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HotelEcho

@hotelecho.bsky.social
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Civilisation ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the foodchain; and not always at the top.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 1h
I think a shocking number of our major societal problems would vanish overnight if you could magically pull the plug on the X platform and Meta, both of which are carefully designed to turn people into the worst version of themselves.
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HotelEcho @hotelecho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
undefeated
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/10/2026
it's Adam and Intelligence not Steve and Intelligence
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Tran Girlismo: The Real Podcast Simulator @trangirlismo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's cool that American automakers strategy for the next ten years is just to become fully disconnected from reality
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the way this guy just continues talking to the LLM like it’s a person capable of sincere contrition and permanent behavior change (something you can’t even trust HUMANS to follow through on!) after it put him in danger…. instead of getting the memo and taking its access away
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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lol, no Britain isnt "prepared for war" because a) you have not given the people a serious enough reason to want to throw themselves in the meat grinder for "britain", and b) this country's defense and investment is cartoonishly obsessed with fancy toys and pretending it's a "world power" still
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's Laura Rutledge explaining that the secret service will not interfere with the radio communications at this game immediately followed by the broadcast audio going to hell
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The key to getting low-information voters to vote for Democrats or just to sit out elections is to do everything possible to brand Republicans and especially Trump as stupid losers that are embarrassing to associate with. Make them the NY Jets fans of politics.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.
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Elden Bling @lunarscope.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026
The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.
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Jonathan H. Liu @jonathanhliu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Got to see Coyote vs ACME yesterday and it was fantastic. Here's my Etch-a-Sketch tribute!
Etch-a-Sketch drawing of Wile E. coyote, frowning, holding up a sign, which is a pocket Etch-a-Sketch drawing that says "It's a limited number of signs"
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HotelEcho @hotelecho.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
48 hours since seeing Coyote vs. Acme and can't stop thinking about it. The true measure of art is how it makes you feel, yeah?
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Amazing. It seems that plagiarism is only a problem for The Times when black people do it
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HotelEcho @hotelecho.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
spending my Sunday night watching The Sheep Detectives, if only so I can follow along when the inevitable @begaysolvecrimes.bsky.social episode drops
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HotelEcho @hotelecho.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The twin legacies of the early-2010s twitter twee compound-swearing epidemic; loads of brutally unfunny columnists who are probably all now raging TERFs, and economics headlines like this:
'Grocery price inflation slows sharply as hot weather drives "picky bits" sales'. Christ.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17/08/2026
it only takes a little exposure to realize that being an expert witness is an incredible grift, and as a result it attracts some of the laziest, most financially-motivated cynics imaginable
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026
The genius of George Osborne: cut investment when money is cheap so that you have to do much more of it when money is expensive
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mid wife crisis actor @ballistari.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
No open fires pls. Also do not ask about North Sea oil permits thank you for your attention to this matter!!
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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 14/08/2026
sorry I can't come to work today there's a credible threat
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 11/08/2026
Sam Altman’s plan is working
disconnect.blog
Make ‘em dumb, sell ‘em smarts
Sam Altman wants intelligence to be a utility that you pay him for
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
age 16: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 46: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for a functional search engine or the library or friends
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ceej @ceej.online · 10/08/2026
I don’t know what to tell you, man. everyone still over there is essentially melting their brains on contrarianism 24/7. “are scuba divers faking the need for bottled air?” these are addicts
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 25/07/2026
if you’re 45 today, you can remember a time, as an adult, where things didn’t seem anywhere near this bad, even though you lived through the OKC bombing, 90s pro-life ultraviolence, 9/11 and the war on terror
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I hope drivers who lose their minds tailgating me because I refuse to go 40 in a 25 know that I can see them going ballistic in my rearview mirror and that I am laughing at them
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 22/07/2026
the illiad/odyssey are great because theyre history's first piece of anti-war art twisted by idiots into an uncritical endorsement of war
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
the odyssey discourse is a beautiful perfect window into right wing culture war psychosis. they went from hysterial racist mania over a character that’s on screen for 5 minutes to claiming there’s a massive conspiracy to fake ticket sales. this is just what they do for everything now. they’re insane
BREAKING: The Odyssey is FAKING ticket sales by buying up theaters/seats (Fraud) to make the movie look like a success (already $400 million in the hole) moviegoers are reporting having to take terrible seats (because full) but when they show up the theaters are mostly empty.
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⚸ Gingersnapped 🐺🌕🎃 @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Sharkhand @sharkhand.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Liberals will ally with Leftists to succeed electorally; then compromise with fascism rather than oppose it, to the loss of all.

LOTR meme Isildur w/ Elrond poised to throw the ring
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I've just seen about 40 kids sneak into watch 'The Odyssey' without paying by hiding in a giant wooden coat.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The Marine Corps should be retasked from overseas wars to enforcing, with violence if necessary, the Stop Fucking Things Up laws.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 02/07/2026
some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”
CERN has to be real. Why do the days magically feel longer again? I keep looking at the clock in disbelief.Honestly... I can feel the immediate difference with CERN turning off. It's like turning off the annoying big light in the house that's been on for last 4 years. It's like finally getting some quiet after being immersed in a screaming heavy death metal concert or rave for days and days. It's like there's no restrictions. No hindrances. No more delays. I feel free.They turned off CERN and now the days feel twice as long. I'm TIREDCall me crazy, whatever ya whatever you want but since CERN shut down their machine time IS slower (i saw somewhere that our minutes are actually 60 seconds long again after being 45 seconds since COVID, ive had a mild frontal headache for 2 days and just had this weird energy around me. I can't be the only one, right?!
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Potentially for the last time, please enjoy the best picture of Keir Starmer
The famous picture of Keir Starmer looming outside of a children's bathroom as two children wash their hands. Keir Starmer looks as if he's been photoshopped in from another picture where he's skulking in the bushes outside of his ex wife's place.
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Starmer to take full advantage of all the possibilities of legs
But he goes on to say - as we reported earlier:
"If there is a contest, then yes I will run, I will stand, and I've said repeatedly I'm not going to walk away from that."
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
detective: you're a sick son of a bitch, you know it? that bird was your friend of 10, 12 years and you drop a big fuckin boulder on him. wile e. coyote: i swear to god man i didn't think it was gonna work. it never works. oh god. detective: nevada's a death penalty state.
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HotelEcho @hotelecho.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
it's cool that we've had these things flying over every village in Gloucestershire for the past three months
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Comrade Em ☭🩵🌱🍉🎮 @comradeem.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
100% this. They were dragging people from their homes and setting fires in them. Dragging children from their homes. Immigration policy is a racist endeavour but that's besides the point, there is no immigration statistic that justifies their actions. There is nothing that justifies their actions.
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HotelEcho @hotelecho.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
holding my belly and laughing at the thought of the unionist knuckledraggers processing this description of themselves
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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If your main concern is not upsetting a single South African billionaire rather than the safety and security of the country you're supposed to lead, then you're unfit for the job. Shameful weakness
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 03/06/2026
If you suggest police officers shouldn’t kick people in the head, you’ll get the chief of the Met condemning you on national television. If you say the police are institutionally racist against whites and suggest people should riot, you’ll get invited onto a BBC couch to expand upon your theories.
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.
Man yelling into bored woman's ear in nightclub meme captioned 

I can summarize that for you
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Lauryn Hills @badgerspanner.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Absolutely grim read but the failures that caused this are happening all over the UK right now. Every single service demands full advocacy and they don’t care how they get it, and many fall through the cracks if there’s a power imbalance or no one to speak out for the vulnerable.
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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I was in the Lego store yesterday looking for something to kill Lego Paul Walker with and it’s crazy how Lego is just for millennial adults now because we’re the only ones with money or an emotional attachment to it and none of us have kids
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Completes Mostly Successful Visit to Sarajevo
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 15/05/2026
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Just incredible things from the VLC folks
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ILLION
VLC
Robert Evans (the Only Rober... • 1d after days of grifters and con men at
CES we stumbled upon the booth for
VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them l'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said
"keep doing that"
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
like that the all caps approach here turns the tweet into an aggressive interrogation of the headline
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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
not that we have a monopoly - my point is that no-one does - but it’s baffling to hear this as a trans person, and insulting to hear it from the guy who has made all of us more scared to do any of these things
The PM says the increase in antisemitic attacks mean Jewish people are "scared to show who they are", scared to go to the synagogue or go to university as a Jew, or send their children to school or tell colleagues they are Jewish.
"Nobody should live like that in Britain, but
Jews do," he says.
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