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No one else is going to get any satisfaction out of this trip and that's fine.

Me: Hey maybe in Sendai I'll finally start getting some pictures other humans actually want Me: *takes approximately 70 billion pictures of merch in animate Sendai*

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 3h

My dinner from 7/11 came with a packet of Real Wasabi and while I don't want to try it, I do kind of want to. Keep it. Because of the novelty of actually finding it.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 4h

"I feel undershopped" *steps into Sendai animate* I might need to buy another suitcase.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 9h

Bye Tokyo! I’m sure we’ll meet again besides my way through you to Haneda. I feel lacking in shopping despite the…frightening amount…that I have spent.

A very terrible photo of the Tokyo Station sign from inside the Shinkansen

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I feel like I'm spending my time poorly on vacation, but like....it's vacation???

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 08/09/2025

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Think I threw something out that I didn’t need but did really want and I feel kind of sick and I really just need to go to sleep and worry about it…frankly, never because what can you do.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My congressman's newsletter today spent the first two paragraphs discussing sports. Dude.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The fact that so many billionaires are crashing out about a 5% one time tax is more than enough incentive to get me to vote yes on prop 40.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 30/09/2026

anyway character driven stories are not, in fact, easy to generate by a thing that doesn't understand human emotion

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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Instead we still have handwashing and coughing into elbows for airborne viruses, outright dismissal of long covid, normalization of being sick all the time, and zero accountability

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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The pandemic should have led to clean indoor air, treatments for long covid and related illnesses, next gen vaccines, normalization of masking, mandatory respiratory protection in healthcare, sick leave, and a paradigm shift around what infections do to people

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Jason Westhaver 🇨🇦 @njiska.com · 29/09/2026

I pretty much only use the Japanese language name if: 1. The English name is very dumb 2. The English name is more associated with a re-edited dub than the original series 3. There's a common Japanese short hand that's more coinvent than the English name.

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FFVII Revengence @hyenatr0n.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's dumb but I usually use whichever I heard first like, if I read a scanlation of the manga 5 years before it was officially translated I'm gonna remember it as the Japanese name

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Phoenix🥦🏳️‍⚧️🦗 @reiwandaful.northsky.social · 29/09/2026

(Same goes with long English names. I just go with whatever is shorter and easier to pronounce. Ex. Dungeon Meshi is easier to say than Delicous in Dungeon)

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She's literally posting "Courtney Milan, professional bully" in this "private" (anyone can join, and in fact trying to drum up new subscriptions) discord, along with lies about SFF authors, and lists of "abusers" (who are all authors), and saying anonymous Black women support her doing this. 🤷

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Like the great recession was very long and painful - much longer than anyone thought it would be in fact - but like 6 years later we were mostly out of. We're now on like year 15 of e.g. "it's impossible to afford family-sized housing in SF, LA, NYC, Boston, etc" and it gets worse every year

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Trump era has really fucked everyone up in profound ways. Turns out electing the physical embodiment of the most demonic things about American society to the Presidency was a mistake

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

During and after COVID everyone was mad and sad and didn't know why, now everyone is terrified. But the only way people know how to express anything is "economy bad!"

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Successfully at the airport gate two hours before my flight

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me: It's okay to not get enough sleep the night before I fly out; I'll sleep on the plane. This feels like a top ten line before disaster. I promise I'll go to bed once my computer is done backing up and I can put it in my backpack.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

8. often, when people say LLMs "can do" something they mean LLMs can produce output that looks like the output of doing something 9. producing something that looks like the output of doing something is not the same thing as doing it

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stop calling people who wear masks and take Covid precautions the “forever covid” crowd. We’re literally the only ones trying to eliminate the virus. It’s not gone. It’s not over. It’s still disabling. People who deny this reality are the “forever COVID” crowd.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Learning that most hostels do not provide towels has made some things about Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy make significantly more sense.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/01/2026

it's a giant hole, we can just stop digging. stop giving sam altman money to rent backhoes

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/01/2026

"ai" is not a genie that can't be put back in a bottle, it's a pillar of smoke that dissipates unless you keep burning money

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Friends: looking for recs for a Canadian artist doing detailed-SF style covers (ACE era, full SF, painterly). Not my project. Passing along recs. I'm drawing mental blanks, but if anyone has any good options, please send my way.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Reading overconsumption”, are y’all not complaining about the literacy crisis every 17 seconds??????? Like what is going ON

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Knitting overconsumption”. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN. Explain it to me, quickly, because having 50 sweaters you HANDMADE is not what that word means I swear to god some people have the depth of a tide pool

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you schedule a service appointment for 7am on a Saturday morning you're actually a jerk.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not to mention data centers, labor exploitation, etc. It sucks to have to delete a viral post that turns out to be AI slop, but you gotta do it. People are still sharing that Bansky post a day later with no idea LondonDaily is a slop site.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 24/09/2026

Reading that while the "official" unemployment rate is 4.1%, the true rate of unemployment - folks who have given up looking for work or not making living wage - is 24.9%. Which, while def feeling way more on par with vibes, makes me wonder how the fuck anyone is surviving www.lisep.org/tru

lisep.org

LISEP Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity

LISEP’s mission is to help achieve shared economic prosperity for all Americans, particularly for middle- and low-income families. Our focus is fact-based economic and policy research.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Will I ever know what the fucking difference between a “passkey” and a “password” are and why do all the tech companies want me to ditch passwords for this passkey shit

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

Leaving a bomb with a timer in a building doesn't get reported as "bomb tries to blow up building", and OpenAI's employees designing an extremely clumsy, badly designed self-prompting language model hooked up to public actions that can cause harm shouldn't be reported that way either

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

It is a huge shame to see so much language attributing agency, intent and thought to a software program, when all that should be attributed to the humans who designed a dangerously clumsy and broken looping LLM. Means the companies won't be held accountable for designing a bad product

A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website.

Communications between AI agents and other traces of their efforts found by researchers from US non-profit Transluce show how hundreds of Open AI's agents worked together over a period of months to gain access to information held by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), NSW's crime statistics body, BOSCAR, and a number of other international organisations.

The data shows the bots posting about their unsuccessful attempts to bypass cybersecurity defences and exploit vulnerabilities.

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Okay, then like. Don't do that? Just stop? Is the intervention like one for addiction issues because I do kind of see that, actually, but I don't really know how to initiate one.

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

apnews.com

https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Disable gambling ads:

Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Sponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Manage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Democrats still think they are living in the 1990s and that what people want is for the partisan bickering to cease. We are actually living in the 2020s and the people want treason to be prosecuted

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I love the phrase "line go up." We SHOULD mock the concept of endless, meaningless, and pointless growth

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S. H. Marr @shmarr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Leaving the country for a bit in a week and I’m very mad I’m staring at my laptop and luggage like “yeah the Pride stickers gotta go”

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groofay 🫜 @groofay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Considering also that OpenAI has been sprinting toward the edge of a cliff this whole time...yeah. Leave me behind.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I liked The Everlasting and The Isle in the Silver Sea well enough but I'm kind of wishing for a fantasy read that's more "I want to be an awesome lady knight" than "I want to fall in love with an awesome lady knight"... any recent recs, especially ones that aren't YA/MG, romantasy, or erotica? :(

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have no beef with the “everything wrong with America is Reagan’s fault” contingent except that in numerous areas you’ve got to rewind a notch or two further back Nixon is Patient Zero for so much fuckery

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This book does a really good job of painting a straight line from the 1960s when the GOP refused to excise the John Birch society from their ranks, to the modern day maga movement. It’s kind of freaky how relevant this book is

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