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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 6h

"Music is over" is the mating call of a creature that thinks we sat around a fire 20,000 years ago and invented drums as an investment vehicle

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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 10h

Having a cat means hearing things crash in the middle of the night and deciding it's a problem for tomorrow.

Jinx the green eyed bobtail cat looking snarkily at the camera.

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ANNUAL HALLOWEEN REMINDER THAT ANYTHING WITH ACTIVATED CHARCOAL *WILL* FUCK WITH YOUR MEDICATIONS

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Serenity "🜔🝆🜌🜂" Dee 🍜 @sapphixy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I vastly underestimated just how powerful a 600 dB sound would be. (There's a reason I love r/theydidthemath.)

Practicing acoustics engineer here, thought I would have some fun. So 600DB looks like the model number, but lets assume that its a "decibel" as is asked in the question.

There is no reference value stated with the 600 dB, so we don't know exactly what it would measure. But let's see what we get if its 600 dB of sound pressure (re: 20 uPa) and 600 dB of sound power (re: 1 pW). Obviously, we can't really apply basic acoustic equations here and it would be impossible for this to occur, but lets just say that it can.

If 600 dB of sound pressure, we would get an RMS pressure level of 2e25 Pa and a peak pressure of 2.8e25 Pa or 28000000000 petapascals (assuming a perfect sinusoid). For reference, the pressure at the center of the sun is 26.5 petapascals. So the oscillation in ambient pressure would be orders of magnitude above the static pressure in the center of the sun.

If we assume this wave behaves linearly and adiabatically (haha), then the temperature change caused by the compression and rarefaction of the air would be 2.3e22 degrees Celcius. Estimates say that the temperature of the universe during the Big Bang are in the order of only 1e9.

If we assume 600 dB of sound power, then this blast would produce 1e48 W of power when the horn is used. Black holes do not have this amount of power. One source I found estimates that the big bang is estimated to have released about 1e50 J of energy. So if we played the horn for 1 second, we would only be 100x off from the power equivalent of the Big Bang.

So if a 600 dB whatever horn existed, it would likely destroy the universe when used.

Edit: Looks like the description does actually claim 600 dB! Probably it’s false advertising or the company doesn’t know how to calculate sound pressure. But they technically didn’t claim a reference value, so 600 dB could technically be correct if they claim a small enough reference value :) Sound pressure level = 20*log10(p_rms/p_ref), but this reference pressure is 20uPa in air.

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Wingofbenu @wingofbenu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Honestly churning out 6 videos a day sounds like fucking torture

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leda and such @taliursu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

insane interaction between cai’s va and leda’s va

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Wingofbenu @wingofbenu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Star Wars exists to make a subset of gen X megafans who are completely unpleasable happy, and Disney will careen wildly from movie to movie like a man with a dowsing rod trying to please them

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✪ Gray Skies Ahead ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

I despise him. I loathe his entire being. His mere existence is both a poison and a blight upon humanity. The world at large would genuinely be a better and safer place without him in it. I will loudly & audaciously celebrate his passing. May he be forever cursed to step barefoot on multiple legos.

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audrey @audioerf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"baby bayonetta lite" deserves your attention

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Angie @charmwitch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave is a funny game. Queen Theodora and her son boy she'd kill everyone in the room for.

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how come meteors always be landing in craters @azureskysm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Me playing fire emblem fates for the first time: Camilla is hot Me 3 years after fire emblem heroes came out: I'm so fucking sick of Camilla. There's some decent stuff in her supports but she's really not all that. Shes just kinda weird most of the time Me now: camilla is hot

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Sadcommunistdog @sadcommunistdog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This shit is driving me insane, I constantly hope for millennials to not calcify into boomers and am constantly disappointed like YOU ARE NOT THE PROTAGONIST OF THE UNIVERSE, THE ARC OF POPULAR MEDIA DOES NOT BEND TO YOUR PERSONAL TASTES

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Erika Ishii has committed the unthinkable crimes of being unflinchingly and joyously themselves and of having success in the video game space. These crimes against humanity are why every righteous online chode chud ceaselessly harasses them.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fred Clark, on the Left Behind series and rapture fantasies actually reflecting fear of death: "Christianity is about death and resurrection, not about the denial of death. Not about "Jesus coming back to get us before we die." This escapist fantasy of a gospel isn't just bad theology. It's cruel"

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I sorta soft-launched it, but I'm not going by Alex no more. I am Katie now.

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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also, there’s a very nice little Easter Egg in Control

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Wingofbenu @wingofbenu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is just too close to that same shitty thing evangelicals do when they leave a 100 dollar tip at country kitchen and surprise it's actually an ad telling the wait staff to come to church or burn in hell the money side is fake

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Wingofbenu @wingofbenu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i love how his first action is to victim blame as though 'wokeness" killed his parents or something

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026

Share if you agree

Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket

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Wingofbenu @wingofbenu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the drivel of a man who has never once in his entire fucking life ever had to deal with the possibility of his dumbass thought experiments having real world consequences

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Joel (RocketCo) 🦝 @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm not Irish at all & even I know how outspoken they are on the topic. He's supposed to be Irish & he was just culture stealing & got caught because he was too spineless to stand up to someone who would have easily backed down if he threw his "starpower' back at him & said fuck off I fill stadiums.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The thing about trying not to pick a side is that the nazis *instantly recognize* which side you picked. They immediately identify you as an ally. They know exactly what side you're on. It doesn't fool the victims, it doesn't fool the Nazis, the only people it could possibly fool is centrists.

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(GDHitless) PT @pleasantlytwstd.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

if 'fuck around and find out' was a poster iykyk and if you don't know I'm not explaining.

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 16/09/2026

Everything's falling into place

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PLEASE REPOST PINNED, NEW MEDS NEEDED @irisposting.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

‼️I'M BEGGING YOU, DON'T SCROLL PAST‼️ I have 5 days to raise money for both my medication and to keep my room for another month. If I lose my room I end up on the street which is unsurvivable bc of my Lupus. PLEASE DON'T LET ME DIE!!! paypal.me/cjmcwillams venmo: areanynamesopen

A receipt for one of the two medications I need that insurance keeps refusing to pay for no matter how many appeals we send. It's $485.21. I need this medication to keep my Lupus as stable as possible, if it destabilizes it will go back to further destroying all my organs until they shut down from sustaining too much damage.

A receipt showing the weekly rate of the hotel I've been at, which is $833.08. I'm aiming to raise enough for a month, so I don't have to scramble week after week to raise enough to barely stay off the street. Living in a hotel means no tenant rights so I'm at the mercy of the hotel's owners and they can kick me out for nonpayment whenever they want.

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boobs are progressive and feminist @bapaf.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Do I enjoy plane games like Ace Combat and Project Wingman? Yeah man, I'm a huge fan of aeroge

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Roko’s basilisk isn’t real but the people who think it is are very real & will hurt you

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

People are complicated! You can harm one community in the past and help a different one in the future! Let’s hold all truths at the same time! bsky.app/profile/shar...

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Dave @daswickerman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I put together a playlist of Behind the Bastards episodes because I got tired of telling people to go look up the Zizians episodes. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Explaining Rationalist Weirdos - YouTube

A collection of Behind the Bastards episodes that touch on the current state of affairs where a bunch of rationalist weirdos are running AI and destroying th...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/09/2026

The funny thing (it's not really funny) about the various cults that dip into and out of AI is that the most chilling thing I've heard from AI boosters isn't "AI will kill everyone." It's "we will use AI to benefit all of humanity."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/09/2026

Longtermerists view AI like a gigantic trolley problem: Because it will be so beneficial for future generations of the human race (who dwarf the current living beings in number), it is worth sacrificing an arbitrarily large number of currently living humans in order to achieve it.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/09/2026

What is a longtermerist? They think that you have to look at humanity in the long term, and that humans alive right now do not matter more than humans born 200 years from now.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/09/2026

And you might be saying, "but Courtney, that's not chilling at all. That sounds very well-intentioned." Yes, it does. But they're longtermerists and that's actually a fucking chilling thing for a longtermerist to say, in my book.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/09/2026

If you want to know how much you can trust your news source: if they're reporting artists are dumping Ed Sheeran's cowardly ass for Macklemore, they're not to be trusted. If they're reporting they're dumping Ed Sheeran because he's a spineless coward afraid to speak up against genocide, you're good.

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

seeing a lot of "the Zizians aren't THAT powerful" responses and ... gang I'm shocked people don't know about LessWrong/Eliezer Yudkowsky/Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. The Zizians are a tiny offshoot of a much larger harry potter fanfic cult with huge influence in Silicon Valley.

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"Joseph" ❌👑 @josephbogen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I actually first encountered Yudkowsky and Less Wrong sometime in 2008 when someone I knew online who actually worked in the field stumbled upon the site and couldn't get over how ridiculous and insane it all ways. I never imagined these lunatics would be taken seriously.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

Also, these people’s central source text, their Bible, is a Harry Potter fanfic, and I am not kidding. These dorkass weirdos are unthinkably wealthy and powerful now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_P...

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Wikipedia

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

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I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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