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Ruth E

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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Economists and supply chain management professionals every time Trump talks about the Strait
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Tequila Silver Fox 🔜 FurPoc @tequilasilverfox.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I am a fan of scifi, especially cyberpunk, and this one sequence from the MurderBot Diaries always tickled me to imagine as an IRC sequence. 📖 Exit Strategy (Book 4, Chapter 7) ✍️ @marthawells.com #MurderBot
Fake IRC chat log from Exit Strategy chapter 7 showing Murderbot's escape from Tran Rollin Hyfa.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/03/2026
FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.
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Ruth E @caraeilis.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
When the health visitor did my nephew's 1 year visit, she commented on his good social and language development and explicitly linked it to his parents' screen ban for him. It's a struggle because phones are fascinating for him, but why bring an AI toy into the picture at all??
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Ruth E @caraeilis.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Could it be because there's a lot of text in its training set that expresses anxiety? I do wonder what the cause of that could be.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
This stupid fucking meme has got body shape exactly backwards. Half the fuckin population had just spent the better part of a decade being extra malnourished in the 40s while today even pogs get addicted to lifting and creatine
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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
www.caitlinrozakis.com/startup-hell
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Startup Hell — Caitlin Rozakis
Morgan is just trying to get through her workday when she finds her boss facedown on the desk, dead. And the (incredibly attractive) demon he summoned is still trapped in the circle. This hilarious ro...
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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“Hey boss, are you sure Flamigo is more popular than Charizard, and people aren’t just misspelling ‘Flamingo’ on Google?” “Don’t be ridiculous. Of course Flamigo is more popular than Charizard, Mewtwo, Eevee, and Snorlax. Send the email.”
A chart that shows the number of Google searches for each Pokémon.

The text says:

In honor of Pokémon Day, ACE.com, the free-to-play social gaming website, has analyzed Pokémon-related Google search data across the United States over the last 36 months to determine fans' favorite characters.
Rank
Name
Generation
Monthly searches
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Pikachu
Generation 1
685,100
2
Flamigo
Generation 9
374,600
3
Charizard
Generation 1
310,900
4
Charmeleon
Generation 1
250,400
5
Squirtle
Generation 1
215,800
6
Eevee
Generation 1
214,500
7
Mewtwo
Generation 1
209,100
8
Snorlax
Generation 1
207,600
9
Gengar
Generation 1
192,100
10
Ditto
Generation 1
175,500
11
Bulbasaur
Generation 1
171,600
12
Charmander
Generation 1
169,400
13
Grafaiai
Generation 9
166,900
14
Gardevoir
Generation 3
149,800
15
Lopunny
Generation 4
144,900
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I mean this is the most church counselor way of putting it, but intelligence by itself is nearly worthless. wisdom and prudence and discernment are necessary qualities for intelligence to be useful. innumerable religious scriptures have tried to explain this but yr tech bros aren't big on books
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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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meme: Tired of the rat race? Sick of the daily grind? Are you ready for a more fulfilling life? Then Being Carried Away By Owls might be right for you!
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Ruth E @caraeilis.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"Did you see that pull request I opened this morning?"
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Scary Tea Lady @sassytealady.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
a mini barbie dreamhouse atop a giant (relative to the house) chicken legs
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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
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Ruth E @caraeilis.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Amazing how many more Christmas presents adding one toddler to the family produces.
A Christmas tree with around 50 small, wrapped gifts at the foot
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Ruth E @caraeilis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
She loves the ear scritches
A tortoiseshell cat standing on a sofa, with a human hand petting her head
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Y’all remember what didn’t happen when Biden was president? *Any* of this shit. Tariffs, war with Venezuela, masked secret police grabbing people off the streets, people about to lose food aid, health care premiums skyrocketing, none of this.
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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
You know what never gets old? People in inflatable t-rex suits visiting t-rex skeletons in museums
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
As a bit of briefing, this made me chuckle. on.ft.com/40XOXwN
One senior government figure said that ministers were frustrated by the "overzealous" application of the law by some platforms, amid suggestions that some companies are intentionally over-interpreting the legislation in order to undermine its credibility.
The official warned that platforms have a duty to uphold freedom of expression under the OSA, and could be fined by Ofcom if they fail to do so.
"There are clear examples of companies doing things even though Ofcom's guidance clearly does not require them to do so," they said, adding that the OSA had "become a bit of a political
punchbag"
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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Given everything that has happened on Twitter/X in the last 2 years it is astonishing that the govt hasn’t even reviewed its use of the platform
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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 08/07/2025
Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 22/06/2025
Once again, I must post this photo of Darwin, aka Science Officer Meow. He is here to make it better.
Not photoshopped. But you would almost think so. Perfect black cat wearing Spock long sleeve jersey and looking up with his paws on my legs. He looks like he is studying important things on the Enterprise.
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The Scamperbeasts @scamperbeasts.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
IMPORTANT NEWS: All mlems are bleps but not every blep is a mlem. Here we see a blep gracefully and dare we say triumphantly transitioning into a mlem. Truly a beautiful moment, captured for posterity. We are lucky to be here for this spectacular moment in time.
Smudge the cat is sticking his tongue out and is it, JUST BARELY, touching his nose.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
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Darran Marshall @dmarshall.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Unster, Londongrl, Aarmagh This is what ChatGPT created what I asked it to create a map of Ireland - with the Ulster counties identified. Can you spot any mistakes? Watch full report about AI potentials & challenges - on BBC The View www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Ruth E @caraeilis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
OFAC paid my salary and that of several of my quite expensive developer collegues for the first year of my career, and that was just the tech side. It is most definitely a thing.
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Ruth E @caraeilis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This is what happens when an anit-vaxxer who doesn't believe in germ theory gets put in charge.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 28/05/2025
AI will take your job as soon as it figures out what year it is
Google AI says it's not 2025
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Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social · 28/05/2025
We may not have realised we needed Owls in Towels, but only because we didn't know it existed.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Me (crying): Please...I just need to message my coworkers Microsoft Teams Developers: No you don't. You want a Bunch of Bullshit that also changes week-to-week for some reason
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
We are democratizing art. No longer will you have to pay someone who owns a data center just to generate pictures. With a pencil and notepad that costs less than a dollar, you too can create Artisanal Imagery.
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 18/05/2025
translation: "right now we are able to get by with a reduced headcount at junior and staff engineer levels directly proportionate to the extent of their jobs is writing code, which will remain feasible until the job market gets less tight and/or we make a fairly small number of bad hires"
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...
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Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier."
An Australian study, conducted over four years and starting before the pandemic, has come up with some enlightening conclusions about the impact of working from home. The researchers are unequivocal: ...
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Ruth E @caraeilis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
We've had one brain worm, but what about second brain worm?
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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 07/05/2025
So I looked at the "query" that Worldcon used, and as someone who has written at least two books on enterprise AI and many many developer columns on how to build AI apps, and, well, the slim hope that I'd had that they may have done things right has been dashed. A 🧵
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/05/2025
Man I gotta say, knowing that there's nothing anyone can do to walk the President back from tanking the economy because he's got crank ideas about how trade works is really making it hard for me to do my little work tasks
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
One reason for skepticism towards AI hype is many of the same people insisted the Metaverse was definitely the future and you're dumb if you didn't get that, and before that insisted NFTs were definitely the future and you're dumb if you didn't get that. LLMS seem to have more use cases, but still.
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Noelle Machnicki, PhD @noelleon.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
My beautiful, beloved idiot cat ate a nerf dart and needs emergency surgery we can’t afford. If you would like to help or can share:
ablink.marketing.gofundme.com
Donate to Pretzel’s Life-saving Surgery, organized by Noelle Machnicki
It’s really hard to ask for help but Pretzel the cat needs emergency surgery to save hi… Noelle Machnicki needs your support for Pretzel’s Life-saving Surgery
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Carrying on the Austen kick, today's caper: The autistic Mr Woodhouse. Or, why Emma can't stop meddling in the lives of everyone around her - to wit, because 'carer and caree' is the only relationship she's ever known. 1/
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
@aelkus.bsky.social once told me they could port Doom to anything and it looks like he’s right because they’re now running Doom on the stock market.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
my HORRIFYING cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books
Title: Modern Folk horrors of the British Isles 

Five images of various characters:

A coven of murderous witches...
Who play loud youtube videos on public transport.

An ancient malevolent demon... 
With a three-hour podcast interviewing entrepreneurs.

A flock of bloodthirsty ravens...
Who think absolutely everything is "Woke". 

A primordial shambling beast... 
Wearing a "Make albion great again" baseball cap. 

A mob of satanic villagers... 
Who give bad reviews to books they haven't read.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
It was only a few months’ ago that the most significant law and policy story was Truss sending a woeful threatening letter to Starmer. Such innocent days.
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