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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 3h

[Happy birthday to Cuban singer Omara Portuondo Peláez, 95 years old, still a member of the Buena Vista Social Club, and nominated for a Grammy as recently as 2024! Mantente seguro, Omara, si estás en casa en Malecón.]

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Karloffornication @adamscantwell.bsky.social · 3h

Peace to you, good man

Karloffornication @adamscantwell.bsky.social · 4h

Christopher Lee’s nostrils are even more asymmetric than mine own!

Karloffornication @adamscantwell.bsky.social · 9h

Quit badmouthing cargo cults

Karloffornication @adamscantwell.bsky.social · 15h

those of us working on the ground

that creepy pic of joe kahn a NYT editor sitting feyly on a carpet in a richly appointed room in a tie and dress shirt

Karloffornication @adamscantwell.bsky.social · 16h

Not the point but- ugh, Foray, honing, shift focus. Just completely meaningless little tumors of style

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Karloffornication @adamscantwell.bsky.social · 16h

HORROR VAMPIRE BAT BITE!

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Karloffornication @adamscantwell.bsky.social · 16h

made my damn day! books rule

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 1d

The Last Night
Clark Ashton Smith
I dreamed a dream: I stood upon a height,
A mountain's utmost eminence of snow.
Beholding ashen plains outflung below
To a far sea-horizon, dim and white.
Beneath the spectral sun's expiring light
The world lay shrouded in a deathly glow;
Its last fear-laden voice, a wind, came low;
The distant sea lay hushed, as with affright.

I watched, until the pale and flickering sun,
In agony and fierce despair, flamed high,
And shadow-slain, went out upon the gloom.
Then Night, that war of gulf-born Titans won,
Impended for a breath on wings of doom,
And through the air fell like a falling sky.

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Karloffornication @adamscantwell.bsky.social · 3d

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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social · 4d

‘Garth Marenghi’s Skull Flusher’ ep 1 is now LIVE.

Horror Master GARTH MARENGHI flushes the creative skull of Fellow Horror Master MIKE FLANAGAN.

m.youtube.com/@TheGarthMar...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

Just disgusting.

A screenshot of a post on X that reads:

Cuomo, talking to conservative radio host Sid Rosenberg this morning:

"God forbid, another 9/11—can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?" Cuomo asks.

"He'd be cheering," Rosenberg says.

Cuomo paused and chuckled before saying: "That's another problem."

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Karloffornication @adamscantwell.bsky.social · 5d

Not a helpful observation but as a reader I have real trouble imagining the mentality of the illiterate USian- not as a judgement, but just... how

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 5d

tbh i think the US has always had a lot of basically illiterate adults, like they can read words but have basically no ability to extract meaning from adult-level text; AI is making it more apparent because they're incapable of proofreading the shit it spews out for them or discerning that it sucks

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 5d

I'm pretty allergic to doomerism but the closest I get is when I see teachers talking about how bad it is out there. Does nobody really know how to read or write anymore

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 5d

tbh i think the US has always had a lot of basically illiterate adults, like they can read words but have basically no ability to extract meaning from adult-level text; AI is making it more apparent because they're incapable of proofreading the shit it spews out for them or discerning that it sucks

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 5d

I'm pretty allergic to doomerism but the closest I get is when I see teachers talking about how bad it is out there. Does nobody really know how to read or write anymore

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Karloffornication @adamscantwell.bsky.social · 5d

Underrated, monsters

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 5d

Soft Cell were an equal partnership who, when firing on all cylinders as usual, were unbeatable. You get the best sense of how brilliant Dave Ball was (and Marc too) on the 12" mixes of singles. Some of the greatest records of all time.

Memorabilia goes hard as hell.

youtu.be/vnTiNH5Oii8?...

Memorabilia 12 inch / Soft Cell

YouTube video by Melancholy Rose

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Karloffornication @adamscantwell.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, yes! Maybe we can throw a cup of ice at the fabulous thunderbirds!

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Karloffornication @adamscantwell.bsky.social · 5d

She’s an irreplaceable voice for her group- americans with the bugs bunny money

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 5d

my friends, I am in a 10-person capacity record bar in Tokyo requesting songs and drinking Japanese whisky. the owners are a married couple chain smoking behind the bar, slinging cocktails, and spinning records.

this is heaven??? goodbye forever I have died ✌️

A glass of Nikka Coffee Malt Whisky with a big ice rock with a background of about a million vinyl records

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 6d

This is a huge story - the richest man on earth, who regularly promotes and talks to neo-Nazis on his self-owned forum, now using his neo-Nazi friends to use that forum to target their enemies. Let's be clear: these people absolutely intend for their anonymous far-right psycho buddies to kill us.

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Karloffornication @adamscantwell.bsky.social · 6d

The original Code & Theory library: I should’ve bookthieved those bros blind

(It was Interview Magazine’s art book archive that came with the office rental, card catalog and all(!))

Karloffornication @adamscantwell.bsky.social · 6d

I had always thought that golf company TITLEIST rhymed with “Christ”, not “list”

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Max Ernst @max-m-ernst.bsky.social · 6d

Of This Men Shall Know Nothing https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/of-this-men-shall-know-nothing-1923

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Karloffornication @adamscantwell.bsky.social · 6d

Bunch of ops and cops on here

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