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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 8h

how happy we’d all be if this was all the internet was for

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

October 10, 2025

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16h

It's the story of the last ten years--kiss his ass in the most debased possible way, and this is what you get in return.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 16h

Trump complains about his Time Magazine cover photo in new post:

"the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown... Really weird!"

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 1d

If you were a broadsheet columnist this would still be your byline photo

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 6d

I canʼt wait for the twist that Nick Mohammed is Celia Imrieʼs secret son #CelebrityTraitors

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 7d

One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 8d

Iʼve always been told that my grandad trained to be a gas fitter with him, so please tell me that story checks out! Or does every family have a Joe Cocker story...?

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 9d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 9d

@nikujaga.bsky.social Hey, just wanted to say thanks for making me aware of @antennapod.org Just got a new, Android-based mp3 player to replace my old, cracked iPod Touch and the app is a dream — so many features I didnʼt even know I was missing out on with Appleʼs default!

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 10d

Reason the BBC works is its universality. If you replace that with a subscription, it is gone forever.

Lisa Nandy: Replace BBC licence fee with mix of funding

www.thetimes.com/article/4f4e...

Lisa Nandy: Replace BBC licence fee with mix of funding

The culture secretary has ruled out using general taxation to pay for the broadcaster and is also planning to prevent politicians presenting news programmes

www.thetimes.com

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 11d

[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]

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SOCRATES:
Plato..

PLATO:
Yes Socrates?

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SOCRATES:
Can you tell me, are you human?

PLATO:
Why… yes, Socrates

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SOCRATES:
And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is?

PLATO:
Um, yep

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SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then

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[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]

SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?

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PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel

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SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.

PLATO:
No.

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SOCRATES:
[Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes]

So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*?

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PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really

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SOCRATES:
So are we not human?

PLATO:
‘Spose not.

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[Bleak pause]

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PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock

SOCRATES:
Yeah

[ends]

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Rufus jones @rufeydoof.bsky.social · 11d

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 24d

Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.

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furry hater @furry-hater.bsky.social · 13d

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 16d

I could probably ask some pathetic AI to make an approximation of Bowie doing nautical bagpipes, but that would summon his furious ghost

Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 16d

I dreamt last night I was interviewing a music expert. She told me it was a great shame that Bowie “never got to use bagpipes”, perhaps to represent “a raging, stormy sea”

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 17d

One of the few episodes of television to make me properly cry (though I was hungover at time). See also: the Doctor Who with Vincent van Gogh

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 18d

How can anyone still believe thereʼs anything alien in Area 51, as if Trump wouldnʼt have blurted it out?

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 20d

Oh dear.

My friend @martiell wanted a picture of an angry porg, so he typed "cross porg" into ChatGPT ...

https://chaos.social/@judy2k/115258137221499155

A porg. Nailed to a wooden cross. (I have no idea what a "porg" is. Some kind of animal with big eyes, a sad expression, and a hat.)

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 21d

I was going to say Hancockʼs Half Hour but I think the Carry On series gives you more characters to play with

Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 21d

Iʼve been waiting for this reaction since you mentioned that show.

It was really the only logical solution to the mystery (and the new questions it raised were not interesting)... so just pick a better mystery!

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Stephen @godofhammers.bsky.social · 23d

Mentionocracy?

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 26d

-cease and desist
-null and void
-aid and abet
-free and clear
-ways and means

Why is law stuff like this always two words?

These are called ‘legal doublets’ and we can once again blame the Normans.

🧵⬇️

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25d

This is funniest possible headline for a song literally called "Song for Bob Dylan"

The David Bowie Song You Didn’t Know Was Dedicated to Bob Dylan

In Song For Bob Dylan, Bowie fearlessly critiqued one of the biggest names in music. But what was the real story behind this enigmatic track?

collider.com

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · Sep 9

I love this so much

I FEEL IT IN MY BONES 😆

Text of poem "chatgpt fucks my wife" by Abigail Sims

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