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adhd, asd, carer, collects hobbies. interested in nearly everything at some point, has little ability to actually get shit done though. two doggos, lots of cats.
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A decade ago the manufacturers of Vegemite teamed up with Cadbury and made this... abomination.
Chocolate 200g bar made by Cadbury but with added Vegemite
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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I was re-reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson and came across this passage:
Extract from Anathem by Neal Stephenson: "...with a clever plan to make more money: they poisoned the well. They began to put crap on the Reticulum deliberately, forcing people to use their products to filter that crap back out. They created syndevs whose sole purpose was to spew crap into the Reticulum. But it had to be good crap." "What is good crap?" Arsibalt asked in a politely incredulous tone. "Well, (italics)bad crap would be an unformatted document consisting of random letters. (italics)good crap would be a beautifully typset, well-written document that contained a hundred correct, verifiable sentences and one that was subtly false. It's a lot harder to generate good crap. At first they had to hire humans to churn it out. They mostly did it by taking legitimate documents and inseriting errors--swapping one name for another, say. But it didn't really take off until the military got interested." "As a tactic for planting misinformation in the enemy's reticules, you mean," Osa said. "This I know about. You are referring to the Artificial Inanity programs of the mid-First Millenium A.R" "Exactly!" Sammann said. "Artificial Inanity systems of enormous sophistication and power were built for exactly the purpose Fraa Osa has mentioned. In no time at all, the praxis leaked to the commercial sector and spread to the Rampant Orphan Botnet Ecologies. Never mind. The point is that there was a sort of Dark Age on the Reticulum that lasted until my Ita forerunners were able to bring the matters in hand"
May 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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My reaction to this news
May 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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April 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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In his followup thread (after locking the other one), he states that he has MORE free speech now and how great it is. Doesn't explain what speech he can do now that he couldn't before.
Post by Sean Kelleher (@jsk5.bsky.social) using his free speech to say: "3/5: trump and maga are abominations, but as a cis, hetero, white guy I have more freedom to say whatever I want in 2025 than I have in years. And you know what, having that freedom is great."
April 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Wait, someone else knows this game exists? I've owned it for ages but never actually played it.
Picture of boardgame box for "Shanghai Trader" by Panther Games. It's pretty old and dingy.
April 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Elon Musk pretending that he know how to use a samurai sword, in front of a US flag and a cow skull.
March 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Image of Steve Crowder in the "Change My Mind" meme-template, but with face obscured and the text "Bigoted, pregnant wife-abusing scum shouldn't be meme templates" added.
February 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM