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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 2d

Police just ruined the best underground (literally) cinema club in Paris.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

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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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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David Wynne @davidwynne.bsky.social · 3d

Bevis does this for us every year, as an act of truly heroic public service. Check out the whole thread.

Personally I want a movie starring Mister Thailand.

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 3d

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

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PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 2d

Hmm, #wacom drivers page is 403 forbidden and I need the drivers. Knackers.

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 2d

Flipping Mental.

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PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 2d

At a party for five and six year olds and Golden came on. It went MENTAL.

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Jennifer C. Wilson @inkjunkie1984.bsky.social · 2d

Are you looking for an excellent mix of #poetry and #shortstories to dive into?

Why not try the anthologies from North Tyneside Writers' Circle?

✨"Well written and thought provoking."✨

✨"Great mix of styles and showcasing some real talent."✨

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CWFK6X7Z

#amreading #booksky

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PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 3d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 3d

Oof, sorry. Hope youre doing better today.

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PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 3d

This thing has inevitability. you need to get on the what the heck kinda shoggoth is Paul making train before it leaves the station and decides whether it is food or you are, before you know whether the train itself is its digestive tract.

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PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 3d

OK, look, I was trying to make a paella adjacent rice dish as I have so many times before.

But I accidentally used Risotto rice.

So now I'm leaning into feeding it butter and water and stock and such.

I like a risotto. But... the ratios are wrong.

And its growing.

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PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 4d

Brains dont know what's best for em. That's why we have wine. Probably too early though.

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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 6d

Fallingwater. Watercolour painting finished on this day 5 years ago. Still available as a print in my shop.

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PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 6d

Look at his eyes, look at his blinking.

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 6d

Saw that, thought of this. Boze is correct nonetheless.

Barton Fink, Burning Corridoor, Shouting: "ill show you the life of the mind"

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 6d

Chatbots and AI slop are going to ruin countless brains. Yours doesn't have to be one of them. Study history. Read poetry. Get acquainted with Bach, Shakespeare, George Eliot. In a time when people are rapidly getting dumber, we need communities devoted to the life of the mind.

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PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 8d

#notanexpert

PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 8d

If your ordering system enabled them to make an account to put in the order, remove the account. Their goal maybe escalating the privs of the accounts.

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PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 8d

There's not a whole lot you can: make sure all relevant code and plugins are up to date. Delete suspicious orders. Block the IP addresses if you have access to do so (which probably won't help too much as they will change em).

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PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 8d

Theyre testing your security. Saw it a lot on my dads site last month.

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 8d

Shardcore giving you a sneak preview of some if our Oblique Strategy tribute cards from Alan Moore, Thurston Moore and @leahmoore.bsky.social as well as from
@andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social
Steve Albini,
@robinince.bsky.social
And others...

shardcore @shardcore.org · 8d

delighted to receive my set of Ambagious Tactics cards from @fruishfruish.bsky.social and the good people of Northampton Arts Lab.

my card is in excellent company!

(also, the cat approves)

Ambagious Tactics: an Oblique Tribute Act a choir of over
100 versatile enigmas

2025 marks the 50-year anniversary of the first appearance of Oblique Strategies by Peter Schmidt and Brian Eno. Northampton Arts Lab decided to mark this by creating a deck made up of many Ambagious Tactics from over one hundred different people. Some of them are connected to Eno and Schmidt, and some are folk who regularly used the decks. Others we asked for different reasons.

a card which reads:

Steal carefully

- shardcore

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PaulXThompson @paulxthompson.bsky.social · 11d

Thats amazing.

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 12d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Jennifer C. Wilson @inkjunkie1984.bsky.social · 12d

I'm really excited to be joining @paperjamcc.bsky.social at this event on Sunday 19th October (and I LOVE being referred to as 'jovial', although, let's be honest, there's not many 'J' words!!).

Come along! Buy comics! (Or my books...)

paperjamcomics.blogspot.com/2025/09/smal...

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