Reposted by PrufraxPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 6hAnd we already know from Anthropic's own code release that they do absolutely *wildly* inefficient stupid shit like "download the entire database each time you need to do a search operation, in a dozen different places" 514145
Reposted by PrufraxJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10hToday in "People should read whatever they want": www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...theguardian.comThe secret lives of men who read romance books: ‘My life is full of love, so I’m drawn to them’It’s often assumed straight men are not interested in romantic fiction – but many are sharing their passion in forums online 40941134
Reposted by PrufraxMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19hThe White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.” 41664771781
Reposted by PrufraxJim Finnis @jfinnis.bsky.social · 11hRiver: Of course I called it in, there are five guys in balaclavas and vans next to a air base! Lamb: So of course you called it in. For fuck's sake. What was in the vans? River: I don't fucking know! Lamb: Another thing to add to the list of things you don't fucking know. 111
Reposted by PrufraxOisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15hI’ve been a writer and illustrator for decades, and the rise of genAI slop has only provided further proof that many of the clients who hire creative professionals need them as much for their judgement as they do for their skills. 614827
Reposted by PrufraxEmoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 23hIs it a healthy sign of an industry when regular investors who haven't chosen to be baptized in datacenter wastewater manage to get a glimpse of AI frontier model financials and subsequently ask "Wait, what the fucking fuck is this?!" 112535
Reposted by Prufraxheresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026for real though, conversations with coworkers about AI are forcing me to consider that when it comes to the work we do, I might as well be working alongside p-zombies. just a weird and terrifying absence of a consciousness that there is meaning to what we’re doing 24211
Reposted by PrufraxJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones. 641234364
Reposted by PrufraxAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The entire post by Shipman is a datapoint for how large swathes of UK news media are now dependent on getting clicks from Americans 626252
Reposted by PrufraxMark Medina @markmedina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You don’t want a new Halo game. You want to be 15 again. It’s the same reason Call of Duty “isn’t fun anymore”. It’s not really any different than it used to be. You’re just older now and there are a million of them. No MP FPS is gonna make you feel like a teenager again. 561671
Reposted by PrufraxKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The US voted against women’s rights at the United Nations. They were the only country to do so. In 2021 they also voted against making adequate food a basic human right. They see people are expendable. They want you sick, exhausted and complacent. It’s a cull to enrich the billionaire class. 516670
Reposted by PrufraxGeorge The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Apparently we have ongoing IT issues. The Wi-Fi signal keeps dropping and nobody can work out why. IT have investigated and believe they’ve identified the problem. There appears to be a large tangerine obstruction sitting directly on top of it 1032894328
Reposted by PrufraxBen Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Most "smart" appliances are really, really dumb ideas, an example. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...arstechnica.comOwners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridgesSo absurd and embarrassing ..." 042
Reposted by PrufraxOxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026High-resolution 3D models of over 60 ceiling carvings in Oxford's Divinity School have been published online. The 15th-century carvings include religious symbols, mythical animals, and coats of arms, but there is still debate over their interpretation. sketchfab.com/ARCHiOx/models 22913
Reposted by PrufraxAlec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I have a lovely local pub and it is or used to have a substantial CAMRA reputation, but between the demands of parenthood and the cost of living, I simply consider it a waste to drink "out". If student pubs are equally being undercut by *cocaine*, god knows what society looks like in 20 years. 051
Reposted by PrufraxAlec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Scrolling up & down this thread (very worthwhile) is scary but illuminating; from a mundane middle-class perspective, I have been to my local pub maybe 3x in the past 5 years because once I've dropped £12 on 2x pints I remember I could equally get a decent bottle of Rioja & drink it over four days. 111
Reposted by Prufraxpickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think nearly every trade union has voted to support trans people in the last year or two - often against the wishes of their own leaders - and the transphobes hate that, so I think we're seeing a concerted effort to harass and lawfare unions into being anti-trans. 35825
Reposted by PrufraxWizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Press Release: Wizard's Tower Acquires None of Name Trilogy from Dienw Neb wizardstowerpress.co... 31811
Reposted by PrufraxAP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.apnews.comhttps://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d 5542231619
Reposted by PrufraxJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026it's always the same gang who bought cheap houses next to the uni in the 1970s. And who rely entirely on their wives doing all their emotional labour. And are BAFFLED why their postgrads can't dedicate the same time/schedule to stuff that they can. 21287
Reposted by PrufraxSeanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I block these emails at this point, because otherwise they just keep sending endless word vomit "follow ups." Please, please, just type your own email. 329151
Reposted by PrufraxAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 24/09/2026discord should let me define arbitrary expressions on channels which get evaluated against the ages of users "≥18" is obvious and boring but I should be able to define a channel you can only visit if your age is between 30 and 40, prime, or exactly 28. 1224129
Reposted by PrufraxBela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Danny Tommo has been nicked for criminal damage and reckless endangerment, and for some reason the only outlet reporting it so far is the Sun.thesun.co.ukFar-right activist Danny Tommo arrested a day after 'slashing migrant boat'FAR-right activist Danny Tommo has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage with intent to endanger life, according to a video he posted this evening. Tommo is Tommy Robinson’s right-hand man … 42541171
Reposted by PrufraxAliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 24/09/2026Try "company failed to implement robust containment measures before starting its tests" 410926
Reposted by PrufraxJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Is it time to post that paragraph from The Road To Wigan Pier? The one about how the desperate, pleasureless poor will always refuse to just spend their pennies on cabbage no matter how much you try and insist. This isn’t a thing you can make people do. It’s not how humans work. 1213543
Reposted by PrufraxAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 23/09/2026is it just "some person you're depending on might have sexual interests that you think are weird"? because if so, I have bad news about /literally everyone/ 41265
Reposted by PrufraxAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 23/09/2026look I understand that culture war shit is fundamentally nonsense at the core but I can at least grasp the "they might do weird sex things to you and/or kids" lie at the core of the anti-gay & anti-trans panics but why would I give the slightest fuck that my pilot likes sexy wolf guys? 1831540
Reposted by PrufraxTanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea . 271370380
Reposted by PrufraxKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 23/09/2026So I’ve been writing a book—CONTAIN YOUR SHOCK, PEOPLE—and it was so fast and so…I dunno, EASY…that I had to get Kevin to confirm it wasn’t utter crap. Thank god, he’s enjoying it. ME: Half the book is them staring suspiciously at each other across the room. KEVIN: Eh, it works. 20102616
Reposted by PrufraxK.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 22/09/2026Moral panics are manufactured concerns created to push an agenda, don't hold up under scrutiny, and the fallout always harms more people than will ever be helped. Stand up for trans people. 1573227
Reposted by PrufraxRoseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The goodreads reviews of The End of Everything are just phenomenal. 85419
Reposted by PrufraxSkyblaze @blazingskies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New article for a new client: www.screenhype.co.uk/installing-a...screenhype.co.ukInstalling And Setting Up RetroArch Emulator - Screen HypeNow you can try out a huge range of classic retro games by using this guide to install the RetroArch emulator hub 023
Reposted by PrufraxAliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 23/09/2026"The Red Scholar's Wake" in @nytimes.com's "Space Opera: A Starter Pack" "(an arranged) marriage between a hacker and Rice Fish, a sentient pirate starship... Some of the best love scenes ever written .. interspersed with mouthwatering descriptions of food" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b... (1/?)nytimes.comSpace Operas: A Starter Pack (Gift Article)These epic, star-spanning adventure stories blend interstellar action with political allegory and romantic drama. Here’s where to start. 313227
Reposted by PrufraxSkyblaze @blazingskies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Every neurodiverse person working in an office: God I wish that was me 141
Reposted by PrufraxSkyblaze @blazingskies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The 10th anniversary of my @radiosega.net show is very soon! Any #chiptune artists want to be featured in my anniversary special? 043
Reposted by PrufraxMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i... 31539160
Reposted by PrufraxAlec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Always hilarious to see people attempting to compare aircraft safety to software engineering and then observe that aircraft don't put ordinary people into the pilot seat, nor does Excel Airways permit that pilot to duct-tape IKEA Billy Units to the wings and go into production as a cargo carrier 2103
Reposted by PrufraxJim Finnis @jfinnis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This book cover popped up for various reasons, and I immediately thought "Because bloody Steerpike." 021
Reposted by PrufraxJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Fuck yeah.rightmove.co.ukCheck out this 2 bedroom apartment for sale on Rightmove2 bedroom apartment for sale in Bamford Mill, Bamford, Hope Valley, S33 for £450,000. Marketed by Bagshaws Residential, Bakewell 2111820
Reposted by PrufraxRoger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Olde English" with an e is what you might hear from a saucy bard at a Renaissance Faire - "Have at thee knave! Zounds, I say!" - Sir Walter Scott-style archaism, poorly minced. 5322
Reposted by PrufraxBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026bit weird given the play is written in early modern English but I'd pay to hear Ēalā Rōmēo, Rōmēo, for hwȳ eart þū Rōmēo? Wiðsace þīnum fæder and forsac þīnne naman; oþþe, gif þū nelt, swere mē þæt þū mīn lēofa sīe, and ne bēo iċ nā lenġ Capulēting. 26611128
Reposted by PrufraxFinn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026fairly simple hypotheticals which quickly lead to a dark place, what if: - your man "Tommo" had intercepted that dinghy before the RNLI? - the police hadn't been there to hold back the crowds in Gosport/Portsmouth? - the mob in that hotel had actually found "migrants"? 320753
Reposted by PrufraxLegal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 22/09/2026An astonishing thread, that must surely lead to action. 3286
Reposted by PrufraxTom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble 331460372
Reposted by PrufraxJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026Look goddamnit It's entirely possible To eat a plum And not make a poem about it The one I just ate Wasn't even in the Goddamn refrigerator Or anything Sometimes a plum Is just a plum You can just eat it And go on with your life WHAT Why are you looking at me What'd I do now (looks) oh GODDAMNIT 752144303
Reposted by PrufraxJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published 541632391
Reposted by PrufraxClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage 455331658
