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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 3h

Cobra HQ Casualwear cobra Commander is very handsome on his throne, but has to be put in a safe place FAR from Artemis because she wants to eat him.

Hooded Cobra Commander with statf on his throne, front view

Hooded Cobra Commander with statf on his throne, rear view

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 5h

Bog standard basic ass Quartz made it to the finals. [shakes head sadly] We used to be a field/country/world.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 6h

Shit, I knew this last year because I was make a reservation for more than one night in a lodge at Yellowstone.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 7h

AUSTRALOLOGY QUESTION Following the established pattern from other animals and trades, are wedgetail eagles referred to as Wedgies?

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Oda @odacm.bsky.social · 8h

this is something that would be a 2 hour long Forgotten Weapons youtube video

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Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her) @gattakat.bsky.social · 8h

Sir this is a Wendy’s

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 9h

Well, I'm 20 years late to the party on this one but this is why it pays to hangout with the Earth Sciences people when you're near their building. TL;DR - Geology is complicated. It's good to ask geologists before you dig deep holes or you will learn SURPRISE GEOLOGY.

en.wikipedia.org

Staufen im Breisgau - Wikipedia

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 10h

And then the car juice came out. Game over.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 11h

That’s a big ol’ no thank you very much.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 12h

okay I'm sorry to literally beg for this, I've done part time jobs and you all have been amazing sponsoring for me doing work around the community But I go 1400 a month rent is due at the end of the month and I'm freaking out, they can delay it until the 8th but I think I honestly can't pay it

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Jeff Goldsmith @yogoldsmith.bsky.social · 14h

John Carpenter (@TheHorrorMast) on They Live @AcademyMuseum : It’s about Yuppies The KKK, the white arian resistance, started the rumor that it was about Jews. And they asked me, was it about Jewish people taking over? I couldn't believe it. And I'm like these assholes. How dare you! Fuck you!

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 16h

Folks, I know we gone over this before including, but not limited to: various rocks, trees, very rude fungus, major geographical features, etc. But do not fuck the prototaxites.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 16h

the pigs' revenge

Let’s show these
farmers what’s
what! Start a
trending topic,
hogs!

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026

it's a lovely michaelmas day and you are a horrible goose

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Dangerous Gain of Function” policy from the feds is real tough to comply with when they haven’t quite said what the policy is yet. This might mean it’s not written yet.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Listening to The Ancient World about the Shintashta doing some migration, definitely getting Bingus and the Riddle of Pants feelings.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If @vicmsong.bsky.social brings one of these to CES I am gonna flip it off so much.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An expert display of Particular Skills! (from my gif archive)

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bluesky's originally envisioned user base was *literally* meant to be all the sex pests at the Silicon Valley orgies @faineg.com has been talking about. Jack Dorsey *left* when trans people showed up instead of the expected Harry Potter sex cultists.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

[taps the sign again] I forgot to include in the list the "retroreflector" for light intensification in their eyes and their lack of receptors for the color red. They don't really see the same red dot you do, but can notice the movement (they're very good at that) if there's enough contrast.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp."

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

[Fire Marshal overhears me talking to their deputy about Amazon Bullshit Lasers, pops head out of office] FM: What did you say the power cut off is? Me: 5mW for visible light. Why, you got one too? FM: Yeah, should be fine though. [shines it at wall] Me: [yoinks] I'm afraid I'm the judge of that.

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 28/09/2026

live your life in such a way that you dont have to hide your company's swag

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Jake i 🇵🇸 ✡️ (alt Space Laser Command) @jakei.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

*llm knowingly does something it shouldn't* user: wtf?? "you're right I never should have done that it won't happen again" *no actual guarantee it won't happen again* so these things default to abuser language, which tracks

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's close to bedtime before the Monday ahead. You must be a Dream Warrior tonight and greet the day on the other side.

youtube.com

Dokken - Dream Warriors (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by RHINO

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Peter Clines @peterclines.com · 28/09/2026

OH HEY SAN DIEGO FOLKS Completely forgot to mention that I'm going to be at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social tomorrow night chatting with @seananmcguire.bsky.social about the latest October Daye book-- A DIVIDED DUTY. Swing by and ask questions. Get answers. Buy books and have them scribbled in.

A Mysterious Galaxy event poster for SeananMcGuire (in conversation with Peter Clines) Monday, Spetember 28th, 2026 at 7:00pm. The posterhas both our headshots and the cover of A DIVIDED DUTY

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Because I was inspired by @jonnyboy27.bsky.social’s trip to the kombini, both I and the timeline have been blessed by spam musubi!

A piece of spam musubi with a bite out of it.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On a whim, I searched Redbubble for FISTO related items. While there clearly need to be more products, I am pleased that the number of items available is greater than zero. People are picking up the money Bethesda left on the table.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

Ann Pierce
@itsannpierce
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I asked @bluedelliquanti.bsky.social to pick up @mattielubchansky.com’a new zine at SPX and it does NOT disappoint, her brain is so big and beautiful.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We desperately need these guys to maintain various exotics hobbies. Without them, in their opinion, The Hobby Is Dying. It is nice for them to self-sequester themselves in The Hobby for the well being of the rest of us.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

I take my ADHD meds so I don’t leave a swath of chaos wherever I go, you are very welcome

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dear hivemind, Has a recent update to Windows and/or Zoom fucked up audio quality?

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Kasey Kagawa @punkey.org · 26/09/2026

Oh hey it's the thing I posted about last night with Meta and the tort of appropriation

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Mark Baxter @aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Due to last weeks huge success at not having a near death experience or suffering random organ failure it’s time to try a different flavour. This one should taste like FREEDOM.

Phorm Energy drink called Screamin’ Freedom. Cherry, lemon, and blueberry flavour along with those other pesky natural flavours which sound more like a hostage situation than an ideal description.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

“AI safety is a real problem. EA safety now makes it two problems. But the deeper problem is keeping the governance of AI itself safe from all attempts at establishing moral monopolies.” This was also very thought-provoking, regarding effective altruism and who gets to claim moral responsibility.

contraptions.venkateshrao.com

EA Safety

EA promises to solve AI Safety. Now we have two problems.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What? No. I don’t want Baby Yoda flavored Nilla wafers.

A box of Nabisco Nilla wafers Grogu Nilla Yummies

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Jonathan L. Howard @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"It's cute because it 'basically looks like a baby.'"

Photograph of a baby doll standing in the corner of an abandoned stationmaster's house in Nottinghamshire. It is is not, by any stretch of the imagination, cute.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bootleg Safari is a delight. People of SLC, you deserve nice things. @eighthway.com, go take your students. Or have them take you as you are venerable and need minding and fruit cup.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 26/09/2026

money

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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

imagining a dystopia where every rich person is a giant genetically engineered baby

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