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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 22/10/2026

It's so hard being a fair-weather ally!! You gotta go online and talk down to Trans folks!!

Screenshot of @rollingnscratching.bsky.social replying to a post with the text: "So being a bs ally should be my only care? That's weak and dumb."

Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 22/10/2026

And this is what happens when I delete a post - it shows an error, the post remains inline, but if I refresh the page, the post is gone. Poof! Haha This has been happening for at least a month! No testing? Vibecoding? Who knows! 😎

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 22/10/2026

It'd be great if the basic stuff - like faving and deleting posts - wouldn't be broken for the past month and a half lol

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 22/10/2026

Do what you want but I plan to block this disingenuous asshole @chazhh.bsky.social

Screenshot of Bluesky posts, showing Revenge of Princesscore post replying to Chaz HH, which says: do u think trans girls would be safe in a boys locker room? Chaz HH replies with: Any boy or girl who harasses a trans kid should be expelled. My reply to Chaz reads: Wow. Lib who thinks politically targeted visual genital inspections on children are not a form of harassment.

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 21/10/2026

I don't know what to do! I'm stuck on this. It's my second attempt at this painting! I keep tripping up on making the foliage. I don't want to do another one! I think I'll just give it like this! Lol! Lmao! Hahaha!!!

A painting of a bleached tree trunk, branches and roots. I love that part. The background is purple. The right side of the tree is a stringy mess of green and browns. I hate it that part!

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

Anyway, I don't think I'm interested in what he has to say He isn't really leaning into the consciousness theory, it sounds like he isn't too sure about his position journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Screenshot of a paragraph of the linked article, with text which reads: Given Hinton's position, this means we can decouple understanding from consciousness. Hinton is a little cagey about what he means by consciousness, seemingly attributing it to a process of self-awareness (which GPT-4o does not have) (The Royal Institution, 2025). This is not the same as the phenomenal consciousness (a.k.a. ‘experience’) that many philosophers care about (e.g. Nagel, 1974). Nonetheless, regardless of how consciousness is defined, few scientists or philosophers would want to claim that current AI (up to 2024) is conscious; indeed, the Google software engineer, Blake Lemoine, was suspended for that claim, and ultimately lost his job (Musser, 2024).

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 19/09/2026

It looks like Michelle Obama made soda?!?!? I really didn't know this!!!!

A can of Plezi Fizz Strawberry Lemonade cola, which is sold by Michelle Obama. The can is long, and pink, with two colourful bubbles which show information about the drink, namely 70% less sugar than leading soft drinks, and second bubble says With Real Fruit Juice.

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026

This is 14 year old Henry Poutine, he is a regular on the light rail

A little white dog the size of a Russell terrier, with cute brown floppy ears. He's wearing a harness and looking in front of him.

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 13/09/2026

Can you imagine sifting through bushels of apples and one of them catches your eye, and you're like "what the..." and you bring it to the lab and there's a montage of the lab tests and then someone gets the sheet of paper with the results and they say "Do you know what this means?" and they clap th

Screenshot of a BBC news article headline which reads "New apple variety discovered in Luton after fruit donation"

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 13/09/2026

OH NO I guess I'm set up wrong! I've got ThinkPad T490! It's reading as running at ~60 fps but it's lagging and the fan is running full speed, the animation is about 1 fps. GPU is enabled. Are my specs bad? Help is not expected but appreciated!! APT repo Firefox 155.0.1 (64-bit)

My laptop specs! It reads: # System Details Report
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## Report details
- **Date generated:** 2026-09-13 15:48:01

## Hardware Information:
- **Hardware Model:** Lenovo ThinkPad T490
- **Memory:** 16.0 GiB
- **Processor:** Intel® Core™ i5-8365U × 8
- **Graphics:** Intel® UHD Graphics 620 (WHL GT2)
- **Disk Capacity:** 512.1 GB

## Software Information:
- **Firmware Version:** N2IETA7W (1.85 )
- **OS Name:** Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
- **OS Build:** (null)
- **OS Type:** 64-bit
- **GNOME Version:** 50
- **Windowing System:** Wayland
- **Kernel Version:** Linux 7.0.0-31-generic

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 11/09/2026

What is happening to my neighbourhood I swear I am not looking for these things!!! I went to Marketplace and it showed up on my feed! It's a person in the next city over selling this! www.facebook.com/share/1CGSHa...

A fired clay container which has a swastika prominently molded on the front and the back, and a bunch of them all around the bottom edge. The image was posted on Facebook Marketplace. The ad copy reads: Research identifies this item as an antique salt-glazed stoneware butter crock with lid, typically dating from the late 19th to early 20th century (c. 1890s–1920s).It features a two-tone blue and cream/gray glaze with embossed "BUTTER" lettering and ancient geometric symbols.The symbols embossed around the rim and body are traditional swastikas (or key/fylfot motifs), which were widely used in Western architecture, good-luck tokens, and native/folk designs for millennia prior to their association with the 20th-century Nazi regime. The are three chips on the underside of the lid and 3 stress cracks down the side if the main body...all shown. 5.5 inches tall with circumference 23 inches. Sold as found, cash sale. See sellers details for additional interesting items.

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 08/09/2026

Picked up my black ceramic ring and it looks good!

My two hands, one over the other, showing a black ring on my left pinky, and a white ring on my right pinky.

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026

I'd never tell if I won the lottery, but there would be signs

Screenshot of a Toto Washlet, model G5A, selling for $3,799.99.

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 05/09/2026

Went to the market with my youngest and I found a totem I love him so much! I had him in my hand then I dropped him ADHD style and his little tail broke and his left eye is gone but I think I love him even more!

A little wooden cat with one blue eye. The lady who makes them said it's made of eucalyptus wood, which is why it has a gradient of bright colours, going from yellow to orange to red to dark wine colour. The tail is a little nub.

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 03/09/2026

So I've tried uploading pithy fun little videos for the past two days and there's a problem On web, using Firefox 154.0.1 (64-bit) Debian build @support.bsky.team

Screenshot of Blue Sky Web, trying to upload a video, but it gives an error which reads: An error occurred while uploading the video. invalid token.

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 03/09/2026

All journalists should be motivated by antagonism /s

A tweet by Warren Kinsella, where he replies to a tweet from another user, which reads: just following up here: how did trying to politicize the weather work out for you? Warren's reply is: If it made you unhappy, it made me happy.

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 03/09/2026

A conversation I had with my oldest I feel personally attacked, and my whole generation needs to take offense, IMHO,

Screenshot of texting app, where I shared with my oldest kid a screenshot of the Coyote Ask Me Anything on Reddit, as advertisement for the Coyote vs. Acme. My kid asked: "What is ACME?" and I answered it's the company the coyote buys his traps and doohickeys to catch the roadrunner. I then ask if he's seen Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons, and he said he's seen some. I then said he could borrow my copy of the complete Loony Tunes videography, and he replies with "Maybe sometime! I'm not too interested in cartoons at this moment..."

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 11/08/2026

You vs. The Guy She Told You Not to Worry About

Screenshot of Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, where a big, human-sized furry blob with a huge eye and giant erection is slumped on the floor.

A smiling and waving Mike Wazowski, the green monster from Monsters Inc. He has arms and legs, with a big toothy smile, and a huge single eye.

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 11/08/2026

My hips after walking an hour in super hot weather

Screenshot of Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, where a guy called Larry had exploded and his head is on the ground, in the middle of his own viscera, and he is saying "It really hurts".

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 10/08/2026

95.7% is available. I can make this available for you to download if you want, as is? It'll probably play but will have data missing at some points

Download file availability showing only 95.7 percent of the file is available.

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 04/08/2026

Hell yeah I'm happy to grow up with David Suzuki in my life, and seeing this

David Suzuki, respected 90 year old Canadian science communicator, smoking a blunt on a beach.

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 01/08/2026

I looked it up! The original diagram is much more complicated as that! You can find the Python tool which generates the diagram here: github.com/ZijunHui/Roc...

The Roche Biochemical Pathways diagram. It's a mishmash of multi-coloured symbols and text, intertwined and complicated.

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Serge "spooky" Bénard (scary) @sergebenard.myatproto.social · 30/07/2026

Yes!! Just flipping through the pages to find something I was interested in, and then going from there I've attached a pic of a different version of the same encyclopedia. The volumes we had were sky blue, and had a textured finish on the covers, with amazing line art. I loved them very much!