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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 15h

Designed with Gamers in Mind:

A picture from The X-Files of a drawing of Bigfoot with boobs

Designed with Activists in Mind:

A picture from The X-Files of a drawing of a shapeless Jersey Devil woman

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 6d

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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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 18h

Garfield’s face smiling above text that reads ‘YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA’

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 18h

Guy wearing jewellery, sunglasses indoors and a Stetson that matches his jacket:

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 1d

I had some and yeah, they’re decent!

The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 1d

Now that I’ve found out cola bottles are dangerous I’ll have to have these instead

A box of special edition cola bottle flavour Jaffa Cakes

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 1d

I’m surprised that I’m so surprised tbh

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 1d

You’d think there’d be some category of person - unrepentant war criminal; notorious far-right agitator; convicted child rapist - that would be considered bad enough that libs wouldn’t finger-wag at you for celebrating their deaths. And yet…

Two Bluesky posts:

Richard The Sod • 1h ago

lan Watkins getting shanked to death in prison has made my weekend. There isn't enough piss for him to rest in.

Joshua Casey • 28m ago

I hope you get therapy because there's something seriously messed up in the head of anyone that cheers on the murder of a human being

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 1d

William Basinski

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 1d

What would be the wildest concert for a fight to break out at?

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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𝓪 𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱 🦋 @totr.bsky.social · 2d

bnonjour. je m'apelle monsiuer snurb

mr burns from the simpsons wearing an uncobnvincing false moustache, in the guise of mr snurb

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 2d

Robert Smith if he was a Neanderthal

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 2d

Rachel Reeves: “It’s just some bird or something”

Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 2d

No sign of lower living standards as capitalists struggle with falling rates of profit? I must have misinterpreted why water companies were pleading poverty as a reason for dumping increasing amounts of sewage in the country’s waters

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine being labelled a terrorist just for standing around in a frog costume

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 3d

Could have condensed these messages into a single sticker: ‘DON’T KILL PIGS’

K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 3d

Just saw a truck with the most perplexing pair of bumper stickers ever: POLICE LIVES MATTER and GO VEGAN.

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 3d

BigBossLuffy 🤝 Elon Musk

Elon Musk Plans to Take on Wikipedia With 'Grokipedia'

After blasting Wikipedia as biased and 'woke' and pushing for it to be defunded, Elon Musk says he's building his own online encyclopedia through xAl.

By Michael Kan
Sep 30, 2025

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 3d

All the young Tory men look like this

A child in a blue England football polo shirt wearing glasses and sporting a Sven Goran Eriksson haircut

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 3d

Labour would go into coalition with Reform before the Greens

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 3d

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 3d

A human head floating in a jar of formaldehyde is declared fit for work at a capability assessment.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden announces ‘The system is working as it should be.’

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 3d

Jason, I feel waves of disgust if I notice a background is green screen. If I see AI on screen, I’m going to vomit all over the cinema

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 4d

Jason Blum says Hollywood should 'embrace AI' and viewers 'don't care if what they’re looking at is AI"

"it’s here to stay. It’s very important to use it ethically and legally, and for studios and guilds to protect the copyright of the artists"

(via Variety)

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 4d

Amended Kafka, Esq. tweet

Following JD Vance and shaking my head the whole time so the people on the bus know I disagree with him

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 4d

The juxtaposition of the first and last sentence of this paragraph is art

"For this movie to make any sense at all, one has to believe the United States, today, right now, is a fascist dictatorship, wrote David Marcus at Fox News, under a headline that dubbed the film an "ill-timed apologia for left-wing violence." He continued, "That is not only a dangerous fallacy but, as we have found out recently, a deadly one ... The whole movie made me a little angry, but then I remembered that the Trump administration is cracking down on Antifa - today's very real domestic terrorists - and maybe this will be a fun movie for them to watch once they are all in jail."

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