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Drake Mayors @dejitarujin.bsky.social · 7h

It is wild that that's only your second!

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The Traveler | Galaxy Pixels @ekvitki.bsky.social · 1d

We'll Get Through This

#pixelart #space #vgen #blue #kofi

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Franz of Plutonia @franz.ink · 15h

Without #mutualaid, I likely won't make rent this month.

If you have a job opening in IT, remote or local to the Boston area, please let me know.

I don't contribute much if at all to any community, so I'm probably not worth it, but if you feel helpful or generous, my cashapp is $lolokboomer

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 22d

tired: it's always DNS

inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight

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🌈✨ Mex says DOOK!!! 🌈✨ @ibolt07.bsky.social · 1d

I wanted to take the boingy boys home so bad 😭😭😭

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 1d

i like that if your robbery is sufficiently cool it becomes a heist

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Mewtype Ghost @mewtype.online · 1d

This shit will literally kill you.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

The grind culture that birthed many Big Tech companies from Google to Amazon is back.

As the AI race heats up, startups are promoting hardcore cultures like “996,” or working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.

Why these companies insist on a 72-hour work week

Start-ups are promoting hardcore cultures such as “996,” meaning working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week, as they race to compete in AI.

www.washingtonpost.com

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 1d

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Aven Nines @avens.bsky.social · 1d

as promised, I'm here.

A leggy with accessories.
A flying deerdog.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 1d

It's time for Radio Dead Air, who encourage you to be aware of the current Presidential shit plane schedule. live.radiodeadair.com

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Drake Mayors @dejitarujin.bsky.social · 1d

Salads are fantastic but Nash you can't just give people ideas of what animal you are

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 1d

Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/louvre-thieves-given-immunity-after-confirming-jewels-stolen-for-purpose-of-training-ai-software/

Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software

FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of training AI software. When …

waterfordwhispersnews.com

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netspooky @vacci.ne · 1d

AWS (Antifa Web Services) doing the #NoPings protest today

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Riley Neville @riley.sbug.games · 1d

This is the longest I've spent on any single project in my life! Please remind your friends that Isopod is coming out tomorrow!

Sbug Games @sbug.games · 2d

3 and a half years of isopod rolling down big hills!
Isopod is finally coming out tomorrow!
store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/...

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Drake Mayors @dejitarujin.bsky.social · 1d

My first day as a proper software engineer has been this.

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 1d

AWS Outage #itwasdns

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Peter Hutchinson @catus14.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, we used to have a huge variety of birds in our garden. We now have a lot of neighbours' cats and a variety of feathers

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Drake Mayors @dejitarujin.bsky.social · 1d

Stoat!

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🌷 Vesper/Fidget 🌷 @fenn-boy.bsky.social · 1d

Allow me to release this, as it were, into furry Bsky

Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 1d

See stoat, say stoat, stoated

Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 1d

having lived on an upland farmstead and seen one or two things, I have to reluctantly get behind this, but then we keep a cat so any logic is out of the window

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Drake Mayors @dejitarujin.bsky.social · 1d

She is gorgeous!

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Angelle of Death @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 2d

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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David Mullin @rdmullin.bsky.social · 2d

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

www.theatlantic.com

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Alice Bat-kin 🦇 @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 2d

the man on the right has made it his life's mission to capture Lupin the Third

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 2d

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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E C M @ecmajor.bsky.social · 2d

yeen theme song is just so damn good too

HYËNA

YouTube video by KMFDM - Topic

www.youtube.com

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rhokote.bsky.social @rhokote.bsky.social · Oct 3

it is I,

You

an anthropomorphic dog wearing a YCH (your character here) themed kigu waving towards you and carrying a Jack O' Lantern candy bucket

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Drake Mayors @dejitarujin.bsky.social · 2d

Corrupted password lock bricked my phone so hard I had to re-flash the firmware from recovery to get it to boot. Now I think we're back up and running.

Drake Mayors @dejitarujin.bsky.social · 3d

Putting a lock on my phone may be the dumbest thing I've ever done and now it's bricked :'D

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Drake Mayors @dejitarujin.bsky.social · 2d

I've stopped doing the badblocks thing and I just tell them to do extended SMART test with smartctl. AFAIK it's the same thing but handled entirely within the drive's controller, which makes it a lot faster and non-blocking.

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