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#DOITFORSHIIKO | Lillie Ver.Ka 🏳️‍⚧️ @heat--end.bsky.social · 15m

microsoft is so fucking desperate to get back the money they blew on AI so they have to pull shit like this to convince shareholders its working lmfao. fucking insane

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 5h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 2m

Did not know this about Old Bay

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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 34m

Got everything done. Now to put the blog post together on SubscribeStar.

A set of drawing instructions:

Burger made of two half spheres and a cylinder
Head shape starting from a square
10-15 quick (2-3 minute) pose drawings from photo reference

The exercises follow, featuring a grid of 15 photos with green sketches overlaid

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 3d

The “Bush being informed about 9/11” meme has been defeated.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Farb @efarb.bsky.social · 6h

Sorry, but everyone in this article deserves to be single for life. If you can’t have a conversation with someone, then maybe the problem is you and not dating apps

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 11h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 2h

Thinking rather a lot about Pressfield's "The War of Art" lately

Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 2h

I am once again staring down the barrel of 10 to 15 pose sketches in 2-3 minutes each from photo reference and I have less than three hours to do them

A series of fifteen reference photos featuring various fashion models

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 4h

👀 they are really struggling with that $50,000 question.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

It would be interesting for someone to run for US president on the platform of firing every one hired to work for ICE over the past 4 years. Firing all of them on day 1.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 3h

Pre-emptive rejection. If they found the lady on the right attractive, they might meet her in the Real World, and be forced to deal with the reality that she doesn't find them attractive at all.

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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 3h

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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 3h

That's the wrong layer

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 4h

I'm loving this Pope.

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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 3h

Thread.

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 4h

Essential point:

"Key to... Vought’s worldview is the idea that the constitutional order - and with it the “natural” order itself - has been destroyed: The revolution has already happened, “the Left” won. Therefore, conservatives categorically err when they try to preserve what is no more."

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 6h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

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Tanya Two Moons @tanyatwomoons.bsky.social · 4h

"Let our fear of losing our children be more powerful than our fear of our next-door neighbor."

FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 4h

I post this article too much,,,
But we have mass shooting too much

www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...

Why Flavor Flav says the US must ban firearms now | Opinion

The lack of U.S. gun laws has created a violence epidemic unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is domestic errorism

www.newsweek.com

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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 10h

Twitter is still learning the law of the group chat that was originally stated there

A tweet from @KylePlantEmoji - "Every group chat births a second smaller group chat without the annoying people, and if you think yours doesn't, I have some bad news"

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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 11h

Johnny Depp appearing surprised in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 12h

But they're also going to do the spreadsheets so really you're going to be doing the manual labor in the mines to make the robots...

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 12h

idk looks like you held your own to me

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 13h

I'm a fairly competent programmer, writer, and musician. I decided I should add "artist" to this list and hahahahahAHAHAHAHA that was seven years ago and idk I might be halfway decent in another two or three years if I'm lucky

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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 14h

Blue hair is hot so they want a blue-haired chick but they also know anyone with blue hair will absolutely not want their racist Nazi arse

It's the same with tattoos and nose rings. Shit, this woman isn't pliant OR tractable, why even do we allow that

Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 14h

If you see this, quote your favorite pokemon!

(Wrong answers only)

Cubey, the little white cat-rabbit beast from "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" with his beady little pink eyes and golden halos floating around the ends of his floppy ears. That bastard.