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Frasier D&D @frasierdnd.bsky.social · 4h

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN: “Oh! I’m in a Dungeons & Dragons group, too. But we’re doing an official, prewritten adventure.”

[FRASIER SCOFFS]

FRASIER: “Prewritten! The storyteller’s crutch.”

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN: “I’m the storyteller.”

FRASIER: “… And what is a crutch if not a timeless and wonderful invention?”

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3h

How austerity hit young people.

In the decade after 2010 councils’ funding for youth services in England and Wales suffered a real-terms cut of 70%.

By 2023, 1,200 publicly run youth centres closed.

Young people abandoned to fund tax cuts for corporations the rich.

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

www.theguardian.com

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 2h

Monday again - busy, busy with all those important documents

Artist: Harry Wingfield (1971)

A toddler is intent in scribbling in green crayon over some scrap paper. Various other sheets of similar work are scattered around.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 13h

After hearing of each new AI-led privacy-invading bloat being added to Tech You Use All The Time & digging for an answer, there's always some genuinely helpfully-intended reply along lines of "just run a Sporkxzz from the command prompt embedded in a NUMPty linux session and it'll VPN your wazzock"

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 17h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 19h

[tentatively moving to unhook her bra] hey chatGPT what’s the slickest way to unhook a bra

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

LLMs are doubly deceptive. Most people think that they can ask it a question and get an answer. The majority of the rest think that you can ask an LLM a question and it will return what an answer might look like, statistically.

But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 1d

From: Fair, then Partly Piggy (1988), dir. Toshio Hirata, Oh! Production

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 2d

From: Labyrinth Labyrinthos (1987), dir. Rintaro, Madhouse

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 1d

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 2d

Friday.

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Jim'll Paint It @sirpaintalot.bsky.social · 2d

Bart Nouveau - as requested by Andrew Keys

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VOLE.wtf 🐹⁉️ @vole.wtf · 2d

🪫NEW THING🪫
Any riff-raff can join Bluesky, but it takes true dedication to apply for this club
vole.wtf/one-percent/

The 1% Guild 🪫

An exclusive club for those who live life on the edge.

vole.wtf

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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · 3d

With most MPs ignorant of the urgency, how can the UK ever reach net zero?: Only 15 of 100 MPs surveyed knew of IPCC report that CO2 needs to peak this year to keep global heating to 1.5C The people you hope would be best informed about the imminent threat of climate breakdown would be me...

With most MPs ignorant of the urgency, how can the UK ever reach net zero?

With most MPs ignorant of the urgency, how can the UK ever reach net zero?: Only 15 of 100 MPs surveyed knew of IPCC report that CO2 needs to peak this year to keep global heating to 1.5C The people you hope would be best informed about the imminent threat of climate breakdown would be me...

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 3d

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 3d

Vertigo have just announced ten new titles at #NYCC. Fine. So will I.

COELACANTH FIGHTER #1
LET'S BUY DECKCHAIRS #1
SUPERSTAR COBBLER #1
THERMOSTAT 3000 #1
THE GNOMIC NINE #1
BALTIMORE HUG PATROL #1
EBONY AND USURY #1
FLABÉLOS WARRIORS #1
PORTNOY THE PUNK #1
LINGERIE JONES #1

Collect them all!

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Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 4d

Apparently, today is World Octopus Day.
So here's something for the great World Octopus.
Vive la pieuvre du monde!

Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · Oct 2

Tiny comic done for an A6 pamphlet for @paperjamcc.bsky.social
#comics

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Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 5d

Truly, England in 2025. The level of 'I think he's after your biscuit' are off the scale. Privatised delivery of basic human needs once again primarily delivering profits (and misery).

Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 5d

loads of racist shitheads rioting outside hotels housing desperate asylum seekers who are treated abysmally cos some Sunday Times Rich List cunt is creaming off obscene profits makes my heart swell with patriotic pride 🇬🇧 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper - BBC News

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of "terrible" conditions as accommodation provider makes millions.

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 5d

loads of racist shitheads rioting outside hotels housing desperate asylum seekers who are treated abysmally cos some Sunday Times Rich List cunt is creaming off obscene profits makes my heart swell with patriotic pride 🇬🇧 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper - BBC News

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of "terrible" conditions as accommodation provider makes millions.

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Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 5d

You can also get it direct from our evil but extremely convenient giant corporate associates here: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FT13Q51N/ - including FREE if you have Kindle Unlimited

Secrets and Hidden Things: An anthology from the North Tyneside Writers' Circle: 3 (North Tyneside Writers' Circle Anthologies)

Buy Secrets and Hidden Things: An anthology from the North Tyneside Writers' Circle: 3 (North Tyneside Writers' Circle Anthologies) by (NTWC), North Tyneside Writers' Circle, Wilson, Jennifer C. (ISBN: 9798267243575) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 5d

Yoooo, people of Tyneside, get on the case! New local writing! Poetry! Short stories! Varied, quality stuff! Hear readings and be one of the first humans to own this collection!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 6d

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 6d

Writhing scene of grotesque heads (ca. 1520) by Daniel Hopfer, a German artist who is widely believed to have been the first to use etching in printmaking.

One of 900+ prints available to buy from our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/grotesque-decoration-with-animal-heads/

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