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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.

BBC
'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed
Emily Atkinson
Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST
2 min read

A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed.

Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat.

Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially. Period. This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.

Vaccine Safety
MENU V
For Everyone
NOV. 19, 2025
KEY POINTS
• The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
• Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.
• HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism,
including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

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Destin @destinlegarie.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I got to play @PlayEVEVanguard's Operation Nemesis event that's still live and free to play right now until Oct. 2nd. Here's some beginner tips to get you started. Play at evevanguard.com #sponsored www.youtube.com/watch?v=th2W...

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Scifi Shooter | EVE Vanguard

EVE Vanguard is a sci-fi sandbox FPS where every fight, scavenged resource, and choice shapes a brutal, player-driven universe at war.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

Homeland Security
@DHSgov
Which way, American man?

http://JOIN.ICE.GOV

photo of uncle sam with his hat off at a crossroads with title "America Needs You, Join ICE Now"

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Me: take hours to read a book You: have your super hot ChatGPT girlfriend download a million books, read them, then summarize them all to you in a barrage of lies that you can't even tell are lies because you don't read books; also you have the critical thinking skills of a shovel-struck donkey

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smikes.bsky.social @smikes.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Leaving the country? Do yourself a favour and get your important documents “apostilled” before you go… bsky.app/profile/smik...

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I am certainly a grave disappointment to my Icelandic tutor, but she puts on a brave face.

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Joshferatu Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

when they realize you're not supposed to be in the group chat

A shot from Eyes Wide Shut: two people, dressed in black robes, wearing Venetian carnival masks, eyeing an outsider (Tom Cruise) down below

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

Well this is grim

weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt

and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here"

the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine

with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world

but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED

this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me.

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he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood

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it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸 Today was the first time we have voted in an Icelandic parliamentary election. Ten years after arriving in Iceland, it’s a big deal. Í dag var í fyrsta skipti sem við höfum kjósið í Alþingiskosningu. Tíu ár eftir komuna til Íslands, þetta er mikið mál.

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Have to share this wild video: Eve Online's largest coalition is moving, and they made a time lapse. youtu.be/OcHUJkuQyLI?...

youtu.be

Imperium Capital Fleet Moves to UALX

YouTube video by Shingly

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #131,234!

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 15/08/2024

Did you get sign off for the KPI? KPI. We need to circle back. Circle back. Did you define OKRs? OKRs. Let’s circle back. Circle back. Let’s parking lot that. Parking lot. Can we take this offline? Offline. Ok, you’re on baseline. Let’s end early and give you back 5 minutes.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 25/07/2024

8-SECOND KAMALA HARRIS AD: x.com/KamalaHQ/sta... TRUMP AT RALLY: "And then their campaign says (goofy voice) 'I'm the prosecutor, and he is the convicted felon—" HARRIS (VOICEOVER): "I'm Kamala Harris, and I approve this message."

Tweet from Kamala HQ Twitter account with video described and linked above with the text "We approve this message"

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Wallace @wallace.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol

The dissents’ positions in the end boil down to ignoring
the Constitution’s separation of powers and the Court’s
precedent and instead fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals about a future where the President
“feels empowered to violate federal criminal law.”

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

CCP devs using the new Eve Online SKINR tool to make one-of-a-kind SKINs for the Art Without Borders charity? Yes! #SKINRShowdown Here are mine: Enyo, Vexor, Iteron, Machariel.

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SaraKateW @sarakatew.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

I POOPED AT THE SEANCE

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 10/06/2024

code's haunted

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

My new book: Toddler Negotiation: Getting to “No.”

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

"Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago" is gonna get thrown around a lot this cycle and somehow it's gonna be about the price of gas and eggs, and not how we ran out of space in the morgues and had to stack bodies like firewood in vans in central park

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

babe what's wrong? you've hardly touched your security clearance

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Let's be honest. The one thing LLMs are really good at is generating lots of really convincing disinformation. Say you're Eritrea and you want to produce 80 million convincingly-real-looking tweets that make it seem like people support your point of view. Awesome! GPT has you covered.

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

everyone automatically clacks these twice upon picking them up because deep down we all know we’re crabs

A pair of silver aluminum barbecue tongs on a white background .

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

I was today years old when I discovered that literature Nobel Laureate Halldór Laxness's grandson plays the Colonel in Icelandic KFC ads. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCbw...

Icelandic musician Dóri DNA as KFC's Colonel Sanders character.

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John Penniman @historiographos.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

I will never recover from this student email.

Image of an email from a student asking if sources "from the late 1900s" are acceptable.

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Game devs: Researcher with funding through next year is seeking support building gamified approaches to treating PTSD. Might be an opportunity worth checking out if you have the skills and time. www.facebook.com/rebecca.hend...

facebook.com

ASK: Can you help me connect with... - Rebecca Hendrickson

ASK: Can you help me connect with someone to do technically specific game development to help develop PTSD research – on a 9 month timeframe? • I want...

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Well, it took a while, but after nine years and nineteen days, our whole immediate family are now Icelandic citizens. 🇮🇸 Áfram Ísland!

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Oooh, not just "priors" but "Bayesian priors." That's TWO shots, not just one, if you're still playing the "using statistical terms to make your gut instinct sound scientific" drinking game that seemed to be part of The Discourse a bit a few months past.

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson of Iceland speaking at Eve Fanfest! 🇮🇸 #EVEFanfest

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

"Horses are men extenders" now lives rent-free in my head.

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Elizabeth Sampat @twoscooters.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

If I see one more post where an out-of-work game developer is lamenting how there are zero jobs and a game dev professor suggests they apply to teach game dev to unwitting, indebted teenagers, I'm going to hurt some feelings

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

When I talk to comic book artists I always emphasize the importance of clearly separating their planes of depth. This rule is only for comics and does not apply to Turkish photographer Sami Uçan.

Black and white photo in which a black cat looms large in the foreground and seems to be walking directly behind a much smaller man in the middleground.

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Artists and art-adjacent folks: The U.S. Copyright Office has opened a public comment period on AI: * Use of copyrighted data in training * Whether/when AI product should be copyrightable * Copyright liability and AI. * AI and publicity rights public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-18624.pdf

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

Ok, I signed up for an eight-class speaking course to get myself saying more in Icelandic. Ég tala Íslensku, slæmlega. (BTW the folks at icelandicmadeeasier.com are awesome!)

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

i’m not exactly a connoisseur when it comes to film and literature, but it still blows my mind that these guys all conceive of art as just an updated set of jingling keys dangling in front of their moron faces

Tweet from a blue check dipshit saying “Within a decade we will have AI-generated on-demand movies, where viewers get to customize what they watch. Content will be endless and production cheap, yet require significant investment in infrastructure. Those with the better algorithms will dominate the streaming industry.”

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15/08/2023

New: Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news websites and competitors he dislikes, including this one. Five-second delays on links to Bluesky, New York Times, Reuters, Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Substack. Most other sites we tested have zero delay wapo.st/3OYfTa6

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

Removed all the key caps and cleaned my 13-year-old Das Keyboard Model S Professional, for the first time ever. Yikes.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/08/2023

Every time I read an FBI affidavit I want to travel to Quantico, find the agent who teaches affidavit writing and style, get to know them, develop a relationship of friendship and trust, take them on a drunk weekend, share my own mental health journey, and talk them into getting the help they need.

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David Lo Pun-ch Nazis @helpmeskeletor.bsky.social · 09/08/2023

Lol an archaeology website had an AI write an article on the scimitar and they accidentally scraped a Dungeons and Dragons description.

Known to Europeans as the scimitar, the sham shot is the quintessential long sword of the horsemen of Persia (Iran), Moghul India and Arabia. It scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity and is a good weapon for high dexterity characters who can excel at slashing attacks while spinning. A curved sword with a thin blade of ample length. Light of weight desire its larger size, its slicing attacks come in rapid succession. Such savers were renowned for their sharpness and lethality.

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