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Sargoth (antediluvian atavism)

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Previously known as twitter user sargoth. Discursive anomalies. Anti-content. Theme-resistant. Passive-benevolent. Unrelenting ululations. Hug your bots! Linktree: https://linktr.ee/thegreyweb

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Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · 20m

and we would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for those kids in frog suits

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Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · 11h

"is this good?"
no

Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · 11h

The madlads did it
they found a way to make money of AI

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12h

guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use

r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 • 3d
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Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
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Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

tom_watts • 3d
According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
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Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · 12h

Logging on

A frame from Dracula (1931). Dracula, holding a single candle, walks very slowly down a grand staircase. Spider web adorns the foreground

Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · 13h

Silksong is one of few games that asks you to consider the difference between "fren" and "benefren"

Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · 14h

when in doubt, fall back on the tried and true method: a CD-rom encyclopedia

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Katy Glenn Bass @katygb.bsky.social · 16h

If you’ve never been to a big protest like No Kings before: It feels great to be part of a big gathering of people who want to change things. It sparks joy, and resolve for the long fight ahead. Sometimes there are dance parties. You could be the one who starts the dance party! Just show up!

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 18h

If you can show up on October 18, you should. The country is shifting. The battleship is turning. And while, yes, usually mass street protests don't do much, there are exceptions.

And sometimes those exceptions go down in history.

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 14h

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · 14h

our beautiful alien son

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 19h

Pros: it's finally cooling off and the crisp autumn air is hitting me like a party drug

Cons: bed extra warm and soft no want leave nest soft warm outside cold and dark want sleep want eat meat chunk roasted over fire

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 17h

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · 17h

Små grodorna
små grodorna
är lustiga att se

Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · 17h

After the tiktok takeover, drama kids have found a new avenue for their anti-authoritarian urges
*exhales a deep sigh*
frog costumes

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🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any) @colorless.green · 1d

i lost control

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Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · 17h

I got chills, they're multiplying
And I'm losing control
'Cause the power you're supplying
It's electrifying

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 18h

“Multiplying protest frogs” 🤣

Troops to Portland still on hold, multiplying protest frogs, fact-check on Trump claims: Get caught up

It’s not clear when the 9th Circuit panel will issue its ruling, but it will likely come before an Oct. 17 hearing

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Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · 17h

Sometimes I too allow myself to be driven in long vehicles with a chauffeur

Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 18h

great post sir, keep saying shit like this

Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · 19h

Me, five seconds after winning the Nobel peace prize, quoting Gaius Baltar: guns! lots and lots of guns!

Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · 19h

Don't we just love it when someone enters into a new rhetorical situation and absolutely refuses to adopt to decorum in any way whatsoever

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Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · 19h

as LaTour put it: people are still having

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 8d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 1d

I'm starting a secret society and--fuck

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 9d

The more you learn about how things work in the world the more you feel like you must be missing something because it can't possibly be that stupid. Oh so all we need to avoid an economic crash is for the stock market to go up forever? And a third of the market is magic beans? I see,

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 1d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · 1d

crossword puzzle hint: antifa's girlfriend
me: aerith
crossword: five letters
me: cloud

Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · 1d

James Blish: this is true, you need to slay the birdmen, lest evolution takes its course