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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 6h

RINZLE ME THIS, TRON!

Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 16h

Standing next to popular character Green Dude. Don’t know who that is, but clearly People Love Him.

Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 16h

Phantom Rider Marvel Legend figure! First Western character to get an ML in, what, 22 years now?

preternia @preternia.com · 16h

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 21h

Oh damn, I think I might have been swayed on those Jada Street Fighter figures. Weird that it was Balrog that did it though.

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Sb @xtasbe.bsky.social · 1d

Marry, fuck, kill? You're not allowed to kill yourself

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 1d

Catawiki (a French auction site) wouldn't let me list some genuine 70s French comic production art - because they didn't think it was valuable enough to generate any interest - yet they're happily flooding their animation art category with prints of openly AI slop like this.

www.catawiki.com

Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 1d

The authoritarian take-over of the FIA is relatively small potatoes but text book power grabbing.
Any Presidential candidate needs 7 regional vice presidents on their ballot. But these need to be pre-approved by the FIA and only one S American has been. And they support the incumbent. So no election

Ben Sulayem unopposed? Big FIA presidential race twist explained

The battle for the FIA presidency has taken a twist, with incumbent Mohammed Ben Sulayem on course to be unopposed because it now appears impossible for rivals to qualify to stand against him

www.the-race.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

In some ways this is the government now

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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 1d

Ah so cool. I love the Gengar especially.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 1d

a bksy dev following the Heritage Foundation would be an unpleasant surprise if you didn't know this place was created by and for libertarian crypto bros, and all the good things about it are an unintended consequence they have been trying to "fix" for the last year

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 1d

Sick!

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Silversprite @silversprite.bsky.social · Sep 17

On an evening bus out of Worcester. A stoned passenger is sitting on the back seat, playing a flute. The driver just audibly muttered "When the fuck is Tom Bombadil getting off my bus".

We journey on, into the darkness. With musical accompaniment.

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Jon Hance @jhance.bsky.social · 2d

Ok, this is just funny.

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Russell Hillman (but said in a spooky voice) @allhellismrsun.bsky.social · 3d

Keith Urban claims that Nicole Kidman wanted too much sex.

We can all relate to that. That is such a common problem - your wife, a woman generally considered to be one of the most attractive in the world, wants to sleep with you all the time. We've all been there.

He has my every sympathy.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 3d

The way SNL venerates its own creative process is always so funny.
“Every week the threshold for new sketches is so high. You can literally die in the writers room”.
::repeats a character sketch from two weeks previous beat for beat::

It is occasionally very funny though.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 3d

Very cool!

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 3d

The demand for AI is artificial. The demand for a demand in AI is a category-5 hurricane.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3d

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> Lol the timing; I work in IT for a large publishing company - and my god the meetings with microsoft sales team is all AI AI AI COPILOT COPILOT COPILOT.
> I had to flat out tell their VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO

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Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether.

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI

Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…

pivot-to-ai.com

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 4d

the hardest part of living in Portland is having your house burn down every single night and then having to rebuild it during the day. the amount of money i spend just in drywall is insane.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 3d

Those look great!

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🦇🤘 Rigg-or mortis 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 4d

British people over 40 watching this:

Awwwww Vincent is such a wholesome horror uncle, we love him, he's such a bi icon

*video hits 50 seconds *

... WHAT THE FUCK???!!!

*everyone British and over 40 collapses in hysterics *

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 4d

Special bonus feature:

"America Screams" with Vincent Price (1981)

YouTube video by Mondo A-Go-Go Video

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 3d

And yet they didn't even time the weird gong noise to the kid hitting the test your strength target!

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hayden johnson @haydenjohnsonn.bsky.social · 14d

every AI ad is like

“hey gemini, what would i have for lunch?”

and then the phone is like

“sandwich”

and the guy is like

“wow”

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 4d

Angela Rippon is another member of the “surprisingly bad Pointless co-hosts” club. She’s not listening to people and her lack of chemistry with Xander is painful to watch.