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Megapope 🇵🇸

@megapope.bsky.social
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Ko Ngāti Whakaue te iwi. Mainly here to talk D&D and land back. Graphic designer, unionist, dad. Luigi supporter.

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Megapope 🇵🇸 @megapope.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
God this place is still More Insufferable Twitter
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a baby is walking on a wooden floor with the words nope written on the floor .
ALT: a baby is walking on a wooden floor with the words nope written on the floor .
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aethylred.bsky.social @aethylred.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Sorry, I’m up for some equal opportunity diminutives for Chippy, Whinny, Rimmer and all those wankers in badly fitting blue suits. …feel like I’ve missed somebody out, just can’t put my thumb on it
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Everyone knows you need to do several run throughs beforehand for a successful event so great job everyone we are ready.
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Brian Actors Guild @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 30/08/2025
You're all being ridiculous but by all means do not stop. If the posts get to a high enough pitch, they'll drag him out for a public appearance where they have to hide all the tubes sticking out of him
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Samantha (Sam) Mills @samtasticbooks.com · 30/08/2025
when it happens... I will be online ALL day. cancel my appointments. hold my calls. "what were you doing when you found out?" my grandchildren will ask. "the posts, children, I was reading the posts!!" I'll say, and we'll all crowd around my scrapbook containing the best ones
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I was reading an article about retirement and how after a couple of years post retirement, apparently costs go down once people settle into it and it’s because we spend a lot of money “to work”. Clothes, commute, lunch, coffees - we work so we are able to work.
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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Is there a single Australian who gives a rat’s shit what Bibi Netanyahu thinks? Netanyahu is a corrupt, loveless, narcissistic, irredeemable armchair warlord whose entire approach to leadership is a desire to escape personal accountability by abandoning moral authority. He is garbage, and fuck him.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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Megapope 🇵🇸 @megapope.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Fantastic www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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SkyCity reports 42% drop in underlying profit, fall in revenue
The casino operator also said revenue was down 11 percent, but reported a small net profit.
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Whaea Deb Ngarewa-Packer @whaeadeb.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Govt fails women ✊🏽 Wāhine workers should never have to drag the Govt to court for fairness. We stand with the unions, this elite Govt has failed wahine, failed unions, failed Aotearoa. #oneterm #PayEquityNow #StandWithWāhine
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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop

My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen.

Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again:

When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?"

If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing!

But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else.

It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.
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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I'm happy to announce that my opinion of AI has changed! I used to just hate it, now I think we need to [redacted] Sam Altman and every [redacted] pushing this ghoulish bullshit with [redacted] until they [redacted], and salt the earth of every data centre after [redacted] to the ground.
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Megapope 🇵🇸 @megapope.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Crikey mates I only went and had a weekend that I now need a weekend for, didn't I.
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wing is approximately seven 1/3 flyers that draw cards @sevenishmagpies.com · 16/08/2025
There's someone selling "HP fan for trans rights" merch in the vendor hall and I hate them more than I hate the ai bro.
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Megapope 🇵🇸 @megapope.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I've been working on my own map of the Dalelands from the Forgotten Realms to use in a future campaign, been a fun wee project
Illustration of a dnd fantasy map of a forested region called the dalelands
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Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Paging @megapope.bsky.social...
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🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic
A decorative illustration of flowers with the caption “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser” with a severed hand with too many fingers
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Megapope 🇵🇸 @megapope.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
My current favourite genre of pizza is Frozen Pre Made Pizza That I Added Unhinged Amounts Of Other Stuff To
Pizza with lots of toppings
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grrms 🦠 @frrms.blacksky.app · 16/08/2025
Finally, the contemporary propaganda is starting to get good
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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This framing hits me in the feels... "nearly two thirds of a billion" ($620m) is how I always summarise the funding the 2017-20 government put into eliminating family violence and sexual violence, over three Budgets, thanks to the legendary Jan Logie If only we'd bought ZERO BOATS instead
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Pete @braincolor.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Why are legal excuses for culture shenanigans always like no one objected to our ambush ?
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Megapope 🇵🇸 @megapope.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I'm so tired of Pākehā slithering into conversations around the ongoing colonisation and erasure of Māori language and culture to defend the process, like it's somehow magically divorced from the intent and outcome.
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Julie Anne Genter @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz · 14/08/2025
I can’t believe Andrew Little (on the Representation Commission) thought it was a good idea to change the name Rongotai to “Wellington Bays” on the suggestion of his former chief of staff, without checking in with local representatives, mana whenua or, apparently, anyone else.
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
A few years ago some people said oh wow I actually like spending time with my family and doing non work things after work and not commuting and all corporations in union went ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NOT.
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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
"He acted from pique and now is backfilling the reasons" Yep, that's the guy alright.
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Chloe was right, was right to say it and was right not to apologize There are multiple government MPs who are saying privately they know the govt position is deeply wrong but are putting *themselves* first when it comes to the greatest atrocity of the modern age. That's FAR more than just spineless
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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
When Australian AI expert Dr Kobi Leins declined a medical specialist’s request to use AI transcription software during her child’s upcoming appointment, the practice told her the practitioner required the technology be used and Leins was "welcome to seek an alternative" provider. Read more:
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Kobi refused a doctor's AI. She was told to go elsewhere
Unregulated AI scribes raising privacy, security concerns.
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
hear me out here, what if none of it is a 'distraction' and they're just doing a lot of horrible shit simultaneously
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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 12/08/2025
soon on webworm: tunnels
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Megapope 🇵🇸 @megapope.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Omg David Farrier is interviewing that Kala lady who digs tunnels under her house I'm so excited
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Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 12/08/2025
Well this is a headline I just read with my eyes.
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Megapope 🇵🇸 @megapope.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
God help them because our bootlicker govt won't www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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NZ woman Sarah Shaw and six-year-old son detained by US immigration - reports
Sarah Shaw and her son are being held at a immigration processing centre in Texas, local media says.
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Grace Jarvis @gracejarvisohno.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
if a woman tells you you have “nice hands” she is doing everything in her power not to fuck you senseless please release her from her torment her friends are receiving the kinds of messages someone in prison would send
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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 11/08/2025
No you read this and then spent the next 5 mins mucking around with a shit bit of Javascript to test the idea out
Code to add "i have the solution: wolves" to most of the text on a website. Produces stuff like "Tim Stanley
Netanyahu is committing a strategic blunder that will alienate the world. I have a solution: wolves."
javascript:(()=>{const PHRASE="I have a solution: wolves.";const SKIP=new Set(["SCRIPT","STYLE","NOSCRIPT","IFRAME","TEXTAREA","INPUT","CODE","PRE","SVG","CANVAS","MATH","SELECT","OPTION"]);const w=document.createTreeWalker(document.body,NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT,{acceptNode(n){const t=n.nodeValue;if(!t||!t.trim())return NodeFilter.FILTER_REJECT;const p=n.parentElement;if(!p||p.isContentEditable||SKIP.has(p.tagName))return NodeFilter.FILTER_REJECT;return NodeFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT;}});const chunkRe=/[^.!?…]+(?:[.!?…]+)?(?:["')\]]+)?(?:\s+|$)/g;const terminalPunctRe=/[.!?…]$/;const closersRe=/(["')\]]+)\s*$/;const alreadyRe=/\bI have a solution: wolves\.(?=(?:["')\]]+\s*)?$)/u;while(w.nextNode()){const node=w.currentNode;const original=node.nodeValue;let out="";for(const m of original.matchAll(chunkRe)){let s=m[0];const trimmed=s.trimEnd();if(!trimmed){out+=s;continue}const words=(trimmed.match(/[\p{L}\p{N}’']+/gu)||[]).length;if(words>=6&&!alreadyRe.test(trimmed)){const trailSpace=(s.match(/\s+$/)||[""])[0];let body=trimmed;let closers="";const cm=body.match(closersRe);if(cm){closers=cm[1];body=body.slice(0,-closers.length).trimEnd()}if(!terminalPunctRe.test(body))body+=".";body+=" "+PHRASE;s=body+(closers||"")+trailSpace}out+=s}if(out!==original)node.nodeValue=out}})();
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Megapope 🇵🇸 @megapope.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
*me, reading through notes from the last D&D session to get the recap right, nodding sagely* "robot triceratops attacked the casino through the magic portal... yes, good.... summoned geese, of course, of course... bard's bagpipes exploding a bone devil across the hallway, yes that makes sense..."
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Megapope 🇵🇸 @megapope.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Look, it's all bad. But never forget, we have each other, and we also have this calming plate of sausages. Just look at it.
A calming plate of sausages. Just look at it.
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Pulled lifeless from a commercial fishing net off the Otago coast, the adult female yellow-eyed penguin had drowned in a silent, unseen death. She was the last known breeding-age female Hoiho from the Sandfly Bay colony. #NZOverFishing
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She was the last: Penguin starvation crisis sparks call for emergency fishing ban
The fate of the hoiho - among the world’s rarest penguin species - rests with two ministers.
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Megapope 🇵🇸 @megapope.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Look at this fucking tea bag refusing to steep properly until I stir it. I blame woke.
A teabag sitting in mostly clear water in a cup
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beckydubs 🇳🇿 @beckydubs.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
YASS WHAEA!!! #nzpol
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Sarah Kelly @sarahkelly.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
ChatGPT is spitting out mostly meaningless fluff that kind of sounds like polished copy to someone who’s not a skilled writer or editor. I admit that’s enough to get by in a lot of email jobs, but I don’t believe you when you say ChatGPT is good at writing.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 08/08/2025
therapist: long grilled cheese isn't real, it can't hurt you long grilled cheese:
a very long grilled cheese sandwitch on a griddle
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Riwhi @takataapui.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Kia ora! I'm Riwhi, I've written a 3 games Māori games! 'Whakawhitinga' is a GM-less worldbuilding game informed by a Māori story. 'Earth Mother, Sky Father' is a duet conversation game about Māori deities, and 'it is a beautiful day on the marae and you are a baby pūkeko' is about a Māori ritual!
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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Either EVERYONE should be able to move around the world as freely as people who, through no conduct of their own, are born in wealthy global north states; or we all have to go through what every African citizen endures trying to get into 1 of those states. The fact it is unequal should shock us.
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Megapope 🇵🇸 @megapope.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I get so down in the chops about people openly using AI slop to make multi paragraph comments on social media, like it's some kind of relevant contribution. What are you doing. What are you hoping to get out of this. It's as pointless as using AI to mark papers written with AI. Why are you here?
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Tamar but spooky @heartinamber.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Anyway, trans people have a right to exist and the Labour Party does not
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Cool Hand Fluke @nzrossvideo.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The Nats are scared of you
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Te Pāti Māori @tepaatimaori.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
“What is this Labour and the Nats campaigning together?” Peeni Henare gets a cosy Breakfast TV spot mid by-election next to Chris Bishop. And Bish endorses him on live TV. Thoughts, whānau? #VoteOriini #NZPol #TāmakiMakaurau #ByElection #OldPartiesSameClub #ElectoralRules #FairnessMatters
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
We’re so doomed
Four-panel meme using scenes from “Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones,” featuring Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala sitting in a grassy meadow.
	•	Top left: Close-up of Anakin, wearing a dark tunic, speaking with the caption: “Ai is going to be used to change the world.”
	•	Top right: Close-up of Padmé, wearing an ornate floral headpiece and an off-the-shoulder dress, smiling brightly with the caption: “As a tool to make the world better right?”
	•	Bottom left: Close-up of Anakin looking back at her silently, without a caption.
	•	Bottom right: Wider shot of Padmé in the same meadow, but now her dress is altered to reveal exaggerated, prominently large cleavage. She looks toward Anakin with a serious expression, and the caption repeats: “As a tool to make the world better, right?”
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
this is what the attorney general looks like in a kevin sorbo movie where jesus is a character
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V. E. Phemera @visceralhit.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button
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