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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 22h

Please, god, make it so

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 22h

JOHN

A Quintesson Proescutor from the 1986 TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE receiving orders from the Quintesson Magistrate to feed some poor bastard to the Sharkticons. Yes, I knew all that off the top of my head. Do you know how many times I've seen this fucking movie? This masterpiece of childhood trauma? Anyhow, this is where the Wills and Johns go.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 1d

🎶 the boys are back in town / the boys are back in town

Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 1d

"I had a thought for the first time ten minutes ago. Now it's everyone's problem."

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

The thing about crashing a tank through a museum of antiquities is that you don't have to be a particularly skilled driver to do a lot of damage.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

For the record, literally zero people believe in unitary executive theory.

Some people believe in unitary Republican executive theory but that’s absolutely not the same thing.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 3d

Why are you fucking jagoffs illustrating this with a picture from 1992?

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Aug 1

Deskilling is real.

This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.

Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · Jul 31

help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help

From r/chatGPTpro, 25 minutes ago: chatGPT blocked at work

Today my job decided to block the site. I use chatGPT to create SOPs (standard operating practices) and power points and polish my emails. What should I do now four question marks. It has 0 upvotes and 20 comments

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 5d

I filled the snooty elf fashion shop in Skyrim with cheese wheels up to the bitch's hips, Roko's Basilisk gonna cook a tiny simulacrum of me some time in the 32nd century

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 8d

Hello, Isobel-- still waiting for shipment to me from the printer. I do have a second printer lined up if I get left hanging much longer; just hoping to not have to pull that trigger.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 8d

"I spent a lot of time talking to NPC guards in Skyrim, and many of them confessed to knee injuries. The recurrence of this human phenomenon in electronic people should give us disquieting food for thought."

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 9d

We "deradicalised" Germany & Japan by spending billions of dollars turning them into functioning liberal democracies & returning them to sovereign membership of the international community. Not by building a Trump Tower on their children's graves.

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 9d

This from the editorial board is one of the most deranged things I’ve read in the New York Times and that’s saying something.

The multinational authority should have an ambitious agenda. It would span the restoration of basic services, the feeding of the population, the reconstruction of neighborhoods and the creation of a police force.
Crucially, as experts at the Wilson Center in Washington have argued, this authority should create a program in schools, the media and elsewhere "to remove Hamas's pervasive radicalizing influence over Gazan society." Another task would be disarming any Hamas fighters who keep fighting. Qatar, given its longtime relationship with Hamas, can help pressure the group, much as the United States can pressure Israel.
There are historical antecedents for an international mission along these lines. Deradicalization programs succeeded in Germany and Japan after World War II, anc multinational police forces have operated in Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti and elsewhere. Of course, these efforts come with dangers. Participating countries would risk having their personnel become targets for Hamas. But

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 9d

I'm a ninja turtle. Sewage systems are bodacious.

NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 9d

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy.

Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social
I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 9d

Who's your favorite Jedi?
(wrong answers only)

"Now, uh, just one more thing, uh, Admiral Motti, sir. You say that any attack on this station would be a useless gesture. I get that. You say it's now the ultimate power in the universe. Isn't that something? But my wife, sir, my wife has been really into exhaust ports lately. She's always going on about small thermal exhaust ports. Small ones. And you, uh, you have such an exhaust port on your station, don't you, admiral? Just a small one?" (Image: Peter Falk as Lt. Columbo)

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 10d

What's hilarious is that I did like forty of these things before a friend in slack said "Hey, you realize the names of the little people are alphabetical from top to bottom, right?" and I was like "wait what"

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 10d

We have white smoke! That little asshole Paul is the Pope.

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Sep 30th 2025) in 05:25
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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 11d

(grimly resigned to putting yet another book on the to-read pile because of Simon, who has more or less never missed)

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 11d

For the little people in the squares, life is unrelenting interrogation. Hounded by our intrusion. Forced to monitor and report on one another. Have they always lived in the squares, the little people?

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Sep 29th 2025) in 04:42
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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

cluesbysam.com

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DrawPlayDave @thedrawplay.com · 11d

CONGRATULATIONS TO NO ONE

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 11d

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 11d

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 12d

oh cool I remember th- [IMMEDIATE PTSD FLASHBACK]

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David L. Pumpkins @leboism.bsky.social · 13d

The fact that Kaleb Horton died begging for work instead having a column at some hip legacy mag is such an indictment of this industry. People should have been begging to put him on payroll. But nope, we've reserved that space for Ezra Klein

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 13d

The guy has roughly three ideas bouncing around inside his melting brain, like three mistreated dogs wrestling and biting one another to see who gets first shot at the food bowl on any given day.

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