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Adrian🦎 @idlelizard.bsky.social · 16h

Silly Salt Cellar

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 22h

i know it's one of you | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: A GRIZZLED MAN pacing in a grey hallway on a spaceship. He's wearing a boiler suit and holding a knife.
GM: NOW I KNOW ONE OF YOU BASTARDS IS A SECRET "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" SENT HERE TO KILL THE REST OF US.
GM: AND *WE AIN'T LEAVING THIS ROOM* UNTIL WE FIND HIM…AND KILL 'EM!

PANEL 2: Three more CREWMEN respond.
CREWMAN 2: I- I TOLD YOU SIR, I'M A HUMAN! FLESH AND BLOOD!
CREWMAN 3: ME TOO! I SWEAR!
CREWMAN 4: HEY, HOW DO WE KNOW *YOU* AIN'T IT?

PANEL 3: Back on the GRIZZLED MAN, who pricks his arm with knife, dripping a small amount of blood.
GM: PLEASE.
GM: HOW ABOUT THE NEW GUY. YOU'RE AWFULLY QUIET.

PANEL 4: Just to the right of CREWMAN 3, a COMPUTER MONITOR is on the table, with a pixelated emoticon smiley face on it.
COMPUTER: Hello there! It seems like you're looking for who the computer might be – I bet I can help! Let's all take a look at the facts together.

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fighter pay would be another huge dataset, but that’s simply not available (Because what IS available has too many unknown variables left out. Whee, “independent contractors”! All we know for sure is that all UFC fighters have always gotten screwed by the UFC).

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Endless additional factors to consider, sure, but the trends remain clear. Data for men’s UFC bouts can also be provided, but their %s only dipped below women’s %s for bonuses in 2015 and 2016. Only two UFC events have EVER been comprised of more than 40% women (In 2014 and 2017).

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now, a combo timeline of total UFC women’s bouts + headliners: 2013: 16 (1) (Inaugural year for women in the UFC) 2014: 31 (2) 2015: 44 (5) 2016: 52 (6) 2017: 63 (6) 2018: 73 (2) 2019: 92 (5) 2020: 81 (4) 2021: 96 (4) 2022: 90 (5) 2023: 95 (5) 2024: 88 (4) 2025: 78 (1) 2026 to-date: 57 (1)

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now, the number of events per year with no women’s fights: 2013: 21 (Inaugural year for women in the UFC) 2014: 24 2015: 12 2016: 7 2017: 6 2018: 8 2019: 1 2020: 2 2021: 0 2022: 2 2023: 2 2024: 5 2025: 3 2026 to-date: 7

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now, the % of women receiving traditional fight bonuses in the UFC: 2013: 15.63% (Inaugural year for women in the UFC) 2014: 11.29% 2015: 21.59% 2016: 17.31% 2017: 10.32% 2018: 5.48% 2019: 9.24% 2020: 14.2% 2021: 12.5% 2022: 12.22% 2023: 11.58% 2024: 10.8% 2025: 10.26% 2026 to-date: 8.77%

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For more context, let’s see the timeline of UFC main card bouts that are women: 2013: 5.88% (Inaugural year for women in the UFC) 2014: 4.41% 2015: 10.85% 2016: 12.98% 2017: 14.36% 2018: 14% 2019: 12.07% 2020: 18.06% 2021: 15.95% 2022: 12.55% 2023: 12.61% 2024: 10.96% 2025: 6.17% 2026 to-date: 7.89%

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

UFC timeline for more context: 2013: 4.15% of bouts are women (Inaugural year for women in the UFC) 2014: 6.16% 2015: 9.3% 2016: 10.55% 2017: 13.79% 2018: 15.4% 2019: 17.83% 2020: 17.76% 2021: 18.86% 2022: 17.61% 2023: 18.27% 2024: 17.02% 2025: 15% 2026 to-date: 13.26%

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If no bouts are dropped last-minute for tomorrow’s event, it will have been 630 days since the previous UFC women’s headliner. This blows the previous records out of the water, nearly doubling them: Two dry spells of exactly 364 days each; one from May 2018-2019 and one from February 2013-2014.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026

Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims

Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Been a while since the last Ambigramonday. Happy birthday to Kaitlin! #ambigram

A rotational ambigram (Intended to be legible whether “right-side up” or “upside-down”) of the name Kaitlin, inscribed into a black square of scratchboard with a colorful backing revealed by the scratched-off bits.

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’d rather not, since it’s a room full of pedophiles

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At the crosswalk, no less. Of course.

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can my photocopier feel pain? It at least behaves as if it does, according to a recent piece of paper I copied. The work, which has not been peer reviewed, has divided #AI researchers.

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I wondered why the fight wasn’t getting uploaded separately. Then I caught the highlights clipped version right before they pulled it, to see that everyone was justifiably spooked by a fighter passing out unexpectedly. I presume the videos are back up by now, since word is he’s now alive and talking

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Always a worrying sign when Paramount+ immediately yanks all available footage of a UFC fight because they’re not entirely sure if the fighter’s gonna survive the night or not.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nice! Looking forward to Arrested Memory (If I got the name of that one wrong already, I’m not doing a bit 😅). Your TIFF selections last year definitely gave me the heads-up to go see If I Had Legs I’d Kick You when it came out; thanks!

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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i think about this post all the time. you might too

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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Fix everyone’s hair, put a fighter jet in the sky overhead, remove the second red carpet from the bottom, and make the whole picture look dramatic”. Then of course it changed all the details into slop.

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No, they did not somehow entirely remove the horizontally-framed carpet, change the entire sky, and turn the soldiers into garbled nonsense by taking a second photo from a slightly different vantage point near the same time. It’s just been run through genAI to make it “better”, which made it stupid.

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

These are all obvious genAI errors of invented and melded details. These background variances are not due to different sources, nor purposeful manipulation. They are incidental by-products of running a photo (Taken in obvious strong wind) through genAI to “fix everyone’s hair”.

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lotta people not bothering to really look closely at these two pictures. Nobody is bothering to “Photoshop” gaffes for a professional political picture.

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good to know that men apparently don’t even have to ask before lighting up at job interviews. Be sure to save and cite this for your unemployment benefits.

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It would take an incredible amount of manual Photoshop work, focused on swapping and degrading 100% of the fine details, to trick me into thinking something is genAI. Or, one could use Photoshop’s genAI suite of options, in which case it’s genAI after all and not the old definition of “Photoshop”.

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It also had stripes at one time. And he was wearing two gloves.

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Possibly. What difference does that make?

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How can you notice that without noticing that literally EVERYTHING ELSE about the photo had also changed? The second one that doesn’t make sense was obviously fed through a genAI slop machine to make it look “better” to anyone who doesn’t look at details.

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not terribly excited to see what happens to societies that promote outsourcing your brain functions.

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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 23/09/2026

if you’re a games company that wants to survive it has been proven over and over again you need to do whatever it takes to stay away from being publicly traded. you’ll be turned into wood chips the moment it’s convenient.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection

Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.

Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just watched it based on this, and I love it! ❤️

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m amazed these assholes actually put women up as the headliner for an event again (I presume some other fight fell through). This’ll be the FIRST one of 2026. This may be the longest streak of all-male headliners since women broke into the UFC in the first place.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just once I would love for one of these Silicon Valley fart hot boxing mfers who says AI is going to kill us all to explain the mechanism by which it will do so. And please don’t say nukes – you guys do not begin to understand how analog that shit is.

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Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m going to interpret this as “the FBI announces that there’s no rule that says a dog can’t be a federal agent”

A dog dressed nicely with a tie and sunglasses.

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Apparently the movie 2001 did not break even until 7 years after it came out. I am reminded of the Terry Pratchett quote about opera. Opera does not make money, Opera is what you spend money on. You put in a bunch of money, and you get an opera.

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