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Dr Chris McKillop
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🇨🇦 Human. Cat lover. Nature lover. Responsible & ethical AI. Yes, I have a degree in AI. Lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 🇨🇦
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manningkrull.bsky.social
The best present? An alligators present. This holiday season, give your loved ones the gift of alligators. 🐊🎁🎄
A sign that says "Caution. Alligators present. Please do not feed wildlife." The metal sign is painted green and white. There's a silhouette of an alligator in the middle. In the background behind the sign is the surface of the bayou and some greenery.
December 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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smolrobots.bsky.social
On the fifth day of Christmas, my Bigbot gave to me...

FIIIIIVE GOOOOOLD RINGBOTS!!!!

#12BotsofChristmasRemastered
A human hand sporting five gold-coloured Ringbots, each consisting of a spherical body with a face and a banded loop encircling the finger. Most of them are smiling, but the one on the middle finger is asleep and the one on the little finger looks a bit upset. The hand's skin is deep tan and has painted red nails. Text in the bottom right reads, "12 'BOTS OF CHRISTMAS REMASTERED" in alternating red and green letters.
December 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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sarahseeandersen.bsky.social
The image is of a comic. Panel one depicts Santa Claus. He says, "Have you been naughty or nice?" Panel two depicts a happy dog. He says, "I am ALWAYS a good boy." Santa responds "Very nice!" Panel three depicts Santa again. He says "...And you?" Panel four depicts an orange cat climbing a Christmas tree, turning his head to look back at Santa.
December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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rnib.bsky.social
Deck your posts with stunning alt text, fa la la la la, la la la la 🎁
December 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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themerl.bsky.social
It's a beautiful day. We just dropped new merch for the first time in a year.

merl-shop.co.uk

(and, yes: we ship internationally!)

🧵
Merch for The Museum of English Rural Life. Each item - a tote bag, a mug, and two coasters - is adorned with an artwork of a mouse riding a lobster, holding a scroll decorated with the device of The Museum of English Rural Life.
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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katrafiy.bsky.social
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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thebeaverton.com
Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
VEVEY, SWITZERLAND - Nestlé executives gathered from around the world to announce their grave concern regarding the impact that artificial intelligence’s water consumption will have on their own abili...
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November 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
chrismckillop.bsky.social
Tis the season for mice to move into your house and wake you up at 2am. Little cute furry bastards.
a hamster is standing on its hind legs and looking at the camera .
Alt: A mouse staring at you and waving. Caption is - hello there.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
chrismckillop.bsky.social
The damage was caused by removing the eyes. They shouldn’t have removed them.
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
chrismckillop.bsky.social
The tech bros just want data for their models. Us humans are expendable.
November 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
chrismckillop.bsky.social
Oh FFS - not again 🤦‍♀️
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
chrismckillop.bsky.social
Opinionated prick who stalks people and films them without consent for his own gratification.
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
chrismckillop.bsky.social
There are many other drinks out there. Time to boycott all AI slop companies.
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Nov 3
Coca-Cola's annual Christmas commercial is AI-generated again

The company used even fewer people to make it this year

“We need to keep moving forward and pushing the envelope … The genie is out of the bottle, and you’re not going to put it back in"

(via THR)
November 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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korybing.bsky.social
I hadn’t considered this particular flavor of AI hell and now I’m mad all over again
susannashore.bsky.social Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · Nov 4
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
chrismckillop.bsky.social
This witch awaits the snotty-nosed little children who dare to come to her coven wanting sweeties.
Me, woman, wearing wide-brimmed black hat encircled with red roses, black veil, black face mask, with golden hair tumbling over shoulders as I give some mean side eye that would turn any child into a newt for the cauldron.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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dlbowman76.com
One of the best malapropisms I have ever heard was a reference to a "data suppository" instead of "data repository".

"Hey David could you check out the code?"
"Sure, let me fetch some latex gloves."
October 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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gahsyqx.bsky.social
Because of its history in aviation pioneering, Gander airport was given the honour to have its name assigned to a 39 Km crater on Mars by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) . View of crater on Mars by NASA
October 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
chrismckillop.bsky.social
Yup - that’s exactly how I feel.
noethematt.bsky.social Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · Oct 28
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
chrismckillop.bsky.social
Goodbye internet.
morungos.bsky.social Stuart Watt @morungos.bsky.social · Oct 23
Google AI doing terribly here. It appears to claim the osprey is actually a wader, because it eats fish. Not a raptor at all. For some reason the kestrel is too. The nuthatch is also wrong.

Ospreys with a long pointed beak. lol. 🤣
A tile of four images. Upper left is an osprey in flight, with a small hooked beak. Upper right is a lesser yellowlegs, a sandpiper wading bird with a long straight beak. Below the osprey, the text is a bullet point from AI reading “Osprey: The official bird of Nova Scotia, the osprey has a long, pointed beak used for catching fish” Below the lesser yellowlegs, is a screen cap excerpt from Google AI. The full text is as follows: “Al Overview Birds with long, thin beaks in Nova Scotia include the Great Blue Heron, which is a common and large wading bird, the Northern Flicker, a common woodpecker, and the White-breasted Nuthatch, a smaller forest-dwelling bird. Other birds with long, thin beaks include the American Kestrel and various other wading birds like the osprey.”
October 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
chrismckillop.bsky.social
A very sad article.
October 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
chrismckillop.bsky.social
The pterodactyl returns to Nova Scotia after a very long absence.
Photo of heron just as it lands with wings curled slightly like a billowing cloak. It stands upright on a bed of pickerel weeds on a lake, showing its gangly legs and slim body. It’s stance and mean stare look rather prehistoric.
October 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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🤦‍♀️
October 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social Fleetwood Emacs @histoftech.bsky.social · Oct 18
This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/
PROFESSORS RESPONSE @lia #anatomy #ai #fyp #chatgpt #anatomyandphysiology
TikTok video by lia
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October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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adamlcox.bsky.social
Proposal: instead of giving ChatGPT tens of billions of dollars to fail to create artificial intelligence, give me, an Actual Intelligence, a mere $10 million and I will gladly do a spreadsheet wrong for you from time to time for a modest fee.
October 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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drskyskull.bsky.social
Historians are gonna have such a weird time talking about this moment in history
Two people wearing inflatable hippo costumes with a sign “Hippos for Democracy”
October 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM