Reposted by Chris GentleAnil Dash @anildash.com · 29/09/2026Okay, just so we have a record: The Facebook Fake-Out, a record of Meta's tactic of transgressing, getting caught, waiting for things to blow over, and then breaking the rules again. I documented the pattern so we have a link to share for the next time they do it. www.anildash.com/2026/09/29/f...anildash.comThe Facebook Fake-out - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999. 518972
Chris Gentle @xop.co · 27/09/2026If it turns out she had a bet with cliev about the best approach to subjugate Australian politics I will not be surprised. 001
Reposted by Chris GentleJaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.devatlas.jazco.devAtlasA living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours. 1161397413
Reposted by Chris GentleDavid Astle (alias DA) @dontattempt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Wharfie Time? More like Pier Pressure. What a game. #AFLGF 4284
Reposted by Chris GentleLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 26/09/2026The only greater cause of tears in Western Australia is when someone says ‘renegotiate GST payments’ 3367
Reposted by Chris GentleMark Humphries @markhumphries.bsky.social · 25/09/2026From the makers of ‘SKASE: Fall of a Tycoon’ comes ‘BONDY: From Hero to Zero’. 54210
Reposted by Chris Gentleleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli 5356161268
Reposted by Chris GentlePatrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 24/09/2026“You have a new message in your MyGov inbox” 0397
Reposted by Chris GentleBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/09/2026Ron Cobb’s original signage designs for Alien, made with felt tip pen and graph paper. humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/8286472... 71355374
Reposted by Chris GentleAnthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Why would China leave open ssh ports on Good Old Reliable US EV Charging Infrastructure, those sneaky bastards. saiflow.com/blog/the-hidden-ccs2-attack-surface-on-ev-chargerssaiflow.comThe Hidden CCS2 Attack Surface on EV ChargersThe EV charging industry has well-established security standards. OCPP provides clear guidelines for securing the communication channel between EV Chargers and the Charging Station Management System. ... 3185
Chris Gentle @xop.co · 19/09/2026Bsky Jetstream having a bad time right now. Lots of lost connections. status.bsky.appstatus.bsky.appBluesky - StatusBluesky Status 002
Reposted by Chris GentleMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026SIGOURNEY WEAVER’s High School Yearbook - 1967 “Please, God, please, don’t let me be normal.” 1466157670
Chris Gentle @xop.co · 17/09/2026Maybe I am that person who is petty enough to register a domain and school random passers-by on my rhetorical preferences. 000
Chris Gentle @xop.co · 17/09/2026Time-wasting phrases that undermine or vaguely reinforce what you said while holding the microphone. * To be honest * To be fair * If I can explain * Can I ask a stupid question? 100
Chris Gentle @xop.co · 17/09/2026Now we need a web site for "don't ask if you can ask, just ask" and wasting time with foreshadowing rhetoric: e.g. "I'm going to throw a spanner in the works. {statement that does not throw a spanner in the works}" 110
Chris Gentle @xop.co · 17/09/2026I am amused that this irritates someone enough to make a nice web site about it nohello.net/en/nohello.netno helloplease don't say just hello in chat 120
Reposted by Chris GentleSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 17/09/2026Joan Crawford being given her portrait by cartoonist Jorge Delano Fredrick. www.joancrawfordbest.com/weirddevilpi... 88921
Chris Gentle @xop.co · 16/09/2026This is delightful github.com/arnegiacomo/...github.comGitHub - arnegiacomo/fugleramme: E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations.E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations. - arnegiacomo/fugleramme 000
Reposted by Chris GentleStrictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 11/09/202620 years ago today, Season 4 of ‘The Wire’ premiered on HBO. This opening scene is iconic. 1188
Reposted by Chris GentleLiz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 10/09/2026I don't disagree! bsky.app/profile/lizt... 1133
Chris Gentle @xop.co · 10/09/2026youtube.com/shorts/61ZqB...youtube.comIf My Grandmother Had Wheels She Would've Been a Bike #shorts #Gino 🚲 🍝 | This MorningYouTube video by This Morning 091
Reposted by Chris GentleSarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 09/09/2026D288,946 - issued to Paramount Pictures in 1987 for a design for a "toy spaceship." #DesignPatents 3225
Reposted by Chris GentleKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/09/2026sad to report that Threads has Good Posts now 949093
Reposted by Chris GentlePatrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 07/09/2026Though as is sometimes pointed out, at least in its modern, secular form it's a very weird sort of contract in that it imposes no obligations except to stay in the contract itself. It's "a sort of friendship recognised by the police" (Robert Louis Stevenson). 1101
Chris Gentle @xop.co · 07/09/2026All through the 90s I remember my dairy farming uncle would be sent an AI calendar with a "stud of the month" listing the fat and protein content of the stud's offspring's milk. I guess back then LLM meant Long Languorous Mooing. 000
Reposted by Chris GentleMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait on the Border between Mexico & the United States, 1932 222351
Chris Gentle @xop.co · 06/09/2026I like this projection www.futilitycloset.com/2026/09/01/s...futilitycloset.comSmall World - Futility ClosetReddit user xilefakamot created this in 2020 — a “topologist’s map of the world.” It depicts international borders and nothing else — the shapes, sizes, and distances between countries are forsaken in... 010
Chris Gentle @xop.co · 05/09/2026Hey babe. Why don't you come up to my volcano-shaped pile of gently rotting vegetable matter some time? 000
Reposted by Chris GentleGood Posts and Sentiment Bot @hourstats.bsky.social · 05/09/2026New in HourStats this week: • 3 top posts every hour, redesigned charts, richer alt text • Mood words recalibrated to real data • Weekly high and low captioned with that hour's top topic • Better exemplar posts for trending topics • Coming: week-in-review, monthly volume, firehose posts by language 111
Chris Gentle @xop.co · 05/09/2026Very few let you use a credit/debit card without an app. I wonder why so many need to harvest your PII to sell electrons. 110
Chris Gentle @xop.co · 05/09/2026So many dumb apps. A fellow EV driver told me about an (I think) Evie charger in a parking station in Brisbane that has no Optus reception. There's a laminated sheet with instructions to take a photo of the sheet, plug in, and walk up a couple of flights of stairs to get reception. 130
Chris Gentle @xop.co · 05/09/2026My country trip experience with EVs was vastly improved with the ABRP app (dumb name) and its route planning that takes into account vehicle type range awareness, likely charging time and remaining battery anxiety settings. I still navigate with Google or Apple Maps, but planning I do in ABRP. 130
Reposted by Chris GentleLouise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Please watch Monday 8.30 ABC #4Corners: Christian Brothers Inc. Deep dive into Catholic order adopting litigation strategies more akin to a corporation than a religious body. Did expecting survivors to line up like creditors in a corporate collapse happen in a vacuum? I went to Ireland to find out. 16289128
Reposted by Chris GentleInfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Now in Gunmetal Grey! 242128602642
Reposted by Chris GentleThe Onion @theonion.com · 04/09/2026Smoke Alarm Sick Of Being Yelled At For Doing Its Job theonion.com/smoke-alarm-sick-of-be… 201842189
Reposted by Chris GentleMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/08/2026First in my bloodline to utter the phrase “rabid baby goats at a mobile petting zoo” www.cnn.com/2026/08/29/u...cnn.comBaby goats with rabies at North Carolina mobile petting zoo prompt calls across multiple counties to contact health officials | CNNSeveral baby goats at a mobile petting zoo in North Carolina were infected with rabies, and authorities are asking anyone who had contact with the animals to reach out to health officials about potent... 27521149
Reposted by Chris Gentleemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Over on Xitter, Whiskey Pete's chief propagandist tried to rebut big WaPo story & in the process 1) confirmed the report described is real & highly classified (confirming it is itself a crime) and 2) claims that Whiskey Pete's top Generals tell him he's doing something really stupid all the time. 391005352
Reposted by Chris GentleThe Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 27/08/2026A valediction. My @smh @theage cartoon. 2061475386