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Absolutely disgusting, I don't understand how anyone likes what this sellout has been doing to Canada since he took over as Prime Minister

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Damon Charles @damonmakespictures.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wondering why you've seen so many "Ai Company / Mouthpiece Says We Need Cooperation To Stop Ai Destroying Humanity" stories lately? Wonder no more - Here's another one of those "Summed up something I've been struggling to articulate" articles from @doctorow.pluralistic.net.

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Jess 💖 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Millennial bisexuals everywhere arise! The beacons are lit!

Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz on the set of The Mummy 4

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mostly I am grumpy because since Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones were so popular, it's gotten a lot harder to find not miserable television to watch. Studios are trending towards making the same thing again and again, it made a lot of money once so they don't need anything different anymore ever

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I mean, there's always a place for relentless misery, but I absolutely resent the implication from lists like this that joyful media isn't good. There's so many people that enjoy so many different things, and it's so frustrating that a top 100 shows list doesn't have more variety on it.

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's a depressing lack of science fiction and fantasy on that list. I refuse to believe that Louie is better than any Star Treks, for example, and I refuse to believe that only the most miserable and relentlessly depressing genre TV belongs there. Also where is Murderbot, it should be there

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LJ Amber with false fangs and little bat wings @ljamberfantasy.com · 24/09/2026

By the way, the fact the major AI companies all started screaming about this at the same time should tell you they're in a cartel.

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Austin James @underwhelmed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"What if all the Ai is gone tomorrow? How would everyone survive without it?" is sort of like asking "what if herpes suddenly stopped existing?"

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tapeworthy @tapeworthy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

FYI, a CDN govt petition about AI and data centres that closes Sep 24th. (if you do sign, make sure you follow thru w email confirmation click). www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... (there's actually several ongoing petitions from several MPs about AI and data centres but this is the one that ends 1st)

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Petition e-7550 - Petitions

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've got those little Lego plant friends on my desk at work, and the last two weeks I have come in after the weekend to them moved so it looks like they have had a fight.

Two little smiling Lego planters, one yellow and one blue, are sitting on a monitor base, holding hands and looking at the camera. This is their usual placement on the desk.

The scene that greeted me at the start of last week. The yellow planter on the right is in the same place, but the blue planter on the left has been moved several centimetres away and has been turned 90° clockwise so his back is turned on his friend. It looks like they have had a fight.

The scene that greeted me this morning. It's similar to last week, but the blue planter has been moved even further away and has been turned around so his back is turned to the camera.

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The cowardly "love how you will" line was a real piss off, it came across as "we can't have anything GAY in this movie but we will throw the book readers a bone" How dare they 🔥💀🔥

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Trash Mob Minis @trashmobminis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What you need to understand is nothing we built was “off the shelf.” Store-bought environmental assets for stop-motion features do not exist. We were given concept art and told “make it look like this.” Everything you see here, down to the dirt and moss, was meticulously designed and crafted.

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We usually only do special orders from Ingram, so while we might special order the wrong book by mistake, we likely wouldn't have knock offs on the shelf. I'd highly recommend ordering things from a local independent bookshop, or from bookshop.org which seems to have fewer scam versions

bookshop.org

Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The ordering system in the bookstore I work at only lets us order from legitimate suppliers like Penguin Random House, Hachette, and the like. The one exception is that we can also order from Ingram, which is notorious in our store for selling knockoff garbage.

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The "How fucking dare you" email flag

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've been working part-time in an independent bookstore and buying too much yarn, mostly

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's not like they have been held responsible for any of the other bubbles they've instigated. I wouldn't be surprised if they're trying to get some sort of bailout lined up though, all "Oh no we accidentally made the murder computers and have to shut down our business, how will we survive now"

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm at the point where I can't tell if the people at these companies believe this garbage, or if they're trying to get the masses to blame the computers for all of the layoffs and the climate disasters triggered by data centers. "It's the computer's fault we scammed billions out of the economy."

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

An LLM isn't on track for mass murder on its own, it isn't on track for super intelligence. It doesn't know the meaning of the words it spits out, you sponge-brained invertebrates! It has statistics about what words appear together and that's it! It's not going to be your sapiosexual girlfriend!

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's amazing to see the number of people who can't tell fact from fiction regarding genAI. The people building it should be able to tell that a predictive text model isn't intelligent and can't trigger a nuclear apocalypse, but I guess they thought that The Terminator was a documentary.

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sure, genAI systems probably are going to be devastating to humanity, because the dipshits pushing them are gunning for total economic and environmental collapse. Their statistical models are not going to launch all the nukes like in the movies, and only complete simpletons believe that.

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's been a year since I did it, but if I remember correctly, going to View - Disable New Acrobat helped a lot with getting rid of Adobe's crap. Apparently there are some pop up settings in the preferences too. There are some instructions partway down in this link community.adobe.com/questions-9/...

community.adobe.com

Annoying pop-ups in Acrobat | Community

How can you turn off these annoying pop-ups in Acrobat. Why did Adobe think this was a good idea? They are so distracting when I am working.

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Well, instead of logging everything properly, they got a couple of tree crushers and started rolling over the trees, and then started flooding the reservoir before they got all the machinery out. There's so much dead driftwood in the reservoir that I'm surprised no one saw something like this sooner

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 03/09/2026

Q: How does one become invisible? A: If you’re a woman, enjoy being seen while it lasts. Much like puberty, being seen is just a phase. You’ll grow out of it. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...

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FAQs for the Women’s Invisibility Network

“The Women’s Invisibility Network (or WIN) is a neighborhood support group for women in their sunset years. We assist aging women tossed aside by society, wh...

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am so jealous, pika are on my list of animals I want to photograph!

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Also I'm back pretty close to Jasper but am trapped at work! If you end up spending time in Prince George, let me know, I know all the good spots here!

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ah that's still super exciting! It turns out that this is the last year that Rocky Mountaineer route will run, because CN doesn't want to maintain the track anymore. The other routes will still go, but it's going to be a long time before I can afford it myself

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

That is super exciting! Did you take the Rocky Mountaineer train? I ask because if you want through Whistler and Quesnel then you might have met my parents who work for them in Quesnel

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Katie West @katiewest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If you're in Canada and want to tell Tim Hortons that their Harry Potter marketing campaign is shit, you can contact them here: www.timhortons.ca/support

help.timhortons.ca

Tim Hortons Help Centre

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Right, because things like fire escapes and air flow are luxuries that the poors shouldn't expect in this economy. We saw what happens when people like you are allowed to determine design in London a few years ago and what happens is people die horrible, preventable deaths.

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I've been messing around with the Open Camera app, because I'm getting tired of the processing garbage that keeps getting shoehorned into the base camera in Android, and it's nice to be able to take sunset photos that don't have the colors autocorrected out of the image

The blue sky above a parking lot at sunset, full of soft golden clouds

A blue sky full of crinkly golden clouds at sunset

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There's Diana Wynne Jones' books, there's Tamora Pierce's YA titles, there's the Akata series by Nnedi Okorafor. ND Stevenson is working on the Scarlet Morning series. If graphic novels are more your thing, there's Amulet, and Lightfall, and the Tea Dragon Society. There's just so many better books

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A lot of people have started using Fable instead of Goodreads, as you can import your Goodreads history. I am not sure what mechanisms they would have for book giveaways though.

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I cannot even communicate how angry this image makes me. Clearly approved by some incurious dipshit who has never seen food or bugs, why are these fools the ones who get to decide things

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The headline image for the article is absolutely amazing though

A screaming tattooed bald man with a microphone is on the left side of the image, and is countered by Rumi from KPop Demon Hunters wagging her finger on the left.

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I still hold that nerds need to understand that talking to computers in Star Trek was a storytelling device. It was never a design for an interface that would be helpful in most situations for the majority of users.

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

you already know who's got those PDFs hot'n'ready for you like a horny little caesar, don't you? Like a Snowball: The Growth and Impact of the Gender Critical Movement in the UK: cis.fm/Like_a_snowb... (412KB) A Growing Threat: The Anti-rights Movement in the UK: cis.fm/Report_-_A_g... (354KB)

image showing the front pages of both reports named and linked in the post

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Getting a man killed so his job is available is literally a thing that happens during purges. The competence of those killed during purges has never once mattered. The fact that they had something that someone else wanted is usually what instigates the killing in the first place.

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

He literally got harassed into suicide by a dude who likes eugenics

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Ben can take his wasted degree and shove it up his ass, and his job can go to someone who actually worked for their education.

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I went to Barkerville this past Saturday, and met this lovely cat at the Wells Hotel when we stopped there for dinner. His name is Sammy.

An orange tabby with white paws is curled up on a fancy dusty rose brocade sofa. His head is resting on a red brocade pillow and his front paw is stretching towards the camera.

An orange tabby with white paws is curled up snoozily on a fancy dusty rose brocade sofa. His head is resting on a red brocade pillow, with all of his paws arrayed around his nose.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 07/08/2026

Hello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/08/2026

I led a report about the environmental and resource parts of this! Companies intentionally conflate wildly different machine learning applications: using a sprinkling of good to justify a tsunami of bad ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...

A two panel info graphic showing energy consumption is mostly from generative

But climate benefit claims are mostly traditional AI

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Guys, I didn't even ask them to do this, but the engineers have named SHERA's astrometry pipeline ADORA (Astrometric Differential Optics and Retrieval Algorithm), and I just CAN'T with how amazing that is and how much I love it. (Adora is her name when she's not She-Ra.) #PIDaily

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She-Ra Time! Adora's Transformation

Alt: She-Ra Time! Adora's Transformation

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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

People have tried to do research into this, and dug into existing literature and found a complete lack of data. In fact, our understanding is likely completely wrong. I know doctors who recommend older patients keep weight on because they are MORE likely to survive a health crisis than thin patients

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