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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 1h

'Geometrische Formen' #FotoVorschlag Mit fehlt der Kontext. Sieht aus, als ob die Statue einen Fußballschal trägt. Was die Blöcke davor zu suchen haben, weiß ich auch nicht. Weiter zur linken steht ein Hindutempel mit komplizierter Geometrie.

A barely sunset picture of a gilded statue , slim and with raised arms, adorned with a white and red garland. In front of the statue a pile of large beige-to-orange blocks has been piled up. The background is formed by a flat-roofed building with a fine-toothed edge; a brick wall shelters the temple complex. (Temple not included. It’s large and white and ornate. The blocks are completely out of keeping.)

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

… oh. (I mostly encounter Elgar in bibliographies of books I edit; so far they’ve seemed sound. Pay-to-play explains this drivel.)

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I had considered Elgar a reputable publisher until now. Equating ‘woke left ideologues’ with Nazis is a bold move. Spouting nonsense about human races is something that should have been struck down at the proposal stage. Do not sit down with Nazis. Do not publish Nazis. Why is this so difficult?

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Quick reminder that evolutionary psychology is not evolutionary biology and no one is more critical of the worst of evo psych than evolutionary biologists.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is a call for a state-sponsored pogrom. The republican majority whip in the house of representatives, Congressman Tom Emmer (R-MN) is on TV calling for a pogrom and the suspension of habeus corpus based on race, religion, and national origin.

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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/

John Picacio’s response to Must Read Magazine’s request for his waiver of all Moral Rights and Copyright of his commissioned art for an ASIMOV’S assignment. Short version — Picacio says a resounding NOPE.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

The average increase on code volume after the adoption of agentic AI studying 700 firms is 4,000 additional lines of code per programmer. The advantage of junior engineers writing code without the use of AI is senior engineers had to spend less time on code reviews.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We’ve had companies who only want to hire trained staff for years. They now found a perfect solution… until they find they need senior coders and there are none coming through the pipeline. Training staff is part of your job. If you don’t treat them like shit, most won’t want to leave.

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As a newer coder, I would have delved straight into the project, written the obvious solution, had it fail, then tweaked it and found so many more issues. The result always needed refactoring. Now I do that work on paper and only write code when I’m certain. Vibe coders won’t learn that skill.

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This means that I’ll decide what will solve my problem. I’ll look for a solution, try it out in isolation, test it to see whether it meets my requirements, possibly rewrite it using better architecture, drop it into the project, see whether it integrates well. A moderately small amount of code.

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anyone who measured productivity in lines of code written doesn’t understand the assignment anyway. Yes, AI will make _those_ numbers go up. So what? Spaghetti code, repetitions, and a thousand other bad habits will produce more code. I write little code. I try to get things right first time.

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anyone else think having British care homes sold off for over a billion by a very wealthy man to a consortium from California is not a healthy way to provide a service? www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/del...

yorkshirepost.co.uk

'Delighted': Yorkshire businessman's care home company seals £1.1bn deal with US firm

A Yorkshire company which develops UK care homes and owned by one of the region’s wealthiest entrepreneurs has sealed a £1.1bn deal to sell 45 properties to a Californian investment firm.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In 2 weeks the pice have detained over 5000 protesters, the vast majority of whom are minors. This is what the security radicalism of Macron's brand of centrism has ushered in. So many children locked up, other brutalised. The precedent it sets for a future RN government is terrifying.

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

'Dinge die die Welt nicht braucht' #FotoVorschlag Gerümpel im Kanal. Hier der Regents Canal in Islington. Muß nicht sein. Toll, daß das Wasser so klar ist, wirklich Hut ab an alle, die Aufräumarbeiten leisten. Schwimmen sollte man (oder Hund) hier trotzdem nicht.

The edge of the canal in the bottom right corner, water with rain drops, a small torn-off twigs and some duckweed scattered around the surface. Underneath the surface lurks a rust monster, angular and threatening.

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Spending money to prevent firefighters from doing their job in LA… … no, does not compute. The POLICE who are supposed (allegedly) to help save lives spending money to prevent another emergency service from doing its job… No editor would approve this plot.

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So, my autism leapt to the fore today in therapy, and I'm gonna strip off the serial numbers and talk about it because *I* learn ao much from other older folks, especially AFB (because that's my experience,) talking about the ways their autism ambushes them from time to time. 1/?

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People who save internets please save this internet

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Women on the right do this because it raises their chances of being picked by people with power (predominately men) and riding that golden gravy boat down a river of blood all the way to the end. The other reason is that they are simply horrible people and this is just what they believe in.

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bislang ohne mich. Der Stand der Deutschen Bäckerei, die ab und zu sogar Zwiebelbrot hat, war nicht an seinem Ort. Lohnt sich trotzdem reinzuschauen!

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A thread about a great cat, and the post-retirement creative evolution of a great artist, in 20 images...

My late cat The Bear in a box marked Hotel California, realising he can check out but he can never leave.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sassy snake A rather cheeky red-crested serpent on a mid 4th century AD #Roman mosaic floor Found in Durngate Street, Dorchester in 1905, he's now safely housed in Dorset Museum 📷 Sept 2026 #MosaicMonday

A crested red and white checkered snake facing right on a Roman mosaic floor

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

chron.com

How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar

At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm down to the last nine copies of this ISS Cat print, so if you want one, please order soon. It's in my shop along with other prints, badges and a zine: www.tomgauld.com/

A view of the International Space Station floating in the stars above the earth. A cat in a space suit floats outside. An astronaut within the station looks out of a window and says "In? But I just let you out."

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dear Duolingo: I did three quests yesterday. I did three quests today. In total, you have logged four quests. And the tech bros want me to give them my email, computer, bank logins? When we don’t yet have the technology to count to six?

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

True not just in publishing/writing. Look at how this new Meta Muse basically jumps into the user's shit, mixes it around, gets it everywhere. Shares their address. Lies to their contacts. Sells their stuff at a low price. Do not let the vampire in. Hang garlic. Sharpen stakes.

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Foundry is a VTT, a virtual tabletop, and I had looked forward to playing with it. First thing it did was to ask for my computer admin password. Fuck hell no. Nobody gets that. No software needs to control my computer, read my files, install or delete software, send emails… FUCK OFF.

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Very very bad idea… but how stupid do you have to be to know this is a bad idea and give it your personal email login anyway? If you have to test this for work, set up a sandboxes new gmail, populate it with handpicked content sent from other fake accounts. Last I was asked for my login: Foundry.

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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 01/10/2026

#botober2026 is back by popular demand! This year I used 2015-era char-rnn running on my cat hair covered laptop to predict new entries in a list of 42,000 Jockey Club racehorse names. No other training data was involved. I collected the best horseys for you! www.aiweirdness.com/botober-2026/

Botober 2026
Art prompts generated by a very tiny language model
Trained on 42,000 racehorse names from the Jockey Club

1. Happy Fly
2. Excessive Wet
3. Dust of the Dancer
4. Star You Chase
5. Cat to Cow
6. Rocks of the Wind
7. Expected Shoes
8. Shot Lazer
9. Buttermade
10. Tiger Tricks
11. Bubble Bird
12. Swinging Bedchin
13. Stamp Market
14. Fast Wave
15. Qualitydance
16. Lady Attackpot
17. Speed Puddin
18. Pretty Blubinddem
19. Friend Velvet
20. One Little Bench
21. Hoot Cop
22. Foolish Reserve
23. Boo's Clever
24. Power Noping
25. Silent Got the Cart
26. Thunder Swan
27. Gator Exchange
28. Kitten Market
29. Funny Empire
30. Four Spies
31. Candy Smoke

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Kathleen Cottontail 🏳️‍⚧️♿️🖖🏻🐰 @kathleengmaz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tim Russ posted this on Facebook 🤣 🖖

Someone’s front lawn in front of their house. Someone put out a very good replica of the original enterprise Bridge as a Halloween decoration the difference is all of the characters are skeletons at their stations wearing TOS uniforms.

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I cannot ‘like’ some statements. Given how many references I’ve seen, I’m surprised how low the number is. I also fear it doesn’t include the people who died after being dumped without resources in the middle of nowhere.

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They chose chaotic evil without looking up what that means.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Northern Ireland Assembly yesterday voted in favour of progressing with a bill that would ban conversion practices, with no religious exemption. A long way to go before this is law, but NI is now further ahead on delivering this key protection for LGBT people than Scotland, England or Wales.

humanists.uk

Victory! Northern Ireland Conversion Practices Ban Bill passes key vote

The Northern Ireland Assembly has voted to pass the Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill at Second Stage. MLAs voted 46 in favour and 29 against, with 15 abstentions. Northern Ireland Humanists...

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you pay the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

anydice is so useful for shit like this btw. curious how Forged in the Dark rolls work? here you go, "chance of at least this level of success" for 0, 1, 2, and 3 skill pips. The fact that success rates increase by 25% for the first few skill dice produce really clean, noticable power increases

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wil Wheaton has entered the chat.

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You’d also take half an hour per turn, and your DM will shove all your dice into a dice up and tell you to get on with it.

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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This has been my experience in writing, coding, roleplaying, worldbuilding, music, photography, art: other people say it can do that, skilled practitioners say ‘no way’.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. The 1,800 jobs UCU estimates will be cut is unprecedented in Scottish higher education. It is happening in the wealthiest Scottish university, and the third richest in the UK, currently sitting with over £3billion reserves.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026

Israel engaged in the demolition of a city with families still inside the buildings. Real life horror.

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