Steve
@smread.bsky.social
Professional photographer. Amateur miniature painter
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They put microplastics in all of nature that bore us. In our blood. Our brains. Our wombs. Out ballsacks.
"But how can we put microplastics in the soul?" they asked, and so ChatGPT was born.
"But how can we put microplastics in the soul?" they asked, and so ChatGPT was born.
December 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
They put microplastics in all of nature that bore us. In our blood. Our brains. Our wombs. Out ballsacks.
"But how can we put microplastics in the soul?" they asked, and so ChatGPT was born.
"But how can we put microplastics in the soul?" they asked, and so ChatGPT was born.
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Every Warhammer youtuber is always Extremely Based Leftist Comrade or The Most Racist Man Alive with no in-between.
December 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Every Warhammer youtuber is always Extremely Based Leftist Comrade or The Most Racist Man Alive with no in-between.
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it's a mistake to compare the cost of your newsletter or podcast to a cup of coffee. that cup of coffee is the best treat i'm allowed to have every single day. no podcast is comparable to the beverage that justifies staying alive. instead market your newsletter as two thirds of a sweetgreen salad
December 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
it's a mistake to compare the cost of your newsletter or podcast to a cup of coffee. that cup of coffee is the best treat i'm allowed to have every single day. no podcast is comparable to the beverage that justifies staying alive. instead market your newsletter as two thirds of a sweetgreen salad
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I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
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This is so funny - of all my art to request a content warning on !!
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is so funny - of all my art to request a content warning on !!
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151. Any time I see regular, round wheels on a Star Wars vehicle I want to throw up. Get that shit out of my face.
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
151. Any time I see regular, round wheels on a Star Wars vehicle I want to throw up. Get that shit out of my face.
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Hey guys we need to raise your power bills again because the jackoff material factory needs more power to turn your mom and daughter’s pictures into pornography and we need you to pay for it
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Hey guys we need to raise your power bills again because the jackoff material factory needs more power to turn your mom and daughter’s pictures into pornography and we need you to pay for it
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nothing chatgpt has done is as impressive as akinator, the mind-reading internet genie from 2007
Akinator, the mind reading genie
Akinator can read your mind and tell you what character you are thinking of, as if by magic. Think of a real or fictional character, answer few questions, and Akinator will try to guess who it is. Wil...
en.akinator.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
nothing chatgpt has done is as impressive as akinator, the mind-reading internet genie from 2007
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i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy
September 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy
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Every part of this is horrible, but what pierced my heart was the unemployed illustrator's parents giving him a birthday card with an AI slop illustration
Fuck me this is bleak.
But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.
But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.
September 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Every part of this is horrible, but what pierced my heart was the unemployed illustrator's parents giving him a birthday card with an AI slop illustration
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Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief
September 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief
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What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart
September 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart
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having thought about this for three days, my current status is:
what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.
what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.
this makes me suspect that one of the routes that AI companies are aiming at is targeting young people. anything that existed when you were a kid feels normal and indispensable. especially if you always used AI to write all your essays for you. and to comfort you when your parents were arguing.
August 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
having thought about this for three days, my current status is:
what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.
what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.
simulating the stuff that is in theory popular because its real people doing real things feels particularly insidious!
The creator of this AI mukbang video, Jayla, told me she's 26, works part-time in North Carolina and just started making AI videos this summer, seeing a chance at easy money. She now sells an online handbook for making fake influencers, for $15. (These girls are 100% fake, if that's not obvious.)
August 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
simulating the stuff that is in theory popular because its real people doing real things feels particularly insidious!
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obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids
August 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids
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This is going around for some reason, just gonna point out that many studies have been done about porn addiction, held by researchers who believed in porn addiction, only to find that porn addiction is not real and never was. Turns out it was religion.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...
July 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is going around for some reason, just gonna point out that many studies have been done about porn addiction, held by researchers who believed in porn addiction, only to find that porn addiction is not real and never was. Turns out it was religion.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...
The frustrating thing with the implemenation of age gating the internet is that I would very much like to use an internet that didn't have children on it but I want the "adult" internet to be the default one and not require jumping through hoops to access.
July 31, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The frustrating thing with the implemenation of age gating the internet is that I would very much like to use an internet that didn't have children on it but I want the "adult" internet to be the default one and not require jumping through hoops to access.
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I would rather die than create an account to continue
July 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I would rather die than create an account to continue
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@lexroman.com asks the right question about the current "indie media" moment:
"Are we building independent media or are we building platform-dependent media?"
My answer: if you are using #Substack, you are sharecropping for Marc Andreesen.
Lex's take:
journalistspaythemselves.com/p/why-substa...
"Are we building independent media or are we building platform-dependent media?"
My answer: if you are using #Substack, you are sharecropping for Marc Andreesen.
Lex's take:
journalistspaythemselves.com/p/why-substa...
Why Substack's new valuation means a monopoly is brewing
Substack's new $1.1B valuation signals a new chapter and a point of no return for so-called independent media
journalistspaythemselves.com
July 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
@lexroman.com asks the right question about the current "indie media" moment:
"Are we building independent media or are we building platform-dependent media?"
My answer: if you are using #Substack, you are sharecropping for Marc Andreesen.
Lex's take:
journalistspaythemselves.com/p/why-substa...
"Are we building independent media or are we building platform-dependent media?"
My answer: if you are using #Substack, you are sharecropping for Marc Andreesen.
Lex's take:
journalistspaythemselves.com/p/why-substa...
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i do not share the author's barely disguised fetish but i will defend to the death their right to publish it
July 26, 2025 at 12:24 AM
i do not share the author's barely disguised fetish but i will defend to the death their right to publish it
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Her vibe is so pathetic and the stuff she's saying about Mamdani sounds so cool it took me a minute to realize this wasn't satire and is actually intended as a smear
thank you, muckraking journalists of the bari weiss tribune, for exposing the awesome stuff zohran mamdani has tweeted about like abolishing medical bills and seizing the property of millionaires
July 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Her vibe is so pathetic and the stuff she's saying about Mamdani sounds so cool it took me a minute to realize this wasn't satire and is actually intended as a smear
like... if you have to rely on a network of opaque self regulated ID verification services not even hosted in the UK to comply with this law maybe it shouldn't exist? Trying to force the internet to be child safe by default has done so much more damage than parents actually parenting.
The UK Online Safety Act has to be one of the worst, most ill-considered ideas we've put forward in a fair while. The reasons it is ridiculous are plentiful and exceptionally easy to establish.
Considering safety is in the name, it is grossly unsafe.
Considering safety is in the name, it is grossly unsafe.
July 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
like... if you have to rely on a network of opaque self regulated ID verification services not even hosted in the UK to comply with this law maybe it shouldn't exist? Trying to force the internet to be child safe by default has done so much more damage than parents actually parenting.
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HELP with long body
July 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
HELP with long body