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On the flesh easting scarabs from the 1999 film The Mummy

"I like a film that has good acting roles for insects" @aptshadow.bsky.social

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Starship Alexandria

The Sci-fi and Fantasy podcast from the best of futures! In this future, humanity has solved its problems and is now sending spaceships from Earth, not in a desperate attempt to escape the apocalypse...

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RedBlueThing @redbluething.bsky.social · 12d

Fake ATO is giving me Aunt Ethel from Baldur's Gate vibes.

Screenshot of phishing email start with "Hello dear,"

RedBlueThing @redbluething.bsky.social · 14d

Test render for my current project. It's quite dark on Shroud.

/cc @aptshadow.bsky.social

#Blender

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RedBlueThing @redbluething.bsky.social · 27d

All gimbal'd up and ready to go.

#Blender

RedBlueThing @redbluething.bsky.social · 28d

Arm is borken #Blender

RedBlueThing @redbluething.bsky.social · 29d

More progress on my Shroud pod. #Blender

Screenshot of pod bod, leg and arm for model of vehicle from Adrian Tchaikovsky's novel 'Shroud'.

RedBlueThing @redbluething.bsky.social · Sep 10

Fingers

RedBlueThing @redbluething.bsky.social · Sep 9

A system I work with uses this file name schema:

<file name prefix>_YYYYDDMM_<postfix>.log

You're welcome.

RedBlueThing @redbluething.bsky.social · Sep 8

New Beths' album is good.

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Straight Line Was A Lie - Album by The Beths

Listen to Straight Line Was A Lie by The Beths on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.

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RedBlueThing @redbluething.bsky.social · Sep 3

"William Robertson in 1888 hated K so much he moved it up to the digit row."

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The primitive tortureboard

Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY

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RedBlueThing @redbluething.bsky.social · Aug 31

"The collar around the pod that had the legs fixed to it, with the main body of the pod designed to pivot freely within it, ensured that we, the occupants, were kept the right way up no matter what" @aptshadow.bsky.social

RedBlueThing @redbluething.bsky.social · Aug 22

"Evidently, these agentic coding tools continue to lack sufficiently secure defaults, design patterns, or systematic defenses that minimize the possibility of impactful prompt injection"

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Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems

In this blog post, we’ll detail how attackers can exploit image scaling on Gemini CLI, Vertex AI Studio, Gemini’s web and API interfaces, Google Assistant, Genspark, and other production AI systems. W...

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RedBlueThing @redbluething.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thanks so much 😅

Btw Planetfall and Split Worlds are amongst my favourite series, so thank you for that.

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RedBlueThing @redbluething.bsky.social · Aug 11

@aptshadow.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social The Master and Commander Starship Alexandria episode was great! Would love to hear what you think of my personal Aubrey Maturin project:

www.cannonade.net

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RedBlueThing @redbluething.bsky.social · Aug 8

Vibechart

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VIBECHART.NET - The Art of Subjective Data Visualization

Vibecharting: To chart based on what you want to see instead of what is true, beautiful, or useful. The art of subjective data visualization.

www.vibechart.net

RedBlueThing @redbluething.bsky.social · Aug 7

Spooky gnome

A render of a my 3D model of the Gnome from the upcoming MMO Pantheon

RedBlueThing @redbluething.bsky.social · Aug 7

Today I logged in to the social media and learned that there is at least one sitting US congress person who believes the government should ban the trails of tiny ice crystals created by passing aircraft...

It upsets me that I felt compelled to include the qualifier "at least".