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@profcthulhu.bsky.social
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Coffee drinker, tree hugger, cat servant, book worm, ultra runner.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This 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
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Matt // metagloria @metagloria.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This seems good
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026
great art articulates eternal truths
script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
   [They do not log off]

                                  CURTAIN
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Raquel 🌈✨ @aistear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo. "Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."
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profcthulhu.bsky.social @profcthulhu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yikes!
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Go go gadget Border Collie .😍
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profcthulhu.bsky.social @profcthulhu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Irony is dead and has been killed by AI. I searched for papers on cognitive offloading. Next to the search results? The option to have AI generate a short summary. If only there was another way of getting a quick summary of a paper and what the author(s) judged to be most important about it
A screenshot shows the results of a Google Scholar search with the search trends, cognitive offloading ai". Next to each search result is the AI logo indicating that an AI-generated summary could be produced.
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Sophia McDougall @sophiamcdougall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If anyone can help me more directly find a home for this poor little cat do get in touch! She is currently in my bathroom and I'm calling shelters, but so far not getting anywhere much.
A small tabby and white cat, curled up and asleep on a doorstep
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Flex post, flex post, flex post, flex post, flex post, flex post, BOLLARD. #WorldBollardAssociation
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Ransom 🐈 @ransom.cat · 16/08/2026
Even if you're just a viewer and not a streamer, tell them through metrics that you reject AI: Twitch.tv > Settings > Security and Privacy > Training for Generative AI: OFF
A screenshot of Twitch's settings.

Twitch.tv > Settings > Security and Privacy > Training for Generative AI: OFF
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Every time a British person uses the phrase "lost the plot" it implies someone else may suddenly find it out and about. You're walking down the rural hedge row when bam, the plot is now a murder mystery involving a vicar's secret second family and the local ornithology club. Good luck mate
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"...all of us have the ability to end each other’s career. This has always been true—on the 100+ papers I’ve written in my career, I’ve trusted every single coauthor (& they’ve trusted me) not to introduce a single sentence that will detonate our lives somewhere btwn journal submission & retirement.
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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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profcthulhu.bsky.social @profcthulhu.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Mine too
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Dr Michelle Wong - Lab Muffin Beauty Science @labmuffin.com · 08/08/2026
Here’s why AI chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini etc) are unreliable for science content, and terrible as “just a starting point” for science communicators. Unfortunately, this probably isn’t something AI chatbots get much better at… although sloppers will get better at hiding it!
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Solar eclipse coming up so here’s one of my favourite maps
Top is a map of the US with “Google search volume for “eyes hurt” April 3 to April 10 2024” with a hot line running from Texas north east through to Maine.  The bottom map shows the path of the total solar eclipse which runs in a lone from Texas through to Maine
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profcthulhu.bsky.social @profcthulhu.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'm grading student papers right now and I'm realising how AI sucks what little joy is left from doing so. Now, most time I see a superbly written paper, my first thought is, 'I wonder whether that's AI.' 🧵
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Úna-Minh (That's my first name!) 🔜 AdventureX @unaminh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"It's pretty important to have friction with iteration in creative processes" - YES YES YES!!! Your brain MUST and SHOULD be challenged.
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profcthulhu.bsky.social @profcthulhu.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I mean, the correct answer is clearly Hannah Waddington, anywhere
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Ein Angriff auf dich ist ein Angriff auf uns alle.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.
Are you having fanatical thoughts about other people's crotches?
Has hating a minority group become your entire personality?
Do you obsess over other people's toilet use?
If so, you could be a danger to others - it's time to seek help.
Contact our team: youneedhelp@leavetranspeoplealone.com
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“vegetative electron microscopy” "The term has now appeared in at least 22 different papers" "the nonsense term may now be permanently embedded in AI knowledge bases" 1/2 www.zmescience.com/science/news...
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AI Made Up a Science Term — Now It’s in Dozens of Papers
A scanning mistake and a translation error created scientific nonsense that AI models learned to repeat.
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Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Starmer wasn't the worst Prime Minister of my lifetime -- I've lived through Thatcher, Cameron, Boris, Truss, and Rishi -- but he's certainly the most disappointing. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 16/07/2026
“A.I. Movies” www.tiktok.com/@americanbar...
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profcthulhu.bsky.social @profcthulhu.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"verify your age" Fixed a cassette tape with a pencil and some sellotape
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Accurate.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I, a human, wrote and drew this cartoon with my human body and sent it to human art printers who printed it with their human hands and you a human (?) can now buy a ltd edition print of it in my shop! Link in bio
[Scene is a kitchen, a person is boiling some peas on the hob]

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PERSON 1:
Oh dear! 

PERSON 2:
What is it babe?

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PERSON 1:
I am so overwhelmed with cooking these peas...

PERSON 2:
You mean you’re not using AI peas?

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PERSON 1:
AI peas?

PERSON 2:
They’re peas with AI!

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PERSON 2:
AI powered peas harness the potential of your peas

PERSON 1:
What

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PERSON 2 [Now in voice-over as hi tech meaningless graphics play]:

Taking your peas to the next level with new AI features powering your peas

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PERSON 2 [V/O over increasingly ridiculous graphics]:
Each pea has AI in a way we haven’t quite worked out yet but it’s fine

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PERSON 2:
Putting  AI to work for your peas and connecting every corner of your peas
 
PERSON 1:
Peas don’t have corners 

PERSON 2:
It does not matter!

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PERSON 2:
Our game-changing PEA-AI gives you the freedom to get the peas done 

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PERSON 2:
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas

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PERSON 2:
to spending millions on adding AI to the peas and then having to work out what that means

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PERSON 1:
Is it necessary to - 

PERSON 2 [grabbing her buy the cardigan]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET

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[Advert ending image showing the product, a bag of peas, with its slogan]

PEA-I AI PEAS WITH AI

Just ‘peas’ for God’s sake buy the AI peas


[Ends]
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Darla @basicandbizarre.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Fundamentally every printer is like a skittish pure bred show animal: Nervous, perpetually confused, and prone to spontaneously dislocating joints you didn't know it had because a fly looked at it wrong.
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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
One of my fave things in York Minster: a medieval wren stalking a spider. It reminds me that history isn't only kings and battles. Someone, centuries ago, found joy in the same things we still notice today. It's a reminder of how much we have in common over our differences.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Inspiring to see Belgium demonstrate that you can achieve great things when fueled by spite
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
First meeting with this terrible thing…..
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 29/06/2026
I completely support the mission and the focus BUT I need Merlin bird app to add a sound ID for “that’s a squirrel again, idiot”
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notthesameone2.bsky.social @notthesameone2.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
🐾5-y/o Pikachu is back. At ACC 3 yrs ago & now back again b/c owner says has no time for him. House/ crate-trained, food motivated, neutered, playful w/ strangers, kids & dogs. Needs a foster offer by 6/30: nycacc.app#/browse/165161
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Graphic design is my passion.
A sign that has two concentric rings of text but it's laid out in a confusing way so it looks like the first sentence is "it's against the law to keep alcohol out of the hands of youth" and the second sentence is "supply alcohol to minors."
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/06/2026
I don't have any great insight to the fall of Kier Starmer, but I will say I that from here across the pond it appeared he had all the charisma and effective legislative force of a wet saltine cracker
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Lab work
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Doctors 25% more likely to miss a diagnosis on a patient within 3 months after Ai is implemented. The results indicate Ai has an immediate negative effect on professionals skillsets vs prolonged reliance. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Research has shown that dogs are more intelligent than we think. But not all of them.
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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
he has lived in this house for eight years but still enters every room with the confused energy of a substitute teacher who has just learned there is no lesson plan
an orange and white cat looks quite confused, as if he now has to remember the names of 30 students he has never seen before
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
💖 hope this brings ya joy 🪄 🧡💙❤️ #caturday 💜🧡💙
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
My great grandchild: grand papa, how did you celebrate the semiquincentennial? Me (92 years old): well, mostly by learning the chemical processes involving pool painting and the phosphate cycles of algae blooms
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profcthulhu.bsky.social @profcthulhu.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Apps that require a one-time code to proceed but immediately revert to the login screen if you switch tabs to retrieve said one-time code *headdesk*
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profcthulhu.bsky.social @profcthulhu.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I saw my dad's YouTube viewing history. I wish I hadn't. #TwoSentenceHorrorStories
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profcthulhu.bsky.social @profcthulhu.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Of course, now that I've officially admitted defeat it all seems to work. I have no idea why.
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profcthulhu.bsky.social @profcthulhu.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
It did not help that you can "deactivate" YouTube on the tablet but not actually uninstall it.
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profcthulhu.bsky.social @profcthulhu.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I have a PhD and consider myself reasonably computer literate. This morning I tried to sync up the YouTube accounts my dad uses on his TV and on his Samsung tablet. I did not succeed.
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