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Michael Beckwith - Victorian Dark Helmet
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Previously an 8bit Macho Man. Fitness, books, podcasts, webdev. He/Him. Also @uanmovies aka "Up All Night Movies" from twitter.

Links to everything: https://apiratelifefor.me/instalinks/
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Any WordPress people have news about the state of "bits"?
November 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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The job market sucks, and I’m at the end of my rope

CashApp: $BeeDelores

PayPal: [email protected]

Donate 🔗 gofund.me/596fde0bf
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I haven't been on twitter in over a year but it seems like Musk has transformed it into a powerful platform devoted to proving he's the most embarrassing person who's ever lived.
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
Oh fuck off
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Rereading The Running Man, and what a wild fantasy of a dystopian future where nobody has access to healthcare or food and the rich watch the poor die for entertainment.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
It's time to play the music
It's time to light the lights
It's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
My favorite video game series of all time:

1. Metroid
2. Legend of Zelda
November 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Oh no the people at the coffee shop complaining about how their adult kids won't use ChatGPT to make their life’s “easier”. I fear this is more common than I’d like to admit

The amount of people in my life desperately trying to get me to use AI to make my art is weirdly high so I guess I knew this
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Look I’m not one of those crazy Luddites or anything, but this does seem like it could be quite bad www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Australian man encouraged to murder his father by AI chatbot
Experts are calling for new regulations on artificial intelligence chatbots, after a triple j hack investigation uncovered a disturbing example of a chatbot encouraging a man to murder his father whil...
www.abc.net.au
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Love it when accessibility is embraced.

I just want everyone to experience the same joys in life as me, even if they have to take a different path to get there. People deserve to be happy! 😃
November 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Cyndi Lauper delivered a powerful call to action during her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."

Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
November 9, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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hell yeah this is sick
November 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Fuck ICE, Fuck OpenAI
November 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Why should my tax dollars go towards subsidizing a company that is literally known to have a product that successfully convinces desperate and unhappy people to kill themselves? I'd like to know.
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I'm definitely not appealing myself to the Metroid subreddit this weekend and I'm not 100% sure why.
November 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
November 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I have 4 modes of YouTube, and it's a trap to a degree:

1. music video
2. Professional vocal musicians reacting to musical artists/music videos
3. health/fitness influencers reacting to health/fitness influencers
4. Gen-Z basketball fans reacting to NBA players of the 80s/90s.
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Excuse me, @theguardian.com, I'd like to report an error in your headline; this should read "James D Watson, who co-discovered Rosalind Franklin's notebook showing her discovery of DNA's twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
James D Watson, who co-discovered DNA’s twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97
Nobel prize winner shaped medicine, crimefighting and genealogy, but later years marred by racist remarks
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM