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Kurlon

@outofspec.com
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Nerd, IT monkey, Motorcycle racer, VR enthusiast, Crazy cat hoarder.

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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 07/10/2026
Scout the dump rescue kitten has been accepted by Gizmo.
A small black and white tuxedo kitten curled up on a fluffy comforter nestled with her housemate seal point buddy, both enjoying the fall sun.
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melissa capriglione @ HOODIE KICKSTARTER @mcapriglioneart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
no more rectangle
four panel comic of a person laying on a bed playing switch. in panel 1, the cat is peeking over the bed. in panel 2, the cat squeezes under the switch. in panel 3, she sticks her head out and says "no more rectangle." in panel 4, she says "only rosemary"
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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off
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melissa capriglione @ HOODIE KICKSTARTER @mcapriglioneart.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
is for rosemary? prints available: mcapriglione.art/products/is-...
four panel cartoon comic of a person talking to their gray striped cat in pastel colors. in the first panel, the cat says "is for rosemary?" as the person is holding a bowl of cereal. the person says "no". in the second panel, the cat repeats "is for rosemary?" the person, holding a sandwich now, says "no." in the third panel, the person is holding a measuring cup and says "this is for rosemary". in the final panel the cat just says "no"
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 29/09/2026
The snowball starts to form.
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 24/09/2026
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 23/09/2026
The FUCK Discord? This is the definition of BAD UI, there is no way to claim this isn't by accident.
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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Disable gambling ads:
Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressedSponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressedManage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 15/09/2026
There needs to be repercussions for bullshit DMCA claims, and Youtube needs to also have some risk for blindly just AI processing this stuff.
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Petrov Neutrino @petrovneutrino.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 31/08/2026
And there's the other shoe finally dropping at work. That ends that year+ long speculation and confirms my initial reading of tea leaves was dead nuts accurate.
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 31/08/2026
An update: Jeremy and Birdy went to a new home Saturday, Scout is staying. She informed us this morning that she shall not be contained by scaling the theoretically kitten proofed child gate once we opened the door. So... will be working in the living room today to keep an eye on her.
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 28/08/2026
Yeah... I'm going to loose some hours here... Tandy 1000 time let's go!
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 28/08/2026
Forcing the use of AI where it's not needed, lovely.
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 27/08/2026
I'm sorry Google, the state of WHAT?
Google AI Overview response to the query "458 area code" in which it claims "Area code 458 serves most of the state of Wikipedia of Oregon, acting as an overlay for area code 541."
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David Revoy @davidrevoy.com · 26/08/2026
The Minions of Avian Intelligence Bonus speedpaint: www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFanta... #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
Panel 1. Cepper, the gothic witch, is stunned to see a small army of Avian Intelligence (AI) parrots walking down the red carpet toward the university's reception room. Behind her, her own AI parrot flies overhead.  
> Cepper: "What are these?"  
> Parrot: "These are my minions."Panel 2. The minions scatter throughout the celebration, attempting to join various group discussions.  
> Parrot: "They're deployed in all discussions to make people love Avian Intelligence."Panel 3. A similar shot to the previous panel, but now people are growing angry at the minion parrots who interrupted their discussions. Cepper and her AI parrot simply observe the scene.  
> AI Parrot minion (1): "AI is just a tool!"  
> AI Parrot minion (2): "AI learns like humans do!"  
> AI Parrot minion (3): "AI is good!"  
> Cepper: "...Is it working?"  
Panel 4. In a similar shot, the crowd is now furious, screaming at the minions. The Parrot remains optimistic while Cepper is facepalming.  
> Parrot: "No, people still hate AI. I guess I'll just deploy more minions."
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 14/08/2026
Turn it off, be vocal about doing so. Metrics backed by directly observable social media activity have even more weight.
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digisparkks @digisparkks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"If it was opt in, no one would opt in." "Putting an AI disclosure on our game will deter people from buying it." If you know people don't want it then don't fucking use it.
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 12/08/2026
Flicking the toggle, good. Actively promoting your stance, better! I support this idea!
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 12/08/2026
Stuff like this should always be OPT IN, not defaulting to on, no need to assist Twitch in replacing streamers with generative content. (Yeah, I got my wires crossed on my original repost, fixed now.)
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 09/08/2026
Three reasons while all my plans for this month went sideways: 1) Scout 2) Jeremy 3) Birdy
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Camille/Gen @purplecat771.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Whoever it was that dumped these three precious little nuggets of fur and purrs and YELLING at the town transfer station yesterday, may you suffer the same fate, somehow, that they would have if we had not had to go down to the metal pile and heard the panicked miaous. Asshole. There are shelters.
Three tiny kittens, one brown tiger, one black & white tuxedo, and one tortoiseshell and white, relaxing on a green towel. They are barely 3 weeks old and some heartless asshole dumped them at the town dump. We found them.
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 02/08/2026
Go to the dump to find space in the house and... come back with kittens? Is that how that's supposed to work?
Three young (between 3 and 4 weeks estimated) kittens, a black and white tuxedo, tortie and baby tiger snuggled in a lap after a feeding.
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 02/08/2026
I will happily attend their TED Talk on this one.
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 01/08/2026
My gentle Gizmo would never be so rude... except when he is...
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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 27/07/2026
This is a fun project: Use FFMPEG to simulate the sound of audio cassettes. I converted a few albums and it sounds extremely authentic. github.com/AARomanov198...
https://github.com/AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation/blob/master/assets/cassettes.jpeg Several audio cassettes
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 20/07/2026
I'm amazed at how many people are making them that all look the same and think "This is great!". Instant turn off for me. Give me a bad cell phone pic of something you scrawled in crayon on torn cardboard and I'll be much more interested in what you're trying to communicate.
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Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
LET IT BURN LET IT ALL BURN
Headline that reads:" Wall Street plunges in AI ‘bloodbath’"

17 July 2026 6:45pm BST

Key moments
Chipmakers suffer severe downturn
Asia leads declines in markets around the world in tech rout
Wall Street drops at the opening bell
Nasdaq falls 1.8pc over AI valuation fears
Apple overtakes Nvidia as world's largest company
iPhone maker climbs while chip stocks turn red
SpaceX on track to lose $1 trillion
Rocket maker’s stock trading below offer price after dramatic fall since record-breaking listingBonnicula dramatically yelling "MORE!"
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 15/07/2026
Just pulled the data from my Solo 2 for yesterday's fun day at the track... and am totally geeking out at all the detail and how much I can read into my riding as a result. That slow lap, right there, totally 'cause the air temp went up 1F while I was rounding T3... honest! :P
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Baagender Pride @woolybully414.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
No party campaigned on age verification. Nobody the US voted for this. Nobody the EU voted for this. Nobody the UK voted for this. Nobody in Australia voted for this. Some don't even know it's happening. Meta lobbied for this and got their way within a few years. Let this radicalize you.
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 10/07/2026
I am *not* a fabricator. Three iterations of trying to mount that lap timer to my bike as neatly as possible without blocking something else while still being easy to use, remove and viable cable clearance.
Three crude aluminum mounting brackets next to the matching lap timer and it's base bracket arranged on a brown fabric backdrop.
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🌙 CamronJK 🐰 • Enby Bnuuy Vtuber • 🏳️‍⚧️ @camronjk.com · 23/06/2026
All new games are NOT using genAI. Don't trick yourself into believing that for a second. This thread is proof of that. The only way that becomes true is if you give up. Uplift those who don't. Don't support those who do. Easy.
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 05/07/2026
Spent the day on the bike with my wife, and got an unexpected bonus at the first stop of charity ride alongs in fast cars at the track. Ended the day with ice cream and a nice ride home, butt is tired, brain not quite fried, was good day.
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TwoBuns @ Dynamis\\Seraph (commissions open) @bnuuydergbrooke.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
feedback.vrchat.com/feature-requ... vote this up!
feedback.vrchat.com
Add "Contains Generative AI Content" tag to the Content Gating system | Feature Requests | VRChat
With the wave of generative AI content used throughout games/platforms that run on user-generated content such as VRChat, it should be required that creators
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KinoFabino 🇵🇸 @kinofabino.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Reposting because of the sony news
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 01/07/2026
Burning it down is too polite. Turn the site into a glass crater, send a message.
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 28/06/2026
You've lorded over your last acid.
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WaffleSlapper @waffleslapper.poetica.dev · 27/06/2026
Heyo, anyone who reads this: Please be aware, there's an attack going around #Discord, where one of your friends will ping you out of the blue asking you to play modded #Minecraft for "a friend's birthday" or whatever. The mods will have an infostealer payload and yoink your accounts. Be safe!
A screenshot from Discord with the Username and Avatar cropped out. It demonstrates a common social engineering attack to get the user to download an infected Minecraft mod.

It reads: "so one of my friends who’s a minecraft builder has been designing a city for a few months and her birthday is coming up soon so we wanted to surprise her with a video in the city with a bunch of people basically i was wondering if you’d like to join the server we’re hosting it on and be part of the video it’ll only take like 5 10 minutes and it would make her really happy"
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
For @aftermath.site, the Steam Machine costs too much money because of greedy freaks. But a community has formed around optimizing a low budget alternative made from failed PlayStation 5's that got turned into crypto mining cards and then resold as garbage. aftermath.site/bc250-steam-...
aftermath.site
Bless The BC250, The Budget E-waste Steam Machine Alternative
The Steam Machine is expensive due to evil freaks. Let's make a miracle computer out of garbage.
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✨Cloud✨ @princeofcloudcity.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hey so this new KOSA/KIDS Act proposal has a little note in it that creates a whole new special Trump-appointed team to regulate the internet. So no more Congress votes. No more checks & balances. Just whoever the president picks to decide the future of YOUR internet. You aren’t mad enough.
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.
Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 22/06/2026
Home, absolutely exhausted, but Gizmo is happy to see me. Went from 1:22s at the end of last year, to 23's to start this season, down to 1:20.1 in pre-qual and consistent 20.6's today, gains, fastest I've ever been on the MT but... not where I want to be.
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 17/06/2026
So starts my vacation week.
A race prepped Yamaha MT-09 motorcycle on stands closely surrounded by race equipment in an otherwise empty large garage at the track.
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Cool Danch @cooldanch.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
youtu.be/APaWt2CulSs howdy
youtu.be
Zelda 2 - Palace / Temple - Cool Danch Remix
YouTube video by cooldanch
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The marker revolution. Whenevir you are temptid to create a holidaye carde, invitacioun, etc wyth Gen AI: do not. Ynstead, use a trusty bolde marker on playne papir. Make it as simple as possible. Stick! figures! Everyone will knowe you made it. Everyone will knowe it ys yours. We win wyth markers.
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Kurlon @outofspec.com · 08/06/2026
Well, that is one way to build an inline surge suppressor... points awarded for the housing being actually moisture tight though. One little 6in long wrap of electrical tape as the only insulation over those three solder taps seems sketchy to me.
The insides of a 30 amp RV surge suppressor laid out on carpet showing how the suppressor is tapped into the wiring by simple cuts in the insulation with leads soldered on. There is a plastic separator in the bundle preventing the three wires from touching each other where the exposed cuts are. To the right is the short strip of electrical tape that was the only insulation on the wiring, and the circuit board with the actual arc and surge suppression components.
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Tanat (making Building Relationships) Boozayaangool @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com · 06/06/2026
i have good news for the pole dancing house enjoyers
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Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
My feed is full of cute animals, and it's very calming. So I feel like I would like to contribute to that cause for others.
A fluffy white cat sleeps comfortably on a chair covered with blankets.
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Ben Diskin @bendiskin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Tell lawmakers you deserve the right to control your own voice and likeness 💪 Take two minutes to support the NO FAKES Act. #nofakes Make your voice heard here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...
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Support the NO FAKES Act
Have Two Minutes? Help Protect Americans From Deepfakes and AI Exploitation One year ago, the TAKE IT DOWN Act was signed into law. Now, Americans have a way to remove deepfake pornography and non-co...
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David Revoy @davidrevoy.com · 27/05/2026
Finally, a quest worth doing #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
Panel 1. The Adventurer and the Pink-Fairy walk through the overgrown ruins of an ancient temple. Many cats are around. The adventurer is unimpressed.  
> Pink-Fairy: "And here is the temple I wanted to show you!"Panel 2. They progress through it: more cats around. The Adventurer really don't understand what's so special about this place while the Pink-Fairy is happy.  
> Adventurer: "What? This crumbling place full of stray cats?"Panel 3. The Pink-Fairy points to a massive statue of an anthropomorphic cat in the divine position.  
> Pink-fairy: "It's a temple dedicated to a feline deity. She grants inner peace to all those who pray to her."  
> Adventurer: "And how do we pray to her?"
Panel 4. Zoom back. The adventurer and fairy are now lying in the middle of many cats, cuddling and sleeping with big smiles.  
> Pink-fairy: "Just by resting here."  
> Adventurer: "Well... it actually works."
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