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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
RT if u agree #Caturday
Photo of a resplendent, wide silver tabby on his back presenting his glorious belleh of spots but also staring downward crazily at the camera over his little clutched paws
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you think LLMs are sentient or about to be sentient, you understand neither how they work nor how human brains work. Which doesn’t mean they’re not capable of doing incredible, global-scale harm. But it’s not because they’re smart. It’s because of how we’re using them.
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Your semi-regular reminder that the rabies vaccine is borderline miraculous. If you are exposed to rabies and you don't get the vaccine; you *WILL* die. 100% probability. Get the vaccine in time and you have a greater than 98% chance of having *no* lasting effects whatsoever. It is *THAT* binary.
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The only correct response
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Democrats need to introduce a bill to send out Trump's $5,000 checks. Put a nice little bit in there about if the US doesn't actually have that money, a series of new taxes will be imposed on billionaires.
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Kate Kaye @katekaye.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Flock is the Kleenex of ALPRs
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alyx @alyx.sh · 30/08/2026
Do you want to tinker with a Redbox machine? We are imminently moving and need three of them to not be in our garage because we won't have room for all of them. Free. You'll need a truck. Please come adopt one. Must go by September 13th or will be recycled. Located near Bellevue, WA.
A photo of two of the Redbox machines in my garage.
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Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Not that ‘responsible’ disclosure shit again 🙄 No vendor uses that term unless they want to call someone irresponsible. Even if someone drops 0day, patch & move on. Going after a researcher is a great way to turn 1 bad relationship into many terrible relationships.
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
As someone who’s family ranch ranges cattle; not just “no” but “oh *FUCK NO*!!” The sort of ranchers who would take him up on this are the exact reason we have food safety regulations.
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Damnit Reaper, we went over this *literally* yesterday! Stop taking the wrong people!
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Damn it Reaper, stop coming for the wrong people! We said "Dummy", not "Dolly".
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Since we're apparently doing the "cup is half ___" thing again
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lintile @lintile.lol · 22/08/2026
Stop what you are doing. Seriously, stop. Go watch Cliff's talk, if you didn't see it in person. Go. Trust me. #DFIU youtu.be/656058JxTM0
youtu.be
DefCon 34 - Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later - Cliff Stoll
YouTube video by DEFCONConference
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Heads up State Farm auto customers, check your spam folders newsroom.statefarm.com/state-farm-m...
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State Farm® Mutual Begins Issuing Dividend Payments
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (State Farm Mutual) has begun issuing payments to qualifying auto customers as part of its one-time $5 billion cash-back dividend, the largest in the com...
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hello: actual co-organizer of No Kings here: these texts are not from anyone who actually organizes No Kings. Please trust that we hate them just as much as you do
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Washington State Department of Health @doh.wa.gov · 13/08/2026
A rabid bat was found at Staircase Bridge, Olympic National Park on August 9th. If you or someone you know had any contact with a bat near this area, seek medical care immediately.
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
brb, gonna point my C64 at NASA and just see what happens
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I had assumed they'd already been doing this for at least a decade. "The world wasn't quite as shitty as you thought it was. But now it is!" is an odd feeling.
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Just saw an add for a ChatGPT powered "investing" app with the tagline "No Humans, No Brakes". The meteor can't get here fast enough.
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Reminder to everyone in Vegas this week: drink lots of water. Yes, going outside is like stepping into a convection oven; but even inside, in the A/C, you're going to be at a much lower relative humidity than most of your bodies are used to.
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
As someone who has been around multiple major datacenter buildouts; this is complete bullshit. They create some *TEMPORARY* construction jobs, most of which will be "shipped in" (so that money doesn't stay in the community), and a *TINY handful* of barely-above-minimum-wage "rack and stack" jobs.
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
True story: a friend accidentally dropped his 3310 off the top of a four story parking garage onto concrete. The back came off, the battery popped out, and there was a dent in the plastic on one corner; but it was otherwise fine.
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This is going to be *FUN* to watch. Who this is aimed at: Fast fashion Who this will hit: "Luxury" brands who would rather destroy product than sully their image by letting it fall into the hands of "a poor"
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Today's episode of "I'm trying to work on my trust issues but people keep doing the things that gave me trust issues" is brought to you by FedEx!
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Hegseth's presumptive annoyance at being called a "Woke SoW" might just be enough to make me reconsider my insistence on continuing to call it by its still legal name, Department of Defense.
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I know mapping bot networks *is* a hobby for a few people who follow me; so, on the off chance you don't also follow @funranium.bsky.social ... have fun.
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Anyone able to help Stef out?
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We've all seen photos of the "crowds" at the "state fair" in DC, but I have to wonder if even those are over-representing things. If I was in the DC area; I'd go, it just to bear witness to its awfulness with my own eyes. How many people in the pictures are only there for similar reasons? Not 0.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
MEL BROOKS IS ALIVE PLEASE BEAR THAT IN MIND WHEN YOU SEE BIRTHDAY POSTS ABOUT HIM TODAY I REPEAT MEL BROOKS IS VERY MUCH ALIVE
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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 26/06/2026
Tech exec addiction to AI hype is eating everything. Including Earth. People don’t want this shit. PCs, games consoles and everything else is becoming unaffordable because of it. That isn’t productivity gains. Generative AI isn’t inevitable. It’s not a genie in a bottle. It’s fucking stupid.
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Today in horrific anti-patterns: Apparently if you're signed into an Amazon account and visit IMDB, it creates an IMDB account for you! Without so much as a prompt! Who the fuck asked for this?
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11/06/2026
Obviously this is a terrible idea but also I think we need an immediate moratorium on LLMs using bi flag colors as they are not worthy of the aesthetic
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Washington State Department of Health @doh.wa.gov · 09/06/2026
Today's word is Campylobacter, a bacteria that can cause an illness in humans and animals called campylobacteriosis. One common way people get infected is by consuming raw (unpasteurized) milk or other unpasteurized dairy products. Campylobacter is not usually spread from one person to another.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Stop with: "Why isn't there a straight pride?" Gay Pride is not about being proud of having sex with people of the same sex. It's being proud of surviving the bigotry & violence LGBT people suffer daily. It's being proud of living our authentic lives despite a society that wants to erase us.
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DTL @dtl.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Folks, if AI wipes out humanity, it won't be because it's a hypergod that decided we don't matter. It's because it's shit software that idiots put in charge of critical systems.
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Interesting observation, I watched a couple of videos related to running local LLMs and now Youtube's algorithm is quite certain I'm interested in right-wing dumbshittery.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/05/2026
As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Dear Microsoft, Instead of pouring billons into AI slop nobody wants, fix parity storage spaces or integrate ZFS. 30MB/s writes to an 8 disk array, in 2026, is completely unacceptable.
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 20/05/2026
I am so, so, so, so, SO tired of tech companies opting people in by default to the most invasive and abusable ideas they come up with.
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I highly recommend Joe’s trainings. Even if you aren’t doing anything with hardware, learning how the hardware *actually* works (as opposed to how it’s *supposed* to work) gives you new perspective and insight into whatever you are working on. At the end of the day, everything runs on hardware.
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Here, you need beaver kit cam. You might not know you need beaver kit cam, but you do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy76...
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Cowlitz Beaver Kit Cam Live
YouTube video by Cowlitz Indian Tribe
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 14/05/2026
It's absolute hubris for McCartney to claim it's one of his songs when Gwar exists. We would all live, laugh, and love in perfect harmony until the scumdogs of the universe eviscerate us all. Call forth Oderus from the afterlife to rain blood and chaos upon humanity. That's true unity right there.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13/05/2026
"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
theguardian.com
Single women are buying more houses. The men they are dating are not responding well
Female home owners report feeling stuck between men’s contradictory expectations – they are told to be independent, but not assume the breadwinner role
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Cool YouTube, cool, cool, cool... definitely something I'm interested in... /potentially lethal levels of sarcasm //Yes, I reported it. "Fuck Nazis" > "Snitches get stitches"
A YouTube thumbnail with "ANTI-JEW CIVIL WAR" in big red text along the top for a livestream by a channel called "No White Guilt".
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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
OH MY GOD WE DON'T NEED AI WE JUST NEED PASTE WITHOUT FORMATTING TO BE THE DAMN DEFAULT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 🤬
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CoyoteTraveller @coyotetraveller.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Hey if you still have an Angelfire or Tripod site, or if you like one, now is the time to back it up, like, urgently
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On March 6, 2026, Lycos announced that their services, specifically Angelfire and Tripod, were experiencing temporary outages in a note on their frontpage.[6] Later that day, the message was updated to say "To our users of Angelfire and Tripod. We apologize for the service interruptions. Unfortunately we will be shutting down in the next 30 days. Please move your hosting to another host as soon as possible."[7] The message was removed from the homepage shortly after, without further official statement from the company.[8]
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Dear Apple, STOP PUTTING THAT FUCKING U2 ALBUM ON MY PHONE!!!!! I know, with absolute certainty, that it was not on my phone prior to the iOS 26.4 update. I know, with absolute certainty, that I did not sync it to my phone. And yet, every-other song on today's random shuffle was fucking U2.
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Name_Too_Long @nametoolong.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Of course, the one door I *want* to be installed poorly is freaking perfect…
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