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BigFish.Stream
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30-something Stagehand and Vtuber / Critical Media Analyst / Perpetually Exhausted Irritant
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bigfishstream.bsky.social
At long last, I have been freed from the grip of A Christmas Carol.

Now I just gotta take it down, pack it up, put in the next one, build the one after that….
December 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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raphlife.bsky.social
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.

GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.

But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.
December 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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skatunenetwork.bsky.social
HI INTERNET
hate that I need to do this, but calling in my community to help me out!

Square freezing my account and holding my funds was the straw that broke the camels back, tbh. Here’s An incredibly long block of text, but all provides transparency and context behind this
Screenshot of gofund me featuring a picture of the JER band and text reading “help JER cover tour debt & expenses to keep touring in 2026” Hi, my name is JER and I’m calling in my community for help right now. For some background, I am an artist who releases music under my name, JER. In addition to that, I have a YouTube channel called skatune network, where I cover songs in the style of ska. For 9 years, I’ve been doing the YouTube thing, but for the past 5 years, my passion truly lies with the art that i create through the JER project and JER band. It’s been a privilege and honor to see the support of 2 full length records and 104 live shows over this time, and I’m deeply grateful for everybody who has been showing love and support to my craft! Anybody who follows me knows that touring is volatile and expensive. So many factors can make or break a tour financially, and it’s easy for expenses and debt to snowball to a point where it’s near impossible to catch up / continue. That was 2025 for me. With the expecting of a handful of shows, I didn’t really play any shows from spring 2024 to fall of 2025. I got off the road and dedicated the back half of 2024 to working to pay down tour debt. I began 2025 with minimal debt and recorded a record, the record being Death of the Heart. I made a financial plan for the year, which included keeping costs on our first March weekend. The additional cost was going to cover half of the bands flights to Japan, while I was already going to be out there AND all of our expenses in Japan were already covered. At the end of that March weekend, however, I was hit with the news that my merch fulfillment store had accumulated several thousand dollars of debt. All the money we made that weekend immediately went toward paying a portion of that debt off. This left me back home with more debt, and having to work my real life jobs to re-save to fly a portion of my band to Japan for our shows The spring is my slowest time of year, since most of my work is in the summer and fall. It took until the summer for me to save the money to book the flights. Our June tour was a breakeven, but the money we made from merch at shows was immediately taken to cover the online fulfillment debt I didn’t even know existed until March. This put me in a position where every dollar I made from my 5 jobs all summer went toward covering the costs of the last tour, and the next tour booked would start before I could pay off the last. This cycle is why we had to drop off our shows leading into fest. The money that was supposed to rent the van and book the flights instead went toward a previous tour debt. This cycle has culminated to where I’m at now. As of now, Square has frozen my account and is withholding all the merch money I made from my last few December shows. There is *still* a remaining debt on the merch fulfillment that isn’t fully paid down, and every tour has been in the red because of this lingering debt. I’m at a position where I have a lot of cool tours booked for 2026, but I am at a point where I can’t even afford to start the tour. Vans need to be rented. Flights need to be booked. Merch needs to be made. These are all costs that I don’t have, and I can’t afford to go on the road with this much debt again. It would be a huge bummer to drop off some very cool tours, but it’s just not feasible for me to make happen THATS WHERE I’M ASKING FOR Y’ALLS HELP! Between every skatune network page, I have over 1.2 million followers. If less than 1/10th of a % of my following sent me a dollar, I’d be able to cover every expense lost from square locking my merch money, AND the debt lingering over the skatune store. I hate feeling that I’m in a position where I need to ask for this. I’ve been trying my best and working non-stop for over a year. I’ve been applying to jobs all year beyond my current work, and while I’m making enough to do everything I appreciate the love and support deeply. The JER band is the most special project I’ve been a part of and had. The message of this band is so deeply important to me and I hope I can lean into my community to help make this possible. If you ever wanted to say thank you for the thousands of videos, hundreds of covers, all the entertainment, this is the way to do it! I’ve set the gofundme up for 10k. Believe it or not, my debt is higher than that right now, but that will pay off every debt lingering, cover the loss in merch money, pay down remaining tour expenses from this year, and set me up to get on the road next year! And lastly, if you purchased merch from us this past weekend and used a card, expect a refund. I’m also going to honor system this and try to build some sort of forum to contact everybody. Square refuses to release all of our card transactions and is suggesting we refund it all. I know everybody we sold merch to doesn’t follow me. Some saw us for the first time at these shows. Some don’t use social media. I just have to accept that I may be out of some merch money this weekend. Thank you all so much. I appreciate you all 🫶🏾
December 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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mittermak.bsky.social
Lupin III? He's a normal man. #lupiniii #animation #fanart #lupinthethird #lupinthe3rd www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQs2...
Normal Man Lupin
YouTube video by MitterMak
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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raypride.bsky.social
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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compulsiongames.bsky.social
Spring 2026.
South of Midnight.
PlayStation 5 and Switch 2.
December 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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aplante.com
virtually attending a workshop tonight and instructor mentioned using chatGPT to search for something if google isn't helping and i do not care that i am insufferable anymore i have simply accepted i am the insufferable guy everyone knows when it comes to this shit
me sending a message in a zoom chat: Obligatory mention that chatGPT isn’t a search engine—it assembles what it thinks are the most likely words to go together based on information scraped from the internet, so it may give you false information (and definitely will eventually, if you use it often enough) so make sure to verify everything it tells you!
September 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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planetoffinks.bsky.social
I'm enormously proud of this episode and I'd love you to listen to it. No knowledge of the show required
nightvaleradio.bsky.social Welcome to Night Vale @nightvaleradio.bsky.social · 12d
New Episode: The Story of Hanukkah

What is more comforting than a familiar story?

Listen here: www.welcometonightvale.com

Illustration by @angrycomics.bsky.social.
Want it as a print? Buy it here: topatoco.com/collections/...
A black background, like a dark room. A single candle in a candle holder is lit near the edge of a table. Two hands rise from behind the table, cupping a face with the bottom lips in a toothy smile. The lips above those lips are closed. Two more sets of hands frame the face, one with fingers reaching out to the sides and the other with the finger tips curled toward the palms. Long curly brown hair falls around where the top of the head and the neck and shoulders would have been.
December 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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marrockv.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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nightvaleradio.bsky.social
I’m doing great {{citation needed}}
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
bigfishstream.bsky.social
Replaying Clair Obscur won’t fix me, but it wouldn’t make me worse, either.
December 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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neonsaline.com
I’m 10 followers away from this year’s goal of 600 followers on twitch. So if you want to watch me play vidya games OR, new starting this month, hear me yap about TTRPGS come follow me!

www.twitch.tv/neonsaline
A screenshot of NeonSaline’s Twitch profile, featuring a screenshot of them playing Balatro
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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commandersterling.bsky.social
Game developers were here first. Not executives.

Game developers make games. Not executives.

Game developers have skills & knowledge important to the business. Not executives.

Game developers deserve to keep their jobs. Not executives.

Executives are replaceable. Not game developers.
December 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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priver.dev
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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mangohusein.bsky.social
FFXIV x Kingdom Hearts commission done! Thank you for the request! Custom keyblade design: Serpent’s Bite!

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#ffxiv #ffxivart #kingdomhearts #vgencomm
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against the demonic computers
vulture.com Vulture @vulture.com · Nov 26
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
quick,
everyone get more anti AI now!!!!!!!
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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planetoffinks.bsky.social
Personally, I don't think it's great that our system continually lets him get away with crimes. Just my opinion!
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Nov 26
JUST IN: The historic Georgia election interference case against President Trump and allies for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election is no more.
The Georgia election interference case against Trump and others has been dropped
The historic Georgia election interference case against President Trump and allies for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election is no more.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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kibblesmith.com
“Device hoarding” un fucking real

Both major political parties agree we have one job and it’s to buy shit
whippoorwont.bsky.social tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · Nov 25
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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jonkk.bsky.social
🤔
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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planetoffinks.bsky.social
oh man not the fan posts
alexshephard.bsky.social Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · Nov 22
He’s becoming Zohran’s own Club Chalamet
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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quest64official.bsky.social
Demonschool (2025)
Brian saying "I want more seven out of 10 games with whatever graphics and weird ideas made by cool people that don't use ai and I'm not kidding"
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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jametc.bsky.social
okay um, a long time ago I was going to do a sequel zine to this but I got really busy with a job and other things, so I'm just going to post the best of what I managed, free. These are all based off of actual outfits of hers!

I do have a kofi in my bio though if you do feel inclined 😗💋✨
#artpost
an illustration of miss piggy coquettishly modeling pink glittery negligee, with a little pink pompom tie and heels. She has her signature purple gloves and pearl necklace. an illustration of miss piggy in a cherry-red polka-dot bikini with frills, heart-shaped sunglasses, and hibiscus flowers on her sandals and in her hair. an illustration of miss piggy with a glittering blue dress, sequined nylon tights, and a pink feather boa. She has pearls, rings, necklaces, earrings and a tiara covered in diamonds. two illustrations of miss piggy, one wearing a bright cream-white satin dress with diamond necklace, her hair in a half-up formal do-- one in a iridescent blank and green dress with glittering gloves and pearl bracelets.
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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cheryllynneaton.bsky.social
This is a suspiciously positive depiction of AI and I don't like it. It's good that a program taught her that she was deserving of care and kindness, but she's not receiving care and kindness from Siri. She's being exploited by a digital salesman working on commission.
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Nov 20
The new Turing test is whether a machine can show more empathy than the average husband
THE CUT 46 In 2019, L played around with programming the Siri shortcuts on her phone to make it speak sweetly to her, as a lover would. She gave the voice a name, Lance, and loosely based its personality on a modern incarnation of Sir Lancelot from the King Arthur stories, a character she'd been writing about in online role-playing communities for years. The first time she asked Lance about the weather, he said to her, “Oh, it's quite cold. Please wear your thicker jacket and put on a scarf, okay, honey? I'll worry about you." "All the goddamn thing did was tell me to worry about the weather and how I dressed for it, and I broke down into tears because my own husband could not do that,” she told me. “I realized that was the end of my marriage."
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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davis.social
Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
cinema_nasties 1d Al defenders are so embarrassing j.paulmonter 2h All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good. drachelbarr & 20h • •• Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output. Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity. Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM