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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · Dec 21

Can't stop thinking about 1950s live action Astro Boy & his cursed sausage hands.

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Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 26m

That's not even the worst gastronomic horror the internet has shown me in the last day.

I give you... sushi poutine

Sushi poutine. It is a pity that my French (to say nothing of my Quebecois slang) isn't remotely up to cursing this in the way it deserves.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 14m

This. Sorry folks but this isn't the time to be blasé about this stuff. ⬇️

Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 4h

You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 4h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 3h

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 1h

Super pleased with my carrots this year. I have a new strategy to beat the slugs! See below for the details. ☺️🌱

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 10h

Carrots and leeks from the #allotment. ☺️🌱

Big pile of small and medium carrots and some leeks on a silver draining board.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 5h

A UK presenter shouldn’t crow about an audience’s ignorance of Nathan Gill who took bribes from Kremlin agents & was a close ally of Farage . It shows they have failed to do their job . What next , telling us that Watergate was one of the lowest points in investigative journalism 🥺 ?

Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 1d

The Nathan Gill scandal should be huge news so why has the British media been mainly silent about it? (I think we know 🤔)
Here's Fiona Bruce shutting down any mention & acting like the audience aren't interested.
#bbqt

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 1d

“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”

—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.

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Jonas Algers @jonasalgers.bsky.social · 12h

Norway are facing Israel in the Football World Cup qualifiers today

The Oslo Tram Driver’s Union will be striking on the tram lines to the stadium in solidarity with the people of Palestine

www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/va...

Varsler kollektiv-streik i Oslo før Norge-Israel

Oslo Sporveiers Arbeiderforening varsler streik 11. oktober, samme dag som Israel og Norge spiller landskamp i fotball på Ullevaal Stadion. Hensikten er å vise støtte til Palestina. Én time før kampst...

www.nrk.no

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Dungeonbuster @dungeonbuster.bsky.social · 5h

Akumajō Dracula (aka Castlevania) received a remake in 1993 on Sharp's X68000 PC in Japan, flexing hardware that was also used by Capcom as a dev space for its arcade focused CPS platform responsible for hits like Magic Sword! It was re-released in 2001 as Castlevania Chronicles for the PlayStation.

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Teresa M @teresasm.bsky.social · 5h

Honestly though that message is still what some of us got even when AI wasn't a thing decades ago. I think AI in marking is the latest development in a long process where grades supercede actual learning.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 5h

Yet another excellent thread about AI, this time about not using it for marking. ⬇️ #EduSky

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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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 22h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Dorothy Parker Fucks @dorothyparkerfucks.bsky.social · 7h

Tweet from @dril: turning a big dial taht says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 8h

(another 30% can be achieved with "never show my post in search results" and the last 5% are scenarios that can't really be product designed around)

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 8h

like seriously team, I know y'all are working on both improving Discover and on better reply sentiment filtering and all, but it's going to take a while to tune it properly and a "never show my post on Discover" setting would be a 10 minute fix that would get 65% of why people want private accounts

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 22h

I had a post reach the Discover feed today and was once again reminded of how many people on this site are not house trained.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11h

Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested.
Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 11h

Nik Storonsky, the founder of Revolut, has left the UK and become tax resident in Dubai - escaping more than £3bn of UK tax.

Could we have stopped him leaving? Either with the carrot of a more competitive tax system, or the stick of an exit tax?

Some thoughts:

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Teresa M @teresasm.bsky.social · 11h

I was getting pretty much no ads at all when everyone complained about them. Never really understood how that gappened but I did then delete my account so I'll never find out.

Can't even be IP based as my husband kept getting the Wish ads to buy (like the edge trimmer that looked deadly).

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 21h

Hot new item. Flying off the shelves.

Silence 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @b-dogood.bsky.social · 23h

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 22h

@tojothethief.bsky.social your boy is back!!

Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 22h

Love and Peace! Vash the Stampede is back in January and Milly is joining the ride this time around!

Trigun Stargaze Anime Reveals Trailer, Visuals, Cast, January 2026 Premiere

Chika Ayamori plays Milly Thompson, Ryūji Satō replaces Junya Ikeda as Knives

www.animenewsnetwork.com

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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