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Fucking car dealers him: "come by any time" me: "ok, I'm here. Where are you?" him: "oh sorry, I'm not here right now, also that car you were interested in is pending sale"

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Introducing Gurpo

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Rob Fletcher @fletch.omg.lol · 27/09/2026

Just saw a Tesla with the license plate `MUSKOIL` and… I dunno, congratulations, I guess. I’ve never seen a license plate that made me throw up in the back of my mouth before

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

like I don’t know how you learn Thing One about how LLMs work without immediately seeing that fed on their own output, they just average (narrow) the language band infinitely until it breaks

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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fascism is hegemonic masculinity enacted at the level of the state.

“Fascism is male. It loves danger, dislikes chitchat, and scorns courting; because of its natural roughness, it uses its fists when necessary; Fascism is as hard as stone; a far cry from the sweet texture of candied fruit that—like the soul of a woman—hides a hard, teeth-cracking pit inside. That suffices to determine its sex. . . . In short, Fascism arouses virility against any sort of effeminateness or weakness of the spirit. It is also against the Petrarchism of poetry, the mysticism of religion, the democratization and liberalization of politics, against dandyism and leniency at school. Is there anything more masculine than that?”
-Statement by Italian fascist Giuseppe Maggiore prior to World War II
(Benadusi, 2012, p. 29)

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Rob Fletcher @fletch.omg.lol · 27/09/2026

I had never even heard *of* this song, never mind actually heard it

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Stephen Ferret @superferret.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm glad to see people, even offline normal people, are so against Flock cameras, but can we include Ring cameras as well?

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All serious like I’m making an actual point: when are democrats gonna go back to lip service and pablum instead of making concrete promises

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

hmmm Sam Altman reminds me of a certain other dystopian business exec obsessed with the illegal procurement of Hugging Face

Paul Reiser's slimy business executive character Carter Burke in the movie Aliens

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026

Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses

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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

welcome to the dumb future where software malfunctioning is spun - by both tech cos and journalism - as some kind of evidence of sinister intent www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon

Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating headaches for monitoring and oversight

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the vvitch is a horror story about what new england was like before dunkin

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Scare-emy Haunt Wheels @kateneely.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

starting a thread of these because it makes me happy

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And I assume that it does, though it’s still scarcely AI at all. So this is a familiar future, yet stupid. And in so many other ways as well.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’ve now lived so much longer than I would ever have expected to that I feel I’m living in the future. This is when I imagined Neuromancer happening. And now the creators of today’s AI warn us that it threatens humanity.

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Rob Fletcher @fletch.omg.lol · 14/09/2026

I didn't like Ed Sheeran anyway, but Christ, what a spineless fuck

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Rob Fletcher @fletch.omg.lol · 13/09/2026

double-spacing after a full stop is boomer coded

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Rob Fletcher @fletch.omg.lol · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible: Siouxsie and the Bánh Mìs

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

the reason the ai companies claim they are on the verge of creating superintelligence is not to warn us of the risks. it's because it's a fun sf narrative that serves as a marketing tool. 1

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Rob Fletcher @fletch.omg.lol · 13/09/2026

me at The Quarter Note Bar & Grill a couple weekends ago

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 13/09/2026

So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity."

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"One more thing Miss Barlow... you were about 14 in 2001, and you grew up in the UK, so why did they dismiss your school at noon on 9/11, when the attacks would have happened around 2 pm your time? I just don't understand how the school knew the attacks would be happening later"

Columbo (Peter Falk) asking one more question

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 11/09/2026

There are very real safety concerns we need to address with generative LLMs. Deepfakes, privacy, AI psychosis, etc We don't need to entertain goofy nonsense from people claiming they're inventing the torment nexus from the science fiction classic "Dipshit That's Not The Torment Nexus Go Outside."

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Faith @faithschaffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy #swordtember⚔️

Ink drawing- a woman sits in a tree with a sword on her hip. She is eating an apple from the tree. There's a face in the tree!! Woah!

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Cube @prototypecube.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

"all empires fall but it's rare you see one jump"

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Friendly Pumpkin @pumpkinpal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The great holy war between the people who call shirt no pants "pooh style" and those who call it "Donald ducking"

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

People of All Genders Empowered to Maintain Delusion That They Have A Chance With Gillian Anderson

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Rob Fletcher @fletch.omg.lol · 10/09/2026

Music thread. Things that caught my ear, old or new. Lime Garden - All Bad Parts youtu.be/Y_Ag9zgY2QM

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Lime Garden - All Bad Parts (Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Lime Garden

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.

pcmag.com

Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare

Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this is exactly what i think the “ai will end humanity” talk coming from silicon valley execs is all about. selling cybersecurity measures to protect you from what they might unleash

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Rob Fletcher @fletch.omg.lol · 10/09/2026

I assumed the stories about Apple photoshopping freakishly long fingers onto promo images of that new foldable phone was just people having fun. Then I looked at apple.com and…

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026

Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you pre-order @timnitgebru.blacksky.app’s book right now maybe it will go to number one on the NYT best seller list and we might finally have a sensible AI conversation in the mainstream media for once in our lives www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...

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Deep Unlearning

Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—deliveri...

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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

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Rob Fletcher @fletch.omg.lol · 02/09/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old? Runners up - Glengarry Glen Ross - Sneakers - My Cousin Vinny

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Unforgiven Duck Of Death

ALT: Unforgiven Duck Of Death

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

theverge.com

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Call of Cthulhu used to do these campaign guide books, Secrets of New Orleans, Secrets of San Francisco, etc. that laid out the occult and sinister underbellies of those settings. I want to make Secrets of Denver International Airport, because I'm always struck by how profoundly weird this place is.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Moderation isn’t the answer — progressive populism is. I don’t understand how some members of my party hate the DSA and Hasan Piker more than literal white supremacists in our government. Especially if Democrats actually want to win.

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