Hippyadam
@hippyadam.bsky.social
That dude from that place. Posts about Games, Movies and general Bullshit.
Stray cat wrangler and bunker aficionado.
Other places:
Masto: @[email protected]
XBL: hippyadam_uk
PSN: hippyadam
Stray cat wrangler and bunker aficionado.
Other places:
Masto: @[email protected]
XBL: hippyadam_uk
PSN: hippyadam
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Hippyadam
@hippyadam.bsky.social
· Nov 8
I have accidentally been doing a stupid Friday thing on the bad place for a good number of years & today is probably gonna be my last one on there for obvious reasons.
Wasn't actually planning on restarting here but feels weird to just stop. So without further ado:
Heading into the weekend like
Wasn't actually planning on restarting here but feels weird to just stop. So without further ado:
Heading into the weekend like
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If you have an internet connection to download a pirated book, you can use that internet connection to borrow from a library collection.
Libraries pay authors, pirate sites don’t, and the cost to you is the same.
Libraries pay authors, pirate sites don’t, and the cost to you is the same.
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
If you have an internet connection to download a pirated book, you can use that internet connection to borrow from a library collection.
Libraries pay authors, pirate sites don’t, and the cost to you is the same.
Libraries pay authors, pirate sites don’t, and the cost to you is the same.
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the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
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Books aren't expensive.
Writers are at the bottom of a large column of people making money off books.
We get screwed the most.
By the publishing industry and the fucking pirates.
You like books? Buy them, or go to the library.
Or there won't be any writers to make the art.
Writers are at the bottom of a large column of people making money off books.
We get screwed the most.
By the publishing industry and the fucking pirates.
You like books? Buy them, or go to the library.
Or there won't be any writers to make the art.
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Books aren't expensive.
Writers are at the bottom of a large column of people making money off books.
We get screwed the most.
By the publishing industry and the fucking pirates.
You like books? Buy them, or go to the library.
Or there won't be any writers to make the art.
Writers are at the bottom of a large column of people making money off books.
We get screwed the most.
By the publishing industry and the fucking pirates.
You like books? Buy them, or go to the library.
Or there won't be any writers to make the art.
We're still anti theft of IP and pro human.
Not accepting it until it's star trek computer level and not hallucinating any old shite.
Not accepting it until it's star trek computer level and not hallucinating any old shite.
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We're still anti theft of IP and pro human.
Not accepting it until it's star trek computer level and not hallucinating any old shite.
Not accepting it until it's star trek computer level and not hallucinating any old shite.
Holy shit. I'm 5 years old again
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Holy shit. I'm 5 years old again
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if you’re doing some holiday shopping this weekend, just a reminder that you can order signed copies of any of my books through my local bookstore and have them shipped to you. 🥰 sidetrackbooks.com
these are my children. they are all beautiful to me. a good mother does not have a favorite child. my favorite child is friends to keep in art and life.
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
if you’re doing some holiday shopping this weekend, just a reminder that you can order signed copies of any of my books through my local bookstore and have them shipped to you. 🥰 sidetrackbooks.com
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The grilled cheese scene in CHEF (2014) is immaculate food cinema. Salute!
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The grilled cheese scene in CHEF (2014) is immaculate food cinema. Salute!
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No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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Heaven forbid people want to make money with their work!! How dare they commercialize the thing they do for a living in order to survive!!! They should give it away for free!
a man from schitt 's creek rolls his eyes in a british accent ..
Alt: a man from schitt 's creek rolls his eyes in a british accent ..
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Heaven forbid people want to make money with their work!! How dare they commercialize the thing they do for a living in order to survive!!! They should give it away for free!
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We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
Last full Monday in the old office today lads.
a man with glasses and a mustache is sitting at a desk in front of a shelf of papers .
ALT: a man with glasses and a mustache is sitting at a desk in front of a shelf of papers .
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Last full Monday in the old office today lads.
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Hi guys I’m trying to plan for my 2026 schedule and would like to say I’m open for cover work if any editors or writers are looking.
My clientele includes DC, BOOM!, IDW, Titan and Vault Comics. I work best on horror, fantasy and pin up covers.
📩 [email protected]
My clientele includes DC, BOOM!, IDW, Titan and Vault Comics. I work best on horror, fantasy and pin up covers.
📩 [email protected]
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Hi guys I’m trying to plan for my 2026 schedule and would like to say I’m open for cover work if any editors or writers are looking.
My clientele includes DC, BOOM!, IDW, Titan and Vault Comics. I work best on horror, fantasy and pin up covers.
📩 [email protected]
My clientele includes DC, BOOM!, IDW, Titan and Vault Comics. I work best on horror, fantasy and pin up covers.
📩 [email protected]
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2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
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Pack it up
Pack it in
Let me begin
I came to win
Battle me? That’s a sin.
Pack it in
Let me begin
I came to win
Battle me? That’s a sin.
November 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Pack it up
Pack it in
Let me begin
I came to win
Battle me? That’s a sin.
Pack it in
Let me begin
I came to win
Battle me? That’s a sin.
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On May 11, 1950, while working on the Rawlins National Bank in Wyoming, a construction crew unearthed a whiskey barrel that contained a human skeleton with its skull cap sawed off & an odd pair of shoes. Dr. Lillian Heath, now in her 80s, was asked if she knew anything about it...🧵
December 3, 2024 at 5:46 PM
On May 11, 1950, while working on the Rawlins National Bank in Wyoming, a construction crew unearthed a whiskey barrel that contained a human skeleton with its skull cap sawed off & an odd pair of shoes. Dr. Lillian Heath, now in her 80s, was asked if she knew anything about it...🧵
@necrarequiem.bsky.social hey man, hope you're all keeping well 🤘🏼
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
@necrarequiem.bsky.social hey man, hope you're all keeping well 🤘🏼
Starting my weekend with a beer and an accidental auction win (or two) for some Star Trek toys...
Have a good one 🖖🏼
Have a good one 🖖🏼
a man playing a trumpet and a man playing guitar
ALT: a man playing a trumpet and a man playing guitar
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Starting my weekend with a beer and an accidental auction win (or two) for some Star Trek toys...
Have a good one 🖖🏼
Have a good one 🖖🏼
Heading into the weekend like
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Heading into the weekend like
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Forever Winter
Mask Man
Mask Man
November 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Forever Winter
Mask Man
Mask Man
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Right then. It's mid-November and if you're thinking about #Christmas shopping, now's the time. All my products are designed here in Manchester and made in the UK.
Shop's open gailmyerscough.co.uk
Shop's open gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Right then. It's mid-November and if you're thinking about #Christmas shopping, now's the time. All my products are designed here in Manchester and made in the UK.
Shop's open gailmyerscough.co.uk
Shop's open gailmyerscough.co.uk
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My promotional artwork for Rocksteady’s release of the Arkham Trilogy Batman games from two years ago
November 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
My promotional artwork for Rocksteady’s release of the Arkham Trilogy Batman games from two years ago