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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 9h

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 25/09/2026

it is not the technology itself that is the problem, it is how people can use it, and that’s a solvable problem, not an existential threat that can’t be managed

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 25/09/2026

And this is why companies need UI/UX experts. Black remote with black buttons - for a “smart” light. Try finding that button in the dark 🤷

Photo of a black remote control, with black buttons on black background. This is the remote control for a “smart” ceiling light.

If only the designers had been just as “smart” and thought about having to find the black “on” button on that black remote when coming home in the dark …

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Die Reklame @die-reklame.de · 21/09/2026

Einwohnerbuch der Stadt Ausgburg, 1955

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 22/09/2026

For once, he speaks truth: 'It is called the Oval Office, and it should be treated with Decorum, Respect, and Dignity, not defiled by Third Rate Clowns […]' says US president

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For some reason this sort of thing puts me in a more apocalyptic mood than warnings of the next killer AI www.ft.com/content/7f11...

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Ton Aarts @tonaarts.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

3/x Ik laat dit even hier Aantal (echte) aanvallen op 18,4 miljoen mensen door wolven: nul (Een enkele mens of kind omver gelopen of wat schrammen is juist om NIET aan te hoeven vallen) bsky.app/profile/tona...

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Ton Aarts @tonaarts.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

2/x Aantal stuks NL vee gedood door wolven in 2024: Runderen: een op elke ~25000 Schapen: een op elke ~1000 Slachtdieren in NL per .. dág: 1,7 miljoen (1180 slachtdieren per .. minuut) Wappie-journalisten: Maar het neemt enorm toe! bsky.app/profile/tona...

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Ton Aarts @tonaarts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

3/ Normaal eten wolven 95% ree, wild zwijn, hert Behalve .. in Drenthe, zoals hier Waar zulke 'wilde' dieren worden afgeknald want "nulstandbeleid" voor veel wild in Drenthe (= alles schieten wat er rondloopt, want 'gevaarlijk') Snappen we 't al, beste paniekzaaiers? bsky.app/profile/tona...

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Ton Aarts @tonaarts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

2/ LTO: "We roepen al jaren dat dit uit de klauwen gaat lopen" één op 25.000 runderen ;) (Twee jonge wolven vielen een kalf aan in open veld, nul afscherming. Omdat .. die boer dat niet nodig vond) Kalf vlucht naar binnen de stal in, en wolven liepen er achteraan bsky.app/profile/tona...

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Ton Aarts @tonaarts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

1/ "De melkveehouder had rondom zijn stal geen wolfwerende maatregelen. Hij liet weten dat hekken te arbeidsintensief zijn. Platteland moet niet volgebouwd moeten worden met hekken of andere manieren van bescherming" De stal stond open (Een 'detail' ik weet het) www.rtvdrenthe.nl/nieuws/18790...

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LTO na aanval in koeienstal: 'We roepen al jaren dat dit uit de klauwen gaat lopen'

De boerenbelangenorganisatie uit snoeiharde kritiek op het wolvenbeleid in Nederland.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling. It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t. If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/09/2026

The word "fascist" comes from the Latin *fasces*, a bundle of sticks; the symbology here is that a single twig is weak and brittle, but bundled together, many twigs are strong. It's a sound political theory, because in politics, coalitions are everything: pluralistic.net/2025/01/06/h...

A robotic claw grips a bundle of arrows; in the background are the pink folds of a human brain.

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

#Nissan Leaf electric vehicle owners angry after carmaker announced it would #shut #down #app that lets them remotely control battery charging & other functions Drivers of #Leaf cars made before 2019 & #e-NV200 van told #NissanConnect EV app will “cease operation” from 30 March #Musked by #Nissan

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‘Shockingly bad’: Nissan Leaf drivers voice anger over app shutdown

Carmaker’s decision to drop NissanConnect EV app on relatively recent cars fuels warnings from experts

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New ad from the Norwegian Consumer Council @forbrukerradet.bsky.social about the declining lifespan, repairability and enshittification of products: Planned obsolescence v 2.0 Read their report forbrukerradet.no/shortlife

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Reminder: voter fraud is not a thing. Voter suppression is.

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 15/09/2026

i've been sending my robot to the gym all year but i still have trouble lifting things

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 15/09/2026

"If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider."

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Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the "wheres breakfast" club

Three cats, Stormy, Fishtopher, and Mr Lover, begging for food. Stormy, a black cat, sniffs the empty bowl holder. Fishtopher, a brown tabby cat with green eyes, sits and looks up at the camera with a slightly forlorn expression. Mr Lover, an orange and white tabby cat, stares outwardly with amber eyes.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Colin Hoad @colinhoad.com · 12/09/2026

Well, the Greaseweazle was fun... but now it's time to try digitally archiving a tape image! This is hard mode, because you can't rewind and replay dropped bytes... so it probably won't work first time and will require some audio splicing ✂️

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Garthtoons by Garth German @garthtoons.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I still haven’t gotten my other checks. Follow for more cartoons!

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MingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Unfortunately, the last two US presidential elections have demonstrated that it's the majority of U.S. citizens who (vote) are 'uneducated, insecure, angry people'.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 10/09/2026

Yup, this feels like a totally legit investment option… #Arcen #resort

Website for Arcen Resorts in Limburg, “selling” holiday homes (investment) with most of the website only containing Lorem Ipsum placeholder content.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We completely wiped out Iran’s military capabilities like 38 different times in the last 7 months but somehow they keep firing missiles and drones at things.

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Emily @emilyyour8.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So the GOP's whole midterm strategy is "Alex, I'll take Things That Never Happened for $1000"

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Bold Strategy, Cotton

ALT: Bold Strategy, Cotton

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if it took you 5 seconds of contemplation to think of an alternative you should take at least another 5-10 to at least consider the possibility that it at least crossed the minds of 1 or 2 of the people who dedicate their lives and research careers to dealing with the problems we post about on here

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Kevin Edwards ( Retro game developer ) @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I shared the original 6502 source code for Galaforce several years ago. If you want to see what game programming was like back in the mid-1980s have a look here on my GitHub account! Lots of other similar code can be found in my other respositories. github.com/KevEdwards/G...

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GitHub - KevEdwards/Galaforce1BBC: Galaforce - BBC Micro, Full source code.

Galaforce - BBC Micro, Full source code. Contribute to KevEdwards/Galaforce1BBC development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Kevin Edwards ( Retro game developer ) @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My BBC Micro and Acorn Electron shoot 'em up 'Galaforce' is 40 years old this month. I was 19 when I started creating the game with help from former school friends Paul Proctor ( Artwork ) and Martin Galway ( Music /SFX ). I went to Superior Software in early 1986 and they agreed to publish the game

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Wayne B @waynespotting.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A lot of people here are treating products 'Made in the USA' as radioactive which, given the increasing lack of oversight there, has a non-zero chance of being true

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As Ola says though, no child is born with the impulse to bully a stranger from the room or to call them the N word or a ‘fucking Arab’. Society is producing these children.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 09/09/2026

I wrote yesterday that the ZX81 has a native graphics resolution of 64x48. That's not strictly true. It has a pixel resolution of 256x192, but has a character map of 32x24. The PLOT routines use the graphics block characters as pseudo-pixels to effect a resolution of 64x48.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 08/09/2026

We cannot trust the machines. We can trust them a bit less every day. We NEED humans who can work things through by hand, if not completely, then at least enough to say, “hey, wait, that can’t possibly be right.”

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schoenescheisse.de @schoenescheisse.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Die deutsche Version.

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schoenescheisse.de @schoenescheisse.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

So platt wie manche argumentieren ("Ich lass mir nicht mein Schnitzel wegnehmen!!" 🙈), kann man doch nicht auf sie hereinfallen.. Finnland führt seit Jahren unangefochten den Europäischen Medienkompetenz-Index an:

Kurzbeschreibung für blinde Menschen:

Ein gezeichneter Cartoon zeigt zwei Männer an einem Tisch. Der linke Mann erklärt ausführlich, wie populistische Parteien arbeiten: Sie erzeugen Angst, schaffen Feindbilder, versprechen Zugehörigkeit und vereinfachen komplexe Probleme. Als Beispiel nennt er die Behauptung, Ausländer würden den Einheimischen Arbeit und Sicherheit wegnehmen.

Der rechte Mann wirkt ungepflegt, aggressiv und wenig aufmerksam. Auf die differenzierte Erklärung reagiert er nur mit: „Ja, scheiß Ausländer!“

Die Pointe des Cartoons: Die komplexe Kritik an populistischer Stimmungsmache wird von der angesprochenen Person sofort in genau die fremdenfeindliche Botschaft umgedeutet, die eigentlich kritisiert werden sollte.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/09/2026

Trump has found so many ways to use the presidency to enrich himself and his family that we had to narrow the list down. Here are 75 of the most staggering examples of Trump corruption in 2026. And yes, there were more. Read Ron Filipkowski’s full breakdown: