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Gargantuan feline-minded grumpy trollmouth with a heart of gold wrapped around a core of darkness. Thinking deep thoughts way too deep. =^.^=

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felicea.bsky.social
A few thoughts about the new US national security strategy, especially the part about the growing influence of ‘patriotic’ parties, whose growing influence the current administration endorses:

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rikefranke.bsky.social Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 8d
What struck me most on Europe wasn’t the focus on value, freedom of speech etc - again, very similar to Vance’s Munich speech - but how activist it is. This is about directly trying to influence what is going on in Europe:
American diplomacy should continue to stand up for genuine democracy, freedom of expression, and unapologetic celebrations of European nations' individual character and history. America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit, and the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism. Our goal should be to help Europe correct its current trajectory. We will need a strong Europe to help us successfully compete, and to work in concert with us to prevent any adversary from dominating Europe. America is, understandably, sentimentally attached to the European continent— and, of course, to Britain and Ireland. The character of these countries is also strategically important because we count upon creative, capable, confident, democratic allies to establish conditions of stability and security. We want to work with aligned countries that want to restore their former greatness.
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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foxes-in-love.bsky.social
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue looks at Green in confusion, as Green is covered in pink hair rollers. Green: I'm going to find out what I'd look like with curls! Blue sits down to wait as Green leaves the room. Green: It's time to take the rollers out! Blue sits with the most neutral expression possible as Green returns, as a fluffy cloud of uncontrollable curls. With miraculous self-discipline, Blue manages to keep his expression neutral, while Green frowns at him. Blue: Requesting permission to laugh hysterically. Green: Request denied.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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gargaj.umlaut.hu
downdetector (hosted on cloudflare) is down.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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xkcd.com
Website Task Flowchart

xkcd.com/3175/
Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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xkcd.com
Can you power your computer by typing?

What the latest What If? video in collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L44...
Can you power your computer by typing?
YouTube video by xkcd's What If?
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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mmalex.bsky.social
regarding last repost; @ancient.bsky.social is a god damned genius youtu.be/wrfBjRp61iY?...
Solid State Volumetric Display
YouTube video by Ancient
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December 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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ancient.bsky.social
Latest voxels!

Flickery when filmed ✓
Distracting reflections ✓
You kind of have to be there ✓
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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bmhughes.bsky.social
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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downieseb.bsky.social
I had to see it do you do too
A shaved Chewbacca "The balder shave; smoother than a wookie" electric razor ad
November 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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ringmacher.bsky.social
Was Schönes am Samstag: ein Meer in einem Ring. Mein Mare Internum Beach Edition. Handgemacht mit viel Liebe 🧡

Teilen ist unterstützen 🙏😀

Ps: Ich bin auch auf Instagram und freue mich als kleiner Kunstaccount über jeden neuen Follower.
Ihr findet mich unter instagram.com/artinrings
Handgefertigter Ring ‘Mare Internum – Beach Edition’: Türkisblaues, transparentes Inlay mit schimmernden Opalstücken, hellen Sandnuancen und wellenartigen Verläufen, die an Strand und Meer erinnern. Handgefertigter Ring ‘Mare Internum – Beach Edition’: Türkisblaues, transparentes Inlay mit schimmernden Opalstücken, hellen Sandnuancen und wellenartigen Verläufen, die an Strand und Meer erinnern. Handgefertigter Ring ‘Mare Internum – Beach Edition’: Türkisblaues, transparentes Inlay mit schimmernden Opalstücken, hellen Sandnuancen und wellenartigen Verläufen, die an Strand und Meer erinnern.
November 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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celechii.itch.io
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out comparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy background comparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlights comparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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joanwestenberg.com
"Social media ruined empathy"

I think it did something worse: it gave us shallow empathy for complete strangers + reduced our actual empathy for the actual people in our actual lives.

Our grandparents: deep bonds with 10 people

Us: parasocial connections to 10,000 strangers
November 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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kplx.art
Aus meinem Buch „Hoch die Hände Wochenende“ 🙌
Tuschzeichnung, Comic: Panel 1: Eine Fliege schaut zur anderen, die an einem Computer sitzt und liest. „Was liest du?“ Die Fliege am Rechner antwortet: „… dystopisches Werk über Machtmissbrauch, Kontrollverlust und Chaos.“ Panel 2: Die Fliege reagiert interessiert: „Cool, Orwell?“ Die Fliege am Rechner blickt weiterhin auf den Bildschirm und antwortet trocken: „Protokoll Team-meeting.“
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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xkcd.com
Service Outage

xkcd.com/3170/
Comic. Graph with x-axis is time and y-axis is productivity when a major internet service goes down, showing that after the outage begins the line splits, with one end trending down for people whose work relies on the service and with an upward boost for people whose work doesn’t rely on the service. Top branch of line has mini art of a person sitting at their computer desk thinking, “Aw man, the outage took down the Star Wars Legends Wiki.”
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
grathak.bsky.social
I just watched all of "Second Reality" again, and this time in my browser.

Not sure how often I've watched this demo, and it NEVER fails to give me goosebumps.

Thanks to all the people involved in keeping this one alive and available for everyone! ❤️
paulofalcao.bsky.social PauloFalcao @paulofalcao.bsky.social · 23d
Second Reality now has a fully portable C++ version!
Thanks to the work of @conspiracy.hu and JSRProductions
You can even run it on your browser! jsr-productions.com/secondrealit...
Here is the C++ source github.com/XorJS/Second...
And the web page jsr-productions.com/secondrealit...
November 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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90scompgamesboxart.bsky.social
Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle (1993)
November 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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galdracori.bsky.social
Idk who needs to hear this but I've suffered for many years and if it helps even one person it's worth it to annoy you w/ this:

- Low iron can be caused by low folic acid. If iron supps don't do shit you might need folic acid
- Low vitamin B12 can have something to do with low folic acid.
November 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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felipegaonar.bsky.social
I love this.
An exchange on twitter. controlla.xyz: If you hate Al you probably just hate art and expression It's an infinite mashup of all the best art ever made by humans lesliejandersonwriter: If you hate the juice at the bottom of a restaurant dumpster you just hate food and cooking. It's an infinite mashup of all the best food made by humans!
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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maxnichols.bsky.social
In a few conversations, I've run into people throwing out "how is procedurally-generated game content any different from AI-generated stuff??"

I have an answer:
Designing Procedural generation algorithms requires an extremely advanced and well-honed understanding of the content and WHY it works.
January 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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revision-party.bsky.social
Revision is a non-profit event; however, that does not make us non-cost. Do you want to help us in realising one of the biggest participatory programming art events? Then we'd be excited to have you!
[email protected]
#digitalart #programming #culture #sponsoring #demoscene #floss
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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davis.social
10/10 take. No notes.
divergentcoachkelly on Threads * 2h ADHD is knowing exactly what you need to do then watching yourself not do it like you're a scientist observing a very dumb experiment
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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foxes-in-love.bsky.social
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue jumps in shock as Green floats idly by him. Green: I don't feel like doing today. Blue turns his head to follow where Green is going as Green floats further away. Blue: Doing what today? Green: Just the whole day. Any of it. As Green drifts out of sight, Blue raises his eyebrow, puzzled, watching where Green drifted off to. Blue: Also why are you floating? Green, out of frame: I got excommuned by gravity. Blue stares after Green, now in blank bafflement. Blue: ...What?
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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davidrevoy.com
The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) Part 2

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
A comic strip in four panels: Panel 1. A bird's-eye view of the top of the Amphora of Great Intelligence, a wizard in yellow colors is on the stack of books from the content of the amphora. He yell at a crowd of wizard at the bottom of the Amphora, a crowd of red wizard. Some other wizard in red evacuate some grimoires, their arms are full of books. On the top, you can see an onion (for The Onion) and a cover that looks like the Reddit mascot: > Wizard in yellow: Alright, I've cleared out a few grimoires to tweak it, we should get better results now! Panel 2. A view of the wizards at the foot of the Amphora, the fire is intense, they all raise their arms in incantation: > Crowd of wizards: Amphora of Great Intelligence, our world is dying, share your knowledge with us! Panel 3. The Amphora of Intelligence starts speaking, this time very seriously. The mages are still speechless. > Amphora: Stop chasing profits blindly, reduce your reliance on fossil fuels, and prioritize repair and recycling over production. > Crowd of wizards: ... ... ... Panel 4. A discontented red wizard yells at the wizard in yellow who tweaked the content of the Amphora in panel one. This one feels surprised: >Wizard in red: I don't like this. Let's adjust it again.
September 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM