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David @dxmthemachine.bsky.social · 3h

Oh dear, the Tron Ares reviews aren't looking great, are they?
I'd also like to request Hollywood stop casting Jared Leto. Please.

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David @dxmthemachine.bsky.social · 3h

All too often we spit on the arts in the UK, as if everything created must be in pursuit of money.
But they also conveniently overlook how much damn money the arts actually generate...even if the creators often see very little of it.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 8h

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 6h

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.

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Dan Larson @danlarson.bsky.social · 1d

I got the email notification about this from Spreadshirt last week and promptly deleted my account. If you have one, you should too.

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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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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David @dxmthemachine.bsky.social · 1d

When YODEL state "We have your parcel..." it always sounds like the beginnings of a ransom demand...

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David @dxmthemachine.bsky.social · 1d

Nice to see @profaliceroberts.bsky.social's Domination get pride of place in the Liverpool Waterstone's window display.

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David @dxmthemachine.bsky.social · 1d

Yvw! It's one of my all-time favourites and I'm extremely excited for the sequel! ❤️

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Eel-AIEEEE (Eli, he/they) @elindur.at.app.wafrn.net · 1d

This is just the plastic straw hysteria all over again, and it's ableism at its finest: Blame disabled people instead of the corporations that are actually wrecking our environment, that way to poor widdle CEOs won't have to deal with people telling them to fucking STOP KILLING THE PLANET.

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 1d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds

Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

local12.com

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 1d

Always love a confidently wrong king.

(Also who the fuck censor fucking ?)

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David @dxmthemachine.bsky.social · 1d

Can we also find out if those Club Tropicana drinks are actually free? Because it's been bothering me for a *long* time.

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Grave Dirt Boy @gordbrush.bsky.social · 1d

she is so good at this and I wish every stupid boring prick who wanked on about this being some publicity stunt for her a very fall down a well

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

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David @dxmthemachine.bsky.social · 1d

Control by @remedygames.com still looks incredible, 6 years after its original release.
Also, that HDR support makes a serious improvement to the already superb visuals.

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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David @dxmthemachine.bsky.social · 2d

The garden is getting lots more pigeons, again. So glad to see them once more.

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David @dxmthemachine.bsky.social · 2d

Where as Google tries to change perfectly legitimate words because the one you want to use isn't as commonly utilised.
I feel really in my excellement in this techno-nightmare hell we've curated for ourselves.

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 2d

This. This is what I’m talking about. I mistyped “excellent”, went back two letters to correct it, and now we are apparently going to insist - but really insist - that the most obvious letter combo is “excellemy“.

Bsky post entry box. Text reads: “Oooh! Excellemy!” The last two letters are underlined.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 2d

A four post thread, eloquently reflecting my feelings, along with just about every author I know.

Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 2d

This Anthropic settlement case…fellow authors, are any of you feeling rage? I have 12 books listed and money (I don’t CARE how many thousands, even millions) is NOT adequate compensation. What was stolen & used without my permission is priceless! Where is the option to scrub my work from AI?!

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David @dxmthemachine.bsky.social · 2d

I'm a big supporter of "bonk" and "bonking". Great words.

Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 2d

RIP Jilly Cooper, who almost single-handedly kept alive the words ‘raunchy’, ‘romp’ and ‘bonk’.

David @dxmthemachine.bsky.social · 2d

He's senile, crazy and stupid. Rank said qualities as you see fit.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

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.

David @dxmthemachine.bsky.social · 3d

What a bunch of absolute whoppers 🤦‍♂️

Daniel @deargodwhatnow.bsky.social · 3d

Have to say, this is quite weird

David @dxmthemachine.bsky.social · 3d

I find true beauty within those who can make me laugh.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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David @dxmthemachine.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, I'm gullible as hell. Though I frame it as "naïve" 😅 In the past I've taken very serious offence over things that weren't actually meant seriously as well, I just didn't grasp the meaning of the tone. It makes me feel so silly. No wonder people are exhausting 🤦‍♂️