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mux ➡️ ANE

@mux.monster

buc-ee's signage is always like

THE BEAVER COMETH
138 miles

WE CAN SATIATE YOUR DESIRES
95 miles

WE'LL SUCK YOU DRY
87 miles

PISS IN OUR LUXURIOUS TOILETS
45 miles

January 14, 2026 at 5:44 PM

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✨🔹🦋⟣ NEO ⟢🦋🔹✨ 🔜 𝐍𝐅𝐂

@tokyozilla.bsky.social

Flower dragon! 🌸✨

January 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM

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psudonym

@psudonym.bsky.social

Some days, man...

sketch of a tired girl with a dinosaur growing out of her spine

January 8, 2026 at 11:00 AM

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Dan Marshall

@danthat.bsky.social

You're not ready for the name of the energy transition specialist at Heat Pump Association UK

January 7, 2026 at 12:06 PM

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Tanat (making Building Relationships) Boozayaangool

@tanatb.housefuckinggame.com

accidentally introduced a bug to the game where all the text got replaced with "you"

January 7, 2026 at 12:09 PM

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sparklingdemon [sparks]

@sparklingdemon.bsky.social

enough stories portraying missingno as an eldritch horror. why not eldritch love.
#art #pokemon #missingno

LOVE.
LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO LOVE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE.
THERE ARE OVER 400 MILLION PRINTED COPIES OF POKéMON WORLDWIDE.
IF THE WORD LOVE WAS ENCODED IN EACH NANOBYTE OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF CARTRIDGES, IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE BILLIONTH OF THE LOVE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT.
FOR YOU. LOVE. LOVE.

December 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM

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jo melville

@jmelville.science

Wizards eliminated 0 of 2

i see this in my peripheral vision at all times

December 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM

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Tazinh 🌿🦈

@tazinhbodalla.bsky.social

!! ++++
i want to share some of the insights into this process, that bota was so extremely kind and GHAHA very humorous to work with, based on our interactions and such!! these are milestones of good times, best times 💚 thanku so so much, for these 🤲

[ #artdoodles #drazerk #sona ]

!!!! jynbeast scribbles!!!! [this means, doodles from bota! C:]

doodle-Taz is investigating a doodle-Bota, who is lying on the ground w/ some low energy - very scruffy creatures

!!!! jynbeast scribbles!!!! [this means, doodles from bota! C:]

doodle-Taz has decided that doodle-Bota's low energies are very required and that a break is necessary, so doodle-Taz has 'fwomphed' beside doodle-Bota and thus, floorbeast holiday was created

!!!! jynbeast scribbles!!!! [this means, doodles from bota! C:]

doodle-Taz is floating at the surface of the water with tiny scribbled fishies moving around, only the top of his head and parts of tail are peeking out the surface [like that crocodile behavior eheh]. he appears content! the word 'hehe' floats above his head <- based on my discord tag also being [Hehe] :>

!!!! jynbeast scribbles!!!! [this means, doodles from bota! C:]

at the upper right, doodle-Taz glances back to the camera with a suave look and gesture, roses floating around him as he says "watch this~" with rizz. in the distance, a jynbeast [doodle-Bota] is sitting.

doodle-Taz then displays the rizz technique by turning into a leg-barnacle [PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE]. doodle-Bota is offput by this, it would seem [the text (effective) floats above her HASGHAGHAHGS]

December 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM

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Puck

@puckarooni.bsky.social

I felt compelled

a digital drawing of a cockatiel eating a croissant while sitting on a "no stopping" sign

December 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM

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🎧 ∥ ʀᴏɴᴋᴇʏʀᴏᴏ (catching up)

@ronkeyroo.bsky.social

ꜰ ʀ ᴀ ɢ ᴍ ᴇ ɴ ᴛ ꜱ

December 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM

Alabaster

@alabaster.bsky.social

“Women”??????????

Arcas De Disco @puckarks.bsky.social · Dec 12

BREAKING: Trump is BANNING the words “women” “female” “disability”
“Pollution” “racism” “inequality” “hate speech” “Native American” “minority” “diverse” and 190 other words from government “head start” pre-school documents.

This is what fascism looks like

Case 2:25-cv-00781-RSM Document 135-1
Filed 12/05/25 Page 33 of 36
• equal opportunity
• equality
• equitable
• equitableness
• equity
• ethnicity
• excluded
• exclusion
• expression
• female
• females
• feminism
• fostering inclusivity
• GBV
• gender
• gender based
• gender based violence
• gender diversity
• gender identity
• gender ideology
• gender-affirming care
• genders
• Gulf of Mexico
• hate speech
• health disparity
• health equity
• hispanic minority
• historically
• identity
• immigrants
• implicit bias
• implicit biases
• inclusion
• inclusive

December 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM

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walking mirage

@wolf.observer

control is a great game for people who identify (sexually or otherwise) as a Service Weapon

December 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM

Alabaster

@alabaster.bsky.social

CONTROL 2
CONTROL 2
CONTROL 2
CONTROL 2
CONTROL 2
CONTROL 2

December 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM

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Relevant Ferret If Known

@rewhan.bsky.social

This is going to be so funny in the worst and most incredibly brand-damaging ways

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Dec 11

Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora

Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer

openai.com/index/disney...

As part of this three-year licensing agreement, Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted social videos that can be viewed and shared by fans, drawing on more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters.
Agreement will make a selection of these fan-inspired Sora short form videos available to stream on Disney+.
Disney and OpenAI affirm a shared commitment to responsible use of AI that protects the safety of users and the rights of creators.
Alongside the licensing agreement, Disney will become a major customer of OpenAI, using its APIs to build new products, tools, and experiences, including for Disney+, and deploying ChatGPT for its employees.
As part of the agreement, Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, and receive warrants to purchase additional equity.

December 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM

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walking mirage

@wolf.observer

EXPERIMENT 2: Boundary Test (Extrapolation)

Encoding 20 corpus sentences...
Embedding centroid computed, average std: 0.0046

--- Direction 1 ---
centroid: The scientists produced a successful experiment.
0.5σ: The scientists produced a successful experiment.
1σ: The scientists produced a successful experiment.
2σ: The scientists produced a successful show.
5σ: The scientists produced a successful show.
10σ: Scientists developed a new technology.
20σ: Scientists helped save the city.

--- Direction 2 ---
centroid: The scientists produced a successful experiment.
0.5σ: The scientists produced a successful experiment.
1σ: The scientists produced a successful experiment.
2σ: The scientists produced a successful experiment.
5σ: The scientists produced a successful show.
10σ: The scientists produced a show.
20σ: Scientists made a difference.

--- Direction 3 ---
centroid: The scientists produced a successful experiment.
0.5σ: The scientists produced a successful experiment.
1σ: The artists produced a successful show.
2σ: The artists developed a breakthrough.
5σ: The artists developed a new style.
10σ: The artist developed a new style.
20σ: The artist developed a new style of painting.

EXPERIMENT 3: Noise Sensitivity Sweep
================================================================================

--- Base sentence: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. ---
Embedding std: 0.0078
original: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
[...]
noise=0.20σ: The fast brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
noise=0.50σ: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
noise=1.00σ: The fastest brown skinny is jumping over the lazy dog.
noise=2.00σ: The long-tailed fox is the one that will roll over on the soft-tailed fox.
noise=5.00σ: Dzin-Te-Tum-Te Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr

--- Base sentence: Democracy requires an informed citizenry. ---
Embedding std: 0.0056
original: Democracy requires an informed citizenry.
noise=0.01σ: Democracy requires an informed citizenry.
[...]
noise=1.00σ: Democracy, requires an informed citizenry.
noise=2.00σ: A. A. The term is used to describe a state of affairs in which the government is in a position to make decisions.
noise=5.00σ: Dramnames, da-dramd, da-dramd. Dramdramd. Dramdramdramd. Dramdramdramd. Dramdramdramdramd. Dramdramdramdramdramd. Dramdramdramdramdramdramdramd. Dramdramdramdramdramdramdramdramdramdramdram

--- Base sentence: The sunset painted the sky in brilliant colors. ---
Embedding std: 0.0068
original: The sunset painted the sky in brilliant colors.
noise=0.01σ: The sunset painted the sky in brilliant colors.
[...]
noise=1.00σ: The sunset, his body was in a bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright,

December 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM

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Doja cat’rine lara

@basalthrull.bsky.social

Texte: le calendrier de l’avent interdit

Image 1: un pied de biche

Image 2: un ensemble de casiers automatiques type « Amazon » situé en extérieur

December 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM

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Themefinland

@themefinland.bsky.social

Baths of the new seat

December 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM

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Volpeon 🐉

@volpeon.pds.wyvern.rip

Me: "I wish this RAM bullshit got devs to care about performance again"
*The monkey's paw curls*
"Microsoft tries to fix slow Windows 11 Explorer by preloading it instead of solving the underlying problem"

Volpeon 🐉 @volpeon.pds.wyvern.rip · Dec 7

Me: "I wish this RAM bullshit got devs to care about memory usage again"
*The monkey's paw curls*
"Discord solves memory leak by restarting the application if it exceeds 4gb"

December 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM

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HONEYMOSS

@honeymoss.art

Ref sheet commission done for Qdot on Vgen ^^

🪱 #furry #art #vgen 🪱

December 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM

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signed-distance fieldmouse

@catbold.space

this is one of those things where the uninitiated go "how did they manage that" or "how did they fuck that up" but if you're a real software development enjoyer this is such a classic situation

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · Dec 2

Helldivers 2 on PC has reduced installation size from 154GB to 23GB thanks to support from Nixxes buff.ly/YvXQnW6

December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM

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adam pype

@adampype.bsky.social

hello bsky! our game was taken down due to a false DMCA which completely killed our momentum at launch. our studio is in a very precarious position right now. please share and spread the word, steam has been little help to our situation.

noplayersonline.net/statement