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Harpsibored @harpsibored.bsky.social · 3h

"Terra's Theme," the most iconic character theme in the history of Final Fantasy. ❤️

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 5h

This is the reason why those ai-powered video game tech demos where you can have “conversations” with any NPC were always bullshit, for the record.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h

We are truly living in the age of diarrhea. Literal, metaphorical. Spiritual

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Do we really need to explain to people that it is really, REALLY important to read to young children? Like, you, personally, need to read to your child - your voice, your face, your hand gestures, your lap, your arms, your closeness. What kind of parent doesn't know this in their bones?

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 19h

So much of Silicon Valley and therefore also genAI boosterism is motivated, on a deep and fundamental level, by petty resentment that other people are allowed to exist.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 19h

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 05/10/2026

It's that day again, but we must (and WILL) perversely persevere 🤘😈

homunculus-argu {Follow}
God will see you at the lowest point of your life, and say "what the fuck I thought I killed that thing." But you skitter too fast and you are too creepy.

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Courtney Price @courtneycprice.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I emailed the registrar of voters asking why I was moved to inactive. I am attaching the email exchange to this. I feel like we definitely need an explanation from the secretary of state office for what led to this error. What were they doing trying to do to cause this?

Hello,

My voter registration was listed as active this morning. When I went to show someone how to check just a few minutes ago, it had changed to inactive and claims my address couldn't be verified. I filled out things on the website that I think should fix it but the portal doesn't update status immediately.

I wanted to ask why I was listed as inactive. I have lived at the same address for over ten years and am a consistent voter. It is very concerning to me that I was switched to inactive and I want to know how this happened. I have other friends who also are consistent voters with no address change who have also experienced this. I am deeply concerned about the disenfranchisement this error could cause.

Thank you.
Courtney Price

Ms. Price,

The Secretary of State's office identified a process that unexpectedly made some voters inactive yesterday. They are correcting this with a process that will run overnight tonight and return the affected voters to active status. I see that your status has already been returned to "active" because of the transaction you submitted online last night.

I apologize for this issue, and thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Steve Raborn
Registrar of Voters

Is this something they will be making a public statement about? I know several other impacted people and people are deeply concerned about this situation.

Courtney Price

I have forwarded your e-mail to the Secretary of State's office as I cannot answer this question on their behalf. The information provided to us this morning only included content about identifying the issue and that they would make the necessary corrections.

SR

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

if only all their prior knowledge of him hadn’t been wiped out by one of those flashy things from Men in Black before they chose the completely predictable consequences of re-electing him

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i'm expecting the mods here to absolutely crack down more heavily on anyone who is dismissive of ai than even begin to address the rampant levels of transphobia they allow on their watch

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🎅🏻🤡🐒💩 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Swee Pea training to become Green Lantern.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 08/10/2026

living through the AI bubble must be a bit what it felt like to live in the late 1800s when people were talking about how, like, every river town in the midwest would become the biggest city in the world

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 07/10/2026

Old enough to remember Warner Communications. Old enough to remember Time Warner. Old enough to remember AOL Time Warner. Old enough to remember WarnerMedia (AT&T), Old enough to remember Warner Bros Discovery… the Ellison acquision sucks but let’s not pretend Warner is some old school indie

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · 07/10/2026

People don't believe me, but I'm TELLING you, there MUST be an active campaign strategy happening in media published by WB or other parts of JK's team trying to force HP awkwardly and unnaturally into public consciousness. Certainly from the WB side, I've seen multiple properties doing it already.

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Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know) @badposter.lol · 07/10/2026

more business owners need to be like this

Coldstuff Ice-cream • Follow

I swear to God. STOP YELLING AT MY FUCKING EMPLOYEES. They are children. This job, for most of them is their first. They are going to make mistakes. They aren't in charge of anything. This can all be fixed with a smile and a polite attitude. It's ice cream for crying out loud. Grow up and act your age.

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

❌ AI generated slop menus with pictures that make your food look like worms ✅ scribbles on a piece of paper saying how much the soup cost

4 panel comic: Panel 1: A chef with a wooden spoon talks to a brown dog (bruno). He says “I have a new business!” Bruno answers “cool!” Panel 2: he shows his menu. He says “this is my menu”. We can’t quite read what it says yet Panel 3: a zoom in on the menu. It has just a few lines written on it. Soup: 1. Bread: 1. Soup + Bread: 2. He kept it very simple! Panel 4: He shows Bruno a small pencil. He says “I designed it with this”. Bruno approves and goes “nice!”

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

AI has talked kids into suicide, fueled paranoid delusional that led to murder, degraded education quality in both k-12 and higher ed, run roughshod over copyright law, increased spam, fueled spam, fueled fraud, degraded the environment, put people out of work, the list goes on and on.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt

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josh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

you may have noticed that animation has never been more in-demand & in the zeitgeist and yet, seemingly, never have media conglomerates been less willing to produce it. you may also notice these guys get multimillion dollar severance packages after they gut a studio. there is probably no connection

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Jakebe, the Hobbit Hare @jakebe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

YES on 40 NO on 41 NO on 42 for all CA friends out there

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't think the Republican Party can "go back to normal" but if it did, that just means being a vehicle for undermining government and concentrating wealth, enveloped in a bunch of dishonest obfuscatory slop. Why yearn for something to return to the exact thing that fostered it

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The "Is AI alive" conversation is 100% this, too. If you can be conned by a chatbot, I fear for your general safety. You are the guy at the stripclub who think the dancers really like you.

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Evil Con Fettie @spacebeer.net · 06/10/2026

I mean this earnestly and politely: what did they think was going to happen???

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

back in the pre-marriage equality era I once heard a close friend from church earnestly say to someone “I just can’t understand why gay people want to DESTROY my marriage by redefining the meaning of it” I’ll remember the way she said the word “destroy” until the day I die, because she meant it

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

BEGGING people to look up terms before using them for library social media. “BBW” doesn’t mean Banned Books Week

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pete rogers, professional diaper changer @petemrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

one of my favorite tweets of all time

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

good morning

comic panel depicting clark kent handing a handgun to lois lane.
clark: here, lois -- shoot the gun at Jimmy and see what happens!
lois: but why..oh, all right!

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base

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@nic_carter
X.com
this is about me and i'm not sorry! i don't have time
to autistically read forums and random team news
or whatever.
i'm sure spending hours and hours running your
fantasy team is a good ROI if you're unemployed but
some of us have jobs
also my team is stacked so that's another point in
the Al column

Andrew Weiner • @DickeyNate • 18h
What's the point if playing fantasy football if
you're just going to automate it

nic carter
@nic_carter • 17h
there's no point to fantasy football, it's grown ass
men pretending to draft NFL players

OpenWindowManiac @Cit_rusK •17h
Then just don't do it?

nic carter *
@nic_carter
X.com
social obligation
8:41 PM • 10/5/26 • 880 Views

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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

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Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

it may not be his origin story but “nobody liked my art” is such a common denominator among world-historic assholes

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Menotti Minutillo @menotti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The defining quality of so many tech guys is completely missing the point of nearly every social or leisure activity

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 05/10/2026

yes keep banning good posters over the mildest shit about dipshit tech billionaries that are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, that aren't even on here, that'll help your platform.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 05/10/2026

He was NOT an amazing Hal Jordan. I dunno who that character was, but he wasn't Hal Jordan. John Stewart was likewise unrecognizable. And the Manhunters. AND Hector Hammond. AND the Guardians. Even Guy Gardner, who was one of the best parts of Superman, got the short shrift.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

it was smart of jacob geller to only post about what he did to his 50k followers on here instead of to his 1.5 million youtube subs or on his patreon. that way fewer people know about it and he limits the financial hit

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