Magnificent Idiot (Jay)
@unklemunk.bsky.social
He/him if you find that useful information to know. Still have no idea if this platform has any value to me. Icon is by me, but I don't do much pixel art (I feel this is obvious from the quality of it.)
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(This post will be pinned, thus no interaction.) I finally got an avatar. It's a pixel art thingy I drew on my phone like a decade ago. I kept trying to find a use for it and never did. I guess this is as good as any. Here's what it looks like:
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PUNK-O-MATIC by Evil-Dog was posted on this day 22 years ago on @newgrounds.com.
January 26, 2026 at 3:04 PM
PUNK-O-MATIC by Evil-Dog was posted on this day 22 years ago on @newgrounds.com.
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One major problem, bluntly, is that lots of folks can't distinguish between good writing and poor writing. This is about education, not intelligence: they could learn the difference, but it's frequently not taught, even in "good" schools. This is ultimately a competitive disadvantage for them.
it's so wild that people conflate quickness with quality so they think chatGPT writing a wall of text in 10 seconds means it's good writing.
December 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
One major problem, bluntly, is that lots of folks can't distinguish between good writing and poor writing. This is about education, not intelligence: they could learn the difference, but it's frequently not taught, even in "good" schools. This is ultimately a competitive disadvantage for them.
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a lot of AI advocates are this red guy
December 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
a lot of AI advocates are this red guy
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a brief summary of what it’s like to be online in 2025
December 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
a brief summary of what it’s like to be online in 2025
(This post will be pinned, thus no interaction.) I finally got an avatar. It's a pixel art thingy I drew on my phone like a decade ago. I kept trying to find a use for it and never did. I guess this is as good as any. Here's what it looks like:
November 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
(This post will be pinned, thus no interaction.) I finally got an avatar. It's a pixel art thingy I drew on my phone like a decade ago. I kept trying to find a use for it and never did. I guess this is as good as any. Here's what it looks like:
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down with the sickness
September 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
down with the sickness
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I had never seen nor heard this 1960's Looney Tunes title card until just now
(excuse the lazy recording)
(excuse the lazy recording)
September 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I had never seen nor heard this 1960's Looney Tunes title card until just now
(excuse the lazy recording)
(excuse the lazy recording)
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Reposting this, no reason
September 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Reposting this, no reason
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genuinely, i OFTEN find myself going "well at least i don't have as many commitments as brennan lee mulligan does" god bless that man #comic
September 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
genuinely, i OFTEN find myself going "well at least i don't have as many commitments as brennan lee mulligan does" god bless that man #comic
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September 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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On y retourne !
Ça fait longtemps, non ? On se fait un petit live jusqu'à minuit 30 pour dessiner du Bolchoi Arena ?
C'est ici:
www.twitch.tv/bouletcorp
C'est ici:
www.twitch.tv/bouletcorp
August 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
On y retourne !
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July 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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lol you’ve got an AI girlfriend?? ur putting techbros in charge of your relationship??? ok buddy lmfao ok champ
July 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
lol you’ve got an AI girlfriend?? ur putting techbros in charge of your relationship??? ok buddy lmfao ok champ
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![Comic. [planets and astronomical bodies in various shapes with comments pointing to them] Typical Exoplanet System: Giant planet orbiting so close that it’s actually rolling on the star’s surface; Hot Jupiter; Mini Neptune; Planet that could be habitable, if there’s a form of life that hates water but loves acid and being on fire; Cold Jupiter; Potentially habitable void; Hot Mars; Planet that may actually be in the habitable zone, according to a very optimistic modeling paper by some desperate postdocs; There’s a pulsar here but it’s probably fine; A waterworld paradise with beautiful oceans and warm— Wait, no, we just got new measurements, it’s a hellish steam oven; Mini Pluto; Earthlike data artifact; Wet Saturn; Either a gas giant or a fist-sized rock, depending which calibration method you use; Faint dust cloud that will cause several papers to be retracted; Somehow this whole system is smaller than the orbit of Mercury?!; Planet whose surface may host conditions suitable for rocks](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiarfi2ggmv32pbpagsawnfvq3qpvww6qnptusklp2skmj7dqclewm@jpeg)
June 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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I had a note for about a year that was just 'least appropriate way to call shotgun' and this was the best I could do.
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/corpse
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/corpse
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
June 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I had a note for about a year that was just 'least appropriate way to call shotgun' and this was the best I could do.
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/corpse
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/corpse
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
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Law & Order: Special Beverage Unit.
June 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Law & Order: Special Beverage Unit.
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Why is spotify relentlessly trying to get me to listen to some version of "two dudes who don't know shit discuss the state of the world" ?
February 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Why is spotify relentlessly trying to get me to listen to some version of "two dudes who don't know shit discuss the state of the world" ?
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Full comic here: smbc-comics.com/comic/strong-3
February 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Full comic here: smbc-comics.com/comic/strong-3
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The '90s—in a nutshell:
"...everyone assumed that in a more open, interconnected world, democracy and liberal ideas would spread to the autocratic states. Nobody imagined that autocracy and illiberalism would spread to the democratic world instead."
–@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
AUTOCRACY, INC.
"...everyone assumed that in a more open, interconnected world, democracy and liberal ideas would spread to the autocratic states. Nobody imagined that autocracy and illiberalism would spread to the democratic world instead."
–@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
AUTOCRACY, INC.
February 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The '90s—in a nutshell:
"...everyone assumed that in a more open, interconnected world, democracy and liberal ideas would spread to the autocratic states. Nobody imagined that autocracy and illiberalism would spread to the democratic world instead."
–@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
AUTOCRACY, INC.
"...everyone assumed that in a more open, interconnected world, democracy and liberal ideas would spread to the autocratic states. Nobody imagined that autocracy and illiberalism would spread to the democratic world instead."
–@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
AUTOCRACY, INC.
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Steamed Hams but it's by Dr Seuss
YouTube video by Tyrone Deise
youtu.be
February 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM