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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 16h

@spamcan.bsky.social Got a bit of that awk with the conbook from my first furry con (CFz 2010). Cover of that one was by a pre-outwardly-fashy Roarey Raccoon. 😬

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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 1d

My general dislike for Bluesky and that I ultimately bailed on using it within a couple of months feels more justified by the day. https://mastodon.social/@timberwraith/115335393111122899

timberwraith (@[email protected])

Wow. This is a rather comprehensive, revealing exposé of how Bluesky's administration has abused its marginalized users. I'm actually astounded at how bad things are. I don't have a Bluesky account. So, I have been removed from the happenings over there. Holy cow. https://plutopsyche.medium.com/blueskys-ceo-meltdown-how-leadership-continues-to-fail-its-most-marginalized-users-8bfa7a8824b4

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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 1d

Also this presentation that includes a bit about how use of generative AI at basically any level of service design and development ultimately creates stagnation and failure to design or build useful things.

https://mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dynamics-after-ai/

Team dynamics after AI

Small giants and real giants

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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 1d

[Vaguely gross analogy about gen AI]

Zelda Williams description of generative AI content, and the people who enjoy making/consuming it, being the equivalent of the people at the rear of the Human Centipede, really feels quite apt.

Just guzzling down the ground up, averaged-out, and what out […]

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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 1d

In Sweden is it called the Äpple jagFon?

beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 1d

The Tracey’s have these elaborate suit-up sequences that deposit them directly into the Thunderbirds, but anytime they have anyone joining them, those people get there just as quickly using like… an elevator or something.

Thunderbirds is silly.

beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 1d

Mainly because it's a lot of transliterating English words to Swedish, and I imagine a lot of people don't actually write or speak like that.

beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 1d

Jag tycker inläning svenska av boken är okej, med inte bra för talar naturligt.

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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 3d

Det är söndag i dag. Skrämmande, jag vet.

beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 3d

[Fedi meta]

I've seen literally ∞× more people complaining about people on the fediverse potentially being mean (like 15) than people on the fediverse actually being mean (0).

Maybe it's just a sign that y'all got to curate your spaces better.

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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 4d

Average GIC waiting times in:
England - 12 years
Wales - 2 years
Scotland - 58 years
Northern Ireland - 41 years

The longest estimated wait time of any one clinic is 224 years.

Rather feels like the gender clinic system is a little broken, doesn’t it? […]

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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 4d

Unsurprisingly, the age assurance part of the Online Safety Act has already led to people’s IDs being stolen in a data breach. https://www.theverge.com/news/792032/discord-customer-service-data-breach-hack

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

www.theverge.com

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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 5d

Been watching a bit of kids TV today (I realised I never finished all of Thunderbirds Are Go) and, y’know, it’s always been pretty weird how many kids toys, and thus kids advertising, is scatological.

Some people are so persnickety about kids seeing even mildly weird stuff and yet that’s just […]

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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 5d

[Death]

Huh, randomly encountered a photo of Ent alongside a former co-worker of several years, seemingly taken not long before he passed away.

It's a small world.

beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 6d

@spamcan.bsky.social No idea if you'll have seen this but it might be up your alley some

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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 6d

Tame Impala designed a synthesiser and advertised it with Matt Berry and Jermaine Clement. It's got aesthetic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbO1z13WP8o

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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 6d

Rewatched EEAAO for like the seventh time and still ugly cried on like five separate occassions.

I love this film.

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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 6d

Watching Everything Everywhere All At Once again.

It's such a wonderful film. If you haven't seen it, try to. Like, seriously, make time for and put effort into seeing it. It's life changing.

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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 7d

★ New blog post: Generative AI is kind of bad

I'm probably late to the party on this one but I'm pretty much at the end of my tether with people and corporations pushing this shit down our throats, so I wanted to rant a little.

https://beeps.website/blog/2025-10-01-generative-ai-is-just-kinda-bad/

Generative AI is kind of bad

Can we get straight to the point here?

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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 7d

★ New blog post: Generative AI is kind of bad

I'm probably late to the party on this one but I'm pretty much at the end of my tether with people and corporations pushing this shit down our throats, so I wanted to rant a little.

https://beeps.website/blog/2025-10-01-generative-ai-is-just-kinda-bad/

Generative AI is kind of bad

Can we get straight to the point here?

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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 7d

Face laser day is a fun day because I get to smell burning non-stop for like 18 hours.

Also some of my hair follicles exploded this time, apparently?

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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 7d

What in the crossover episode is this?? https://youtu.be/G-TFX2-qARk

beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 8d

[Dream log]

I just had a totally original dream about a British boarding school for fantasy creatures except the school looked like a 1960s combined primary and secondary, and anyone could attend if they passed an entry interview.

The school was really big on freedom of form so new students […]

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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 8d

Bat month?
Bat month.

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beeps :ash_tail: @beeps.gay · 8d

<nextid> might be the most interesting one that I found, if just that it was the first HTML element to be made obsolete, being deprecated in HTML 2.0 and removed in 2.3.

It generated automatic anchors for page headings in the NeXT web editor developed by Tim Berners-Lee.

A write up of it is […]

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