Reposted by manmachineWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 12/10/2026Make space enough between you. 101296181
Reposted by manmachinepixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026 Australopithecus 3 million years ago: 4589301715
Reposted by manmachinewhat was I made for? @jjbbllkk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Max Pain au Chocolat 3413
Reposted by manmachineAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 08/10/2026the AI industry is full of people who would automate away playing with a kitten 191419320
Reposted by manmachineAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 07/10/2026yes .skype exists. Microsoft paid 250,000$ to own the gTLD .skype and then shut down Skype 411711
Reposted by manmachineTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 07/10/2026That's really the core of it to me. Not many people are sensitive to or even aware of the vulnerabilities they're introducing to their lives when they accept a system for convenience that can be altered or shut off externally. And "vulnerabilities" includes "forcing user-hostile UI changes" 1131
Reposted by manmachineMiguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 05/10/2026By @quinnypig.com: “I said it years ago and it’s pretty clearly correct: web1: You are the audience web2: You are the product web3: You are the victim” 29520
Reposted by manmachinewhat was I made for? @jjbbllkk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The fire in Plato's Cave has been updated to a 4k projector. Everyone can see the projector and knows its there but everyone is looking at the cave wall still because there's a new Marvel Movie on. Also we got a guy named Dave who has edibles we call him Edible Cave Dave. 28613
Reposted by manmachineHAINBACH @hainbach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Last day to get “Buchla Stories” as name-your-price hainbach.bandcamp.com/album/buchla... 1172
Reposted by manmachineTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My new shorthand for our new gilded age: "We shouldn't have let the phone company buy all the taxi companies." ... and warehousing and delivery companies. and courier services. and media companies. and so on 211134106
Reposted by manmachineThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 29/09/2026✨ If you’re not feeling old enough, just remember that USB has been out for 30 years. ✨ 6302
Reposted by manmachineAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 29/09/20261. came out over a decade ago 2. ported to many many platforms 3. owned by microsoft, though it wasn't when it was originally released 4. beloved by many games who are still to this day making mods for it the facts don't lie: Skyrim is a Doom 34669119
Reposted by manmachineEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026Everyone keeps reaching for the “too big to fail” button because it is fundamentally harder for them to imagine what happens if it’s too big to succeed. The unique conditions in play make a bailout impossible. This is also an ideological bubble to the point I think it creates a schism in society. 1072050
Reposted by manmachineNanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 26/09/2026Thinking about the time when I first got online 40 years ago - BBSs in 1986 It was also possible then to Get Off The Computer. Now we can't really Get Off The Computer. Many of us last Got On The Computer sometime in the 2010s. It's time to Get Off The Computer, not just Get Off On The Computer. 5574
Reposted by manmachineTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/ 322932745
Reposted by manmachineAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 23/09/2026there aren't gonna be any more video games. all the ones there are now are all there will ever be. in a couple months all the app stores like steam and such will run out of digital copies, too. so keep good care of the games you've got, cause if they break, you can't replace them now 4913
Reposted by manmachineAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 22/09/2026If a muted video plays on a screen that's blank, is it even playing? 11653
Reposted by manmachinewhat was I made for? @jjbbllkk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026There's nothing greater than the pain of making a custom meme for someone as a reply to their post and they don't even like it. 1832
manmachine @manmachine.me · 21/09/2026Music I suppose, my local collection is good for months of uninterrupted playback without repeats. 020
Reposted by manmachineTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask. 4639441079
Reposted by manmachinewhat was I made for? @jjbbllkk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026funny relatable post that gets a lot of likes and positive engagement because its so relatable and funny 4603
Reposted by manmachineAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 19/09/2026personally I only play ethical video games pirated three-decades-old sega genesis cartridges off weird abandonware sites 458041
Reposted by manmachineRob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 18/09/2026i don't know who is buying these folding phones. you have enough screens buddy. look around the room there are least 2-4 of them within ten feet. get less screens idiot 1943142
Reposted by manmachineTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 17/09/2026There's a lot of stuff we have done in the past which turned out to be a bad idea. So we stopped doing it. It's difficult for me to accept the inevitability of [things] knowing this. But I am worried there are not enough people standing up and saying "this is a bad idea" in 2026. 2241926
Reposted by manmachinekira ☆ @kira.ws · 11/09/2026polish invention of national importance: the czosndog. a hot dog whose bun is an entire garlic baguette. czosnek = garlic. split it, sausage in, cheese on top, bake. bacon, chilli and spring onion if you respect yourself. born on wykop in 2020, beloved since 2226945
Reposted by manmachineTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com 111297422
Reposted by manmachineNanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 12/09/2026A sticker to place anywhere. Like hand dryers, toilet bowls, soap dispensers, alarm keypads, coffee machines, thermostats, pedestrian crossing buttons, BBQs, park benches, parking meters... As well as staplers, pens, potatoes, bricks, brooms, lunch, potplants and speed humps. 1922968
Reposted by manmachineTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 09/09/2026My latest for @newscientist.com 131068200
manmachine @manmachine.me · 04/09/2026best thing about it not being summer is the ability to *wear things* yee! 010
Reposted by manmachineZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Found an old note on my ideas list 514115
Reposted by manmachineShouXin手訫 @shouxin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026It’s the weekend! Let’s stretch a little with these cats. Cats seem to know better than we do how to truly relax. Stretch your legs, loosen up, and let go of the week’s tiredness. I hope these little cats bring a bit of ease and a good mood to your weekend😊 #shouxinsketch #cat #sketch #sketchdaily 193592955
Reposted by manmachinespzi 🌸 @spzi.net · 29/08/2026i think there is something wrong with my screensaver 312037651
Reposted by manmachineClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I’m about to say something so neurodivergent it borders on self-parody, but I am trying to watch a relaxing ASMR video of someone quietly sorting a huge bag of assorted shapes and sizes of beads, only I can’t relax because she’s sorting them wrong and it’s actually making me more tense 31462113
Reposted by manmachineAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 26/08/2026the best thing about jpegxl being available on all browsers soon is that images will download faster on dial-up 41194
Reposted by manmachinedimes disparu @monsurifan520.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Just listened to 4’33. Amazing piece. No notes 0327
Reposted by manmachineEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/08/2026the average tech exec and venture capitalist and honestly an alarming amount of bay area software engineers have close to zero interaction or connection with regular people, and the richer they are, the more isolated they've become. They have built rationalizations for everything. 252535449
Reposted by manmachineNanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 19/08/2026USB - Universal SCSI Bus. 710917
Reposted by manmachineJenn / CaptainHanyuu 💖✨ @captainhanyuu.art · 12/08/2026MY DISCO BALL IN THE BEDROOM IS SHOWING ME THE ECLIPSE, HOW COOL IS THAT?! 7547156
Reposted by manmachinewhat was I made for? @jjbbllkk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Tomorrow is Bandcamp Friday but my catalog is already 90% off though the end of tomorrow! I've got a bunch of different aliases depending on what kind of music you like (listed below) Click on any release here to get the entire catalog for under 20 bucks: redmeansrecording.bandcamp.com 26022
Reposted by manmachineMaytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Data-driven Enterprise solutions 151546417
Reposted by manmachineRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph. 415159733943
Reposted by manmachineCrowbar @crowbar.wtf · 26/07/2026I just saw a reel of a young man doing a thing called “What’s on Grandpa’s Turntable” - & he reviewed the album the Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails. I’m just going to lay here and turn into dust now. 2404019366
Reposted by manmachineAllister Thompson @allistert.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I’m tired of the myth of the “great lost musician” who made two albums and then vanished for decades. Newsflash: sometimes people do things for a while and then decide they don’t want to do it anymore. They just go do something else. It doesn’t mean they’re “lost” or it’s a sad or mysterious story. 1246
Reposted by manmachineNanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 19/07/20261960s: the computer when programmed correctly can perform trillions of operations without a single mistake: Pentium fdiv bug era: in some rare cases excel may let a bug in the CPU slip past. LLM era: we rolled 6x10E9 dice and days have 37 hours, finger count is random, your files were deleted lol. 619047
