darine @darine.bsky.social · 2hVery happy with today's EDHREC Spellify Salt (edhrec.com/games/spelli...) 000
Reposted by darineDarren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...en.wikipedia.orgAaron Swartz - Wikipedia 111607543
Reposted by darineGary Easton @garyfungi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Devon Fungus group are doing another Decoy Park foray on Sunday 11th October, starting at 10.30a.m for UK Fungus Day. It would be nice to see you there. 122
Reposted by darineIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan! 231030381
Reposted by darineCirc @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going. 2679294651
Reposted by darineAndy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 22/09/2026Very much enjoying all the mundanely familiar UK scenery details in Silent Hill: Townfall. 1233356
Reposted by darineDr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If you want to understand the current debate about ASI extinction risk, please please read this. I explain how you've almost certainly been misled into thinking this is about saving humanity--it's NOT. The term "human extinction" doesn't mean what you think it does!realtimetechpocalypse.comThe ASI Extinction Debate Is the Opposite of What You ThinkThe media needs to wake up, fast. (3,100 words.) 88842
Reposted by darineEleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I would like to be able to see a strategy behind the apparent lack of action on the black-clad “protesters” blockading ports. I cannot see anything happening though and it seems that they have just got away scot-free in a way retired climate protesters didn’t. 2224
Reposted by darinePumpkin Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026100's of fascists storm Dover *explicitly* to block roads with the threat of violence in a racist "protest": No arrests. Just Stop Oil members plan to disrupt a highway in a zoom call: 4-5 year sentences. The pigs don't go after fascists for the same reason Peter Parker never fights Spider-Man. 7497117
Reposted by darineLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comFive Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance 3923951157
Reposted by darineIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I've described what's happening with genAI companies as a train headed full-speed into a brick wall, but I think the best example of the nonsense behind that opinion is what's going down at OpenAI under Sam Altman. YouTuber Finance Bureau has a good breakdown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehYi...youtube.comOpenAI Is FALLING Apart And Sam Altman Is PanickingYouTube video by Finance Bureau 336378
Reposted by darineMatt Johnson @matthewjohnson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026You don't realize the power of water until you watch it casually roll a boulder the size of a house down a valley in Nepal. 1032710783
Reposted by darineSteven J. Gibbons @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The abstract should tell you what you really need to know. Please read what the authors have written and not what interpretation an LLM gives it. (4/n) 2337
Reposted by darineJörg Hillebrand @gaghyogi49.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I was able to translate the menu, briefly seen in the restaurant/bar on Mat'aar XII in #StarTrekSNW's "A Case of Chiaroscuro". It contains some spelling mistakes (fixed) and as you can see, several familiar c/mocktails are available in the bar. :-) Here's how I managed to decipher the text: 1/8 4598
darine @darine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Some fungi I found growing in the sequoia national park in Cantabria, Spain #fungifriends 0293
Reposted by darineBonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Twitch's "Allow your channel content to train generative AI models" setting is here and on by default. Go turn that shit off, streamer!! The toggle is under your Settings, then 'Security and Privacy' 5856724407
Reposted by darineBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/ 14852429
Reposted by darineCharlotte thinks Your Deck Rules! @jaqalyte.bsky.social · 05/08/2026There has been update to the definition of what is and isn't a mana ability with the newest version of the Comprehensive Rules: An activated ability is no longer a mana ability if its cost or effect moves a card to or from a library. Selvala 1.0, Chromatic Sphere, and Millikin no longer count. 1/ 1211934
darine @darine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Thanks, Gmail, for forcing your (unwanted and unused) hardcoded labels into the "More, Label as..." list in non-alphabetical positions, despite them all being set to "hide". ✨ Enshittification! ✨ 000
Reposted by darineDr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Last week, about a third of the History department were able to gather together on graduation day. Rather than lend our intellectual authority to the official procession and ceremony we invited our students to come and celebrate their achievements with us in a shady courtyard. They came. 1/ 633199
Reposted by darine👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Got sent to do a graveyard clearance. We were told we had 3 days because there were only 8 headstones in the area to clear, and we could do two burials a day each because the headstones were all 20th Century. However, the graveyard was 1,100 years old... 618653
Reposted by darinec0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 12/07/2026This video clip of a swan landing on a lake is best enjoyed with AUDIO ON. Mute swans (Cygnus olor) are among the heaviest flying birds & require a long runway, which means we get the majestic approach, a few furious moments of webbed feet slapping on water, then the majestic splashdown. 953235808
Reposted by darineSesh Nadathur @seshnadathur.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This is a good write up of the Nature anisotropy paper debacle. But while Sawala is right that it's unfair to the referees to expect them to have caught the big "elemental" mistake in the paper, he's also being very generous - there is another important error that the referees *should* have caught. 211623
Reposted by darineRichard Foord MP @richardfoordld.bsky.social · 04/07/2026South West Water pumped 9,500+ hours of untreated sewage into the River Otter in 2024. On 18 June I led a Commons debate demanding action, but it's still flowing. Make the polluters pay to clean up their mess. Add your name: richardfoord.org.uk/sewage 1124
Reposted by darineRycar @rycar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Man, this fuckin' thing. I've given a closer look to THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF ALL: FANTASY WARGAMING It is incredibly fascinating, and undoubtedly cursed. 🧵 2286
Reposted by darineChise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/05/2026GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.ecoticias.comGoodbye to seasonal viruses as we know them: the first universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergies is now closer than everScientists are getting closer to a universal nasal vaccine that could protect against respiratory viruses, bacteria and even allergies 345147344601
Reposted by darineLogan // Seraph Six @seraphsix.com · 25/06/2026Listen folks. You have to stop clicking random links DM'd to you on Discord. Legitimately. 14439130
Reposted by darinePeter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 21/06/2026"Something just brushed past my leg!" — Luke Skywalker, #StarWars Image credit: tempestkc on Threads #LincolnMemorialReflectingPool #USA 440189564057
darine @darine.bsky.social · 22/06/2026In a bluesky memes-crossing moment, I think I need to tag in @tappytoeclaws.bsky.social? 000
Reposted by darineButtons (Ashley) 🏴☠️#OFMDForLife🏴☠️ 🏳️🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19 21093603491
Reposted by darineJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/ 7455231988
Reposted by darineCrucible Of Words @crucibleofwords.bsky.social · 16/06/2026If anyone in the UK wants to buy a bunch of Idoneth Deepkin models that are new on sprue or new in box, I need to shift my pile of shame to pay for my car repairs 001
Reposted by darineEleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 06/06/2026As the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote looms, and therefore also the 10th anniversary of it entering the fray of frontline politics, I look around me at the devastation left by the right wingers who caused this, and I am cross. 1256
Reposted by darineNome @nome.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Those agendas and biases can be anything! Case in point: you think the fruit in the garden of eden was an apple because a guy translating the story into Latin wanted to make a pun. 231811487
Reposted by darineElizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Ted nails it. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...theatlantic.comNo, Artificial Intelligence Is Not ConsciousTaken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning. 15332117
Reposted by darineRachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖 14215003719720
Reposted by darineSimon's Cat @simonscatofficial.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Your lunch is my lunch! 😺 6556100
Reposted by darinePyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 06/05/2026and how to disable: www.askvg.com/how-to-get-r...askvg.comHow to Get Rid of “Weights.bin” (4 GB) File from “OptGuideOnDeviceModel” Folder in ChromeIf you noticed a large and suspicious “Weights.bin” file (3-4 GB) inside “OptGuideOnDeviceModel” folder present in C: drive and you want 011
Reposted by darineChise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 29/04/2026This is the most detailed 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell to date, obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. 🔬🧪 21757531758
Reposted by darineBill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 25/04/2026For what it is worth, these photos US President Donald Trump posted appear to be the same picture, manipulated in different directions. And the original photo is from July 2004, when George W. Bush was president. 1214259
darine @darine.bsky.social · 23/04/2026For those of you who are interested in Magic: The Gathering, can I recommend a watch of this? A nice insight into a long-lived competitive deck archetype, Doomsday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9n2... 000
darine @darine.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Rare moment for Oreo being on my lap. Only because @kalosach.bsky.social is at the gym. #ProofOfCat 030
Reposted by darineTony DiTerlizzi @diterlizzi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026The German illustrator, Heinrich Kley, had a birthday yesterday! I first discovered his loose, yet frenetic, drawings in a 2-volume collection back when I was in art school. Left: "Nightmare" from the AD&D Planescape Monstrous Compendium, 1994. Right: Kley's cover the arts magazine, Jugend, 1910. 210513
Reposted by darineAnn Leckie @annleckie.com · 02/04/2026Why Brainstorming With a Chatbot Will Not Actually Help All That Much: So, I saw someone point out that when you're going for ideas, the best thing to do is to throw away the first two and the third will be the/a good one. This is not entirely wrong! 317745
Reposted by darineNafnlaus 🇮🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 @nafnlaus.bsky.social · 27/03/2026For all we talk about the strait of Hormuz, can we also bring up how neat Hormuz island is - up to and including rainbow hills and blood-red edible soil? 723858
Reposted by darineChristopher W. Jones @cwjones.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Why do people you know keep posting screenshots of summaries from AI as if this proves anything in an argument? Why do questions like "how do you know the information from AI is correct?" fall on deaf ears? I suggest that the reason has to do with consensus and the legitimation of knowledge 🧵 172
