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Yarn Spinner Tool @yarnspinner.dev · 13/01/2026
We're not subtle with all our sassy skeeting about it, but it's probably time for a persistent, official statement about our stance on AI. TL;DR: we know what we're talking about. GenAI is harming creatives. There will be no AI features in Yarn Spinner. yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-...
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Why We Don't Use AI | Yarn Spinner
We get asked about AI a lot. Whether we’re going to add it to Yarn Spinner, whether we use it ourselves, what we think about it. Fair questions. Time to write it all down. Yarn Spinner doesn’t use the...
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 26/06/2025
Watching an endless loop of ten second clips? Haha this younger generation. When I was your age we used to watch a variety show starring an ostrich puppet, a man with a cowboy hat and a reel to reel sound player. It was so racist Harry Connick Jr. made a formal protest. It was three hours long
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Mac Themes Garden @macthemes.garden · 25/04/2025
Animals - Masashi Ichikawa
A preview of the Mac theme "Animals" by "Masashi Ichikawa"
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Yarn Spinner Tool @yarnspinner.dev · 01/04/2025
You've been begging for it, and here it is! Announcing an exciting new product from Yarn Spinner Co: 🪐 Mass Effect 2 Save Importer for Yarn Spinner 🚀 Access everything about everything that players have done in the most important game of all time, straight from Yarn. yarnspinner.dev/mesaves
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spooky tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
"what does it even mean to be nonbinary if you just present as your assigned gender" well for one thing i am able to compel computers to treat me with fear and respect
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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison @hey.paris · 03/03/2025
so, I got a bit sick of people asking me about generative AI and @yarnspinner.dev, so I wrote some LinkedIn-style (sorry) thought leadership on the matter hey.paris/posts/genai/
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The Empty Promise of AI-Generated Creativity
“Are you going to add AI writing to Yarn Spinner?” It’s a question I hear almost weekly these days. Whether at game development conferences, online, or during meetings, there’s an assumption that ever...
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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 21/02/2025
trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything
Googling for “bees in my computer”.

Google AI Overview: “Bees can be present in desktop computers built after the l mid-2000s, but only at a microscopic  level. These bees are a special breed of Apis Arithmeticam that perform basic computations in the CPU.”
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Mac Themes Garden @macthemes.garden · 01/02/2025
Pink - Emi
A preview of the Mac theme "Pink" by "Emi"
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fishttp:// @fishttp.website · 19/01/2025
the banning of tiktok is another painful reminder to buy physical copies of your media. i have dozens of dvds of an ai voice reading reddit comments over unrelated minecraft footage.
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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison @hey.paris · 18/01/2025
Do you come to AUC #DevWorld or #XWorld? Might want to keep 2-5 September free this year. And plan to be in #Melbourne. #conference #event #iosdev #macos #appledev
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Yarn Spinner Tool @yarnspinner.dev · 18/01/2025
interview about a cool upcoming game that uses Yarn Spinner!
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 17/01/2025
Some people are paid to watch the tinder for a wildfire alight in ember and only call when the chemical cascade begins its exponential. Others are sentenced to get in there and fucking rake the firebreak. Are you paying someone to rake, or are you waiting to watch the firestorm. Make a choice.
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qntm @qntm.org · 17/01/2025
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: "k" means one thousand and twenty-four STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty
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Mac Themes Garden @macthemes.garden · 17/01/2025
Very Strawberry - Tomomi Imura
A preview of the Mac theme "Very Strawberry" by "Tomomi Imura"
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Caity!! (comms OPEN) @caitysecret.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
A photo of Philomena Cunk
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Mac Themes Garden @macthemes.garden · 17/01/2025
Brian Moore - Nitehawk Jarrett
A preview of the Mac theme "Brian Moore" by "Nitehawk Jarrett"
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Marked for Life @markdykeman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I love this quote from Ed's essay: "true masculinity is a sense of responsibility for both oneself and others, and finding strength in supporting and uplifting them with sincerity and honesty" Yes.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 17/01/2025
This is it in a nutshell. They don't want to work out a picture, they don't want to have an idea and develop it with sketches or brush strokes that take it in new, better directions and they certainly don't want to learn from mistakes, they just want to be given something.
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Mac Themes Garden @macthemes.garden · 17/01/2025
fuji-iBondi - Hiroyuki Fujisaki
A preview of the Mac theme "fuji-iBondi" by "Hiroyuki Fujisaki"
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 16/01/2025
OnlyFans model creates SFW content on PornHub, publishes post to LinkedIn explaining that she gets a much higher rate on PornHub vs YouTube ($1,000 per million views on Pornhub versus YouTube’s $340), and then LinkedIn takes down her post and bans her. www.404media.co/why-this-onl...
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Why This OnlyFans Model Posts Machine Learning Explainers to Pornhub
Justice Alito should watch this Pornhub video about calculus.
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Mac Themes Garden @macthemes.garden · 15/01/2025
GirlTalk - Emi
A preview of the Mac theme "GirlTalk" by "Emi"
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
AI folks have now discovered “thinking”
Steph Smith: Sometimes in the process of writing a good enough prompt for ChatGPT, I end up solving my own problem, without even needing to submit it.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
FYI, folks from Bluesky. Workers at The Barn, among other agricultural buildings, are now shutting the door after the horse got out. Shutting the door, telling people the door is shut, is a form of accountability for the horse that’s now completely free.
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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
i think it’s unfair to expect regular people to know precisely how journalism works so i will say the answer to “why did they sit on that story for so long” is often “because of lawyers”
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The Venerable Weed @simonberman.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
"Look for the helpers." Friend, you are forty two years old. You are supposed to be the helper.
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ading.dev @ading.dev · 13/01/2025
I made a Doom source port that runs within a PDF file. PDFs support Javascript, so Emscripten is used to compile Doom to asm.js, which is then run within the PDF engine. Input/output is done by manipulating text input fields. doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf github.com/ading2210/do...
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lila pearl @lilashapiro.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
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There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
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mjec @mjec.net · 12/01/2025
I was recently asked about the difference between how a human brain learns and how a contemporary AI learns, and to me that's a bit like asking how a real tornado differs from Sim City tornado
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Slippy @damnslippy.slippy.me · 11/01/2025
Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they *can* talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them."
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Mac Themes Garden @macthemes.garden · 12/01/2025
Cab - Tomoko Nakamine
A preview of the Mac theme "Cab" by "Tomoko Nakamine"
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nora "nora.jewelry is now open" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 11/01/2025
i know all the posiwid stuff and that liberalism is a scourge and all that i just have to constantly engage with a world that is fucking delusional
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
a lesson people oughta take from the rise of bluesky is that buying into anybody's claimed hegemony online is dopey. Facebook didn't used to exist, neither did Instagram or TikTok or any of this stuff. as soon as any platform starts to stink no sentimental attachment is practical or good. bail ASAP
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
WinZip's homepage in 1996
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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever. Make it go viral but make sure she benefits. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Here’s a whole thread on this absolutely unbelievable admission of guilt on a national scale.
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Jasozz @jasozzgames.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
hmmmmmmmmff 🍷
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 05/01/2025
The Adrian Dittmann Story all the evidence and methodology from A to Z by @ryan.staticnoi.se and me maia.crimew.gay/posts/adrian...
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The Adrian Dittmann Story
the evidence, from A to Z, and righting the wrongs
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/01/2025
I maintain that this is actually the funniest possible outcome, a guy so embarrassing that he couldn't convince anyone he's actually a real person
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Stigmata 🤟🐰 @jonathanvair.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Christina's World (after Wyeth), 2020 Kid Pix 3 Deluxe
Digital painting framed on the bottom and left side by child friendly art program user interface. Art is a digital painting depicting a woman in an incline position on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at a gray house on the horizon, a barn, and various other small outbuildings are adjacent to the house.[
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waferbaby @handle.invalid · 04/01/2025
The neurospice must flow.
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