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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 3h

These chairs in the Leonard Joel auction catalogue this week look like they were drawn by Saul Steinberg, or Jean-Jaques Sempé, or Louis Bemelmans, who did the Madeleine books ... #cartoon #chairs

Some very curly French-y wrought iron black chairs against a grey background, that look like they were drawn by a cartoonist.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 4h

You don't need to have read it to get the joke

www.worldofmoose.com/products/tri...

Cartoon. Venn diagram of two circles intersecting. The left circle contains the text 'Tristram Beer', the right circle contains the text 'Tristram lemonade'. There is no text in the intersection, leaving the reader to fill in the gap.

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 4h

the only use cases for this technology are to make all visual media untrustworthy, to manufacture evidence of crimes, and to synthesise illegal content. even the "benign" stuff it outputs is absolute nightmare fuel to such an extent that I will block on sight rather than look at it

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 4h

every single piece of content I have seen anyone post from it has made me want to go and live in the woods

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 4h

not even slightly joking when I say that sora should not exist. it should be crime for something like it to be made available without restriction to the general public. its servers should be destroyed with hammers

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goldingcartoons.bsky.social @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 4h

The Israeli hostages will be received into Israel by well-stocked and highly functional hospitals with significant allied health supports. The same cannot be said of the Palestinian hostages when they return to Gaza.
Allan Elliott, Northcote
The Age, letters

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 4h

Telling your client state it's time to stop a genocidal and suicidal war is not some amazing feat of peace-making.

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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 6h

Penguins boycott Bird of the Year for anti-sea bird bias?! No! Climate change is the real problem. Or is it?! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s an exciting week for the penguin community, we’re all waiting to see who is the winner … I mean loser | First Dog on the Moon

Bird of the year? Hell no!

www.theguardian.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 8h

Today's Inklings inklings.ghost.io/evolution-or... Subscribe for free and get three silly cartoons a week

Evolution or devolution?

Depends on your intelligence

inklings.ghost.io

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11h

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

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reddirtroad25.bsky.social @reddirtroad25.bsky.social · 1d

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 13h

So glad to see the future of relationships is wanking alone to prompts from a chatbot that will raise your electricity and water prices send all your private responses to Sam Altman for unsafekeeping

The Verge @theverge.com · 20h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 13h

I'm very sorry to hear that. You rock.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 14h

I didn't intend to write this today

On the sick lie of sick people in a sick culture, that violence and military might can bring peace and harmony

On Trump in Israel

On the wisdom of dissenting Jews, Arendt and Butler

On the necessity of grief

in-between-days.ghost.io/bombs-for-pe...

Bombs for peace and other lies

A shaky ceasefire holds in Israel-Palestine. And yes, thank whatever or whoever, this is cause for some hope and some celebration. Fewer people are dying today. This is good. But I am filled with gr...

in-between-days.ghost.io

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 16h

The entire economy depends on this horseshit so it's your patriotic duty to ask the computer to honk your bingus several times a day

The Verge @theverge.com · 20h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 17h

Bittersweet.
My @smh cartoon.

Single frame. Three pairs of hands reaching from the left towards three pairs of hands reaching from the right. But on the left, two pairs of hands are dotted outlines.

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goldingcartoons.bsky.social @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 16h

The peace plan. Today’s Age cartoon.

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 14h

Happy Festival of You!

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 14h

Happy birthday to him! He gets a whole month of Festivities!

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 14h

Happy Festival of You, whenever it falls, fellow Rocktoberan!

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John (repeat1968) Buss @johnbuss.bsky.social · 23h

The Time Magazine cover trump hates.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 15h

Great news! We have built the Blackmail Machine from the classic sci-fi short story, "Help, The Blackmail Machine Is Selling My Sex Dreams to Stephen Miller"

The Verge @theverge.com · 20h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you! I'm so glad I've got a MONA trip as part of it!

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you!