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hashfyre

@hashfyre.dev
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Discordant demi-geek. Makes maps. Eats myths and fantasy. My politics is class politics. Burnt-out Leftist Techie who is probably going to quit being one. Opinions are solemnly mine. pronoun.is/he +LSN-ASD

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 7h
Maybe you should *stop* obsessing about your own -- and other people's -- sexuality? Feels like it’s about time to do that. You’ve thought about this for *eight hours*?! Not only should you stop, you should tell Kim you've stopped obsessing about other people's sexuality too.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 29/09/2026
Full support for everyone striking today for public services in France ✊ And teachers in particular, since I see every day how they are mistreated by the government. And the students. And the firefighters. And the doctors and hospital staff. And more, lots of people 🥰
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 22h
It is pretty wild how insanely close the current round of AI+sexuality+SF+rationalist discourse is to the plot of Terra Ignota. Ada Palmer is basically a prophet.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22h
Normalize smart people admitting when they don’t know things
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 23h
This was in response to a minor being gang raped by people posing as police in Delhi. Same week, there was another case of actual police gang raping another minor in Uttar Pradesh. As well as another news story of a minor being molested by a group of men. India's rotted through with rape culture.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
also thinking a lot about how #MeToo apparently went too far, when it’s quite obvious now that it didn’t go far enough. it didn’t really go anywhere. there were no lasting consequences of that cultural moment beyond people making jokes about it.
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/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨Hades: Developing Hell RETURNS🕹️ In the first episode of our second season we talk to the team @supergiantgames.bsky.social about the decision to finally make a sequel to one of their games. WATCH: youtu.be/UWFfmD8n-xA
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Why Supergiant Games Chose to Make a Sequel to Hades - Developing Hell II
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026
Fall Canceled After 3 Billion Seasons theonion.com/fall-canceled-after-3-…
Fall Canceled After 3 Billion Seasons
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Ramonkey Perales @ramonkey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A sword that cuts both ways.
A page for Down North Where No One Goess issue 2.
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Sawyer Lee (Books out on Backerkit!) @sawyerleeart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Talking fantasy races and spec evo youtu.be/TIFxlPE_pys
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Make Your Fantasy Races Weird with Speculative Evolution
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hashfyre @hashfyre.dev · 28/09/2026
Also been shouting about this for 3 years. We will lose many dialects, pidgins, creoles, regional flourishes all at once, and there won't be enough time to document and archive.
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hashfyre @hashfyre.dev · 28/09/2026
Fed data to Anthropic. Anthropic steals work. Surprise scientific Pikachu face. Sometimes I think all subject matter experts should always be shepherded by intersectional generalists. Then I realize, oh, that's what the Govts were supposed to be
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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hashfyre @hashfyre.dev · 28/09/2026
Trying to waddle through 'Chronology of Water' while mind craves for some peew-peew and bullet timey things.
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hashfyre @hashfyre.dev · 28/09/2026
Bluesky has a lot of "popular" accounts who are absolute idiots. People who can't contextualize a banana if given three disparate disciplinary/domain contexts. Things exist in intersection of one another, people; it's not about where your expertise dwells, or just your perspective.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.
Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions
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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 28/09/2026
🌟 Presenting the LudoNarraCon 2026 Official Selection 🌟 🎮 51 narrative indie games 🗓️ October 8–15 PT on Steam 💙 Supported by @jacobgeller.com, @lookingfor.game, @remapradio.bsky.social & @thisweekinvideogames.com 🌐 More info at bit.ly/FTLNC2026 📬 Sign up for our newsletter to stay updated!
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Three people, including a child, drowned in the Channel today. Our politics is so broken that the debate is never about how we stop these deaths and always about how we can come up with harsher policies that make more deaths inevitable.
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hashfyre @hashfyre.dev · 28/09/2026
Friend discovered the entirety of Robert Eggers' filmography after watching the second trailer of Werwulf. I'm being the good influence and making him watch 'The Vvitch' at gunpoint, even though he wants to go for Northman first.
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Emily Hare @emilyhare.com · 28/09/2026
Still one of my favourite dragons. A wood dragon from Strangehollow, a book you will find in my shop here: buff.ly/kor46L0 #dragon #dragonart #greendragon #wooddragon #bestiary
watercolour - the head and neck of a green dragon covered in antler/horn like growths all around its head and neck. Its nose is pink and its eyes are shiny and black and it has a benign expression.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” 32,000 men in an Italian Facebook group devoted to drugging your wife and taking nonconsensual explicit photos of her and sharing them. It didn’t get shut down until a woman discovered and exposed it. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Anger in Italy over non-consensual photos of women shared online
The My Wife Facebook group had 32,000 members before it was shut down for violating adult sexual exploitation policies.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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Prosper Tipaldi 🌱🌿 @prospertipaldi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I made a freely accessible archive of about 100 photos I took if you're interested: www.patreon.com/ProsperTipal...
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Médiévales de Tiffauges 2026 | Prosper Tipaldi
Last weekend I was at this year's installment of the Médiévales de Tiffauges at the château de Tiffauges, not far from where I live here in
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Alexander (Artist) ⚔️ @okaydrawboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It is once again time to do commission work; 0/5 slots for the first half of October, as well as the start of Axetober soon Some work below!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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hashfyre @hashfyre.dev · 28/09/2026
Paraphrasing Boxo: You don't discover what you create through scientific means. Any pretense otherwise is fallacious.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have fairly strong opinions of that kind of system, actually: India has this system, where you "decide" early STEM or humanities early on, and the perception is STEM="intelligent" students, humanities=not. The STEM branch rarely get any humanities, and are taught they don't need it. I genuinely..
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026
I think people are reacting to this bc it feels like downplaying the water issue but really it isn't. Biodiversity impacts, land use, air pollution - serious impacts (not 'potential btw but real) that all can be made to look like nothing by putting them on a national or global denominator
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J | dawnwalking @rabentanz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
somewhere along the line i really lost my passion for looking at and creating art i fear. that burning desire to create. bring something to life. but now i’m like “there are enough others who do it”. generally i don’t have any passion anymore that would give me a spark to create.
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J | dawnwalking @rabentanz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
looked at older art by artists i really liked from before 2020 and it made me realize again that art (and social media really) felt so different and better. it used to feel so whimsy and intriguing, but nowadays i see new art and think “cool 👍”, but no more wonder on how they did it.
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article-14.com @article-14.com · 28/09/2026
“I don’t have any documents. How will I get proof?” Delhi’s Yashmin, 35, has voted since 2015. Now she faces exclusion: she cannot establish a link to the 2002 rolls ECI says it will send officials home. But that’s of no use without papers, reports @betwasharma.bsky.social Link 👇
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hashfyre @hashfyre.dev · 28/09/2026
Fancy Dance directed by Erica Tremblay. Probably one of the most profound coming of age and settling into your age stories wrapped-up in the hyper-normalized violence people of First Nations live through every day. All from two women's perspective.
Fancy Dance directed by Erica Tremblay.

Probably one of the most profound coming of age and settling into your age stories wrapped-up in the hyper-normalized violence people of First Nations live through every day.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

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[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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article-14.com @article-14.com · 28/09/2026
ECI says Form 6 to enrol voters during SIR will retain a question asking new voters to prove parental links to 2002 rolls, while enrolments outside SIR will not Former CEC Quraishi says this is illegal: “How can you have 2 Form 6s?” @betwasharma.bsky.social reports article-14.com/post/eci-bri...
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ECI Brings Voter Verification To The Doorstep. But The Homeless Still Have No Papers To Prove Their Vote
The Election Commission says officers will visit voters who received notices during Delhi’s electoral revision. But for the homeless who lack documents linking them to the 2002 electoral rolls, the ch...
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Katherine Lam @ LBX 431 @katherinelam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
badly done and very brief little guide about contrast when thinking about composition! this is really just the tip of the iceberg, but it is something i think about a lot! if you take one thing from this, its that composition is ALL about relationships between the elements. (1/2)
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
you say the word "agent" but what you often really mean is "process" or "daemon"
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I actually think many people who are parents should never have been parents. And their children shouldn't have to pay the price for their lack of self awareness for eternity.
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Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 27/09/2026
The heartbreaking thing about lovely videos like this being called out as gen AI in the comments (it's not gen AI, it's real) is that here, we are actually looking at non-human cognition. Animal cognition, unlike gen AI, has things to teach us about ourselves and the world.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Saw the documentary NAZA, made in secret, with interviews of members of Israel’s intelligence services testifying and showing how they created a system to perpetrate genocide in Gaza. The filmmakers and their families have been threatened by Netanyahu himself. I wrote my thoughts here boxd.it/gvDEIR
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A ★★★★★ review of NAZA (2026)
Merely a film. A film that has led Netanyahu himself to threaten the citizenship and safety of its Israeli filmmakers and even their families, simply for the act of filming veterans of Israel’s intell...
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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
the year is 2035 movie theaters dont exist anymore ntflx costs 200 bucks a month and you can watch an ai remake of any movie you like with tilly norwood normal movies are available for 3 hour windows on yubu every 3rd thursday of the month and every 4th thursday on flopee on months with 5 thursdays
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Shades @damdonjulio.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
#Sinners
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𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 - ℑ𝔰𝔢𝔨𝔞𝔦𝔷𝔢 𝔐𝔢, ℭ𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔫! @therunepony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Who are KVLTGAMES? Well, according to a German-only Wikipedia page... Nazis. Like literally neo-nazis who made a Turner Diaries simulator that got their previous publisher banned from Steam.
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hashfyre @hashfyre.dev · 27/09/2026
I sometimes chuckle to myself imagining a @watanabetakao.bsky.social & @tommysiegel.bsky.social collab.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026
We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.
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hashfyre @hashfyre.dev · 27/09/2026
Regarding this genie analogy, humor me this: "HOW THE HECK WAS THE GENIE INSIDE THE BOTTLE, IF IT CAN'T BE PUT BACK THERE?"
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tomorrow is the day, Los Angeles! Not sure if there are tickets left, but damn it, I’m gonna make sure you check! 😅 Come and see a British, indie animated war satire put together by me and @2000ad.bsky.social, starring Aneurin Barnard, Hayley Atwell, Sean Bean, Diane Morgan, Jemaine Clement,
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hashfyre @hashfyre.dev · 27/09/2026
Disney refusing to get that "Skywalker" is a dead plot dancing.
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