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Rubén Solas, no Solás @menhdel.bsky.social · 8h

La caridad es un fracaso del Estado.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 17h

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”

Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...

www.stereogum.com

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Vyria Durav, Dragon Princess of the Night @vyriadurav.bsky.social · 18h

Consider: woman who is very powerful and scary but is actually very nice to you and has your well-being and comfort as her top priority, using her power to defend you against the world

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 3d

this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters

@amagire@mastodon.social

elevated horror: what if you're grieving your loved one TOO MUCH?
folk horror: what if a child's disability could EAT PEOPLE?
supernatural horror: what if your childhood trauma could EAT PEOPLE?
psychological horror: what if your adult trauma could EAT PEOPLE?
body horror: what if your gender dysphoria could EAT PEOPLE?
slasher horror: what if a random guy was trying to kill you, instead of a cop or your boyfriend?

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PseudoPod @pseudopod.org · 19h

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moodsandtenses
There's something hilarious about how so much subsequent media has positioned Vampires and Werewolves as, like, binary opposite entities, and then you read Dracula (1897) and realize that wolves are that guy's preferred solution to every problem. You'd say something to Dracula about
"ah yes, werewolves, vampires' great eternal enemies," and he'd just be like "you mean my subcontractors?"
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moodsandtenses
I'm really enjoying the growing consensus in the notes that there's an Eternal Rivalry Between Vampires and Werewolves now, entirely because the werewolves, sick of Dracula's bullshit, have unionized.

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El Sabro, Marcus appreciator account @sabro.bsky.social · 19h

Si una mochila es de plástico me da igual que sea de Gucci, no vale más de 15€.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 19h

Although this show was unfortunately canceled (it must be said that it was poorly supported by HBO Max and then Netflix, as it was only available in a handful of countries), there is still a teaser for season 2 in order to find and convince investors.

Scavengers Reign Season 2 Teaser

YouTube video by What's on Netflix

www.youtube.com

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 19h

Today marks the two-year anniversary of a great modern sci-fi show: Scavengers Reign. 🥰

A new classic that is only officially available in a few countries.

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 20h

The new anime finally adapts the manga version and then lets this affect the status quo from now on, doing things like letting Ranma openly swim with the other girls at school or his boy classmates being confused not that Ranma is a girl but why he’s currently working as a waitress at a ramen shop

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 20h

This is a huge change because not only did it mean the original anime couldn’t do the running gag of “everyone is weirdly nonchalant about this guy turning into a girl” but it also took agency away from Ranma and used his girl form as humiliation against him instead of him weaponizing his femininity

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Clara Dies Valls @diesclara.bsky.social · 1d

La industria del automóvil se empeña en hacer cruces entre chatgpt y dos hipopótamos siameses en vez de concentrarse en hacer una variante del Citroën C15 que no contamine y se mueva bien por monte, y yo digo BASTA.

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Clara Dies Valls @diesclara.bsky.social · 1d

No quiero un coche que se conecte a mi whatsapp, quiero que los intermitentes hagan TACA TACA TACA TACA TACA TACA con una luz bien gorda y enterarme de si están encendidos aunque tenga puesto Sabaton en alto.

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Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 20h

windows is an angry parent, linux is a domme

"No. Absolutely not. Put that back. Sit down or I'm turning this car around." (crashes)
vs
"Are you sure about that, baby? If you are, say it to me again with confidence <3" (fucks up your life exactly as instructed)

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TodoMal @todomal.bsky.social · 20h

Lembrai que Wordreference é uma página criada por um senhor da FLÓRIDA, e com isso já explicas todas as tarinhas.

Com isso e com que os EUA são um estado criado inicialmente pola seita mais demente do cristianismo. Os Puritanos eram radicais até para os CALVINISTAS.

Ceci 🥇 Ganadora del I Campeonato Nacional de Liga Twink o Puto @frikitty.bsky.social · 1d

NO PUEDO MÁS CON MI VIDA POR QUÉ COJONES ¡¡WORDREFERENCE!! UN ¡¡DICCIONARIO ONLINE!! CENSURARÍA LA PUTÍSIMA PALABRA "SHIT" CON PUTOS ASTERISCOS

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 1d

Once you transition you'll be a funny girl! If there's one thing everyone likes and appreciates, it's funny women!

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah, I think that's lost on a LOT of people under the age of, like, 30-ish. Doc Brown's time machine was a DeLorean because DeLoreans were stupid garbage. It was a lemon he probably got for $500. Using it was just another thing made him look insane. 80s audiences would have understood that.

vampironique emma houxbois @emmahouxbois.bsky.social · 22h

satire that people misunderstood: they picked the delorean for back to the future as a joke because it was a failed vision of the future

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 1d

My AI private detective called and says my AI wife is having an affair. She’s been banging an AI milkman

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Screen cap from linked article, with heading Significance and then text:

Large Language Models (LLMs) are used in evaluative tasks across domains. Yet, what appears as alignment with human or expert judgments may conceal a deeper shift in how “judgment” itself is operationalized. Using news outlets as a controlled benchmark, we compare six LLMs to expert ratings and human evaluations under an identical, structured framework. While models often match expert outputs, our results suggest that they may rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification. Our findings suggest not only performance asymmetries but also a shift in the heuristics underlying evaluative processes, raising fundamental questions about delegating judgment to LLMs.

Sentence starting with "While models often" is highlighted in blue.

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Victor Duarte @victorvdr9.bsky.social · 21h

Monowheel design and rig test.
2022.

#b3d

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🌟 DELUSIONAL LOSER SAINT-KNIGHT OF JUSTICE @oblativelamb.bsky.social · 21h

can i fondle your balljoints and pinch points can i fondle your balljoints and pinch points can i fondle your balljoints and pinch points

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 2d

"Register for the protest! Take lots of pictures of yourself there! Pick up tear gas canisters with your hands! Sit down on the ground when things get violent!"

Y'all, I'm begging you.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 1d

evilbeast
also it finally happened. a girl called me hot for having a multitool in my backpack

evilbeast
right so i also have a patch like this on my backpack:
STOP 🛑
NO TALK
NO TOUCH
NO EYE CONTACT
its meant for a service dog but i like to think i'm funny. anyways
same girl saw this patch, read it out loud, then made direct eye contact and Grabbed my throat

evilbeast
the moral of the story is that if you are a pathetic fag with the strength of a wet napkin scary women want to keep you as a pet

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Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · 2d

Panel 1: Shen is looking down at his hand from a somewhat bottom-up perspective, saying "y'know, I think it's time I learned to draw hands."

Panel 2: We focus on Shen's hand from his perspective. It is very simplistic, looking sort of like a water-inflated white rubber glove with 3 fingers and a thumb.

Panel 3: The text says "*horrible cracking noise*" as the hand transforms into a realistic 4-fingered hand (albeit still paper white, as that is Shen's skin color). The panel is decorated with a spiral of chaotic, shaky black and yellow lines.

Panel 4: Shen is looking down at his hands, which are now both realistic, large 4-fingered hands. He says "Oh HELL yes. Now time to get that YAOI MONEY."

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fallen fae of fall @uhandreak.bsky.social · 1d

Bilbo is skewing the statistics

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 1d

What they don’t want you to know is that you can do that for free and do as much being as you like.

It’s not easy and sometimes pretty rough, but the version they sell is worse.

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