot meanders, spirals and inevitably explodes in a neurotic crashout before concluding that all of the UK, ALL OF IT, is an eldritch system of status games, based on belief, petty and crabbuckety all the way down. But cheer up: Bake Off's on in five. 2/2

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bm @brologue.net · 19/08/2026

Belief (in general); they start it by trying to reinvent Philomena Cunk from first principles. When that doesn't work, they attempt an Adam Curtis pastiche which collapses in on itself. 1/2

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bm @brologue.net · 19/08/2026

You're on the list of people I'd invite if/when I start a podcast about writing

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026

Where AI *does* produce value, that value is comparable to a *plug-in*, a new feature for your word processor or image/sound/video-editing package that might help you do your job somewhat better, or it might not. 7/

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bm @brologue.net · 19/08/2026

I do think more of us should keep plugging away at this "AI is plugins" line because anyone who uses a software long enough can remember the first time an update added a benign, optional feature that they personally didn't have much use for. It's a hype-resistant comparison.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026

Maybe it seems weird that AI bosses won't stop rending their garments about the terrible potential of their bots, from the jobspocalypse that'll ensue when AI does our jobs, to the impending moment when the word-guessing programs learn too many words, wake up and turn us into paperclips. 1/

A giant killer pulp robot bestriding a 17th century map of the world, against an illustrated backdrop of the stars and planets and spaceships from an early 20th century picture-book.

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bm @brologue.net · 18/08/2026

bsky.app/profile/brol... aye mate

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bm @brologue.net · 13/08/2026

Moments before sunshine breaks under the pressure of being played and then fucking clown honking you like it's some kind of sick joke

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izzy @isobel.top · 11/08/2026

logging into bluesky

chrono trigger screenshot:

Welcome to the Millennial Fair!
Have fun!

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bm @brologue.net · 12/08/2026

This *feels* like a bajillion, anyway. I go into Glasgow city centre and they're always behind my back

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bm @brologue.net · 12/08/2026

Oh, so thaaaaaaat's why there's a bajillion Blue Lagoons in Glasgow

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

One of the reasons I work hard not to take myself too seriously is because taking yourself too seriously as an artist is how you start spinning your wheels overthinking "how people perceive you" and not "the art you are making." Impostor syndrome is a symptom of arrogance of the Woody Allen type

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bm @brologue.net · 11/08/2026

>nah i don't need to do pomodoros, I've got meds, i'm a big boy, i can do 250 words a day all by myself >sets up the pomodoro >550 words

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bm @brologue.net · 10/08/2026

one of the most lowkey infuriating ways ai has ruined web search is the gazillion ai-generated wikis that crop up whenever a new game comes out and there hasn't been a lot of time to discover things yet. when mewgenics came out i remember stumbling on a "wiki" with HORRENDOUS slop pixel art lmao

many big walk "wikis," one of which is ranked higher on DDG than the real Wikipedia entry

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bm @brologue.net · 10/08/2026

I've been thinking a lot about a point @doctorow.pluralistic.net made 2 weeks ago: AI - the bubble = plugins. Now I'm asking: what can we writers do with this framing? *Should* we talk about plugins? Vibechecking "AI is plugins" brologue.net/2026/08/10/a... Please ❤ 🔁 if you like what you read!