Reposted by Baby octopusRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 1hEvery AI generated event poster is incredibly ugly, but I do think it's interesting that that LLMs have essentially created a house style for flyers, especially one so maximalist and ugly and in contravention of of all convention and best practices established in graphic design over centuries. 930631
Reposted by Baby octopusScreaming Pectoriloquy @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 1hshe will tell you your fortune … for a price 2251
Reposted by Baby octopusThem Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 8h3 - cont Other RCN nurses are using foodbanks, Peggie has been off work, paid, and come Jan 1st 2027 it will have been for 2 years. She has a crowdfunder of 38K. No other nurse get a KC for their problems at work. That is the reserve of privilege. 1242
Reposted by Baby octopusLouisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 5hYou can talk like a goddamn adult on Bluesky, which is one of the reasons I like it here. The cutesy euphemisms, although I know why they’re in use on more restrictive platforms like TikTok, make me so irrationally angry 1132166
Reposted by Baby octopusPepper @whatifrealhist.bsky.social · 9hShit like this is why I think the bsky-only lefty political posters aren’t unjustified in being a little snobby about it jfc 0278
Reposted by Baby octopusLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 6hFuck me, the amount of people trying to get this Manchester City cheating scandal to be called 'The Pepstein files' is going to drive me off a cliff. Take a second and think where the joke is here and what you are using to land it. Then stop it. 1438547
Reposted by Baby octopusKestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 3hComputers have always been so dumb as to be funny, but I've noticed a definite uptick in "new kinds of stupid" since vibecoding came in. 917136
Reposted by Baby octopusLibby from Biscuit @thisisbiscuit.org.uk · 31/07/2026Especially seeking SINGLE PEOPLE, SOLO POLY PEOPLE, BLACK BRITISH and BRITISH ASIAN PEOPLE at this stage. Please alert your networks! 13242
Reposted by Baby octopusRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 8hIts good there’s people pushing pro trans things within the labour party but i do wish they could understand that when you say “the only way back to trans rights is through the labour party one way or another“ that is very upsetting actually cause all i hear is that we’re fucked then 520431
Reposted by Baby octopusAndrás Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 6hWhat would be more typical of the AI industry than to ignore the wishes of a woman and use her without her consent or will 0235
Reposted by Baby octopusthierry ennui @alexeptable.bsky.social · 4hJust keep having visions of some poor fucker getting psychosis when his spotify plays an AI knock off of Mr Brightside but it features his name and personal details about his life he accidentally shared with a bot 2327
Reposted by Baby octopusflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8hJust a whole load of horrifying crimes here where we can’t now say “if only the world knew, if only everyone could see”. The world knows very well and anyone who wants to see, can see just fine. 7311148
Reposted by Baby octopusNate O @nateo.bsky.social · 6hWe were in shock as we learned management agreed to all of our demands. Everybody started hugging each other, our resident DJ flipped on a victory song, and I remember someone screaming, ‘this is the greatest moment in my life!’ 🥳 Join a union! Get our strike fund back up for the next one! 🥳 0264
Reposted by Baby octopusMark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 6hI posted this in a Reddit discussion about welfare spending, and I’m sharing it here because, frankly, I feel like this is a reality that not enough non-disabled people seem to understand. 1167
Reposted by Baby octopusKate Nevens (she/her) @katenevens.bsky.social · 10hAs the Scottish Tories bring a debate to Holyrood on 'Consent for Jackdaw and Rosebank', I joined protesters outside the Scottish Parliament calling on the UK and Scottish governments to #StopRosebank. 1104
Reposted by Baby octopusDreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 8hAmused by people replying to this who went down the inevitable wikihole and discovered this wasn't just my usual whimsical pony and (von) Trapp 36711
Reposted by Baby octopusCourtney Love is a Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Fast 2 Furiosa @hexadecibelle.fyi · 10hhello i am not a Labour party member but i hope you can help me, my community has been experiencing transphobic harassment from a Labour party member, her name is Bridget Phillipson and she is the current Minister for Women and Equalities, i look forward to your response and thank you in advance 🙏 1043459
Reposted by Baby octopusDidi is a trans immigrant 🏳️⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 12hHire a Google guy, get an AI fan 181
Reposted by Baby octopusflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10hStill laughing at how much this is like that Chris Rock bit, about people who want credit for doing things other people just *do*. “I take care of my kids!”. You’re *supposed to* take care of your kids! What do you want, a cookie? “I ain’t never been to jail”. You’re not supposed to go to jail etc 612719
Reposted by Baby octopusThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 12hOnion doesn't miss 447779
Reposted by Baby octopusKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18hIf you buy that they care about women's sports, you're a mark and you're going to get financially scammed someday. 473547
Reposted by Baby octopus🏳️⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] @alexandraerin.com · 13hBE NOT AFRAID 15010
Reposted by Baby octopusJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 19hTERFism’s proposition to cis women has always been “What if you accepted having fewer rights than men in order to guarantee that trans people have fewer rights than you?” 217961
Reposted by Baby octopusdisc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I'm here you fuckaas bitch 9728199
Reposted by Baby octopusNeil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 14h“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.” 15383102
Reposted by Baby octopusDr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/20261. #MedievalSky, grab a lifejacket and a seasickness bag, we’re casting off on a thread about the Norman invasion fleet in 1066! 960 years ago, the Normans landed at Pevensey and established a base at the Roman shore fort which was already succumbing to erosion from the sea on its south side. 1/20 6246103
Reposted by Baby octopusthe beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 06/08/2025had the idea of collecting the most ominous or threatening images of MrBeast but fear nothing can top this 933755795
Reposted by Baby octopusEric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 15hMapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing 192754519
Reposted by Baby octopusSlurms MacKrueger @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 12hReminder that my new album MAKE THIS OUR OWN is out on Friday, and any plagiarism found therein is *not* the result of AI usage but just good old fashioned theft, thank you 1507
Reposted by Baby octopusHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor 03537743
Reposted by Baby octopusNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick. 161357353
Reposted by Baby octopusbadly drawn bee 🐝 @soapachu.bsky.social · 11h"Mum, what's that dark place in the distance?" "That's Chingford my love. You must never go there. They've elected Iain Duncan Smith nine times". 214322
Reposted by Baby octopusJack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 13h'Guys try to steal red fuel from an RAF base' is much better British indie film material than 'racist town declares independence' imo. 1498
Reposted by Baby octopusAnil Dash @anildash.com · 15hAnd media making it official policy to treat those attacks as fair game that they would not take seriously, report on, or treat as harmful — even when leveled at their own reporters. Now the White House points GamerGate at its targets daily, through the owners of the social platforms themselves. 121251
Reposted by Baby octopusAdrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 11hJust saw a Kickstarter for some sort of ancient-period board game refer to an ‘early bird hero’ and was genuinely intrigued by this mythic figure before realising they were talking about a reward for early backers. 1326718
Reposted by Baby octopusAllan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 13hRelatedly v excited at the prospect of getting to go fully to war with the Electoral Reform Society which just refuses to acknowledge that under STV parties stand as many candidates as they think they can get elected and therefore it's not actually the magical Maximum Voter Choice system they claim 2134
Reposted by Baby octopusKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 09/07/2024Can't stop thinking about the McSweeney's Sad Dad Bands, (first published January 14, 2022.) Back on Twitter, I started a thread of my own riffs on Sad Dad Bands on January 17, 2022. Here is that thread, recreated. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...mcsweeneys.netWhat Your Favorite Sad Dad Band Says About YouThe War on Drugs You make your own paella and take super long naps on Saturday. Like over two hours, consistently. You prefer the smallest possible... 601074219
Reposted by Baby octopusAnil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material … 122449860
Reposted by Baby octopusLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026There was no COBRA meeting when masked and organised fascists were burning people out of their homes in Belfast in the summer 822960
Reposted by Baby octopus👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026GOD BLESS NIGELLA “I don’t approve of talking about food as naughty” I have been needing bake off to say that for YEARS. Food is a pleasure, not a guilty pleasure! 874993
Reposted by Baby octopusflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13hA big hit with the target audience, at least 12737
Reposted by Baby octopusPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 17hThis is a photograph of the edge of one of Saturn's rings, looking down from above. Those spiky dark shapes are shadows. Shadows of giant towers of ice and dust grains clumped together that rise up to three *kilometres* above the 10-m thick rings. 16438122
Reposted by Baby octopusGef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 20hMe talking about someone I've posted with on the same social media site for a long time but never actually met 181095237
Reposted by Baby octopusESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 13hInspector Smile is ready for science! 🫡 This is Smile’s first ultraviolet view showing an auroral substorm. With the ultraviolet camera now operational, Smile becomes the first spacecraft since 2008 to capture the full ring of northern lights around the north pole in ultraviolet light. 🔭 🧪 ☀️ 12743207
Reposted by Baby octopusBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15hOne of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here. 2839321036
Reposted by Baby octopusClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13h"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school 73780819