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Harley

@fancyfrostedcat.bsky.social
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30+ | they/them | beginner HEMA, knitting, crochet, writing, video games, whatever. PFP by the incredible JamsCanDraw!

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12h
RHG and his ilk's response will be to do some racecraft, insisting that these are Berbers and thus not really racially Black (while ignoring the ample evidence for dark-skinned Romans) and/or to just botch the chronology and claim that this was part of Roman decline.
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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 20h
MENACING
a shrew and a rove beetle engage in an epic standoff
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 22h
ALERTE: PUMPKIN WOLFE
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💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live.
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titsay 𓆏 @titsay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/02/1...
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Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
Ten years after AlphaGo’s match against Go champion Lee Sedol, today’s AI still isn’t tapping into the machinery that made that win possible.
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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 02/10/2026
hey
a shrew has decided to perch on brother gregor's snout
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Niu ( ̄y▽ ̄)╭ Ohohoho..... @niuniente.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today's Finnish compound word is "tuulilasiiniskeytymisääni"; the sound an object makes when it hits car's windshield and breaks it. (tuulilasi = windshield, -in suffix = onto; tuulilasiin) (iskeytymis = hitting) (ääni = sound)
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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 19/09/2025
Brother Herbert's prize pepo
little shrew monk guy with a bigass pumpkin
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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 01/10/2026
truculence ball
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Level Up Norge @lvup.no · 30/09/2026
Vi fortsetter Patreothon i kveld kl. 18, med fortsatt 14 timer igjen på timeren (så langt)! 🤩
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 30/09/2026
watch out that thing's mad
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masteratarms.bsky.social @masteratarms.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I got quoted 😂 For context, we were discussing safety in and how to get the most out of drills in the Longsword and sword in one hand class. But this made me giggle. Thanks Simon.☺️ #hema #learnswordfighting #fioredeiliberi #londonlongswordacademy #davidrawlings
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Jams!! 💛💜 ADOPTS OPEN @jamscandraw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Two adopts left and once they're gone I'm going to make a spooky Halloween batch 🎃👻 Both are £25, please DM me on Kofi or comment below to claim! Info and TOS: ko-fi.com/album/Adopta... #mlpfim #mylittlepony #adoptable
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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good morning and welcome to tuna Tuesday Spread kindness around like cat hair, everywhere, on everything, and impossible to get rid of. No surface should remain untouched.
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Nikki M @powderedsugarbear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You have been blessed by the friend onion :).
A clear container with fried onions in it the sign says "friend onion".
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dwarf fortress bugs @dwarffortressbugs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
[0005603] Vampires asked about their profession will talk about huge number of sentient being kills.
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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 28/09/2026
kitchen duty
the monks havin a gab while leisurely preparing dinner
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Frida Danmo @frida.lvup.no · 27/09/2026
@karl.lvup.no streamer det legendariske Sonic 06 på tirsdag, og for kvar nye Patreon-backer som kjem inn under streamen må han holde på lengre! Om du har vurdert å støtte oss, er dette altså eit supert tidspunkt å gjere det på! 😄 forhåpentligvis kjem me eitt steg nærare å få ansatt @tanya.lvup.no!!
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Emoria - Aftertaste OUT NOW @emoria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trans people: love the shit out of yourselves. You probably spent the majority of your years absolutely wallowing in self-loathing. Make up for lost time. Love yourself. You fucking deserve it.
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Apparently we have ongoing IT issues. The Wi-Fi signal keeps dropping and nobody can work out why. IT have investigated and believe they’ve identified the problem. There appears to be a large tangerine obstruction sitting directly on top of it
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
We, as a society, have given the morning people far too much power
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Mort
The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is easily answered. Bomb disposal experts are those that get to attempt it twice.
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Fila @veryfilthything.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The cruelest artist phenomenon is having the overwhelming urge and desire to draw when you can't do it. ... and then the second you can, all your energy evaporates!
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The thing about kangaroos is that there’s something just inherently very funny about an animal that can punch you
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
if you ever struggle with names when worldbuilding just remember there's a whole massive mountain range called The Rockies
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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 21/09/2026
Someone from Exeter was buried on Friday and one of their wishes was to have dinosaurs and the Grim Reaper present. Legend. Photo source: Exeter & Devon Crematorium and Memorial Gardens
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Absolutely incredible work here
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wrapping LLMs in mysticism like "superintelligence" or undefined PR "AGI" shrouds their behavior while "stochastic parrot" makes it clearer: "why did it confabulate facts" and "why did it hack outside the instructions" make sense if you see a probabilistic model loosely tethered to language. /4
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 21/09/2026
"You're right! That runway wasn't actually clear which is why you crashed into another plane. Would you like me to call an ambulance?" www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Inside airlines’ panic as FAA pushed new AI tool
The aviation agency is now going with a more modest rollout to help manage flight scheduling.
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Biblically Accurate VLC Instance
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's like they WANT people to go "welp" and fire up Bittorrent again.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/09/2026
I can only imagine how much discussion and behind-the-scenes labor this took, but this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This isn't a metaphor. Just a story about a roach. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/roach-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
4-panel SMBC comic update. The first panel shows a cartoon little roach happily saying "oh man! The stupid human put food in here. fool!" The next panel shows the roach walking away from a poison trap as he says "I’m gonna give it to everyone!" The third panel shows a human at his computer with a similar expression to that of the cartoon roach. The man says "this stupid company made a controversial ad. How embarrassing for them!" The man then walks away from the computer desk, at an angle reminiscent to the panel where the roach walks away from the poison trap. The man says "better share with all my friends and family so everyone knows which ad not to look at."
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 19/09/2026
this tweet is NINE years old and is still the best trans rights policy advice out there
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Uglesett @uglesett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good morning.
A grey, long-haired cat is lying on top of a duvet.

She is lying on her back, her hind legs in the air and her butt facing the camera. She is looking towards the viewer over her belly with one eye. Her head is tilted slughtly to the side so her other eye is obscured by her belly fur.
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 18/09/2026
+100000000 to everything @phirephoenix.com says in this post: www.phirephoenix.com/blog/2026-09...
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things I wish every event organizer would do for their event listings
Hello yes, I am aware that it’s been almost a full year since the last post. This is largely because running Show Up Toronto and writing a newsletter for it every week takes a lot of time and energy. ...
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Green approaches Blue, who is nestled comfortably within a large purple bean bag chair.
Green: How's the bean bag chair?
Blue: Comfy.

Blue watches in silent horror as Green jumps into the air, about to dive into the chair as well.
Green: Make way!

As Green dives in, Blue is launched into the air by the force of Green's landing.

Now cozied up in the bean bag chair, Green watches as Blue flies off in the distance, barely visible as a shred of colour on the sky.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils," they say. Ah, and why does one sometimes *have* to do that? Because someone else, who could have chosen opposition to evil, instead opts to become a lesser evil for their own perceived advantage—leaving others to bear the burden of that choice
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Sigvat @sigvat.maanebedotten.no · 17/09/2026
Ny pus!
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here is a nice mushroom
A big beautiful bear’s head tooth mushroom growing on a perimortuous maple tree. The green undergrowth climbs around it on all sides, and yellow summer sun infuses the woodscape. All photos by me
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