DaveDisaster
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DaveDisaster
@davedisasterman.bsky.social
· Jan 13
I return to the stage with @davidwhitney.co.uk to continue our discussion on the AI Bubble and the ethical issues of GenAI.
Join us for an educational and entertaining chat - whatever your position on the subject, it's sure to be engaging!
15 - 17 April, Kensington Town Hall
london.cityjsconf.org
Join us for an educational and entertaining chat - whatever your position on the subject, it's sure to be engaging!
15 - 17 April, Kensington Town Hall
london.cityjsconf.org
For his birthday, I got him a cake with an Epstein file in it…
February 19, 2026 at 7:38 PM
For his birthday, I got him a cake with an Epstein file in it…
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Excels...
Ok, on this ONE point...
Excels...
Ok, on this ONE point...
The UK excels in rule of law by arresting former Prince Andrew for "misconduct in office."
The contrast with the US could not be greater, where the state failed to jail the former president Trump for far worse crimes during four years.
The US needs the rule of law!
The contrast with the US could not be greater, where the state failed to jail the former president Trump for far worse crimes during four years.
The US needs the rule of law!
February 19, 2026 at 5:57 PM
🤣🤣🤣
Excels...
Ok, on this ONE point...
Excels...
Ok, on this ONE point...
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I got a great question on my Ramadan thread: do Muslims also need to avoid consumption by proxy in videogames? Does consuming in-game food or drink break the fast? Basically: does your character have to go fast?
The answer is no, unless you happen to be playing Sonic the Hedgehog.
The answer is no, unless you happen to be playing Sonic the Hedgehog.
February 19, 2026 at 12:49 AM
I got a great question on my Ramadan thread: do Muslims also need to avoid consumption by proxy in videogames? Does consuming in-game food or drink break the fast? Basically: does your character have to go fast?
The answer is no, unless you happen to be playing Sonic the Hedgehog.
The answer is no, unless you happen to be playing Sonic the Hedgehog.
Kinda feels like now would be a great time for everyone to read The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya.
The laziest/simplest description I can give it is a sort of Russian post-apocalypric Idiocracy.
The laziest/simplest description I can give it is a sort of Russian post-apocalypric Idiocracy.
February 19, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Kinda feels like now would be a great time for everyone to read The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya.
The laziest/simplest description I can give it is a sort of Russian post-apocalypric Idiocracy.
The laziest/simplest description I can give it is a sort of Russian post-apocalypric Idiocracy.
It's tempting to say that this in itself is an ancient tradition, but hmm...
Well, it kinda is? Histories from Herodotus to Julia Caesar are riddled with wildly extrapolated fantasy.
We don't know for sure how much is believing unreliable sources/oral history vs completely invented...
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Well, it kinda is? Histories from Herodotus to Julia Caesar are riddled with wildly extrapolated fantasy.
We don't know for sure how much is believing unreliable sources/oral history vs completely invented...
1/2
Has anyone scrupulous actually done a deep dive into the Scottish crostarie/crann-tàra evidence by the way? Because everything easily accessible online just says "ancient tradition" and then cites Walter Scott, the OED, or nineteenth-century folklorists
February 19, 2026 at 11:33 AM
It's tempting to say that this in itself is an ancient tradition, but hmm...
Well, it kinda is? Histories from Herodotus to Julia Caesar are riddled with wildly extrapolated fantasy.
We don't know for sure how much is believing unreliable sources/oral history vs completely invented...
1/2
Well, it kinda is? Histories from Herodotus to Julia Caesar are riddled with wildly extrapolated fantasy.
We don't know for sure how much is believing unreliable sources/oral history vs completely invented...
1/2
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You know how anthropologists love finding interred skeletons with bones that have been broken and safely set, lbecause it shows that real humanity happened there? Old literature is like that too, if you read it.
February 18, 2026 at 9:08 PM
You know how anthropologists love finding interred skeletons with bones that have been broken and safely set, lbecause it shows that real humanity happened there? Old literature is like that too, if you read it.
Take me down to Terminal City,
Where the screen is green,
And the UI's shitty...
Where the screen is green,
And the UI's shitty...
pssst
who is going to Terminal City Tabletop Con?
I'm trying to see if there will be enough buds there to justify the cost (emotional and financial) of travel 😅
who is going to Terminal City Tabletop Con?
I'm trying to see if there will be enough buds there to justify the cost (emotional and financial) of travel 😅
February 19, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Take me down to Terminal City,
Where the screen is green,
And the UI's shitty...
Where the screen is green,
And the UI's shitty...
German people online are always so Bitte about my Danke memes...
February 18, 2026 at 9:28 PM
German people online are always so Bitte about my Danke memes...
"I don't give a shit what [system I think is bad] is doing to [people who I instinctively dislike]" is uh... not the humanist, progressive take you seem to think it is, buddy.
February 18, 2026 at 10:21 AM
"I don't give a shit what [system I think is bad] is doing to [people who I instinctively dislike]" is uh... not the humanist, progressive take you seem to think it is, buddy.
Thars a hoose doon boi the rood, can get you some waaaaaa'er, jus' boi the coos.
the absolute perfect cadence of this, it won’t make much sense unless you’re familiar with a broad Norfolk accent, but if you are:
Have just seen Norfolk mentioned in my feed and I’m reminded of the time someone wanted to buy my laptop.
I thought from the ’have you still laptop’ and ‘do it turn on’ that English wasn’t their first language.
When they turned up, it was a Norfolk farmer.
I thought from the ’have you still laptop’ and ‘do it turn on’ that English wasn’t their first language.
When they turned up, it was a Norfolk farmer.
February 17, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Thars a hoose doon boi the rood, can get you some waaaaaa'er, jus' boi the coos.
Jesu fuckin' Christo!
have a chuckle at this "Git flow" slop
might explain GitHub's recent outages
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini...
might explain GitHub's recent outages
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini...
Components of the GitHub flow - Training
Learn to use the components of the GitHub flow
learn.microsoft.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Jesu fuckin' Christo!
Reposted by DaveDisaster
February 16, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Magnificent.
Oregon Trail was a great game even though the graphics were a little buggy
February 15, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Magnificent.
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"When America sneezes, the world gets herpes... and measles... and..."
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 6:41 PM
"When America sneezes, the world gets herpes... and measles... and..."
Sick fucks.
This is just unconscionable man
February 13, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Sick fucks.
Yeah, that dust is seriously abrasive and gets EVERYWHERE.
KY just ain't gonna cut it.
KY just ain't gonna cut it.
don't know who needs to hear this, but do not fuck with the Moon
February 13, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Yeah, that dust is seriously abrasive and gets EVERYWHERE.
KY just ain't gonna cut it.
KY just ain't gonna cut it.
And this is how the Daily Mail responds...
February 13, 2026 at 12:21 PM
And this is how the Daily Mail responds...
Reposted by DaveDisaster
27 years ago today, artist John Myatt was sentenced to a year in prison for conspiracy to defraud, after painting around 200 fake works, including Chagalls and Matisses over a period of eight years, which convinced buyers despite usually being rendered in household emulsion mixed with KY Jelly 🧵
February 13, 2026 at 9:22 AM
27 years ago today, artist John Myatt was sentenced to a year in prison for conspiracy to defraud, after painting around 200 fake works, including Chagalls and Matisses over a period of eight years, which convinced buyers despite usually being rendered in household emulsion mixed with KY Jelly 🧵
Reposted by DaveDisaster
Judges have rejected an appeal from the defense, arguing former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is not fit to stand trial.
February 13, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Judges have rejected an appeal from the defense, arguing former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is not fit to stand trial.
Huh.
SO SO GLAD to see a PROPER rebuttal against Silvia Federici's very wrong scholarship in the latest Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft! Thank you, Rita Voltmer!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
February 13, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Huh.
You are the back end of a pantomime horse FFS...
Dario Amodei compared AI and humans working together to a mythical creature — the centaur.
Anthropic's CEO says we're in the 'centaur phase' of software engineering
Dario Amodei compared AI and humans working together to a mythical creature — the centaur.
www.businessinsider.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:41 AM
You are the back end of a pantomime horse FFS...
Apparently there is only one form of toilet design now?
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He's such a liar. People don't snort cocaine off toilet seats. They'd be too worried about it falling into the toilet. They do it off the back of the toilet, which also requires less bending over.
But for titillating this dumb audience, this lie makes sense.
But for titillating this dumb audience, this lie makes sense.
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 13, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Apparently there is only one form of toilet design now?
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Reposted by DaveDisaster
Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it.
The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.
I’ve had a front row seat.
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The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.
I’ve had a front row seat.
7/
February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it.
The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.
I’ve had a front row seat.
7/
The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.
I’ve had a front row seat.
7/
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I need to know everything about job #6 right now
February 13, 2026 at 12:11 AM
I need to know everything about job #6 right now