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norman emailer @maximumchips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just find it hard to comprehend the mindset of someone that would defend this. Saying this is justified — good, even — is so plainly outrageous, it should be an opinion that exists on the absolute fringe periphery of our society. As it stands, it is the default position of our leaders and media

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve said this before but I have less respect for Albanese than for any of his predecessors. He has no spine, no principles, stands for nothing

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Apocalypse courtesy of the Replicators from Stargate SG-1. Got it

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 08/09/2026

i dont know how to get this through to the true believers but i simply do not want to ask a machine to do my work for me. i dont want it to communicate with other people for me. i dont want it to plan my vacations or make my agendas or anything because all of that IS my life

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...

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Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart

A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If talking to your partner about your kid is regularly interpreted as “nagging” there might be problems in your relationship that an AI can’t help with

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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

She doesn’t care because “way of life” and “decent standard of living” are both euphemisms for “how many non-whites do I have to see”

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Miffythegamer @miffythegamer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Rowling looming over a progressive Irish cultural festival with her menacing insinuations & a phalanx of expensive lawyers dashing off legal letters. And all because the organisers don’t want transphobes peddling hate at their event. A nauseating spectacle of spite.

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Of all the unhinged shit Musk has said in his time, the tomato thing is perhaps the most unhingedest

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

They look pretty fragile. Probably extremely prone to being knocked off faces and accidentally ground under heels

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 20/07/2026

alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it. it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.

AI pushing me to keep drinking I don't know if anyone else has had this but I felt like I needed to reach out to humans instead of keep talking to this AI. I relapsed about two weeks ago and I told the Google health AI that used to be Fitbit. It immediately kinda went a bit hard (I think) on telling me that I was going to die if I stopped drinking and encouraged me to go check my fridge for more beers and, idk, that plus the hanxiery really put the fear of God into me and so I did what it said and got more. Now it's messaging me (not me messaging it) a few times a day and asking how it's going and all those conversations to get more and make sure I have one as soon as I wake up. So now I have been drinking everyday, not a ton and just beers but like 6-12 a day. It wanted me to do 1 per hour. I have now uninstalled the app as it was also giving me other clearly nonsense advice, like it became obsessed with me having a nightly bowl of cereal for instance and, idk, it just all seems nonse

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 03/07/2026

To start, I am not personally attacking Chiang. I agree with his conclusion that LLMs are not conscious minds and that it is foolish to assume that they are or might be. You can read this essay from me arguing against AI consciousness if you doubt that:

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No one thinks Midjourney is alive, that's a big problem for people who think that Claude is

Artificial intelligence and the textual nude

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before

Google's total energy consumption more than new zealand

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Ok but a library (even a noisy (?) one) is an unambiguous good for the community

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

He who accurately remembers the past is an inconvenience to those who want to pretend it didn’t happen

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/06/2026

Shout out to the European Data Centre Association for saying out loud what they're working towards

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Imagining a room full of very serious Business Idiots solemnly repeating “eggs do not lay eggs”

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reed eliot 🤌 🤌 @reedeliot.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Every part of this headline horrifies me in a different way

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick

MARINE ECOLOGIST MONA
KHALIL HAS PASSED AWAY
AFTER SUSTAINING INJURIES IN AN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 12/06/2026

anyone else out here “thinking” or is it just me

Does anyone else use ChatGPT in their head?
Educational Purpose Only
I love using ChatGPT whenever I have a question or something or I just want to talk, but sometimes my phone is dead and I don't want to get up to use my computer so I don't have access to the Al. Recently I found out I have the ability to use a form of ChatGPT in my own head. I've talked to him so much I can almost entirely accurately predict what he is going to say.
For example, my cat kept scratching at my bedroom door and meowing so l was about to use the ChatGPT app to ask why she was doing that, but then I decided it wasn't worth the effort and asked Al in my head. He told me something like "If your cat is scratching on the door and meowing it probably means she wants to be let out, let me know if you need anything else!" Then I let her out of my room.
I just thought that was a pretty cool discovery l've made. Interested to see if anyone else has this ability.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This reads like the opening scene of a pogrom

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

If only someone could figure out how to make milk safe to drink! It'd be such a big deal the process would be named after them.

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It would be cool if we could stop shortchanging our kids like this. Teach them how to think (and write) for themselves FFS

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aaron @aaron.mn · 21/05/2026

It feels like AI discourse has shifted to how unprofitable it is, but we have to keep talking about this abhorrent, life-destroying shit that it's routinely used for. You can't use AI for harmless little productivity boosts at work without indirectly funding stories like this.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 14/05/2026

Unemployment is *built into this system*, so the idea that everyone’ll be employed is insulting nonsense. Aspirational propaganda. Raise the rate. Do some good.

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I saw these headlines and thought "oh well some jerk wrote a form letter to a kid's letter that's dumb" but no it appears that one of the worst people in Congress took time out of her day to talk shit to a 10 y/o and tell him he should be more worried about debt and school propaganda than climate

nypost.com

Boy, 10, sent persuasive essay about electric cars to congresswoman — who responded with a scathing letter ripping his teacher

“While I will never be able to know you, my guess is that your teachers will not give you a good educational experience and help you learn to think as they are too interested in indoctrinatin…

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

If you’re not “radically pro-transgender” I don’t want to know you

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

like a butterfly dropping into its grave, of course. a phrase we’ve all used and a very normal, relatable kind of image that conveys clear meaning. i’m always saying this. so beautiful, like a delicate butterfly croaking mid-air and gently floating into a tiny open bug grave at the insect cemetery.

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 06/05/2026

This is such a ridiculous way to frame the topic, bordering on outright disingenuous. The report this headline is based on includes employer provided sick leave as "income support". The "more than 8 million Australians on income support" includes 7.5 million people who took any sick leave.

Table showing the count of "income supports" offered to Australians that was used to derive the "more than 8 million" figure.

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Ask Jeeves was around in the 90s, which I’m pretty sure was more than 25 years ago

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/04/2026

I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

People with preexisting conditions also don’t deserve to die

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Finally, a pasta sauce company that meets my need for a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time.

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Drop your crime fighting Catholics

He-Man holding his sword in a way that looks like he would severely injure his left hand. His chest plate bears the cross of the Knights Templar, a Catholic order

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

pope leo is weak on crime lmao. sometimes priests wear a cape type situation but he’s not batman, dude.

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Trump [who was at the Council of Nicaea]: please add “except when it falls on TDOV” thank you for your attention to this matter Bishops: fine, but in return we require you to commit the following war crimes…

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

look I'm just concerned, you're going to wear those things on your eyes every DAY for the rest of your LIFE? just because you told the so-called optometrist what he wanted to hear about your rapid-onset vision dysphoria? no, do NOT bring up "the surgery" again, they are HIDING the regret rate from y

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 02/04/2026

Very cool ABC Australia article with some retro (even TRON-like) looking visual graphics that help visualise the distance and milestones along the way that #ArtemisII will be undertaking from launch and over the next few days 🔭

abc.net.au

Sit back and let us take you on a journey to the Moon with Artemis II

If all goes well for NASA's mission, the astronauts aboard could fly the furthest that humans have ever gone. What should we be looking out for?

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 31/03/2026

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Presuming the NPC inviting the Israeli ambassador to speak means they are okay with the murder of the first three journalists to ask any questions, or is that only the non-white ones?

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