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4th Rider of the Ductopcalypse 👻🚫

@ductos.bsky.social

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Hessian without accent, Movie buff, Reader, Retrogaming, Ghostbusters and other 80's nostalgia, your friendly neighbourhood library IT worker. | He/Him

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4th Rider of the Ductopcalypse 👻🚫 @ductos.bsky.social · Oct 12

Hello everyone, I'm Christian. I'm working IT support in a library, where I also get to train people now and then. Usually open to everything pop culture, so I'm keeping update on everything I read and watch, no matter if it's #comics, #movies, #TV or #streaming series. Also learning #Esperanto.

Photo of myself in my "media room". I'm wearing a blue Logitech headset. A Lego Ecto-1 can be seen over my right shoulder in the back.

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4th Rider of the Ductopcalypse 👻🚫 @ductos.bsky.social · 7h

Ah, it must be Geoff Keighley's Xbox.

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richard @richardnormal.bsky.social · 2d

the powers that be want you to know less about your computer. they are taking away your beautiful file pathing, keyboard inputs, considered mouse clicks, and expertise of your OS. everything will soon be done by mumbling into the open air and praying it works correctly. this is a nightmare.

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 2d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 8h

The Preamble to the Constitution began with three magic words and they were not “I, the King.”

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4th Rider of the Ductopcalypse 👻🚫 @ductos.bsky.social · 7h

There's a 3D platformer on PSone I once played having a cat (?) as a vendor/quest giver and everyone spoke in gibberish noises with subtitles, but I can't remember the name.

4th Rider of the Ductopcalypse 👻🚫 @ductos.bsky.social · 8h

a man in a black shirt and black pants is walking through a dirt field .

Alt: Ian Malcolm: "That's one big pile of shit." from Jurassic Park.

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Jay Rigdon @jayrigdon.bsky.social · 9h

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

Two announcers, Jason Garrett and Dan Hicks, stand in front of a sign that reads "Big Turd" thanks to how they are blocking it

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 10h

#withalttext

Tweet from the verified NYPD News account reads: "The majority of the No Kings protests have dispersed at this time and all traffic closures have been lifted. We had more than 100,000 people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their first amendment rights and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests." The post is timestamped 3:27 PM on 10/18/25 and shows 50K views. The NYPD badge is displayed in the top left corner.

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4th Rider of the Ductopcalypse 👻🚫 @ductos.bsky.social · 12h

I miss this meme format.

Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · Feb 1

#ACAB

nerd: hey fellas, i hear alot of calls for abolishing police. but how will we stay safe?

buff shirtless bald guy on laptop:
King, police abolition is not about defunding every department instantly. It's about a gradual process o strategically reallocating resources, funding and responsibility away from police and toward community based models of safety, support and prevention. The people who respond to crises in our community should be people who are best equipped to deal with those crisis.
insanely buff guy on couch with laptop:
Friend I want to echo that last statement and dig down a little further. Crime isn't random. Most off the time, it happens when someone has been unable to meet their basic needs through other means. By shifting money away from police and toward services that actually meet those needs, we'll be able to get to a place where we won't need to rob banks.

jacked dude in gray tee shirt at a desktop pc:
Couldn't have said it better myself, King! This is bigger than just police brutality; it's about how the prison industrial complex, the drug war, immigration law and the web of policy, law and culture that forms our criminal justice system has destroyed millions o lives, and torn apart families. Cops don't prevent crime, they cause it, through ongoing violent disruption of our communities.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · Feb 1

#ACAB

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◥◤CDFI, Frankenstein @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 13h

Across all the major outlets — NYT, WSJ, WaPo, LAT, CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News, NBC, CNBC, NPR, Bloomberg — the only outlet without a No Kings story on its home page is CBS News.

For every other outlet, it's near the top. Even Fox News is running with "Nationwide unrest looms as thousands mobilize"

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 15h

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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Agent Strange @agentstrange.bsky.social · 16h

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 21h

the US government has arrived on bluesky

4 panel comic

Panel 1: A group of people just having a lovely time. Everyone is laughing

Panel 2: An absolute Federal Agent appears in the middle of the group laughing like an obnoxious robot

Panel 3: The group quickly disperses, leaving the gross creepy agent by himself

Panel 4: The agent touches his ear and says “arrest their moms”

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4th Rider of the Ductopcalypse 👻🚫 @ductos.bsky.social · 16h

Oh!

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Michelle Keep @jmkeep.bsky.social · 1d

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

Euronews @euronews.com · 2d

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.

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Ruprecht Polenz @polenz.bsky.social · 1d

Ähnlichkeiten mit historischen Vorgängern sind nicht rein zufällig, sondern beabsichtigt.

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4th Rider of the Ductopcalypse 👻🚫 @ductos.bsky.social · 17h

Rewatched #TheLordOfTheRings #TheReturnOfTheKing 🎬

A spectacle, but not exactly fun to see in the theater, when the Extended Edition is over four hours long. The additions are nice, but for God's sake: Have an intermission after two hours. #filmsky

a man with a beard wearing a crown and armor is standing in front of a crowd of people .

Alt: GIF from the movie "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King": Aragorn/King Elessar (Viggo Mortensen) bows before the four Hobbits, along with the entire audience in front of the palace in Minas Tirith.

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 1d

"We’re back to pretty white haired sword boys (like Alucard) who have betrayed Dracula (like Alucard), level up in an RPG-like manner (like Alucard), fight a Belmont (like Alucard), summon familiars to help them out (like Alucard)..."

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Castlevania Curse of Darkness: Six feet under and in someone else’s coffin

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, seen here in its Japanese Akumajou Dracula: Yami no Juin form, is the swift and slightly panicked course correction after the series dared to imagine for a single ga…

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Romeo Dandy, #1 Monster Mash Stan @sleepydawgs.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not really one to be this hyperbolic but I do think AI is just gonna create a large percentage of the population that has just completely cooked their brains. It’s like the internet concentrated into a pulsing mass of pure imagery devoid of anything. Enjoy your horsecock roofing

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely. The findings, published in the European Journal of Political Research, were based on an automated text analysis of 520,408 articles from six German newspapers over the span of more than two decades. Continue reading...

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4th Rider of the Ductopcalypse 👻🚫 @ductos.bsky.social · Sep 25

Finished #Warhammer40kSpaceMarine2

We have a new winner. The BEST game based on W40k!

What an absolute blast to play, to experience, to look at, to hear...it's been a very long time that I had so.much.FUN with a single video game!

a close up of a blue space marine with the word pra on his chest

Alt: An Ultramarine walking among ruins, from "Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2".

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4th Rider of the Ductopcalypse 👻🚫 @ductos.bsky.social · Sep 11

TIL the late #TotalBiscuit is honoured in the credits of #Warhammer40kSpaceMarine2.
It was through him that I learned of the first game - and how I really got introduced to the 40k universe in general.

I still miss him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb50...

WTF Is... - Warhammer 40k : Space Marine ?

YouTube video by TotalBiscuit

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4th Rider of the Ductopcalypse 👻🚫 @ductos.bsky.social · Sep 12

I do miss Orks, though. "WAAAAAHHHHHRRRR!", "SPOICE MARINE!!!", "DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA!"

Tyranids lack their personality. #Warhammer40kSpaceMarine2

a green cartoon character is holding a yellow and black weapon

Alt: A 40k Ork, holding a gun and looking around.

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4th Rider of the Ductopcalypse 👻🚫 @ductos.bsky.social · Sep 17

So it is not yet over after six missions after all.

Granted, all the vibes pointed to it being the finale. Glad it wasn't, because I don't think I had *this* much fun with a single video game this entire year. Absolute king shit material! #Warhammer40kSpaceMarine2

a bald man with the words for the empire on the bottom

Alt: An Imperial Guard officer yelling "For the Empire!" while raising his weapon in triumph.

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4th Rider of the Ductopcalypse 👻🚫 @ductos.bsky.social · Sep 11

Let me just say what a great little addition it is to optionally play the game with the helmets on. It's something that bothered me in the first game and it's such a simple fix here. #Warhammer40kSpaceMarine2

a close up of a robot with green eyes

Alt: An Ultramarine nods, while lasers fire behind him.

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