Reposted by Derek OttoRay Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred. 6288391689
Reposted by Derek OttoSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini. 83172781374
Derek Otto @dot0.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"You get that touched up Ken Paxton mailer out?" "Yeah, I have him real Elmer Fudd charisma, just like you told me to." "... What?" 030
Reposted by Derek Ottomeghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · 04/10/2026elon musk, a man who literally bought twitter to try and brute force manufacture consensus to be liked 2396
Reposted by Derek OttoDoctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 22/09/2026a story about the commodification of Indigenous cultures, focused on Mayan communities? globalvoices.org/2026/09/21/t...globalvoices.orgThe commodification of Indigenous cultures and traditionsToo often, resources and meaning flow outward from the community that created them and enrich outsiders — often the same groups that have been oppressing them for centuries. 173
Reposted by Derek OttoThe Bare Handyman but now it’s a costume @thebarehandyman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I know absolutely none of y’all are ready to be normal about the Le Creuset Vulcan spoon rest 815839
Reposted by Derek OttoAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately. 542971825
Reposted by Derek OttoCSketch @csketch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Oh my god I think I found the video. 502122873708
Reposted by Derek OttoBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/08/2026It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better 430124471643
Reposted by Derek OttoRobert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 29/07/2026On the Decadent Pleasure of Reading Difficult Books ift.tt/ang0edD via @r-michael-johnson.bsky.socialoverweeninggeneralist.substack.comOn the Decadent Pleasure of Reading Difficult BooksIt's a way to understand our modern world, reading in the dense and difficult 084
Reposted by Derek OttoAndy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🎅🏻🤡🐒💩 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Walked through a wall to a different liminal space. 91118331
Derek Otto @dot0.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I'm currently watching the Dolph Lundgren 'Masters of the Universe' with Japanese audio, and it's 100% how this movie should be experienced. It's all experienced voice actors, and it makes the film a live action anime. 110
Reposted by Derek Ottolocal blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 14/07/2026Telemundo just called David Beckham "Spice Boy" 1484671437
Reposted by Derek Ottoatomly @atomly.com · 08/07/2026when dudes become the joker why don't any of them become the cool fun one who listens to prince 611711171
Reposted by Derek OttoMB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 05/07/2026This is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. Fox News asked him to wave and he then waved. At the TV, not at them 603838678
Reposted by Derek OttoCountry Universe @countryuniverse.net · 19/06/2026The belief that country music is not and has never been the purview of any one person is foundational to what we've tried to do for 22 years, and we strive to elevate the work of diverse artists around here every day. To recognize Juneteenth, a thread to highlight some essential black artists: 25933
Reposted by Derek OttoArchaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 16/06/2026He's back 😄 #archaeohistories 333267599
Reposted by Derek OttoApril Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard 68315164942
Reposted by Derek OttoIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13/05/2026I'll just be over here with my sardines 323307
Derek Otto @dot0.bsky.social · 06/05/2026There's no way the lights would be that bright in the strip club #frightclub #synchronic 380
Reposted by Derek OttoGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Man, this is so incredibly cool. www.popsci.com/environment/...popsci.comMulti-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifactsCrossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more. 181455433
Reposted by Derek OttoJorkin B Peanitson @bonerman-inc.bsky.social · 03/05/2026it's so fucked up that 'roguelike' now means you get three random upgrades at the end of a level instead of "occasionally the game will generate a gnome with a wand of death and obliterate you (in the event that you havent already died accidentally falling down a set of stairs while overencumbered)" 4232341088
Reposted by Derek OttoAnatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 03/05/2026NetHack 5.0.0 was released today, and MS-DOS is still one of the official platforms: nethack.org/common/index... 6338124
Reposted by Derek OttoMad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 27/04/2026This one is straight from the heart. I hope you'll read it! www.rogerebert.com/ebertfest/lo...rogerebert.comLove's in Need of Love Today: Reflections on EbertFest, Cinema, and EmpathyReflections on the last year of the festival, and what it means to celebrate Roger and the movies. 1329086
Reposted by Derek OttoSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 25/04/2026 On the Set of “The Misfits”, Nevada Ernst Haas, 1960 610318
Reposted by Derek OttoStephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 24/04/2026My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes" 5065201389
Reposted by Derek Ottolincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Late drop of a big story tonight—the research team that jailbroke AI safety standards with weaponized poems have published their Adversarial Humanities Benchmark, broadening their research through cyberpunk attack-fiction and ADVERSARIAL HERMENEUTICS: 12547206
Reposted by Derek OttoDavid Cantwell @cantkill.bsky.social · 17/04/2026In honor of both Merle Haggard's 4/6 birthday, and also the tenth anniversary of his death, I picked a dozen 21st c. covers of Haggard songs for Good Country. (Think of this as a companion to the 20th c.-only list I did last week for No Fences Review, link to that one in this one)thebluegrasssituation.com12 Fantastic Merle Haggard Covers – Good CountryApril 6 was both Merle Haggard’s birthday and the 10-year anniversary of his death. In recognition, we’ve collected 12 great 21st century covers of his songs. 0116
Reposted by Derek OttoClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15/04/2026I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far - POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church?? POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there 5650671178
Reposted by Derek OttoClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/04/2026"sorry I can't come to your once-in-250-years party. I'll be busy doing something it would actually make much more logical sense to do four days later. I bumped it up on purpose so I could throw it in your face. eat shit forever, amen" there is no hater on earth like a hater from Chicago 165176735
Reposted by Derek OttoRachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/ 261534684
Reposted by Derek OttoWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 07/04/2026Come on then, and remove him. 8995942521
Reposted by Derek OttoWaffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 05/04/2026“What’d you get up to this weekend?” 2422136
Reposted by Derek OttoMark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Oh wow, Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Code and it’s been cloned and made public github.com/instructkr/c...github.comGitHub - instructkr/claude-code: Claude Code Snapshot for Research. All original source code is the property of Anthropic.Claude Code Snapshot for Research. All original source code is the property of Anthropic. - instructkr/claude-code 412332
Reposted by Derek OttoCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 30/03/2026I just finished filing my claim with the #Anthropic settlement, which used FIFTEEN of my books to train the goddamned Temu Terminator, and I am fucking furious and heartbroken about it: catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-mone...catvalente.substack.comBlood Money: The Anthropic SettlementThe actual audacity of it all 517237
Reposted by Derek Otto✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social · 27/03/2026We all seem to have forgotten one of the most truly delightful and surprising indie interactive fiction drops of the last decade. 17776 is ostensibly about football, which is why at first glance I thought I wouldn't like it. But it really makes me smile, and the world could use that right now.sbnation.comWhat football will look like in the futureSomething is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. 15780376
Reposted by Derek OttoFight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 23/03/2026Brilliant video explainer on Meta astroturfing behind 'Age Verification' mandates. We're going to keep yelling this from the rooftop: ID checks are not, and have never been, about kids online safety. youtube.com/shorts/ZUrMm...youtube.comReddit User Exposed Who's Behind Age Check LawsYouTube video by JustSaySteven 310869
Reposted by Derek OttoSage Deviant 🏳️⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 22/03/2026a reddit post is claiming Lennart Poettering allowed Dylan Taylor’s surveillance PR through into the systemd repo because it commercially benefits Poettering’s new startup Amutable. Amutable sells "cryptographically verifiable integrity”, OS attestation, & deterministic state compliance for Linux. 10429110
Reposted by Derek Otto🔞OnyxNuva || PLUS 🔞 @onyxnuvaplus.bsky.social · 21/03/2026#savespeech #notodigitalID #NOTOOSAGEVERIFIVATION Linux is currently under attack by Microsoft and its lapdog, Dylan M. Taylor. He has since compromised SystemD with a merged json to add a birthdate, which is trivial for sure but sets a horrific precedent for FOSS Linux. 43420
Reposted by Derek OttoEric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 21/03/2026A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date. This is being done rapidly by people with unclear motivations and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsserv...gitlab.freedesktop.orgMaking sure you're not a bot! 44028
Reposted by Derek Otto🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Yellow headed vulture sketch painted in gouache. 12946179
Derek Otto @dot0.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I only just learned that the Japanese dub of the live action One Piece uses the original voice actors, and it's 1000x better now! 000
