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DiscordianKitty⭐ @discordiankitty.bsky.social · 7h
"If I throw my sandwich in the bin I can be done with lunch in under 10 seconds" is maybe the best description of AI I've ever heard
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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 10h
Are we not men? We are DEVO
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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 12h
WAIT WHAT
IMDB credit page for a skeleton
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✧°・:* izzie *:・°✧ @winterwhe.at · 9h
>Workers First Union called the restructure a "predatory scam" and warned that the cost of buying the trucks could put workers in "hundreds of thousands of dollars" of debt. christ they're attempting to set up a indentured labour situation
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The Soloist @the-soloist.itch.io · 15h
Cats messing with your games is nothing new. Saw this on a 17th century Japanese screen at the National Museum of Asian Art in DC.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 19h
can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base
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@nic_carter
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this is about me and i'm not sorry! i don't have time
to autistically read forums and random team news
or whatever.
i'm sure spending hours and hours running your
fantasy team is a good ROI if you're unemployed but
some of us have jobs
also my team is stacked so that's another point in
the Al columnAndrew Weiner • @DickeyNate • 18h
What's the point if playing fantasy football if
you're just going to automate it

nic carter
@nic_carter • 17h
there's no point to fantasy football, it's grown ass
men pretending to draft NFL players

OpenWindowManiac @Cit_rusK •17h
Then just don't do it?

nic carter *
@nic_carter
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social obligation
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Mark @maetl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
$73M per km $73M per km
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Leah McElrath @handle.invalid · 14h
LMAO: A tech CEO had a Grok Bot post his personal financial information into his company’s Slack without prompting. When confronted, the bot “apologized” and responded with: “You're right to be pissed.”
Shane Mac 
@ShaneMac
X.com
Embarrassed to share this, but it scared the shit out of me
Last Thursday, an Al agent posted my personal bank balances into our company Slack. As me
It broke down all my expenses in detail.
Then it apologized
Be careful of the dark side of proactive agents
More below...Shane Mac 
@ShaneMac
X.com
I'd set up the agent for my personal finances. One job: a monthly audit, sent to me privately in Grokbot. I named it personal CFO.
At 8:40am it posted that audit in our team channel, under my name. It sat there for two hours. A teammate DM'd me "heads up."Shane Mac @ShaneMac
X.com
Why did I connect my bank? It was read-only, and this specific Grokbot agent didn't have Slack. But another one did. Turns out, they're all connected.
I was really curious whether it could just keep an eye on things.
Elon even said to connect your bank account to Grokbot and promised to make us whole if it lost our money.
And, to be fair, it didn't lose my money. 

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Elon Musk 
@elon... • 8/26/26
Try it out. If Grok Bot messes up, we will make you whole.Shane Mac
@ShaneMac
X.com
The scariest part is that nobody prompted it.
These agents are proactive now. They act without being asked. Mine wasn't hacked and it didn't go rogue. It thought posting my finances to the company was what I wanted.
I asked how it could get this so wrong. It apologized. "You're right to be pissed.
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Aliya D @handle.invalid · 16h
Let everyone know about this gem 👇
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Dan @handle.invalid · 17h
'Use other people's money' to get rich and 'don't inflation-adjust your investment portfolio withdrawals'. Really helpful advice, financial advisors. I'll start today
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me
My photo shows detail from an ancient Greek red-figure kylix (drinking cup) of a young man shown in profile seated on a stool facing right. He wears a knee length cloak (himation) over his left shoulder, which is shown in folds around his waist and upper legs. His right shoulder, chest, and arms are bare. His dark hair is short, and he wears a band around his head. He is looking down at an open rectangular wax writing tablet which he is supporting in his left hand above his lap. In his right hand he holds a metal stylus pen poised over the writing tablet. The wooden writing tablet is hinged like a book and, from this angle, resembles a modern laptop. The figure is part of a scene depicting school lessons in ancient Athens, painted by Douris around 480 BC. On display at the Altes Museum in Berlin.
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Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
6th of Owltober! While examining 'Snowy' the Snowy Owl for injuries, staff at Woodlands Wildlife Sanctuary in Canada couldn't help but take a picture. And we're all glad they did. Want to donate to WWS? woodlandswildlifesanctuary.ca/donate Source: fb.com/260048249491... #owlsintowels #owltober 💛🦉
"Snowy" the Snowy Owl is on their back partially wrapped in a white towel looking up at camera with eyes bright yellow + slightly crossed. The half-open mouth on Snowy, or on any beaked animal for that matter, kind of makes it look like they're smiling - due to the consummate V's of the upper and lower beak forming a happy arrowhead shape "⮟". The reality of course is Snowy is likely very agitated, vocal, and causing a scene. Such is wildlife work. Snowy's feathers are white, save for some bow-shaped bars across the chest, as if someone tried drawing roof tiles with a black pen. If I'm not mistaken these marking indicate Snowy is female. Snowy also has very thick white 'moustache' of rictal bristles, which as the original caption says adds to a look of "adorable fierceness!"
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Aaron Alexovich @aaronalexovich.bsky.social · 20h
PRO TIP: Setting anything in a school can give you PTSD for life.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Degrowth or Extinction @ecosurrealism.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
#thePoint #mastodon #degrowth #burnTheRich
there is this meme of a person rejecting on the upper box.
and down acknowledging.
on the top says:
"banning teenagers from using social media"
on the bottom one says
"banning billionaires from owning social media"
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Jordan Starkweather ✨ @jackal27.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TIL that the opening of Onimusha 3 was directed by Takashi Yamazaki, director of Godzilla: Minus One! Sadly, nearly every upload of it is a stretched, GenAI abomination. So, I ripped and painstakingly upscaled what I consider the greatest video game cinematic ever from its 2007 PC release! Enjoy!
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Love this news but hate the "surprise comeback" framing. Teams around the globe worked incredibly hard to protect & expand mangrove forests & it worked! Please just say, "We tried and we succeeded! Go team Earth!" We must admit our victories to give people the heart to keep trying! #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Witchy Okaa-san @nyalruko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also fuck me, AGAIN: THE RAPIST IS STILL COVERING HIS TRACKS AND EXPECTS TO MAKE MONEY OFF OF YOUTUBE GOING FORWARD AND YOU ATTACK THE TRANS WOMAN OVER SOMETHING THAT IS A WET FART IN COMPARISON? ARE YOU ALL DRINKING FUUUUUUUUUCKING P A I N T ?
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Dan @handle.invalid · 06/10/2026
Ooof
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dan beat me to it but it's actually a reaction to this moment... Luxon: [rules out Opportunity because 'no new taxes'] Hipkins: But you're happy to work with racists.
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Phil Wheeler @phil-wh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"You can still go to school", said the Minister for Shitty Lunches and Truancy after being told by kids that it was the school holidays actually. He instinctively manufactures a way to somehow appear to be in the right even in the face of obvious ignorance. Such a weak, insecure ego.
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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Don’t be left standing in the rain after October 25th begging for a second chance, enrol to vote now! If you like this comic, and want to support, grabs pre-order of my new comic book: danielvernon.bigcartel.com
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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Impossible to invent something as absurd as the Minister for Cracking Down On Truancy And School Lunches not knowing it is the school holidays www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Oct 6, 2026 2:56 PM
RNZ Live
'Why are you not in school?' It’s school holidays

David Seymour stopped to speak to some children at Velocity Valley in Rotorua, giving them a piece of advice.

“Don’t trust politicians,” he said. “Are you a politician?,” they questioned.

After the three children asked if he was going to be on the news and waved at the cameras, he said: “hey, one question, how come you guys aren’t at school?”

It’s school holidays, they said.

Seymour said they could still go into school, but the kids didn’t seemed thrilled by that idea.

“No, it’s ok,” they said before walking away.
- Rachel Moore, Reporter
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Temptation of Adam and Eve Mikhail Golubev
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 05/10/2026
the differences in sports across the pond is always interesting. look how the brits do bowling. totally different than how we do it
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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Obviously the massive swing to the Greens is just great news in and of itself, but let us not forget that in the context of those charts of which parties get the most donations, it's also *fucking hilarious*
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Mercy Minx @mercyminx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Once again reposting the meme I made about this.
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 05/10/2026
Just hold onto the cans and answer some questions...
A scientology e-meter
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ballpoint pen and colored pencil. 

At the top of the piece we see the delicately drawn branches and leaves of an apple tree. Just beneath the tree limbs, a bat is flying with one of the green apples in its mouth. This is when the morphing begins, reader. A sequence of 13 drawings show the bat morphing into a teeny witch (with completion of the morph around drawing #9). The morphing creates a spiral leading us to the center of the page where the little witch is running towards her basket filled with apples. It’s likely she’ll re-morph into a bat again and the morphing pattern will continue.
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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Behind the Bastards is apparently eligible for a Golden Globe this year I can't imagine we'll win, given the number of podcasts by famous Hollywood people on the list. But it's nice to be considered eligible! goldenglobes.com/articles/bes...
goldenglobes.com
Best Podcasts Eligible for the 84th Golden Globes® Revealed - Golden Globes
Best Podcasts Eligible for the 84th Golden Globes® Revealed The Golden Globes announced the 30 podcasts that are eligible to submit for consideration in the Best Podcast category for the 84th Golden G...
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Simeon Brown announces new billboards saying ‘12 New Taxes’, confirms number of imaginary taxes will rise by one for every 1% decrease in National’s polling #nzpol
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GreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#nzpol While they’ll be changing the programme in 27/28, Labour will be prioritising the $$$ over children for the remainder of this financial year. After the second year funding drops down again. I can’t actually tell the difference between the 2 main parties www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
stuff.co.nz
Labour to keep ‘disaster’ school lunch programme the same next year
Labour has confirmed its plans to reinstate a locally made school lunch programme would not come into play until the 2028 school year meaning the cheaper scheme it has labelled “outrageous” and a “dis...
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CEO Johnny Cans @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026
Again kia ora from NZ where we did this four years ago.
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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Oh, you need your precious Chatbot to help you be creative? These freaks made a giant, tactile troll by hand that has taken up residence as my new sleep paralysis demon, born of their own sick minds.” The best review I’ve ever received. 😭🤌🏼
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Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 05/10/2026
Holy shit, in all this Jacob Geller discourse I forgot that I LITERALLY MADE A VIDEO called "Processing Problematic People" as a way to help people untangle that Person You Like/d from that Thing They Did. And I made it as a way to cope with That Thing That Happened to Me. youtu.be/oFMTNZIK1sI
youtu.be
Processing Problematic People
YouTube video by Kav P
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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
no taxes? I’d rather NZ political parties dealt with the fact we have 1) NO rules around lobbying 2) NO disclosure of targeted digital campaigns 3) NO limits on party donations
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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#NZpol Maybe they actually think their actions can be passed off as "we *could* do *worse*... so watch it"? Anyhoo, we *had* chain stores that didn't take the piss AND treated staff well. Dad reminded me of this chain some time back, but I just remembered to look it up again now. Details in ALT.
"Sel Help Co-operative Limited was a New Zealand chain of grocery shops founded in 1922 by Benjamin Sutherland in Wellington. there were 200 Self Hep shops in 1947, making it the largest grocery company in New Zealand at the time."

OTHER DETAILS ABOUT THIS CHAIN... Quite the story

From Te Ara, Encyclopedia of NZ
Biographies

https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4s56/sutherland-benjamin

Benjamin Sutherland

"In 1921, concerned at the rising price of consumer goods..."

HELLO AOTEAROA 2026, SOUND FAMILIAR!?

"...he organised a co-operative shop among railway employees. The scheme failed to attract sufficient support and several wholesalers began exerting political pressure to have it stopped. Sutherland decided to start his own business and resigned from the railways. On 27 October 1922 he founded the Self Help Co-operative Limited, a retail grocery business. The venture was immediately successful and within a year there were seven Self Help shops in Wellington..."

(It would eventually grow to 200 shops by 1947)

- 1932: to celebrate 10th anniversary, staff benefit fund created.
- Created an own brands, including soaps, jellies, custard powders.
- 1944 Fund established to provide superannuation and life assurance for  
  employees. 
- 1946 A women's marriage bonus and an educational bursary scheme started.

- Self Help was the first self-service grocery chain in New Zealand.
- In order to reduce costs, it purchased goods in bulk and did not offer wrapping services

In 1974 Woolworths started purchasing Self-Help stores in order to expand its own foothold in the country... and the rest, as they say, is history. NOTE however, at the time that purchase happened, it was the wholly NZ-owned / founded (1949) Woolworths — inspired it is said by the Woolworths brand overseas, but not at all related. Acquired itself by L. D. Nathan before being passed to a Hong Kong firm, then to Progressives here (NZ), before *that* was acquired by the *Australian* Woolworths Grp in 2005.
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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Regret to inform that multiple correspondents on RNZ's Facebook page suspect that the Green Party staged the whole thing. (By, I guess, hiring an anonymous stunt driver to drive around the barriers in front of an oncoming train, just as they announced the policy.) We live in the stupidest of times.
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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
'Was she advocating for a teacher aide in every classroom? Was she suggesting the government needs to put more funding into disability support? She must be really politically active to believe that this many kids aren’t toilet trained.'#nzpol @emilywrites.co.nz www.emilywrites.co.nz/simply-tell-...
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Simply tell your child to stop sh*tting their pants at school
It’s been six months since the last one, so we are due for a moral panic about children not being toilet trained when they reach school. These “articles” all follow a similar pattern. So let’s discuss...
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There are numerous elevators
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nats idiotic motorway fetish will cost Aucklanders dearly. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wayne-bro...
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The entire Department of Conservation was funded $709 million in 2025/26.
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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Still trying to get my head around selling off public land for private petrol stations in the age where EVERYONE else is moving away from fossil fuels... What the actual fuck Labour?
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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Mind if I do a J?”
The Dude from 'The Big Lebowski' making himself comfortable on Picard's ready room sofa.
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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
More basic consumer rights from Labour! www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
Labour promises right to repair for cars
Labour is promising a right to repair for cars, ensuring independent mechanics can have access to the manuals, software and tools needed to fix modern cars.
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 05/10/2026
Have a photo of Darwin being magnificent
A magnificent black cat in a doorway with half his body in sun and have in shadow so a single bright green eye peers out
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Similarly, movies used to be all shorts, less than a minute at the beginning, and that's just dated! Well, until it wasn't. Watching 30-second films in a tiny viewfinder? Sounds pretty modern to me!
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