Samuel Thomson
@samuelthomson.bsky.social
Lecturer in Game Design | Technical Artist | Artist
Interests include history of creative disciplines and technology.
Artist: http://samuelthomson.org
Technical Artist: http://framelord.ltd
Mastodon: http://mastodon.social/@samuelthomson
they/them
Interests include history of creative disciplines and technology.
Artist: http://samuelthomson.org
Technical Artist: http://framelord.ltd
Mastodon: http://mastodon.social/@samuelthomson
they/them
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I'm fascinated by these imprisoned teasels.
November 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I'm fascinated by these imprisoned teasels.
Marx's ideas on capital accumulation are imminently readable in these dragon-like assemblages that still show evidence of human labour in their construction - bolts need tightening, iron must be cast. It's a lot harder to see the accretion of labour in contemporary tech.
November 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Marx's ideas on capital accumulation are imminently readable in these dragon-like assemblages that still show evidence of human labour in their construction - bolts need tightening, iron must be cast. It's a lot harder to see the accretion of labour in contemporary tech.
RIP Tom Stoppard.
November 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard.
Purely as a mark of the man, the way the Epstein Ballroom cuts into the proportional circularity of the White House lawn is burger du turd.
Imagine the quality of an architect that Trump would pick - and who would want to work for him. Even *that guy* thinks this project is too grandiose.
Even the architect Trump hired to build his massive addition to the White House objects to the president's vision. The two have argued about the size of the 90,000-sq-foot project that would dwarf the mansion. @jonathanreports.bsky.social @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
November 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Purely as a mark of the man, the way the Epstein Ballroom cuts into the proportional circularity of the White House lawn is burger du turd.
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"This is a field execution.. this is a war on occupied people, a war on civilians"
Mustafa Barghouti on the footage that shows Israeli forces executing two unarmed Palestinian men who've just surrendered
Mustafa Barghouti on the footage that shows Israeli forces executing two unarmed Palestinian men who've just surrendered
November 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM
"This is a field execution.. this is a war on occupied people, a war on civilians"
Mustafa Barghouti on the footage that shows Israeli forces executing two unarmed Palestinian men who've just surrendered
Mustafa Barghouti on the footage that shows Israeli forces executing two unarmed Palestinian men who've just surrendered
Sonic Youth
Iggy Pop
Mars Volta
Placebo
Quintron
Iggy Pop
Mars Volta
Placebo
Quintron
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
Billy Joel
"Weird Al" Yankovic
The Offspring
The Mountain Goats
The Protomen
Billy Joel
"Weird Al" Yankovic
The Offspring
The Mountain Goats
The Protomen
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
Tally Hall
Earthbound Papas
Joe Hisaishi
Shelter Tour
“Weird Al” Yankovic
Tally Hall
Earthbound Papas
Joe Hisaishi
Shelter Tour
“Weird Al” Yankovic
November 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Sonic Youth
Iggy Pop
Mars Volta
Placebo
Quintron
Iggy Pop
Mars Volta
Placebo
Quintron
The businessplan is to hide all data retrieval, apps, everything, inside an impenetrable mesh of walled gardens that nobody (perhaps not even engineers - models aren't "engineered" as we've previously understood it) can unpick. Then you're given a slot machine saying "what would you like me to do".
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The businessplan is to hide all data retrieval, apps, everything, inside an impenetrable mesh of walled gardens that nobody (perhaps not even engineers - models aren't "engineered" as we've previously understood it) can unpick. Then you're given a slot machine saying "what would you like me to do".
It can always get worse.
your 14yr old nephew is addicted to at least 4 different gambling apps on his phone where he's actively betting daily on the outcome of individual skirmishes in a real life war happening on the other side of the globe
November 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
It can always get worse.
I reckon he'd catch any thrown ball with one hand. He just has that look about him.
Pope Leo XIV embarked on his first international trip as pontiff on Thursday, traveling to Turkey to start a six-day tour that will also include Lebanon. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
November 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I reckon he'd catch any thrown ball with one hand. He just has that look about him.
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Garry Kasparov at Halifax Security Forum:
"For 4 years, Ukraine has been fighting for the whole of Europe. NATO was created to fight one war — not to go to Afghanistan, not to go to Syria — one war: to save free Europe from Russian aggression.
"For 4 years, Ukraine has been fighting for the whole of Europe. NATO was created to fight one war — not to go to Afghanistan, not to go to Syria — one war: to save free Europe from Russian aggression.
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Garry Kasparov at Halifax Security Forum:
"For 4 years, Ukraine has been fighting for the whole of Europe. NATO was created to fight one war — not to go to Afghanistan, not to go to Syria — one war: to save free Europe from Russian aggression.
"For 4 years, Ukraine has been fighting for the whole of Europe. NATO was created to fight one war — not to go to Afghanistan, not to go to Syria — one war: to save free Europe from Russian aggression.
I completely agree, Ukraine is fighting a war for a Europe that it's not allowed to join, and Brexit was a major operation in that war.
Garry Kasparov at Halifax Security Forum:
"For 4 years, Ukraine has been fighting for the whole of Europe. NATO was created to fight one war — not to go to Afghanistan, not to go to Syria — one war: to save free Europe from Russian aggression.
"For 4 years, Ukraine has been fighting for the whole of Europe. NATO was created to fight one war — not to go to Afghanistan, not to go to Syria — one war: to save free Europe from Russian aggression.
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I completely agree, Ukraine is fighting a war for a Europe that it's not allowed to join, and Brexit was a major operation in that war.
Hating Furrys is a red flag.
This is nuts!
Why is WAPO writing up anyone’s speculation about who the suspect might be?
I get that Laura’s statements and actions are at times newsworthy given her influence on Trump, but no one’s speculation — outside of a government official’s — should be written up this way.
Why is WAPO writing up anyone’s speculation about who the suspect might be?
I get that Laura’s statements and actions are at times newsworthy given her influence on Trump, but no one’s speculation — outside of a government official’s — should be written up this way.
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Hating Furrys is a red flag.
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The thing about companies they are trying to build a industry on customers who are just like this. They will burn out fast and get board as there is nothing to learn and improve and grow on. Just one of the many reasons why it’s a dead end of an industry.
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The thing about companies they are trying to build a industry on customers who are just like this. They will burn out fast and get board as there is nothing to learn and improve and grow on. Just one of the many reasons why it’s a dead end of an industry.
Someone make a European social media site please, everyone's talking about the wrong kinds of pie.
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Someone make a European social media site please, everyone's talking about the wrong kinds of pie.
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Just to add to this I bought a property in Zone 3 in 2001 while earning £30k, which adjusted for inflation is £56k, which is now not buying you a 2-bed flat in E17 unless bank of mum and dad are up for it.
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Just to add to this I bought a property in Zone 3 in 2001 while earning £30k, which adjusted for inflation is £56k, which is now not buying you a 2-bed flat in E17 unless bank of mum and dad are up for it.
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According to a new study from a respected US think tank, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Britain’s decision to leave the EU has meant that its GDP is between 6 per cent and 8 per cent smaller than it would have been.
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
According to a new study from a respected US think tank, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Britain’s decision to leave the EU has meant that its GDP is between 6 per cent and 8 per cent smaller than it would have been.
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I can't wait to see all of my mutuals that play Fortnite regularly to not touch the game for the entirety of the season in solidarity of all of their trans homies! It's so nice knowing so many people that aren't just allies when it's convenient for them! 🙂💖
Hint. Fucking. Hint.
Hint. Fucking. Hint.
Harry Potter x Fortnite coming in Chapter 7
(In other words, Fortnite is adding a transphobic authors work into Fortnite)
#Fortnite #FortniteNews
(In other words, Fortnite is adding a transphobic authors work into Fortnite)
#Fortnite #FortniteNews
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I can't wait to see all of my mutuals that play Fortnite regularly to not touch the game for the entirety of the season in solidarity of all of their trans homies! It's so nice knowing so many people that aren't just allies when it's convenient for them! 🙂💖
Hint. Fucking. Hint.
Hint. Fucking. Hint.
I love the myth of the Cumaean Sybil. A prophet shows up with several books of prophecies, offers them to a king. No sale. She burns three and offers them to the king for the same price. When only one book remains, the king relents. www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...
www.google.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I love the myth of the Cumaean Sybil. A prophet shows up with several books of prophecies, offers them to a king. No sale. She burns three and offers them to the king for the same price. When only one book remains, the king relents. www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...
This is what happens when you rebase your currency on houses.
“UK is costliest country to…”
- build nuclear power
- build fast rail
- build a house
- buy a house
- rent a house
- travel by train
- buy a beer
- power your home
- pay for childcare
- insure a car
- stay in a hotel
- go to the dentist
- buy bog roll
At least some museums are free….
- build nuclear power
- build fast rail
- build a house
- buy a house
- rent a house
- travel by train
- buy a beer
- power your home
- pay for childcare
- insure a car
- stay in a hotel
- go to the dentist
- buy bog roll
At least some museums are free….
UK is costliest country to build new nuclear power, government review warns on.ft.com/48gamUG
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is what happens when you rebase your currency on houses.
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A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
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I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Putin and Trump are trying to sell pieces of Ukraine to their friends, to get rich and weaken Europe. More people in the U.K. need to understand this is as a war we're involved with whether we like it or not. It's not an act of agression to acknowledge that other states want your destruction.
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Putin and Trump are trying to sell pieces of Ukraine to their friends, to get rich and weaken Europe. More people in the U.K. need to understand this is as a war we're involved with whether we like it or not. It's not an act of agression to acknowledge that other states want your destruction.
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Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
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#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
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November 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
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