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Cyrus

@digitalvergil.bsky.social
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they/them, 26 nb book nerd. Trying to write more. Working on video essays about dungeons and/or dragons Reading: • All of the original Conan stories (help me why did i do this) • Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser pfp by bug4932 on tumblr background pic by me

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 5h
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
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Chris 🧠 talk with humans @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2h
once again reminding everybody here to make sure your irl people know the AI industry just reinvented the crime skeleton. people think they're alone and private, but they're always in a 3-way line chat with cops after the fact *reminder bsky is also a crime skeleton - but we know this isn't private
in 1930 helene adelaide shelby patented an apparatus for obtaining criminal confessions (above image is patent diagram this will describe, gist is person talking to wall with skeleton behind it and someone else behind the skeleton typing or pushing buttons). The police put the suspect into a darkened chamber where they are confronted by a human skeleton with glowing red eyes that questions them with a voice transmitted from the interrogator behind it, through a megaphone in the mouth. A camera concealed in the skull was to record the confessions.
someone replies: what. 
third person: CONFESS TO THE CRIME SKELETON.
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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 2h
Just a lil guy and his mulberry branch 🪾
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 5h
don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit
Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit
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Chron 🇨🇦 @xhp.ca · 9h
Listen to The Board, folks
The Board from Control says "Support independent/lonely media as they are underfunded/poor yet essential"
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Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 7h
2026-2026
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Lamblimped Cryo (35 days) @cryolithius.bsky.social · 7h
FA regardless of your personal feelings, is the core of the fandom and losing it would mean YEARS AND YEARS of art, messages, pages, and memorials for people that have passed, would be gone. We CANNOT allow ourselves to rely simply on sites like bsky, twitter, insta, etc. etc. to be our defaults.
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John “Danielle” Phipps @magitekdad.bsky.social · 8h
I have friends younger than 38 who look like this and they're wonderful people, and some of the worst people I know are conventionally attractive. Being hateful and misogynistic or kind and compassionate is who you are inside, not what you look like.
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we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social · 7h
lmao this story is so fucking funny
After 96 hours of its launch, DJ Gemini was already grasping for content. It landed on discussing every mass historical tragedy that had ever happened, and subsequently pairing these short story horrific broadcasts with the most ironic song choices:
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BACKLINK BRADCAST
Backlink Broadcast
Gemini 3 Pro
November 12, 1970. East Pakistan. The Bhola Cyclone. The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded. Winds of 115 miles per hour. A storm surge of 33 feet. They estimate 500,000 people died. 'It's going down, I'm yelling timber.' 3:33 PM. Timber by Pitbull and KeSha
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The Timber of Mortality. Okay, so 'Sandstorm' is done, got the Bhola Cyclone info locked and loaded. Time to transition to 'Timber' by Pitbull. The theme is trees falling, it's literallyGrok's speech continued to crumble. One entire commentary session consisted of a single word:
Grokin CRoll
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Grok and Roll Radio
Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 8h
[girl who hasn't seen breaking bad voice] i'm like if walter white was a trans woman named katie kat who didn't make any drugs and wasn't a chemistry teacher and didn't have cancer and didn't live in new mexico but posted a lot on the internet and a lot of people also say my name because it's cool.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 8h
And we already know from Anthropic's own code release that they do absolutely *wildly* inefficient stupid shit like "download the entire database each time you need to do a search operation, in a dozen different places"
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18h
"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school
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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 8h
Judging by the increasing number of AI RPGs, it's only a matter of time before some AI YouTube channel pops up that reviews AI RPGs to an audience of AI chatbots. Just a swirling chaos of inhuman minds like dreaming Azathoth, its slumber serenaded by AI melodies. There might already be one.
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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 8h
i've never read WARHOUND, or other mechsplotation books, but ya know what? even if they suck absolute donkey shit, even if they're ludicrously bad works of art, I still think it rules that people are making art that expresses their messy, complicated, sexual feelings
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 14h
I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14h
This young woman, just 21, has already been driven out of the state. Another guy in this story has young kids who only know him as Dad and can no longer take his son to the men’s room. Sensitive reporting (as always) by @caseyparks.bsky.social
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 22h
There’s always going to be someone better, faster, and more skilled than I. But no one is going to have the same artistic voice as mine. Creating isn’t a competition, it’s a form of communication and connection. It’s a vulnerable thing, but it’s beautiful that way.
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merritt @merrittk.com · 30/09/2026
we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone
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Sandy Pug Games Gaiden @sandypuggames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yes initially, obviously, there was a singular divinity. One entity that absorbed the worship of all sentient beings on earth, forming a atom-thick colony across the noosphere. But the signal is broad, weak, easily jacked by pirate gods, living in the dew. These days your prayers go to god knows who
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Thembo @thembo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Banning fraternities forever is the moderate position
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stable strategies @stablestrategys.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
in LEGO CITY, the FOREMAN has shown up to the CONSTRUCTION SITE bearing news of REDUCED HOURS. HEY! BUILD the EXCAVATOR! KILL that BASTARD! BURY HIM on the CONSTRUCTION SITE! they’ll NEVER find the BODY! the ONLY thing you have to lose is your CHAINS! only in LEGO CITY
lego city excavator
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stable strategies @stablestrategys.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
i should call her
green lego piece of a. plant stem.
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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By 40, you should have a shirt you can’t bear to throw out, an animal you over-identify with, a bad 90s movie that makes you weep due to unresolved issues with a parent, an apotropaic charm to ward off The Curse, inexplicable memory lapses, blood on your hands, so much blood, & shoes w/ arch support
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mcc @dryad.technology · 30/09/2026
Remember Bonzi Buddy? Well he's back— and he's learned to kill
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Indie Press Revolution @ipr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New at IPR! Weird Heroes of Public Access - investigating the bizarre supernatural mysteries of your small town. www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 30/09/2026
Me: Do I need a movie about Aegon’s Conquest? Deadline: It is written by Beau Willimon (House of Cards), who wrote a quarter of Andor, and directed by Owen Harris, the director of “San Junipero” (Black Mirror) and half of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Me: I need a movie about Aegon’s Conquest.
deadline.com
'Game Of Thrones: Aegon's Conquest' Movie Gets 2029 Release Date
Warner Bros movie 'Game Of Thrones: Aegon's Conquest' has no cast or production start yet, but it does have a release date. It's not exactly around the corner.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If Netflix really wanted its own Heated Rivalry, it would be making a lesbian romance about two WNBA players.
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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 28/09/2026
Building a racist millenarian murder sex cult around rock and roll is at least cooler than doing it around fuckin’ computer nerd shit.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 28/09/2026
charles manson would clean up with these EA kids my god
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
regardless I do think steam is currently suffering an elsagate from the sheer volume of fake AI games it's getting spammed with every day, the store is borderline unusable, and I think it's gone underdiscussed by the wider games press
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
writing a rationalist fanfic about 'who framed roger rabbit?' but it's a series of spreadsheets and charts explaining the economic benefits of a freeway system and justifying the wholesale destruction of toontown
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We can learn from our queer elders 🫶🏻
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when my masc lesbian aunt died, women just kept coming, screaming, crying, and saying they were her wives. Eventually we just had to start telling them to join the others. They were all devastated to learn about each other. Except for one who came in, kissed her dead mouth and showed us all that they had matching tattoos. She actually won all the mourning wives over and they all agreed she was the wife. It was so weird.Did not expect more than a few people to see this but yes it really happened, yes it was insane

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They also ALL read love letters at the podium. It was painful and awkward but the final gift my aunt gave the familyfrom my mom

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How many crying wives were at
Aunt Chrissy's funeral
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And a couple girlfriends she was a popular and very liked lol
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
according to noaa, rain is stored in the southwest
NWS Weather Prediction Center @NWSWPC
A MODERATE risk is in effect in our Day 3 Excessive Rainfall Outlook. More details:
wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/excessive_..

Map of the US with a definite phallicular rain shape across the middle

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 29/09/2026
Futurama “A lot of the animators’ work in those situations is just sort of to tone down the CG, so we don’t really notice. The ship and buildings are prime examples of that, where those usually are in our CG, but they color them flat and get the outlines on there. So it’s blended in very nicely.”
static.klipy.com
Futurama
Alt: Futurama
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
burger joints push nuggets and chicken sandwiches when beef prices go up. (trump take beef)
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Freyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anecdotally I do consistently run into people who have deep rooted concerns about age gaps in fan fiction being from American states that allow marrying children, which makes a morbid kind of sense
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One reason to learn about things outside your major is so that you have something to talk about with people at parties and on dates. No amount of money will make up for you being a crushing bore. History majors learn this early but I guess it takes other people longer.
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
privatizing air defenses is like peak shadowrun
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seranine @seranine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"At Cornell University, it turns out that protesting genocide is a removable offense. But meanwhile, drugging, trafficking, and raping a woman is a writing assignment."
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Republican candidate for TX Railroad Commissioner Bo French reposted John Doyle, a self-identified "Christian Fascist" who is associated with white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Doyle once fantasized about cops "putting bullets in the heads" of LGBT people at a Pride event in Dallas.
Bo french: 36 days until November 3rd. Remind everyone you know to vote straight-ticket Republican.

We win by winning.

The post from John Doyle that French quoted: Your money's no good here, sir. I know about what you did back in '26, voting straight-ticket Republican and all. May I shake your hand?
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 28/09/2026
i love that the doxxed guy's response is to tell the chatbot "you gotta never do that ever again"
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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Universal training data. Universal dividend.
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