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Jim Caris @jimcaris.bsky.social · 2h

In the 1980s, it was already an old-fashioned word for prisoners, and you never saw/heard it used outside of the tabloids. I guess their target audience is literally the same people they were targeting then

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Keith Stack @keithstack.com · 3h

Imagine being invited to this dinner and using the bathroom and accidentally clogging the toilet, and you try to unclog it but the toilet starts overflowing onto the floor, and you have to explain to Sakurai in front of everyone but you’re not good at Japanese so you have to pantomime it

Stealth40k @stealth40k.bsky.social · 1d

Masahiro Sakurai shared a photo of a Game Director dinner meeting he had for Tokyo Gameshow!

Participants:
- Hideki Kamiya
- Toby Fox
- Yoko Taro
- Jiro Ishii
- Kazutaka Kodaka
- Keiichiro Toyama

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Jim Caris @jimcaris.bsky.social · 3h

I love the designs of 80s home computers. They all have so much character

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Jim Caris @jimcaris.bsky.social · 3h

What's the small one? I don't think I've seen one of those before

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Dextra Hoffman @dextra.bsky.social · 4h

I updated my MacBook to MacOS 26 and now my Wacom tablet isn't working. I've got a ticket in with Wacom because their solutions on their website are not helpful. So if you use Wacom and Mac and haven't upgraded to the new OS yet, you might want to hold off on that.

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Jim Caris @jimcaris.bsky.social · 4h

Mine didn’t load either! At the time, I was absolutely certain that this was the greatest injustice in the history of humanity

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 7h

The richest freaks in the world wrap up a day's work of ruining the world and destroying everything you love and then stay up all night doing drugs, playing Diablo, and reading graphic novels

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Real Mummya'dib (Spooky) @mousedib.bsky.social · 5h

Oh if your business uses ai "art" in literally any material, I will consider it a scam

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 5h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Jim Caris @jimcaris.bsky.social · 6h

I'm with you on this one. I've enjoyed a whole bunch of games that borrow heavily from anime, but when I've tried to actually watch any I just bounce off it. I guess the interactivity makes some kind of difference for me.

(I did enjoy Akira though, but I've not seen it since I was a teenager.)

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 7h

Unquestionably good that the conclusion of the Your Party/Green Party tussle seems to be no leftism without trans liberation.

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Jim Caris @jimcaris.bsky.social · 7h

Labour could have been (and could be) attacking Reform with as much energy as the Greens are. Ask yourself why they haven't done so and why they're still not doing so.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 9h

tyranny of the midwits

Jake Flores @feraljokes.bsky.social · 14h

I can't believe this is real

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 29d

Donald Trump grieving Charlie Kirk.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 7h

Great this is being noticed but the framing in these stories that centre on Farage's own words rather than the issue itself tells you all you need to know about the appalling coverage of the far right and the role the mainstream media play in enabling its rise and mainstreaming

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 10h

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 10h

There is a genuine mental block amongst the elites in capitalist societies. Everything is collapsing and the hegemon is autocannibalising, but if that were true then they'd have to do something about it, and so they are doubling down on "everything is fine and normal."

Max Bernhard @mxbernhard.bsky.social · 12h

Seems like the worst time to start sharing your citizens' biometric data with the US government

Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · Aug 29

The EU-Commission wants to negotiate a very sensitive agreement that would allow US authorities direct (!) access to police-stored fingerprints & facial images in Europe.
Potentially, all travelers could be affected by this #EBSP – and people in need for protection.
digit.site36.net/2025/08/29/e...

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Pesky Spookter @peskysplinter.bsky.social · 13h

Two images of Mario's original sprite with Designed with Gamers in Mind with the sprite edited to have a cleavage, no tash, and a small dot for the eye. The other is Designed with Activits in Mind, and is his normal sprite.

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𝓪 𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱 🦋 @totr.bsky.social · 13h

the Guardian doing a weird piece about how "European far-right parties are following Trumps lead" by trying to designate "antifa" as a terrorist organisation

but they're not, are they

they're following Starmer's lead

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

Good man. Dont back down. Don't let these thugs intimidate you.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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𝓪 𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱 🦋 @totr.bsky.social · 14h

lol

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

Justice Department lawyers reposted President Trump’s statements and may have inadvertently endangered their prosecution of Luigi Mangione, violating the judge’s explicit orders that DOJ employees refrain from public comment about the case. trib.al/mZts17M

DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rants on Luigi Mangione

The Justice Department’s case against Luigi Mangione just hit a major obstacle.

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Jim Caris @jimcaris.bsky.social · 13h

WTF, hope you're both doing ok mate

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 15h

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Mizzy Blundell-Straw MP 🌹 @mizzyblundellstraw.bsky.social · 14h

What if dystopia is simply cringe? Personally I'd rather ram my nuts in a drawer than admit I'd been seduced by the robot that can't count much past ten without fucking up www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 2d

Need you guys to see the guy that just got kicked off big brother uk for being homophobic

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