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Friendly but exhausted, makes a good plan, full of ADHD and books of lists (she/her)

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 22h
•What time is it? ▪︎I don't know •What's the weather like today? ▪︎Some, I guess •What does your error light mean? ▪︎I have no idea Well that's the last time I buy an Amazon Alexithymia
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 14h
Honestly with the Epstein stuff and connected potential murders, I don’t think the assembled forces of the court of the grand Cheeto have the skills to *quietly* drop people. My guess would be more tied to E’s supposed links to certain security services.
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AnthonyF272 @anthonyf272.bsky.social · 23h
Very little press coverage of this. www.thebanker.com/content/0228...
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Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies
The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 05/10/2026
They are acting like this because they are true believers in a millennarian cult. Seriously. That’s the answer
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 14h
The problem with AI is these fucking little dweebs who are so incredibly rich and selling it to everyone else ignore the fact that only massively emotionally stunted people see the swapping out of emotional labour in even tiny quantities (such as replying to a personal email) as even desirable
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 14h
Yeah if you can’t believe me saying “6 chicken nuggets and a sweet curry sauce” stay out of my healthcare
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s not nearly as advanced as they want you to think….
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
men are like "it's so hard to make women happy, it's so hard to know what they want" my man: let's get matching holiday outfits including the cat
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We could get matching holiday hoodies and pajama pants
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I do understand there are more uses than this. It’s just funny that every AI agent video is like, “All you have to do is give a bot all of your personal, banking, and medical information and soon you too will know when your kids have a little league game!” Sure, sounds great.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI COMPANIES: “People who don’t use AI agents just aren’t aware of the vast power they possess to do anything.” NORMAL PEOPLE: “Wow, okay, wow. Sounds great. What can they do? Give me your top example.” AI COMPANIES: “The hardest task of all: Checking you into a flight!”
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to Jacob Rees Mogg…
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That 1980s boom he’s talking about is because we sold off the family silver, which lead to decades of the highest energy & rail fares in Europe plus sewage in rivers.. oh and being held to ransom by fat cats warning that if we want anything to improve we need to pay all over again. Fuck off Simon.
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is this why he wouldn’t hand over his finances to the BBC for discovery?
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Watching Slow Horses (finally) reminds me a lot of having bad dreams - I wake up unable to really believe that this peaceful happy life I have is real, and all that was false 😭 Weird brains that yearn towards misery
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Geraint @geraintg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As it's National Poetry Day, I'll punt this one again There once was a young man from Harrow Who tried to have sex with a sparrow The sparrow said "no, you can't have a go because the hole in my arse is too narrow"
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 01/10/2026
I'm sorry but what did the cute little mouse do to deserve this
A screen grab of the Wiki page for the "bastard big-footed mouse" which is actually just a very cute, very little mouse.
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I knew my husband was of good stock when I met his parents. His father didn’t blink, his mother didn’t sit down (because side quests before eating the meal she’d made and served) and both of them worked in nuclear physics, 3 doctorates between em. And what do you know, diagnosis for our child 🙌
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rape and pedophile party specifically use transphobia as a wedge to make *all* their intended victims more vulnerable, and Jeff Epstein literally advised them in many, many, many barely literate emails to do this.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
With alt text. I yelled
INTRODUCTION

The equities here could not be more one-sided. Defendants admit that they
provide a service without fully knowing how it works. 

This is not just any service. It is one that Defendants themselves concede poses an existential risk to the continued
survival of humankind. 

Defendants claim they cannot stop barreling forward with their potentially civilization-ending endeavors unless they are forced to do so by the
government. They have asked the government to tie them to the mast. 

Plaintiff brings good news to the Defendants: The Florida Attorney General is answering your
cry for help with a motion to enjoin you from harming Floridians with your reckless, unacceptably risky product.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ehh. Rang my mum about getting her car serviced. Tried to have a chat. Turned into her proudly declaiming about how her tinnitus is unfixable and super bad and how angry rapping (EFT?) made her, but it’s all spoken like it’s boasting, if that makes sense? And instantly I feel drained of all energy.
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Once again i remind you of my theory that when they can’t own the whole internet, and fear the wealth of real information & knowledge shared by ordinary people, they aim to poison the well, and this is why we have AI pushed at us relentlessly
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And most of the time I have to use it on eating so I don’t die? So unfair
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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Can I do it?” is a terrible measure of disability. Yes, I can do it. Can I do it repeatedly? Can I do it safely? Can I do it without support? Can I do anything afterwards? Can I do it tomorrow too? What does doing it COST? These tell me a lot more about my capability.
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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s a particular kind of misery that comes with having productive shit to do, the will to do it, and almost no physical ability to do it I over tired myself on a - what? 12.30-8pm decorating session yesterday. I took it really gently. Husband was my gopher. And yet.
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Itsalladeepend @itsalladeepend.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My favourite is when there's a diversion and people on the bus look at each other as though they're never going to see their family/friends again because the bus is going a different route.
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Done! Thank goodness. I don’t have the energy for wallpapering. Just because I can doesn’t mean I should. Anyway, I wanted it to be ok enough that I wouldn’t be upset by it, and I think it is. (Honestly it’s good, walls are uneven in an old house) Had a shower, in my PJs, husband making pasta bake🙂
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Doing fucking anything with energy limiting illness is really crap I’ve been working since lunch on sanding, painting, stripping, wallpapering and I’ve been so careful with myself Now I’m at try to finish before you throw up or pass out. Argh.
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sit down time. Three pieces now up, but I had to throw away a whole strip because *after* bringing through rawl plugs I found it didn’t go all the way to the bottom (???!! How did I manage this??) So I’ve handled 4 I’ve just only got 3 up for now 🥲
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Having a little sit down again - 2 of four ish wallpaper strips done, which is to say no.5 will be a total ball-ache. I have an unorthodox idea about how I might get it done.
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am redecorating daughter’s bedroom. We’re moving one big radiator, replacing with two narrower ones in another part of the room and nearly doubling heat output (needed!) so we had a big gap in lining paper where the old was. I stripped it, ans it came off in super neat strips, so I’m going to try
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’ve just sewn two invisible zips on cosplay foam (5mm) and let me tell you this - it turns out I *can* sew a neat line when there’s no contact cement against the tracker 😭😂
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Spooky Goosey @augustagoose.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Do you ever forget you aren’t wearing pants and accidentally moon the nuns that live across the street?
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The Merciless Peppers of Quetzlzacatejimbo @redjolt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
On our drive into Bridlington earlier we passed a garage that was charging 199.9 pence per litre for diesel and that equates roughly to $10.38 per us gallon.
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Well, friends, I find myself in an odd state of mind these days. After stopping work I’ve had an energy crash, no crisis of identity I don’t think, but infinitely more exhausted than I expected. Driving small one (bigger than me) to school and back (1hr each direction) has been no issue though
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sharing to read later and because you might want to, too. Also can I just say I did the heart ending on strange other one (sorry I am so tired I could drop - brain offers “thaumaturge, thaumatology, thauma, soma, stigmata…” and it’s not going to come to the right answer now it’s diverted to
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
a little reading list to help understand why the "rogue agent" framing is bs pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g... www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread... calnewport.com/did-openais-...?
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Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective She lost her home, car, and dog while jailed for a crime committed more than 1,200 miles away www.techspot.com/news/113883-...
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Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective
In July 2025, a team of US Marshals arrested 50-year-old Lipps in Tennessee at gunpoint while she was babysitting four young children. She was booked into the...
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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GiGORE @drillknight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A personal favorite
professor x: whats your superpower?
ostrich: i lay big egg
professor x [telepathically to x-men]: i can save us money on breakfast
ostrich [telepathically]: egg no for sale
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Informed1 @informed1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I do not laugh out loud to memes very often, but this one really got me.
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Matt Siegel @mattsiegel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"a 90% error rate" isn't really "errors" as much as, that system has a completely different purpose
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Not-so-fun fact about repetitive motion jobs: the reason they weren't replaced by robots decades ago is that the cost to maintain and repair robots doing high-speed but delicate physical labor is prohibitively expensive in most consumer-sector production. Humans are just cheaper, and always will be.
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Packet @machinedidact.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The little men inside the SIEM
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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This does suggest Britain is a) very good at integration b) actively attracts the world's smart and ambitious people who want to get on and do well for themselves Both of these are very good, competitive qualities to have and should be celebrated.
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