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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 14h

DVD cover of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining except it’s Tony Blair leering through the broken door rather than Jack Nicholson

jesper ghoulsen @ptfen.bsky.social · 1h

oh this should be fun, given how many pieces of shit have flowed down the "labour right to gambling industry lobbyist" pipeline

Kay Paterson-Bassett @kaytoremember.bsky.social · 4h

Good

Betfred says all its shops may close if Reeves hikes gambling tax - bbc headline

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 16h

It’s almost like when you don’t have a rabidly trans-hostile media ecosystem, people generally support human rights.

lens.monash.edu/@politics-so...

A poll, commissioned by Equality Australia in the first quarter of 2025, found that:
• 86% agree or strongly agree that government and opposition should not politicise trans issues for political gain
• 89% agree or strongly agree that LGBT people deserve to live with dignity and respect
• 91% agree or strongly agree that trans people should have the freedom and choice to live their lives in the way that makes them happy
• 81% agree of strongly agree that trans people deserve the same rights and protections as other
Australians.

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jesper ghoulsen @ptfen.bsky.social · 16h

wow she really doesn't want to talk to zack huh

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jesper ghoulsen @ptfen.bsky.social · 19h

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bluesky post by Carl T. Bergstrom‬
‪@carlbergstrom.com‬
· 8h
This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

Reply by ‪🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂‬
‪@jametc.bsky.social‬
· 7h
...you pay money for a chat gpt membership or something? what?

why are you using chat gpt if you're a professor?

Reply by Carl T. Bergstrom
‪@carlbergstrom.com‬
Yes. I teach about it and write about its risks and it seems rather important to actually know what I’m talking about
18 October 2025 at 10:12

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 23h

I personally think it is kinda weird to write a cute lil post™️ dunking on chat gpt for talking to your dog all night because that only happened as a result of YOU HAVING A CHAT GPT ACCOUNT FOR SOME REASON.
Congrats you wasting finite resources and also admitting to using the slop machine, I guess.

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jesper ghoulsen @ptfen.bsky.social · 19h

I purchased this gun in order to educate my self fully on guns and the dangers they can pose.

This morning my ammo cache was inexplicably exhaused. it took a while but I pieced it together,

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jesper ghoulsen @ptfen.bsky.social · 19h

but LLM usage and the AI bubble has pushed this into overdrive.

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jesper ghoulsen @ptfen.bsky.social · 19h

if thats the case, I'm pretty sure its also true that youtube handles 100x more video plays than chat GPT does queries.

of course youtube's own AI usage (and that of uploaders) is problematic. And there is a case that the energy demands of Online as a whole are unsustainable -

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jameslrennie.bsky.social @jameslrennie.bsky.social · 1d

If you liiike a lot of value for shareholders join our club

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jesper ghoulsen @ptfen.bsky.social · 23h

that's neat, free toilet paper with every issue

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 1d

still trying to grapple with a huge chunk of the political establishment including the heads of every major party not headed by a Jewish person along with whole schools of their media pilot fish trying to foster serious civil disorder in a major British city against the will of the cops.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely curious what some of the less crazy gaga woowoo centrists think about this. Surely there comes a time when the omerta can't hold and the strategy of keeping your mouth shut just seems intolerable? If you stay quiet for this what else are you just letting pass without comment?

Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 1d

still trying to grapple with a huge chunk of the political establishment including the heads of every major party not headed by a Jewish person along with whole schools of their media pilot fish trying to foster serious civil disorder in a major British city against the will of the cops.

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Catherine 🐸 @catebridget.bsky.social · 1d

i don’t need to do meth to tell students not to do meth. i also teach about the risks of so-called AI and i manage to do it without being part of the problem.

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jesper ghoulsen @ptfen.bsky.social · 1d

I actually knew two kids who had a NES, but they were a pretty rare novelty. Basically every kid I knew around my age had an 8-bit micro of some kind though!

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jesper ghoulsen @ptfen.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose I'm arguing that we shouldn't have to deal with additional imported far right nut jobs, given the precedent of their violent behaviour in Amsterdam.

On the other hand that possibly risks making me pro border control in this one very specific case. So I could be wrong!

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jesper ghoulsen @ptfen.bsky.social · 1d

tbf the position that sanctions should prevent Israeli citizens from being allowed to travel to the UK would be legitimate

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RemembranceWatch @remembrancewatch.bsky.social · 1d

Dresspect the glorious dead. They gave their tomorrow so we can performatively #remembrance them 🫡 9/10 for effort, 1/10 for practicality. She needs to watch out on those stairs, lest she becomes one of the fallen

Junkyard Fool @junkyardfool.bsky.social · 2d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here we FUCKING GO!!

Ripon knitters make 12ft Remembrance Week poppy dress

Ripon Community Poppy Project volunteers spent at least 1,000 hours knitting the garment.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Junkyard Fool @junkyardfool.bsky.social · 2d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here we FUCKING GO!!

Ripon knitters make 12ft Remembrance Week poppy dress

Ripon Community Poppy Project volunteers spent at least 1,000 hours knitting the garment.

www.bbc.co.uk

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jesper ghoulsen @ptfen.bsky.social · 1d

I completely agree that UEFA should ban Israeli clubs from European competition, for the same reason it banned Russian clubs.

But this is *not* why Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have been (also, completely correctly) banned from travelling to Birmingham! Ronay is falsely insinuating that this is the case.

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jesper ghoulsen @ptfen.bsky.social · 1d

OTOH if she had suggested that the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans' behaviour should be precedent for a ban of Israeli teams from European competition altogether - well there would in fact be a well known precedent for that!

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jesper ghoulsen @ptfen.bsky.social · 1d

I mean I agree with both positions, but the way Sultana puts it as a kind of "furthermore" makes it easy for pricks like Scofield to suggest that the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban is related to Gaza or indeed Israel itself, which it isn't.

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jesper ghoulsen @ptfen.bsky.social · 1d

imo Zarah does make a mis-step here conflating two things that (while both correct) should be kept separate.

A ban on Maccabi away fans (due to hooliganism) is a completely different matter from banning Israeli teams from European competition (due to the country's genocidal actions).

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jesper ghoulsen @ptfen.bsky.social · 1d

The ban isn't for Maccabi fans' safety and anyone telling you that is lying. Any football team whose away fans are involved in hooliganism can face a ban like this. Their nationality, ethnicity and religion are irrelevant.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

you can't compare protest movements from the past to protest movements today. they were protesting with farmers and milk men back then. today's soros funded black bloc antifa protesters can afford to train year round and not just during the regular season

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