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Bachelor Soft @bachelorsoft.bsky.social · 10h

Remembering a time before slop, when you’d find product images on web-shops that had a genuinely bat-shit human touch. We’ve lost so much…

An oven with a rotisserie chicken inside. From 2018. Yes I am HOBO.

It cost like $6. I still have it. Would consider selling. Serious inquiries only.

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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh, you think Fukuyama is cool and always right? Well, did you know a certain misunderstood Florentine figured out The Last Man in the early 1500s? (Discourses, Book II, Preface)

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Bachelor Soft @bachelorsoft.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I made a gofundme because being homeless is going to kill me. Please spread the word that two of our great living artists are begging for money so they can finally get their lives back. www.gofundme.com/f/help-bache...

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A Tulpa Forever Voyaging @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Its a pretty bad game but Protostar: War on the Frontier is the first time I got really into a game. I wish I had played Star Control 2 instead when I was a kid as there's a lot of similarities but the latter is a far better game.

the incomprehensible ui of Protostar, featuring a spaceship console with colorful buttons to the left and right, and an orange-brown 4 eyed alien displayed on the center screen. A dialog window showing multiple options occupies the bottom half of the screen.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 20/09/2026

Literally zero patience for when someone posts about a thing that's happening in the world and someone responds smarmily like "that's been happening since the 1970s" or "that's been happening since 1682" well we didn't have Bluesky in 1682 so we're making the post now, deal with it

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A Tulpa Forever Voyaging @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I had a joke about Swords Without Master but I'm too Glum to tell it

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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

mmygod

the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky post

today's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"

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Bachelor Soft @bachelorsoft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We got enough for the first night! Can we go all the way? I will make choo choo noises and say he’s. Chugga chugga. Let’s do this. Thank you!

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John Lurie @johnlurie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mr. Demon Wonderful and his wall of ears.

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A Tulpa Forever Voyaging @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Watched akira in theaters today. Great to see such a beautiful movie on so big a screen, geinoh yamashirogumi soundtrack needs to be played movie theater loud for full impact, but I can't shake how it feels like what it is, one third of a story crammed into too short a runtime

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emma best 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ Mxy @emma.best · 19/08/2026

RT if you want immigration enforcement in every form to disappear tomorrow

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Bachelor Soft @bachelorsoft.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m still homeless and disabled. It’s a holiday weekend which means shit is super expensive and I have nowhere to stay unless I raise some money. I am currently $300 short of what we need which is a big ask I know…but I wanna think we are nearing the end of this venmo.com/u/bsoft

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Siyâvash Shahabi on the campist attack on the open letter in solidarity with Iranian political prisoners.

Siyâvash Shahabi
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I don't care what the far-right and Zionists says about this person as the founder of Electronic Intifada.
If simply signing a letter in solidarity with Iran's political prisoners and against death penalty and condemning US and Israel war on Iran can create such a coalition of pressure, smears, and intimidation that even Rashid Khalidi forced to withdraw his signature, then what has taken shape here is a kind of colonial discrimination.
Itself is a dehumanization of Iranian political prisoners under death penalty.
This also mean a Palestinian deserves solidarity only as long as they don't see Iranian suffering.
An Iranian is acceptable only when they translate domestic repression into the language one camp wants to hear. A human being is valued not for their rights and freedom, but for the place they occupy on the map of political camps.
In this logic, anti-colonialism can live under the same roof as political intimidation. And defending Palestine can become an excuse to silence an Iranian political prisoner's voice.
For all its apparent hostility toward the opposite camp, this way of thinking isn't so different when it comes to defining who counts as human. Both sides recognize people only as far as those people serve their own political story.
They did exactly this until the question of Palestine lost much of its relevance for Iranian society.
Why should Iranian's life depend on Palestine issues?
In my opinion, colonialism has successfully used the contradictions of political Islam and its tyrantism to externalize its responsibility. The Western world is ineffective in the face of genocide, but Iran and Iranians must play the role of fighter and resistance!
This is still colonialism with other words. See less

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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

[sighing to my wife at the table of a nice restaurant] No no no, milkshake ducks are just for racism. if you're complaining about fascists or homophobes, that's a drone metal orthodox priest guitarist. You don't think it makes a difference, but I'm saying it does. I am not raising my voice.

Drone Metal Orthodox Priest Guitarist Responds to Fascism, Homophobia Accusations

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 26/08/2026

The new edition of Kurt Gödel’s Philosophical Notebooks is full of useful advice.

Remark: Ways to come into contact with people:
1. strong exhaustion, 2. say something stupid (in general, do not pretend to be anything that you are not), 3. milkshake (fill your stomach).

Maxim: Decline all parties outright (maybe let a doctor attest that parties are harmful).

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.

“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”

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A Tulpa Forever Voyaging @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Imagine a world where people talk about movies entirely based on reading letterboxd and youtube comment sections. Never watching an actual movie. This is the present state of rpg discourse

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A Tulpa Forever Voyaging @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

this is what happens when you start theorizing about rpgs without the actual experience of play

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 23/08/2026

Dolts and tankies can't actually see why defending your homeland against foreign occupation does not mean defending your state. The tankie answer to the Ukranian state being jerks to Left-wing activists would no doubt be "give up and support Russia" southlondonsocialist.wordpress.com/2026/08/21/d...

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Drop the charges against Maksym Shumakov

Ukraine solidarity activists everywhere should campaign for the dropping of legal proceedings against left-wing Ukrainian activist Maksym Shumakov. Maksym (who I met in Lviv in 2023) is a supporter…

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Bachelor Soft @bachelorsoft.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Apologies for linking these again. Hoping to raise $300 so we can maintain shelter and get some food. Still without a home. Have lost the last week+ to sickness and am stil doing rather poorly. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. venmo.com/u/bsoft ko-fi.com/bachelor_sof...

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A Tulpa Forever Voyaging @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Phantom Tollbooth TTRPG gotta be one of the more obvious things that should exist

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A Tulpa Forever Voyaging @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

there's no danger in Big Walk and the weather is always pleasant, would be happy to live there for a year

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 18/08/2026

"You're an anti-humanist libertarian if you ever speed in your car" "You are an authoritarian if you believe in public safety" my siblings in christ there are brown shirts in the streets

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A Tulpa Forever Voyaging @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

yep not going to talk about politics but I will take an excuse to expose more of my opinions as engagement bait one like = one opinion

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John Lurie @johnlurie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My music tastes in 3 artists Eric Dolphy Igor Stravinsky Fela Kuti Ali Farka Toure Jimi Hendrix Oumuo Sangare John Colrane Astor Piazzolla Sidney Bechet Ornette Coleman Thelonious Monks Muddy Waters Little Walter John Lee Hooker Bill Evans Eric Satie Ravi Shankar Johnny Hodges McCoy Tyner Duke Ell

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A Tulpa Forever Voyaging @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

speed cameras are a security theater solution to a real problem (people who drive cars are mostly maniacs) The real solution is of course sensible road design that forces people to drive slower

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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

this video went semi viral on ig, thx bsky for helping me workshop it www.instagram.com/reel/DbwQRs2...

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If a warlock wanted to curse a genre he could perhaps 1) make every single written work within its confines feature a foreword by the same sex criminal or maybe 2) have the most lucrative entry be authored by a crazed bigot and hang on a minute

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 06/08/2026

You've heard of humans passing off AI work as their own. Now get ready for humans passing off their own work as AI.

Suresh describes workers who feel they have to "AI wash" their work: "They just do the work, the same way they have for decades, and say Claude did it." To add verisimilitude to this sham, they write circular processes in which one chatbot prompts another, and then the process repeats itself in reverse, for the sole purpose of consuming AI tokens to score a high rank on corporate "token leaderboards".

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A Tulpa Forever Voyaging @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This article is so close to outright proclaiming that dumpsters are a gentrifying force displacing historic rat communities

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I do think, fundamentally, the anti-trans movement is best understood as an elite version of the satanic panic.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I feel like the essentialization of Israelis as the pinnacle of colonization and cultural theft by people who are overwhelmingly white Americans functions to displace their own responsibility for colonialism and cultural theft.

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聖☆Alex Degen @adactivity.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Pretty depressing when the only topic and prompt for cultural discourse is a Nolan movie that looks and feels like a hospital waiting room

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Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Exactly. This whole thing seems to be superfluous discovery due to incentives created by intellectual property law. Had Anthropic continued to train their models on pirated content, they could do so without depleting the knowledge commons. But for legal reasons, they destroy books instead. 🧵

As Anthropic trained successive LLMs, it became convinced that using books was themost cost-effective means to achieve a world-class LLM. During this time, however,Anthropic became “not so gung ho about” training on pirated books “for legal reasons” (Opp.Exh. 19). It kept them anyway (e.g., Opp. Exh. 17 at 93–94; CC Opp. Exh. 35 at -0273474).To find a new way to get books, in February 2024, Anthropic hired the former head ofpartnerships for Google’s book-scanning project, Tom Turvey. He was tasked with obtaining "all the books in the world" while still avoiding as much "legal/practice/business slog" as

possible (Opp. Exhs. 21, 27). So, in spring 2024, Turvey sent an email or two to majorpublishers to inquire into licensing books for training AI. Had Turvey kept up thoseconversations, he might have reached agreements to license copies for AI training frompublishers — just as another major technology company soon did with one major publisher(e.g., Opp. Expert Malackowski ¶¶ 50, 64). But Turvey let those conversations wither.

Instead, Turvey and his team emailed major book distributors and retailers about bulk-purchasing their print copies for the AI firm’s “research library” (Opp. Exh. 22 at 145; Opp.Exh. 31 at -035589). Anthropic spent many millions of dollars to purchase millions of printbooks, often in used condition. Then, its service providers stripped the books from their bindings, cut their pages to size, and scanned the books into digital form — discarding the paper originals. Each print book resulted in a PDF copy containing images of the scannedpages with machine-readable text (including front and back cover scans for softcover books).Anthropic created its own catalog of bibliographic metadata for the books it was acquiring. It acquired copies of millions of books, including of all works at issue for all Authors.

To summarize the analysis that now follows, the use of the books at issue to train Claude and its precursors was exceedingly transformative and was a fair use under Section 107 of the Copyright Act. And, the digitization of the books purchased in print form by Anthropic was also a fair use but not for the same reason as applies to the training copies. Instead, it was a fair use because all Anthropic did was replace the print copies it had purchased for its central library with more convenient space-saving and searchable digital copies for its central library — without adding new copies, creating new works, or redistributing existing copies. However, Anthropic had no entitlement to use pirated copies for its central library. Creating a permanent, general-purpose library was not itself a fair use excusing Anthropic’s piracy.

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A Tulpa Forever Voyaging @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Essentially the sirens were the original podcasters

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

What did I tell you guys

Screenshot of a Reddit post from u/Perpetually_Ashamed on r/okbuddycinephile: "In The Odyssey (2026) Nolan cuts Penelope's olive-tree bed test, where she outwits Odysseus into proving his identity and establishes herself as his intellectual equal. This is a reference to Nolan being worse at writing women than people from a society that believe women were inherently inferior"

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 21/07/2026

The main way in which AI has negatively impacted games industry jobs is not through actual automation of those jobs or even untrue claims about automation. It's by making capital unavailable because it's tied up in AI investments while also destroying the consumer base for video game hardware.

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A new example of Meta shithousery. This is a post of mine on Instagram (left). Click the dots top right and this advisory note appears (right). I never use ai, never will. Why would they do this? Who benefits? Are they just trying to make viewers think everything is genAI so they just accept it?

A digital painting I posted on instagram. I didn’t use ai to create it.

An Instagram advisory saying the artwork in the post is ‘likely made with AI’

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A Tulpa Forever Voyaging @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I tried to tell a Telemachus joke but I sneezed before the punchline

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It's done! Much like our diminutive heroine, I've reached the end of this particular quest. Shout out to every dungeon synth artist; I must have listened to most of them while working on this.

Ink illustration of a small ruined castle on a mountain spire. A huge, sinuous, dragonlike creature curls around the tower, peering down at a weary warrior approaching up stairs carved into the rock. The sky is full of dark stormclouds, but a sunbeam illuminates the scene.

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