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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

AI companies keep doing this winking self-parody and it is not cute. Remember the flipside of the tale, "black man is too incompetent to do his job without Apple Intelligence"? The ad has been memory-holed, probably not because embarrassing but because Apple were slow to launch their LLM stuff.

Screenshot from taken-down Apple Intelligence ad where Lance, a Black man, uses AI to summarise a report he hasn't read during a meeting.

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 29/05/2026

One of the ways we are unfortunately relevant

Table of countries by coal exports (short tons, 2020) from Wikipedia:

Indonesia 451,520 tons
Australia 429,894 tons
Russia 244,312 tons
South Africa 82,573 tons

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026

In Sydney this Saturday? Interested in solutions to the housing crisis? Come hear me talk about co-operative housing! events.humanitix.com/intro-to-hou...

Photo: Johannes Marburg Geneva of Mehr als Wohnen co-op in Zurich

Residents with kids and prams are milling about chatting under trees, before a 6-storey apartment building. The balconies have vines connecting them vertically, growing on wire trellises.

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 15/05/2026

"Today, 25 percent of the city’s dwelling units are permanently withdrawn from the for-profit sector, with the largest share, 18 percent, cooperatively owned and the remainder comprising municipal housing or housing operated by other nonprofit entities." cooperativeconditions.net/home/introdu...

Atrium and laundry room of Haus A, Hunziker Areal, 2020
Photo: Anna Derriks

Open air walkways with white railings. Potted plants with trailing vibes and leaves dangling down. A room with washing machines visible behind a glass door

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 14/05/2026

The cowoking space made a little networking lounge nook for the routers 💝

Photo of a small niche with wood and brick walls, a couch and low table. Against the back wall under a shaded window is a networking cabinet with exposed lights, three handsome orange closed cabinets, and very aesthetic cabling

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 13/05/2026

Pretty sure that's Cool Rick

Michael Chernus and Michael Dorman in Patriot

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 07/05/2026

There may be a completely normal explanation www.404media.co/did-a-time-t... The punchline xcancel.com/DavidPuente/... *Why* someone would do this still unclear.

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 17/03/2026

I'm part of Sydney Cohousing, a local community volunteer group that wants to promote more collaborative and less profit-driven approaches to housing. We're running an Intro to Cohousing in Camperdown this Sunday! sydneycohousing.au/event/introd... #HousingCrisis #Cohousing #SustainableHousing

Banner with the word "Co-housing" over a terraced houses enclosing pedestrian street with greenery.

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 06/04/2025

Classic Liberal party putting their best foot forward with just a little bit of light deception in the mail #auspol (from a friend, not my electorate)

Envelope with IMPORTANT on the outside and a letter from Grange Chung, Liberal party candidate for Reid, inside.

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 10/02/2025

To me the giveaways are the text (though it's much better than some I've seen) and this weird black leaf. But AI image generators are quite good at mimicing all sorts of styles. It's very impressive, but concerning.

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 28/12/2024

Credit: twitter.com/evan_greer/s...

Meme format of a young woman assisting an old woman with a walking frame.

Old woman: "Chumbawamba was an anarchist punk band, you know"

Young woman: "sure grandma let's get you to bed"

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 25/12/2024

I don't know who needs to hear this but The Boy Bands Have Won is back on music streaming services after having been unavailable for I don't know how long. Entertain your family this Christmas with classics like El Fusilado, I Wish That They'd Sack Me, and Lord Bateman's Motorbike!

The full title of the album is: "The boy bands have won, and all the copyists and the tribute bands and the TV talent show producers have won, if we allow our culture to be shaped by mimicry, whether from lack of ideas or from exaggerated respect. You should never try to freeze culture. What you can do is recycle that culture. Take your older brother's hand-me-down jacket and re-style it, re-fashion it to the point where it becomes your own. But don't just regurgitate creative history, or hold art and music and literature as fixed, untouchable and kept under glass. The people who try to 'guard' any particular form of music are, like the copyists and manufactured bands, doing it the worst disservice, because the only thing that you can do to music that will damage it is not change it, not make it your own. Because then it dies, then it's over, then it's done, and the boy bands have won."

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 21/11/2024

Introduce yourself with four video games

Screenshot of Lego Rock Raiders PC game showing a dim cavern containing lego-like buildings on glowing blue PowerPath

Screenshot of Yoshi's Story on the Nintendo 64, a bright and colourful tropical scene where everything appears to be crocheted

Screenshot of Thief: The Dark Project showing the silhouette of a guard with a sword at the end of a long, dim mediaeval hallway

Screenshot of Age of Empires II showing a column of cavalry, siege engines and foot soldiers walking out of a gate in a long stone wall

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 14/11/2024

Glad to see Bluesky choosing the "we will charge money" approach to monetisation. (Sorry to DHHpost but he does make the point.)

Screenshot of a Twitter conversation:

1. Someone posts about using a new email product called HEY
2. Rick replies: "How will they monetize this? Nothing is free."
3. Creator of HEY replies: "Money. We will charge money."

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 22/10/2024

Victorian police out there trying to get Labor re-elected

Police can with hand written text on the side reading
"New train stations
Open
Police stations
Closed
Under Labor!!"

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 17/09/2024

Keeping this for posterity #5,009,555

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 10/08/2024

How is he so comfortable at all times

A close up of a black cat with nearly-closed yellow eyes, lounging on a dark red and blue carpet on the floor, with head rested on one paw which stretches out towards the camera.

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 16/07/2024

The reflection in the water does *not* look correct. Also can we get any experts on whether the headlights would keep functioning despite everything being very on fire?

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 30/06/2024

GNOME is very pretty. Especially so thanks to wallpaper art from unsplash.com/@oskark

Screenshot of standard GNOME desktop with settings app open, Sublime Text in software app installer, and background of an Austrian mountain with golden-green trees on the lower slopes.

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 30/06/2024

External screen also just works- screen, power, mouse and keyboard off the one USB-C input. Now we're cooking with peanut oil

A desk top with a framework laptop plugged into a monitor showing this thread on the screen

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 30/06/2024

It all looked more or less like it does in the manual guides.frame.work/Guide/Framew... Here's one of the extra magnet:

Close up short focal length of a Framework laptop from the side. Its keyboard is off exposing the motherboard. Close to the camera, blurry, is a label "made with 💚 by the Framework team" and a list of names. In focus is a tiny silver rectangular magnet raised above the circuitry.

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Daniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 27/06/2024

Very excited to go full Linux (not dual booting, for the first time) with frame.work

Framework laptop expansion cafds. A small cardboard packaging box containing other smaller boxes (each about the size of a business card) labelled "USB-C" and "250GB expansion card".

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