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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 20h

I don't have a specific example but I've always loved the trope of a series of answering machine messages providing exposition as the camera pans over something like a trashed apartment etc.

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But I guess if the SotL wins it does so without really losing many men, if any, if the triremes win they're losing at least like 50% so it's not a *great* day for them either way. And they'd be so sleepy afterwards!

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think i gotta give it to the tris in fair fight, more maneuverable, speed not reliant on wind. assuming they can surround the SotL with minimal casualties and co-ordinate attack, can't see the SotL taking out more than ~80%, lotta dudes left to swarm. Longer fight starts swinging towards the SotL.

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Desperate for a politician brave enough to put bins on our streets.

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think you're being pretty unfair, in this day and age it's extremely impressive to write an entire article without any access to the internet.

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Chatting with some dinosaurs in heaven "...yeah so then the meteor just exploded, it was gnarly. What about you guys?" "Oh uh like a zombie virus thing, haha it was crazy, anyway tell me more about the meteor"

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I really didn't think this would be what got us. Figured it'd be nuclear war or an interesting plague or something. A chatbot that tells you you're a special birthday boy, how embarassing.

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I guess it's just the slightly more believable version of "many people are saying" nice and easy to handwave, no one's checking your work

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Man this rocks I can't even convince my lecturers to update their reading lists from five years ago.

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I mean it's Lord of the Rings of course but also a very very close second is the new Planet of the Apes. Planets of the Apes. Planets of the Apeses? Planetary System of the Apes.

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Actually it might be closer to 13m, I'm so sorry.

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I realised we don't need to worry about air resistance because the atmosphere more or less moves at the same speed as the surface. Probably there'd be some wind that would fuck your shit up.

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ok the earth dips at 7.85cm/1km of distance². You (and times square, and the air around you) have continued at 1,269km/h for ~105km (65.24mi), so your altitude is ~865.5m (2,839.4ft). If you look directly down (towards centre of the earth) you should see a spot ~10m west of where you started.

google earth pro image of times square, with a pin in the centre of the intersection and a red line extending 10m to the west

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Straight down like straight towards the earth where it's closest to you? Because down doesn't mean anything without gravity I guess. Assume the planet still spinning, so the surface is moving at the same speed as you. No wait maybe faster because you'll be slower by air friction. Hmm.

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

that first fit is exceptional, fantastic jacket and vest combo.

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

putting you on my "people who care about getting put on lists" list just to see

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

not saying it's worse than throwing fireworks at them but the line about shooting them with beanbag rounds really sticks in my head

screenshotted excerpt from the linked Guardian article, reading "Tassal also used 31 bean bag rounds – fabric-coated plastic shells containing lead shot – against seals at its leases on the Tasman Peninsula. Tassal is the only salmon company that uses these devices in Tasmania."

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That's not true Greg, some fossil fuel executives are also voters.

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Getting a bulk discount for pallets of GPUs, warehousing em for a few years to drive up demand and then selling them to increasingly desperate gamers? Now that's just sound business strategy if you ask me. This is legal financial advice.

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yep, and increasingly landing on some sort of fail-state page after the check. Feel like that's escalated in just the last two weeks.

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think at the speeds that thing can muster you're probably ok, character building if anything

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've always thought the snowy hydro scheme was held back by caring too much about its duty of care to younger generations, great to see labor taking steps to change that.

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

that's why I mostly use mine lying down to spread my weight out, enabling me to inch my way to safety (glass of water on bedside table)

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Don't forget the fake vampire attacks in the Phillipines

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If i put a brick on the accelerator pedal of a car and it veers left to right as it speeds down the street, is it *deciding* to crash into the lamp post it eventually wraps itself around?

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thanks for using alt text Ketan, but don't forget to identify the person if you haven't done it in the text! Your vision impaired readers also deserve to be reminded that friendlyjordies is a worm 🙏

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yeah ofc I can now tell when people are mad at me (pretty much all the time)

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yeah pretty baffling. Normally it's the natives being exploited for their resources so it's nice they get to do the exploiting for a change.

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Choosing to read "AI-Natives" as derogatory

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Fun fact he also played the liquid form of Alex Mack, hell of a career

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Theirs looks like hot trash, simple is always better. yours are great!

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Why do you think a stochastic parrot would be good at telling you what wine you'll like just ask the server

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

gonna have to see da toast first but yeah

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

since i posted this i keep thinking about how i am already the Large Animal who must decide when it is time for me to eat. and i do indeed lose my mind a little bit at those times. what a world

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think about this every time I feed a pet but if I had no choice other than to wait until a Large Animal decided it was time for me to eat I'd lose my mind about it too.

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

they would've been punished if so

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Dups Cracken @turtleshelf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Crazy to have such a poverty of imagination, even in your impossible fantasy god-machine-powered future u still gotta do insurance claims

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