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@sodzilla.bsky.social
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Watcher of films and TV. Reader of books. Player of games. Drinker of teas. Spent nearly 20 years in America but bailed after 2024. Rather worried about those I left behind and spend far too much of my free time staring at the car crash that is the US gov.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
if this post doesn't apply to you, would still appreciate you sharing around.
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a sodding man @sodzilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Arrested Development: There Are Dozens Of Us
Alt: Arrested Development: There Are Dozens Of Us
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a sodding man @sodzilla.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ah, so I read widely because I'm bisexual. Got it.
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a sodding man @sodzilla.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The same ones that always exist. harpers.org/archive/1941...
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026
good morning, today is October 9 and Alex Gibney's documentary film "MUSK" is now playing at select theaters in New York and Los Angeles it's happening!
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm here you fuckaas bitch
the OceanGate Titan
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 23/09/2026
only gonna vote for parties who will arrest these people and bulldoze data centres
theguardian.com
Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman
Prime minister says he told chief executive he was disappointed it had taken company ‘way too long’ to inform government of breach
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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If an individual did this, we'd treat it as a crime. We should treat this as a crime too, and hold OpenAI liable for what its models, under its supervision, did. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says
Anthony Albanese says he has spoken to the Open AI chief executive to express his concern about the incident and the length of time it took the tech company to inform the government of the breach.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Visually, the series should feel cinematic…” That’s their problem right there. The best British tv is when it was shot without permission in the back of a factory after hours.
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a sodding man @sodzilla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Another knob convinced of his own brilliance.
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
World records will be broken. Nothing focuses the mind like being chased by a 5 meter salty in a plastic canoe. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Crocodile-inhabited river approved as Brisbane 2032 Olympic rowing venue
International Olympic Committee endorses Australia’s Fitzroy River course while World Rowing and Paddle Worldwide back the regional venue
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a sodding man @sodzilla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Are chop shops regulated beyond being illegal? LLMs wouldn't have any of their few uses without all the labour they stole for parts.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One thing I’ve learned from both countries I’ve lived in is that what people can see very clearly abroad they have difficulty admitting about their own countries - ppl can call something racist or fascist in the US or elsewhere in Europe and call the self same thing ‘complicated’ on their doorstep
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Eamon Javers @eamonjavers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a subhed for the ages in the WSJ this morning: “Talk of heading off artificial intelligence’s potential role in destroying humanity hurt some stocks and helped others”
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 14/09/2026
And??? Let women lure people
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a sodding man @sodzilla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I think it's best to ignore them, but if you wanted to reply, the card between Jeffrey and him would likely suffice. You know, since they're wanting to discuss "sick freaks".
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a sodding man @sodzilla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I actually think that when he's gone, they'll turn him into their new messiah.
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We need to really focus on the fact that OpenAI employees are behind this not sentient software. Like, if a person/company creates a malicious code then they’re responsible. AI does not change that
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a sodding man @sodzilla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thing is, blogs are likely very important to LLM datasets. Good or no, they were real outside of the spam blogs, and there's nothing "AI" companies crave more than authentic data on which to train. Spam was the original slop; slop is simply new spam.
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a sodding man @sodzilla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
He sounds miserable, and it seems a well-deserved misery. Grotesque social ineptitude on too many levels to fathom. Must say, I'm especially stuck on his belief that homosexuality and the arts have no positive connection...
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a sodding man @sodzilla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
She spoke about it 16 years ago. No one listened, unfortunately.
marieclaire.com
"I Was a Starter Wife": Inside America's Messiest Divorce
In the middle of her headline-grabbing divorce settlement from Elon Musk, Justine Musk reveals the truth about her marriage.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
OpenAI set $22M on fire just to steal $1M from a human who did the actual work, and that’s the business plan our economy is betting everything on? Lol.
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a sodding man @sodzilla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Who's the journo? I want to follow him.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Help the Internet Archive, which is saving a lot of the data being purged/censored by the Trump Administration (and so much more).....
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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Pat IS the Bunny! @four-torpedoes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
And that's how they start. They find one thing that sounds reasonable, but by the time they're done, you're eating steak and sauerkraut, and not wiping your ass.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Let me get this right: if you're a retired vicar and peacefully hold up a sign opposing genocide, you're a terrorist. But if 1200 morons put on balaclavas and close half of Dover to stop people *escaping* genocide, police "constructively engage." Is that it? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Traffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 04/09/2026
When I tell people that the second Trump administration is basically GamerGate with power, they often roll their eyes or quibble with how that word is bounded, but then there’s all the evidence that the second Trump administration is basically GamerGate with power to contend with.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Due to the unique way the BBC is funded by you we can have a man stand in the sea wearing a shirt harassing desperate people fleeing Afghanistan
screenshot from BBC News of people seeking asylum on a dinghy in Orange high there’s a BBC reporter in a white shirt holding a Mic stands in the sea talking to them
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Dogpiling is terrible. Dogs should be stored horizontally, on shelved pallets if you don’t have the floor space.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
this is gonna upset so many of y’all
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a sodding man @sodzilla.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
California, of which he's spinning tales about, accommodates assisted death. Not sure it would be wise for the Yanks to institute actual euthanasia under their current regime.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you still have a Twitter account, today is a great day to delete it. Nothing you could possibly get out of that site is worth having your name associated with child pornography. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com
Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com
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a sodding man @sodzilla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I reckon we should first take action against billionaires who were friends with Epstein.
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the kat from HOUSE (1977) @dogunderwater.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
kxan.com
Dolly Parton sends signed, bejeweled guitar to Austin drag performer Brigitte Bandit
The year ended on a high note for one local performer after unwrapping a gift sent from one queen to another.
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Stop making fun of AI or it will spitefully deny your insurance claims. They’re calling it the perfect argument.
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bsky isnt ready for this but, if you need a reason to not use words like "clanker" that isn't "well its kinda not a great thing to do" (it isn't) imagine this:

future model that has you in its training data, knows you posted that word online with joy, and denies your insurance claim as a result
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We are told to ignore the racism of Hegel, Kant, Locke etc because they were just "men of their time". So what do we do with the racism of current academics? Are they too just "men of their time"? What is this "time" that seems to make racists of men?
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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This whole AI scrapers going after Cara thing is really driving home how much the mentality of these people is the same as an abuser. The lack of consent excites them. It turns them on. And that's deeply messed up and pathetic.
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Flayin’ the Flannel @flanneloccluded.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Ice T in law in order with the text 

Kids call it the discover feed, because as soon as you click it you're trying to discover the exit. Sick stuff.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I want to expand on this in a short thread. Fascism sucks. It is also not going away: it is an effectively permanent part of modern representative politics because it is an effectively permanent part of human nature. We have to be prepared to push back against it, basically forever.
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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 23/08/2026
I think the thing the racist prof defenders imply but don't like to admit is there's no benefit to hiring/debating a guy who says mushrooms are created by fae because it's obviously silly but they do think it's worth your time to debate a race science guy because they think he's partially correct
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a sodding man @sodzilla.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"Centrists" on this subject fail to realise that, even we're there some "utopian" version of LLMs and UBI and all the rest, there are still many who would never consent to having their data included in LLM datasets. From the start, these tools depend on ignoring consent, which is evil.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 21/08/2026
I am becoming incredibly exhausted of this pattern: many people: "AI sucks!" Very Smart Person: ah but have you considered (distinct application of ML or statistical modeling that has no real relationship to what the tech industry is marketing as, and people broadly perceive as, "AI")
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a sodding man @sodzilla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Imagine the biggest users of LLMs can only handle sycophantic agreement these days...
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a sodding man @sodzilla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Might help to stop using the platform where this rubbish is shared.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If the criticism is "why don't journalists write about X?" the answers usually are: -a word count limit of 600 or less -a publishing quota deterring longer stories -an editor shot down the pitch or cut that detail or angle -a beat reporter was laid off -freelance rates of $250 to $350
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The world’s highest IQ score carries the same authority as the highest score in Donkey Kong at a local Dave & Busters.
yhbryankimią on threads
As the world's highest IQ record holder, I believe there is only one ultimate truth we need to know:
Jesus Christ is Lord, and we will see His return in our lifetime.
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