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Abjurer

@abjurer.bsky.social

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Free Worlds League historian, Deep Rock Galactic certified Engineer and Gunner, MannCo Medic, and retired Dagorhir fighter. He/him 🏴

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Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · Jan 18

I'm finally getting around to actually posting some of my mechs. I still have to work on the bases, but I'm happy with how these turned out.

#battletech #mechwarrior #miniaturepainting

A set of miniatures from the Battletech gaming franchise, painted in Marik Militia livery. From left to right: Hermes II, Wolverine, Griffin, Icarus II.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20h

Exclusive: Anthropic spent $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services in the first three quarters of 2025, around 100% of their estimated revenue. Its costs appear to increase with their revenue, showing little path to profitability.
www.wheresyoured.at/costs/

This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services

So, I originally planned for this to be on my premium newsletter, but decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked it, please consider subscribing to su...

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Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · 15h

Paint one there and one on the other side of town. Spread out the area they gotta watch.

Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · 21h

AI screwed up how a fighter jet's pilot mask is supposed to fit, but got the consistency of diarrhea down perfectly. I can't think of a better analogy for the current state of AI and the tech industry in general.

Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. The more you look, the worse it gets, as they say.

Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · 1d

I'm just disappointed in how his shitposts have degraded to AI slop of actual shit.

Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · 2d

As someone else already pointed out: even AI can't make that dipshit mask up properly.

Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · 2d

Midrivers in St Charles County had a good turnout too.

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Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · Jun 14

The only king I'll acknowledge

Norton the First, Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico.

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Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · 2d

They've been dealing with a lot of floods lately. Although as someone who lives next to the Missouri river, that's not exactly a deal breaker for me.

Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · 2d

I can't even tell anymore. Like, the one girl has a weird open-mouthed look on her face, but I don't know if that's AI being shit, or some 8 year old making a silly face.

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Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · 2d

Wait, someone made a cover of "The Battle of Evermore"? The manifestation of the "LZ always sings about Lord of the Rings" trope?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · 2d

It took me getting "friendzoned" by a woman who was into D&D, Anime, and a bunch of other stuff I was into for me to realize "well... I guess if I'm friendzoned, at least I get a cool friend out of it."

She was the Best Woman at my wedding 10 years later.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 3d

the US government has arrived on bluesky

4 panel comic

Panel 1: A group of people just having a lovely time. Everyone is laughing

Panel 2: An absolute Federal Agent appears in the middle of the group laughing like an obnoxious robot

Panel 3: The group quickly disperses, leaving the gross creepy agent by himself

Panel 4: The agent touches his ear and says “arrest their moms”

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Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · 2d

Finally: a use case for AI that might actually make society better.

jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 3d

i've just been informed that youtube added AI summaries to video suggestions. doesn't that kind of undermine clickbait, which is bad for their business model?

mr beast: can this guy i trapped in a burning building escape in time to win $

summary: no he died and jimmy donaldson has fled the country

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning Bluesky !

Cop pepper spraying himself with the caption "the radical left attacked us"

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Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · 3d

I take it back. After about half an hour browsing, their followers were almost all accounts with no posts and no replies. Should have saved myself the trouble and just blocked the list.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.

These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.

Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

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Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · 3d

Nah, if I block them, then I can't see their follower list. *Those* I block.

Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · 3d

These dorks ran out of ideas in the 19th century.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 3d

Christian nationalist podcaster Joshua Haymes says Christians must be willing to defend the institution of slavery because the Bible makes it clear that "it is not inherently evil to own another human being." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · 3d

Ah damn. Its going to take *forever* to get that statue up...

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Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · 4d

Best case scenario: he only told everyone that he's using ChatGPT just to get the weird techbros hanging around the administration off his back.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 4d

dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 4d

There are basically only two positions in the debate about cocaine.
1) I don't want to take cocaine. Cocaine sucks.
2) I will suck literally any part of you for some more cocaine.

Justin Wolfers
‪@justinwolfers.bsky.social‬
There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.

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Abjurer @abjurer.bsky.social · 4d

I'm now wondering if bodega ferrets are a thing. Probably not: the little bastards would be constantly robbing the place.

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