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eviŁrooster

@evilrooster.bsky.social

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Dual US/UK techie living in the Netherlands. Technical writer and contagious documentarian by day, bookbinder by night. My opinions are my own, and do not reflect those of anyone who employs, hangs out with, or is in any other way stuck with me.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 10h

Funny time for the search function to stop working, all things considered.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

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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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 11h

I’m seeing other people saying it’s broken in my timeline.

eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 12h

Sounds like what people who want to enable harassment say about dating.

Same issue, too: consent.

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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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 12h

Classics is deeply embedded in the British elites.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 15h

But will they tackle the ultimate useless degree, Classics?

(NB: I have a BA in Latin.)

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 16h

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 1d

Pinterest spam is getting out of hand.

Image of my Pinterest feed with all of the ads hidden. There's barely anything left.

eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 1d

I do it with my sister every week. It does help my focus.

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Tony Lee @pigasuspress.bsky.social · 1d

Social-media has become a shitstorm, doing for the Web what climate-change has done for the planet.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 2d

He probably didn’t mean you might like to buy it.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 2d

Not a seasonal name change, but a timely one.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 2d

Would make a great "wrong answers only" thread (Vera, Chuck, and Jane)

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 2d

It is now.

eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 2d

I find them both impressive in different ways.

eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 2d

A big difference between social media and a privately owned blog is the degree to which lèse-majesté is a necessary check rather than a bannable offense.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 3d

I’m afraid for winter. Where will they release people in a blizzard? Are they going to go the Starlight Tours route?

Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 3d

Today, I drove an hour and a half with my wife and a couple friends to pick up a neighbor who was summarily, inexplicably arrested by ICE at a check-in ten days ago and then just as inexplicably released, 100 miles from home today. It was a happy occasion, all things considered, but...

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 3d

Reading the “criticizing AI is bigotry” discourse and folks, that looks like DARVO (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO) to me.

DARVO - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 4d

Tails would never.

a cartoon of tails and cosmo standing next to each other in a room

Alt: a cartoon of tails and cosmo standing next to each other in a room

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 4d

The pope’s confessor.
I’ve done that role.

julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 4d

the most important person in the infrastructure of any social network/forum is not the mod, but the other mod that doesn't have as much power as the main mod but can talk to the other mod and convince them to turn the forums back on when they go postal

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 4d

Everything the senator said about the Netherlands is true. Especially the bikes.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 4d

I live in the Netherlands and do that twice a day for my commute!

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 5d

#FridayFan - just a gorgeous autumnal sunset scallop #Beachcombing

A very large scallop shell, in shades of ombre orange and brown, on dark wet sand

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churchtimes.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: The next Archbishop of Canterbury is to be the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, the Bishop of London since 2018, Downing Street has announced. She is to be the first woman to hold the post

#archbishopofcanterbury #nextABC #Archbishop106

www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

First woman appointed to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury

The Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, has been announced as the next Primate of All England

www.churchtimes.co.uk

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 6d

Always RT the German Soup Scene.

Micah @rincewind.run · 6d

we are but inches from a return to publishers inserting soup ads directly into the text again

(yes, this is a real thing, it happened to Terry Pratchett in Germany)

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 6d

But…horizontally, vertically, or diagonally?

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