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Tony Zaret @tonyzaret.bsky.social · 2h

Anime is no longer just for “weeabos.” #anime

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evan @evanonline.bsky.social · 1d

kids choice awards 2016 promo image of mario, luigi and paper mario's DMs.

Luigi: What do you guys think about getting slimed?

Mario: Mama mia! I've always wanted to get slimed!

Paper Mario: ✔️

Mario: Sometimes I wish there was slime in the question mark blocks.

Luigi: Really?

Paper Mario: 😃

Mario: How AWESOME would that be!

screencap of Sonic's instagram DMs with Luigi.

Luigi: Hey Sonic been a while. Need to warn you about my bro. He heard youre doing Olympics without us and hes even madder at you.

Sonic: man hes always like this. hes so cool but WE always need to go to HIS place. same reason i didnt invite him to go karting!!! he would have said no anyway

Luigi: I agree man, Im sorry. Hes really mad at Mega Man Pac-Man and Joker too not just you. The thing he's really mad about is that you guys got Slime in your item boxes though.

Sonic: what????

Luigi: Yeah we went to the Kids Choice Awards once a few years ago and he wouldnt stop talking about the Slime. Next time you see him dont mention Slime at all. Im serious

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sleepr @sleeprhit.bsky.social · 4h

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sleepr @sleeprhit.bsky.social · 5h

's Wanster.

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sleepr @sleeprhit.bsky.social · 5h

Wankenstein.

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Kernighan says FREE LINK @kernighan.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, this is all very important context that was missing from the initial post from the moderator. Again goes back to why you note they need a PR person who handles this.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

Ok this seems pretty explicit. Hive is not training its AI on your images on Bluesky (that we know of) because Bluesky is not paying them for that.

june $2118/$3900 @juneever.green · 2d

it’s in their terms of service. it’s not part of the product bluesky pays for. hive will train a custom model on customer-provided data if that’s what a customer pays for but it’s not part of the moderation labeling service.

june $2118/$3900 @juneever.green · 2d

the hive terms of service (not privacy policy, that policy doesn't cover their products only the data of their customers) state that customers can provide data to train a custom model. it does not state that all content processed by their classification service is used to train the generative model.

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sleepr @sleeprhit.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit. Bubby.

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Tanooki (Commissions are Closed) @tano0ki.bsky.social · 1d

BUBSY SWEEP BIIIIITCH!!!!!!

NinEverything @nineverything.bsky.social · 1d

Nintendo Switch Online has just received Mario & Wario, Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, Fatal Fury Special https://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-switch-online-has-just-received-mario-wario-bubsy-in-claws-encounters-of-the-furred-kind-fatal-fury-special/

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sleepr @sleeprhit.bsky.social · 1d

I would buy a $2 next-gen console.

NESbot @nesbot.bsky.social · 1d

Would you buy a $1000 next-gen console?
www.resetera.com/threads/13...

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scracchin @scracch1n.bsky.social · 28d

nobody asked but here's an arcade mockup of Donkey Kong Jr. Math

the original Donkey Kong Jr. Math for NES, screenshot from mobygames

my mockup of Donkey Kong Jr. Math running on Donkey Kong Jr.'s arcade hardware

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Sharb 🏳️‍⚧️ @firengames.com · Apr 1

I had this leak'd to me, the leaker was trans so they wanted me to post this on transday of visibility for maximum visibility, apparently pacman 2 re-pac got canceled???

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Tanooki (Commissions are Closed) @tano0ki.bsky.social · 1d

Bruiser if he brawl

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小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp · 1d

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sleepr @sleeprhit.bsky.social · 1d

Is search just broken here for anyone else, regardless of the terms used? I can't find anything now, when all I really want is some actual clarification on whether Bluesky's usage of Hive *actually* constitutes generative AI model training, as the latter company promotes it on their site.

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sleepr @sleeprhit.bsky.social · 2d

Praying it's *just* for moderation like people say it is but unless one of them comes out and says it, I have to treat this like our shit *is* being used to generate AI "content" as well.

The possibility is clearly there, and I have reason not to trust Bluesky when their reps are purposely vague.

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sleepr @sleeprhit.bsky.social · 2d

Came here to say basically this.

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sleepr @sleeprhit.bsky.social · 2d

Quitting social media altogether is still on the table I guess. I don't know how much I want to.

I'm always being reminded I *should* make a website for myself too but I want to *actually talk to people* as well, not just infrequently release long-ass blog posts about some niche topic I'm into.

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sleepr @sleeprhit.bsky.social · 2d

Tumblr probably wouldn't be... the worst option? I'm hearing a lot about Mastodon which honestly maybe should have taken off instead of Bluesky but here we are.

Problem with Mastodon is it's even *less* mentioned in the wild than Bluesky, and people already don't use Bluesky as-is Because Numbers.

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sleepr @sleeprhit.bsky.social · 2d

If I ever have to go back to posting on Twitter after basically nuking my presence there I'd be so fucking embarrassed. I almost wish I could go back in time to last year just to show myself how badly managed this site would become.

God, like I am BEGGING Bluesky to get their fucking shit together.

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sleepr @sleeprhit.bsky.social · 2d

It would be one thing if Bluesky were clear that our media isn't being used for generative AI specifically, but I have yet to see a definitive confirmation one way or the other. Hive are literally out here saying they offer the ability to Generate Content™ though so like, which is it Bluesky?

sleepr @sleeprhit.bsky.social · 2d

bsky.app/profile/kati...

Screenshot of a Bluesky reply from Aaron Rodericks, self-proclaimed "Head of Trust and Safety" posted on 7 October, 2025 at 10:50 AM.

"thehive [dot] ai evaluates all images posted to the site. We don't actually provide any input."

Beneath the text is an embed link for the aforementioned "Hive" service.

"AI to Understand, Search, and Generate Content | Hive"

"Hive's APIs enable developers to integrate pre-trained AI models that address technically challenging content understanding needs into their applications."

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 2d

everyone on bluesky is public. everything is being scraped by the slop farm companies regardless of bluesky's involvement, and even if bluesky wasn't so public, it'd still be illegally scrapped anyway. not everyone internalizes that

but when you KNOW how people (artists the most) feel about AI? wyd

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sleepr @sleeprhit.bsky.social · 2d

bsky.app/profile/kati...

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sleepr @sleeprhit.bsky.social · 2d

I'm just saying, the thing that pushed me to leave Twitter was them force feeding everyone's posts into Grok The AI Mecha-Hitler.

Guess who finally found out Bluesky appears to be doing The Exact Same Fucking Thing but through some third party called Hive.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 2d

"we don't use your data for training AI, we just feed it to these other bozos who we don't even even provide any input on for the quality of their model or tuning for our site"

IT'S BEYOND OPTICS AT THIS POINT. HOW ARE THERE MORE RAKES

magic the gathering card art for "cast into darkness" of a man holding his head screaming

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