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jamiejones723.bsky.social @jamiejones723.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm obviously not going to watch a show aimed at four-year olds, but I won't lie - I am interested in how they're going to depict each of the monsters and the TARDIS interior etc. I think these Daleks look pretty freaking adorable in how curmudgeonly they are.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026

Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

I mean, it’s an incentive thing right now companies, even ones who aren’t ideologically aligned with the GOP, do believe the GOP will fuck them over for not going along and they don’t believe Dems will impose consequences for that you’ve gotta change that, executives need to think twice

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Ciara says get me outta Kansas🥲 @ciarasdiaryy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ko-fi.com/ciara93086 Im currently raising💰 for EMERGENCY🚨RELOCATION im currently being cyber stalked by my ex abuser and have been financially cut off from my black conservative family. I have a job opportunity in LA. I need help ending my lease early (550$) + extra emergency travel funds (500$)

Alt text: Pink fundraiser flyer with two photos of a woman with her small dog and the dog with her puppies. The flyer says she is raising money for emergency relocation, is being cyberstalked by an ex-abuser, has been financially cut off from family, is raising four dogs alone, and had her healthcare hours reduced. She has a job opportunity and friends in Los Angeles and needs $550 to end her lease early plus $500 for emergency travel. She is currently in Kansas trying to relocate to LA.

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jamiejones723.bsky.social @jamiejones723.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A government that doesn't serve all its citizens doesn't deserve to be in power. Trans people that live here are British, and should be treated with the same respect and protections as anyone. Having grown up during an era of increasing rights for gay people, it's awful to see what's happening.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 05/10/2026

Please don't forget about us trans people. Facing the worst attack on our rights in this country due to Labour's current transphobia. Don't forget my community. That's all I ask. Please.

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Re: Brazil - my biggest takeaway is the extent to which the two largest nations in the Americas are now both stuck in this bizarre quadrennial coin-flip that simultaneously seems unsustainable but with no obvious replacement.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 03/10/2026

“Genuine concerns,” inasmuch as they exist and are worthy of “debate,” are rather drowned out by JK Rowling’s attempts to genocide us.

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Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik @hatethathedgehog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

you arent a burden. you are a human being with wants and needs. having desires does not make you selfish. unless you are sonic, in which case you are not human and everything you do sickens me.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People are pointing out (understandably) that there’s an irony or inconsistency here, but of course there isn’t really: the entire point of far right politics is that they (favoured group) have a right to do & say what they want, and you (opponent/ other unfavoured person) have no rights at all

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

are you fucking serious newsom and bonta should be raked over the fucking coals for settling

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The video game industry outside of like, 3 companies keeps trying to kill itself and every time it’s saved by some passionate developer doing the work of 5,000 people to convince the executives to not pull the trigger

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.

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Russell Irving @rginteger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm not much of a Pokémon person, but my son is & trying to buy him cards at retail prices has been nigh on impossible the last couple of years, and I refuse to pay scalpers for anything. So it warms the cockles of my heart to see so many of them having a full meltdown about the recent set. Enjoy!!

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Jonathan Lack @jonathanlack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You may have seen NEON GENESIS EVANGELION came to Criterion Channel this month. I am beyond honored to say I was invited to write this accompanying essay about the series' historical and artistic significance, out today on the Criterion Current. www.criterion.com/current/post...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Amid much talk that the US is about to escalate big time against Iran, it is worth recalling that this is a war of aggression - the supreme crime, from which all the lesser ones flow - and that all the senior political and military figures who started it are war criminals.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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jamiejones723.bsky.social @jamiejones723.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Doctor Who has been put out to tender (read: they're asking for production companies to make pitches) and this bit makes it seem like the BBC truly do understand where the show has gone awry in the last decade. www.tvzoneuk.com/post/doctorw...

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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nothing says "lets clean up politics to deal with Reform's super rich donors" like holding a No.10 drinks party for Labour's Ultra High Net Worth donors.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

seeing all these artists sacrifice money for what they believe in is really quite moving.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is dope

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/09/2026

Where are the GPUs? Undeployed, in warehouses because there's a cartel colluding to keep prices artificially high and keep the world dependent on inference capacity rented by about 6 companies.

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jamiejones723.bsky.social @jamiejones723.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fitting that the technology that is mostly used to scam people is itself structurally built on a giant scam. But I dunno, seems like a bad way to run a world economy.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/09/2026

Holy shit. Bloomberg just verified one of my biggest scoops - that Microsoft only has 2gw of operational capacity. I had it at 1.993GW in prep for the story that @aishadown.bsky.social and I did for the guardian. Vindication! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Brody Ford @BrodyFord
Lot of speculation out there about how many GPUs are actually deployed.
Today, Microsoft has about 2GW of Al-specific capacity live. around 17% of the total fleet.
Only about 2 gigawatts of the company's current 12-gigawatt capacity is centered on Al-specific chips, the people said. This is expected to grow to about a third of the 38 gigawatts Microsoft plans to have online in 2032, they said.
Brody Ford @BrodyFord_ • 23h
scoop: Microsoft is planning a massive expansion of its data center fleet to 38 gigawatts. $msft w/ @mattmday bloomberg.com/news/features/...
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Are Microsoft's AI
plans being held back by a shortage of chips?
Guardian investigation finds
apparent discrepancy between what tech company has said about its AI capacity - and the
number of advanced chips it
has in operation
By Aisha Down and Ed Zitron
A Microsoft datacentre in the North Holland village of
Middenmeer in the Netherlands. Photograph: Ramon van
Flymen/EPA

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Kaveh Taherian - NYCC - H26 @kavehtaherian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Fucking lies. The only difference between the aftermath of 9/11 and today is white people are now feeling the same fears us brown people have been for the past 25 years.

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“The upper limit of role-playing lies not in whether the "answers are correct," but in whether the conversational rhythm is natural and fluid enough.” I disagree with this idea pretty fuckin strongly. It does matter if what is being said is accurate or not, compared to the simulation of a chat.

A page of Mihoyo’s pitch of a “general purpose AI character model”

It states:

Evolve characters from merely "being able to converse" to truly feeling alive"
#1
Proprietary Role-Playing Model

Core Capabilities

The upper limit of role-playing lies not in whether the "answers are correct," but in whether the conversational rhythm is natural and fluid enough.

We pay greater attention to the dynamic qualities of interaction: the ebb and flow and pauses in conversation, spontaneous responses to unspoken meanings,
and the natural development of
personality over long-term interactions.

CORE COMPETENCIES
Immersion is not built b stacking individual line of dialogue; it is sustained by the credibility of the interaction rhythm.
Our proprietary role-playing model can simultaneously drive multiple Al NPCs while maintaining low latency and high realism. During external testing of Star Valley, it also received much praise for NPCs being principled, lifelike, and warm.

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jamiejones723.bsky.social @jamiejones723.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've seen people say we're fucked until a Dem administration, but we're fucked way beyond that. America and Israel have made it so that these straits are forever bargainable now. Free passage is very unlikely to return. And how do you even get the fighting to stop?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026

I am serious that today’s journalism ecosystem would be fooled if they played war of the worlds on the radio. It would be on CNN within hours

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I hope this Ishmael finds you whale

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Crisppyboat @crisppyboat.ca · 09/09/2026

The World Beyond

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Keith Stack-o'-lantern @keithstack.com · 10/09/2026

In response to today’s Nintendo Direct, Sony has announced -1 video games.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fun fact: in our polling of battleground states, about 60% of voters said it is a “top” or “high” priority for Congress to investigate and hold Musk accountable. Lean into it Dems. He’s a cartoon villain - treat him like one.

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James Whitbrook @jwhitbrook.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sony and Microsoft trading guns to each other's heads to decide who can be the least popular platform holder around while nintendo is out here going "our new video games are about eating people, see you next year"

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What in the fuck is SONY doing

HIDEO KOJIMA
@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN
X.com
As confirmed earlier through our official channels, in mid-June of this year, we unexpectedly received notice from PlayStation Studios that they would cancel the PHYSINT project. PHYSINT is an important project both to me personally and to KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS. Determined to keep the project alive, we have spent the last three months searching tirelessly for a new partner.
In the course of seeking advice and pursuing negotiations with people across many fields, we found in XBOX a partner with whom we share a common vision for the future, and we have decided to team up with them once again. Please rest assured that development of PHYSINT, our genre-defining action-espionage title, is ongoing and will continue moving forward.

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jamiejones723.bsky.social @jamiejones723.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's taken 4+2 long years, but finally Europe and Canada seem to be mounting an anti-Trump coalition. I have little doubt that this wouldn't have happened if not for *both* the random Tariff tantrums and the completely unprovoked interruption of oil trade due to the Iran conflict.

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jamiejones723.bsky.social @jamiejones723.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Does it piss me off to no end that the government and media are just finally starting to change course, after they feel like they've reached the end of the line and risk facing personal consequences if they continue? Yeah, it fucking does. Will I take the change of direction at this point? Yeah.

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jamiejones723.bsky.social @jamiejones723.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm sure these were planned far in advance, but surely limited edition consoles are a thing of the past? How many units can these things be shifting at this point? To be fair, at least the Switch 2 is still pretty affordable, as these things go. But that Wolverine PS5...

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 08/09/2026

A lot of far right politics is just becoming a generic "smash everything" button for anti-system voters. The level of success rests, I think, on how much they can convince a broader coalition to be happy with pressing it too.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

would love to hear even a single actual argument about how AI "changes the nature of humanity" not based in fanciful speculation

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jamiejones723.bsky.social @jamiejones723.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yeah, the Green Party leadership better comment on this quickly and have some choice words to say. I won't continue to be a member of a party that's willing to throw trans people under the bus because the tabloids smell blood.

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Pat Stares At FOREVER @patstaresat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Bro fuck off this is awful. Borderline irresponsible article. If I was one of the people behind Dawnwalker I'd be outraged at their use of my game for the photo here.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026

there is Cursed Lore here so you all get to suffer it too

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nigel Farage filmed celebrating illegal foreign donations Undercover footage reveals plot to break the law by funnelling offshore funds through a UK donor. Donations funded a series of widely reported polls boosting Reform ahead of the local elections channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026

this, more than anything, is why the elite have continued to back him even as he plunges into historical levels of unpopularity “we can be complete assholes without consequence” is the best thing that ever happened to them and they will fight to the death to protect that right

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mcc @dryad.technology · 01/09/2026

This is the single biggest physics discovery of my entire lifetime. Or something's wrong with one of the cables. One of the two

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

SCOOP: A few weeks before the launch of Star Wars Zero Company, most of the developers at its studio were furloughed The studio says they hope to secure funds to restore their pay. Some are skeptical it'll happen I learned about this via a bitter lawsuit: www.gamefile.news/p/star-wars-...

gamefile.news

‘Most’ of Star Wars Zero Company studio Bit Reactor was furloughed ahead of launch

The details emerged amid a legal dispute between company founders. The lawsuit also provides an unexpected look into a studio behind one of the best-reviewed Star Wars games in years

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 01/09/2026

One of the unquestioned best games of the year so far and this is the thanks they get. Also these are a bunch of the developers from Firaxis behind XCOM and the critically underrated Midnight Suns. They have a shameful history of being royally fucking shafted by publishers.

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