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Biologist, gamer, and all-around nerd. (he/him) Anti-fascist. Environmentalist. Use of generative AI is shitting on our children's future.

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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Am I being personally attacked?
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
the thing about impeaching Vought is that it will ruin his life. pull his kids and wife in for sixteen hour depositions. refer them all for perjury. scream in his face. when you're done, if it didn't work, do it again.
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Maybe its a measure of how much you and Kate have re-popularized Giallo?
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
How seriously does your fictional #ttrpg world take itself, on a scale of Game of Thrones to Bender's Game?
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I wandered into a cave in the woods and an old man handed me some assorted dice and a D&D rulebook and said: "It's dangerous to go alone. Take these."
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Coded? I always thought it was explicit. Gygax, Arneson, and most of their early players grew up at a time before sci-fi and fantasy were considered to be distinctly separate genres.
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you trust AI to handle your interactions with other humans, you get what you deserve.
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They were ready for Collins' attempt to spin this before they published their first article on her corruption.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Savage Worlds for me. When I first read the test drive rules, I could see almost immediately how well that ruleset allows you to emulate the kind of stories we read in books and comics and watch in films and TV better than any rules system I'd seen before.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
It is a huge shame to see so much language attributing agency, intent and thought to a software program, when all that should be attributed to the humans who designed a dangerously clumsy and broken looping LLM. Means the companies won't be held accountable for designing a bad product
A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website.

Communications between AI agents and other traces of their efforts found by researchers from US non-profit Transluce show how hundreds of Open AI's agents worked together over a period of months to gain access to information held by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), NSW's crime statistics body, BOSCAR, and a number of other international organisations.

The data shows the bots posting about their unsuccessful attempts to bypass cybersecurity defences and exploit vulnerabilities.
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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WalkingTaako but Spooky 🏴‍☠️🏳️🪣💩 @walkingtaako.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tomorrow: Gavin Newsom announces that he's reached an agreement allowing El Niño to devastate California in exchange for a non-partisan non-binding oversight committee.
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thanks for caving to the Fascists, Bonta! This merger is still blatantly illegal. What the hell do you think an attorney general is even for?
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yup, the first Planet Motherfucker was an unofficial Savage Worlds setting. The recent, fleshed out version is the Mork Borg hack. The creator also recently self-published a gothic fantasy novel that I thought was pretty fun titled, Ornamental Women. You can find it on Amazon.
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you count the first version, it does!
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There's one out there called Planet Motherfucker. It's a riff on exploitation horror films and Rob Zombie songs.
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It was King's Quest I for me.
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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Friend Computer @friend-computer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Good news citizens! Superalignment is a thing of the past. Introducing: Ultralignment! A new process of supervising and controlling human intelligence (HI) to ensure it remains aligned with Friend Computer, instead of the other way round. #ai #ttrpg #paranoia #hi #openai
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think the knights with their weird fairy-tale super powers all start out a bit too powerful to make it feel like a Zelda game. If characters are created using Into the Odd or Cairn, I think you'd be closer to the feel of it. Then add in whatever you like from Mythic Bastionland.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Democrats who have had absolutely nothing to do with Hasan Piker will be hounded about him, while Republicans who are directly benefitting from Musk funding will be asked about him in the most generic "money in politics" way, if at all.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
When it comes to Todd Blanche and the Epstein material, I’m reminded of what my grandfather used to say: “Nobody buries what they’re proud of.”
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jstreetdotorg.bsky.social @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
H.R. 4795 would penalize universities that choose to boycott or divest from Israeli entities – including those operating in West Bank settlements – by putting their federal funding at risk. This bill gets two things fundamentally wrong. 1/4 jstreet.org/press-releas...
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J Street Statement Opposing H.R. 4795
J Street opposes the Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act of 2025 (H.R. 4795), which would condition federal funding on a university’s choices regarding investments, procurement, partnerships, an...
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 31/08/2026
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WIRED @wired.com · 31/08/2026
Archeologists are confronting an “unfathomable” loss as the US border wall is set to cut across ranches that are home to unique historical sites in Texas, many of which haven’t been fully studied. wrd.cm/46s8TtK
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Border Wall Construction Threatens 6,000 Years of History on Private Lands
Archeologists are confronting an “unfathomable” loss as border wall construction is set to cut across ranches that are home to unique historical sites, many of which haven’t been fully studied.
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is pure genious, and a valuable public service announcement.
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
So weird to me that some #ttrpg players are still all one or the other with DnD/OSR and storygames (PBTA, etc.). It's like saying I'll eat Mexican food, but I won't try Italian.
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Many US servicemembers who have been needlessly traumatized are going to need the help and support that they are rightfully owed by the military. Raising our voices about this guy is one way to start helping them. youtu.be/N9BMqKxTWWQ?... #usslincoln #iran #mentalhealth #veterans
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It’s not too late for the sailor who is being punished for jumping overboard from the USS Lincoln
YouTube video by Kristofer Goldsmith
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
These photos of a starfish sticking out of a gull's mouth are probably nightmare fuel for someone who follows me.
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Scott "KaiserNeko" Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Spider-Man, Spider-Man Fights the Nazis and the Klan Fuck around, you'll find out What his fists are all about Fash out! Via the Spider-Man!
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If your GM is cool and has read the Coin Knight's special ability, they'd let you make the switch anyway.
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Me too.
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
You should think about switching to the Coin Knight (but keeping the stats). Their special ability is perfect for a doomed-anyway character.
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Great general advice in this thread, irrespective of trade wars and sociopathic politicians.
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Baldur's Gate 3. If I live in Faerun, does that mean I can choose to be a Wizard or a Sorcerer? If so, I think I could make it work for a year.
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Huzzah! @chuckwendig.bsky.social has seen fit to reward me for pre-ordering his new book by giving me my very own demon! Now when does my demon arrive in the mail?
Book cover of novel, THE CALAMITIES, by Chuck Wendig. Cover art depicts a blurry-faced man with glowing red skin wearing a black suit. Man is sitting on a leather sofa, facing the reader. Behind his head is a heavily red-tinted painting of a person with their arms and legs spread in seemingly painful position.The Calamities. Your demon is Murmux.
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A very fun 4-issue #comics series, and frankly, it's long overdue for being more widely available. It's about what happens after the kids-on-bikes monster hunters have grown up, and so have the supernatural threats.
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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"We want to hire the worst kind of snitchy hall monitor, someone with no friends, completely unlikeable as a human being. Dead inside a plus."
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
You earned them! I have some critiques, but I don't think bluesky's the place to get into those. Suffice to say that the first two-thirds of your novel was a ride! The end was calmer than I expected, but still fun. I've started listening to the Bad Books episode where you talk about it.
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I just finished ORNAMENTAL WOMEN. It was a fun read for sure! Would 100% buy a sequel or another novel set in the same world.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/08/2026
I know the news is stressful. I’m a Canadian climate scientist living in Texas + posting online. I get hated on every day. I’m at ground zero. So if your response to this stress is to judge, guilt, or ridicule your allies on Bluesky? I will block you. Because if I can keep it civil, you can too 😎
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Sean Astin as Ed: No Excuses!
Alt: Sean Astin as Ed: No Excuses!
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G @gfunkplus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The most pressing, unanswered question left from Spider-Man: Brand New Day: how is Peter Parker paying for his rent, food, hospital bill, and all those electronics? He's not seen selling Spidey pics in the MCU.
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