Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base 2526425908
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleTim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Well this was the lesson of Citizen Kane, right. Devote your time to developing monetisable skills, & foreswear joy in order to do so. This is the essence of a meaningful life. That's why he cried out on his deathbed 'I wasted my life fucking sledging' 2385
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleRob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This isn’t AI. My cousin Braycen was torn apart by Havana syndrome which is why he’s in his coffin in “chunks”. The ugly “boy” in the (real) photo isn’t his son; it’s a full grown small intruder man who ran off with the head & ate it behind the funeral home. RT to salute 🫡 🇺🇸 661115148
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleJim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins. 502625645
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleIsaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Waxed poetic about that Lanterns show and how its lowest-rated episode had the most to say about a bullshit aspirational platitude. 8425108
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleVERTICAL📼BLANKING📺INTERVAL @vertiblank.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A Hark! A Vagrant classic 101440433
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleElizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 56120113571
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is very true. A huge theme in a lot of recent coverage that AI is a bit like Saving Private Ryan. Everybody's gotta step up and adopt AI to get it across the goal line. 35645110
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleSmall Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What. 5486242712
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleArden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole. 2668792592
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleShady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 02/10/2026Yeah man meet this fucking guy. Meet this fucking guy who got exposed in 2016 as having given $10k to an explicitly neonazi PAC. I have gone to hell while I am still alive because I am cursed with recall of things that happened more than five minutes ago. 939068
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van Melle🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is why I call AI a deskilling project. 09027
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleNicolele @nic0lele.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wish I had time to paint more often. Working on this was such a joy. 1338
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleScare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026FATALITY 262934472
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van Mellemerr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 30/09/2026we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone 112402366
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleDr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It was great speaking to Sam on this, and really demonstrates in practice how the doomerism narrative really does distract from concrete and current-day AI risks. I suppose faulty and unreliable models (the reality) just isn't as alluring as an AGI god (the fiction). 0169
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleWanderingDM @wanderingdm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Good on them! But their last paragraph also highlights a problem we have arrived at: people (some) can't differentiate between LLMs/GenAI and npc AI or procgen in a game. I'm seeing it more and more online. Words matter and this is just another thing these mfers have tainted with their grift. 320969
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleLance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New word: CLICKWALL. (n) The opposite of clickbait. A headline so unappealing, promising so little reward even by the standards of these things, that it is physically impossible to tap the link to the article. 5497128
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleMarsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This article is a really powerful insight into the changing definition / decline / corruption / corporate capture of AI research. This line particularly: "Modern AI products are not scientific achievements, they are, at best, engineering ones if not purely infrastructural ones." 1228
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van Mellepixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If the AI era has taught us anything, it’s this: it’s fine to judge people based on their aesthetic preferences 10100573
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7359802001
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleEd Maibach @handle.invalid · 25/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.socialsammatey.substack.comHappy Stanislav Petrov DayTake five minutes to not destroy civilization 252124938
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van Melle𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026*Trying out the currently popular big tech advertising model* subscribe to my Patreon before my drawings come to life and eat you all patreon.com/gorangligovicpatreon.comGet more from Goran Gligović on PatreonGet more from Goran Gligović on Patreon. Become a member for just €1/month. high-functioning dilettante 912743
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say 6638311518
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleBut Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world. 92162781
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Let’s gooooooo. 211367270
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van Mellenico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 21/09/2026since i am working on my first new alt movie posters in *quite* a while, thought i'd share a selection of my favs from over the years ! title and description in alt text all of them are ink on claybord/scratchboard 421089328
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us 9186681871
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleCreature From The Zach Lagoon @emo-sludge.com · 20/09/2026the difference between fine art and illustration is nothing more than the economic class of the artist making it and that of their patrons. 41322326
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleScott M | Haunted Edition 🎃 @voxparlour.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If you're curious as to what The Terror Beneath is all about, this page should be useful 95913
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleJoe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind 393091659
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleMicroplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 19/09/2026tilly norwood vs fred flintstone made up: ✅ / ✅ has a job: ❌ / ✅ catchphrase: ❌ / ✅ pet dinosaur: ❌ / ✅ is a virgin: ✅ / ❌ 713796527
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van Mellethe hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too 643640675
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleLee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Dang. 610819
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleMAARTEN BOOT @maartnboot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026SPÖNGE BORG! The new Pirate Borg supplement, available now! @ejvanmelle.bsky.social joked about this so naturally I had to mock up a lil book cover :p 081
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The very first line is a lie, and we all know it. *None* of this was ever designed to help us, which is why it hurts us and we hate it. It really is that simple, but the media simply cannot bring themselves to say it.cnn.comThe humans are rejecting the machines that were supposed to help them | CNN BusinessTouchscreens and self-checkout machines were designed to help customers. But restaurants and retailers are ditching them to humanize stores and attract workers. 271014290
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleEric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway 1623671114
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van Melle404 Media @404media.co · 17/09/2026"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." 15395166
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van Melle🏳️⚧️ Kiara Pendragon ∍⧽⧼∊ Godslayer 🏳️🌈 @aapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026They fired so many artists over this too. People who helped make the game iconic were tossed out on the street because the Slop Faucet could do it "decent enough". If you still play Fortnite, you're funding the hyper-acceleration of AI replacing Artists in Gaming 3250293341
Ernst-Jan van Melle @ejvanmelle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I've never been able to picture Holmes any other way after Brett 020
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleLeaded Petrol Sommelier @trainshagger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Look say whatever you want about Ed Sheeran (because he's a cunt), but this video is very funny 1017443
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleBethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I really need journalists to learn that every time OpenAI or Anthropic or xAI says that their model has broken containment and could destroy humanity that it’s a marketing pitch by companies running out of cash with high overheads and no profitable business model wanting more investment. 1853274
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van Melleelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible 25150303941
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleThe Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026watching THEY LIVE, a 30-year-old movie that frames a homeless camp sweep as an obvious evil conducted by violence-addicted cops 5687153
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/09/2026When you want to boycott Ed Sheeran and Pink but you already don't listen to shitty music 244129832235
Reposted by Ernst-Jan van MelleMuseum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026 64177693727
![Watson: Oooh, what’s that you’ve got?
Franklin: My final report
Watson: Little Rosie Franklin’s research! I bet it’s something!
Franklin: ROSALIND.
Crick: Oh, that’s a big name
W: You’re getting fancy on us! Tell me—
F: Ah. I love this game.
W: Is it a scientific breakthrough in feelings?
F: Well, I suppose I have to go into hysterics or have a baby somewhere, good day gentlemen
W: GO, GO
[W and C slip a look at F’s notes]
C: Nice
W: Quit hogging](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:otnyifxylzlruotgn6ys6nqv/bafkreif6jjclwaolojv3xk7yw6ir2u5jjrxj77qkl76uv7itrix2oqwxiy)
