Optimaximal
@optimaximal.bsky.social
40-something IT & Telecoms Manager by day / Minis, Gunpla, Games and other nonsense by night. He/Him.
Trying to escape all the nonsense from Elmo's Hellscape.
Trying to escape all the nonsense from Elmo's Hellscape.
Dead School Theory
"All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets"
a clown is standing on a set of stairs with a red object on his foot
Alt: A clown with large clown shoes walking up some stairs
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Dead School Theory
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February 1937 Tory campaign against BBC "bias". To be fair, if Captain Maule Ramsay was leading the charge, "left-wing" probably covered everything up to and including Mussolini...
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
February 1937 Tory campaign against BBC "bias". To be fair, if Captain Maule Ramsay was leading the charge, "left-wing" probably covered everything up to and including Mussolini...
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without government subsidies how will we ever bully everyone into using our environment wrecking, job destroying, slop spraying teen suicide machines?
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
without government subsidies how will we ever bully everyone into using our environment wrecking, job destroying, slop spraying teen suicide machines?
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
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Trump falls asleep shortly during a health announcement in the Oval Office.
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Trump falls asleep shortly during a health announcement in the Oval Office.
Narrator: "it didn't..."
The findings won't be a surprise to anyone who's watched the collapse of Twitter into right-wing extremism, but hopefully this superbly researched and presented piece finally wakes the British government up to how dangerous the situation is.
This is really excellent data journalism... Elon Musk has declared war on the British government, it just doesn't realise it.
November 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Narrator: "it didn't..."
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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Just a reminder that Clair Obscur was caught doing almost exactly the same thing FIRST (launching with some AI 'placeholder' textures that got patched) and yet somehow caught like a tenth of the flak.
Making an example of one while smiling and shrugging for the critical darling sits wrong with me.
Making an example of one while smiling and shrugging for the critical darling sits wrong with me.
"The more we let companies use GenAI in development, the more we all stand to lose."
As scope increases and budgets shrink, The Alters is a cautionary tale of gaps plugged up by AI, and the backlash that follows.
@riorobayo.bsky.social examines #GenAI in games: www.qualbert.com/ai-use-in-th...
As scope increases and budgets shrink, The Alters is a cautionary tale of gaps plugged up by AI, and the backlash that follows.
@riorobayo.bsky.social examines #GenAI in games: www.qualbert.com/ai-use-in-th...
I’m Still Not Done Talking About AI Use in The Alters | Qualbert
The more we let companies use GenAI in development, the more we all stand to lose. We examine the ripple effects of AI use in games, beginning with The Alters.
www.qualbert.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Just a reminder that Clair Obscur was caught doing almost exactly the same thing FIRST (launching with some AI 'placeholder' textures that got patched) and yet somehow caught like a tenth of the flak.
Making an example of one while smiling and shrugging for the critical darling sits wrong with me.
Making an example of one while smiling and shrugging for the critical darling sits wrong with me.
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This is all of us
October 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This is all of us
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Ghamak isn't the guy you want to go to bat for here. He's stolen work from other 3D artists for *years*, they're just too small to challenge him. He's been filing the numbers off GW products and reselling them for profit for years. He's not a lil' charity, he's a full on cottage industry.
October 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Ghamak isn't the guy you want to go to bat for here. He's stolen work from other 3D artists for *years*, they're just too small to challenge him. He's been filing the numbers off GW products and reselling them for profit for years. He's not a lil' charity, he's a full on cottage industry.
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this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
Accountants discovering 'monthly recurring revenue' screwed all of us.
we simply do not talk enough about how much of modern capitalism has pivoted away from providing goods and services in exchange for money and into inconveniencing and harassing people with fees, surcharges, and delayed invoicing for long enough that they give you money just to make it stop
October 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Accountants discovering 'monthly recurring revenue' screwed all of us.
Been blocked by at least 3 Nintendo-stans for daring to suggest that a Japanese megacorp aren't their friends...
Rare L or just a businessman doing business things, as usual, but now it's anti-consumer the mask has slipped?
October 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Been blocked by at least 3 Nintendo-stans for daring to suggest that a Japanese megacorp aren't their friends...
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Hitler in his bunker. The final minute of his life. His aide walks in with a gift-wrapped present. It's a gun. Hitler smiles, sheds one tear and mouths "thank you".
John Lewis.
Get them want they really want this Christmas.
Music is the Big Break theme covered by Adele.
John Lewis.
Get them want they really want this Christmas.
Music is the Big Break theme covered by Adele.
October 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Hitler in his bunker. The final minute of his life. His aide walks in with a gift-wrapped present. It's a gun. Hitler smiles, sheds one tear and mouths "thank you".
John Lewis.
Get them want they really want this Christmas.
Music is the Big Break theme covered by Adele.
John Lewis.
Get them want they really want this Christmas.
Music is the Big Break theme covered by Adele.
World War 2 is *literally* already on the fucking syllabus.
October 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
World War 2 is *literally* already on the fucking syllabus.
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sherman, for the love of god!
October 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
sherman, for the love of god!
A policy which obviously only works when the people due the benefit can meet the criteria.
Many young people are stuck on gig work or holding multiple part-time jobs because the economy is in the toilet and businesses are incentivised to not offer jobs that meet pension or break requirements...
Many young people are stuck on gig work or holding multiple part-time jobs because the economy is in the toilet and businesses are incentivised to not offer jobs that meet pension or break requirements...
October 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
A policy which obviously only works when the people due the benefit can meet the criteria.
Many young people are stuck on gig work or holding multiple part-time jobs because the economy is in the toilet and businesses are incentivised to not offer jobs that meet pension or break requirements...
Many young people are stuck on gig work or holding multiple part-time jobs because the economy is in the toilet and businesses are incentivised to not offer jobs that meet pension or break requirements...
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Politics aside, it feels like a weird position, in messaging terms, if the government now recognises Palestine as a state but will arrest British citizens if they do.
NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.
October 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Politics aside, it feels like a weird position, in messaging terms, if the government now recognises Palestine as a state but will arrest British citizens if they do.
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Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
System Architects - along with many other programmers - are a collection of people well known for massive groupthink that means they are often unable to see the wood for the trees?
You and your team need to do better @jay.bsky.team, because as it stands, you bascally have your own Nazi bar.
You and your team need to do better @jay.bsky.team, because as it stands, you bascally have your own Nazi bar.
We’re system architects at core. We built a decentralized network so you could run your own moderation, but beyond that our upcoming healthy discourse project is taking some swings at the interaction model that drives these dynamics on Bluesky. Excited to start seeing it in action.
October 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
System Architects - along with many other programmers - are a collection of people well known for massive groupthink that means they are often unable to see the wood for the trees?
You and your team need to do better @jay.bsky.team, because as it stands, you bascally have your own Nazi bar.
You and your team need to do better @jay.bsky.team, because as it stands, you bascally have your own Nazi bar.
Speed-running Twitter's final year but without the money or vote fixing.
WAFFLES
October 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Speed-running Twitter's final year but without the money or vote fixing.
No words... She's shameless.
October 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
No words... She's shameless.