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Your good friend, Chris Normal @heythatsmyleg.bsky.social · 6h

Literally the only way to pitch "You can watch [movie] with [actor]" is to just say "deepfake porn". But we have to dance around that given that it's a kind of sexual assault. But that's the only thing it's good for. So maybe we don't need it at all

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 6h

Was doing a crossword from last week and the answer to this was ‘obese’, and I simply don’t think we can know that that’s true without a better understanding of typical Hutt physiology

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 10h

I felt that this had to surely be a joke. That it couldn't possibly be what was actually said in the interview.

But my niggling doubt had me check and sure enough...

Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.bsky.social · 10h

"Does he or or does he not have a brain worm?”

“It ate just a little bit of his brain and died,” Hines said. “So don’t worry."

deadline.com/2025/10/the-...

‘The View’ Grills Cheryl Hines On Husband RFK Jr.: “He Has Spread A Lot Of Disinformation”

Cheryl Hines, the Curb Your Enthusiasm star married to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., squared off against the co-hosts of The View today.

deadline.com

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 11h

I can’t believe he did the thing *at* his memorial

50 Cent on Many Men:

Now it's clear that I'm here for a real reason
'Cause he got hit like I got hit, but he ain't fekin' breathin'

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 1d

Sold out

A T-shirt featuring the box art from the 1995 game Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness. It shows an orc facing off with a human. The orc has green skin, a red bandana and yellowed fangs. The human is just a beard y guy

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 1d

It happened to me: I got an ad for a retailer selling Warcraft 2 graphic t-shirts but then I clicked through and they only had Warcraft 3 graphic t-shirts 😔

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hey, it’s a movie now www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

H is for Hawk review – Claire Foy is tremendously authentic in eccentric grief drama

Foy convinces as a grieving academic who trains a goshawk in this film based on Helen Macdonald’s bestselling nature memoir

www.theguardian.com

petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 1d

I can never remember anything that would be useful in daily life but I still have my primary school friends’ home phone numbers easily accessible in my brain

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 1d

Unrelated but iTunes gift cards are currently in short supply at local retailers

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 2d

Was reading about Japanese holdout soldiers on Wikipedia today, and the guy that stayed in the Philippines til the ‘70s is generously described as “conducting guerilla activities”, the scant detail of which sounds a lot like he was just stealing food and murdering the occasional civilian

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 2d

You’re right, they’re more of a family

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 2d

They don’t call it Cool and Composed Birds

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 2d

Squidward meme that reads "When I'm in a caving to vested interests competition and my opponent is the Australian Labor Party"

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 2d

how surprising... another forest relics major collecting unemployment. maybe you should have learned something useful instead of salvaging ancient machines from the moss

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 2d

Good luck, they move pretty quickly

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 2d

This is very dire and I feel like Ian Dickson should have more dignity than these. But also, is Love Island Australia/The Block a crossover show or have these two just both been on both. Also are they twins or clones?

Section of the quoted image showing Josh and Luke, two very similar looking white men both subtitled 'Love Island/The Block'

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway, everyone's always like "we need to fund the humanzees to counter the influence of the tech industry" but when I post actual humanzee content, it's crickets

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 2d

Who among us hasn't had our dreams of a human-ape hybrid frustrated by the untimely death of our sperm-producing orang-utan, and subsequent exile to Soviet Kazakhstan?

"In 1929, he attempted to organize a set of experiments involving nonhuman ape sperm and human volunteers, but was delayed by the death of his last orangutan. The next year, he fell under political criticism from the Soviet government and was sentenced to exile in the Kazakh SSR; he worked there at the Kazakh Veterinary-Zootechnical Institute and died of a stroke two years later."

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 2d

Likely thing for a capuchin to assert

From the Wikipedia entry for Humanzee:

"The possibility of hybrids between humans and other apes has been entertained since at least the medieval period; Saint Peter Damian (11th century) claimed to have been told of the offspring of a human woman who had mated with a non-human ape, and so did Antonio Zucchelli, an Italian Franciscan capuchin friar who was a missionary in Africa from 1698 to 1702, and Sir Edward Coke in "The Institutes of the Lawes of England"

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 2d

There was a recent tweet to the effect of "the true generational divide is older people who see a video and question why it isn't text, and younger people who see text and question why it isn't a video"

(everything should be text)

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 2d

You're displaying on your front page... an image which looks like an ornate vase. Then when you go into it, you see that the negative space is comprised of two human faces in profile... Can I ask you to explain why this is on your front page?

CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 2d

Senator Henderson to Yahoo: "You're displaying on your front page... a photo which looks like a woman exposing her buttocks. Then when you go into it, you see that those are two. bald heads in front of the woman... Can I ask you to explain why this is on your front page?"

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 2d

Lisa Simpsons saying "I know those words but that sign makes no sense" in response to a dilapidated film theatre whose marquee reads "Yahoo Serious Festival"

petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 2d

I've seen eclectic-er laundries

Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 2d

Eclectic Laundry
Eclectic, AL

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2d

The ALP might as well merge with the Minerals Council of Australia

Miners to get an early look at Labor’s new green laws

Tom Rabe
WA political correspondent
Oct 12, 2025 – 3.26pm

The Albanese government will give mining companies and other stakeholders draft extracts of its environmental protection laws before they go to parliament, as Environment Minister Murray Watt tries to rebuild trust after earlier negotiations on the reforms collapsed in acrimony.

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