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Lyra @seren.monster · 26/09/2026

This plan actually makes perfect sense when you remember that they're accutely aware of how much everyone hates AI, and that one perfect way to protect their (imagined) god machine from a decentralised movement taking out fragile datacentre infrastructure, is to literally put it out of reach.

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Lyra @seren.monster · 21/09/2026

Most stuff being sold new today is bluetooth bookshelf speakers, and those are fine and then you just need a cd player, but Id recommend getting a second hand audio receiver and some passive speakers, should be very cheap. Will serve you well and then can set it up with tv/record player/digital.

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Lyra @seren.monster · 17/09/2026

Thought I would add, general tip for plasticity that wasnt intuitive, using the freeform move face is the tool that enables snapping to other pieces of geometry, its what you need to get rid of two corners that are very close to combining but not quite. Also match face.

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Lyra @seren.monster · 17/09/2026

Only thing missing is some kind of assembly workbench/motion simulation, but thays firmly in the "nice to have but not necessary" category and can always import into blender for posing and stuff. Also on linux which fusion doesnt support but wouldnt change even if they did start supporting it (2/2)

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Lyra @seren.monster · 17/09/2026

Bit late but I would second this. I tried doing this kind of modelling in blender, and while its good for a lot of people, it never clicked for me. Plasticity still has a bit of growing to do, but its really good already and Ive loved using it. (1/2)

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Lyra @seren.monster · 13/09/2026

Angry AND the deeply unsettling desire of pelicans to put everything in their mouths #BirdOfTheDay #AngryBirds

A seagull agressively flapping above the head of a pelican, standing on a wharf, with its mouth wide open directly below the seagull.

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Lyra @seren.monster · 10/09/2026

Did a bit of a thread in response

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Lyra @seren.monster · 10/09/2026

Anyway, very long answer that's mostly just "this is the vibe I get observing from the otherside of the world" but I end up thinking about it way more than I'd like. (8/8)

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Lyra @seren.monster · 10/09/2026

In some ways their self description as rationalists is apt, everything they say and do is in service of rationalising their desire for a level of power that can only be understood in mythic terms. (7/n)

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Lyra @seren.monster · 10/09/2026

The idea of "future lives being as important as current lives" is only useful in that it allows them to regard the suffering and pain they cause in the present to be morally correct, because it would be more sinful to harm "future lives". (6/n)

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Lyra @seren.monster · 10/09/2026

These commandments being driven, essentially, by their libidinal urge to seek power. Rokos Bassilisk is only an important framework in as much as it provides a justification for why it's sinful to not build the thing that they think will make them powerful. (5/n)

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Lyra @seren.monster · 10/09/2026

The aethism of the 2000s/2010s made distance from that attractive, but having never had lives difficult enough to force the work of unbelief on a deep level, they ended up recreating the concepts of damnation and salvation and sin, with a thin veil of bad sci-fi and a new set of commandments. (4/n)

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Lyra @seren.monster · 10/09/2026

The other aspect, to me, which is what ties in with rokos basilisk, is that they all grew up in the american stew of christianity where heaven and hell and demons are a bedrock understanding of the worlds functioning. (3/n)

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Lyra @seren.monster · 10/09/2026

To be the one that brings it into the world would cement their place as an all important figure in the history of their imgagined future. (2/n)

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Lyra @seren.monster · 10/09/2026

I think theres a couple of different parts to it. I think the key aspect is that there's an enormous libidinal investment in power, and what could be more powerful than "fathering" the god/ai they fantasize about. (1/n)

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Lyra @seren.monster · 03/09/2026

Do you know how google determines what names are displayed when other regions only have info for geography within that region? Im in Australia and Id love to not be seeing this shit, but at least in the case of the gulf of mexico, it has gulf of america listed in brackets and i have no idea why

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Lyra @seren.monster · 28/08/2026

For longer than Id like I was the adjacent type of "oh no i cant watch horror ill get too scared and never sleep" but somehow loved Pans Labyrinth and was like "this is just an excellent dark fairytale and exploration of fascist oppression, no way this is horror otherwise I wouldnt be sleeping"

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Lyra @seren.monster · 26/08/2026

I dont think these are australianisms theyre just kinda dumb?? (2/2)

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Lyra @seren.monster · 26/08/2026

I dont know if Ive ever heard *anyone* use fisting in that way, so probably a specific regional thing not general Australian but impossible that thats the only word they know. Everyone knows the word nostrils. I have no idea about "bowing your eyes"??? (1/2)

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Lyra @seren.monster · 19/08/2026

The way its always talked about as "childish" which often doesn't ring true, even if it is reductive and simplistic. The cynical abuse of it by corporation s (2/2)

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Lyra @seren.monster · 19/08/2026

Common themes when I think about it are: how it accelerates and entrenches a disconnection from the present, a retreat from the effortful fulfilment of seeking originality its almost always leaning on a construction of a nonexistent prelapsarian past (1/2)

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It’s been very odd biting the bullet & revealing details only my closest friends knew about was going on around monkey cage over last few years - and now I wait for the next lot of attacks but I also know there will be solidarity www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po... www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po...

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The Gaslight Years - part one | Robin Ince

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to dea

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Lyra @seren.monster · 16/08/2026

In your medical posting I've kinda assumed that you knew about this, among other things its what I deal with, and the stuff you've talked about there's sooooo much that lines up, if you want I can msg you with some more information and stuff?

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Vatican has expelled a traditionalist sect founded by a Nazi collaborator. That sect has a presence in Aotearoa, and a smaller breakaway sect (the one doing the unauthorised exorcisms in Otautahi) have recently decided the Pope is illegitimate [paywalled] www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/schism-26-...

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Schism '26: Catholic Church excommunicates fascist-friendly sect

The SSPX, a traditionalist sect founded by a Nazi collaborator has been expelled by the Vatican

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elizabeth is apparently a witchy vamp? @thatelizabeth.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

You do so much good work, this was a misstep

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This is tragic, Sam was not just a great actor, but a great human being www.1news.co.nz/2026/07/13/k... Crossposted with @openvibe.social

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Kiwi screen legend Sam Neill dies, aged 78

News of the Jurassic Park star's death was confirmed on social media today.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 06/07/2026

can't even say "let this be the end of the dirtbag left" because I don't really believe in the dirtbag left. it was just a way for some guys who wrote about Dem politics to describe some guys on some podcasts while ignoring the anarchists and socialists and feminists who made the left relevant again

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Lyra @seren.monster · 05/07/2026

For science specifically, if you have institutional access there's also things like Web Of Science, I'm sure there are humanities equivalents but aren't sure on the names. I think the open source ones facilitate people using AI but don't have it as a "feature" WoS I think does push it more heavily 🙃

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Lyra @seren.monster · 05/07/2026

The term you're looking for is citation index/aggregator. There's a couple of great open source projects that have excellent coverage across all disciplines, search.opencitations.net openalex.org

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Lyra @seren.monster · 04/07/2026

Wife: Hey, what's taking dinner so long Me: Sorry babe I'm Carmelaising the onions, you know that takes forever

A photo of Carmela Soprano but her face is an onion.

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Lyra @seren.monster · 04/07/2026

For a specific discipline? Science or humanities?

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

'Beyond the Dark Horizon' is an eco-anarchist zine published locally. No.4 dropped just recently. beyondthedarkhorizon.org

A bin chicken squawks 'Abolish Australia'.

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Lyra @seren.monster · 22/06/2026

There's a 3rd party app / webapp called tokimeki.blue which has this feature amongst others and is basically better in every way than the official client.

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Lyra @seren.monster · 13/06/2026

store.heygears.com/pages/heygears-g1 https:// www.eufymake.com/au/products/eufymake-e1 (2/2)

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Lyra @seren.monster · 13/06/2026

Coming back to this to add that in the last week or so there have been two different (that I'm aware of) consumer targeted full colour UV resin 3D printers released. One targeting textured coloured mostly 2D prints, and the other just fully 3D. Links in reply. (1/2)

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Suzanne ✈️ @anatomoth.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I just had a consultation for continuing a sleeve and my client allows me to incorporate a mycalesis caterpillar into the design!!!! The dream to put weird critters on everyone!

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Lyra @seren.monster · 08/06/2026

Wanted to say, there's nothing I disagree with in that about the need for precautionary action, but if you ever want to talk in detail about how quantum computing stuff works on a hardware level and the complexity and open problems its what I do day to day and would be more than happy to.

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Lyra @seren.monster · 30/05/2026

Kaweco pens are really great quality and built to last and feel very nice. I have the kaweco special brass fountain pen and I've had it years and years and never failed me. Pretty sure they do a rollerball version of it as well. AU so no idea where to get them in UK but the brand is everywhere.

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Lyra @seren.monster · 24/05/2026

Check out the third party browser based client tokimeki.blue has this among many other features, been using it a while now and it's great!

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Lyra @seren.monster · 20/05/2026

Some RF spectra that have been normalised by a background reference, and then had a smoothing filter applied, each colour is one spectra, and the blurring comes from many different smoothing intensities. The first is functions fitted to the raw data shown in the second.

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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The citation crisis ("you mean you guys read the sources you cite?"), like the replication crisis, exists because academia has been neoliberalised to death. The pressure to publish to keep an academic job is absurd and the metrics are unbelievably crude — that's why we're here.

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Lyra @seren.monster · 14/05/2026

Fingers crossed it becomes common enough we start getting some "making of" videos in the near future!

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Lyra @seren.monster · 14/05/2026

Oh yeah 100% but I've looked before and seems like they don't want to much publicity on their process because I couldn't find anything :(

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Lyra @seren.monster · 14/05/2026

There's also a bunch of YouTube reviews and stuff of their prepainted dungeons and lasers stuff from a year or two back when they launched so you can get a good look at the quality and its actually shockingly good.

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Lyra @seren.monster · 14/05/2026

Not as much info as Id like, but there's a small company that pioneered this technology a couple of years ago and I'm 99% sure its the same process. Have a painter paint it by hand, scan it, then print it onto HIPS plastic with UV paint then cured so its scratch resistant. Seems really cool!

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Archon Studio - PrismaCast: A Revelation in RPG Terrain Market

Archon Studio proudly introduces PrismaCast, a groundbreaking new technology in response to the escalating demand for budget-friendly, pre-painted terrain in th...

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

1/2 The wonderful Loud Jew Collective has been designated not Jewish enough to speak at the Royal Commission, so it’s on us to spread their media release. The RC is promoting the establishment messaging and silencing dissent. Please share this. #Auspol

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Loud Jew Collective condemns the anti-Palestinian racism on show at the Royal Commission

On 1st May Loud Jew Collective (LJC) was told by the Royal Commission that "the Commissioner is not satisfied that LJC has a direct and substantial interest in the scope of the hearing and has refused LJC leave to appear at Hearing Block 1."
This rejection is evidence of the irredeemably flawed state of the Royal Commission. A flaw confirmed by the relentless anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia that we have heard since the Royal Commission commenced this Hearing Block.
Hearing Block 1 has been purportedly examining "the nature and prevalence of antisemitism in Australia" and hearing from "witnesses about their lived experience of antisemitism."

LJC's submission focuses on the most prevalent forms of antisemitism that Collective members have experienced - that perpetrated by the far-right and by zionist Jews.
It incorporates a witness statement by Collective member Anny Mokotow and attached expert evidence by historian
Dr Jordana Silverstein.
Anny Mokotow's statement explained that "As LJC, we have always resisted our identity being subsumed by the idolatry of Israel. The myth of the 'Jew' as 'special' has become a political reality even if it is based on the notion of victimhood. We, as anti-Zionists, who refuse to use victimhood as a right to superiority are now othered by our own 'people'."

LJC's submission outlines many Collective members' lived experiences of antisemitism and situates this antisemitism within its appropriate contexts, demonstrating that in Australia it must be seen as a marginal form of racism.
Proper focus must instead be placed on the founding racism - that faced by First Nations people - as well as on the racism faced by Palestinians, Muslims, Arabs, and other significantly marginalised groups.
The Royal Commission's assertion that LJC's testimony is not relevant to their work in this Hearing Block is thus evidence of the anti-Palestinian racism at the core of both the Commission and Australian politics and media more generally.

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

2/2 The wonderful Loud Jew Collective has been designated not Jewish enough to speak at the Royal Commission, so it’s on us to spread their media release. The RC is promoting the establishment messaging and silencing dissent. Please share this. #Auspol

It is clear that the Royal Commission is looking to further the narrative that is proliferating currently: that it is Palestinians and those who stand in solidarity with them who are the causes of antisemitism. Such racism would be laughable if it wasn't so violent.
Because while this Royal Commission proceeds this year, continuing to centre narratives of Jewish victimhood and providing media fodder for permanent discussions of antisemitism, the genocide in Palestine continues and Israel's genocidal violence spreads across the region.

Quote attributable to Gem Walsh, member of LJC:
"LJC's rejection from the Royal Commission confirms that anti-Palestinian racism is embedded in the Commission's work. It confirms that anti-zionist and anti-colonial knowledge and truth-telling will be deliberately excluded".
Quote attributable to Betty Buckrich, member of LJC:
"We are very angry that the Royal Commission has decided to exclude those who refuse the primacy of narratives of Jewish victimhood and that they deem this perspective to be outside their "direct and substantial interest. The Royal Commission is demonstrating that it will be nothing more than a place for the airing of perspectives deemed acceptable to zionism".

It is evident that the best we can hope for from this Royal Commission is that it goes the way of every other one and that its recommendations are ignored.
And so this is an important reminder of the ways that significant Royal Commissions - most particularly the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody - are routinely not implemented.
This is the racism at the heart of Australian life and it is this which must be addressed.
Not overblown and inaccurate ideas of a proliferation of antisemitism.

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