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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Vaughan McAlley @mcalley.net.au · 09/09/2026

JS Bach was adept at harmonizing all sorts of weird melodies, so I thought I would have a try at reharmonizing the “chorale” melody the AI produced, but improve it by being more interesting.

My own handwritten reharmonization of the weird “chorale” melody produced by AI.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/09/2026

Good news: he lost.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

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Vaughan McAlley @mcalley.net.au · 01/09/2026

If you’re going to do it, do it on speaker phone.

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 28/08/2026

"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad"

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is the Hot Couch theory of the internet: We were better off when these ideas were coming to us from your friend's idiot brother who occasionally sold you weed while tending a menagerie of lizards and snakes, because you knew that guy was a dumbass, but now they've broken Hot Couch containment

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Vaughan McAlley @mcalley.net.au · 27/08/2026

Respect for weary bureaucrats.

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Guys. Where are the posts reminding us not to speak ill of the dead? I'm not seeing them for some reason.

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Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I get so sick of being told that there has been no gender-based prejudice against women musicians. So here are some genuine reviews written about women, between 1893 & 2021, with a couple words/letters changed to make them about men.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

we are getting a real time demonstration of why smart countries do not allow 15 year olds angry that girls don't talk to them to dictate economic policy

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I just realised what AI image generators remind me of: Pin Impression Toys. They're diverting for a minute, you go 'yeah, that's fun', then you've basically seen it. And sure, you can keep pushing different shapes to make yet another shape, but that's all they actually do, it's profoundly empty.

They're called 'pin impression toys' apparently. Makes sense. Push pins, make impression.

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Vaughan McAlley @mcalley.net.au · 01/06/2026

When my fiancee and I were shopping around for wedding venues, the guy at one place said he used a 57-point checklist, so ever since, 57 hasbeen our slang for a very large number.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

REMINDER: The Chris Rufo theory of academia, and today’s broader right-wing theory of politics and culture, is that most students—most people, really—crave far right ideas, but get more left-wing ones only because a small cadre of radical leftists captured all institutions and forced it on everyone.

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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

AI breaking common, everyday things that used to work is why people fucking hate it! AI cluttering up things by offering to summarize 3-sentence emails is why people fucking hate it! It's obvious! It's in fucking plain view! I like it less every goddamned fucking day!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/05/2026

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 29/11/2025

we are *nowhere near close* to *anything like* lossless translation of "the world" into "digital records," huge portions of the information economy revolve around maintaining different *absurdly* lossy compressions of reality in digital dimensions

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

They dared to dream of undoing the 20th century. It’s inspiration in the most perverse way. badfaithtimes.com/the-american...

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The American Right Dared To Imagine. Now It's Our Turn.

“It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope."

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 08/05/2026

Commiserations to Sir David Attenborough on his 100th birthday, as he is now too old to be allowed to play with LEGO.

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Vaughan McAlley @mcalley.net.au · 07/05/2026

Overpaid sweet summer child…

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Vaughan McAlley @mcalley.net.au · 06/05/2026

You have to weigh the good and the bad. People being able to make videos of their dog dancing the cha cha cha makes it worth it.

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Vaughan McAlley @mcalley.net.au · 01/05/2026

Palestrina, Gesualdo, Lassus.

Straight-laced woman, pretty boy and hot woman watching a game, not sure who they are.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 29/04/2026

When food banks are unfunded and everyday Aussies are going without, the need for a 25% tax on gas exports is crystal clear. Australian gas belongs to the Australian people, and they deserve to get a fair return. @davidpocock.bsky.social #auspol

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Vaughan McAlley @mcalley.net.au · 29/04/2026

👏 “The point of the indictment is to demonstrate that the United States Department of Justice is wholly an instrument of Donald Trump’s senescent pique, no more independent of him than a boil on his ass.”

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Emma Berquist @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

THIS is the technology the people want. stop trying to summarize my emails for me and give me an in-home pasta printer

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

WAIT HANG ON THIS IS A BRILLIANT TAKE Monica is so hyped to be dating a billionaire and going with him to like ribbon cutting ceremonies for new hospital wings and impromptu dates to Italy on his jet, but then he decides he wants to be an MMA fighter despite having absolutely zero skills

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

i'm not a hardcore anti-AI guy, but i cannot think of a single benefit of genAI that could possibly outweigh the harm it is doing to our social fabric, shared reality, and most basic abilities to parse information and learn.

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The Guardian documented quadruple-tap by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. Three waves of ambulances were struck. Paramedics came for the injured. They were struck. Backup crews arrived. They were struck too In six weeks of war, Israel has killed at least 91 medical workers.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 04/04/2026

JD Vance has me pulling out liberation theology books I have not looked at since I was a grad student traveling to Nicaragua for a course on intercultural communication just so I can keep stepping on that man's neck.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Take a moment to remember how weird it is our president communicates with us through a bottom-tier social media site called Truth Social. It’s like if he governed from the comment section of a porn site.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/04/2026

“Ms. Rowling currently poses an extreme danger both to herself and the public, and we will not rest until she is apprehended,” said Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Matt Jukes

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J.K. Rowling Escapes Insane Asylum

LONDON—Urging the public to remain calm as authorities worked to recapture the mentally disturbed individual, city officials confirmed Monday that novelist J.K. Rowling had escaped from a London insan...

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The civilisation that is dead is the American one.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 04/04/2026

Two-thirds of the Supreme Court are Catholic and I did not give a fuck but I'm over here joking (not joking) about starting a letter writing campaign to the Pope to get Vance excommunicated.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

i'm increasingly convinced they got Victory Disease from Venezuela and thought they could get Iranian Delcy in place or the protests to reignite after repression and had no plan when neither happened

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Vaughan McAlley @mcalley.net.au · 22/03/2026

There is so much to despise about Musk, but what he did to Twitter is what what makes me hate him most viscerally.

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

My alabaster milk child Teuton keeps asking for ranch dressing at the caviar factory, it is most epic. The fishmongers despise him.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

You'll often hear how the gas industry is vital for Australia because it's so big. But really the only thing big about it is its profits.

Chart showing Profit and wages of oil and gas, compared to administration and support

Admin and support: Wages $64.3bn; Profits $13.1bn
Oil and gas: Wages $4bn; Profits $71.6bn

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

This honestly explains a lot.

Tweet by Matt Duss quoting Socrates—“The unexamined life is not worth living”—in response to a post about billionaire Marc Andreessen saying he has no introspection. The image shows Andreessen seated at a table in a studio interview setting, wearing a dark sweater and smiling slightly.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Calling the image on the right a "significant improvement" is so indicative of the whole AI ethos tbh

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/03/2026

Generative AI has led to entirely new paradigms and unprecedented accelerations in the fields of fucking yourself over in public in the most embarrassing and humiliating way possible

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Vaughan McAlley @mcalley.net.au · 16/03/2026

I didn’t think it was possible, but maybe there actually is a US war too stupid for Australia not to enthusiastically sign up for.

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Vaughan McAlley @mcalley.net.au · 14/03/2026

Being an utter dipshit while playing with other people’s livelihoods might actually affect one’s own livelihood. Who knew? Not *this* utter dipshit obvs.

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Vaughan McAlley @mcalley.net.au · 12/03/2026

When you’re writing a piece about the Sistine Chapel ceiling and want to make a reference to Michelangelo comparing Haman to Christ (complicated reasons), it’s quite cool to realise that the famous bit of Allegri’s Miserere is the same as O Sacred Head Sore Wounded.

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Kristina of ⭐️⭐️ @maytagsmom.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

THIS. THIS. THIS. Mo Ryan hit a bullseye. (Like she always does. See Burn It Down.)

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