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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 28/09/2026

The original WipEout soundtrack still goes hard *31 years later*. Incidentally, my hip is killing me.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The big problem with AI is that Grandma, Dad, Sis and the dog are not upbeat enough about our nerve-shredding wails of pain next to our titanic Moloch" *The AI Age is growing old just like the Space Age and the Atomic Age. How do you off-the-wall weirdos expect this situation to play out

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

Please read this article on the massive weirdos who are largely running the massively powerful and big-money AI industry in the U.S. today.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 24/09/2026

Likely ASIO and ASD should also be investigating this as a mass surveillance and espionage attempt.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 24/09/2026

Furthermore, OpenAI, their agents, subsidiaries, lobbyists, the lot must be locked out of tendering, supply contracts, physical and network access to public sector services and estates. This is would be true of any other private enterprise contractor having committed a serious breach.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 24/09/2026

Hey @albomp.bsky.social - this one is an easy win. Drag OpenAI to court and absolutely excoriate them. Every individual record accessed is a knowing and intentional criminal breach. There’s no acceptable settlement here. Monetary damages must be in the 10s of billions to be effective.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 21/09/2026

Thankfully it turns out there’s heaps of these wonderful people here on Bluesky. :D

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 21/09/2026

Speculative fiction aligned concept artists of the 20th-21st centuries have been far more influential in my life than the French impressionists. Like, hell yeah Matisse, that’s great, but give me Alan Lee, Ralph McQuarrie, Greg Broadmore, Christian Pearce, etc.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 21/09/2026

Grumman Gulfstream II (and ideally every Gulfstream thereafter).

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 20/09/2026

Jesus man, just cancel the fucking tour?!

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 20/09/2026

Considering in the last game of Breakaway I played I was a semi-sentient cargo loading robot the size of a small truck with a sunny disposition and murderous violent streak: yes, it gets really weird.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 17/09/2026

Everyone’s gonna be setting world records.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 17/09/2026

And of course it’s coming from David Littleproud, eternally corrupt shithead of the highest order. Barnaby must be too busy trying to make Pauline Hanson look less insane by comparison.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 17/09/2026

Queensland MPs overjoyed to have a new grift (data centres) that justifies all their existing grifts (massive kickbacks for their coal mining sponsors). Never mind the spectacular amount of solar energy available consistently in western QLD, of course. No special bonuses for special friends there.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 16/09/2026

I cycle to work here in Dublin whenever I can though it is a bit risky, not least because of the fat e-bikes with vestigial pedals and my fellow cyclists that consider road rules and traffic lights to be something that happens to other people. :P

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 14/09/2026

Roasters around Wollongong and the NSW South Coast: - State of Bean: stateofbean.com.au - Daily Grind (Werri blend is 👌👌): www.dailygrindcoffee.com.au - Runner Duck: runnerduckcoffee.com.au - Swell: swellcoffee.com.au There’s loads more in the area but they’re the ones I know are good! 👍

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Runner Duck Coffee

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Orbital Radar @orbitalradar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hundreds of imaging satellites photograph every point on Earth every day. But which ones watch your sky? Satellite Eye tells you exactly when they pass, their camera sharpness, and shows real Sentinel-2 and NASA imagery. Get your surveillance score now: orbitalradar.com/satellite-eye…

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Satellite Eye — Who

50+ imaging satellites photograph your location every day. Enter any city to see your surveillance score, live satellite passes, and real satellite imagery of your area.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 13/09/2026

Ahhh yeah, that’s the Frank’s hot that’s already been cut with butter to pour over chicken wings. More vinegar than anything really hot. I think it might be time to introduce the kid to the real world of chilli. >:D

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

*How many lives have been lost to drones in the many years since? It's like lighting up the city's sky with killer video-grenades

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s so fucked up they let Zuck do shit after the Metaverse. You shouldn’t be able to run a company after that shit.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 11/09/2026

No joke, one of the first things the US needs to do post-Trump will be to fully fund the regulators and arm them to the teeth. Yes, prosecute all the obvious corruption and crimes, fuck ICE into the bin, etc. but having an FTC/FCC that actually punishes bad behaviour is required to make it stick.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026

I am serious that today’s journalism ecosystem would be fooled if they played war of the worlds on the radio. It would be on CNN within hours

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 10/09/2026

Maybe I’m just fucking ancient but yeah, bring back 2008 internet.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 10/09/2026

If Bluesky has proven anything it’s that the average instagram user will be underwhelmed after their diet of hyperfixation scrolling. At least until they then follow 3000 accounts, etc. Cry harder Mosseri.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 09/09/2026

Hey. You may be having a bad day. But at least you’re not having as bad a day as whoever owns this boat.

A lovely little yacht, clearly someone’s pride and joy, in Dun Laoghaire harbour. I do mean ‘in’ quite literally here as the waterline is almost over the deck. She’s goin’ down, cap’n.

Aaaaand she’s gone. Photo taken from RNLI team attempting recovery showing nothing but a mast sticking up out of the water, rolled over at an angle that indicates the boat has found a new home on the harbour floor.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 05/09/2026

No perovskite based solar panels on the market yet specifically because they require a heavy metal like lead to act as an electron donor and, y’know, no one likes that. Performance potential is huge but they’re not inherently safe yet, so people still working on them.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 02/09/2026

Could go Druid and spec into wild shape for big damage soak? Then you still have a few options for clutch casting and big AoE as well as martial options depending on your class features. Alternately, consider the War domain cleric? Or just good ol’ Paladin?

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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My career…. 2009 Melb heatwave, Black Saturday, TC Yasi, Black Summer, 2022 NSW/SE Qld flood, 2019 Aus hottest and driest year (despite no El Nino), TC Alfred. Never the time to discuss climate change mitigation …

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 02/09/2026

I think the .au domain stuff is administered by APNIC to stop random squatting of Aus domains. I thought having an ABN as proof of residence was only applicable to .com.au domains though? Hmm.

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament - Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament

Exclusive: Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ben-Gvir's AI-generated ad for a fucking concentration camp is one of the worst things I've ever seen (I admit I've had that thought a lot recently!). If you're still supporting these pricks, or haven't opened your mouth against them, your cowardice/evil has no limit, no red line

Literally an AI ad for a concentration camp, in which Ben-Gvir joyfully starves Palestinian prisoners

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Parenting done right

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 31/08/2026

Went up in one once and it was mad fun! Pilot demonstrated what happens when you lose power by shutting off the engine and casually gliding down about 200m at an impressive glide ratio. In his words: these things only crash when someone is doing something silly.

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 29/08/2026

But like… I already have a job? Is being in a large corporation a kink now???

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 27/08/2026

Ahhhh, excellent. Now to figure out how to not build my colony like complete garbage every time!

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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 26/08/2026

Large language models #LLMs hallucinate websites and domains that sound plausible, but aren’t useful. Criminals are setting up malicious websites under those domains, in a new scam called “slop squatting.” spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cyberatta...

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Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online · 26/08/2026

AND TIM CURRY?! Fucks sake, 2026. Start hitting some of the shitty 80+ year olds.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 26/08/2026

"AI will speed up development!" "AI will liberate creative tendencies!" then why has it been 4 years and all we've seen is wildly unpopular wet dogshit

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