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@nickoctopus.bsky.social

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It's me, hi, I'm the one screaming "LOG OFF", it's me He/him. UK. I occasionally make EBM/industrial music as Trellick. I hate fascists & bigots and post angrily about that sort of thing

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · Jul 30

Do you like EBM? I've released some more EBM as Trellick. It's hot, it's sweaty, it's great. And there's even a remix by @digitalgeist.com to get things even hotter!

It's PWYW on BC trellick.bandcamp.com/album/muscle... or find it on your streaming service of choice #ebm #electronicbodymusic

Muscle EBM, by Trellick

4 track album

trellick.bandcamp.com

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 11m

That's not all I was checking out

wait sorry, got distracted there

Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 12m

Canada's snowflake costume has incredible "over-achieving stage mum wants her daughter to get all the attention at the non-denominational nativity" energy

Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 17m

if I was arriving at a wedding reception with assigned seats etc and saw I was seated next to someone called "Harriotte", I would probably just fake an urgent illness and leave right away, even before I met them

Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 47m

oh my god LOOK AT ECUADOR OH MY GOD

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 48m

actually "glitzy fish and chips being attacked by gulls" is amazing

I do have some questions regarding the name "Harriotte" which has strong 'parents argued over a name and couldn't decide so split the difference' vibes

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 1h

I've already pre-emptively left something on the workstack until tomorrow morning so I can be all "I really want some focus time for [task] this morning so I'll set myself to Do Not Disturb" in the team chat :-D

Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 1h

too real

The Onion @theonion.com · 2h

Charli XCX Escalates Feud By Luring Travis Kelce Away With Beef Stick

Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 1h

I feel it's the MS stuff that makes it plausible for me. Part of the whole wrapping copilot into everything and trying to even make that a frontend that MS are doing :-/

Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 2h

this is not a joke, I fully expect people will be doing this, trying to shout over the person sitting next to them

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 2h

imagine the fun of working in an open plan office where every other dork is incapable of using their tech except via voice

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 4h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 4h

It's over: I've already depicted you as the seething broad gauge train, and myself as the smug narrow gauge!

A sketch of two steam trains, human faces on the front. The title above them says 'The Broad Gauge and the Narrow Gauge'. The narrow gauge train is looking unbearably smug, then broad gauge absolutely raging. In the smoke, they are communicating, the broad gauge saying "You are a locomotive" and the narrow saying "You are another".

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 2h

fascists say their victory is inevitable but history says a specific kind of ending is inevitable for fascist leaders, imo

Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 2h

I (a person who never has a Put Together Look) remember being confused when a friend wore a watch that didn't work "because it went with the suit", but then I talked to some Watch Guys who were all "oh yeah, that happens a _lot_, pro move tbh"

Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 2h

okay but it is actually cheating when people logging in from City 17 play those "try not to cum" games and I don't understand why I keep getting banned from the subreddit for pointing this out

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · Jun 9

Welcome.
Welcome to Bluesky.

You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest social media platforms. I thought so much of Bluesky that I elected to establish my Administration here, on .social so thoughtfully hosted by Our Benefactors.

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 4h

no but I'd be ashamed enough on their behalf that I'd dump them.

I'd also tell them that if they had _actually_ been cheating, I'd have entertained the option of talking it out with them and seeing if we could make things work. But this was too far.

Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 6h

why is The Onion the only newspaper that's ASKING THE REAL QUESTIONS theonion.com/study-finds-...

Study Finds Voices Should Sound Normal Through Walkie-Talkies By Now

ITHACA, NY—Citing numerous advancements in communication technology over the years, a study released Wednesday by researchers at Cornell University found that voices coming through walkie-talkies shou...

theonion.com

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 6h

[guy at the back hastily taking a note to make a heckler chatbot and deploy it during comedy shows]

Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 6h

basically: this technology is not going back into a box, people know what *gestures at the internet* is like, and what people are like. Deliberate choices were made and I have no doubt that some of the horrendous negatives were in quiet undocumented conversations seen as benefits

Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 6h

If this was twitter, I would be counting down to waiting for some smug idiot to turn up with an "well actually they said that about photography and-"

fuck that guy, tho. also check that guy's hard drive

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 6h

I mean the answer to both of these is obvious of course, but maybe if those otherwise unaware/weren't directly affected realised that it's an industry of and for gross misogynists, abusers and paedophiles, they might see the industry differently

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 6h

I would like someone, anyone, to stand up at a tech conference full of AI bros praising genAI and ask them 1) why are there are just so many tools for making fake nudes and 2) why does every genAI art tool that people use for porn generate pics of women who look somewhat underage?

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 8h

If one of the guys (or the dog) was wearing a Tyrolean hat then this would be pretty much exactly what I was imagining a German daytime tv series to look like tbh

Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 8h

the absolute horror as I, a 47 year old, realise that I've got tickets for gigs through in Glasgow both tonight and tomorrow.

Late trains home two nights in a row? I might die of being Too Old And Tired For This Shit, dear god

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 8h

if only there were people of working age who wanted to come to the UK and work, paying taxes and conveniently filling a demographic hole that's gaping wider than goatse

but alas, spending money on performatively stopping people coming to the UK is far more important than that