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I swear, one of these days I will say something.
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pavlovforgoths.com
the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence lies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't. By magicmosshka, yesterday's
January 9, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
oh i had this realization once
Are you actually lazy or are you just looking at the combined creative output of literally the entire internet and then comparing yourself to that
January 7, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
all i want is a computer with more space that plays games better and (if portable) has better battery life. i have never met a someone buying a PC for non-specific work reasons who had any other concerns

unit size was an issue years ago but we solved that problem a while back
January 7, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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spazzy.bsky.social
I still have to use Windows for some things and it seems to be just about every day now I'm seeing complaints about it sucking in new ways. So here's a little list of tools I use to make Windows not suck by debloating virtually everything out of it that makes it bad and making it more usable. 🧵
Someone complaining that MS Paint removed itself then when they went to the Microsoft Store to install it, it says "The version of Windows on your PC doesn't meet the minimum requirements for this product."
January 6, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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ddofcartoons.bsky.social
This is possibly one of my favourite McKimson shorts, mainly because of how lively he made Bugs here with all the acts he's trying to perform, especially his scat-singing and dancing, much to the scientists’ disapproval.

Cartoon: "Hot Cross Bunny" (1948, Robert McKimson)
January 6, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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roodypatooti.bsky.social
Wish I could internalize this
brightwanderer I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned "forever" into the only acceptable definition of success. Like... if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it's a "failed" business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don't actually want to keep doing that, you're a "failed" writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it's a "failed" marriage. The only acceptable "win condition" is "you keep doing that thing forever". A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a "real" friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a "phase" - or, alternatively, a "pity" that you don't do that thing any more. A fandom is "dying" because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things. I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it's okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success... I don't think that's doing us any good at all.
October 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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nothingdoingcomic.bsky.social
Nothing Doing no. 61
p1: Autumn is walking away from their apartment complex. p2: They are walking on the sidewalk towards a wooded area, where a sign reads “Creek Trail” with an arrow pointing to the woods. p3: They walk happily along a path through the trees. p4: Reaching the edge of a creek, they smile and inhale, leaning back. p5: They lean down and scream at their reflection in the creek. Autumn: Get a grip!!!
January 1, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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ducktwacy.bsky.social
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!
January 1, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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tarjapk.bsky.social
Here’s to 2026
David Lynch in the filming set speaking in the megaphone. He says “Okay, let's try that again, but this time good.”
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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herohommel.bsky.social
I've waited 3 years to make this post
screenshot of tweet saying "who the fuck is playing pokemon in antarctica" with a trade partner in antarctica photo of me in antarctica playing my switch. adelie penguins are in the background photo of me in antarctica playing my switch, with pokemon legends z-a. adelie penguins are in the background.
December 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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ethylvanny.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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ringworm.bsky.social
what i learned about publishing short stories online in 2025
This is what I learned about publishing short stories online in 2025: worth doing if you get the chance but don't be too critical of yourself if you can't. Fun as a low cost hobby but remember to keep your expectations realistic. All the websites you're thinking of posting to are either unethical or expensive or user unfriendly so just try and pick the least bad one. As you progress through 2025 your life might change around you. Just try to keep posting short stories online. You can write ideas down in your notes app on your phone. You might spend a fair bit of time looking at the sentence "Superhero whose power is luck" and trying to make it work but there's probably no way to do it that doesn't feel gimmicky. All you really need is three good sentences but you really do need them. If you're publishing short stories online and you have less than three really good sentences your story probably won't work out. Even if every part of the short story you're publishing online is dissonant there should still be a melody between those parts. You can probably also ignore the one that says "Macguffin world", unless you get really crazy with it. And most importantly, have fun
December 19, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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tbskyen.com
Tumblr post by and-fishing-equipment reading "in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD instead ask: - Is it SINCERE - is it CATHARTIC - was it FUN TO MAKE - is it MADE BY ME and don't forget to stay silly"
December 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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barrydeutsch.bsky.social
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen. Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again: When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?" If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing! But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else. It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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slclunk.com
Bob Cratchit five minutes after the end of A Christmas Carol
IF YOU WANT TO ASK SCROOGE FOR A FAVOR, NOW'S THE TIME! HE'S DOPED UP OR DYING OR SOMETHING!
December 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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jtp.bsky.social
one time i was covering the shift of my hispanic coworker and someone came in expecting them to be there and since i got a D in high school spanish i spent like 20 minutes communicating with him like this
December 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
still my favorite christmas post
vigilantsycamore Dec 25, 2020 Ebenezer Scrooge: Goes outside 500 Muppets: There goes Mr Asshole! There Goes Mr Bitch!
December 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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morbi.bsky.social
they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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mariobrothblog.bsky.social
In Mario Party Superstars, the "endless mode" of Hot Rope Jump is not actually endless, and will play an ending scene after reaching 9999 jumps. This takes 3 hours of continuous flawless play, making this the longest Mario Party series minigame with a definite ending.
December 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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byelacey.bsky.social
i had to drop what i was doing to make this
scrooge boopin' a little muppet mouse on the nose while souls text reads "MEESES CHEESED"
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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eastcoastitnotes.bsky.social
Ooohhhhh yeeeaaahhh
Panel 1: a man sits on the computer in a bedroom. His eyes have rings around them as he stares at the screen. Another man (presumably his roommate) stands in his door way also tired and holding a glass of water. His roommate says "Dude it's like 2 am. Why are you up" Panel 2: the man at the desk responds "Playing sleep simulator" Panel 3: We see his computer screen has a man in an old night cap is asleep in bed with an unlit canlde at his bedside. The options above him are "Sleep more" "Turn" and "Fluff pillow". The man selects "sleep more and clicks on it" Panel 4: The man at the desk says with a smile "Oh yeah that's the stuff"
December 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
new yorker cartoon by bernstein. watercolor of a middle aged white dad holding a cord up from the cord box in a heavenly light in triumph. title reads THE BEST DAY OF MY FATHER'S LIFE. caption reads “Did you say you needed a six-pin-to-eight-pin FireWire for a 2006 MacBook?"
December 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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andy.baio.net
Lazy Sunday debuted 20 years ago tonight.
Lazy Sunday - SNL Digital Short
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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standplaatskrk.pl
Tumblr: aidn how the hell do i talk to people wobbufetts Stand in front of them and press A
November 2, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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shubbabang.bsky.social
The image is a black and white five panel comic. Panel 1 - A cat yells, "Listen here! This disrespect has gone on long enough!" Panel 2- The cat continues, "I'm laying out all my grievances right here and now, so pay attention!" Panel 3 - It zooms out to reveal a person standing and observing the cat as it continues to yell, "First of all, I'm not a baby. I'm fully grown, and it's insulting. Second, the food situation is not okay. I'm only fed twice a day, do you realize I'm starving? Thirdly-" Panel 4- It cuts to the persons point of view to reveal that all of what the cat is saying just comes out as meowing. Panel 5- The human leans over and patronizingly says, "is baby hungee?" to which the cat responds "Yes but how DARE you"
December 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM