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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Missing my grandparents tonight and so currently sipping a Sloe Gin Fizz and listening to schmaltzy Jackie Gleason albums.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you get a Snork to fall in love with you, you become a Moomin.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.

A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Can anyone answer for me? Is wearing black part of the ritual? Or is this just because it’s New York?

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For those of us in the US, anyway.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There are far more important things going on, but my QOL has been diminished by the removal of Great British Sewing Bee from any streaming platforms.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Christa Pike committed heinous acts. But it doesn’t follow that the State must then also commit heinous acts.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s so typical of US culture right now that Schmitt is far more willing to concede that he failed to spring his cynical perjury trap than to admit a woman corrected his sports knowledge.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Clear your schedule—there are CORGI RACES on ESPN.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Rove: “The problem is far worse than anyone imagined.” Anyone?

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It ys tyme for Tulip skeptics to face some difficulte trouthes. Tulips are the waye of the future. Yf you do not invest yn Tulips you are way behinde. Yf you do not teache your children about Tulips thei will not be able to compete on the jobbe market. Onlye Luddites dislyke Tulips.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Both of which would not even be close to the worst of his enormities.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Kennedy Center is a test skirmish for Mt. Rushmore.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Once you have favorable market share, the next step is regulatory capture.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am in no danger of believing that my toilet is sentient. I know perfectly well it’s a simple mechanism, and nothing to do with “thinking.“ But this is a perfectly human mode of expression. We worry too much, in my opinion.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Folks act like anthropomorphizing AI is a problem, but it’s just normal human language habits and NBD. My partner told me that our toilet wasn’t re-filling after flushing, and my first spoken thought was “Hm, I guess if the float valve is stuck, then the toilet thinks it’s already full.”

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Then my brain goes to, well, what if he is an AI? He appears to be a 100% self-interested entity with zero scruples. The exact model of rampant AI gone amok that we’ve seen in SciFi for decades.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I have often had nightmarish thoughts, like, what if we foolishly give AI control of the nuclear codes? Then I admit to asking myself how much worse could that be than the person who actually does have that control right now?

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Family Guy was always too try-hard to be funny.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/08/2026

Christ Does Soft Return To Gauge Interest theonion.com/christ-does-soft-retur…

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Bless me father for I have sinned LOL

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Call it the No True Scotsman fallacy if you want, but I will die on this hill: bad artists will make bad art and good artists will make good art. If you are critical of a genre, medium, context, or technique prior to experiencing the actual work of any specific artist, you have it backwards.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s the thneed of furniture.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The last I ever saw in actual business use was in a bank drive-up deposit lane.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I would love to see the return of pneumatic tubes. Just because they’re nifty.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The horrifying secret is that replicator food is people.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Anyone who’s heard, say, Michala Petri knows that recorders get a bad rap based on those grade school memories.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I hated those recorder classes in elementary school, but perversely they made me even more enthusiastic when the Jr High band director proffered a euphonium, like I was leveling up.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just a reminder that the linked article does point out that Republicans went down this path first, in case anyone following this thread gets the impression it’s just a Democratic problem. We do so love our circular firing squads. (It’s horrible regardless of which side does it.)

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FunnyVia @funnyvia.com · 17/08/2026

I've told my cat a million times to stop opening interdimensional portals in my house....

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In reality, our entire nation is being used as a decoy Air Force One for this one man.

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 11/08/2026

If I may pop in to add to this. Stock photo websites already figured this out by allowing users to pay for credits. These news sites could let people just buy a set number of credits and then read whatever articles they want, when they want, until their credits run out. But that's asking too much

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Lots of good writers tell more than show. They’re not breaking any rules. The key is they’re good writers.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Those lists are full of head-scratchers. How was anyone using the word ‘trackball’ in 1967?

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Monasterio’s walk-up music needs to be Gregorian chant. #RedSox

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Excuse me, time to go root against the Dodgers.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

*standing up on the plane* Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’m no money expert, but I recall that in the days of print media, one could buy a single issue of anything. Subscribing was for a few select publications. The requirement to subscribe to everything is unsustainable for most folks. Give me this week’s issue for $3 or something.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I first saw the butter items about a year ago in a museum shop in Washington DC. There were butter socks and butter scarves, tied in to a related exhibit at the museum. Thought it was a one-off, but now they’re everywhere.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The existence of this almost makes me believe in God.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

And I’m only just talking about the ones that I give the benefit of the doubt.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I’m all in favor of vigorous discourse on the Arts, but 80% of the folks pontificating on the Odyssey right now just sound like “here are the objective Rules for Art, and artists who don’t follow them suck.” Embarrassing.

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

What an extraordinary photograph (Maximilien Lamy/ AFP)

Beach scene, sunbathers watching wildfires in Moutchic, south-west Frannce

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Hard not to read this as a fake post. It has all the earmarks of artificial rage bait.

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Christopher @thelostemperor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Kind of freaked when I realized the creepy potential kidnapper in the New Little House on the Prairie was the actor who played young Nellie Olsen in the 70s TV show.

Screenshot from the 2026 Little House on the Prairie showing the actor Alison Arngrim in a cameo role.

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