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40shillingsonthedrum

@llarrian.bsky.social
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Here for synchronies, heads ups and punchlines across assorted topics. Fuck AI.

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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 17h
"Our intent is to provide you with even more opportunities to give us money without really adressing any of your legitimate concerns or reasonable demands. Sounds fair to us!"
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 17h
That's how I spent Blizzcon and then alternated the rest of the month with visiting the Dive Bars. made two house levels with it!
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 18h
Germany too.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
like, this isn’t even an “AI could create that much value” versus “no it can’t” argument - let’s grant the premise, let’s say it does in that world, with these people in charge, unemployment and poverty explode and no safety net is built to handle it
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
you’re not letting us work three days a week, you’re all going to start competing for who has the most trillions of dollars instead of billions of dollars while spending significant portions of it to make sure that any taxes that could be used to that end never come to pass
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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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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 20h
I also really dont get whythey think hiding replies here on bluesky does anything else than manufacturing a "oh what is it they dont want us to see lets check it out"-button. :D
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 21h
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Algos work as intended, it's the people behind them and their greed we let run amok.
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Sixsten @sixsten.quillsworn.com · 06/10/2026
On the flight home from blizzcon I wrote up my thoughts on the subject, if you're curious, here's a link! dingos-hammer-oc6.craft.me/MSSoO4SUBWrEOb
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There Can Not Be Two Worlds of Warcraft
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Amadeu Antonio Stiftung @amadeuantonio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Die vier mutmaßlichen Stimmen aus der CDU sind ein demokratischer Tabubruch. Aber auch die Enthaltung bei dieser historischen Wahl ist skandalös. Es gibt keine Neutralität gegenüber Menschenfeindlichkeit. Demokratische Verantwortung hätte bedeutet, hier Grenzen zu ziehen. 6/8
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Christina Dongowski @tinido.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ich denke, die vier zusätzlichen Abgeordneten (ich vermute von der CDU) haben das nur gemacht, um das jüdische Leben in Deutschland vor der Machtergreifung durch die Linke zu schützen. Das ist doch mittlerweile die anerkannte Sprachregelung?
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hui, das ist schlecht gealtert.
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
After Forevers announcement, I lost all hope for revamped retail zones.
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One of the things that make me most furious about Forever. All the work and energy they spend on it is just a big fuck you to the living, breathing retail Azeroth. I dont want "what if", I want "and then".
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yeah, same. And more. I have no reason to play without my RP-QoL retail allows me right now, labourious as it may be. For example I am really not going to start with zero mogs, working hard and long for low poly outfits just because theres cool fog and lightning to wear them in.
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I, as a roleplayer since Classic, am not appealed in the slightest. If anything I am appaled and angry that they want to appeal to roleplayers in an extra game instead of in retail.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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taz @taz.de · 04/10/2026
Unsere Autorin hat jahrelang versucht, AfD-Fans in ihrem westdeutschen Umfeld zu verstehen – vergeblich. Daher ist jetzt Schluss mit der Einfühlsamkeit.
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Umgang mit AfD-Fans im eigenen Umfeld: Ihr Deutschland ist nicht mein Deutschland
Unsere Autorin hat jahrelang versucht, AfD-Fans in ihrem westdeutschen Umfeld zu verstehen – vergeblich. Daher ist jetzt Schluss mit der Einfühlsamkeit.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Michael Albert @michlalbrt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wir können uns das Deutschlandticket nicht leisten.
Deutschlandticket im Vergleich. Das kosten Verkehrssubventionen (Jährliche Kosten für den Staat durch Zahlungen oder verminderte Steuereinnahmen in Milliarden Euro):

Deutschlandticket: 3 Mrd. Euro
Tankrabatt: 4,1 Mrd. Euro (Mai-Juni, Oktober-Dezember)
Dienstwagenprivileg: 4,2 Mrd. Euro
Pendlerpauschale: 5 Mrd. Euro
Dieselprivileg: 7-8 Mrd. Euro
Steuerbefreiung Kerosin: etwa 8 Mrd. Euro

Quelle: Correctiv.
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It's Bri! @bearicorn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the Point of World of Warcraft Design is that every single race is incredibly goofy and not majestic at all and it is our INTENSE DELUSION that spawns these super pretty and interesting designs
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Das finde ich gar nicht -so- falsch. Die Pandemie hat auf großer Bühne gezeigt, dass das schützenswerte Gut nicht Mensch ist, sondern Umsatz. Ich würde nicht unterschätzen, dass das wirklich viel Schaden angerichtet hat. DAS arbeitet dummerweise niemand auf.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Kuh an Wand kann sprechen!
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Hauck & Bauer @hauckundbauer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Christina Dongowski @tinido.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ich bin große Fan der soziologisch-organisatorischen Faustregel „The Purpose of a system is WHAT IT DOES.“
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Robert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Niemand: Die Linke sollte einfach mal regieren, dann wird sie sich schon von selbst entzaubern. Wir sollten die Sorgen & Ängste von Linke-Wählern ernstnehmen. Daher kopieren wir jetzt Teile ihres Programms und sprechen vor allem über ihre Themen Soziale Gerechtigkeit, Lebenshaltungskosten & Mieten.
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tell your operations to hurry up the talks and calculations, you're losing a lot of goodwill here. People don't want to wait weeks to see if you are really willing to uphold your own rules and protect people from harassment. Ban Asmongold.
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elif Eralp geht bei ROT über die Straße (wenn keine Kinder zuschauen aber nur).
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
None hidden for me.
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ASH @claretash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RE: The Asmon/gold situation - people are correct about the free 'advertising' aspect via outrage on social media, but I'd add there's another angle to it that benefits large companies. He (and the cohort of bigots that infest communities like WoW) tend to act as their 'unpaid Pinkertons.'
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tell your operations to hurry up the talks and calculations, you're losing a lot of goodwill here. People don't want to wait weeks to see if you are really willing to uphold your own rules and protect people from harassment. Ban Asmongold.
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ja, ach. Wer hätte das gedacht. Das ist ja spannend. Bahnbrechend und noch nie dagewesen.
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And, mind you, I play on EU. But aforementioned people also exist here and I will be gladly avoiding their "can't say anything anymore these days"-theme park.
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Kinda proves my first reaction to Forever as a whole. They REALLY want to go back, like all the way back to a safe timecapsule where they again can be the same inconsiderate assholes that it was safe to be back in the good old back then. Cool. It's now a 20-foot-pole for me. :D
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eye sack @eyesacks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Money is the answer as with anything. A corporation has no principles. They don't have a choice between upholding their principles or ignoring them. They are choosing between more money or less money, and Asmongold is almost definitely more money. People aren't going to quit because of Olympus. They
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Robert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lars Klingbeil verkündet eine "Garantie" dafür, dass sich Deutschland Olympische Spiele in München leisten könne. Für derart unwichtige Dinge wie Pflege, Familien, Jugendarbeit, Demokratiebildung und Gesundheit gibt es hingegen leider keine Finanzminister-Garantie, sondern Kürzungen, Pech gehabt 🤷🏻
Screenshot Lars Klingbeil / Instagram: "Ich gebe eine Olympia-Garantie. Denn wir wollen die Spiele wieder nach Deutschland holen. [...] Dafür gebe ich als Finanzminister eine Olympia-Garantie: Wir wollen und wir können uns Olympische Spiele in Deutschland leisten."
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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jonathan 'der bernhard' / 'jurt' löffelbein @derloeffelbein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
also außer natürlich man hat damit kein problem
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Sven @mostvexingparse.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
der otto, der den sendeplatz von böhmermann übernimmt versucht aktuell der pdl "enteignet juden!" in den mund zu legen und hat nachdem die ulmen-geschichte rausgekommen ist gesagt dass sich feministinnen wie "kranke tiere, die demnächst eingeschläfert werden sollten" benehmen gratulation, zdf
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40shillingsonthedrum @llarrian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Looking at politics everywhere right now, the answer to that question might be a simple, albeit harsh one: Because all the bigots agree and dont have to keep it a secret anymore.
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Michael Lühmann @herrluehmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Die CDU in Heidenau stimmt klar antisemitisch (!) zu lesender Initiative der AfD (!) zu, eingebracht von einem früheren Neonazi der paramilitärischen Skinheads Sächsische Schweiz, die als Vorläufer des modernen Rechtsterrorismus in Sachsen & darüber hinaus gelten. Aber Berlin. Es ist erschütternd.
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Max Czollek @maxczollek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Vielleicht ist die Sache auch ganz einfach: In Berlin soll ein Tabubruch inszeniert werden, um danach einen anderen, einen echten Tabubruch herbeizuführen. Wenn Grüne und SPD mit den Linken regieren, dann, so kann man es jetzt schon lesen, müsste die CDU doch auch mit der AfD regieren.
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👻🎃Kasper von Altenbockum🎃👻 @ellebil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tag 2 nach der Wahl. Berlin ist nicht wiederzuerkennen. Über Dahlem liegt das dumpfe Schluchzen der Eigentümer. Im Westen stauen sich SUVs mit hastig verladenem kulturellem Kapital. Erste Augenzeugen berichten von bezahlbarem Wohnraum. Wie konnte man es nur so weit kommen lassen? Ein Lagebericht.
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Max Hauser @maxhsr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Die Asymmetrie der Reaktionen auf 44% AfD und 25% Linke ist politökonomisch sehr leicht zu erklären. Die Linke bedroht die Interessen der Kapitalbesitzenden. Die AfD nicht.
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