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Spooky Tim Wilsie 🎃👻 @timwilsie.bsky.social · 35m

“Page 1. Panel 1 - an army of thousands on horseback rides towards a sprawling cityscape”

Spooky Tim Wilsie 🎃👻 @timwilsie.bsky.social · 37m

The Oatmeal comic about AI art is amazing, but the real truth bomb is this nugget that EVERY artist feels:

An artist exhausted and laying across their desk saying “drawing butts is hard”

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Ben Darlow @kapowaz.net · 2d

This is one of the best takedowns of AI art I’ve read. It perfectly articulates exactly my sentiments about the kind of people who are hyped for it, and why they’re wrong and bad.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Spooky Tim Wilsie 🎃👻 @timwilsie.bsky.social · 2h

That new ballroom would have room for so many Sega deluxe cabinets. I’m talking like two Top Skater machines, my man!

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 4h

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day”
A TV Character from their day:

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Spooky Tim Wilsie 🎃👻 @timwilsie.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe it's my mind doing an outright rejection of everything being ephemeral and ownership meaning nothing, but I have a mighty need to scratch build some spaceships packed with greeblies out of styrene sheets.

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☠️ DeathNerd Killer 🎃 @daphnek.bsky.social · 9h

I’m always surprised we don’t talk more about AWS as a single point of failure — and hence of vulnerability to censorship pressure.

Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 9h

Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.

Amazon Cloud Outage Reveals Democratic Deficit in Relying on Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press

The AWS outage demonstrates the need for a fundamental shift in how we think about digital infrastructure, write Corinne Cath and Don Le.

www.techpolicy.press

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Spooky Tim Wilsie 🎃👻 @timwilsie.bsky.social · 7h

A *cold* clam 🥁

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Spooky Tim Wilsie 🎃👻 @timwilsie.bsky.social · 12h

We will get there! I love your product and the message. The world just hasn’t caught up yet. 🤜🤛

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Spooky Tim Wilsie 🎃👻 @timwilsie.bsky.social · 12h

I agree! Baby steps though. In most corporations, moving to tools like PenPot are an easier sell than jumping straight to true solutions (aka Nordcraft).

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 21h

Going to the Olive Garden to pick up chicks in my fursona weeb dumpster

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

guys. GUYS.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23h

it is never okay to take out your frustration on service people and people who do have low moral character

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Thom Coffyn @mecha-tho.bsky.social · Nov 16

Old posts for the new feed

An edited image showing Columbo and a suspect standing in a gunpla hobby shop. Columbo is saying "Boy, a fella could go broke with a hobby like this."

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Spooky Tim Wilsie 🎃👻 @timwilsie.bsky.social · 1d

oh wow... I HAD that sword and mask set!

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Spooky Tim Wilsie 🎃👻 @timwilsie.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! I’ll reach out and see about a future appearance

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RaisonDetriment @raisondetriment.bsky.social · 6d

Playing Earthbound for the first time ever in 2025 is fascinating, actually. You're just a kid and the world's gone mad. All the adults are useless at best or trying to kill you at worst. Everyone talks like a crazy person. Everything's too expensive. Your next door neighbor wants to be a dictator.

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Spooky Tim Wilsie 🎃👻 @timwilsie.bsky.social · 1d

Put a smartphone in his hand and it’s all of us

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wizzo @wizzo.dev · 1d

zaparoo.org/blog/titles-...

Titles, Tags and Metadata - Part 1 | Zaparoo

Hi everyone. I wanted to do a technical post to give an update on a few things I've been working on for Zaparoo. This post will be quite long but maybe some people out there will find it interesting! ...

zaparoo.org

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Shinigami (Chrisaegrim) @thechrism.bsky.social · 2d

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Nintendo NES by playing the official sequel to the beloved Shadowgate point and click adventure game - made with the creator of Shadowgate. store.steampowered.com/app/2332240/...

Nintendo NES 40th anniversary Shadowgate box art

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 3d

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

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Spooky Tim Wilsie 🎃👻 @timwilsie.bsky.social · 3d

"This isn't food. It's cartoonist fuel."

Spooky Tim Wilsie 🎃👻 @timwilsie.bsky.social · 3d

a man wearing a hat and sunglasses stands in front of a blue background that says i love it here

Alt: a man wearing a hat and sunglasses stands in front of a blue background that says i love it here

media.tenor.com

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Spooky Tim Wilsie 🎃👻 @timwilsie.bsky.social · 3d

😂
This one is pure pain. Well done!

dan @danabra.mov · 3d

challenge accepted. may i present my submission: codepen.io/gaearon-the-...

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Spooky Tim Wilsie 🎃👻 @timwilsie.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks! Sorry I haven’t been more active on your Discord.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 3d

The end of a held ethical code among all technologists, as light weight and infrequently applied as it was, marks the end of a web where sites can trust in a basic ground level of cooperation. The result is a web increasingly militarized against itself. Everyone must now close up and arm up.

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 4d

"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."

On robots.txt.

www.heise.de/en/backgroun...

Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)

The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.

www.heise.de

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