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Nick Cotter

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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026
EBay UK privacy update regarding AI
Al model training
When training, testing, and improving generative Al models, we rely primarily on publicly available data.
Some public datasets may incidentally include personal data, and in some cases we may also use certain user personal data, such as information about your use of our Services, including the items you list, sell, view, or buy, where we determine it is necessary and proportionate for a specific use (for example, to train Al models that improve product recommendations). Prior to training, we take steps to mitigate potential privacy impacts, such as de-identifying the data or applying other privacy-preserving techniques. In some jurisdictions, the data used for training as described in this section is not considered personal data; where our Al training does involve personal data as defined under applicable law, including in the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, the legal basis of our legitimate interest is set out in section 3.4.
See section 6 for more details on your rights. To learn more about specific training use cases and our processing of your personal data for generative Al training purposes, including the right to ob such processing for certain users, visit our Intelligence at eBay page.
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
A crow flies away into the sky
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
Milo’s vantage point #caturday
A black cat sitting on laundry in a basket on an ironing board
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Age yourself with a childhood crush
❤️ It operates like an atomic reactor, directly converting matter into energy and energy into matter without producing waste ❤️
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Look, I’m sorry to bother you…
The Ghoul by Guy-n-Smith. Confused green man in toga
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
Cat stuck in window blindsBored Panda, back turned Bored otter, slumped on wooden beamGrumpy cat, grumpy
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
Gaki zōshi 餓鬼草紙 "Scroll of Hungry Ghosts", circa 12th century
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
I appreciate your effort. Why is Zack liking posts urging folks to just get over it?
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Feeling autumnal
Mist-shrouded Sun through window
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
The cats are out and about, in their absence here is an earlier photo of Milo in grand style #caturday
Black cat flopped on desk
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Breakfast time
Two black cats sitting on me in bed
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve just been asked if we should save the rest of the wine until tomorrow
Black Books: Bernard considers a request with the respect it deserves
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
September 30 / October 1
Peter Sellers as Lionel Mandrake in Dr StrangelovePeter Sellers as Dr Strangelove in Dr Strangelove
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
#vinylmode 🎶
Laying down a vinyl floor with knife and straight edge
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Some trees and last winter’s logs still to be processed
TreesMore treesTrees. And a saw horse.
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
스
Time Limit
You've reached your limit on Bluesky.
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
What do you make of it, Smedley?
Monkey Dust: MI5 chaps baffled by Omar’s patois.
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
The RAF Fairford suspects / the RAF Fairford suspicious vehicle / the RAF Fairford suspicious potentially explosive substances
Marx Brothers hands raised jazzily in Duck SoupGroucho & Harpo sidecar scene from Duck SoupDuck soup in Duck Soup
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
How to present your new drinks cabinet
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
A Princess of Roumania by Paul Park
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Milo, after wiping out the local coyote population.
A black cat sitting on a wooden chair in the garden
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
This is my box. There are many like it, but this one is mine #caturday
A black cat looks out of a box in an airing cupboard
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
Me reading your posts.
Bernard Black holding up a book about tanks.Bernard Black holding up a book about screaming.
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
my two brains
Inspector Dreyfus grabs Inspector Clouseau
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
Hard choice
MIST (MUD)Manic Miner opening screen
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
Sitting on the patio on a pleasantly warm night
Grapevine branches silhouetted by moonlight, lantern
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
QT with a sword
The Green Destiny from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
First, we take Piddington. Then we take Clacton.
Dominique Issermann and Leonard Cohen, black coated on a beach
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
Seemingly popular with certain of my teachers too
an “educational” poster from The Prisoner: questions are a burden to others, answers a prison for oneself
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
Milo, unimpressed
A black cat on a wooden chair in an overgrown patio
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
Scene from Frog Chorus by Paul McCartney - 3 frogs in dresses in a pond
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
"These are small, but the ones out there are far away"
A man sitting on a oversized deckchair in a shopping centre in Exeter, large classical columns on one side.
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Don Draper in Mad Men pitching Percival Dunwoody from Tom The Dancing Bug.
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
Joanna Newsom in Inherent Vice
Joanna Newsom as Sortilège in Inherent Vice
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
The Tatami Galaxy
TOMIHIKO MORIMI
アハウン
上士
※
TRANSLATED BY EMILY BALISTRIER!
A NOVEL
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
Beats bloviating of an afternoon.
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026
Marx Rebo
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Was rewatching Blade Runner and I just noticed several blatant hallmarks of ChatGPT writing. Ridley Scott clearly used Al to generate the intro text, at least. I'm beyond disappointed in him... The fact no one noticed after all these years just means it's getting too hard to tell the robots from the people.
Special police squads — BLADE RUNNER
UNITS — had orders to shoot to kill, upon detection, any trespassing Replicant.
This was not called execution.
It was called retirement.
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
Show us your face for the week
Pádraic looks hopefully through the window in The Banshees of Inisherin
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
Name your fav game made before 2000
Quazatron screen - robots ambling around multi-tiered gridQuazatron hacking screen
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
Why is this dogpiling warning post for @safety.bsky.app seemingly permanently pinned to the top of my Quiet Posters feed?
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026
I’m a lousy language model
“Palm” diagram from mini.mobi for my account 

LINE	READING	PERCENTILE
Cadence
the life line
burstiness 0.33 · typical gap 8.7 h
bursty ← → metronomic	100
very metronomic
Vigil
the sleep line
6 quiet hours a day · hour-entropy 0.874
nocturnal gaps ← → always on	9
very nocturnal gaps
Lexicon
the head line
Heaps β 0.811 · 1,488 distinct words in the first 3,232 · 74% used once
sprawling ← → narrow	1
very sprawling
Polish
the fate line
68% of well-formedness markers present
ragged ← → immaculate	74
immaculate
Drift
the travel line
not enough history to measure
a different person ← → unchanging	—
Chorus
the heart line
18% replies · 28 people · 17% to own threads
in conversation ← → broadcast	100
very broadcast
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026
Tree shadows during the eclipse
Circular shadows of tree branches on wall during eclipse
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026
Just so tired
Claude session:

* Cooked for 2m 47s • 1 shell still running
(Me) why the fuck is that worth noting
• Fair - it wasn't. Cut it.
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026
Cool for cats though #caturday
Shadow the black cat at the top of the airing cupboard, out of reach.
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026
Soon it would be too hot.
Grapevines, house and sunlight behind
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026
Evri, and it explodes
Mad Men pitch - Don Draper in front of whiteboard
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026
HARVEST MODE
The perfectly rational Black Peter/Centaur hybrid robot holding a chainsaw.
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026
Typical AskHistorians discussion.
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026
Gatwick crash?
BlueSky trends showing Gatwick Crash at number 2. Clicking takes one to random content.
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 04/07/2026
#caturday plans
Rear half of a cat slumped on a windowsill from behind curtains
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