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chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 15m

Poor Tanita’s career could do with a boost.

chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 21m

Naan Exit

Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 58m

- Finnegans Bake
- The Bun Also Rises
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Loaf

Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 1h

My top suggestions of books to read this World Bread Day...

- The Focaccia in the Rye
- Yeast of Eden
- Flours for Algernon
- The Lion, the Witch and the Warburtons
- Pannetonement
- The Naan in the High Castle
- Leaven Las Vegas
- Pitta Rabbit

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 58m

The use of LLMs for military decision-making might give pause to anyone familiar with the models' well-known propensity to confabulate fake citations and sycophantically flatter users.

Army general says he’s using AI to improve “decision-making”

“AI is one thing that, as a commander, it’s been very, very interesting for me.”…

arstechnica.com

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chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 30m

“Women don’t like the vehicle”

Poster for the underrated John Carpenter version of Stephen King’s killer car book Christine.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 43m

American journos interested in music!

Ian Wade @wadeywade.bsky.social · 8h

My book is out in America next week. Obviously this is very exciting and while initial sales reports are very encouraging, i would love to do some promo as the PR hasn’t sorted out anything. If you know of anything or ARE someone interested in doing something then lemme know.

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chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 43m

I know it’s reductive to reduce a man’s career and legacy to a single punchline, but it’s what my country trained me for:
The King of Jiggle Physics is sadly Dead

kotaku.com/tomonobu-ita...

Tomonobu Itagaki, The Creator Of Dead Or Alive, Has Died At 58

The Team Ninja founder’s death was confirmed in a social media post

kotaku.com

chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 1h

Great name.

chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 2h

You ever seen the TV film that traumatised a generation of British kids, ‘Threads’?

Makes ‘The Day After’ look like a Disney special.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads...

Threads (1984 film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 2h

You know it makes sense

chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 3h

Too addictive?

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 7h

BBC Archive just uploaded The Lonely Shore (1962), a surreal 15-minute short that takes the form of a scientific report from an abandoned and desolate future Britain. Written by Jacquetta Hawkes, an actual archaeologist, and directed by Ken Russell, an actual madman.

1962: An Expedition to Post-Apocalyptic Britain | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

www.youtube.com

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chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 13h

Love you give a spoiler for a historic event.
Not sure what it says about the current state of teaching of the classics though?

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chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 13h

I’ll keep saying it until someone listens or (gives me drugs to go away):

The most dangerous thing about illegal drugs is the fact they are illegal.

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Jim @jimstewart.bsky.social · 14h

Thetis, the goddess of water, learned her lesson from the weakness of Achilles by dipping him in the water from the river Styx.

She dunked her son by the balls and named him Testiclles.

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chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 14h

There’s a great old acid house track that uses samples of primal scream sessions and a great chorus of some scientist saying ‘A scream at the right time can probably save your life’.

chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 14h

We’re going to be the first population in history that voluntarily voted away all their human rights.

chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 14h

Sexquatch!

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Julius Kim @juliuskim.bsky.social · 14h

The itsy-bitsy spider climbed up the water spout.
Down came the rain and
Mike Johnson’s still a cunt.

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chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 14h

Or good old cartoon pin ups like the gorgeous Betty Rubble.
Seriously what does she see in that loser Barney? All I can think of is motherfucker is hung like a racehorse.

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chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 14h

Once the protests actually achieves something other than memeable content, then you can all compare yourselves to MLK.

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chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 14h

Who’s the real villain. The billionaire Bruce Wayne, symbol of a corrupt oligarchy, or The Joker?
Well, it’s The Joker obviously. That guy is fucking nuts. Does a thing with pencils that is deeply unpleasant.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 14h

This is Jerry's backstory

spookillumi @illumi.meme · 14h

If you’re new to Bluesky, the only thing you need to know is that we go by prison rules so you have to go find the biggest account that you can and kill them to gain respect

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chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 14h

I knew the place as my aunty used to clean there.

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chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 22h

The most dangerous things about drugs is they are illegal.

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chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social · 22h

‘Garlic bread! Garlic bread?!’