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Spooook-o Booooo-piss @seej500.bsky.social · 4h

This is an insane statistic

But if it's any comfort, it can't last. ChatGPT has ~20million subscribers, paying ~$20p/m. Let's round up & say their net subs income is half a billion dollars p/m, so $6b p/a

They expect to spend $150b over the next 5 years

That ain't a business

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 9h

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

www.cnn.com

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 6h

Could be worse: these days 5ive look like they spend their weekends shouting at hotels.

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 15h

“She would show up looking like a forever 21 employee and then murder 15 people.”

This is hysterically funny.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 7h

Any number of people and separate organisations may be classed as part of the anti-fascist movement, sure.
But they share no common hierarchy or infrastructure.
The far right tells its cultists that Antifa is a global (variously) business, army, club, cult, party, terrorist organisation. All untrue.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 3d

Why is the world's press playing along with the radicalised right's fever dream that there is a global, corporeal, structured, (ya know...real) organisation called 'Antifa'?
There isn't.
Disparate anti-fascist groups exist.
'Antifa' was a slogan created by the far right. It's fiction.
Call it out!

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Pete 🟥🟦 @sarf-london.bsky.social · 7h

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 7h

Whenever it was on it was definitely the weekend but in the proper kids TV graveyard slot, like 7am.

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 7h

Female pigeons have some self respect. Demand more of your potential life partner than him puffing up his neck feathers and doing a few little spins. #RoofTerraceMusings

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 16h

Hot rapid demographic changes in your area

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 16h

A perfectly normal, civilised evening out with friends enjoying tapas. #España

A giant Frankenstein head.missing the top with a spoon sticking out the top and what looks like a woman's head sticking out too.

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 1d

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Banana - smell alone gives me the boke

Terrifier - Damien Leone is trash

Valerie - Utter landfill indie turd no matter how much Ronson/Winehouse poppy jazz polish you apply

Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 1d

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Rice pudding - turned stomach since childhood

Forrest Gump - as an American History MA it makes my brain puke

Breakfast At Tiffany's by Deep Blue Something, obviously!

Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 1d

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Red meat - work experience in a food tech lab taking swabs in an abattoir put pay to that.

Top Gun - Honestly, Tom Cruise gives me the ick.

Mr Brightside - Shouty mindpiss.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 1d

This is why the costumes are honestly brilliant. Ngo, who has never said a truthful thing in his entire life (remember the concrete milkshake?) now has to convince people inflatable Sesame Street and animal costumes are violent terrorists.

Sometimes you just need an image too silly to demonize.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Adam Parsons tells us Palestinians "feel" that Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are hostages too

Feel?

People are seized from their homes & locked up indefinitely without trial or charge, with no evidence against them & not even told why they've been locked up!

"Feel".

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Just Another Film Nerd @anotherfilmnerd.bsky.social · 1d

Money and also the desire to be part of a beloved franchise. Never underestimate an actor’s desire to be remembered for a specific role.

Alex Ries @alexries.com · 1d

What are your theories as to why nominally 'liberal' people like Simon Pegg and Matt Berry are willing to work with Rowling?

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry forgot Alt text but it is what it says, Rylan in a promo pic for a new show about misogyny in witchhunts where ironically all the media coverage seems to be centering the reality TV show host man and not the qualified history professor host woman.

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 1d

The cathedral spire has a dodgy light at the top that keeps intermittently flashing, as if it's trying to send morse code signal to yer man upstairs

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 1d

NGL "Sniff The Fart Serious Face" Rylan looking like an AI generated image of himself is making me giggle.

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 1d

Buenos dias from the world's smallest coffee. Not an awful view for your breakfast.

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Logan @thelogantrent.bsky.social · 2d

I think execs misunderstood when people were saying that Jared Leto lures in teens.

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 2d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Gana @gana.bsky.social · 1d

the tech industry wants to condition society to believe that AI mistakes are caused by user error in not writing the prompts correctly, when the actual truth is that this technology is unreliable when it comes to accuracy and correctness, and it always will be