liminalfruitbat
@liminalfruitbat.bsky.social
Lurks on the threshold and flaps a bit. In theory I talk about a lot of geeky things. They/their/them, but I'll take any pronouns.
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🚨 URGENT!!!!!! Congress is trying to ram through 18 massive censorship/surveillance laws TODAY 🚨
CALL THESE REPS NOW and tell them
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO to age verification laws
—NO to the SCREEN Act
—NO to digital ID laws (App Store Accountability Act)
badinternetbills.com
CALL THESE REPS NOW and tell them
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO to age verification laws
—NO to the SCREEN Act
—NO to digital ID laws (App Store Accountability Act)
badinternetbills.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🚨 URGENT!!!!!! Congress is trying to ram through 18 massive censorship/surveillance laws TODAY 🚨
CALL THESE REPS NOW and tell them
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO to age verification laws
—NO to the SCREEN Act
—NO to digital ID laws (App Store Accountability Act)
badinternetbills.com
CALL THESE REPS NOW and tell them
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO to age verification laws
—NO to the SCREEN Act
—NO to digital ID laws (App Store Accountability Act)
badinternetbills.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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It is intensely funny to me that tech bro CEOs on an annual salary of 15 petabillion dollars think data centres can go in space because it's very cold but actually they would get obscenely hot because heat won't radiate into the vacuum of space
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
December 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It is intensely funny to me that tech bro CEOs on an annual salary of 15 petabillion dollars think data centres can go in space because it's very cold but actually they would get obscenely hot because heat won't radiate into the vacuum of space
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
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there’s just a certain type of person who would show up to your writer’s group wanting praise for presenting work but violently rejecting any form of constructive criticism that might improve it, and that right there is the target market for AI
September 2, 2024 at 5:21 PM
there’s just a certain type of person who would show up to your writer’s group wanting praise for presenting work but violently rejecting any form of constructive criticism that might improve it, and that right there is the target market for AI
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Thinking of that time when my dad, himself a doctor, was thrown by a horse on a trail ride. Punctured his spleen, internal bleeding, got him to an ER just in time. He lived another 20 years. With two hours delay, probably wouldn't have.
We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.
We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Thinking of that time when my dad, himself a doctor, was thrown by a horse on a trail ride. Punctured his spleen, internal bleeding, got him to an ER just in time. He lived another 20 years. With two hours delay, probably wouldn't have.
We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.
We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.
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So now that’s a founding member and biggest financier outside the Big Five (Netherlands), a member of the Big Five (Spain), a country with the joint-most wins (Ireland), a country pivotal getting other former communist states involved (Slovenia), and a country where most watch the contest (Iceland)
Iceland to boycott Eurovision over Israel's participation
Iceland to boycott Eurovision over Israel's participation
Iceland has announced it is boycotting Eurovision over Israel's participation in the competition.
news.sky.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
So now that’s a founding member and biggest financier outside the Big Five (Netherlands), a member of the Big Five (Spain), a country with the joint-most wins (Ireland), a country pivotal getting other former communist states involved (Slovenia), and a country where most watch the contest (Iceland)
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How can we draw more attention to this? They're Palestine Action hunger strikers who are now in critical condition in the hospital and the UK is just letting them die. It also feels like there is a media blackout
Tomorrow's front page 📰
'The UK is letting these people die'
'The UK is letting these people die'
December 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
How can we draw more attention to this? They're Palestine Action hunger strikers who are now in critical condition in the hospital and the UK is just letting them die. It also feels like there is a media blackout
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Like we don't think of Carrie Fisher as a nepo baby even though she clearly was, because she was great but also because, eg, Harrison Ford was previously a carpenter and weed dealer, not also a film star's kid. We don't want a world with no Carrie Fishers, but we've got one with no new Fords.
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Like we don't think of Carrie Fisher as a nepo baby even though she clearly was, because she was great but also because, eg, Harrison Ford was previously a carpenter and weed dealer, not also a film star's kid. We don't want a world with no Carrie Fishers, but we've got one with no new Fords.
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One thing that rankles with me - slightly - about nepo baby discourse, is that seemingly 90% of successful actors in the UK have a massive structural advantage simply from being born rich. To obsess over the 1% who also have famous parents as if THAT'S the problem, misses the forest for the trees.
Thing is as Nepo parent, you’re in a bind, you aren’t going to hinder your kids professional progress to make a political point. But surely you just say yes, their background helped.
New BBC interview w/ Kate Winslet saying she doesn’t like the term nepo baby and doesn’t think that famous parents actually translates to jobs and respect. This in the year her daughter was lead in a Wes Anderson film and her 21yo son’s film is premiering on Netflix with her directing like ffs
December 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
One thing that rankles with me - slightly - about nepo baby discourse, is that seemingly 90% of successful actors in the UK have a massive structural advantage simply from being born rich. To obsess over the 1% who also have famous parents as if THAT'S the problem, misses the forest for the trees.
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Also, this is fucking *McDonald's*, one of the two or three most visible brands in the world.
What this does to their brand is associate it more with the word "slop", arguably not an association they want reinforcing for their food.
What this does to their brand is associate it more with the word "slop", arguably not an association they want reinforcing for their food.
absolutely, just like when many many people googling "Bill Cosby + rapist" greatly benefited Cosby's overall *brand visibility* (his brand is very very visible by now)
December 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Also, this is fucking *McDonald's*, one of the two or three most visible brands in the world.
What this does to their brand is associate it more with the word "slop", arguably not an association they want reinforcing for their food.
What this does to their brand is associate it more with the word "slop", arguably not an association they want reinforcing for their food.
December 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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folks we are into “breaking gerrymanders” territory here
we are going to win
we are going to win
This Georgia flip is in a district that the GOP drew to drown Democratic voters in Athens into a neighboring red county, Oconee.
But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
December 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
folks we are into “breaking gerrymanders” territory here
we are going to win
we are going to win
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Fewer children visiting cinemas; large increase in cinema visits by tall, lumpy men in trenchcoats.
I see that Captain Obvious is reporting from the front lines again.
December 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Fewer children visiting cinemas; large increase in cinema visits by tall, lumpy men in trenchcoats.
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Did you know: if you buy the Montgomery Bonbon books as a Christmas present, it's like a double present because I, Alasdair Beckett-King, also get some money? Wow, what a magical time of year!
December 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Did you know: if you buy the Montgomery Bonbon books as a Christmas present, it's like a double present because I, Alasdair Beckett-King, also get some money? Wow, what a magical time of year!
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Did you know: if you buy tickets to my tour show as a Christmas present, it's like a double present because I, Alasdair Beckett-King, also get some money? Wow! Incredible Xmas fact!
An Important Information Film. Please share widely so that more people receive the information.
Tickets: www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs
Tickets: www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs
December 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Did you know: if you buy tickets to my tour show as a Christmas present, it's like a double present because I, Alasdair Beckett-King, also get some money? Wow! Incredible Xmas fact!
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So annoying that companies that promote GenAI and LLMs called it AI and didn’t differentiate it from the advanced machine learning algorithms and tools that enable so many great things that are also AI but actually solving a problem, and good.
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
So annoying that companies that promote GenAI and LLMs called it AI and didn’t differentiate it from the advanced machine learning algorithms and tools that enable so many great things that are also AI but actually solving a problem, and good.
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This is a big sign of weakness in a traditional GOP stronghold apnews.com/article/miam...
Democrat wins Miami mayor’s race for the first time in nearly 30 years
Democrat Eileen Higgins has won the Miami mayor’s race over a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump.
apnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This is a big sign of weakness in a traditional GOP stronghold apnews.com/article/miam...
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Nearly every Take relating to this has been done except one, which is - why would the European leaders take advice from Starmer on how to beat the far right? Who among them envies his popularity or admires the sagacity of his advisors?
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Nearly every Take relating to this has been done except one, which is - why would the European leaders take advice from Starmer on how to beat the far right? Who among them envies his popularity or admires the sagacity of his advisors?
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
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This should be a source of embarrassment for every @teamlabouruk.bsky.social MP. Are you really going to sacrifice the old and disabled just so you can appease Farage & RefUK on immigration @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social?
Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
December 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This should be a source of embarrassment for every @teamlabouruk.bsky.social MP. Are you really going to sacrifice the old and disabled just so you can appease Farage & RefUK on immigration @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social?
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if you were to make a gender-swapped version of James Bond, and needed to come up with a bawdy euphemism name for a glamorous and sexy Bond Boy, ironically you could do a lot worse than Roger Moore.
December 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
if you were to make a gender-swapped version of James Bond, and needed to come up with a bawdy euphemism name for a glamorous and sexy Bond Boy, ironically you could do a lot worse than Roger Moore.
9th #Lexember entry:
Niätsrängi: to embroider; embroidery; (+ acc of the image or design) to embroider (a picture, design, etc); niätsrängi pin (+ dative): to embroider (an image or design) onto something (from Duilidethe netserange, compound of netse: to sew, and range: to decorate; to embellish)
Niätsrängi: to embroider; embroidery; (+ acc of the image or design) to embroider (a picture, design, etc); niätsrängi pin (+ dative): to embroider (an image or design) onto something (from Duilidethe netserange, compound of netse: to sew, and range: to decorate; to embellish)
December 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
9th #Lexember entry:
Niätsrängi: to embroider; embroidery; (+ acc of the image or design) to embroider (a picture, design, etc); niätsrängi pin (+ dative): to embroider (an image or design) onto something (from Duilidethe netserange, compound of netse: to sew, and range: to decorate; to embellish)
Niätsrängi: to embroider; embroidery; (+ acc of the image or design) to embroider (a picture, design, etc); niätsrängi pin (+ dative): to embroider (an image or design) onto something (from Duilidethe netserange, compound of netse: to sew, and range: to decorate; to embellish)
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The struggles continue, but we persist. Help us continue to.
I know its the end of the year and people are hard up, but we could really use some assistance here. The American medical system is rough to get through.
If @linkara.bsky.social might share?
If @linkara.bsky.social might share?
I've been swamped with taking on the Cwej30th Anniversary celebrations, which has been an amazing job, but we're nearing the end of the year, and we could use a little push to get us through the bills we have from medical costs creeping up on us.
wyldercommissions.weebly.com
wyldercommissions.weebly.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The struggles continue, but we persist. Help us continue to.
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There’s more of gravy than of grave about him
The bones of Santa have been leaking liquid for 1,700 years.
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
There’s more of gravy than of grave about him
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It says a lot that AI “artists” are so creatively bankrupt they think writing prompts is a difficult, arduous task.
You realize coming up with a prompt is what a real artist would call “having an idea,” right?
It took them weeks of sleepless nights to have some basic thoughts.
You realize coming up with a prompt is what a real artist would call “having an idea,” right?
It took them weeks of sleepless nights to have some basic thoughts.
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
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The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It says a lot that AI “artists” are so creatively bankrupt they think writing prompts is a difficult, arduous task.
You realize coming up with a prompt is what a real artist would call “having an idea,” right?
It took them weeks of sleepless nights to have some basic thoughts.
You realize coming up with a prompt is what a real artist would call “having an idea,” right?
It took them weeks of sleepless nights to have some basic thoughts.
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Tribunal: *finds that Sandie Peggie harassed Dr Beth Upton*
British Press: Hahaha no, that's not the story we already decided we like, they must have said it wrong, we'll just say the opposite thing happened ☺️
British Press: Hahaha no, that's not the story we already decided we like, they must have said it wrong, we'll just say the opposite thing happened ☺️
#C4News went above & beyond, reporting:
"a nurse has won a harassment claim against Dr Beth Upton."
No she didn't. NHS FIFE harassed her, not Upton.
This is almost defamatory, & they mentioned none of the dismissed parts or the implications for trans women in SS spaces. I complained to Ofcom.
"a nurse has won a harassment claim against Dr Beth Upton."
No she didn't. NHS FIFE harassed her, not Upton.
This is almost defamatory, & they mentioned none of the dismissed parts or the implications for trans women in SS spaces. I complained to Ofcom.
December 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Tribunal: *finds that Sandie Peggie harassed Dr Beth Upton*
British Press: Hahaha no, that's not the story we already decided we like, they must have said it wrong, we'll just say the opposite thing happened ☺️
British Press: Hahaha no, that's not the story we already decided we like, they must have said it wrong, we'll just say the opposite thing happened ☺️