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blippo.plus
📡 ATTENTION EARTHLINGS!

You are now free to nominate Blippo+ for the 2025 Steam Awards, from now until December 1st.

Stay Tuned,
Lisa Duo
Your Television Executive

store.steampowered.com/steamawards/...
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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charliejane.bsky.social
I contain multitudes

Oh

Oh shit

My multitudes containment system is failing, everyone retreat to a safe distance
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
chuma.org
New addition to the collection, Sharp PT-9000 from 1994. You know it's rare when you can't find anyone else who owns one online. Serial number ends in 00011. The touchscreen digitizer is giving me problems, it's practically impossible to complete the pen calibration #vintagecomputer #dos
A chunky tablet computer from circa 1994, with a black and white LCD screen, labelled "SHARP PT-9000" in the top left corner A tablet computer from 1994 with the back cover removed, showing one side of the mainboard with the CPU and memory chips showing.
November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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2600.com
HOPE has been banned from St. John's University. www.2600.com/content/hope...
HOPE CONFERENCE BANNED BY ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY | 2600
www.2600.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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petridishes.bsky.social
coffee will fix me
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
chuma.org
Jeez maybe buy me dinner first, random cybersec person
Screenshot of an email subject line that reads "Penetration Tests that will rock you"
November 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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raniawrites.bsky.social
Everytime you want to use AI to make some ridiculous image or video, ask yourself - is this worth the lives of Congolese people? droughts in low income US cities? exploitation of artists & cultural producers? extinction?
October 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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rstevens.bsky.social
if you smoke near me, i should be able to extract an equivalent number of hit points from you
zachweinersmith.bsky.social Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · Oct 16
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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timnitgebru.bsky.social
Translation: After we built an addictive tool based on stolen data, exploited labor and plundering the environment, which pushes kids to commit suicides, we were like, why not cash in on "erotica"? After all, this is what building so-called AGI that "benefits humanity" looks like.
Sam Altman (@sama) We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases. In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing). In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
October 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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histoftech.bsky.social
Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!
August 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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cjtrowbridge.com
What the world needs now
October 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM
chuma.org
I think I need to buy an elevator just so I can play the Blippo+ soundtrack in it
October 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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raniawrites.bsky.social
The postal service & public transit are public social services & community infrastructure. I hate to break it to you, but they're not meant to make money
September 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app
I skeet for people who still miss Google Reader.
September 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app
I wonder if there's someone who might be able to prevent him from having his way on this. I can't think of anyone at the moment. Maybe it'll come to me
schumer.senate.gov Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · Sep 18
What Trump said is a fucking outrage.

It’s against democracy.

If Donald Trump has his way on this, our democracy is over.
A headline from USA Today reads: "Trump suggests FCC should consider revoking licenses over negative coverage of him"
September 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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raniawrites.bsky.social
Listen, I'm going to need us to stop saying that humans are horrible and that all the injustice in the world right now is our collective doing.

It's the doing of a handful of people, and we know their names.
September 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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parismarx.com
A bit rich coming from Poilievre when his own wife retweeted a post by Andrew Scheer directing the right-wing mob to go after @rachelgilmore.bsky.social.

His family’s safety matters. No so much those who don’t subscribe to his political project.
September 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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cjtrowbridge.com
Economists and financiers and bankers and capitalists have absolutely no idea what's going on
September 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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September 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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colinelves.bsky.social
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Smajo Beso • Follow 3d • © I started school in Newcastle in Year 5 without knowing a word of English. I was nine years old and had arrived as a refugee from Bosnia just a couple of months earlier. I was one of those strangers our politicians often speak about. I missed my grandparents and friends. I was having awful nightmares, and I would wake up screaming every single night. I hated going to school. I would sit in my chair, look out of the window, and spend my day daydreaming about ways to run back to Bosnia. I didn't want to be here. After a couple of weeks at school, my teacher, Miss Webster, and my classmates did something special to help me settle, something that made me feel less of a stranger. That was the first day I went home with a smile on my face. I have shared this story before, but as tomorrow is start of the new school year, I thought I would share it again. ** Miss Webster was amazing, but I couldn't understand a word she was saying. She had this ritual where, at the end of each day, we would all sit on the floor around her, she would play the guitar, and we would all sing a song together. I couldn't understand what they were singing, but I could see she would sing one part of the song, then she would say someone's name or point to them. The next part of the song would be sung with that person's name in it, and they would get to go home first. My classmates loved this, but I hated it. It annoyed me because I couldn't understand what they were singing, but if I am honest, l hated it mainly because of how happy they all were. I definitely wasn't happy. I cried myself to sleep nearly every night. I eventually started having separate English lessons, which I enjoyed more because it took me out of the classroom. It was always daunting coming to school because I felt everyone was looking at me or speaking about me. For months, my dad would stand with me outside the school gates in the morning until it was time to go in. One day I came back into the classroom from my English lesson. We sat down, and everyone was extra-excited, looking at me more than usual for some reason. Of course, I thought it was because I was a refugee, because I couldn't speak English, or because they couldn't pronounce my name. I was bracing myself for another afternoon of my classmates encouraging me to sing. This was probably the closest I came to running out. So we were all sitting on the floor around Miss Webster. She was holding her guitar, ready to sing. I remember the sun shining through the tall, narrow windows as I slowly drifted into a daydream of being back in Bosnia. She began playing the guitar, my classmates joined in, but this time, everything was different. I froze. I understood what they were signing. Not because I had miraculously learned English in one afternoon, but because they were singing in Bosnian for me. I looked around in shock, and they were all smiling at me, and for a moment I thought I was daydreaming. While I was having separate English lessons, Miss Webster had taught our entire class to sing this song for me in Bosnian. They sang it terribly, but it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. I skipped home that day with a huge smile on my face. For the first time, I looked forward to going back to school the next day. I have often imagined Miss Webster and my classmates rehearsing, struggling with the strange Bosnian words and laughing at themselves. For me, that effort was the ultimate recognition, an act of peace that felt like the opposite of everything I had known during the war. It was special. I do not know if they realised it then, but that moment helped to give me back my dignity, my belonging, and, for the first time in a long time, I didn't feel like I was just a refugee or an outsider. I was home.
September 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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nationalobserver.com
Is gardening speech? Do we have a constitutional right to let our lawn go wild? @matinsarfraz.bsky.social reports on a fascinating case in Ontario.
Constitutional right to a wild garden with weeds and bees to be tested in Ontario court
A Burlington homeowner is fighting charges over her “naturalized garden” of native plants in her front and back yards. The city is taking Karen Barnes to Provincial Offences Court, seeking up to $400,...
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August 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
So many programmers are around today thanks to the colorful illustrations and clear language of the Usborne computer guides
Subroutines: "A subroutine is a sort of mini-program within a program..." "Suppose you had a robot helper whome you could program to run errands for you. If you wanted something from the shop you would have to give it precise instructions telling it how to get there. Every time you wanted the robot to buy something you would have to give it the same instructions. It would be much simpler to give the robot a shopping routine to tell it to refer to each time." From Introducing Computer Programming: BASIC for Beginners" by Usborne Hayes Electronics
August 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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plaguepoems.bsky.social
Should you find yourself
the only masked person
at work or in a store,
please, do not despair,
instead just think back
to kindergarten
and your teacher asking
“if everyone else
jumped off a bridge
would you do it too?”
and know that at least you
can honestly say: no.
August 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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danifroom.bsky.social
The blank pages at the back of books are for you to tear out and eat
August 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
chuma.org
Tournament days in the humidity
July 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM