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Tom Czarniecki

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
explaining to the ED doctor that there is actually a very good explanation for how my keys ended up there
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/09/2026
It continues to be interesting to me just how many men, when presented with a clear and obvious answer to a test of morality and empathy, will nevertheless choose to "devil's advocate" themselves into a position of complete assholery
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:
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Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI
Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
until we are allowed control of our own bodies, we will never be truly free
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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
TODAY'S COMIC: Someone! www.sheldoncomics.com/comic/someone/
PANEL 1: A tubby, bald man wearing a white collared shirt, with a blue and orange striped tie, holds a AR-type riffle with one hand, shooting into the air. The bright yellow light casts harsh shadows on him.
MAN: Please! Someone stop this weapon that I’m clearly shooting!

PANEL 2: The man bends over to reload the weapon with a “KLAK” sound.
MAN: The weapon keeps reloading itself, with SERO INVOLVEMENT FROM ME!

PANEL 3: The man continues to shoot in to the air.
MAN: I have no agency here! Nothing that I could do —SAY WITH MY OWN FINGERS — could end this!

PANEL 4: The man, still shooting the gun, turns his back, still yelling over his shoulder.
MAN: WHY IS NOBODY STOPPING THIS THING I KEEP DOING???
On the back of his shirt reads: LITERALLY EVERY A.I. COMPANY.

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Want 5,000 more comics like this? Join us at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics for the *FULL* Sheldon archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! Sheldon Comics copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵
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binp @binp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
understandable
Bloody urine (haematurea) was recorded by Ancient Egyptians in papyri 5,000 years ago. They called it Aaa. The first scientific report
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“If only her broom would cooperate!” *These are entirely handcrafted sets using traditional stop-motion animation, with no AI. Instagram: @ tinyangrywitch www.tinyangrywitch.com
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/08/2026
Crying Newborn Has No Idea How Much Worse It Gets theonion.com/crying-newborn-has-no-…
Crying Newborn Has No Idea How Much Worse It Gets
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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 03/08/2026
It is far too easy for those in a position of privilege to judge the actions of others through the lens of that privilege, supporting laws and rules the protect it while vilifying those who don't have it. Honor is not to blindly follow rules, but to see them for what they are, and who they benefit.
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 27/07/2026
Saw a patient who was 46 years old and I checked their birthdate and it was 1980 and I thought “that can’t be right” Fuck.
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Tmnt Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Alt: Me right now
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Facts that Hollywood tried to keep from the masses but overtime it was proven to be true 💯🎯
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Outdoor Adult Daycare Facility 🍺 😂😂😂 TT: @thepitvictoriei Bucharest, Romania,
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1dark1 @1dark1.com · 09/07/2026
Arrive at #HackerSummerCamp with the best swag. Wear a #NOai pin at your next political campaign. Stick it to someone who deserves it! > > stickerthepla.net#022 Each pin comes with a sticker stickerthepla.net#021 Thanks for supporting Real Artists. #NOai #StickerThePlanet #EPluribusStickerum
pile of #NOai stickers on top of a pile of #NOai pins
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
when someone shows you their nazi tattoo, believe them
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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First Among Equals @pyncster.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Who else has this dream every two weeks or so?
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Tom Czarniecki @t0mcz.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
lol, fuck both of them
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1dark1 @1dark1.com · 26/06/2026
Do you love ai slop? No?! Me neither. Now we have a PIN! Free shipping in the USA: > > > stickerthepla.net#022 Put a pin in the zeitgeist. Thank you for supporting Real Artists: masto.hackers.town/@1dark1 #NOai #StickerThePlanet #EPluribusStickerum
Do you love ai slop? No?! Me neither. 
Now we have a PIN! 

Free shipping in the USA:
https://stickerthepla.net/#022

Put a pin in the zeitgeist. 

Thank you for supporting Real Artists.
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.
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1dark1 @1dark1.com · 23/06/2026
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.
Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.
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Edward the Movie Buff 🎞🎬🎥📽 @midgetmoxie.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Dead Poets Society (1989) Director: Peter Weir
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Kiera @kieragorden.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Today is a good day to remind everyone that… #NPC #NationalPressClub
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Kiera @kieragorden.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Let every soul present stand at attention for Her Imperial Majesty! The eternal ruler of our affections - reigning over our hearts just as ruthlessly & absolutely as she drives her righteous heel down the collective throats at #NewsCorpse - Cathy Fkg Wilcox! 🫡👏 @cathywilcox.bsky.social
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital
Caravaggio's Baccus painting, featuring a lush fruity spread and leaves bedecking a pasty twink who only works out his armsArticle screenshot that says:

The most extreme examples of
Stendhal syndrome share a sensation of
self-fragmentation. Magherini
describes the case of a 53-year-old
German man who was hospitalized
after repeatedly viewing Caravaggio's
Bacchus at Uffizi Gallery. The patient
felt "an attraction closer and closer to
an intimate sexual arousal of
ambiguous nature that invaded him
and made him feel good and bad."
Unmoored and distressed, he sought
medical attention. After treating the
subject's initial episode, Magherini
writes that he came to recognize his
latent homosexuality. Another case...
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The Punisher sticker we've needed all along
You're not The Punisher
You're a white supremacist who didn't read the comics
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 08/06/2026
I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time. influence.citationneeded.news
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Tech Influence Watch
Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.
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Marko Silberhand @markosilberhand.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
. D-Day . . . 6-6-1944 ... 💠 👊 💠
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Space aquarium #StarTrek
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Simon Brew @simonbrew.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I keep being reminded of this question and answer: "What is the problem that AI services are being built to solve?" "Wages."
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Godzilla stomps through a city and thinks to himself "For Godzilla all cities are walkable."
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Patrick Favrel @patleon.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
#StreetArt by #NeftNik in #Lisbon
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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
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Kiera @kieragorden.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
If only more people knew and understood this… #AusPol
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I think it's under-appreciated how much user-hostile recipe sites and news articles smothered in pop-ups and video ads have negatively polarized the average normie against the open web, and helped to drive adoption of AI as an alternative way to get basic information
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1dark1 @1dark1.com · 20/05/2026
The StickerThePla.net sticker starter pack now ships with even more, for the same low price of $9 USD. Here is that: stickerthepla.net#017
aerial view of ten different stickers of varying sizes, available from https://stickerthepla.net/#017: As Seen on Shodan, original Safety Third, giant Safety Third, NSA monitored device, cute rainbow, F*** ai, Not Dead Yet, Hotiron Creative, Security bandaid, Hardware Hacker
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1dark1 @1dark1.com · 14/05/2026
New sticker! Do you love ai slop? No?! Me neither. Here’s our new symbol. #NOai #glittersticker #StickerThePlanet #EPluribusStickerum Get 12qty for $12 USD: > > > stickerthepla.net#021 Stay ahead of the zeitgeist. Buy lots. Made by a Real Artist: masto.hackers.town/@1dark1 @1dark1.com
A 2” glitter sticker with a crossed-out, four-pointed sparkle that has become synonymous with ai slop as a ubiquitous icon used in generative ai and agentic products.A 2” glitter sticker with a crossed-out, four-pointed sparkle that has become synonymous with ai slop as a ubiquitous icon used in generative ai and agentic products.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Imagine going back to your car and all you find is a giant puddle www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/m...
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
when u tax the rich
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
An irate rich husband in a tuxedo is screaming at his rich wife, who is freaking out in a fancy dress.
Rich Husband: Darling, they’re TAXING US
Rich Wife: NO

Panel 2:
Rich Husband (looking disgusted): The bastards are TAXING US
Rich Wife (fists clenched, looking mad): NO

Panel 3:
The rich couple are now hugging and weeping.
Rich Husband: We’ll only have enough money to live in luxury for the rest of our lives
Rich Wife: Oh God

Panel 4:
Close up of Rich Husband, eyes huge, tears streaming. He whispers: Now I know how the slaves felt
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
You can’t fix stupid
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
unrelenting
Episode IV 
IT WAS ALL SO STUPID
Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was.
Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff, by the absolute worst people., And what made it worse was knowing that we'd brought this on ourselves.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23/04/2026
The kids these days say “AI” in the same way that people our age say “bullshit” (“you didn’t do that, that’s AI!”) and I think that’s beautiful
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This is not wrong.
dhuartson:

Don't let anyone talk you out of spending $15 on a new hobby.  That $50 will be the best $400 you ever spent.
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90's Computer Games Box Art @90scompgamesboxart.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Star Wars: X-Wing (1993)
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.
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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 14/04/2026
The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.
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