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Eyecager

@amberbladejones.bsky.social

February 16, 2026 at 10:04 AM

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onion person

@junlper.beer

you will own nothing and be happy

February 16, 2026 at 7:14 AM

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Choco Spice

@chocotaurnsfw.bsky.social

I was listening to a youtube video and an ad cuts in that's just like, someone sticking their hands into gravel and broken clay and making SOUNDS with it. It's an ad for tiktok. I felt pure rage, but I wanted to see if I could find it so I could show you guys and instead I got this shade of horror

Three ads of men smiling at the camera, text reading "TIKTOK ADS GUIDE" on all of them. I hate them terribly.

February 16, 2026 at 7:57 AM

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yokufo 🕶 MAD ARTIST 🔜 Animacoon February!

@yokufo.bsky.social

I am looking through the eyes of his husband, I am totally innocent-.. I am just an artist 👀😅✨

#aura #ffxiv #ffxivart #ffxivaura #pinup #sketch #art #ffxivart #ffxivfanart #traditionalart

February 15, 2026 at 11:17 PM

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✧✦✧read my comic✧✦✧

@fragments.gay

Next public episode's on February 20, but if you decide to support me through the early access now, I'd appreciate it!! www.patreon.com/c/next_lvl | ko-fi.com/nextlvl

February 7, 2026 at 6:18 PM

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✧✦✧read my comic✧✦✧

@fragments.gay

support my continued work on Fragments for the meme price of $1 www.patreon.com/c/next_lvl
tip me or download my emotes, digital artbook and comic archives ko-fi.com/nextlvl
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February 15, 2026 at 10:30 PM

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Ed Zitron

@edzitron.com

Anthropic threw the kitchen sink at the media and their models as a means of pumping their products to raise this $30bn round and try and set up an IPO. They’re throwing everything in the furnace. The predictions will get more insane until the end.

February 15, 2026 at 10:49 PM

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Ed Zitron

@edzitron.com

Anthropic’s big burst of Claude Code revenue from December onward came at the cost of letting people set money on fire at a rate unseen in any industry in history. It is egregious and wasteful, it is getting worse not better, and eventually will exceed the available global funding.

February 15, 2026 at 10:49 PM

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Ed Zitron

@edzitron.com

In the last 24 hours I’ve read maybe 50 different people’s actual token burn cost on Claude Code. I’ve seen somebody on the $20 plan burning $145 and somebody on the $100 plan spending $812 worth. None of this is possible without infinite resources. And models mysteriously “get dumber” too.

February 15, 2026 at 10:45 PM

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Ed Zitron

@edzitron.com

I fundamentally believe this era is an illusion. The current versions of Codex and Claude Code are costing OpenAI and Anthropic so much money because they’re running at like a negative 150% gross margin. All improvements involve more and more compute. The limits will be sudden and brutal.

Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 1d

Token Anxiety

i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always

Token Anxiety
Nikunj Kothari C @nikunj • Feb 13
A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents.
Nobody questions it anymore. Half the room is thinking the same thing. The other half are probably checking the progress of their agents. At a party.
All the parties are sober now. Young people don't drink because they're going back to work after. Not inspired by Bryan Johnson, although that's probably a factor. The buzz they want now runs on tokens per day.

I keep noticing it on walks through the Mission. Laptops glowing everywhere. Cafes, sidewalks, heck even park benches. People walking with screens open like a flashlight guiding them somewhere. Less drunk laughter on the streets these days. More keystrokes.
Dinner conversations used to start with "what are you building?" That's over. Now it's "how many agents do you have running?" People drop the number the way they used to drop their follower count. Quietly competitive. The flex isn't what you've accomplished anymore. It's what's working while you're sitting here not working.
The vocabulary is what really gets me though.
People describe models the way sommeliers describe wine. This one has better taste. That one hallucinates with more confidence. Opus is bold, Codex is smooth. They talk about harnesses and reins like they're controlling
horses. Invisible whips directing invisible labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep

labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep
"Claude on a tight leash for code review but give it more slack for creative work." We've started borrowing the language of how we treat animals for something none of us actually understand yet.
Waking up and checking what your agents produced overnight is the first thing now.
Before coffee. Before texts. You open your laptop and grade homework you assigned in your sleep. Some of it is good. Most needs rework. But you start shipping a plan before you sleep just so you can wake up to more code written overnight. Saturdays became uninterrupted build windows. No meetings, no Slack, twelve hours of you and your agents. Sunday morning X is all terminal screenshots and shipping receipts. "What'd you ship this weekend?" replaced "what'd you do this weekend?"

The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks.
Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month's workflow feel prehistoric.
Codex ships overnight processing. Opus gets faster. Context windows double. None of it reduces the pressure. It multiplies it. You can do more now. And someone already is. The window to be first at anything feels like it's shrinking by the day. Literally, by the day.
I replaced Netflix with Claude Code. I lie in bed thinking about what I can spin up before I fall asleep, what can run while I'm
unconscious. Reading a novel feels indulgent now. Watching a movie without a laptop open feels wasteful. This voice in my head that says
"something could be running right now" just doesn't shut off. I'm not even building a company. I'm just addicted to building my random ideas.
Everyone here knows they should step away more. That's not the problem. The problem is what your brain does when you try. I still take a x ss walks. The agents come with me now.

February 15, 2026 at 10:45 PM

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Solar 🦈 - Looking for work!

@solarsparky.bsky.social

I hath made a bug that I love lots :]

[ #solarsparkyart #murderdrones ]

February 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM

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𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔪 ☾🔞🏳️‍⚧️

@w0lfertinger666.bsky.social

i rly love him

February 15, 2026 at 11:13 PM

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𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔪 ☾🔞🏳️‍⚧️

@w0lfertinger666.bsky.social

artsy mouse boy
(he/him for Hitch) 🐁🏳️‍⚧️🖌️✨

image depicting three drawings of a black coded anthropomorphic trans guy mouse boy named Hitch who is gender non conforming (likes to wear feminine clothes) and walks with a cane

the drawing in the middle is what his in-universe artstyle looks like (which is early 2000s DeviantArt inspired)

February 15, 2026 at 10:11 PM

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TammyTwoPaws

@tammytwopaws.bsky.social

I forgot to share it, but here's a Naruto and Kiba sequence I got from the wonderful Sissumai over on Deviantart~
They did quite an excellent work on my lads if I were to say so myself~

February 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM

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vanoreo

@vanoreo.bsky.social

a lot of both english and irish people through history wouldve killed him for that

February 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM

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vanoreo

@vanoreo.bsky.social

theres so many layers here but im gonna zoom in on collapsing english and irish into a single culture

Christopher Harris @harrisfootball.com · 19h

fuck this guy forever

February 15, 2026 at 7:59 PM

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Phil McDuff

@mcduff.bsky.social

The stress is piling up. Khalil messages every day asking where the world is. I don't know what to do except post.

Khalil and Noreen Suffering in Gaza

Please join us in defending Khalil and Noreen's kids from the brutality of war, winter, hunger and illness. Noreen suffers from damaged cartilege. She can't move easily. She also needs a corneal trans...

chuffed.org

February 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM

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Motherboard Slumd0g from the WetWork NetWork

@beachepisode.bsky.social

February 14, 2026 at 10:06 PM

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Kris Wolfheart

@kriswolfhe.art

how it feels to never resubscribe to nitro even if discord totally walks everything back

February 15, 2026 at 8:38 PM

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Kris Wolfheart

@kriswolfhe.art

We're playing more Wonderful 101 in an hour at twitch.tv/kriswolfheart

The chat is full of people who still haven't gotten their backer rewards from the kickstarter. 5 years ago. I'm starting to get sad.