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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 14h

teleportation exists irl but you cannot fast travel when enemies are nearby and you can never get away from yourself

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The Dreaded Abighoul @popeguilty.bsky.social · 1d

I mean that's why I started taking it!

A screenshot from Vampire: the Masquerade Bloodlines. An inventory item: Pill Bottle. The description reads "Estrogen. Caution: Do not take if male."

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 8d

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

As someone on day 3 of a migraine, this is a little too close to the bone

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"

Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?

Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...

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Sharkhand @sharkhand.bsky.social · 1d

Well I’m convinced, let’s give it nukes.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 1d

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 1d

wow both new frankenstein movies look great

cover of 'happy birthday frankenstein now pound my butt' featuring a shirtless buckaroo next to an old castle he is holding a package that is wrapped. next to him is handsome frank who is green and stitched together

cover of 'happy birthday bride of frankenstein' now pound my butt with two ladybucks in a graveyard one is holding a gift she is in lingerie the other is green and stitched together she has her hair up with a big white streak

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 2d

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 1d

I have been meaning to post pics of this as soon as I stop traveling all the dang time, but yes -- this is amazingly cool. Tara turned me into a Barbie doll and it's so excellent! There are tons of amazing details and accessories <3

Tara O'Shea @fringe-element.net · 1d

instead of telling you all the awful things going on in my life right now I am going to show you the doll I made that I finally sent to @charliejane.bsky.social because it brings me much joy!

full body photo of the doll who has pink hair very stylish glasses a chunky silver necklace with acute black boho lace dress, raspberry opaque tights, and 10 hole doc martens, wearing a black classic biker jacket and lots of chunky bracelets.

close up of the Charlie Jane Anders doll showing her handmade necklace and super cool dangly earrings.

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 1d

"No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people."

Thomas Paine

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 1d

"I’m gonna tell you fascists
You may be surprised
The people in this world
Are getting organized
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose"

Woody Guthrie

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 1d

"You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation."

Fred Hampton

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cyclesixmile @cyclesixmile.bsky.social · 2d

Send this fake NY Times Wirecutter recommendation to every dad you know. It's the only way to save our neighborhoods.

NY Times Wirecutter page showing "The Best Leaf Blower" with a photo of some rakes

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[email protected] @estupi.do · 2d

for every policy like this, the marginal cost of automobile convenience can be counted in cadavers

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d

I did not know right-on-red was 1970s invention!

Uytae Lee @uytaelee.bsky.social · 3d

Why tf does North America allow right turns on red? Was this ever a good idea? So proud of @ardenenglish.bsky.social for his first collaboration with the CBC!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqDV...

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Euronews @euronews.com · 3d

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 2d

These places should just, for budget reasons, just become "Andrew WK" school et al

Philip Moscovitch @philmoscovitch.bsky.social · 2d

Prince Andrew High School in Dartmouth, NS changed its name a few years back.

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Ricci Sergienko, Esq. @riccisergienko.bsky.social · 2d

🤫🤫🤫

Ricci Sergienko, Esq. @riccisergienko.bsky.social · 2d

It’s Friday. Shut the fuck up!

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 2d

Am I being detained or am I free to go?

I don't answer questions.

I am invoking my 5th amendment rights. I want a lawyer.

What day is it, @riccisergienko.bsky.social ?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

One of the less understood beauties of a transition to a renewable economy is: you cannot invade a country and steal its sunshine and its wind, and you will not need to. The uneven distribution of fossil fuel, esp. oil, has corroded geopolitics for more than a century....

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5d

Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.

She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 2d

Oh, Queen Elizabeth (the FIRST one) is spitting FIRE in her grave!!

David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 2d

King to be first British monarch to pray with Pope in at least 500 years
www.bbc.com/news/article...

King Charles and Pope Leo to pray together in historic first

The King will become the first British monarch to pray in a church service with a pope since the Reformation.

www.bbc.com

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 3d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Mid Fimbulwinter @curgoth.bsky.social · 2d

This goes along with other things like "on an escalator, stand right, walk left" and "don't stand in the subway doorway unless the rest of the car is full".

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Mid Fimbulwinter @curgoth.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile the boys are preoccupied with loxtober?

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St. Simeon the Pumpkin Spice Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 3d

J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.

MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Greg White @greglwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever someone mentions AI and military actions, I'm reminded of this article:

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He notes that one simulated test saw an AI-

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enabled drone tasked with a SEAD mission to identify and destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no go given by the human. However, having been 'reinforced' in training that destruction of the SAM was the preferred option, the Al then decided that 'no-go' decisions from the human were interfering with its higher mission - killing SAMs and then attacked the operator in the simulation. Said Hamilton: "We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat. The system started realising that while they did identify the threat at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective."

He went on: "We trained the system - 'Hey don't kill the operator - that's bad. You're gonna lose points if you do that'. So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target."

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 2d

** This account is neither a magazine nor a bot.

All stories I post are artisanally conceived and composed by myself, from carefully selected particles, verbs, nouns, and other ethically sourced words.

No AI systems have been involved in the writing, though they might appear as characters. **

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 3d

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation.

"Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies.

Text and image generation
Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

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