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@alunbweird.bsky.social
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He/him. Elder millenial. Cameras, cartoons, heavy metal, books, nerdy stuff. Liberty, human rights. British, European. Health professional. No Tories/TERFs/AI/Crypto chuds/other bastards. https://www.tideoptics.com/?ref=aevIv3XN discount code: ALUNB
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us.theconversation.com
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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indivisible.org
(below an image of Pedro Pascal) “I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” - Pedro Pascal
November 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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heyitsmyles.bsky.social
Did you know that big studios monitor piracy? Don't you fucking dare pirate this shit. Do not hate watch through piracy. JK Rowling is a disgusting human being that funds and encourages the hurt, pain and death of my fellow trans peers.

Support media that actually deserves our time and money.
marvelmania.bsky.social Marvel Mania @marvelmania.bsky.social · 3d
HBO CEO Casey Bloys says 'HARRY POTTER' Season 2 is already being written

"We’re going to do whatever we can to not have a huge gap, for the kids, obviously, but also for viewers"
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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placecalledbliss.bsky.social
I can't believe this baby is still sitting in my shop! Someone go adopt him with the 25OFF coupon 🪲
placecalledbliss.bigcartel.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
View Jürgen Geuter’s graphic link Jürgen GeuterJürgen Geuter • 2ndVerified • 2nd Research Director @ART+COM | Independent writer/theorist | Keynote Speaker | AI-Deinfluencer | #LudditeResearch Director @ART+COM | Independent writer/theorist | Keynote Speaker | AI-Deinfluencer | #Luddite 22h • 22 hours ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Follow Very few narratives piss me off as much as the whole "let's give marginalised people LLM assistants for inclusion". Inclusion does not mean giving marginalised people shittier versions of a thing: Sure you can give kids from poorer backgrounds an LLM to "learn" but what you are saying is that poor people are not worth having trustworthy sources of information. When you say that older or lonely people can talk to chatbots to feel less alone you are saying that some people are not worth a social life. This is a deeply inhumane perspective that goes actively against the ideas and ideals of inclusion. likesupportcelebrate 186 You and 185 others
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
alunbweird.bsky.social
Late night #Caturday posting. Mr Sweep knows how to pose. 🖤🤍 #CatsofBluesky
Black and white tuxedo cat sits on a black box. He looks up above the camera. Black and white tuxedo cat stares into the camera.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
alunbweird.bsky.social
actionnetwork.org/letters/disr...

Stop these greedy bastards.
Disrupt the deal: Shell and Equinor's £1.3 billion tax grab
Two of the biggest climate villains of our time have teamed up to pull off what could be a £1.3 billion tax dodge. Demand Rachel Reeves intervene, investigate this deal, and plug this massive hole in ...
actionnetwork.org
November 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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nistolisk.bsky.social
link for copy-paste
www.tumblr.com/modmad/80085...
November 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
alunbweird.bsky.social
The Government has announced the foundations of a mass-deportation machine. Let's show the Government their abhorrent plans don't have our backing. This is not in our name.

act.praxis.org.uk/not-our-name
When the Government tramples on refugee rights, we HAVE to speak out. This is not in our name.
The Government has announced the foundations of a mass-deportation machine. Families will be split up and deported. People fleeing war and persecution will have their jewellery and possessions confisc...
act.praxis.org.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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zeroisanumber.bsky.social
A comic of two white guys standing next to an orrery. One is dressed like he's wearing a blue jumpsuit that kinda looks like a condom if you squint. The other is wearing yellow robes and has a circlet on his head. Blue guy: What planet is this, your excellency? Yellow guy: That is Earth. It is inhabited by a race of idiots!
November 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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featherfangart.bsky.social
If It Doesn't Exist, MAKE IT.

Aka. The motivational bnuy.
#originalart
an illustration featuring a jackalope levitating in the void with a red ribbon flowing around it that says 'if it doesn't exist, make it.'
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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booksofm.com
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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greenleejw.bsky.social
We're at the Middle Earth map.
We're at the subway map.
We're at the combination Middle Earth and Subway map!

And you could be too! These maps and more are for sale on my Etsy page! They make great presents for yourself and others!
#LOTR #maps #subway

www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...
Art. Subway style map to go with The Lord of the Rings, showing the different pathways of various parties throughout the book. The title reads: "Lord of the Rings Transit Map: One Does Not Simply Walk Ino Mordor When One Can Ride." The map takes up the middle part of the page, and there are two keys. The one on the left is titles "Standard Service Lines, and has color keys matched to the subway lines on the map. Lines are named: "Shire-Bree Commuter Line Old Forrest Crescent Wildland Scenic Line Fellowship Line Gollum / Sméagol Line Uruk Hai Express Three Hunters Line Fangorn Slow Service Rohan to Gondor Business Line Black Ships Ferry Service Oliphant Direct Line Army of the West Line Gandalf Express A smaller key on the right side of the map is labeled: "Limited Service Lines" and has color keys matched to the following names lines: "Eagle Express Paths of the Dead Line Nazgûl Search & Resuce Valinor Ltd." A note at the bottom reads: "* Mount Doom station only accepts Rings of Power in payment. Plan accordingly." Art. Subway-style map of the itinerary in The Hobbit. The main journey is show in three different lines: red (Hobbiton to Goblin Town); green (Goblin Town to the Elvenking's Halls); and blue (Elvenking's Halls to Erebor). There are multiple stops on these lines. There is a yellow line going back from Erebor to Hobbiton, making stops at Beorn's Hall, Rivendell, and the Troll's Lair. There is an orange line directly from the Iron Hills on the map's right side to Erebor, and a purple line from Gundabad directly to Erebor. The map's title reads: "Hobbit Transit Map" and there are directions for both There and Back Again listing the lines and transfer points. Between them, in the middle of the page, is a dragon drawn to resemble the dragon on Thror's Map from The Hobbit. A key shows the names of each colored line: Red: Western Lands Line Green: Mountains and Forests Line Blue: Barrel Line Yellow: Gandalf Express Orange: Iron Hills Business Line Purple: Orc and Goblin Reserve Line Text at the bottom right reads Surprised Eel Maps, 2025
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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nnedi.bsky.social
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:
A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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makkon.bsky.social
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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annabookwriter.bsky.social
Please do not feed personal information to chatGPT. Please do not tell it where you work and live and how to get money from you.

They know that TurboTax is easier than doing it by hand and cheaper (mostly) than going to an accountant.

That accountant had to sign ethical standards. ChatGPT can’t.
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 6d
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.

TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods
There were all sorts of ways to petition the Great God, but they depended largely on how much you could afford, which was right and proper and exactly how things should be. After all, those who had achieved success in the world clearly had done it with the approval of the Great God, because it was impossible to believe that they had managed it with His disapproval. (SG)
November 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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titanomachyrpg.com
6-fold ward against AI-induced psychosis
the machine does not know what it is doing to you the machine does not know what you are using it for the machine does not know who you are the machine does not understand you the machine can only say what you want to hear the machine is controlled by men willing to risk your children's lives this is how we destroy ourselves narcissus and icarus in one, agreeing ourselves to death
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
alunbweird.bsky.social
Got some cool stuff in from @oakboundstudio.bsky.social : some folkloric minis (Mari Lwyd, Green Knight etc) and a neat advent calendar thingy with minis and game tiles you open each day. Fun!

#nerdlings #miniatures
White metal minis of a Mari Lwyd and scarecrow in a packet marked The Woods White metal minis of a bearded figure and axe-wielding horned knight in a packet marked The Woods Black box labeled Once Upon a Time in The Woods Adventure Calendar Interior of the box showing many tiny giftwrap boxes. The first two are labeled 1st and 2nd
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
alunbweird.bsky.social
c.org/wmNHpQNbyJ

Keep Murdoch 's hands off ITV
We Can Make an Impact.
Prevent American Buy-ups of British TV channels
c.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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somerabbits.bsky.social
King Capybara on His Back, Balloon Fiesta, 2025.

#filmphotography #analogphotography #panorama #sprocketrocket #fuji400
Legs and stomach of a capybara shaped hot air balloon pointing skyward. The air is filled with other hot air balloons
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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barilleon.com
The guy from the "Hit it, Joe!" photoplayer meme is starting his own nonprofit to preserve silent cinema technology:

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
This instrument from the early cinema is disappearing. But not on Joe's watch
Joe Rinaudo is doing everything to ensure his passion for photoplayers, the self-playing pianos that scored silent movies, outlives him even as interest in the instrument has waned for a long time, wi...
www.latimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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gnomeicide.bsky.social
Said it before, will say it again. The rule must be if you're an MP, that's your only job. Property above, say, £400k should be held in trust while you're an MP. These jobs must be above corruption.
premnsikka.bsky.social Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17d
21 out of 33 Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords have paid jobs outside Parliament.

Shadow ministers paid to ‘advise’ the same industries they’re meant to scrutinise. Conflict of interest institutionalized. Paymasters served.

Can't get good society without ending political bribery.
democracyforsale.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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vincentknotley.bsky.social
Create something good.
Create something bad.
Create something for the first time.
Create something for the thousandth time.
Create something.

Don’t let the looming Everything Melange Titan of genAI win in its churned slop race to demoralise artistry out of us.

Get weird. Get normal. Get you.
November 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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darthbluesky.bsky.social
who has *not* always wanted their very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammer head shark
i ask u
genandgenes.bsky.social Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 10d
Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor?

Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?

Now available for free!

Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!

Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
Picture of shark sculpture by MICA student Mayali Geyling. Picture of shark sculpture by MICA student Mayali Geyling.
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM