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@alunbweird.bsky.social

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He/him. Elder millenial. Cameras, cartoons, heavy metal, books, nerdy stuff. Liberty, human rights. British, European. Health professional. No Tories/TERFs/AI/Crypto chuds/other bastards. https://www.tideoptics.com/?ref=aevIv3XN discount code: ALUNB

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Ålün @alunbweird.bsky.social · 2h

That first one is a *fantastic* shot.

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Ålün @alunbweird.bsky.social · 3h

These are superb!

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Ålün @alunbweird.bsky.social · 6h

Ok #believeinfilm peeps: how do we feel about developers? I have always used rodinal, but will shortly need a restock and am looking hard at 510 Pyro. Anyone have strong opinions?

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Ålün @alunbweird.bsky.social · 11h

That's an air-launched weapon IIRC. Would require a booster to be designed and produced for surface launch. I also suspect it's to do with stockpiles. Lots of old Tomahawks in inventory that would have to be refurbished or recycled at great cost. Cheaper to donate them where they'll get used up.

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Aberdeen City Arts Board @adeencityartsboard.bsky.social · 1d

The insane ramblings of the mad c**t we sell our data to.
Mad man.
We really need to stop giving them money and power. Give them therapy instead. Therapy in a nice secure hospital.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Ålün @alunbweird.bsky.social · 13h

Best blue boys! Impressive work. 👍

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Ålün @alunbweird.bsky.social · 13h

It'll never happen, because Donny is Putin's bitch, but it would be doable, even if an improvised solution was found. See Gravehawk, Raven etc.

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 15h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 15h

This! The likelihood of me joining them is still high, and I'm a fuckin Nebula winner! Just.... really think about that and consider how fucked this industry is that even someone with my privilege is done.

Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 18h

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 19h

Moving quickly to a world where students use AI to complete work, profs use AI to grade it, no one learns anything and we will live in a world of mediocrity and incompetence where only the billionaires benefit.

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

substack.com

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Ålün @alunbweird.bsky.social · 14h

en.defence-ua.com/news/spare_u...

Spare U.S. LRF Launchers Make Tomahawk Real Option for Ukraine | Defense Express

Tomahawks for Ukraine now more plausible U.S. reportedly found surplus ground launchers just a month ago

en.defence-ua.com

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Ålün @alunbweird.bsky.social · 14h

As if... everything... wasn't enough already, I am now being screened for blood-borne diseases as the result of a needlestick injury. FFS.

a cartoon of a cat covering its face with its hands .

Alt: Table flip

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Ålün @alunbweird.bsky.social · 14h

Anyone found on a golf course should be on that list too.

Ålün @alunbweird.bsky.social · 14h

Siiiiiiiick

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Spooky Tascom🔞🟨⬜️🟪⬛️(COMMS CLOSED) @tascom.bsky.social · 23h

If you're in the UK and you haven't yet, sign this damn petition

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

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Ålün @alunbweird.bsky.social · 15h

I didn't realise Hill was still alive! Thought he'd died years ago.

I am very torn about this. On the one hand, Ripley is one of the best sci-fi characters of all time. On the other, the Alien franchise is now just that. It's lost all its magic because it's been thrashed so hard for so long.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 15d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 16d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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Leechtown Design @leechtown.bsky.social · 1d

#MÖRKTOBER #Mörktober Day 10: Beetle
Typeface: Cheee by Ohno Type Co

The word Beetle in green. A knight with a spear and shield riding a rhinoceros beetle. The shield has features an eye symbol.

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Ålün @alunbweird.bsky.social · 1d

Got some cool little guys in from @rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social Goblin City project!

#nerdlings #miniatures #gobbos

Grumpy goblin mini in resin. He's got a big mace.

Huge goblin mini in resin. Plate armour and chainmail, with horned helmet and a big club.

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Ålün @alunbweird.bsky.social · 2d

38d.gs/save-nationa...

Sign the petition: Save our National Parks

🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them:

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 8d

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks!
But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!!

This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free.

MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Ålün @alunbweird.bsky.social · 3d

This is Slider Sunday on Flickr, circa 2009.

Ålün @alunbweird.bsky.social · 3d

F-22 and F-35. Except it's not really irrational. They're hideous.