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Federally Subsidized Kool-Aid Jammer @chuued.blacksky.app · 13h

If you have never heard this masterpiece, from D'Angelo, there's no time like the present. His last record, was arguably his best. Rest in Peace.
spotify.link/LGdtZccPsXb

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 3h

My copy of the biggest creative project of my life just arrived and even my dog is impressed!*

FiveEvil: Fiendish 5E Horror, designed and written by me, made gorgeous and wonderful by my good friends at Handiwork Games.

It’s real!!

*not really she just knows it’s time for a walk

Hardback book FiveEvil sits on a cushion next to a bemused black and white terrier

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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 2h

Mulch like chatGPT, I too have fixed my problems with mental health in an objectively verifiable way and am therefore ready for sex

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 14h

RIP D'angelo. Black Messiah is a top 5 of all time record.

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 14h

R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 11h

"Starting in December 2024, the researchers began contacting the affected telecoms. T-Mobile responded by encrypting its satellite transmissions within weeks, but responses from other cell carriers were mixed."

Everything is cool and normal.

www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 1d

OKAY BRIEF ANNOYANCE TIME, BABA YAGA DOES NOT MEAN BOOGEYMAN SHE'S A FREAKY LIL WITCH IN HER CHICKEN LEG HUT

THE JOHN WICK FRANCHISE GOT IT MIXED UP Бабайка OR BABAYKA, WHO 𝘐𝘚 ACTUALLY THE BOOGEYMAN

RANT OVER

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John @farawaytimes.bsky.social · 1d

short stories... the "tiny itch freeware games" of literature

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Bridget Williams Books @bwbnz.bsky.social · 1d

Vincent O’Malley has received a 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

🎥 Highlights incl. kōrero with Carol Hirschfeld: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub18...

📚 His new book The Meeting Place is out now — join us tonight at The Royal Society, Wellington!

The Storyteller—Vincent O’Malley | 2025 Distinguished Alumni Awards

Growing up without Aotearoa’s history on the syllabus, alumnus Dr Vincent O’Malley FRSNZ set out to uncover the stories that shape our nation.In this convers...

www.youtube.com

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 2d

It’s 1998. Mom is letting you stay up late and watch the new fire and dad is on his way home with mastodon. Later when they go to sleep you’ll dog up the family fertility goddess statuette and masturbate to it until you drift away into a dreamless slumber. You’ll never be this happy again

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ruba. Ruba is 23 and has been studying to be a pharmacist. She has been living in tents with her family since this all began and her home was destroyed, this includes her niece Tulin, 8 her nephew, Mohammed, 4 and her father who is ill.

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spoOoOokyfox @slooowfox.bsky.social · 2d

tron had a lower opening weekend than Morbius?

we have the opportunity to do the funniest thing possible

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh. City Vision's Michelle Thorp now elected to the Albert-Eden Local Board on preliminary results, meaning a City Vision majority here *and* Waitemata. And Mark Graham could come through on the special votes. Not a good campaign by C&R at all. Maybe raging about "speed bumps" wasn't a good idea.

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 2d

Labour will repeal the Regulatory Standards Bill.
#nzpol

Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 2d

We will repeal it in the first 100 days.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2d

Probably the actual advice that most young men need is that no one finds self pity appealing.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 2d

The eponymous "Simpsons", featuring the titular family of the same name

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 3d

The only reason this isn’t considered trafficking via fraud is because crime is something poor people do

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 3d

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Nandor Tanczos @nandortanczos.bsky.social · 3d

Looks like I'm gonna be mayor. 500 special votes to count and I'm expecting them to widen my lead.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2d

> When AI Became a Force Multiplier for Incompetence

but it started well before AI

techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

techtrenches.substack.com

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 3d

Bootlegger rats running a squeakeasy

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Allison @m-e.allison683etc.servegame.com · 3d

I could tell this Video was AI before I even noticed the hand but we are all at risk of accidentally in the heat of the moment posting AI fakes. We should all be prepared to own these mistakes and also to be kind to each other about it.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 3d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 4d

oh boy, i hope ukgov isn't betting the farm on AI

(handed paper from offscreen)

my APES

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Daniel @dznz.bsky.social · 4d

You can't beat Wellington on a good day

Photo of ruins of post office radio station at West Wind reserve, shrouded in fog and cloud.

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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 4d

I cant even tell you the number of public interest (and interesting) stories about the local election that journos wanted to do, but couldn't because of editors..

Shout out those that did do coverage, esp The Spinoff

Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 4d

Well done media, you achieved this brilliantly, your campaign to nearly completely ignore AKL’s local elections has flowed on to its inevitable outcome. Accelerating your own irrelevance simultaneously -> www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Auckland records lowest turnout in local elections

“Vote today or let someone else choose Auckland's representatives for you,” Aucklanders are told, with local body elections entering the home straight.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Daniel @dznz.bsky.social · 4d

Price is going up on YouTube premium to something like $50 and I'm sorry but no, nope, that's me, I'm out. Compare that to a Dropout or Nebula subscription for value. Nope.

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