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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 20h

Art by Carlos Victor Ochagavia for The Illuminatus! trilogy by American writers Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, first published in 1975

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1h

suddenly mastodon's food warning makes sense

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 11h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 3h

it's really fucking weird to me that my core politics of "we should try to help everyone live comfortably" is seen as more reactionary & extremist than "fuck everyone else but me"

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 3h

i only know how to pay people to create new alloys

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 6h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 16h

Introducing the Icon

YouTube video by Riff Raff - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Dija @diaja.bsky.social · 8h

This is going to be a major shift in the political economy of news media. How it plays out, is resisted and embraced, is going to change how populations perceive and understand their world in subtle but critical ways. One day after another. @technihilism.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

A tiny new button in your search bar could kill the open web

The launch of 'AI Mode' ushers in a future where news sites are kept alive to train AI chatbots for a US tech company.

www.abc.net.au

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1d

Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum is *very* good

Superman is standing behind Batman, who is sitting at the bat-computer.

Superman: Just consider it for a second. We're completely in the dark here...

Batman: You're only reinforcing my point. Humor me, *Dr Kent*...what would be *your* scientifically sound suggestion to *how we handle* the urgent matter of these new, *possibly deadly* kryptonites?

Superman: ...you need to test them on me. One by one...

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 9h

you're not the boss of me now

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Big Art Thread @bigartthread.bsky.social · 16h

Posters by Japanese designer Koichi Sato, 1970s-90s.

Poster with the imprint of a hand outlined in blue over a white background. The interior of the palm and fingers is black with constellations, and a pink grid and labels are placed over the image.

Poster with an abstract image of blue-to-pink gradient inside a tall rectangle, outlined by a frame with a yellow, blue, orange, and pink gradient. Pale white squiggles are moving over the entire image.

Poster with an illustration of a figure in silhouette with dragonfly wings, floating over a white expanse with a black sky.

Poster with a dark image of a woman with long hair falling over her face, mostly obscured by shadow, with columns of text on the left and right edges.

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 16h

Introducing the Icon

YouTube video by Riff Raff - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1d

like, really *really* very good

Superman, flying off: I promised Jimmy I'd always answer that watch... and I'm not in the habit of breaking my promises.

Batman, looking up and with his mask off: That's some really heartwarming kindergarten logic...but your *brain is sick*, Clark.

Batman: Get it together, Superman...I can't stop Grundy *and* save bystanders at the same time. *Can I count on you?*

Superman: Always...let's go.

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1d

Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum is *very* good

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 1d

More folks should check out The Dark Eye, an adventure game from 1995. The game uses stop motion animation to tell stories by Edgar Allen Poe and features narration by William S Burroughs. Playable in ScummVM too!

Game Mag Print Ads @gamemagprintads.famiconsumer.com · 1d

The Dark Eye
Source: Next Generation 12 (December 1995)
Scan Source: RetroMags

#retrogames #retrogaming

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1d

it's beyond fucking tiring that a party with an obsession for holding people accountable for every single cent of welfare payments is handing out "how to crime" guides to their fucking employees #auspol

David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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Warwick Gow @warwickgow.bsky.social · 1d

Currently on the wall at Hillvale Photo (Naarm) with a thousand or so other photos as part of their annual Phototrophy exhibition.

Featuring my love having a morning coffee on a lil family weekend trip away in 2023.

w/ @studio-of-jo.bsky.social , 2023.
Dev & Scan: Your Local Film Lab

A film photograph a person sitting a kitchen table in morning window light. They’re wearing a red sweater vest while drunken a coffee and holding an arm up to block the light or cover their face

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kelly knowles art @kellyknowles.art · 2d

more adventures in ANSI #DigitalArt

ANSI / PETSCII art featuring "myth.OS" in a gothic font over a flash drive and incomplete celtic knot borders.

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Tim Popelier, Tankhead Text Typer @handle.invalid · 1d

Creating fake "proof" of something that is true/real makes people doubt all other evidence of it more, undermining the exact thing you are supposedly contributing to. What a farce.

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1d

more like autechrist

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · 19d

LESS THAN TWILIGHT (Marek Kanievska, 1987)

A decadent college student (Andrew McCarthy) returns home for Christmas and finds himself caught in a love triangle between a dissipated gigolo werewolf (Robert Downey Jr.) and his sociopathic coke-dealing vampire pimp (James Spader).

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · 20d

HOUSE OF THE UNDEAD (Massimo Cazzioni, 1969)

Two legendary vampires compete for possession of John Dee’s great-great granddaughter, whose blood is rumored to be the regenerative elixir of life. Cristopher Lee, Veronica Carlson, Paul Köhler, and Boris Karloff as Van Helsing.

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