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The Meggles Art @megglesart.bsky.social · 18h

Bob Ross would be disappointed in your AI Generated Slop.

Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 11h

I keep getting adverts for ELVTR's Professional Dungeon Masters course. 6 weeks, 14 "classes", no price on the site so I am guessing it's not cheap. Televised GMing really has enabled the grift in this hobby.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 13h

Liquid Bluesky

National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Imagine saying this whilst stood behind a sign that says "Hope Again".

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026

Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation

Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Claude how do I “wipe my ass?”

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23/09/2026

A caution! A fucking caution! Take yourself out tonight, grab a stranger and beat them with a metal stick in front of the police. Get a relative to report back tomorrow what happened after that...

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The D20 Future Show @d20futureshow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Solid letter though.

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have been using Brave browser, and now Vivaldi, but YouTube and other videos keep slipping out of sync. Anyone else having these issues? Hardware acceleration is off, but toggling it doesn't do anything. It's really annoying.

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

All TCG companies, but especially the Pokemon Company, should print so much of each edition that it bankrupts "investors"

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sky made 2,000 people redundant last year as it offshored most of it's call centre staff, and switched to "online text services" (AI). Call centre/customer service isn't a "real job" either, it seems.

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 21/09/2026

Libraries, famously invented only after Harry Potter came out. In order to store Harry Potter books.

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 21/09/2026

I guess that explains Goldstein too. It was the nineties and Jews simply did not exist in the UK. There was no one to ask.

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you know, “Cho Chang” etc gets a lot easier to understand when you remember Rowling was writing in the NINETIES in SCOTLAND. There was no internet to look this kind of thing up and no Koreans or Chinese to personally ask. People really do not remember pre-internet life

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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The meaning and impact of Auschwitz seems like it's consistently wasted on a lot of people

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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh this one is an all-timer, I want this on my wall

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bring back Iron Mike Carlson, you cowards!

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I just switched on Channel 5's NFL coverage, and I am sure that they are waaaaaaaay more qualified than I am to talk about football, but they sound like people who have watched 3 games and have had to do a video presentation about it.

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Michael Bernth @monovoce.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have a joke about Brindlewood Bay but you would have to tell me the punchline

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Pope meets the ambassador from the planet Tython.

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Decided to buy the Dune TTRPG as it's on a crazy sale on the Modiphius store (feels like the license is running out, or it's not doing well and they are stopping the game), as well as pick up Dishonoured. Also got a shipping notification for the new Coriolis TGD Adventure book.

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits (Or don't. I'm not a cop). Slugblaster (Excellent) Mythic Bastionland (one of the best TTRPGs I've GM'd) Apocalypse Keys (I did not enjoy this one bit) A|State (Exellent, but needs some official or unofficial VTT support)

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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this is it, this is the one, this is the line we should be repeating whenever these people talk their rubbish

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just imagine the country if that plane had crashed at a slightly different angle

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𝔏𝔦𝔩𝔞𝔠🪩 @ironlilacc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Get the fuck out of my way I have goals to fail

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The difference between a catacomb and a basement is skulls. Catacomb without skulls? Thats a basement. Skulls in your basement? Thats a catacomb. Tired of having to keep saying this

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 16/09/2026

musk: [pointing phone camera at someone] grok, do a vulgar roast of this person grok: nice shirt. arsehole. did your. mommy. pick it for you. musk: no, grok; more vulgar! grok: nice shirt. prick. did your. mommy. pick it for you. musk: grok, use forbidden words! grok: free palestine

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Joe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Anyone thinking that Piddington is a lovely little village story and what japes, needs to watch this.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026

True story.

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Let Piddington have their independence. The second all of those old people realise they would lose their pension, the NHS, and benefits, they will change their tune.

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 15/09/2026

One of the great injustices of our time is that Zach Snyder is a conscientious and considerate co-worker and employer, who has suffered immense personal tragedy, and despite that he is also an absolute dogshit filmmaker

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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ok so just so we’re clear on the concerns that are taken seriously ❌ it’s terrible for the climate ❌ it’s fuelled by stolen data ❌ it threatens jobs/entire occupations ❌ it’s often just wrong ❌ it’s literally caused actual suicides ✅ one day it might extinct everyone by bioengineering a plague

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lots of rude comments but each of these items gives her a different stat boost and some of us care about gameplay

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jims @jims.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

sooo, ive been thinking about your future here at the company. before you panic, its nothing serious! didn't mean to spook you, consider this more of a... teaching moment? some friendly mentorship from one professional to another. take this egg and slide it up my ass and kick me so hard it shatters,

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Best thing about your internet connection/router giving up is that every form of entertainment becomes unavailable

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

They're calling him the most awake President ever

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Got a fancy copy of Frankenstein today. My 8yr old has already stolen it and started reading.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

the memories this brings back 😹

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Guillaume Babey (commissions open) @williambabey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dear everyone, stop calling real History "lore". I beg of you.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The way you win over voters to the right is to say you understand their concerns and that they’re right about everything. The way to win over voters on the left is to tell them you hold them in total contempt.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this brent guy needs a real talking to in my opinion

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Glaciers collapse, disasters ensue. And then we’re expected to ignore all that because we can make fun AI images and google can badly summarise Wikipedia. Seriously. AI - Fuck off.

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