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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 5h

I awake every morning alert, focussed, reinvigorated by my purpose: spiritual warfare against the local government sector.

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 9h

In the dark dystopian future of my YA novel, people with larger than average heads, "megacephs", are a feared and oppressed class. It is not so different from reality...

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 12h

I respect my dog. But I don't respect her beliefs.

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 16d

The beasts of the field have begun subtly bowing their heads when I pass. Probably nothing.

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 13h

When I'm not posting much, it's because I'm taking all the things I would have posted and instead I'm submitting them as formal memoranda to my manager.

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 18h

The crows which used to live around my house, but were driven off by magpies, have returned and reclaimed their home. Much is well in the kingdom of Crow.

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Villein 🔒 @villein.bsky.social · 20h

therapist wrote "mark and recapture" next to my name in his session notes

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 1d

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Dr Philip Nitschke, voluntary euthanasia advocate, founder of Exit International and author of The Peaceful Pill Handbook.

The Nobel Committee's full statement: "Only in death is there peace".

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 2d

If Wikipedia added a group chat functionality every other social media would be finished.

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nosé @lightblanket.bsky.social · 8d

We’re getting rid of leaf blowers by eating 50 leaves a day each. Get out there

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 2d

To be fair it's quite effective in your natural habitat (giant mass of worms).

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 3d

Subdued men in their 30s who appreciate the beauty of everyday life are society's most oppressed group.

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 3d

How much of this is the cost of optics versus the additional cost of a car to which the optics can be mounted? I understood a few years ago that Waymo was planning a fleet of cheap Geelys to reduce that cost, which obviously has some issues now for US business.

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 5d

You underestimate the desire to load the end of 2025 with all available Bad News before rolling out the wins in an election year.

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 5d

I imagine you can do this using some sort of angular momentum analogue on their post history in whatever embedding their LLMs use.

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 5d

Bluesky moderation won't be effective until it can label posts by whether the poster has a core of inner serenity, or whether the post comes from sourceless swirling anger. User gets to choose which they want to see.

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 8d

Ecologically responsible housing (apartment in giant tower in the middle of a megacity).

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 9d

I have built a monument more lasting than bronze (gravel).

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 10d

Countering the much-publicised debut of an "AI actress" by debuting a "frog actress". She's just a frog. You imagine what she's saying as she hops around in the movie. She's saying you must change your life.