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@nickoctopus.bsky.social
It's me, hi, I'm the one screaming "LOG OFF", it's me
He/him. UK. I occasionally make EBM/industrial music as Trellick. I hate fascists & bigots and post angrily about that sort of thing
He/him. UK. I occasionally make EBM/industrial music as Trellick. I hate fascists & bigots and post angrily about that sort of thing
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@nickoctopus.bsky.social
· Jul 30
Muscle EBM, by Trellick
4 track album
trellick.bandcamp.com
Do you like EBM? I've released some more EBM as Trellick. It's hot, it's sweaty, it's great. And there's even a remix by @digitalgeist.com to get things even hotter!
It's PWYW on BC trellick.bandcamp.com/album/muscle... or find it on your streaming service of choice #ebm #electronicbodymusic
It's PWYW on BC trellick.bandcamp.com/album/muscle... or find it on your streaming service of choice #ebm #electronicbodymusic
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its so funny we discovered basilisk hacks that destroy your brain and kill you and everyones like were stopping all other investment and ivnesting trillions in this new technology
January 7, 2026 at 4:57 AM
its so funny we discovered basilisk hacks that destroy your brain and kill you and everyones like were stopping all other investment and ivnesting trillions in this new technology
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microblogging as a format was designed for posting pictures of your sandwich and jokes about jerking off. every time you try to make it do something else it degrades the core experience
January 6, 2026 at 10:30 PM
microblogging as a format was designed for posting pictures of your sandwich and jokes about jerking off. every time you try to make it do something else it degrades the core experience
if I was the chief of staff for a party polling through the floor and was responsible (supposedly) for a lot of their current direction, I'd maybe expect newspapers/other politicians/my boss to stop treating the things I say as having merit, and to consider whether actually I'm the problem
Government lacks emotional link with voters, cabinet ministers warned
Government lacks emotional link with voters, cabinet ministers warned
Morgan McSweeney says Labour needs ‘three Es’ of emotion, empathy and evidence, sources say
UK politics live – latest updates
The government must find ways to reconnect emotionally with voters, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, is said to have warned cabinet ministers, in a meeting where the prime minister said they were in “the fight of our lives”.
The prime minister sought to rally his cabinet on Tuesday, telling them to ignore the polls and to prepare to take on Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:19 PM
if I was the chief of staff for a party polling through the floor and was responsible (supposedly) for a lot of their current direction, I'd maybe expect newspapers/other politicians/my boss to stop treating the things I say as having merit, and to consider whether actually I'm the problem
the upside to have a mild case of flu is that the feeling feverish and Too Warm is quite handy when the weather outside (and therefore, the flat _inside_) is cold, I guess
January 6, 2026 at 5:26 PM
the upside to have a mild case of flu is that the feeling feverish and Too Warm is quite handy when the weather outside (and therefore, the flat _inside_) is cold, I guess
Me: Maybe this year I'll sort a bunch of things out, stop putting everything off, be slightly more together and do stuff I've needed to do for years
Also me: welp, it's 6th January and things already suck, maybe I'll give up until 2027
Also me: welp, it's 6th January and things already suck, maybe I'll give up until 2027
January 6, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Me: Maybe this year I'll sort a bunch of things out, stop putting everything off, be slightly more together and do stuff I've needed to do for years
Also me: welp, it's 6th January and things already suck, maybe I'll give up until 2027
Also me: welp, it's 6th January and things already suck, maybe I'll give up until 2027
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me, lounging in my sitting room in a smoking jacket with a snifter of brandy: computer. show me videos of overweight housepets at weight-loss camp.
computer: very good sir. now playing "overweight tabby gets stuck in window trying to escape vet office".
me, swirling my brandy: fantastic.
computer: very good sir. now playing "overweight tabby gets stuck in window trying to escape vet office".
me, swirling my brandy: fantastic.
January 6, 2026 at 10:34 AM
me, lounging in my sitting room in a smoking jacket with a snifter of brandy: computer. show me videos of overweight housepets at weight-loss camp.
computer: very good sir. now playing "overweight tabby gets stuck in window trying to escape vet office".
me, swirling my brandy: fantastic.
computer: very good sir. now playing "overweight tabby gets stuck in window trying to escape vet office".
me, swirling my brandy: fantastic.
walked face first into a shop's glass door that had a big "CLOSED" sign hanging on it. Raised a huge lump on my forehead and sprained my knee to the point I could barely walk for a couple of weeks.
The staff inside closing up all looked round at the bang as I hastily stumbled away round the corner
The staff inside closing up all looked round at the bang as I hastily stumbled away round the corner
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
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January 5, 2026 at 9:43 PM
walked face first into a shop's glass door that had a big "CLOSED" sign hanging on it. Raised a huge lump on my forehead and sprained my knee to the point I could barely walk for a couple of weeks.
The staff inside closing up all looked round at the bang as I hastily stumbled away round the corner
The staff inside closing up all looked round at the bang as I hastily stumbled away round the corner
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There's this thing where tech is collapsing around "how a few rich dudes in California live" and if your environment doesn't work like their lived reality
soooorrrryyyyy
soooorrrryyyyy
January 5, 2026 at 8:58 PM
There's this thing where tech is collapsing around "how a few rich dudes in California live" and if your environment doesn't work like their lived reality
soooorrrryyyyy
soooorrrryyyyy
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Vegetarian Greek food restaurant called Don't Meat Your Gyros
January 5, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Vegetarian Greek food restaurant called Don't Meat Your Gyros
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If you can't figure out the Lament Configuration do you think the Cenobites would fall for it if you peeled off all the stickers and sloppily put them back on to make it look like you solved it? 🤔❓🧠
January 5, 2026 at 2:29 PM
If you can't figure out the Lament Configuration do you think the Cenobites would fall for it if you peeled off all the stickers and sloppily put them back on to make it look like you solved it? 🤔❓🧠
sometimes I remind Lady Companion about the time I went to a doctor about a problem and, after an examination and flick through reference material, I got told "so this is most often seen in horses..."
It never fails to reduce her to helpless laughter and accusations that I actually went to a vet
It never fails to reduce her to helpless laughter and accusations that I actually went to a vet
January 5, 2026 at 4:31 PM
sometimes I remind Lady Companion about the time I went to a doctor about a problem and, after an examination and flick through reference material, I got told "so this is most often seen in horses..."
It never fails to reduce her to helpless laughter and accusations that I actually went to a vet
It never fails to reduce her to helpless laughter and accusations that I actually went to a vet
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i dedicated a better part of four years to writing up mark zuckerberg's impact on the world and suffice it to say that nuremberg would be too kind to the son of a bitch
The January 6 Committee later found that “social media played a prominent role in amplifying erroneous claims of election fraud.”
But committee leaders chose not to publish some of their most scathing findings, fearing a public battle with big tech companies.
But committee leaders chose not to publish some of their most scathing findings, fearing a public battle with big tech companies.
January 5, 2026 at 9:06 AM
i dedicated a better part of four years to writing up mark zuckerberg's impact on the world and suffice it to say that nuremberg would be too kind to the son of a bitch
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Ireland: preserving the last embers of civilization while the empire falls since 430 CE.
Fewer Irish people using ChatGPT than in other countries, OpenAI told Taoiseach
Fewer Irish people using ChatGPT than in other countries, OpenAI told Taoiseach
Micheál Martin was told application had been rolled out to all secondary school students in Estonia ‘to complement the curriculum’
www.irishtimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:15 AM
Ireland: preserving the last embers of civilization while the empire falls since 430 CE.
extremely this imo
i honestly wonder if the sycophantic nature of llms echos the sycophantic nature of the people the wealthy and powerful surround them with, and thats actually the operative toxin
January 5, 2026 at 8:06 AM
extremely this imo
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i think gen ai is like termites for your brain. gets in your head without you noticing and starts dismantling things, and the first thing it dismantles is your ability to notice it dismantling things
January 5, 2026 at 6:36 AM
i think gen ai is like termites for your brain. gets in your head without you noticing and starts dismantling things, and the first thing it dismantles is your ability to notice it dismantling things
starting off the year as I mean to go on (procrastinating on an ever-increasing to-do list; being unwell; eating chicken pakora)
January 4, 2026 at 8:43 PM
starting off the year as I mean to go on (procrastinating on an ever-increasing to-do list; being unwell; eating chicken pakora)
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seems a little insensitive
January 4, 2026 at 5:38 PM
seems a little insensitive
serious question: is there a reason people are referring to gambling sites using the specific phrase "prediction markets"? Is it some kind of loophole that stops them being treated as gambling, am I missing nuance or are people just pretending it's something other than gambling?
January 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM
serious question: is there a reason people are referring to gambling sites using the specific phrase "prediction markets"? Is it some kind of loophole that stops them being treated as gambling, am I missing nuance or are people just pretending it's something other than gambling?
how many more mainstream media articles about genAI tools being used for CSAM, abuse/harassment, driving people to suicide, disinformation and scams at scale do you think we have to get before a journalist finally figures out that this is because the tools are working as intended?
January 4, 2026 at 12:40 PM
how many more mainstream media articles about genAI tools being used for CSAM, abuse/harassment, driving people to suicide, disinformation and scams at scale do you think we have to get before a journalist finally figures out that this is because the tools are working as intended?
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
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I‘m discontinuing my social media use for the foreseeable future and I want to explain why.
I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.
I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.
January 3, 2026 at 2:25 PM
I‘m discontinuing my social media use for the foreseeable future and I want to explain why.
I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.
I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.
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[Ray Liotta, VO]: Balls Marsala. Balls ran the cabstand and the Bella Vista Pizzeria… and a few other places for his brother, Paul, who was the boss of the neighborhood.
January 4, 2026 at 12:32 AM
[Ray Liotta, VO]: Balls Marsala. Balls ran the cabstand and the Bella Vista Pizzeria… and a few other places for his brother, Paul, who was the boss of the neighborhood.
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This is going to be a critical thing to understand about British politics for the next forty years: they knew this was genocide. Nobody can ever admit what they have done here. This is also important for the last forty years, where they’ve all been lying about our crimes in Northern Ireland.
Worse: having chosen to side with genocidaires, they cannot ever admit what they’ve done now without going to jail. They have forever implicated all of us, all of Britain, in America’s genocide, and they will sink the whole fucking island before they admit their malfeasance.
January 3, 2026 at 11:42 PM
This is going to be a critical thing to understand about British politics for the next forty years: they knew this was genocide. Nobody can ever admit what they have done here. This is also important for the last forty years, where they’ve all been lying about our crimes in Northern Ireland.
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Well Atrus, I made it to Myst island, despite your directions.
January 3, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Well Atrus, I made it to Myst island, despite your directions.