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Mosey-Lord of the Owlbear Milk 🔜 Gamehole Con @moseydm.bsky.social · 8h

Oregon is a good person.

Years back on Elon’s hellscape I remember they were donating meals and grocery money for people who needed it.

It’s time to support the person who generously supported others when they could.

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 17h

Look I've been holding off from months asking this on Bluesky because of my pride but I need help.

My car needs brakes, my rent is past due and my step kid needs shoes.

I hate having to ask this

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 15h

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David Fox💙🫘🇺🇦 @davidbfox.com · 1d

1/2 Return to Monkey Island Panel
Two years ago five members of the #ReturnToMonkeyIsland dev team were on a panel at the 2023 @devcom.bsky.social in Cologne, Germany. The video was never publicly available, until now…
@terribletoybox.com @devolverdigital.com
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#gamedev

Devcom 2023: Beneath The Return of Monkey Island: Panel and AMA with ‘LeCrew’

YouTube video by David Fox

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 16h

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 20h

Read our full case for Democrats to embrace a corporate crackdown on AI here

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Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry

As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · Dec 28

A thread on the harms of AI in its current form, and the lack of legislative control over its implementations.

Whenever I repost this, it's because another post has been added. The thread is long.

Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · Mar 23

I see so many #ActuallyAutistic support pages, groups, etc diving enthusiastically & headfirst into using AI for banners, infographics etc. I ask you please to reconsider. The environmental impacts & ethical concerns are not worth the tradeoff. Do some research. It's easy and fun, but it's not good.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 18h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

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Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 16h

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 22h

The data center boom is a real estate story, with developers often using their large war chests to overwhelm local opposition. This tiny Michigan town was forced to cave to Related Digital's demands because it couldn't afford a lengthy legal battle.

Towns are saying no to AI data centers. One got sued over it.

A developer sued a Michigan township after it voted against a data center proposal. Cities in Ohio and Missouri have explored data center bans.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 16h

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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 1d

OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels.

New from me @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist

The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers.

www.desmog.com

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 11d

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks!
But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!!

This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free.

MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 19h

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 21h

A typical AI data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 households, while the largest under development will consume as much power as 2,000,000 homes — according to @npr.org.

Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks

How tech companies and government officials handle local impacts will shape the industry's future in the U.S.

www.npr.org

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 19h

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 1d

What is the real cost of AI actors?

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 19h

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 1d

It infuriates me that as human-made porn is being increasingly censored across the board, AI porn is not only allowed, but celebrated. And AI porn exists because of stolen content from non-consenting, unpaid human pornographers. It's maddening.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 5d

“I still can’t believe how unhinged the last update was. Not only the nudity but the motions, boobs bounces more realistically, it’s incredible.”

Elon Musk's xAI seems to have relaxed filters on Grok's video generation, allowing users to create and share explicit AI pornography.

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 19h

Friends: I have a potential contact who's looking into AI regulation. Please share your personal experiences losing work to AI, hearing of others losing work to AI, AI infiltrating your workplace/affecting work flow/income, etc. Also pls share any posts/articles you know of on its negative impacts.

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 23h

Hi #PortfolioDay

Im Bruce, an illustrator, creative director & printmaker based in Cape Town, RSA. Big fan of old goofy SFF covers & forced perspective and experimentation. Nice to meet you :)

ILLO: www.instagram.com/bad_manifesto
FA: www.instagram.com/oombruce

Digital illustration of an old village lane. Choppy shapes and overlapping oranges and blues.

Digital illustration of a guy in a "modern apartment full of art and plans. he's liking out the floor-to-ceiling window at the sunrise and eating cake off a plate. This was an old style test for MUTI. Choppy shapes of overlapping yellow, blue and pink.

Digital illustration of a hazy sepia toned kitchen with a silhouetted being sitting at the table next to some dead flowers. This was an old style test for MUTI.

Digital illustration of a The Lord OF The Rings cover. A Nazgûl sits astride its horse between 2 red trees that make a circle. Int he background is Weathertop, the Misty Mountains and Orodruin. Overlapping risk colours - red, teal and yellow. Some mushrooms in the foreground.

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 22h

Not even. Sometimes they just walk away looking bored.

Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 1d

When someone asks you a question and then tunes out or ignores you when you try to answer it gets me from 0 to furious in two seconds

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 1d

It hit him pretty hard. I should check up with her actually

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 1d

A friend of mine's younger brother went to sell his VR headset and was robbed at knifepoint. The only reason they didn't also take his car is because none of them could drive.

Carte Blanche @carteblanche.co.za · 1d

Online trade in second-hand goods is booming - over 70% of South Africans shop online. Social media makes selling easy, but criminals are also cashing in, and it sometimes ends in death. Full #CarteBlanche story on DStv Stream and Catch Up. #SouthAfrica #Facebook

Marketplace murder

Some call it re-commerce: the booming online trade in second-hand goods - from furniture to clothes, and gadgets. Online shopping has grown massively since the COVID pandemic. One study estimates that...

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 1d

It hurts extra much when people who are supposed to have artists' backs do shit like this. Disappointing and frustrating.

Emily Hare @emilyhare.co.uk · 1d

SO disappointed to see the Derwent Pencil Museum in Keswick has got loads of Ai video slop to show the public how miners mined graphite etc. WHY they didn't just get an artist to draw these scenes with their ART PENCILS will forever be a mystery. #createdontscrape #noai #derwentpencils #art

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 1d

Oh my god 💀

Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 1d

If you need something to make you feel better about your competence at life, this is for you.

South Africa's finance minister accidentally named the wrong M. Maseko to the Public Investment Corporation board: former treasury official Mpumelo Maseko instead of ex-PIC employee Mpumelelo Maseko

Shocking name mix-up: Godongwana to reappoint ‘right’ Maseko to PIC board | News24

Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana says he will appoint former Public Investment Corporation employee Mpumelo Maseko to the asset manager’s board after asking namesake Mpumelelo Maseko to resign.

www.news24.com

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 1d

I actually enjoyed this movie. I had no expectations going in and actually had a good time watching it.

The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 1d

The Thing - the 2011 prequel - was released 14 years ago today.

"At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson."

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Wren @cyaneus.bsky.social · 1d

Does anybody remember Flight of Dragons
(drawing my dragonsona over 80s movie backdrops)
#dragon #art

Wren's teal lindworm dragonsona drawn in the style of Flight of Dragons 1982, on top of a backdrop from the movie.

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 1d

This is beautiful 🧡

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avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of feelings that are more than words

(I guess, in a way, #paleoart)

A digital drawing, few simple drawings on a dark background. From top to the bottom, it starts with half of the Earth seen with its continents being placed like in the Middle Ordovician. Below it is a line, showing a process of life - from one little star, to dividing cells, to an embryo (it's all different creatures - fish, dog, tadpole, and a human).
Then, series of little drawings, showing different stages of life in different things. A plant emerging from the soil, a larvae, baby birds with their bright open mouths, pregnant horse with a star on its belly, very old human, and a dry plant in a pot with a leaf falling from it.
A fossil of a crinoid can be seen on the background, in some places nicely preserved, in some - scattered around, with segments seen as little stars.
The text on the picture says: "Let sunshine touch the memory of me again"

Following the previous part of it, from top to the bottom: mammal bones scattered around, a fossil of a trilobite on a rock, human remains, a piece of a fossilized plant, little drawing of an ammonite, a part of a thylacine seen in a little square, and in a square next to it - plate with fossilized fish, being shattered.
Below them is a line - an ornitomimus running forward, its fossilized remains, and on the right - same remains, but scattered around in little pieces.
The text goes through the drawing, saying "I will remain. I will remain. I will remain"
The first phrase is written normally, the second is written fast. The last one is poorly written by my left hand, without looking at the screen.

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joe dáire @saint-vagrant.bsky.social · 2d

my friend Ahmad and his family of 11 need your help. following the ceasefire, ahmad returned to his home in the north of Gaza alone. they can't afford the transportation cost for the rest of their family to move from the south, nor the cost of rebuilding. please support them ❤️‍🩹
gofund.me/65ac9ad68

pictures of my friend Ahmad, a young palestinian man, standing in front of his family's home in Gaza. it has been completely destroyed by the israeli occupation.

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