Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629
@feralrobots.bsky.social
Cis straight borderline-elderly middle-class white man.
Follow implies ABSOLUTELY NO expectation you'll follow back. I block follow-farmers.
https://mastodon.social/@FeralRobots
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The truth is, these are not very bright guys, & things got out of hand.
Pete Hegseth said in front of every flag officer in the US military, 'Your job is to break things'. Second strikes are a very effective way of breaking things like law, trust, moral norms, and the ethos of a military organization.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
December 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Pete Hegseth said in front of every flag officer in the US military, 'Your job is to break things'. Second strikes are a very effective way of breaking things like law, trust, moral norms, and the ethos of a military organization.
Apparently controversial opinion: The "USian is [elitist/dumb]" discourse is a perfect example of American bskyans getting addicted to their own farts. Y'all got a chip on your shoulders & I'd appreciate if it you'd just pre-emptively block me.
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Apparently controversial opinion: The "USian is [elitist/dumb]" discourse is a perfect example of American bskyans getting addicted to their own farts. Y'all got a chip on your shoulders & I'd appreciate if it you'd just pre-emptively block me.
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Edvard Munch’s The Sun, 1909
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Edvard Munch’s The Sun, 1909
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Speaking as someone who was cast as "alarmist" for accurately predicting the GOP mainstreaming of outright fascism, that sort of attitude is the flip side of those earlier alarmism accusations.
These folks are so petrified of change and the unknown that they wishcast a permanent status quo.
These folks are so petrified of change and the unknown that they wishcast a permanent status quo.
The main thing that's annoying and offensive about this is it's usually not framed as simply a factual observation about all the obvious hurdles, as if anybody needs reminding. It's how it's said in a mood of cynical, condescending hostility to even advocating for accountability. Ditto impeachment.
While this usually isn't the intent, "no one will ever be held accountable for this" doomerism is an excuse not to try.
There'll be at least some accountability if enough Americans work for it. And this time really is different. Doesn't guarantee the aftermath will be, but it increases the chances.
There'll be at least some accountability if enough Americans work for it. And this time really is different. Doesn't guarantee the aftermath will be, but it increases the chances.
November 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Speaking as someone who was cast as "alarmist" for accurately predicting the GOP mainstreaming of outright fascism, that sort of attitude is the flip side of those earlier alarmism accusations.
These folks are so petrified of change and the unknown that they wishcast a permanent status quo.
These folks are so petrified of change and the unknown that they wishcast a permanent status quo.
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I will ask chat GPT
I will boil the last of our drinking water
Salt the soil of the scrub-lands
Tear the pages from books and feed them to my fire
I will ask copilot
I will scramble your library
maim the faces of your favorite paintings
I will bury you in poor copies of your dreams
I will ask […]
I will boil the last of our drinking water
Salt the soil of the scrub-lands
Tear the pages from books and feed them to my fire
I will ask copilot
I will scramble your library
maim the faces of your favorite paintings
I will bury you in poor copies of your dreams
I will ask […]
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sauropods.win
November 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I will ask chat GPT
I will boil the last of our drinking water
Salt the soil of the scrub-lands
Tear the pages from books and feed them to my fire
I will ask copilot
I will scramble your library
maim the faces of your favorite paintings
I will bury you in poor copies of your dreams
I will ask […]
I will boil the last of our drinking water
Salt the soil of the scrub-lands
Tear the pages from books and feed them to my fire
I will ask copilot
I will scramble your library
maim the faces of your favorite paintings
I will bury you in poor copies of your dreams
I will ask […]
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Being rejected is oppression to those who intend to be oppressors.
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Being rejected is oppression to those who intend to be oppressors.
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Fun how Bloomberg is doing what the education media won’t. We desperately need this to be a discussion in schools, but it won’t be.
November 29, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Fun how Bloomberg is doing what the education media won’t. We desperately need this to be a discussion in schools, but it won’t be.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
Where's that guy who was theosplaining to me about how this kind of thinking isn't Calvinist?
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Where's that guy who was theosplaining to me about how this kind of thinking isn't Calvinist?
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The ontological argument for the existence of the Mammon. Did not expect this today, but here we all are.
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The ontological argument for the existence of the Mammon. Did not expect this today, but here we all are.
Is it that people are focusing on it now, or is he going harder on "you're stupid" lately?
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Is it that people are focusing on it now, or is he going harder on "you're stupid" lately?
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this used to be my job btw
medical writing. yes the papers that were submitted to nature and jams and NEJM
i did art direction for infographics too
by the time i left i was in the meetings where AI vendors were trying to sell us "tools"
i NEED to know the agency who did this lmao
medical writing. yes the papers that were submitted to nature and jams and NEJM
i did art direction for infographics too
by the time i left i was in the meetings where AI vendors were trying to sell us "tools"
i NEED to know the agency who did this lmao
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
this used to be my job btw
medical writing. yes the papers that were submitted to nature and jams and NEJM
i did art direction for infographics too
by the time i left i was in the meetings where AI vendors were trying to sell us "tools"
i NEED to know the agency who did this lmao
medical writing. yes the papers that were submitted to nature and jams and NEJM
i did art direction for infographics too
by the time i left i was in the meetings where AI vendors were trying to sell us "tools"
i NEED to know the agency who did this lmao
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Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Ramones
The Individuals
Husker Du
Lords of Acid
Ida
(OTOMH, no attempt to prioritize or put in chrono order)
Ramones
The Individuals
Husker Du
Lords of Acid
Ida
(OTOMH, no attempt to prioritize or put in chrono order)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
1) Wesley Willis and the Fiasco
2) Reverend Horton Heat
3)Afghan Whigs
4) Hum
5) They Might be Giants
1) Wesley Willis and the Fiasco
2) Reverend Horton Heat
3)Afghan Whigs
4) Hum
5) They Might be Giants
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
1. Ozzfest
2. Charley Crockett
3. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
4. The Mavericks/Dwight Yoakum
5. The PDX Broadsides
1. Ozzfest
2. Charley Crockett
3. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
4. The Mavericks/Dwight Yoakum
5. The PDX Broadsides
November 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Ramones
The Individuals
Husker Du
Lords of Acid
Ida
(OTOMH, no attempt to prioritize or put in chrono order)
Ramones
The Individuals
Husker Du
Lords of Acid
Ida
(OTOMH, no attempt to prioritize or put in chrono order)
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I have a little bit of experience with autism bicycles and I'd say that the saddle on that bike looks particularly runctitional. I'd venture you might end up with a medical frymnblal if you use it for very long, maybe even a case of drop-out totalbottl.
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I have a little bit of experience with autism bicycles and I'd say that the saddle on that bike looks particularly runctitional. I'd venture you might end up with a medical frymnblal if you use it for very long, maybe even a case of drop-out totalbottl.
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Zionism is an ethos of homogeneity because the Christian race science it’s a thin veneer over demands homogeneity. See also “Jews support…” or “Jews want…” when we can’t even agree on what our candles should be made from.
It is actually quite fascinating how many older cis white Jewish Zionists publicly deride antizionism, transness, queerness, intermarriage, and social justice, and then wonder why us younger generations aren't connecting with the spaces and congregations they run.
It's not TikTok. It's you.
It's not TikTok. It's you.
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Zionism is an ethos of homogeneity because the Christian race science it’s a thin veneer over demands homogeneity. See also “Jews support…” or “Jews want…” when we can’t even agree on what our candles should be made from.
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Racism aside, the problem with "it's not stolen, it's conquered" is that attitude is nothing but "killing you is an acceptable way to take your stuff" and I'm pretty sure that's bad. "I didn't steal your car, I conquered it" would, uh, not hold up at trial.
November 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Racism aside, the problem with "it's not stolen, it's conquered" is that attitude is nothing but "killing you is an acceptable way to take your stuff" and I'm pretty sure that's bad. "I didn't steal your car, I conquered it" would, uh, not hold up at trial.
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New from 404 Media: X has shown where accounts are actually being run from, revealing many MAGA accounts are actually grifters in Eastern Europe, Asia, etc. But the situation is much, much worse. Entire guides specifically on how to squeeze US audiences with AI.
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
New from 404 Media: X has shown where accounts are actually being run from, revealing many MAGA accounts are actually grifters in Eastern Europe, Asia, etc. But the situation is much, much worse. Entire guides specifically on how to squeeze US audiences with AI.
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
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The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week
- a massive breach reveals people using an AI chatbot to make porn from women's yearbook photos
- how America became the world's side hustle with social media spamming
- how we helped shut down a warrantless surveillance program www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgOt...
- a massive breach reveals people using an AI chatbot to make porn from women's yearbook photos
- how America became the world's side hustle with social media spamming
- how we helped shut down a warrantless surveillance program www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgOt...
A Massive Breach Reveals the Truth Behind 'Secret Desires AI'
YouTube video by 404 Media
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week
- a massive breach reveals people using an AI chatbot to make porn from women's yearbook photos
- how America became the world's side hustle with social media spamming
- how we helped shut down a warrantless surveillance program www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgOt...
- a massive breach reveals people using an AI chatbot to make porn from women's yearbook photos
- how America became the world's side hustle with social media spamming
- how we helped shut down a warrantless surveillance program www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgOt...
If you already do some kind of art, think of it as cross-training.
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If you already do some kind of art, think of it as cross-training.
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A workforce trained to normalize generative AI is a workforce that *will not be able to understand* people talking about creativity and pride in gaining skills and the value of their labor. It'll be alien to them.
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
A workforce trained to normalize generative AI is a workforce that *will not be able to understand* people talking about creativity and pride in gaining skills and the value of their labor. It'll be alien to them.
I know some people overreact about anything involving pumpkin spice but to an old who paid attention in freshman history this is pretty clever. Professor Trexler would probably have gotten a laugh out of this.
What pumpkin spice 🎃 reveals about tariffs, inflation and global trade.My latest for @bloomberg.com . Plus a pumpkin spice index courtesy of @michaelmcdonough.bsky.social Big thank you to @staceyshick.bsky.social
🎁 🔗 t.co/wY0R1K5A6o
🎁 🔗 t.co/wY0R1K5A6o
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I know some people overreact about anything involving pumpkin spice but to an old who paid attention in freshman history this is pretty clever. Professor Trexler would probably have gotten a laugh out of this.
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se