Reposted by mikeJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10993962948
mike @phantomdiorama.bsky.social · 8hEvery headline about AI’s ridiculous power consumption should be suffixed with “for no reason” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...abc.net.auTown questions $15b data centre set to use enough power for 1m homesOne Wagga Wagga resident says she feels "back-stabbed" by the development, while others say the town needs more industry. 073
Reposted by mikeFrog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Frog and Toad waited a long time. 010512
Reposted by mikeNational Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree. 291811449
Reposted by mikekrazykitkat.bsky.social @krazykitkat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Partner income testing makes disabled and unemployed people reliant on their partner. It increases the risk of abuse. Disabled and unemployed people deserve financial independence. No one is going to jump through the required hoops if they don't need the money. c.org/zXSwLxvvysc.orgSign the PetitionEnd partner income testing from Centrelink 023
mike @phantomdiorama.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Or even more accurate:static.klipy.comCartoon Network Dogs: Spike and ChesterAlt: Cartoon Network Dogs: Spike and Chester 000
Reposted by mikeKaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Pacy little honeymoon they had there. The #Greens Party policy to abandon Ukraine to the merciless Putin is as ethically bereft as our government sending bomber bits to Israel while it's trying to obliterate Gaza. Stand against war criminals or stay home. Who dis? New vote. 8398
mike @phantomdiorama.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You’d get better returns investing your daylight with a credit union 010
mike @phantomdiorama.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If it wasn’t clear before, the NDIS is a piggy-bank to be raided anytime to government wants ice cream www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...thesaturdaypaper.com.auExclusive: NDIS changes secretly brought forwardAn Administrative Review Tribunal decision reveals that the government is already implementing NDIS access restrictions it promised would not take effect for more than a year. 046
Reposted by mikeMascot Texorcism 🐯 @texsaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing 3352541640
mike @phantomdiorama.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No one’s gonna believe anyone wants to rescue the President 040
Reposted by mikeMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A friend kindly offered me a spare ticket to see Daniel Kitson in a couple of weeks time. I said I didn’t know he was on but I’d love to come so I would just check my diary. Turns out I can’t take his spare because I’ve booked a ticket to see Daniel Kitson that night. 62346
Reposted by mikeClaudia: alt text please 😩 @lesbianspacemerc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hey @moderation.bsky.app @aaron.bsky.team is it official Bluesky policy that trans people aren't allowed to report posts that wish death to trans people as hate speech, since somebody is being threatened with suspension? Or is somebody going rogue and breaking policy to threaten a trans user? 416261
Reposted by mikePatrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 30/09/2026If nothing else AI is making clear that there are people all around us for whom writing, art, and music are not communion with another mind, but just - wallpaper. Just pleasant things to look at. They think AI is conscious because they have no actual grasp of what it is to encounter another mind. 21541170
Reposted by mikeLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026To celebrate Hobbit day yesterday (happy belated birthday frodo and bilbo btw) I've listened to the pilot episode of Eleanor and Alasdair Read That which I realised i'd missed, about the hobbit. Highly recommend! www.podbean.com/ew/pb-gx3r7-...podbean.comWe Read The Hobbit - Pilot EpisodeEleanor and Alasdair read The Hobbit. J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel is a millennial horror story about a guy who has to attend an unexpected party. It's also a children's fantasy classic, and the insp... 28120
Reposted by mikeFrog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“You are not at the bottom of a hole?” asked Toad. “No,” said Frog. “You are not lost in the woods?” asked Toad. “No,” said Frog. “You are not being eaten by a big animal?” asked Toad. “No,” said Frog. “Not at all.” 323530
mike @phantomdiorama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The future depends, apparently, on building new massive datacentres to house data that already exists on other massive datacentres and don’t point out this scheme appears triangular 041
mike @phantomdiorama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026“What a pretty wooden horse, come on in” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auGovernment documents reveal AI could train on data without paying creatorsLeaked government documents reveal AI companies would be allowed to train their models on online content without paying its creators as long as they struck deals with enough rights holders. 010
mike @phantomdiorama.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The most surprising thing is the residents survived this encounter www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auDisabled residents left shaken after police drug raid on NDIS homeA disability support worker opens up about a terrifying police raid on the assisted-living home he was working in, which has left three vulnerable women needing ongoing help to deal with anxiety. 110
mike @phantomdiorama.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Yeah, screentime at school and screentime at home are quite clearly different things and conflating them is not helpful 010
Reposted by mikeTess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 12/09/2026🎵 Generals gathered in their masses 1132
Reposted by mikeKit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026If you travel with a wheelchair I will build you a shock recording black box for free. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/qant…abc.net.auQantas changes tune over broken wheelchair after ABC questionsQantas has backflipped and says it is now planning to replace an expensive powered wheelchair broken beyond repair on one of its flights, after questions from the ABC. 53763
mike @phantomdiorama.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Hasbro does not endorse the words of President Starscream 020
Reposted by mikeAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off. 1553155717
Reposted by mikeRev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The Zenith "Space Commander" was the 1st TV remote control and used no batteries. Each button cocked and fired a hammer into 1 of 4 calibrated metal rods of different lengths which generated an ultrasonic tone like a tuning fork. The TV had a microphone to listen for it. 2545585
mike @phantomdiorama.bsky.social · 07/09/2026“You can’t called yourself disabled, that’s our name for you!” 010
mike @phantomdiorama.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Builders say don’t build accessibility features when it’s cheapest and most efficient to do so. Why would they say that? What possible reason could there be? 000
mike @phantomdiorama.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This is pretty much my situation (but with added lack of prior work experience). In other words, I’m ****ed www.smh.com.au/business/wor...smh.com.auI can’t get a job because I can work only from home. What can I do?I have a job that involves desk work. I just need to do it at my desk instead of someone else’s. It costs nothing to accommodate me. 130
Reposted by mikeFrog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Frog tied some string around the box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.” “But we can cut the string and open the box,” said Toad. “That is true,” said Frog. 328960
mike @phantomdiorama.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I hear the Dutch are also moving their kittens, cats, sacks, and wives 030
mike @phantomdiorama.bsky.social · 04/09/2026He voms in colours, he voms in red Can’t meet the veterans 060
Reposted by mikeHorrificallie @grissallia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“These butchers carve open their ‘patient’, break their chest bones, before mutilating their natural heart, and replacing it with an organ recently harvested from a cadaver, forcing them onto a lifetime of medication!” …if a heart transplant was described the same way transphobes describe surgery. 111921
mike @phantomdiorama.bsky.social · 01/09/2026If you both sides it you destroy the entire crux of the thing. “Mid guy visits own grave and is ok with it” is worthless. 020
