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Ehlyah

@ehlyah.bsky.social
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Weapon of Mass Distraction Queer, love bunnies, crafting, gaming.

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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Morning Kitten
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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The player fantasy of Dressmaker is "what if you never had to press a seam ever again"
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Ehlyah @ehlyah.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ooooh look at her getting all cozy in the plants she's so beautiful, she's a queen.
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Ehlyah @ehlyah.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
But they're broooooooooooown :(((
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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are more Ketchup sachets than nurses. More operational Furbies than professors of human geography. More dogs named "Digger" than people licensed to operate a JCB. And you ask why people are turning to Reform?
telegraph headline: ADHD benefits claiments outnumber soldiers.
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Ehlyah @ehlyah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It made me wonder if Chomp was just following instructions.
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briellastella @briellastella.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Customer service has gotten materially worse. Web search is barely usable. Webpages have become less functional and those that still work are buckling under 100x the traffic. Basic computer functionality we've taken for granted has been trashed. Malpractice has proliferated across every industry.
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Aiden Straw(berry)hun 🍓 @astraww.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
nothing has ever been something more laser targeted on making me fucking S O B: the devs of dressmaker made the game because one of the partners has EDS and can no longer sew like she used to www.engadget.com/2264203/enga...
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Engadget Indie Pitch: Dressmaker - Engadget
"Make the dresses you've always dreamed of."
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve
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Ehlyah @ehlyah.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Small businesses: oh it's so haaaard being a small business. It's soooo hard to get customers and sell our product. Small businesses: also we're not updating our website to show one of our shops is permanently closed.
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Tyler @tylercolp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
someone is going to have doom running on a dress by next week (via: x.com/bagel_bucket...)
A screenshot of an X post by the user bagel_bucket. Two screenshots of a dress made in Dressmaker have a very detailed aurora borealis design on them in blues and greens.
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johann sebastian bätwurst 🦇¡🦇 @johannbratwurst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I want this little ""muse"" freak obliterated
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Ehlyah @ehlyah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am told it is "surfing the web".
A plushie spider is sat on a desk chair armrest, front legs on the desk. It's looking up at two computer screens.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Eirian @shanaqui.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bath pillow broke, pouty face. Recommendations? I need it both for comfy position for my neck while reading in the bath, and because I am short and the bath is juuust too long for me. A plump pillow is thus helpful, though any pillow that gives better purchase than "the side of the bath" helps.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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◇Gorbinius The Lil guy◇ @gorbinius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Still thinking about @maehwamei.bsky.social 's au concept where Xie Lian pre third ascension finds a little amnesic ghost king who turns out to be Hong er!? Must help him! #hualian #tgcf
New first third meeting! Hong-er has no idea what year it is but he just met his god again and he's very happy! Xie Lian is horrified that the child he thought he saved has been a ghost for 800 years lol.

"Your Highness!"

"Hong-er?!" (He's a ghost?!)

"You remember me?" (Best day EVER)Little Hua Cheng trying on some clothes and asking for help.

"Guys don't be mean to the little ghost king!"

"Gege, can you help me fix the sleeve?"

"Of course!"

Feng Xin: HE'S CLEARLY PLOTTING TO KILL US!

Mu Qing: Never wanted to kick a child so bad in my lifeHeavenly officials are looking for the very dangerous ghost king, but xie lian won't let them hurt him!
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Millennial hypnotist, all waving a tamagotchi back and forth: "You are feeling eepy, veeeery eepy"
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Ehlyah @ehlyah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sad, but I suppose we can't expect better from TERF island.
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Ehlyah @ehlyah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh same on Send Help. Just no way to root for anyone.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You can see from the photo that boat's tipped too far right
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Ehlyah @ehlyah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Is that an AI image?
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026
people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
i ship them so much
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Ehlyah @ehlyah.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Belgium has this and while we have (had) more coalition governments, it also has not stopped a lot of centre right bullshit and a big right wing, even far right (who also get a lot of "protest" votes).
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Mighoul Revenantparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
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Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
i feel like i've got to say it every once in a while: i'll mock ai for anything because i hate it, i have and will continue to mock it for things that could, conceivably, be solved. those aren't why i hate it. i hate it for unsolvable reasons which disqualify the entire venture.
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Ehlyah @ehlyah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I spent some time looking at custom knitting and sample knitting jobs, but the truth is that even if I worked more hours than a full time job, it would pay only a fraction. Fucking sad, that is.
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Eirian @shanaqui.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Probably caused by Schistosoma haematobium, and while I had the knowledge at my fingertips anyway (MSc in Infectious Diseases), it's still very odd that this has come up three times in two days in very different contexts.
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binp @binp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
understandable
Bloody urine (haematurea) was recorded by Ancient Egyptians in papyri 5,000 years ago. They called it Aaa. The first scientific report
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

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The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 09/09/2026
Just learned that Category Is Books, a lovely queer bookshop in Glasgow, has been targeted by transphobic violence, & is fundraising to cover the costs of a smashed window & roller shutters. I hate that they have to do this & would love to see them meet their goal.
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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books
For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan
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mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
flawless creature
goofy minimalist doodles of an old german owl pigeon based on the image in the quoted post, where a hole in the wall behind the pigeon makes it look like it has one eye floating off the side of its head
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way
Screenshot from the article in the quoted post, saying "Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie at work. In one experiment, volunteers were left alone with a jar of sweets ostensibly meant for children. When the researchers returned, upper-class people had snaffled nearly twice as many candies as lower-class people.

“The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships,” Piff said. “Taking candy from children might be the least of our worries but it’s emblematic of the tendency to prioritise one’s own needs over those of others.”
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Hoff Crab is neither a crab nor is it David Hasselhoff. It is a Yeti Crab, which is neither a Yeti nor a Crab but a sub-group of Squat Lobsters, which are not lobsters, they're Anomurans, like Mole Crabs, which are neither moles, nor crabs.
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Ehlyah @ehlyah.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There we go. I've been scheduled to attend 10 sessions on agentic development at work. Including a "hackathon". Non-optional.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“The population of the world’s heaviest parrot, the kākāpō, has surpassed 300 birds for the first time in 75 years, after a record breeding season triggered by the mass fruiting of a native New Zealand tree” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Kākāpō rising: 90 chicks swell population of the world’s heaviest parrot
Critically endangered New Zealand bird enjoys record breeding season triggered by mass fruiting of native tree, pushing its numbers to 325
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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Ehlyah @ehlyah.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Everything he describes feeling is what I fear if I start using AI at work, and boy oh boy do they want me to start using AI at work. I may yet lose my job over my refusal - they've recently started monitoring individual usage.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 01/09/2026
FYI Outlier players—since they deleted their whole bsky account just now in an attempt to stop people from noticing this
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Started playing this last week! Stopping playing it this week! Fuck AI!
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Ehlyah @ehlyah.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Does there have to be quite so much Potter content? There are so many better books, for all ages.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 28/08/2026
🚨🆕 @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com can reveal that the NHS has cancelled all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of the Welsh Gender Service Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...
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NHS cancels all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of Welsh Gender Service with immediate effect
Some trans patients received news their surgeries had been cancelled just days or even hours before they were due to take place
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Basil May @basilmai.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly leaving us within hours of each other is homophobic.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 22/08/2026
new north/midlands/south discourse just dropped
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Text: Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. 
Background image: a bearded man putting up the frame of aparge tent in a muddy field with trees in the background.
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