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Bsky outlet for my geek stuff
I know someone who works in web ads and, upon someone joking about ad blockers, went on a SCREAMING fit about how advertising keep the web Free
It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.
December 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I know someone who works in web ads and, upon someone joking about ad blockers, went on a SCREAMING fit about how advertising keep the web Free
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Old King Cole passed legislation against mixing shredded cabbage with mayonnaise. This is Cole's Law
December 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Old King Cole passed legislation against mixing shredded cabbage with mayonnaise. This is Cole's Law
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Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
THREAD.
A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
December 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Had this exact conversation with a couple friends no more than a month of two ago!
gonna be honest, I think the only viable way to make a Mage The Ascension 5th edition set in the present moment is to pull the technocracy out of power.
Have a world where the technocrats have lost their control, having been usurped by technocrat-adjascent nephandic mages.
Have a world where the technocrats have lost their control, having been usurped by technocrat-adjascent nephandic mages.
December 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Had this exact conversation with a couple friends no more than a month of two ago!
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Roger Stern takes over as writer and Hulk picks a fight with Socrates. (Incredible Hulk #226)
December 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Roger Stern takes over as writer and Hulk picks a fight with Socrates. (Incredible Hulk #226)
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H583.7
King:
Where shall I tie my horse?
Maiden:
Between summer
and winter.
King:
Where shall I tie my horse?
Maiden:
Between summer
and winter.
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
H583.7
King:
Where shall I tie my horse?
Maiden:
Between summer
and winter.
King:
Where shall I tie my horse?
Maiden:
Between summer
and winter.
Also after 14 years in London this was me breaking the unspoken rule of DON'T SPEAK TO PEOPLE ON THE TUBE
Fortunately I've just become a citizen so they can't kick me out.
Fortunately I've just become a citizen so they can't kick me out.
Met two nice people on the tube reading @lackingceremony.bsky.social The Quiet Year!
They were looking for recommendations for other games that do world building - I went with the classics Microscope and Dialect, and directed them to Bluesky!
They were looking for recommendations for other games that do world building - I went with the classics Microscope and Dialect, and directed them to Bluesky!
December 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Also after 14 years in London this was me breaking the unspoken rule of DON'T SPEAK TO PEOPLE ON THE TUBE
Fortunately I've just become a citizen so they can't kick me out.
Fortunately I've just become a citizen so they can't kick me out.
Met two nice people on the tube reading @lackingceremony.bsky.social The Quiet Year!
They were looking for recommendations for other games that do world building - I went with the classics Microscope and Dialect, and directed them to Bluesky!
They were looking for recommendations for other games that do world building - I went with the classics Microscope and Dialect, and directed them to Bluesky!
December 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Met two nice people on the tube reading @lackingceremony.bsky.social The Quiet Year!
They were looking for recommendations for other games that do world building - I went with the classics Microscope and Dialect, and directed them to Bluesky!
They were looking for recommendations for other games that do world building - I went with the classics Microscope and Dialect, and directed them to Bluesky!
Jason Becker Is not out there composing symphonies with a stylus for you fuckers to wank to the oligarchy slopmachine
I don’t know how many times we’re gonna have to say this, but, “People with disabilities need AI to create!” is the dumbest, most ableist thing you can say and please fucking stop.
December 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Jason Becker Is not out there composing symphonies with a stylus for you fuckers to wank to the oligarchy slopmachine
Tori Amos, earnest and intense: never was a cornflake girl
Me, nodding smartly: for sure for sure, I'm partial to a Weetabix myself.
Me, nodding smartly: for sure for sure, I'm partial to a Weetabix myself.
December 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Tori Amos, earnest and intense: never was a cornflake girl
Me, nodding smartly: for sure for sure, I'm partial to a Weetabix myself.
Me, nodding smartly: for sure for sure, I'm partial to a Weetabix myself.
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To be clear, WI and GG trustees will have been told they faced personal liability including bankruptcy for breaching fiduciary duty by involving their organizations in legal proceedings they might well lose.
They should be publicly fucking angry and uncivilised about the people responsible.
They should be publicly fucking angry and uncivilised about the people responsible.
December 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
To be clear, WI and GG trustees will have been told they faced personal liability including bankruptcy for breaching fiduciary duty by involving their organizations in legal proceedings they might well lose.
They should be publicly fucking angry and uncivilised about the people responsible.
They should be publicly fucking angry and uncivilised about the people responsible.
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That comic tho 😭😭
How to make beautiful comics:
Step 1: Have something to say.
Step 2: See Step 1.
Step 1: Have something to say.
Step 2: See Step 1.
imgs.xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
That comic tho 😭😭
Love that @ichotiner.bsky.social has taken aim at Semafor. Worth looking at the fact they launched a vitriolic and highly damaging smear campaign against progressive Iran experts of Iranian-American descent, in and out of government.
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Love that @ichotiner.bsky.social has taken aim at Semafor. Worth looking at the fact they launched a vitriolic and highly damaging smear campaign against progressive Iran experts of Iranian-American descent, in and out of government.
Wait so all the excitement and hashtags and innovation was for a big play by chat?
Lol
Lol
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Wait so all the excitement and hashtags and innovation was for a big play by chat?
Lol
Lol
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icymi in 1937 Leadbelly wrote the couplet "Home of the brave, land of the free / don't wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie"
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
icymi in 1937 Leadbelly wrote the couplet "Home of the brave, land of the free / don't wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie"
The Dunning Kruger agents:
The only people who will install them are the ones who THINK they understand the security implications, but don't.
The only people who will install them are the ones who THINK they understand the security implications, but don't.
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The Dunning Kruger agents:
The only people who will install them are the ones who THINK they understand the security implications, but don't.
The only people who will install them are the ones who THINK they understand the security implications, but don't.
#DieLoaded #1 is my favorite issue in the whole of DIE yet.
Also I read it with 6 days to term of my first child, and I just KNOW this series is going to punch me in the face (and guts, and balls) repeatedly.
Also I read it with 6 days to term of my first child, and I just KNOW this series is going to punch me in the face (and guts, and balls) repeatedly.
DIE LOADED #1 and THE POWER FANTASY #13 actually on kindle klaxon.
Update: they were just delivered to my Kindle app today, a day precisely not any of the dates they've given so far.
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
#DieLoaded #1 is my favorite issue in the whole of DIE yet.
Also I read it with 6 days to term of my first child, and I just KNOW this series is going to punch me in the face (and guts, and balls) repeatedly.
Also I read it with 6 days to term of my first child, and I just KNOW this series is going to punch me in the face (and guts, and balls) repeatedly.
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A SALE! A SALE!
💀Celebrate the announcement of SAINT DEATH'S DOORWAY, the third book in @csecooney.bsky.social 's World Fantasy Award-winning SAINT DEATH series, by grabbing SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER & SAINT DEATH'S HERALD for just 0.99 alongside a wide variety of other Solaris titles! geni.us/Solarissale
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
A SALE! A SALE!
@decassette.bsky.social 's Garden of Spheres is here and it's incredible
Naturalistic, monumental, gently chaotic, surreal, human.
Naturalistic, monumental, gently chaotic, surreal, human.
November 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
@decassette.bsky.social 's Garden of Spheres is here and it's incredible
Naturalistic, monumental, gently chaotic, surreal, human.
Naturalistic, monumental, gently chaotic, surreal, human.
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Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
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Good to see some Labour MPs speaking out about today's announcement. I've already written to my own MP @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social and hope he will join the ranks of those doing the right thing.
There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
November 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Good to see some Labour MPs speaking out about today's announcement. I've already written to my own MP @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social and hope he will join the ranks of those doing the right thing.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Monumental, awe-inducing. There's a few real great ones in 04, some that I listened to at the time (I'd get to this a bit later) - but this is the one that makes me go "as an artist, how do you live your life after doing this? Where do you go?"
Monumental, awe-inducing. There's a few real great ones in 04, some that I listened to at the time (I'd get to this a bit later) - but this is the one that makes me go "as an artist, how do you live your life after doing this? Where do you go?"
November 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Monumental, awe-inducing. There's a few real great ones in 04, some that I listened to at the time (I'd get to this a bit later) - but this is the one that makes me go "as an artist, how do you live your life after doing this? Where do you go?"
Monumental, awe-inducing. There's a few real great ones in 04, some that I listened to at the time (I'd get to this a bit later) - but this is the one that makes me go "as an artist, how do you live your life after doing this? Where do you go?"
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Come for the sheep, stay for the alt text
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Come for the sheep, stay for the alt text
