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Utility Nerd @utility-nerd.bsky.social · 7h

Scrolling in DC Infinite is currently screwed up because it's way too easy to go back or forward a page when you just want to scroll up and down, and scrolling in Android in general is screwed up because it's going WAY too fast vertically. It genuinely seems to be a coincidence and it's annoying.

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Utility Nerd @utility-nerd.bsky.social · 20h

"O noes we'w noooo dangewous uwu" So stop?

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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 25/09/2026

After making my definitive laser-based ranking of Steven Universe gems, I have one question: Is writer Rebecca Sugar into lasers? Because if not, it's a helluva coincidence. www.aiweirdness.com/do-they-even...

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Do they even lase? Definitive ranking of Steven Universe gems by a laser scientist

Do they even lase? A laser scientist ranks Steven Universe characters, from D-tier all the way to S-tier, and proposes a few more characters and fusions.

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Utility Nerd @utility-nerd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When a lightning talk includes the phrase "What is the Socratic Method?" you know it's going to go over time.

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Utility Nerd @utility-nerd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's bi day of visibility so I hung out with every girlfriend I've ever had. Gals if this is unexpected, my apologies, it turns out everyone who's attracted to me is bi. I don't make the rules but I would totally make this one anyway.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026

JD Vance Booed By Own Reflection In Mirror theonion.com/jd-vance-booed-by-own-…

JD Vance Booed By Own Reflection In Mirror
Image Calls VP ‘Loser’ Right To His Face

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The alt text here contains my favourite bit of wormhole trivia.

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dame @dame.is · 17/09/2026

everyone having a powerful camera in their pocket all the time definitely impacted the photography industry, but it didn't kill off professional photography a professional with an iPhone can take a better photo than a layperson with an iPhone the same is true for AI and software development

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Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 17/09/2026

Dream Pod 9 is in dire straits due to Trump's bullshit. Revenue has tanked, and sending physical products has become much more expensive. If you want to help, buy some stuff. Tribes in the Dark is available as a POD and as a PDF. You can get it here: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

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DriveThruRPG - The Largest RPG Download Store!

Your one-stop online shop for new and vintage RPG products from the top publishers, delivered fresh to your desktop in electronic format.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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Utility Nerd @utility-nerd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The best advice I heard around this is that you send either your most senior or least senior person to be the white house correspondent. Someone who has the experience to sift the bullshit, or someone who can use the cred. Don't send anyone who might be useful somewhere else.

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026

I've got a lot of work to do today but I'm getting absolutely nerdsniped by the new Flock dataset. You can download it here. It's all of the Android partitions extracted from a Flock device ddosecrets.org/article/floc...

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Flock ALPR camera - Distributed Denial of Secrets

Filesystem images of the partitions on an in-use Flock ALPR camera, including custom Android APK files installed on the device, as well as its recorded media. The data reveals how the devices track bo...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man looks like a mobster who's just been pantsed by Bugs Bunny

Pete Hegseth, looking like a cocktail you found the morning after a party

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Utility Nerd @utility-nerd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Imma lockpick this door with this motorcycle. Just need to pick up that wrench so I can seduce this nurse. Hand me that log I need a sweet ride to chase down the flying Nazgul.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh this is interesting! Climate scientist @leahstokes.bsky.social shows that candidates who talk about climate change *get a bump in preference from voters*. "Common knowledge" is that climate is a losing issue, but this survey shows the opposite is true: voters care. mailchi.mp/9af4ccd3280e...

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Climate action comes in waves

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

If you showed up at Defcon and gave talk about how your autonomous malware did something unexpected and damaged someone else's computers, the first question from the audience would be "Why are you so shit at making secure sandboxes?" It wouldn't be "How are you so awesome at making hacking tools?"

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Utility Nerd @utility-nerd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Still waiting for a browser to implement <em> as bold and <strong> as italic just to fuck with people.

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Steve Jackson Games @sjgames.com · 11/09/2026

Steve Jackson will be stepping down as CEO to focus on game design and development. Please help us congratulate longtime SJ Games staff member Sabrina Gonzalez on her new role as CEO! Managing Editor Allison Page has become our COO.

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Utility Nerd @utility-nerd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Mostly-vegetarian restaurants are easier to open because it's so low-steaks.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Love it when Telegraph commentary runs headfirst into Telegraph journalism

Trump unveils Space Force uniform inspired by Nazi-aesthetic film
Director Paul Verhoeven said his 1997 Starship Troopers was about ‘fascists who aren’t aware of their fascism’

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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you're wondering about EN World's site performance recently, the issues are due to thousands of AI scrapers crawling the site, stealing content then serving it to their users without giving us traffic, simultanously inflicting what amounts to a DDoS attack. We block 'em, they generate new ones.

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Here's a heartwarming story about incarcerated men donating their pittance of pay to slow down the orphan crushing machine!" Nobody asks why we have an orphan crushing machine. In the richest country in the world, public school lunch debt is obscene.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored."

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Utility Nerd @utility-nerd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Well there was this one time I trapped the PCs inside a geodesic dome so

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Utility Nerd @utility-nerd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The cardinal directions in Exalted are obviously the elemental poles, but at some point someone decided that magnets point toward the Pole of Air just because it's in the north, and, like, obviously ("obviously") no. prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/8267810...

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David J Prokopetz

The really fun ones will hit you with the cardinal directions without first defining the world's geometrical character and leave it to the reader to infer the latter from the former. I once read a...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here

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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document

The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”

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Utility Nerd @utility-nerd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"So-and-so would like to recall their message" that's nice but you sent me the e-mail and it's mine now.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 04/09/2026

An incredible image, and overall winner of this year's Australian Geographic Nature Photography award. Using a DJI Mavic 3 Pro (drone), Matt Deakin captured an extremely rare moment - seeing a critically endangered Sawfish in the wild and passing by a Turtle, off the Pilbara coast in WA.

Aerial image of a Sawfish as it swims below and past a turtle

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Utility Nerd @utility-nerd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Up to 5 million!? Well golly gee I reckon I can put one together for that many smackers! Oh nooo, it crashed and everything is gone! And there were no backups! And it was written in Funge-98!

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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 02/09/2026

/ A NEW LINE OF "REAL INFORMATION" WEATHER IS HAPPENING T-SHIRTS NOW AVAILABLE / REAL INFORMATION: / LAKE ONTARIO / GULF OF MEXICO / THATS REAL INFORMATION ALRIGHT / merch.weatherishappening.com/products?utf...

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Utility Nerd @utility-nerd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This thread is like finding the Wikipedia backrooms except it's Dark Mirror.

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Part Time Yeen @parttimeyeen.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Any of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year

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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶

A broad-tailed hummingbird hovers next to an anise hyssop plant framed by purple blooms and with a rainbow behind it!!! The bird also has a little bead of water on its bill because it is raining.

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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Useful (non comics) link: Find, save and share Public Notices like planning applications, roadwork announcements, that affect you in your local area in the UK: publicnoticeportal.uk - search by postcode

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Public Notice Portal

Find, save and share Public Notices that affect you in your local area

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Chris Lawson @cmlawson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Rascal News is doing some of the best reporting, analysis, and entertaining in the entire ttrpg biz. Real grown-up shit. If we want tabletop to mature and grow, we need something like Rascal. And buddy, Rascal is right here. They're doing a big discount on subscriptions sooooo

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

From NASA: It happened again! Here's Phobos passing in front of the Sun as seen by the Perseverance rover from the surface of Mars on Aug. 12. science.nasa.gov/photojournal...

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Utility Nerd @utility-nerd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This happened when I got to high school. It was so fucking liberating. No longer was my entire identity reduced to "the smart kid". I got to be an actual person.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 21/08/2026

Three more days to comment on NSF's attempt to smuggle in OMB's already-rejected policies of terminating any grant without cause, gutting civil rights obligations and restricting international collaborations. Submit your comment today! Then call your representatives. 🧪

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