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Learning Laser
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Science Comedy and other fun.
Okay so they're fucking with Picard by giving the bar four lights. There are five captains!
December 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
A mere atom of Ag in Jupiter's Red Spot, but it is funny how the Trump kids think they'll have any sway after dad dies.
December 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Oh no this is appallingly correct
Bet you a million pounds this is because they’ve watched too much Sci-fi where every thing instantly freezes in vacuum and they think that’ll solve cooling.
“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
December 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
"The GenAI logo, like all AI logos, looks like a butthole"
You should watch Pivot to AI
youtu.be/KPh9dirnYeA?...
Department of Defense goes to war by AI chatbot
YouTube video by Pivot to AI
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Reposted by Learning Laser
I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.

I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...
docs.google.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Never give in to TERFs, they'll never be happy and they'll never stop pushing things further right.
Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
More than one is useful in the UK
What's your favourite song about the rain?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOOA...
December 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Answering @funranium.bsky.social @aotearoabadger.bsky.social and @atherton.bsky.social, AI slop is Tzeentch, endless falsity tormenting you with the knowledge that truth was taken and twisted to make this mess, and the curse of making you doubt all you see forever whether it's from TzAIntch or not.
December 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Did you love DUSKERS? Would you like DUSKERS but faster and sharper and more replayable and also it's ALIENS! No there isn't a question mark at the end of that, that can't be a question, go play XENOPURGE!
free demo!
(then buy it like I did!)
store.steampowered.com/app/2983410/...
December 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
LAVENDER JACK HARDCOPY! I went from knowing this existed to pre-ordering in 20 seconds, because the webcomic is brilliant and I want to own it and I want my kid to find it and start reading it too
Just showed up in the mail: a proof copy of @darkhorse.com's physical collection of LAVENDER JACK VOLUME 1! I sort of can't believe how good it looks. It's HEFTY, too. They tell me FOC is Monday so if you haven't preordered yet I highly encourage it: www.darkhorse.com/books/3016-7...
November 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Parent of a brilliant autistic kid and we cycle a lot, grateful to the great Pivot to AI for highlighting this vital graphic design work
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"assuming no more than a year of university-level calculus" GOD I love science books! Not ironically! I love a world where these views exist and are supported to share with the world!
November 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I saw a comic called GANGSTERS VERSUS NAZIS, then I saw a bonus called I TOOK A HAMMER TO HELL, and you *know* I immediately threw money at them
Guys, Only a couple of weeks left to pick up a copy of Gangsters Versus Nazis #3 (and you can catch up if you've missed the first two) by the amazing @captainitaly.bsky.social and Me.
All shares and hearts are greatly appreciated, so please help spread the word!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat...
GANGSTERS VERSUS NAZIS #1 to #3
The third explosive issue in the blood-soaked, pulp-action series. Missed the first two? Catch up with the story so far bundle!
www.kickstarter.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
watching A Chinese Ghost Story, made in 1987 with A Bit of Cash the director was able to get, and the practical effects are still gloriously, magnificently better than endless CGI. Not even AI, but those oceans of endlessly bland CGI before that.
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I remember when those "how to draw anime" books were hilariously worse than the vast majority of anime you'd see advertised, but that's no longer true, and the books haven't gotten better.
November 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Thinking of @funranium.bsky.social when I realise the Dining Philosophers problem is another case of polite society ignoring the obvious solution of cannibalism
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
What's your favourite song about the rain?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_9F...
November 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Making an account on a calculator website and their verification mail has no link, you have to type in the numbers, and I really appreciate their commitment to the bit.
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Exactly why I'll never free-to-play.
The reason to play a game should be "IT'S FUN!" not "your chance of maybe getting a variant picture of one character is slightly higher than normal!"
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reposted by Learning Laser
November 7, 2024 at 12:59 PM
"If they are not punished, how can the people be appeased!"
November 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Reposted by Learning Laser
There's a new Predator movie out so it's as good a time as any to say that, if I was given the opportunity to add an addition to any franchise, I'd have the Predator land in Glasgow in the 80s during an Old Firm fixture.
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Somebody wants Minions money
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A 2-dogpower oscillating JOY ENGINE
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Taxing is the *first* thing we could do to private jets, if they reject that we can proceed to the better options.
November 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM