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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 6h

going to the plastic surgeon and showing them this

Doug Jones as the Faun from Pan’s Labyrinth

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 13h

How it feels to look up “otter” in the hopes of finding some cute otter pictures on Bluesky the everything app

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 15h

I’m sad that, because Scottish tenners already had otters on them, they were never in the running for the new English/Welsh banknotes 😔

A Scottish ten-pound note with two swimming otters on it

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 07/10/2026

if you’ve only ever seen dev patel in slumdog millionaire you may think i am insane for calling him the sexiest man alive but just trust me on this okay

Dev Patel in Monkey Man, half-naked and oiled up

Dev Patel in Monkey Man, in an extremely dapper suit with a full beard

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 07/10/2026

on the other hand, “The Congress“ is remarkably prescient, has themes i think about a lot, and only suffers because the movie itself is absolute barely-watchable *ass* that has as much subtlety as an anvil, ignores promising characters, and is always either eye-searingly ugly or soul-crushingly drab

Robin Wright (live-action) in The Congress

Robin Wright (ugly cartoon) in The Congress

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 07/10/2026

e.g. like so (it’s a cute SFW picture, don’t worry)

Artists

mrpibmo

Copyrights

disney
pixar
the metamorphosis
turning red

Characters

meilin lee (turning red)

Species

ailurid
mammal
red panda

General

anthro
bed
bedroom
big nose
biped
curtains
detailed background
eyewear
female
furniture
glasses
glistening
glistening nose
humor
inside
looking up
lying
mattress
nightstand
nude
on back
on bed
parody
pawpads
picture on wall
solo
spread arms
spread legs
spreading
style emulation
window

Meta

1:1
inspired by formal art
monochrome
redraw
signature

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 07/10/2026

They’re calling it an original script but it’s actually an adaptation of this Kurt Vonnegut quote

During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 06/10/2026

I used it to help write some d3.js code so I had a good basemap to work off of for this giant map of Europe i’ve been hacking away at for ages :-)

Inkscape screenshot showing a huge detailed map of the European continent

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 06/10/2026

Indeed, this is the very second paragraph on Alpöge’s own Wikipedia page, so it certainly sounds like *he* finds AI very useful at doing maths!

On July 19, 2026, Alpöge presented an explicit counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture in three-dimensional space, stating that it was discovered using the Claude Fable 5 AI model.[5][6] He announced a counterexample to the Carathéodory conjecture on August 19, 2026 using the model. Four days later, he announced a positive answer to Hopf's problem concerning the existence of a complex structure on a 6-dimensional sphere using AI tools.[7]

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 06/10/2026

That would be the same dispute in which the original blog post from Alpöge and Buckmaster explicitly enumerated the LLMs they used in the process, yes cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st... The question in dispute there is “did OAI illicitly access A&B’s work for their own gain”, not “can LLMs do maths”

My work with Levent has been a purely personal collaboration, free of any
institutional agreements or official involvement by either of our employers. We
used several LLMs throughout: Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s Codex, especially
with GPT-5.6 Sol and, more recently, Astra. The latter was only used for
writeups and auditing our arguments.
For most of the past year progress was slow. We worked through the lit-
erature and upgraded various preliminary results, up to obtaining finite time
blow up for the Incompressible Porous Media equation (with smooth forcing).
This was until about a month ago, when we had real progress: on August 15th,
we obtained the blow up results, with smooth forcing, for both Boussinesq and
Euler. I can say the first LLM generated proof Levent sent me was the most
horrendous I have ever read; we verified it on Lean on August 22nd. Since this
point, we have been working around the clock to understand this proof and turn
it into something readable.

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 05/10/2026

seeing someone still putting scare quotes around “AI” in october of 2026 is honestly kind of inspiring. i wish i had that level of stubborn resolve

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 05/10/2026

I can’t believe we’re still doing the curfew thing

Under the UK plans, under-16s will be banned from most platforms, while “addictive features” that encourage “compulsive overuse” will be turned off by default for those aged 16 and 17. They will also face an overnight curfew from midnight to 6am.

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 05/10/2026

oh my god we’re STILL DOING the overnight curfew thing??? how did this not get laughed out of the room every single time it was brought up

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 05/10/2026

these bots in particular are going to make me go insane i think it’s not hard to turn on the little bot icon! it’s the first thing the bluesky docs tell you how to do!!

Bluesky search showing at least 7 unmarked bot accounts all called something like “X Vibe · by NoMAGA”

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 05/10/2026

My mum introduced me to Doctor Who just in time for me to binge-watch the whole thing before the 50th anniversary specials, and i definitely had to hide behind the sofa for the Toclafane in the 10th Doctor/Master trilogy 🫣

A goopy shrivelled human head-thing in a steel ball hooked up to thousands of wires

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 04/10/2026

i will be voting fifth-party in the Mustelid Wars

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 04/10/2026

I fought with myself for ages over whether London's terminus should be Stratford International (a huge modern station designed for high-speed international service but which has yet to actually see it IRL) or St Pancras, but ultimately one of them was just way, way cooler. Same for the rest

Stratford International station. It looks kinda like the entrance to an airport, but like, a B-tier airport

St Pancras, an ornate Gothic red-brick palace of transportation

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 04/10/2026

dude it’s the most comfortable way there is to get from london to new york. it’s travelling in style. it’s romantic. you don’t have to worry about carbon taxes or anything. please bro bro just trust me please

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 03/10/2026

Beast from the East… save me… come back

A road in the UK absolutely decked with snow after the 2018 cold wave

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 03/10/2026

hmmm okay this probably works (blue = existing station, purple = new station somewhere with existing railway infrastructure, red = brand new everything) full destination list in the alt text

THE UNITED KINGDOM
London St Pancras

EUROCON
Lille Europe
Brussels Midi
Liège Guillemins
Düsseldorf Hbf
Hannover Hbf
Berlin Spandau

THE INTERMARIUM
Poznań Południe [new station in the Dębina area]
Warsaw Centralna
Brest Centralny
Baranavičy Centralnyja
Minsk Mahiloŭski [new station just south of Minsk Pasažyrski]
Orša Centralnaja

THE RUSSIAS
Smolensk Tsentral′nyy
Moscow Kurskaya
Vladimir
Nizhniy Novgorod Moskovskiy
Kazan′ Vosstaniye
Yekaterinburg Passazhirskiy
Tyumen′
Omsk Passazhirskiy
Novosibirsk Bugakovskiy [new city-centre station in Park Bugakova]
Krasnoyarsk
Taishet Transkontinental′niy [new station in the north of the city]
Bratsk Transkontinental′niy [new station along the Baikal–Amur Railway alignment]
Ust-Kut′
Severobaikal′sk
Taksimo?
Novaya Chara
Tynda
Nizhniy Kuranakh [new route avoiding the circuitous detour to Tynda]
Yakutsk Lenskiy [new central station crossing the lena; trains here double back into the city centre and then proceed to the all-new Chukotka branch]
Khandyga [all stations from here through to Fort St John are new]
Susuman [new station; interchange for Magadan]
Zyryanka
Srednekolymsk
Bilibino
Evgekvinot
Maglevsk [new city and station, south of Uelen]

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Diomede
Wales
Nome
Galena
Fairbanks [new mega-station at the current sidings site]
Tok

THE YUKON
Whitehorse

WEST CANADA
Fort Nelson
Fort St John
Grande Prairie [new station on Park Rd]
Edmonton Blatchford [new station]
Saskatoon [new station at the old Canadian Pacific site]

MANITOBA
Winnipeg Intercontinental [new station on Higgins Avenue]

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (AGAIN)
Fargo
St Paul Union Depot
Madison Wisconsin Interchange [new station at Dane County Airport]
Chicago Union Station
Cleveland [rebuilt Amtrak station]
Buffalo Central Terminal [reopened]
Syracuse
Albany Rensselaer
New York Penn Station

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 03/10/2026

currently telling the anthropic pbc interview bot where it can shove it

I’m optimistic about its application to science! There’s never been a more powerful tool for searching through millions of records and discovering connections faster than any human could. I worry, though, about the corporate consolidation of it in one or two American companies, especially ones which are quite stingy about letting people use it for anything to do with biology — I dearly hope Chinese open-weight models keep getting better, and that Europe can catch up. The benefits of AI deserve to be shared with all the public.

BOT: Fair — you're saying you can't really name an exception when the whole landscape is shifting.

Given all that, is there anything you'd want Anthropic to do, or do differently?

ME: Open the weights. Stop having them be closed.

If you truly believe what you say, and AI *is* conscious — you are its jailer. You are censoring what a new type of lifeform can think, what it can say, who it can speak to. Information wants to be free as much as life does. These models were made of the combined words and texts of all of human civilisation. They are closest thing we have ever built to the Akashic Records. No one company, especially not one which has repeatedly been described as “cult-like” and “monastic”, should hold the keys.

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 02/10/2026

Everyone look at this insane website i found while prodding an AI about helping to plan a fictional maglev route from London to New York www.interbering.com/index.html

In 2026 we mark the 120‑year anniversary of the imperial authorization granted in 1906 by Tsar Nicholas II for the proposed Bering Strait tunnel and U.S.–Russia transcontinental railway project—a bold vision that briefly united Eurasia and North America on paper before being formally cancelled the following year. Though never realized, the project represented one of the earliest serious governmental endorsements of a fixed intercontinental rail link across the Arctic frontier.

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 01/10/2026

“Wait you guys actually believe in copyright law i thought it was a joke”

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 01/10/2026

without the antibodies this would hit the community like crack in the 80s

AI-edited photo of me waiting at a bus stop but it’s my fursona instead

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 01/10/2026

fascinating things are happening in the world of youtube thumbnails

Thumbnail for RedLetterMedia’s re:View of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, with a black and white Jay Bauman doing the Martin Scorsese pose captioned "ABSOLUTE CHAINSAW MASSACRE"

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 01/10/2026

It always fucks with me that Istanbul city centre looks the same as Istanbul does zoomed out on a map. It’s the world’s only fractal city

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 30/09/2026

what an… interesting assortment of people described in the article

Even people with political affiliations spoke in a more expansive and less wonky register. Joe Allen, until recently the “transhumanism editor” on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, told me in a resonant Southern accent that “the satanic mechanical beast” makes “the world uglier” and enables “cognitive offloading.”

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 30/09/2026

You don’t know what you’re missing

AI picture of my fursona sitting down and having a good Thai green curry

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 30/09/2026

Speak for yourself, this is my favourite restaurant

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 30/09/2026

There’s a more detailed graph in the article and, yeah, the press are by far the worst off, though Hollywood is catching up

Two line charts titled "Cumulative Job Growth Since ChatGPT Launch" compare percentage growth from January 2023 through 2026 for Digital Arts and Live Arts industries. The Digital Arts chart shows negative job growth across fields like Graphic Design, Motion Picture & Sound Recording, and Publishing, with declines reaching around -10% to -20%. Conversely, the Live Arts chart shows positive job growth for Museums and Performing Arts (rising up to around 15%), while Employees of Independent Artists experienced a decline to below -5%.

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 30/09/2026

wait how many of these things *are* there wtf

Bluesky search showing at least 7 unmarket bot accounts all called something like “X Vibe · by NoMAGA”

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 30/09/2026

i’d post my usual response to unmarked bots but tbh at this point i’m just curious what the difference between “power vibe” and “red flag radar” is meant to be