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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 3h

I've only in recent days learnt who Jacob Geller was, and given the sheer volume of reactions, this now feels like either the most embarrassing bubble or the most fortunate blind spot.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 11h

Please don't forget about us trans people. Facing the worst attack on our rights in this country due to Labour's current transphobia. Don't forget my community. That's all I ask. Please.

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

youtube.com/shorts/3R7Oq... Fallout 4!

various Boston sights, mostly from the Freedom Trail, plus the Salem Witch Museum

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Me following our puppy around the yard to make sure she's not up to any shenanigans

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Damn, bro even got canceled by God.

Ed Sheeran’s concerts at Robert Kraft-owned Gillette Stadium canceled over weather concerns amid Macklemore drama

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Correction: OpenAI trained its model to hack the Australian government. When will this insanity end? It's not an autonomous being, this is intentional.

Open AI agent hacks Australian government portal

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When even the toilet's a northerner.

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well, I just had someone email us to request missing components... that don't exist for the game. He used a chatbot to "research" what might be missing from a used copy of the game and it hallucinated new components.

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If German restaurants in Greece were named like Greek restaurants in Germany: Restaurant Hegel, Restaurant Kant, Restaurant Thor, Restaurant Berlin

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Next up: US Navy Sailors Try US Military MRE for the First Time

Youtube thumbnail "North Korean Tank Commanders Try US Military MRE for the First Time", with USS Abraham Lincoln's mutiny-worthy "food" shoddily pasted over the actual food they're eating.

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

AoE2 was my first video game obsession and I spent years playing essentially just this. Haven't played it for almost 25 years. Installed DE and man, am I having a blast. Weirdly, my brain keeps telling me to click on certain icons without remembering what they'd do. Like, oh, flaming arrows, right!

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The AI CEOs insisting that the unregulated market simply forces them to destroy humanity are the same people who claim its invisible hand will guide humanity into prosperity.

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yes, AI is vewy scawwy and you should definitely slow down development of what would otherwise surely end in an uncontrollable superintelligence rather than autocomplete plateauing, with trillions in debt, absolutely, I believe you. Now let me shop while you go play with Sammy and Elon, honey, okay?

Steam category "For when the bubble pops"

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Tech ran out of ideas, let deep learning loose on noise patterns and sold the result as AI. People caught on that it's just autocomplete applied to nothing and now their final death rattle is blackmail. Media loves both tech fantasies and the apocalypse, and this is the convergence point of the two.

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Would love to know how much Anthropic paid the guy who said he left Anthropic to warn us about how powerful Anthropic's product is.

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Curiously, hate against a minority that is significantly underrepresented in the states in which the AfD thrives most, but that would benefit most from left-wing policies because they're the poorest states in the country.

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Thought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Annual reminder that today is not Labour Day, Labour Day is May 1st.

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And you can watch those tokens being spent in real time in Zeteo's Maximilian Krah interview.

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Our shelter cat Spice, eagerly awaiting the latest Whistledown.

A shelter cat of royal blood, judging you.

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

All those wise guys insisting that you technically don't own games anymore, duh, and that everyone should just accept corporate dominion: This is where corporations cash that in. Those words will be used against you.

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The problem with fascim is that you eventually run out of Other people.

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Bro disavowed his own sexuality AND endorsed pedophilia and STILL got abducted by the homophobic pedo Gestapo, give the man a break, he did everything in his power to do the right thing!

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

engaged youtube views (top) vs views (bottom), with a spike that shows the exact day the definition of a "view" changed. Apparently, that's more than double what it used to be. Cool! Why are we doing this, exactly?

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Gotta rewatch the best Muppets movie ever made in tribute. Professional Pirate > He's a Pirate

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Future work section aka "someone else can clean up this mess, but it sure ain't gonna be me".

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/08/2026

Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…

MYTH: The workers of the world must unite and seize the means of production from the ruling class by force if necessary.

FACT: The workers of the world should politely ask if they can have Labor Day off this year.

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

What do you mean "this recording"? For decades this was the only version of the song I knew!

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Harassment-prone demographic uses harassment glasses to harass even more efficiently. Maker of harassment glasses, who got rich by inventing harassment platform, insists that wasn't their intention."

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Gotta hand it to him, the petrodollar profiteer threatening the Hormuz profiteer with economic warfare IS funny.

Trump threatens Iran with ‘economic warfare,’ while cutting off talks

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Reading the wikipedia article of the Mechanical Turk, it's just funny how even back in the 1800s, major newspapers were like: Two boys say they saw a guy in there? Yeah right, pfff, kids. This machine THINKS! *mysterious hand gestures*

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This, honestly, struck me as well. Especially the time of year everyone performatively wears their poppy pins. As a German, national, quasi-mandatory support for the troops just seemed bizarre.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 15/08/2026

The way that much of the UK self-presents as a space of post-racial harmony is frankly insane, and I found it bizarre to witness while living there, because it is so obviously not. There are still a huge contingent of gutter racists, and they give them bylines in the newspapers as a reward.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Quite proud of how this one turned out! I'll link to the instructions once I've finalized and uploaded them to rebrickable.

Castle Wolfenstein from Old Blood as a lego miniature

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Whoever came up with promoting Hades as a "roguelike for people that hate roguelikes" has never met a person that actually hates them. I can see the ingenuity, the passion, the craftsmanship that went into it, but it's still a roguelike. And giving me pity points for dying does not sweeten the deal.

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 11/08/2023

As we approach students-don't-read-the-syllabus season, a quick reminder that professors don't read emails or follow instructions either 🧐

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Just got served this hilarious AI ad, where, instead of saying, "Wow, das ist direkt auf meiner Scheibe!" (it's right on my windscreen!), the AI guy says "das ist direkt auf meiner Scheiße": Wow, it's right on my shit! I mean, it's obviously a scam, that's just Youtube ads now, but I did giggle.

snapshot of a vertical Youtube short: two AI guys sitting in an AI car with an AI device that projects your current speed and speed limits onto your windscreen. Mirrored, so you as a viewer can read the numbers, but they couldn't. Because it's all fake.

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026

I've seen people suggest you look at the eclipse through a colander. Don't do that, you'll strain your eyes.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Every post which begins "it's not about left vs right" goes on to say something which is easily categorisable as either left or right. "It's not about left vs right, it's rich vs poor" Mmm, yes, what could be more neutral than the concept of class war.

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Wenn jemand "nen" sagt als Abkürzung für "ein" statt "einen".

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Malte Wendt @crocodilegambit.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Saw someone argue online that what makes Disneyland so attractive - particularly to adults - is that it's a walkable space. So am I to understand that Americans spend their life savings to take their family to a magical place of pure fantasy: a walkable city with trains and no cars?

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 25/07/2026

Solidarity with all of our queer siblings in Berlin. No-one should be made scared to march in defence of their community, and in celebration of who they truly are. It is more important than ever that we all come together with pride, and look after one another.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

of the dodgy odyssey takes, 'odysseus is meant to be a stoic badass unaffected by war' probably winds me up the most. in the text the king of the phaeacians correctly guesses odysseus is a veteran of the trojan war because he keeps bursting into tears whenever anyone mentions it

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