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Stargirl

@thea.codes
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Aka Thea Flowers Creative technologist, open source advocate Weirdest engineer @opulo.io Board @oshwa.org PSF fellow Weasel enthusiast Also: @theacodes @stargirl@hachyderm.io @theavalkyrie ATLien

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Stargirl @thea.codes · 4h
Not to be petty but god this reminded me of years ago when I slightly tweaked like two colors on dartpad to improve contrast and readability and it became a Whole Fucking Thing. Literal bike shedding, just more misogynistic. Good luck, OP. Stay on brand.
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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 28/09/2026
@jzplusplus.com and i are hosting a kickoff for this year’s weird web october! (weirdweboctober.website) bubblesort studios 78 gough st, sf sun, october 4, 2026, 1-5pm
a vector drawing of internet browsers at a slant 

the browser in the foreground has the text:

weird web october kickoff

bubblesort studios
78 gough st, sf
sun, october 4, 2026, 1-5pm

2000s style link banners say “web showcase from past years” 
“make your own weird websites”
and “work on this years prompts”

there’s a halftone image of clouds in the background, a mouse with a cursor trail
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 28/09/2026
This is honestly the funniest thing I've ever said.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CONTROL RESONANT (2026)
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 26/09/2026
I'm a fully licensed lesbian with a very high yearning potential.
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machine gun corey @nuclearbbq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
teachers these days grew up on indie sleaze. you think your child is at school practicing algebra when in fact they're learning about the "teaches of peaches"
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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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tef @tef.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
back when i worked in a flight search engine, almost two decades ago, we regularly had problems showing correct prices for tickets it turns out that the architect had implemented "child price = adult * constant" and had the same constant across all flights and airlines but no one had noticed
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Alex Glow (merlin) @alexglow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Finally, here's a tutorial for how I made the art for it (and my other circuit boards) – hand-drawn on my iPad and transferred to #KiCad . There are many more tools for that nowadays (such as Gingerbread by @thea.codes ), but I still favor this method :) www.hackster.io/glowascii/ip...
hackster.io
iPad to KiCad: PCB Art with Procreate
How I create art for my PCBs! By Alex Glow.
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 17/09/2026
I'm so fucking hyped for Control Resonant.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
trot with me if you want to pound
scene from TERMINATOR 2. top panel is giant truck chasing a young buckaroo through the la river. truck is labeled 'AI GENERATED BIZARRO EROTICA SLOP.' middle panel is chuck tingle showing up on his motorcycle. bottom panel is chuck aiming shotgun with label 'SINCERE, HUMAN-CRAFTED STORIES ABOUT BISEXUAL MOTHMAN THREESOMES'
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 15/09/2026
This is how it's done, folks.
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 14/09/2026
Listening to Poets of the Fall until Control Resonant comes out youtu.be/aMT5Tuw0yZk?...
youtu.be
Poets of the Fall - My Dark Disquiet (Official Video w/ Lyrics)
YouTube video by Poets of the Fall (Official)
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026
for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com
image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the backgroundblack and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 13/09/2026
I feel like I just got hit by a cosmic ray of sadness. A depressive bit-flip.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My essay on rogue AI has been republished by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — “Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did.” Grateful to @thebulletin.org for the invitation!
thebulletin.org
Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did
At the core of the Hugging Face hacking incident were a series of human choices that traded security for speed.
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 11/09/2026
Okay I need someone to introduce Jane Schoenbrun to Sam Lake
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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 10/09/2026
This is absolutely delightful; makes me miss my days doing UI/UX design:
youtube.com
Modern Day Typographer
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
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tierney cyren @bnb.im · 10/09/2026
just a full color girl in a monochrome world 😔
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 09/09/2026
GPUs are so unobtainable that even Remedy has to support the 1070 a whole ass *decade* later. Respect to them for building Northlight into something that can scale all the way down to a 1070 while also being able to push the limits of $2,000 GPUs.
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 09/09/2026
Thinking about this more, if you like the way this looks - great! Have fun! I'm an old cynical crone with opinions & you ain't gotta agree. That said, this is just disappointing to me. & I hate that people are already walking out the "wind waker repeat" to discount crique.
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yvo @yvotoro.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
bombchu gal was my crush.. #oot
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 09/09/2026
I was not aware of this but bet your ass I'll be there opening night holy shit
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 08/09/2026
This looks like ass www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFf...
youtube.com
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct 9.8.2026
YouTube video by Nintendo of America
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026
"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change." brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...
brettcodes.com
I'm done using AI
Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.
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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"People who aren't using AI to code at this point are delusional" no my good bitch I just happen to actually be good at my job, you should try it sometimes
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 07/09/2026
This is the energy I wanna have
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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Big Gleb  @GlebMelnikov8

young artists always ask me which brushes I use, but they fail to understand that it's not about brushes, or programs, or devices, or even "talent" the only thing that matters is the mysterious amulet... 4:44 PM • Sep 4, 2024
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Robot Monkey Pants @robotmonkypants.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
For Halloween, i got a job making plastic Draculas. Gotta hurry because there's limited time before the holiday and they only hired two of us. I have to make every second Count
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 05/09/2026
What are the chances of a brand new NVME SSD dying within 60 hours with a mere 218GB written? I really smothered this one in the crib.
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 04/09/2026
What an absurd thought to think, much less write out and post on the Internet. I don't even have a response, this is just baffling.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/09/2026
*exhaustedly taps sign* see: doi.org/10.31235/osf... and this from @abeba.blacksky.app: doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Pygmalion Lens 	
1) 	Feminised form: Is the AI, by its (default or exclusive) external characteristics, portraying a hegemonically feminine character? 	Yes/No
2) 	Whitened form: Is the AI, by its (default or exclusive) external characteristics, portraying a character that is inherently white (supremacist), Western, Eurocentric, etc.? 	Yes/No
3) 	Dislocation from work: Does the AI displace women from a role or occupation, or people in general from a role or occupation that tends to be (coded as) women's work? 	Yes/No
4) 	Humanisation via feminisation: Are the AI's claims to intelligence, human-likeness or personhood contingent on stereotypical feminine traits or behaviours? 	Yes/No
5) 	Competition with women: Is the AI pit (rhetorically or otherwise) against women in ways that favour it, and which are harmful to women? 	Yes/No
6) 	Diminishment via false equivalence: Does the AI facilitate a rhetoric that deems women as not having full intellectual abilities, or as otherwise less deserving of personhood? 	Yes/No
7) 	Obfuscation of diversity: Does the AI, through displacement of specific groups of people, “neutralise” (i.e., whiten, masculinise) a role, vocation, or skill? 	Yes/No
8) 	Robot rights: Do the users and/or creators of the AI grant it (aspects of) legal personhood or human(-like) rights? 	Yes/No
9) 	Social bonding: Do the users and/or creators of the AI develop interpersonal-like relationships with it? 	Yes/No
10) 	Psychological service: Does the AI function to subserve and enhance the egos of its creators and/or users? 	Yes/No
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 03/09/2026
Returning from a three month mental health program only to find that the industry I work in is vastly more insane than any of the shit I just went through is... something.
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
waking up every day since the election to find out “the guy who makes that thing you like believes in phrenology” is like getting wedgied out of bed for two years straight
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 02/09/2026
Oh, beans. 😬
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Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I always wondered who took this picture.
An old canon advertisement featuring Godzilla using a printer. Godzilla is standing over a large printer with a handful of paper. There is Japanese text and the title Canon NEW BELPIA.
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 01/09/2026
Every time I hear anyone proclaim LLMs are a "miracle" of technology my scientism spidey-sense starts screaming. The cargo is being culted.
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 01/09/2026
Big Walk is Big Fun
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 31/08/2026
Him so orange
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 29/08/2026
uh oh.. she might be cooked
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 28/08/2026
I was wondering what kind of asshole spends time and money to DDOS tcrf of all things, and of course it's an AI crusader.
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 26/08/2026
✅ Complete 3-month intensive mental health treatment 🔳 Figure out the rest of my life lol
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Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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Stargirl @thea.codes · 20/08/2026
I've started to notice that many of the most "critical"/"skeptical"/"practical" takes on AI are so steeped in pro-AI framing that they immediately give away the plot. They can't say a sideways word without first rolling out platitudes as if to calm the pro-AI before the mildest take.
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Infosecsie (ツンデレ) @myraccoonhands.com · 19/08/2026
“You’re a top candidate to work at the orphan grinding factory” “Also, have you considered a job at Lockheed Martin? I hear they let you wear jeans on Friday and have pizza parties if you hit your 𝗌̶𝖺̶𝗅̶𝖾̶𝗌̶ targets.” Thanks, LinkedIn
LinkedIn update: You're a top applicant for Al
Operations Engineer, Partnerships at Anthropic and 240+ other jobs.
Premium benefit
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🌻Ari Vauclin🌻 @arivsart.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
#soniccd my beloved 💿🌈 #sonicthehedgehog
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Preparing for a workshop on teaching critical thinking in STEM in light of current, let's say pressures, and decided I should start my talk with a slides that lays out the values that form my premises:
Slide header: Premises/values: Cards on the table

Bullet points: 
* I care more about students’ learning than about the “accuracy” of grades or the prestige associated with a specific degree
* I want to work collaboratively with my students, rather than policing them
* I don’t want to spend any time reading, much less providing feedback on, something nobody wrote
* Science is a human, communal process; there is no knowing without knowers; and our work cannot be autocompleted
* Deep thinking and human connection are always more important than polish, speed, or “productivity”
* Research agendas should not be set by & for industry
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"commission me" -heron @thxnywy.art · 18/06/2026
my hottest take on this internet is that two characters can exist without fucking
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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
💗🌸 magical girls 🌸💗
three fanarts of Sailor Moon, Sakura and Doremi, all three with a pink sky-like background
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