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🇦🇺25, hobbyist computer toucher, regrettably literate

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · Sep 25

Found a cat

A wall of a cute house on a hill, in the middle of the wall are some bay windows, one of the shutters is propped open and there is a cat poking out. The wall is blue and the shutters and fence and cat are all white

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 7h

“extraordinarily diligent observer” hyperlinked to opencv is phenomenal

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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · 1d

are there AI critics or sceptics out there worth reading? (Not Ed Zitron types who just do a whole THIS IS VERY BAD shouty, largely substance-free schtick)

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 1d

and it’s not particularly part of normal parish life

Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 1d

anglicans have kept it alive but idk how much momentum that has

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 2d

goals

Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 2d

middle aged guy playing a narrative walking sim on his 16 inch macbook at the airport

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 3d

if only these guys knew the humanities

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 3d

were these in print too?

the First Things article includes three frames from One Piece captioned:

Christlike Luffy

Big Mom, the Whore of Babylon.

Kaidou, the dragon.

Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 3d

anime’s popularity may well be a sign of the end times

Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 3d

I would call this ritual humiliation for Rusty but, well,

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 3d

learning they discussed the size of One Piece’s subredit in First Things

firstthings.com/voyages-to-t...

Voyages to the End of the World

PETER THIEL, SAM WOLFE | OCTOBER 1, 2025

Four years after Watchmen ended, so did the Cold War. President George H. W. Bush declared the beginning of a “new world order,” safe from great-power conflict. His successor, Bill Clinton, disarmed to save on a “peace dividend” and accelerated globalization with trade deals. In this tranquil time, the swashbuckling Eiichiro Oda began writing One Piece, a manga that—twenty-eight years and more than 1,100 chapters later—has entered its “final saga.”

If you have not heard of One Piece, your children probably have. One Piece has sold more than 570 million copies, not counting the millions of fans who read the series online or watch the even more popular anime adaptation. The r/OnePiece subreddit discussion forum has 5.2 million followers, more than any other subreddit for a work of fiction (for comparison, r/StarWars has 4.6 million followers; r/HarryPotter has 3.6 million).

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 3d

*sluuurp*

Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 3d

obsessed with the silhouette of St Paul’s

St Paul’s cathedral in London photographed during the day w/ a nice blue sky, the facade is prominent but the dome is very visible

a view across the Thames at night, bright buildings and the dome of St Pauls. The background is a murky grey instead of black on account of light and smog

a similar view but more rivery (taken from on a bridge) and at sunset, everything is pinkish

close shot of the dome rising above dark buildings at night

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 3d

I literally only learned to write coherently because I had a philosophy teacher in grade 12 who drilled me on essays, can only be easier to fall through the cracks now

Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 4d

www.parliament.uk/about/living...

Above the Great Clock sits the Ayrton Light, a lantern which shines when either House of Parliament is sitting. Mounted on the roof above the lantern are heraldic shields.

Floral emblems of all four parts of the United Kingdom show the rose, thistle, shamrock and leek alongside a gold portcullis that symbolises Parliament.

The Irish shamrock and Welsh leek have been returned to their original green while the Scottish thistle is green with a bright purple seed head. The English rose has been painted red and white as in Barry’s original design.

Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 4d

goes so hard

another shot of the clock tower, this time more from below

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 4d

reno’d big ben is astounding

The top of the tower of the Great Clock of Westminster, known as Big Ben. The dials have prominent blue designs on them and the gold is shiny.

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 5d

“ensuring that steam to escape”

glass Chemex coffee brewer and tea kettle on display

zoom in on the kettle’s placard:

Glass tea kettle
American, designed 1944

Designed by Peter Schlumbohm for Chemex Corporation, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Made in heatproof borosilicate glass, the stopper is a simple tube with cork balls at both ends ensuring that steam to escape and the neck is not too hot to grip. Schlumbohm, an immigrant inventor to America from Germany, patented over 300 designs, but few proved to be commercially successful.

Given anonymously

Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 6d

in spite of his poverty he was known to be a great believer in beauty, no?

Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 6d

st francis and the animals is such a poorly represented subject so I suppose they had little choice

Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 6d

please tell me the OFMs aren’t using a chatgpt image

Brothers and sisters: A guide to living justice, peace, and care for creation
Inspired by the Canticle of the Creatures of St. Francis of Assisi
by the Order of Friars Minor office for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation

illustrated with an image of St Francis and some animals which looks awful AI generated (bad lines, the cincture cord disappears between his hands, yellow filter)

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 6d

please don’t tell me the OFMs are using a chatgpt image

Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 6d

2018 me*

Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 6d

once again, 2018 would’ve just loved seeing ross spread his wings like this

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 6d

Ross’s thoughtful interviews and discussions consistently cover an impressive range all the way from indulging the domination fantasies of theocrats to desperately pursuing quack Lyme disease cures.

INTERESTING TIMES WITH ROSS DOUTHAT
He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.bsky.social · 6d

although the super small mobile view was quite useful