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I make YouTube videos, sometimes || hE/hIm || CONTACT INFO: http://linktr.ee/TBSkyen || #tbvideos #tbletsplay #tbreactions

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · Oct 11

Hi, I'm TBSkyen. I make youtube videos, sometimes.

Video essays: youtube.com/@tbskyen
Shorts: youtube.com/@tbskyenshorts
Let's Plays: youtube.com/@2bskyen
Commentary & reactions: youtube.com/@3bskyen

Tip me on patreon.com/tbskyen or ko-fi.com/tbskyen
Follow me on Tumblr: ohnoitstbskyen.tumblr.com

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TBSkyen Shorts

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The most boring Mom in Pokémon | #pokemon #tbshorts #pokémon

January 19, 2026 at 3:04 PM

TBSkyen

@tbskyen.com

... okay, the lil' twist in Kaya Chan Isn't Scary does kinda elevate it from the moeslop it otherwise kinda threatened to be. That's a twist with some grim Implications™.

January 19, 2026 at 12:24 PM

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Lady Emily ☄️

@ladyemily.nebula.tv

Btw for those who don’t know, I was the guest judge on this week’s episode of Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel Master Chef

youtu.be/WLkKgxa7o_Q?...

January 19, 2026 at 6:10 AM

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TBSkyen Shorts

@shorts.tbskyen.com

The Hex Maniac is more than just... THAT | #pokemon #pokémon #tbshorts #hexmaniac

January 19, 2026 at 4:25 AM

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Better Things Are Possible

@internethippo.bsky.social

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Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take

January 19, 2026 at 3:55 AM

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Dr. Jens Foell

@jensfoell.de

A joke for the history buffs:

Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

A much-liked post by Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com with the titles “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student” and the caption “They don’t want to get blamed again“

January 18, 2026 at 1:56 PM

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datcravat クラバット🍷

@datcravat.bsky.social

Frieren

November 16, 2024 at 6:29 PM

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Osita Nwanevu

@ositanwanevu.com

Domino meme:

Gerardus Mercator develops a map that allows navigators at sea to chart courses across our spherical globe in straight lines, though it distorts the size of land masses far from the equator, in 1569

The obliteration of the geopolitical and economic world order in 2026

January 18, 2026 at 5:03 PM

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DoesEmi

@doesemi.bsky.social

look at my jungler dawg im goin to demote
#gwen #viego

January 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM

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Ranged Touch

@rangedtouch.bsky.social

SHELVED BY GENRE awakens far below the Misty Mountains, and with riddles and talking eagles and exploding pine cones, the hosts continue their discussion of THE HOBBIT! Also, we learn so much about what Tolkien thought of airplanes. rangedtouch.com/2026/01/16/t...

January 16, 2026 at 2:44 PM

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Mekka Okereke

@mekka.mekka-tech.com

True, but there has never not been an off-ramp.

I mean, lots of the people that oppose Trump today, supported him before. Seriously. It's not even an issue.🤷🏿‍♂️

The issue is when people still want to hold onto the hate that lead them to support him, but want sympathy because they got burned too.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h

Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives

Doctor Memory @blank.org · 20h

This is aggravating, because on the one hand I think it's really important to give fascists an off-ramp and positive reinforcement when they use it...

...on the other hand, FUCK that guy, in particular.

January 18, 2026 at 9:34 PM

TBSkyen

@tbskyen.com

This slaps

castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 4d

I made a tool that makes retro anime sound effects. Meet AnimeVox!
I made it for a game, but it's free to use.

I'm using the forgotten (but popular in 80s japan) Schroeder reverb algo, and some wobble.

If you find it useful consider supporting me on itch :)

castpixel.itch.io/animevox

the anime sfx-making tool!
It's called ANIMEVOX, in big letters up top.
Then there's the controls:

In vertical pairs:
Left:
Pitch Rise
Rise speed

Reverb
Room size

On the right:
Wobble Speed
Wobble Amount

Tone Brightness
Volume

Next is a row of keys:
Randomize - randomizes the sound parameters
UNDO/ REDO - go back to parameters you liked
Export Wav - self explanatory, it saves a copy of the latest sound to your hard drive.

Then the fun buttons, with cute art styles:

IMPACT, sparkle, beam, powerUP, PON, BOOM, slash, woosh

Each produces a preset sound, which then goes through the fx chain.

Hope you enjoy it!

January 19, 2026 at 2:08 AM

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萌えの哀れ

@uncreativecat.bsky.social

This account was dangerous enough on the other website but it's lethal here in the land of Joke Understanders

Crazy Optical Illusions @crazyopticalillusions.net · 14d

January 18, 2026 at 1:54 AM

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Lady Emily ☄️

@ladyemily.nebula.tv

optimus prime and megatron doing this to each other

Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 1d

hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca

January 18, 2026 at 8:34 AM

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B u m b l e ( bi-weekly artist )

@bumblesteak.bsky.social

All of Olive 🐁

October 17, 2024 at 10:27 PM

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ナサギナ🥟

@7sagi7.bsky.social

January 18, 2026 at 4:12 AM

TBSkyen

@tbskyen.com

Independence. They choose independence and have been fighting for independence and sovereignty for a very long time. We colonized Greenland and brutalized the indigenous inhabitants, we were doing forced sterilisation to their bodies until the fucking 1990s.

David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 1d

In Denmark, you get free healthcare, free university education, a solid state pension and 5-star public transport.

The USA have people going bankrupt to pay medical fees, many with huge student loan debts and ICE terror on top of it all.

If you were from Greenland - who would you choose?

January 18, 2026 at 3:36 AM

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sarah zedig 🐐

@hmsnofun.bsky.social

fiction is so cool. what if there was some shit that didn't happen? crazy

January 16, 2026 at 8:07 AM

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Ed Zitron

@edzitron.com

One of the core rules of doing what I do is that if something confirms my bias in check it harder. His single citation for these claims is a dodgy website which looks like it’s using AI generated copy

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Months later, the tone inside the company has shifted.
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In recent internal discussions and public remarks, senior leaders at Salesforce acknowledged that the company was "too confident" in the ability of AI systems to fully replace human judgment, particularly in complex customer service scenarios.

According to executives familiar with the transition, automated systems struggled with nuanced issues, escalations, and long-tail customer problems. The result was declining service quality, higher complaint volumes, and internal firefighting to stabilize operations that had once been handled by experienced staff.
You cannot put a bot where a human is supposed to be
"We assumed the technology was further along than it actually was," one executive said privately, reflecting a growing recognition that AI performance in controlled demonstrations did not translate cleanly into real-world customer environments.

January 17, 2026 at 4:25 PM

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Ed Zitron

@edzitron.com

These are totally unsupported claims with no links, citations or even statements like “sources familiar with the matter.” I read basically every single story about AI efficacy at big companies, especially salesforce. These are either made up or egregious extrapolations of things.

Recently, senior executives at Salesforce have admitted, both internally and publicly, that they massively overestimated Al's capabilities. They have found that AI simply can't cope with the complex nature of customer service and totally fails at nuanced issues, escalations, and long-tail customer problems. They even say that it has caused a marked decline in service quality and far more complaints.
But the problems go far deeper than that.
Both employees and executives have said that the company is wasting countless resources on firefighting to stabilise operations since the mass Al layoff. Employees have to spend so much time stepping in to correct the wildly wrong Al-generated responses that Al is wasting more time than it saves. In other words, this AI reduces productivity, not increases it.
But there is also a huge problem here with expertise and skill debt. On top of the firefighting to correct the AI, executives have also highlighted how they are also having to firefight to stabilise their systems from problems that were previously easily solved by staff who had the required experience and skill.
However, these staff were fired in the Al layoffs.

Expertise, experience and skilled employees are really hard for a company to acquire. You see, much of the expertise, experience, and skills required are unique to the company and its operations. These operations will have quirks, common problems, and unique issues that even the most experienced outsider will really struggle with, but are effortless to someone with experience within the company. As such, these attributes are not only vital, but are nurtured and grown within a company, and cannot be hired in on a whim. What Salesforce has done is chuck all this experience out the window, and now they are suffering.
To say this is a damning indictment on Benioff, his capabilities as a CEO, and his cult-like push for Al is an understatement. It demonstrates that he is dangerously ignorant, as it was painfully evident that this would happen; more on that in a minute.
Salesforce is doing a U-turn, and is "reframing its AI strategy," shifting away from trying to replace workers, and instead doing what executives call "rebalancing." Basically, they are trying to re-hire these critical roles and expertise they have lost, take Al out of the driver's seat, and augment workers rather than replace them. More on why that is still a terrible idea in a minute.

January 17, 2026 at 4:25 PM

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Dana Terrace

@danaterrace.bsky.social

I love art that’s horrific to look at at a glance. I love stories that can make the most normal object a thing of terror in the context it lives in. Combine em both and yum yum yum i am living deliciously.

January 17, 2026 at 8:30 PM