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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 22h

Sonic saying, "Support your local, human, erotica creators. You need chatgpt to suck your e-dick for you? You absolutely fucking LOSER"

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 8h

The product is just dependence on mind poison. Study after study has shown people using GPT think they are more productive but are empirically not. It is just a button you press that delivers hits of dopamine completely unrelated to the world around you.

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 11h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · Dec 17

Now, more than ever, you have to be a weird little pervert who makes art of questionable quality. You need to be driven crazy by the flesh. Because, as we all learned from Cronenberg's The Fly, the computers are not made crazy by the flesh. They can't do it like us.

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Skaya is looking for work! @skaya.bsky.social · 1d

New #Portfolioday!
Character artist/tech artist/outsource supervisor who is looking for work!
Full time/Freelance/Contract
I love building shaders for character customization, improving workflows, creating 3D character and materials!
www.artstation.com/elizabethn
Elizabeth.skaya @ gmail . com

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 23h

Look at the wraparound artwork Struzan did for the Indiana Jones books in the early 90s, complete with hand-drawn titles and author blocks!

16 year old me would stand in a mall B. Dalton and could feel the thunder & hear the music with one of these books in my fat little white suburban hands.

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Raw Fury I FREE UPDATE FOR KINGDOM👑👑 OUT NOW @rawfury.bsky.social · 1d

> run routine.exe
█ INITIALIZING CORE MEMORY...

Eager to know more about ROUTINE?

We're preparing a Q&A dev blog to help answer some of your burning questions about the game. Drop yours below for Lunar Software - we'll compile them soon.

> awaiting input_

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3d

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 2d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 2d

Guys a donation a day keeps the russian away

Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.ukr.monster · 2d

Our awesome Finnish friend proposed us a huge matching up to €5000, but we still didn’t get it (€825 to go), we need to get it by tomorrow💙💛

send.monobank.ua/jar/3Zuzxk994D
PayPal [email protected]

Need your €5🫣

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 6d

This is a great time to remind everyone that you should in fact, still be calling MasterCard, Visa, Stripe, and other payment processors to annoy the shit out of them.

Because I'll tell you right now, that shitheel? Not gonna have to worry about them accepting payment.

*Artists will.*

Phone Numbers
• Stripe (California): +1 888 926 2289 (Say you're based in California before continuing.)
• Stripe (Headquarters): +1 (888) 963-8955
• Stripe (US): +1 (877) 887-7815
• Stripe (France): +33 805-11-19-67
Mastercard (Headquarters): +1 914-249-2000 • Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-627-8372
Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-307-7309
• Mastercard (Int.): +1 (636)-722-7111
• Mastercard (AUS): +61 1800 120 113
• Mastercard (UK): 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers for Mastercard Visa (Headquarters): +1 (650)-432-3200
• Visa (US+ Can): +1 (800)-847-2911
• Visa (AUS): +61 1800 125 440 All region numbers for Visa
• PayPal (US): +1 (888)-221-1161
• PayPal (UK): +44 (0203)-901-7000
PayPal Customer Service: +1 (877)-569-1116

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 2d

Sadly, my contract with Blizzard ended in September. That means I'm looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · Jul 8

It's #portfolioday! I'm presently a senior narrative designer at Blizzard, but before that I was at Bungie and Arkane. I wrote for the Writer's Guild award-nominated Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and a bunch of critically acclaimed seasons and expansions in Destiny 2.

A scene from the High Heresy cinematic in Destiny 2: Heresy (2025)

A scene from the Safiyah cinematic from Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted (2022)

A scene from the final mission in Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)

A cutscene featuring the Outsider from Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)

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Da(N95)iella @sharpflower.bsky.social · 3d

If you live in Canada and want a Flo Mask here’s your chance to win one + some PHiD stickers 🩷💚💀 There are 5 prize packs of med-high nose bridge masks. (Check their site to see if those will fit you!) 🔗 for rules and more info

www.publichealthisdead.com/flomask

Contest — Public Health is Dead | Podcast

www.publichealthisdead.com

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 3d

If you're horrified by this, complete the survey.
cc @niais.bsky.social
Thanks @dotsandlines.bsky.social for the HT
🧪 🔭

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 4d

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 4d

Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was killed in Russian captivity after months of torture and silence.

Investigators have now identified the Russian officials responsible for her death.

🧵 1/7 ⬇️

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Ben Nicholas ⚪️ Looking for work! @belgianboolean.bsky.social · 5d

A couple years back, I had to put Echo on a diet. Caught him trying to nab groceries from my backpack.

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Liz Edwards @lizaledwards.bsky.social · 5d

Too powerful

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 5d

Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises

Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...

www.wheresyoured.at

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Liz Edwards @lizaledwards.bsky.social · 5d

I cannot believe how chonky he is here hahahah

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 5d

🔴 A 7-year-old first grader, Makаr Dorosh, was killed in a Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia.

The boy studied at Gymnasium No. 86 and died when a Russian drone destroyed his family’s home. His father, who had just returned home after three years in Russian captivity, is now in intensive care.

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 5d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Liz Edwards @lizaledwards.bsky.social · 5d

Our cute lil snark 🥹

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HolBolDoArt🏳️‍🌈 @holboldoart.bsky.social · 6d

Not as accurate as I'd like but hey first attempt

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