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rabagast
@rabagast.bsky.social
· Oct 17
followers i haven't followed back yet, there are more of you than i'm used to and i'm a bit overwhelmed (i'm easily overwhelmed). it's not personal and i generally do follow back if we interact, but if i don't do it right away, i tend to forget. i appreciate you all (except the musk impersonators).
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Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
December 4, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
found yet another chatGPT-invented entry from that botched translation today, this one had also been published.
i have initiated further clarification of our AI policy to keep this from happening again. my coworker who did this spent all day either unaware or pretending to be unaware he fucked up.
i have initiated further clarification of our AI policy to keep this from happening again. my coworker who did this spent all day either unaware or pretending to be unaware he fucked up.
more fun with that chatgpt translation: turns out the bot invented a table entry in translation. that my coworkers added to our database and went ahead and published. i just discovered this now while doing human translation.
i'd be so embarrased if i'd been involved in letting this happen.
i'd be so embarrased if i'd been involved in letting this happen.
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
found yet another chatGPT-invented entry from that botched translation today, this one had also been published.
i have initiated further clarification of our AI policy to keep this from happening again. my coworker who did this spent all day either unaware or pretending to be unaware he fucked up.
i have initiated further clarification of our AI policy to keep this from happening again. my coworker who did this spent all day either unaware or pretending to be unaware he fucked up.
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dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
watching the dr who season from earlier this year, and that handsome young officer with the nuclear football in a house of dynamite being a dr who villain sure adds some layers to both.
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
watching the dr who season from earlier this year, and that handsome young officer with the nuclear football in a house of dynamite being a dr who villain sure adds some layers to both.
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fun fact: the borg collective is technically entirely voluntary, but it only lets you choose "assimilate me later" as an option so most people just end up going for it right away to avoid the annoying popups
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
fun fact: the borg collective is technically entirely voluntary, but it only lets you choose "assimilate me later" as an option so most people just end up going for it right away to avoid the annoying popups
oh dang
Many Rivers To Cross
YouTube video by Jimmy Cliff - Topic
music.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
oh dang
[V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
YouTube video by USGS
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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wow you just decided to yeet the goalposts right into the sun, huh?
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
wow you just decided to yeet the goalposts right into the sun, huh?
can people who realized they inadvertently paid $10 or whatever it was to read a poem of sorts (i'm being very generous here) describing RFK jr's sex fantasies get a refund? there's going to be a lot of eye bleach and therapy required to deal with the psychic damage.
November 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
can people who realized they inadvertently paid $10 or whatever it was to read a poem of sorts (i'm being very generous here) describing RFK jr's sex fantasies get a refund? there's going to be a lot of eye bleach and therapy required to deal with the psychic damage.
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In 1945, the US Army put out a training manual intended to help rank and file soldiers spot incipient fascism in the US. One of the telltale signs that one was dealing with a fascist was that they called everyone to their left "a communist." bsky.app/profile/seth...
The third fascistic tactic to watch out for is their tendency to label anyone they disagree with who is to their left "a Communist." Fascists claim that they alone can save their nations from "the communist menace." Anyway, the 2024 GOP platform contains the phrase "Christ-hating communists."
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In 1945, the US Army put out a training manual intended to help rank and file soldiers spot incipient fascism in the US. One of the telltale signs that one was dealing with a fascist was that they called everyone to their left "a communist." bsky.app/profile/seth...
woke up to the first snow of the season. blech. it'll take care of itself, air temperature is above freezing and there's rain coming later today and tomorrow. maybe not so great driving conditions on the road, but i'm not driving anywhere anyway.
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
woke up to the first snow of the season. blech. it'll take care of itself, air temperature is above freezing and there's rain coming later today and tomorrow. maybe not so great driving conditions on the road, but i'm not driving anywhere anyway.
nei. iran vudrerer å flytte *selve hovedstaden* på grunn av vannmangel. og det er noe helt annet enn å flytte *til* hovedstaden, som er en ganske vanlig ting for folk å gjøre og ville ha begrenset nyhetsverdi.
www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/gka...
www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/gka...
November 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
nei. iran vudrerer å flytte *selve hovedstaden* på grunn av vannmangel. og det er noe helt annet enn å flytte *til* hovedstaden, som er en ganske vanlig ting for folk å gjøre og ville ha begrenset nyhetsverdi.
www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/gka...
www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/gka...
i hope in a few years we can look back at this and say hey, remember 2025, that year was weird af.
and not like 2016 that we all thought at the time was the worst year ever and then it turned out it was just the warm-up.
and not like 2016 that we all thought at the time was the worst year ever and then it turned out it was just the warm-up.
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
i hope in a few years we can look back at this and say hey, remember 2025, that year was weird af.
and not like 2016 that we all thought at the time was the worst year ever and then it turned out it was just the warm-up.
and not like 2016 that we all thought at the time was the worst year ever and then it turned out it was just the warm-up.
hey, anyone remember how through the 1st trump presidency he kept replacing staff and cabinet members so frequently there were memes about it and scaramucci and stuff, and have i been missing it or has he actually not been doing that this time around?
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
hey, anyone remember how through the 1st trump presidency he kept replacing staff and cabinet members so frequently there were memes about it and scaramucci and stuff, and have i been missing it or has he actually not been doing that this time around?
20 days. and he's writing a bloody memoir about it.
i'm gonna write two memoirs about that time i had a cold for 6 weeks and didn't go out much, that's twice as long as sarkozy was in jail so i reckon that's got to be enough material for two memoirs about staying inside.
i'm gonna write two memoirs about that time i had a cold for 6 weeks and didn't go out much, that's twice as long as sarkozy was in jail so i reckon that's got to be enough material for two memoirs about staying inside.
Nicolas Sarkozy to write prison memoir on his 20 days in jail
Former French president complains about noise in extract from A Prisoner’s Diary, to be released next month
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
20 days. and he's writing a bloody memoir about it.
i'm gonna write two memoirs about that time i had a cold for 6 weeks and didn't go out much, that's twice as long as sarkozy was in jail so i reckon that's got to be enough material for two memoirs about staying inside.
i'm gonna write two memoirs about that time i had a cold for 6 weeks and didn't go out much, that's twice as long as sarkozy was in jail so i reckon that's got to be enough material for two memoirs about staying inside.
i've deep-cleaned my bathroom. and now i can't take a shower because that'll mess it all up again.
November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
i've deep-cleaned my bathroom. and now i can't take a shower because that'll mess it all up again.
coworkers telling me they can't get chatgpt to work today. oh no. what do you do when you've outsourced your thinking and now your brain's gone offline.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
coworkers telling me they can't get chatgpt to work today. oh no. what do you do when you've outsourced your thinking and now your brain's gone offline.
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I am merely a collection of stardust molded into a semiconscious bag of goo forced to make meaning out of existence while remembering to hydrate.
March 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I am merely a collection of stardust molded into a semiconscious bag of goo forced to make meaning out of existence while remembering to hydrate.
so for christmas this year, my employer is doing AI versions of our profile photos. for a few different reasons, i don't have a profile photo, so they let me know today that if i wanted to participate i'd need to supply a photo.
thanks but no thanks, i do not want to participate. i want to scream.
thanks but no thanks, i do not want to participate. i want to scream.
November 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
so for christmas this year, my employer is doing AI versions of our profile photos. for a few different reasons, i don't have a profile photo, so they let me know today that if i wanted to participate i'd need to supply a photo.
thanks but no thanks, i do not want to participate. i want to scream.
thanks but no thanks, i do not want to participate. i want to scream.
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Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
work meeting today was ...interesting. our team leader introduced a new CMS feature that had recently been tested by coworker D. coworker D then denied any knowledge of this feature and had no recollection of ever testing it.
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
work meeting today was ...interesting. our team leader introduced a new CMS feature that had recently been tested by coworker D. coworker D then denied any knowledge of this feature and had no recollection of ever testing it.
buying household bleach from the online grocery store and at the top of the bleach related search results there's a large button daying "show all recipe search results" ie for the recipes with bleach.
i clicked it and there weren't any recipes but idk, maybe that button shouldn't display for bleach
i clicked it and there weren't any recipes but idk, maybe that button shouldn't display for bleach
November 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
buying household bleach from the online grocery store and at the top of the bleach related search results there's a large button daying "show all recipe search results" ie for the recipes with bleach.
i clicked it and there weren't any recipes but idk, maybe that button shouldn't display for bleach
i clicked it and there weren't any recipes but idk, maybe that button shouldn't display for bleach
today i have done the christmas shopping. i can now ignore the whole thing for the next 5 weeks, then i'll get some wrapping paper and ribbons from the grocery store and make sure my dress is clean. maybe tweeze my eyebrows for the occasion if i'm feeling festive.
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
today i have done the christmas shopping. i can now ignore the whole thing for the next 5 weeks, then i'll get some wrapping paper and ribbons from the grocery store and make sure my dress is clean. maybe tweeze my eyebrows for the occasion if i'm feeling festive.
ok so i guess we're having another one of those weeks.
i have spent too much of this week regretting that i ever learned to read. if people are going to insist on being this awful, can they at least please stop documenting it in writing?
November 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
ok so i guess we're having another one of those weeks.
did i ever mention the time i saw when harry met sally with my grandma, who thought harry and sally were extremely fucking silly people taking 12 years to figure things out. my grandma married at age 19 and was, as far as i know, reasonably happily married for 72 years.
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
did i ever mention the time i saw when harry met sally with my grandma, who thought harry and sally were extremely fucking silly people taking 12 years to figure things out. my grandma married at age 19 and was, as far as i know, reasonably happily married for 72 years.