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Dave Versace

@daveversace.bsky.social
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Some guy from Canberra. Writes a bit. Games a bit. Tries not to become infuriated with the state of the world or go outside. Likes dogs. Trans rights are human rights. Science doesn't care about your beliefs. ACAB. AWAWB.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 16h
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Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Worse still he's a piece of shit who only knows other pieces of shit so thinks everyone else is like that too (to the extent he thinks of them at all)
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 03/10/2026
Children overboard was not simply a “miscommunication”. A Senate inquiry found Peter Reith deceived Australians and Cabinet blocked key staff from giving evidence, Marianne Van Galen Dickie and Andrew Bartlett write. #auspol #Refugees Parliament of Australia
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
"LLMs are just computers doing Algebra for fascists" is a completely correct take and the only examples anyone provides for why agentic AI is good are basically "it allows me to fuck off at work".
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Based on the bits of trailer I've seen, this is objectively the case
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I mean, I absolutely refuse to watch it, but I can't imagine a world where it's even remotely interesting
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You suspect incorrectly
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The important question is not which faction supplies the next PM. It is what substantially different Australia any of the factions proposes to create. ...the problems confronting government are becoming larger as its political imagination becomes smaller." pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...
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Labor’s Left has won the party. So what happened to the Left?
Labor’s Left has the prime minister, the numbers and formidable control of the party machinery. What it lacks is a program for changing Australia. After decades spent accumulating power, the bigger qu...
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Without knowing a damn thing aout the guy, I somehow already knew this
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I see the BBC is continuing its rich history of appointing senior managers who don't have a fucking clue what Doctor Who is
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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 30/09/2026
In one week I click the button and let slip the dogs of fractal history… Tuesday October 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...
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Coming soon: Microscope (2nd Edition)
The fractal game of epic histories
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unheard and out of camera shot, a small, insane terrier is just chewing his ankle down to the bone
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
Slow Roads is a game for drivers, not racers: aftermath.site/slow-roads-imp...
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trif @trif26.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Luke Plunkett nails it. So glad I subscribe to aftermath.site You should too.
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Aftermath
Video games, the internet and what comes after
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Blackniss Everdeen @the-green-queen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good for her I guess, but literally none of those things helped me for any of my 50 undiagnosed years. What helped me was medication.
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Jess 💖 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Millennial bisexuals everywhere arise! The beacons are lit!
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz on the set of The Mummy 4
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If I were a "science" "magazine", I would probably hesitate to publish an article regarding findings that were "not peer reviewed" and were also self-evidently fucking nonsense
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That makes me inexpressibly happy to see
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Transcendent
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you put all your faith in nostalgia, it will hold you down and kick you while it picks your pockets clean
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'll submit that it has never occurred to Chris, 69, even once, ever, that he is part of the problem
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Someone already posted Romy and Michelle, so I'll say this one:
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Aidan Gallagher & Umbrella Academy Dance
Alt: Dance off to the tune of Footloose between two different Umbrella Academy family groups
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
By the numbers as a military parade and dumb as a box of hammers. I enjoyed it a lot.
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I genuinely think when all this comes out we're going to lose count of all the different kinds of fraud he's committed
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Din't think the better team won on the day, but then again that's not really how this works #aflgf
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They look like a retired middleweight boxer and his accountant
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Australians hate it when the US starts listening to its worst grifters because we know we'll be adopting the same snake oil six months later.
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wake up babe new pointless expense for dickheads has dropped
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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 24/09/2026
This week has seen a sweaty little fascist livestream knifing a dinghy with an RNLI volunteer still in it because FOREIGN PEOPLE and a lot of the media being very scared to call a sweaty little fascist a sweaty little fascist. So seeing Captain Art Crimes step the fuck up is an absolute joy:)
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Astro City on Humble Bundle, plus other Buisek-penned books. All 17 volumes of Astro City, which is some berserk value. If you have never had the pleasure, now's your chance.
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Humble Comic Bundle: Kurt Busiek's Astro City: The 30th Anniversary by Image Comics
Explore the works of multi‑Eisner and Harvey Award winner Kurt Busiek with the Astero City Bundle by Image Comics!
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
That "could be" is doing some serious lifting there bro
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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In a study of doctors in Poland, using an AI for three months, then ceasing to use it, resulted in a 20% loss of skill and accuracy. Cognitive systems are metabolically expensive. When your brain knows there's a substitute, it resents not having access to it.
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AI Took Something From Doctors and Nobody Noticed. The Lancet Caught It. Here Is the Story
A landmark study in The Lancet measured what happens to a physician’s diagnostic instincts when the algorithm is switched off. The findings…
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The worst thing we've done is made fame a middle class job, instead of the toxic runoff of actual accomplishment.
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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Batman Day isn't fun for everybody. Please check on your superstitious and cowardly loved ones today.
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If it's any consolation I've found that anyone arguing with you is a pretty reliable indicator they can be blocked without further review
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Liberal Part grappling: "We know it will be a disaster but we're completely out of ideas."
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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ed Sheeran losing openers like a 1990s England cricket team
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Adam Lance Garcia @adamlancegarcia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@kurtbusiek.bsky.social's Masterpiece, ASTRO CITY, is available on Humble Bundle. This has my *HIGHEST* recommendation. A life-changing series. www.humblebundle.com/books/kurt-b...
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Humble Comic Bundle: Kurt Busiek's Astro City: The 30th Anniversary by Image Comics
Explore the works of multi‑Eisner and Harvey Award winner Kurt Busiek with the Astero City Bundle by Image Comics!
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is nightmare fuel. Australia as a country has a lot to be ashamed of, but this may well be near the top of the list
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?" www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Nuts. Because the whole thing about Miracleman was that the character was one of a dozen blank slate nothingburger Superman knockoffs, and literally the only thing elevating it was Moore's writing and the art. There's nothing there that couldn't be done by a good team with a new character.
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Dystopian Arthur Wyatt @arthurwyatt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Oh hey want to be intensely angry about some shit for the rest of your life? youtu.be/8BIcAZxFfrc?...
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Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response
YouTube video by hbomberguy
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Everyone should read El's book about the demented Silicon Valley tech mythos. Then read it again because on the first pass you won't quite accept it as the thought processes of real people who have a regrettably outsized influence on your survival prospects.
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026
The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
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