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D. Bowie, not The Bowie. Failed musician, software dev. Music, Transformers, comics, And a lot of other weird crap. If the band is playing, shut up. Naarm / Melbourne. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈 Bi flag emoji

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Aussie Music Fan 🎶 @aussiemusicfan.bsky.social · 10h

I'm particularly frustrated by coding challenges asking you to solve problems that were solved decades ago and are easily searchable. What are they testing exactly? Memory? I have been wondering how this has all changed with assumed/mandated AI use. I have to go through it all soon.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 1d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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Aussie Music Fan 🎶 @aussiemusicfan.bsky.social · 1d

Lol at the timing of this Anthropic ad I just saw:

Guardian website screenshot of news: Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report

Google news screenshot from Anthropic: Deloitte will make Claude available to 470,000 people across its global network

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Aussie Music Fan 🎶 @aussiemusicfan.bsky.social · 1d

If you don't want me crawling around on the floor like a goblin complaining about my sore knees, don't put your CDs there, Op Shop!

Aussie Music Fan 🎶 @aussiemusicfan.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to Wet Willie air pods next from Apple

Aussie Music Fan 🎶 @aussiemusicfan.bsky.social · 4d

Also Primary supporting? Omg! Might have to check out K's Choice now.

Aussie Music Fan 🎶 @aussiemusicfan.bsky.social · 4d

I got into Skunk Anansie properly slightly too late, just after their 1999 shows, and they've not come back to Australia since, despite reforming in 2009. Big regret (of many) never seeing them live.

Gigs You Missed @gigsyoumissed.bsky.social · 4d

March 1997
Skunk Anansie
/w K's Choice + Primary
29th @ Equinox Festival
30th @ Metro Sydney

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Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 4d

Someone needs to start collecting cassette copies of In Got We Trust, Inc and see what people taped over the B Side.

I've said this for years but I've not got the means to do so

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Tim Bray @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 7d

In which I (probably foolishly) make a bunch of predictions about the future of #genai: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/26/GenAI-Predictions

GenAI Predictions

www.tbray.org

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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 8d

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Productivity commission under fire for failing to consult Australian artists about copyright issues around AI recommendations

Productivity Commission under fire for failing to consult Australian artists about copyright issues around AI recommendations

www.theguardian.com

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Aussie Music Fan 🎶 @aussiemusicfan.bsky.social · 8d

I expect they'd need a lot of these plaques at home 🙂

Aussie Music Fan 🎶 @aussiemusicfan.bsky.social · 8d

My butt is less chiselled I assume

A silver plaque on a wooden table with black writing in all caps stating "John Cena Sat Here"

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Aussie Music Fan 🎶 @aussiemusicfan.bsky.social · 8d

My butt is less chiseled I assume

Aussie Music Fan 🎶 @aussiemusicfan.bsky.social · 11d

I'm sure I've said this before, but the number of betting ads you get on SBS On Demand is obscene

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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · 14d

“This statue you’ve ordered as a memorial for the dead, what did you intend to call it?”

“These Tits Shan’t Be Calmed, Sir.”

Mom for Gliberty @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 14d

Des Moines has you all beat

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Aussie Music Fan 🎶 @aussiemusicfan.bsky.social · 15d

Subtly downgrade a band:
Faith Less Often

Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · 15d

subtly downgrade a band:

They Might Be Slightly Taller Than Average

Emily Rowe @emilyrowe.bsky.social · 15d

Mumbling Heads

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Halloween Name @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 15d

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Aww, dang.

Ron Friedman, ‘Transformers’ and ‘G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero’ Writer, Dies At 93

Ronald I. Friedman, a film and television writer known for his work on "Transformers" and "Fantastic Four," died on September 15.

variety.com

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Halloween Name @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 15d

Forget crediting him with writing Transformers: The Movie. His best Transformers-related accomplishment was convincing Hasbro to add Arcee to the film, and thus sorta-retroactively (because of production timelines) all the Autobot women in the cartoon. He's why we have girl Transformers.

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John Avocado 宇杰 @supercroup.com · 15d

For those who are wondering but can't be bothered looking it up, "paracetamol" and "acetaminophen" are both shortened forms of the same term: para-acetylaminophenol, which is the chemical name of the drug in question. Same like how Peggy and Daisy are both short for Margaret.

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Aussie Music Fan 🎶 @aussiemusicfan.bsky.social · 15d

When I saw Gwar at Soundwave in 2014 they decapitated Tony Abbott on stage, and what scared me most is that I knew they did that at every show, so that meant they'd been cloning him.

jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 15d

this is the funniest possible way to describe GWAR

libs of tiktok melting down that GWAR did a comic bit about killing trump, which they've done with every president for years, as well as a broad range of public figures

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 15d

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

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Aussie Music Fan 🎶 @aussiemusicfan.bsky.social · 16d

Blokees Transformers Galaxy 8 Unicron head almost sits on Super7 prototype Unicron body. That arm just popped off when I picked him up for this photo. Have to find the kragle.

Blokees Transformers Galaxy 8 Unicron buildable model head almost sits on Super7 prototype Unicron body. The head is oversized and looks silly. The body is missing its left arm.

Aussie Music Fan 🎶 @aussiemusicfan.bsky.social · 17d

Sludge's eyes do the thing. Are you happy now you weirdos?

Transformers Blokees Galaxy 8 Sludge in both robot mode and dinosaur mode. The dinosaur mode has googly eyes like the movie when he's stepped on. He's being stepped on in the photo by Sky Lynx, who's mouth is open, loling. Robot mode Sludge is gesturing at dinosaur mode sludge with an open palm. In the background is hints of more Dinobots.