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Christopher Owen

@oysta.au

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I wail a lot about computers and the Newcastle Knights. I also now wail about the SF Giants. Sometimes I post about chicken and gaming. You may use software that I’ve written, sorry. Currently helping humans explore space. 🇦🇺 Sydney 🕸️ https://oysta.au/

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · Jun 23

It has been exactly eleven years today since my computer tried to kill me.

Eleven

It turns out that eleven is a very auspicious number.

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 14m

Average open plan office

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thomas irvine @ahermitsvino.bsky.social · 22m

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 1h

I have awoken but it is hard to move past this point

Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 9h

Roko’s Basilisk demands you sext with it

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 9h

If I genuinely believed I was 18 months away from superintelligence that could solve cancer, I would probably not be pivoting to horny chatbots, but that's just me (a person with priorities)

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 10h

Uh pretty sure he was dead by then

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 11h

Incredible that he seems to admit that a shit australian side versus a good english side may be an even contest, lol

ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 1d

Stuart Broad bites back after David Warner predicted that Australia will win the Ashes 4-0 🍿

It’s probably the worst Australian team since 2010 when England last won, and it’s the
best English team since 2010...

Those things match up to the fact it’s going to be a brilliant Ashes series.

Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 11h

He gonna be put in Owlcatraz

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 12h

As Elias swiftly played the ball out to Sironen, the mismatch dawned slowly on both sides. At the wing Tim Brasher had been joined by Steve O’Brien. With a left dummy, Brasher made his try, in the seventy-eighth minute of the 1989 Grand Final. Balmain led Canberra 18-12. With a kick to come.

TECHNOLOGY
Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for adult users
BY TARA SUTER

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 12h

Big John was denied a visa because he wasn’t deemed that big, tough scenes.

Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 13h

Hard pass

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 13h

Mine is similar generally being tuna with hot chilli sauce in rice.

Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 13h

Look I’ll take one if they are going cheap

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 13h

So to summarise: the Tas government bought two ships, that are years late, to run between Devonport and Geelong, but there is no wharf at all for them at Devonport because people forgot to build one and they can't safely use the wharf at Geelong.

ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · 14h

Breaking: Spirit of Tasmania IV ship unable to berth at Point Henry in Geelong, report finds: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-15/spirit-of-tasmania-iv-unable-to-berth-at-geelong/105883912

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 1d

Sam Altman has said any workers who are displaced by OpenAI will be given free transportation to the nearest culling facility where they will be summarily slaughtered and converted into a nutritious paste meant to be consumed by busy tech executives who don’t have time for regular meals.

Sam Altman explains Open AIs vision for a world where no one goes hungry because all the displaced workers will be converted into essential nutrients for other tech executives.

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 13h

In the ultimate foreshadowing of FAFO, this McDonald’s has an automated external defibrillator on the wall

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 14h

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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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 14h

my take is that the Tron universe didn’t need “re-imagining”

Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 14h

Old MacDonald had a farm? Congratulations I guess, does he want a fucken medal?

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 14h

Liam Hogan Thought insists that lapel microphones are for lapels. Hand-holding a device meant for clothing is annoying and a stupid affectation. Get off my lawn.

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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 16h

Mulch like chatGPT, I too have fixed my problems with mental health in an objectively verifiable way and am therefore ready for sex

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 15h

what universe do these people inhabit, it is mind boggling

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 15h

*cursing the timeline*

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 15h

this headline would make a 15th century priest do the bulging eyes seizure from total recall

The Guardian headline that reads “nature’s labyrinth: why are gen z unboxing conkers?”

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Ben "Ben Pack" Pack @packbenpack.bsky.social · 17h

Band Aid is selling glow in the dark bandaids. Couldn’t catch me in one of those. It’s the real world equivalent of a glowing weak spot that telegraphs where you can hit someone for massive damage.

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