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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 8h

'Coyote Vs Road Runner' is available to buy now. Please buy it to spite Zaslav.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 9h

Home made vegan shepherds pie for dinner

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 11h

Once had that happen with a medieval flavoured romantasy book where I was putting up with a lot until I hit the point where a character "Fixed the kitchen oven".

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 13h

@diane.dianeduane.com What'd you think of the Lanterns finale?

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 13h

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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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 14h

I remember when hideable cameras were called 'spy cameras' because 'pervert cameras' wasn't a good marketing term, but the people making them knew who they were selling them to.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 05/10/2026

The D&D stat table on how much it costs to own a house presents a true fantasy role play experience.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 04/10/2026

After reading the alt text, how could I not?

The 'Monster at the window' frame from Junji Ito's Frankenstein, with the monster replaced with Ward Sutton's 'SICKOS' man.

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What's your favorite comics/graphic novel adaptation of horror fiction?

A page from Junji Ito's Frankenstein. A panel of the monster laughing maniacally was a popular meme for a while before being supplanted in the universal unconscious by sickos.gif

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 04/10/2026

After reading the alt text, how could I not?

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 04/10/2026

*sigh* No, a recording of someone doing karaoke of a Disney song is very unlikely to fly by as fair use. Even if you're reviewing the cruise-line where it happened. And if you're a media professional of almost two decades you should know that.

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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This gave me a good laugh. (from @accordionguy.bsky.social 's "Saturday Picdump" of tech-related memes, cartoons, etc.)

A military execution by firing squad. The condemned person is tied to a wooden post in front of a wall. The condemned man is covered in black ink, with overspray on the wall behind him leaving a negative shadow on the wall. Ten or so feet in front of the prisoner, a large squid lays on the ground, a spray of squid ink stretching between it and the prison.

To one side, two soldiers stand. One, an officer, holds a piece of paper in his hands, looking at it closely.

Caption: "Damn autocorrect."

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tante @tante.cc · 04/10/2026

Bluesky's head of trust and safety runs all replies through an LLM to decide who to block which leads to him creating a perfect sycophantic bubble for himself. Someone really does not understand his job. Bluesky Corp is a clown show.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 03/10/2026

Is there a sport that has caused more mental illness than Chess?

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 02/10/2026

I had a little panic today because I thought I'd run out of coffee beans because I couldn't find where I'd put the new bag.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 02/10/2026

Looking at all this, I don't think Newsom is going to run for President. Instead it looks like he's trading in all his political credit for corporate credit, and looking for a comfortable landing in a board position. He knows full well his time is up, so he doesn't have to pretend any more.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Mascot Texorcism 🐯 @texsaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing

Theatrical poster for "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me," except the portrait of Laura Palmer is replaced with a Walkling from the game Big Walk, and the film name is replaced with "Big Walk with Me"

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 01/10/2026

Apply haps to your ween!

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 01/10/2026

Breakfast is a croque monsieur, and a quad macchiato.

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Pank 🦑 @littlepinksquid.gay · 01/10/2026

Its that time.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 01/10/2026

Why do they decorate the calm zones in clubs with trippy colours and patterns. It should be a beige office reception.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 01/10/2026

And... I was split between "Do you think I'm a Tween?" and instant flashback to someone telling me "You're too young to remember the 70s, and why Thatcher's reforms were needed".

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 01/10/2026

Todays deeply annoying stupid incident - Being accused of 'being too young to have been around during Gamergate' by someone trying to Win An Internet Argument about the importance of Absolute Free Speech.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 30/09/2026

Reminder: The Internet is a Public Place. This social media post? It's in public. That youtube comment? It's in public. The chat room you're in? It's in public. Unless it's end to end encrypted with assured access control to only the people you want, it's public. And you probably haven't set that up

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 30/09/2026

And also alarm bells should be going off on claims that 'this only came out because of a leak!', because the EU published the draft on this on the 17th.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 30/09/2026

This is intended to be aimed at Roblox. And also some splash damage to 12 year olds screaming into the microphone in CODBLOPS.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 30/09/2026

fyi re: the latest EU regulation discourse. EU Directives applied under common market regulation can *only* apply to commercial activities. So some of this is very much scaremongering.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/09/2026

Also there are weird noises in the corn, I mean, more than before

Me, looking skeptically into the cornfield

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 29/09/2026

The GOP are literally the US's biggest and best advertiser for Socialism.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 29/09/2026

Just got to use the phrase 'Unlike Tech Bros and Wile E Coyote, I do not bet against the laws of physics'.

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David BASTARDspan @davidbix.com · 28/09/2026

There's a chicken on the sidewalk in Brooklyn.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 29/09/2026

Chip tech has been fighting a diminishing returns battle for a while now. On the memory side, the process is at the physical limit for dram cells, and layer stacking them is not the quadratic gains of old. Unlike Tech Bros and Wile E Coyote, I don't bet against the laws of physics.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 29/09/2026

Apple decided that Big Data LLM based AIs wasn't the way to go, and have moved to on-device systems as the only cost sustainable way to move forward. This has actually annoyed a lot of customers who now have a 14GB model dataset subtracted from their device storage, and don't see benefit worth that.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 29/09/2026

Unless one of them made a major breakthrough in the design process, they're all under the same constraints. These chips are all produced in the same limited number of fabs, with the same limited number of processes available to them.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 29/09/2026

And on *top* of that is the 9% annualized failure rate bumping up the asset depreciation. Which isn't reducing the TCO *per unit purchased*. And that's only going to increase over time, because these units were all shipped with age related leak-risk liquid-metal packages in the cooling solution.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 29/09/2026

NVidia's claim of TCO efficiencies have not been born out on the bottom line of Data Centre operations. They have been on the diminishing returns curve for a long time now.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 29/09/2026

Again, this doesn't include the additional power cost of cooling that TDP wattage back down. Every watt going in needs to be displaced back out by the cooling system. Plus all the rest of the system. To be a real efficiency gain, the curve needs to track the *TCO* which it currently does not.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 29/09/2026

There's a good chance that a significant number of compute units that have been sitting in a warehouse waiting for the datacenter to be built, are already unusable because of this.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 29/09/2026

Hey, want to know what the next ticking timebomb is for AI Datacentres... It's all the datacenter compute units that were shipped with "Liquid Metal" interface layers in their chip package cooling systems. The seals on those will eventually degrade, and spill conductive liquid onto the boards.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 29/09/2026

The perverse part is that they actually use bigger TDP Wattage as a marketing point of Data Centres because it's a Really Big Number. And Bigger Number always better.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 29/09/2026

This is incorrect, because it is on the price of purchase not on the price of operation. The problem with Nvidia's product is that performance gains have been on the basis of increasing TDP wattage, which has a double whammy of the cost of running the chip and the cost of cooling the chip.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 28/09/2026

No.1 reason it would end real bad for the US if they tried to invade Canada to forcably make it a state... Canada switching off the electricity interconnects would completely wreck the US's electrical grid and cause immediate irreparable damage across the continental US.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Labour Party’s women’s conference on 26/9/26 was an embarrassing farce, with only 200 delegates of the 1,000 normal attendance (no major unions) in protest of the Labour Party’s shameful abandonment of trans people following the legally absurd ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS in April 2025.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 28/09/2026

Very likely nothing, but good to get it checked.

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Jay Blanc @jay.blan.cc · 28/09/2026

I assume you meant to type 'electric bicycle' ;)

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