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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · May 9

The destruction of science in the US that has already happened is going to be at least century-long process of decay, affecting every single aspect of life. A mindbogglingly vast and complex act of repeatedly shooting oneself in the dick.

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Listening to The Cure and thinking about The Bomb @thewrongnoel.bsky.social · 1d

English or Scottish afaik

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BeeKirby @beekirby.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine boldly and unironically saying "my bullshit machine that people use to cheat on their homework will soon start trying to fuck you" and expecting applause

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Listening to The Cure and thinking about The Bomb @thewrongnoel.bsky.social · 1d

Not satisfied with being a rapist, paedophile and fraud, now he’s doing murders.
Super important that Albo has a meeting with him to discuss our special relationship and hand over a few more billion dollars.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Tuesday's strike is the fifth known US attack on a vessel off the Venezuelan coast, bringing the total death toll to 27.

Trump administration carries out lethal strike in Caribbean, killing six

Tuesday's strike is the fifth known US attack on a vessel off the Venezuelan coast, bringing the total death toll to 27.

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Listening to The Cure and thinking about The Bomb @thewrongnoel.bsky.social · 2d

Yep

Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 3d

It’s essentially an emergency that you see One Battle After Another in the cinema immediately. Sean Penn will win an Oscar & it has the best car chase in many years. And those aren’t in the top 3 best things about the film. Jesus shitting Christ.

Listening to The Cure and thinking about The Bomb @thewrongnoel.bsky.social · 2d

No idea but welcome to Adelaide

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Mar 10

The aesthetics of genai images are the aesthetics of the people who make them, and the people who make them are tasteless Nazi chuds.

The incel loser stink of these groyper sex pest freaks is permanently attached to the aesthetic

It's impossible to not think "what Nazi asshole did this" on viewing

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Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social · 2d

We don't know the health effects of drinking hippo bath water. All we know is the people selling it outside the south gate are not zoo employees.

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 2d

one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Listening to The Cure and thinking about The Bomb @thewrongnoel.bsky.social · 3d

Say what you like about Australian defamation law, Linda Reynolds certainly has cleared up any possible misconceptions about what kind of person she is.

Listening to The Cure and thinking about The Bomb @thewrongnoel.bsky.social · 3d

Whole careers depend on maintaining an inability to understand this.

University of Sydney argues academic’s article not racist against Jewish people as ‘Zionism is a political concept’

Case taken by academics against two colleagues and the university is considered a major test case for hate speech in Australia

www.theguardian.com

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 10d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 3d

They are so pathetic. There isn't a business lobby in existence they can't cave to.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Treasurer announces rework of stalled superannuation tax increase plan

Treasurer Jim Chalmers announces the federal government's stalled superannuation tax increases will be reworked after criticism over the plan.

www.abc.net.au

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Listening to The Cure and thinking about The Bomb @thewrongnoel.bsky.social · 4d

Seppos get mad when Australians boo the US national anthem. But what they don’t understand is that we do it because America is the great Satan and must be destroyed.

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 6d

“As a man; I am flesh and blood; I can be ignored, I can be destroyed. But as a symbol, I can be incorruptible. I can be everlasting.”

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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 6d

*Woman who insists she’s done journalism before voice*

Hey what does a journalist do at work? I definitely know. I’m just asking to make sure you know.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 6d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5d

ICE in Portland is coming off like Gargamel getting repeatedly rolled by the Smurfs

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 6d

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 6d

Clayton Cubitt & @claytoncubitt
Please please please if you've come within 30 feet of this man (Stephen
Miller) please get tested and quarantine

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8:31 PM • 10/6/20 • Twitter for iPhone

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 6d

Imagine booting the former Wallabies captain, a guy in the running for the literal most sporty politician possibly EVER, out of your club because he points out you're a gambling lobby front

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 6d

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby Independent ACT senator David Pocock – a former Wallabies captain – been banned from attending parliament house’s social sports club after raising concern about its sponsorship by the gambling industry. The former rugby star was on Thursday night told he was no longer welcome at Australian Parliament Sports Club events, and accused of politicising the organisation. He has been removed from group chats discussing its events. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 12d

“What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? Baseball! A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team. Teamwork” (Robert de Niro, The Untouchables, 1987)

Pope Leo holding a baseball bat like he’s going to crack an errant priest over the head during a dinner party.

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Listening to The Cure and thinking about The Bomb @thewrongnoel.bsky.social · 6d

In the waiting room at a medical establishment and some fucken boomer is watching videos on his phone at full volume.