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dabritian.bsky.social @dabritian.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

You know how funny of a twist it would be if china successfully created a human level general AI like 7 years ago, & discovered it wasn’t very useful since it’s basically just an obstinate guy who knows trivia, they are just watching everyone else waste way more money to find out the same thing.

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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

i think a lot of people nominally interested in politics simply like playing pretend

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One thing I've learned in life is that whenever someone says "What you have to understand about [some group] is that they're [some description]," the description always applies to all humans everywhere. This from the WSJ is a real classic of this genre: wsj.com/opinion/reve...

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

right

Funny is a genus of macrobunid spiders from China.

Etymology

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The specific name of Funny valentine was described as "an arbitrary combination of letters" by its authors.[1]

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Handy Devine 🇵🇸🏴 @almightybob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hemingway eat your heart out

r/legaladvice 1d ago u/Mooselet211
Toilet exploded

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certainlynotrik.bsky.social @certainlynotrik.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New theology concept: The world is governed by a loving, caring God but he has ADHD and we live in one of his inattentive moments, which is like, hundreds of years on his scale. He just spaced for a bit.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s so funny to imagine what the UK could be like if it took seriously any of its cultural icons—that aren’t wizards, Shakespeare, or in possession of good fortune but in want of a wife. We could have Tyranid statues at Heathrow. Perhaps a grisly frieze depicting Servitor conversion at Gatwick.

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Brady! @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this will be funny to like 3 people but I’m one of them and that’s all that matters

The poster for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, but it’s been edited to include And Knuckles at the end of the title, and Knuckles has been edited into the photo of the cast

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Mae @spiderpolice.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

therapy vent art

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Lady Nerevar @ladynerevar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Breaking hiatus to draw this meme that's been stuck in my head since the trailer came out

The picture of wide-eyed Elizabeth Holmes from the upcoming movie You Can See Everything, recreated with Vivec. It's drawn in watercolor and captioned "why would I deceive you?"

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 04/10/2026

This really made something click for me. Found this extremely insightful on why liberal societies - which want to be the freest societies - struggle so much with freedom restrictions. (Translation in Alt)

What actually bothers people is a symptom of any liberal society. It liberates its citizens and then restricts them once more.
A woman born into an ultra-conservative family that envisages only the role of mother for women is protected by liberal society and can instead lead a childless life in a lesbian relationship with a Muslim woman in Berlin-Mitte. Liberal society is constantly on the lookout for people who have not yet been able to realise their full potential because the traditions, customs and morals of their social milieu prevent them from doing so. Anyone who says that something is improper, contradicts a divine plan or is contrary to public decency will find a reliable opponent in liberalism. Liberalism does not condone everything, but it permits whatever does not restrict the freedoms of others.
In this movement, liberal society challenges all communities that provide a sense of purpose. Parents no longer have as much say over what their children should do, and the churches should not dictate how long a marriage must last or what a woman does with her body. And just because things used to be done the way tradition dictated, nobody has to do them that way today. This devaluation of old institutions does not mean that the liberal state wants no churches, no families, no traditions. It merely curtails their authority. It gives them less weight. What is truly permitted and what is not is to be determined solely by the state through its laws, and not by a normative milieu. The motto is: anything that is not forbidden is permitted.

In this way, even what is good is lost. A vulgar, boorish man who, in the past, would not have dared to describe a sexual fantasy to a female politician for fear of social censure from his family and colleagues, can today feel free to do whatever he pleases. The only authority that can legitimately stop him is the law. So he need only ask whether it is forbidden and how he must phrase it so that it is sufficiently ambiguous to still be covered by freedom of expression. And if he manages to string together a series of ambiguities that make his intention obvious but do not constitute a criminal offence, he presents the liberal state with a major problem: the state cannot ban what is simply naughty, tasteless and repulsive.
This creates a vacuum. Much of what was previously curbed through dialogue, social respect, parental discipline, upbringing and moral authority is now left unregulated. Yet there is an urgent need amongst citizens for immoral behaviour to continue to be curbed. So the liberal state is called upon. It is expected to sanction thoughtless words, inappropriate physical contact, prejudiced speech, reckless driving, unbridled consumption, unhealthy eating and the infliction of discomfort. This blurs the distinction between legality and morality.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

1990s: Maybe the machine can teach people how to play chess and get more people into it 2000s: Suck it, Kasparov! Machines are *too* good at chess now! 2010s: I wonder if we can adapt chess to other problems? 2020s: I wonder if we can adapt other problems to chess? *That's* how we lost the plot

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

new wolfenstein looks like shit

its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic

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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta

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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’ve never seen a meme that embodies my very essence before.

YOU TRIGGERED MY FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE
AND PM A FLIGHTLESS BIRD!

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AI quick facts We need to adopt this tech or get left behind

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Kevin Donoghue @donoghuek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anakin-Padme meme, with Padme assuming Irish will be required

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The Sages said: Let him die."

Screenshot: Miriam Anzovin

Sanhedrin 75: A man set his eyes upon a certain woman and passion rose in his heart, to the point that he became deathly ill. The doctors said: He will have no cure until he has sex with her.

The Sages said: Let him die.

The doctors said: She should at least stand naked before him.

The Sages said: Let him die.

The doctors suggested: The woman should at least converse with him behind a fence in a secluded area, so that he should derive a small amount of pleasure from the encounter.

The Sages insisted: Let him die.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's easy - and correct! - to focus on just how ghoulish and profane this view of human creativity is. But even if you're the most cynical capitalist on earth, the evidence that people would enjoy entirely dehumanised content, at anything like a scale that would justify this hype, is extremely thin!

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.

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Big Dracula @hunters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AI design is essentially design by the largest committee imaginable. The ultimate nightmare for any human designer.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

just to be clear this is not exactly a dating service and not exactly not a dating service. it is a service to connect women with rich men who want to impregnate them, mechanics tbd

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TheDevinTeam @thedevteam.itch.io · 30/09/2026

Fantastic thread on a common misread of move structure. Practically required reading for folks interested at all in PBTA design.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have no idea if this is true but the collage kills me

A black lemur in a leafy tree with its mouth open as if singing, beside an inset photo of Pavarotti striking a similar pose. Text reads: “New research shows lemurs use operatic techniques when they sing, to reach high notes.” Classic FM.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the main reasons fraternities still exist is that membership signals to potential employers that you’re capable of keeping institutional secrets, even when it means covering up illegal behavior.

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Sargoth (gyromantically haberdashing iamb) @longersky.com · 07/09/2025

The famous sociologist slash rhetorical scholar Kenneth Burke once posited that self-help book fill a function by making you feel like you are doing the thing, without necessarily leading to you actually doing the thing. I sense that this notion, formulated in the 60s, might be relevant again

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Sargoth (gyromantically haberdashing iamb) @longersky.com · 10/11/2024

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Me: an unintended side-effect of employers doing everything in their limited powers to avoid being labeled as employers, I can not legally claim to be affiliated with any of them. I do however have the keys to a worryingly large nr of buildings

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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natemare before christmas @natescape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you know how much has to have gone wrong for me to not like the internet

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gravewalker @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People think Catholic and Jewish guilt are the same but it's actually getting the arrow of causality wrong. Jewish Guilt: I need my kid to do a task, so I deploy guilt. Catholic Guilt: I need my kid to feel guilt, so I deploy a task.

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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Online sex workers are some of the hardest workers out there, having to do their own shoots, their own lighting, their own promotion, *and* their own community management, while the platform takes a huge cut 🙃

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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TallFroGuy - Shape Decider @tallfroguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

8 hours for rectangle that makes you money. 8 hours for rectangle that makes you sleepy. 8 hours for rectangle that makes you sad.

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my ordinary life @calne.ca · 27/09/2026

im very busy

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 27/09/2026

as someone who has been really critical of a lot of the initial breathless "teehee, weird sex" reportage, i really appreciate this thread for nailing the actual fucked up immoral thing that is happening; you CANNOT consent if your employment or job success are on the line

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you want to know the actual best poem it's Senlin, by Conrad Aiken. Behold just a taste:

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certainlynotrik.bsky.social @certainlynotrik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In hindsight, the 80s-90s view of corporate dystopia is charmingly innocent. They thought we'd be ruled by megacorporations like McDonald's, and now I feel like people are yearning to be ruled by a megacorp that at least serves food, as opposed to shitcoin chatbot financialization.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 27/09/2026

really hope that the message people take away from all the EA sex parties stuff is "don't import inherently coercive real life employer/employee or mentor/mentee dynamics into your edgeplay kink spaces" and not "THEY DO THE IMMORAL KIND OF SEX DISGUSTING"

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 23/01/2026

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

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