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[Redacted] @vegandroid.bsky.social · 19m

Just landed 4 hours of overtime at work

Hell yeah

on.soundcloud.com/FSfq84K2qobb...

These are all ripped from the Videogame Doom 4 Instructions on how to do this yourself: I used Ravioli Game Tools to extract the .wwise_a files, and then a tool called wwise_ima_adpcm (it's the sound

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 1h

#Marineland has always been about the 💰- all animal exploitation is. That is why vegans do not support exploitive practices of any kind.

[The beluga whales have been an impediment to the sale of the park, that is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, perhaps more]
globalnews.ca/news/1147698...

‘We need to get them out’: Beluga trainer fired by Marineland speaks out | Globalnews.ca

Marineland's crumbling infrastructure, staffing shortage and lack of resources have created dangerous conditions for its belugas, a fired beluga trainer says.

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 57m

The dairy industry is despicable front to back. It is an outdated and cruel practice, and those still supporting it need to do some serious self reflection

MarcPieterse @marcpieterse.bsky.social · 9h

Look how deep these needles go 😱👺Disbudding..so the horns will not grow. The #dairy industry is: Rape Kidnap Torture Mutilation Slaughter. Do you really still drink and eat from this misery? #DitchDairy 🌱 #LiveVegan you have a heart do you? ✌️

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[Redacted] @vegandroid.bsky.social · 24m

"Bitcoin is good because it can't be regulated"

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 42m

The US DOJ seizes ~$15B in bitcoin from a man who oversaw a Cambodian "pig butchering" operation, in the DOJ's largest ever forfeiture; the man remains at large (Dan Mangan/CNBC)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 42m

The US DOJ seizes ~$15B in bitcoin from a man who oversaw a Cambodian "pig butchering" operation, in the DOJ's largest ever forfeiture; the man remains at large (Dan Mangan/CNBC)

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 40m

Vogue, the world's premier fashion magazine, has just announced its breakup with the vile fur industry, joining scores of magazines, clothing designers, retailers, cities and countries that have rejected the idea that it's okay to wear the skins of tortured animals.

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Adam Galas @adamgalas.bsky.social · 37m

China has completely found new sources of soybeans so even if the tariffs go away likely US soybean farmers will never be able to sell into China again.

US Farmers have been permanently devastated by this trade war.

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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 33m

Tariffs have caused a Chinese exit from the soybean market – and midwestern farmers are waiting on a solution. @rachelleingang.bsky.social reports for @theguardian.com:

US farmers caught in Trump-China trade war – who’ll buy the soybeans?

Tariffs have caused a Chinese exit from the soybean market – and midwestern farmers are waiting on a solution

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 37m

Assassin's Creed franchise boss Marc-Alexis Côté departs Ubisoft, two weeks after the game moved under Ubisoft's new Vantage Studios unit; Côté joined in 2005 (Tom Phillips/IGN)

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max 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 13h

"but it uses lots of water" -> massive desal expansion, recycling
"that's a lot of energy" -> heat exchangers, nuclear-maxxing
"what about work" -> automation revolution, UBI, resource-based economy
etc etc.

the index is that you can measure the success of a civ based on length of shower too

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[Redacted] @vegandroid.bsky.social · 6h

STEADY AS SHE GOES, LADS!

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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 11h

You lack the courage & integrity to face what you do to us fellow animals. In callous, apathetic indifference you ignore our plight, our resistance & our abject pain & suffering at your hands. All so you can deceive yourselves that you aren’t malicious, cruel people.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A young, wide eyed pig cries out in anguish and bites the metal bars of the tiny cage in which they are tightly confined in a farm building. Countless other pigs are similarly incarcerated alongside them.

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[Redacted] @vegandroid.bsky.social · 6h

You can only learn some things through repeated failure

John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 9h

Some people don't understand that there is no amount of polite argumentation that will make a clinical narcissist stop acting like a clinical narcissist.

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 9h

Some people don't understand that there is no amount of polite argumentation that will make a clinical narcissist stop acting like a clinical narcissist.

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 8h

#GoVegan 🐷

🎨 Pilupepper

Illustration divided into three sections.

Top left: A person holding a phone with text: “If you ever come across slaughterhouse footage.”
Top right: The same person covering their mouth, turning away from the screen, with text: “You can always stop watching and move on with your life.”
Bottom: A pig confined in a metal crate, looking distressed. Text reads: “BUT THEY DON’T GET THAT CHANCE. And living in denial only enables the abuse to continue.”

The image contrasts human avoidance of slaughterhouse reality with the inescapable suffering of animals.

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Meng Li @mengli512.bsky.social · 8h

#Unitree's robot masters kung fu, but can humanoid bots move beyond viral stunts to practical use?

open.substack.com/pub/robopub/...

Unitree Robot Learns New Kung Fu Moves!

Unitree's humanoid robot masters kung fu & acrobatics! Watch its stunning backflips, martial arts moves, and dance routines. See the future of robotics in action.

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 7h

OpenAI's massive deals show Sam Altman is selling a vision of a world-changing product and achieving it via world-changing financial engineering to raise $1T+ (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h

The Dinosaur Superhighway.

In the footsteps of giants - BBC News

One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quarry near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.

www.bbc.co.uk

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[Redacted] @vegandroid.bsky.social · 16h

I'm just gonna piss the next few years of my life away until ASI gets here, I'm sure... Gonna try to eat some good food and play good games and listen to good music and watch good movies and shows... And not much else.

[Redacted] @vegandroid.bsky.social · 16h

I ❤️ Starship

Tariq J. Malik @tariqjmalik.bsky.social · 16h

SpaceX/Starship Flight 11: SpaceX successfully launched its #StarshipFlight11 test flight, with a smooth splashdown for Super Heavy and @starlink deploy test. Ship 38 headed to Indian Ocean splashdown. Raptor relight test next.

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Tariq J. Malik @tariqjmalik.bsky.social · 16h

SpaceX/Starship Flight 11: SpaceX successfully launched its #StarshipFlight11 test flight, with a smooth splashdown for Super Heavy and @starlink deploy test. Ship 38 headed to Indian Ocean splashdown. Raptor relight test next.

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[Redacted] @vegandroid.bsky.social · 16h

I had a dream last night that I was evacuating through a field

And there were shadow people coming

And this guy runs up in front of me and says "No! Wait! He's new! He doesn't know yet!" and he throws them (burning?) flesh as an offering and they consume it - long enough to distract them from us

[Redacted] @vegandroid.bsky.social · 16h

The holy data cathedrals

Praise be! Praise be!

Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 16h

are we ready to rename datacenters to “AI churches”?

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[Redacted] @vegandroid.bsky.social · 16h

I'm jealous

Tacticool Girlfriend @tacticoolgf.bsky.social · 18h

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.

Tacticool girlfriend wearing a ghillie hood

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Tacticool Girlfriend @tacticoolgf.bsky.social · 18h

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.

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