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joffeorama.bsky.social
“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.
joffeorama.bsky.social Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d
I asked what I should use instead of firefox and someone said “floorp” and I legitimately thought it was a bit for like five minutes. tech has gone beyond making the torment nexus real to making poob real.
December 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
darleysam.bsky.social
I remember when Bobson Dugnutt hit that winning home run like it was yesterday
mordyoberstein.bsky.social Mordy Oberstein @mordyoberstein.bsky.social · 1d
For anyone worried AI will replace all of us.

Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”

I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
December 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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apzonerunner.com
Can't wait until it inevitably comes out Nintendo uses AI in a similar way to what has been described today and the sort of discourse it is going to drive
December 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
darleysam.bsky.social
Reading this on the day that Larian, of ALL places, decided to light all their gargantuan accumulation of good-will on fire.
mikebithell.bsky.social Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 1d
This is very good advice. Spread your bets on which of your favs sucks. Because one of them definitely does.
alannamode.bsky.social Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 1d
You don't have to go down swingin for Harry Potter. You can simply become obsessed with something else

There are so many cool things to be obsessed about, you may never run out in your lifetime. Ask people for recs, I dunno

A key to happiness is like... loving 3-5 creative works every few years
December 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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seanmorl.com
Last weird internet thing of the year.
In two weeks we'll be holding the third annual Fishmas: a competition in which people simultaneously blind-compete to catch the biggest fish in a fishing game to win a free hat.

Happy Fishing!

rules & info:
www.seanmorl.com/fishmas
The box art of Bass Landing (1999) with a modified Fishmas Logo and the Agetec ident replaced with "Live Well" the partially-official slogan of Fishmas. The back of the box for Bass Landing modified to say: 8pm GMT Friday 19th December Another Christmas, another mass participation livestream retro fishing game competition. Fishmas is back, and it's more the same than ever. This year's game is BASS LANDING. You know the rules. All participants compete to 2 hours to catch the biggest fish. You cannot practice or familiarise yourself with the game in advance. You must be livestreaming on twitch in the "Bass Landing" category. The winner gets a hat.
December 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
darleysam.bsky.social
A curated selection of reaction images to this news
A white plastic sign placed by a car park, with text saying "NO CHEER ZONE" A picture of.. is this Mickey Mouse? But with a weird nose? Either way he's tired, wearing a dressing gown, y-front underpants, holding a mug, purple eyelids hanging low over red eyes, coarse hair sprouting from all across his head and a hefty growth of stubble across his chin. He's standing in front of an open fridge, looking at his phone with the weariest expression possible. A stock image of an elderly woman, beckoning finger in one hand, gun in the other.
December 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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steveparks.me
Here we go…

Didn’t even need to fast forward - they said it on the day the results were released!!
December 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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ednewtonrex.bsky.social
🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright:

- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)

🧵 1/2
December 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
darleysam.bsky.social
They are thieves trying to validate their theft and greed. Absolute bastards.
gralefrit.bsky.social Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1d
“People have every right to own property, but we must balance that with the demands of burglars to steal that property and sell it.”

Fuck off. And tell your loser tech mates to fuck off while you’re at it. Cheers. Ta.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Last month, Kendall indicated she was sympathetic to artists' demands not to have their copyrighted works scraped by AI companies without payment and wanted to "reset" the debate. "People rightly want to get paid for the work that they do," she said, and "we have to find a way that both sectors can grow and thrive in future".
December 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
darleysam.bsky.social
Called it (if only I could figure out how to search my own posts...)
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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technomuse.bsky.social
If you are (as I am) watching The Princess Bride for REASONS today, please take a look at the quoted thread for a master's look at the masters of swords
dtmooreeditor.bsky.social David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · Jun 5
As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.

Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!

[BIG ASS THREAD]
a man reading a book to a young boy
Alt: a man reading a book to a young boy
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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brokentoys.social
I *do* know something of this topic, and have some issues with this piece.

(thread)
December 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Thread

Oh wow what a thread
drewmcweeny.com Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 2d
When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
December 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting. BBC 'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed Emily Atkinson Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST 2 min read A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed. Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat. Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
darleysam.bsky.social
Just realised: how many Christmas dinners are going to be ruined by AI this year..
December 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
darleysam.bsky.social
I'm going to guess it's an ADHD/executive dysfunction thing that I'm endlessly irritated at seeing Christmas food in shops that I'm all ready to get and cook *now*, but having to conceptualise buying in advance (within use-by date) and readying it for an exact time/day? Hell.
December 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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brockway.bsky.social
As much as I've been a goofy fuck about promoting I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200, the genuine reception it's getting is incredible. Especially with people totally unfamiliar with my work. Here's an early review thread, starting with the incredible starred feature in Publisher's Weekly.
December 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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leyawn.bsky.social
tweet by dril drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,
December 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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juniorhoncho.bsky.social
insanely good thing to say when you enter a room
December 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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sarahcoomer.bsky.social
Spooky Advent day 13: Number 13 by M R James (of course). More on my blog inc tangential necropants: www.sarahcoomer.co.uk/blog
A sepia illustration: the shadow of a man's head in profile, over a man's right hand knocking at a door, and just visible, his left hand holding a lcreased letter written in an arcane and incompehenisble language, featuring a really bizarre coats of arms and Icelanding magical staves in the borders. The number 13 is visible on a diamond shaped panel on the door.
December 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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seanmorl.com
last night's stream highlights. featuring an incomplete induction to the top hiccup cure.
been on a great streak of eudaimonia lately.
December 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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kuribosshoe.bsky.social
Had another week in the hospital so I'm bumping this again. Thanks to everyone who shares and supports.
December 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM