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Doc Garby
@docgarby.bsky.social
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Fuck this.

Text to Speech for accessibility needs? Brilliant tool, already exists.

Creating a "lively conversation" podcast between two chat bots based on a file you upload? The worst, evil, should not exist.
Screenshot of page promoting new AI feature on Android phones. At the top of the page is an example of a text interaction between the user and the chat bot where a pdf is uploaded to be turned into a "podcast": Audio Overview Generation Started PDF Generate Audio Overview Sure, here is your Audio Overview. Underneath the example is text explaining the new feature: Google Gemini Turn files into podcast-style conversations Upload a file to create a lively conversation between two Al hosts, and listen while on the go.* Learn more How to get started: 1. Open the Gemini app 2. Upload files that you want to turn into an Audio Overview 3. Select 'Generate Audio Overview' 4. You'll be notified when the episode is ready to play *Check responses. 18+. Sequences shortened
October 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Taking a long exposure photo of the shadows above your bed is a good way to learn you're going to be killed by a terrifying hare demon.
Abstract image of shapes fading from black to deep red to black that look a bit like a nightmarish shadow of a hare/rabbit in front of an eerie green square of light
October 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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It's good to see positive bi representation in cinema
Screenshot from the trailer for Troll 2. A giant angry troll is looking down through the hole it ripped in the roof of a nightclub. It's lit with blue, pink, and purple lighting.
October 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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I made the mistake of looking at a few of the accounts. Definitely block these loser fascists.
Screenshot of bluesky post: Department of State @state-departm... 5h Give us a follow so we can update you on how the Democrats' partisan shutdown is harming America's national security. (we also heard this is a great place to research visa revocations 👀)
October 18, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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I hope everyone finds the kind of love I have, a partner who doesn't end the relationship when you quietly sing,

🎵Stegoslide, Stegoslide,
Giving a wash to your underside🎵

while cleaning the Stegoslide in PowerWash Simulator
Screenshot from the game PowerWash Simulator showing a dirty Stegosaurus shaped slide in a play area
October 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Dolly Parton checking the news
October 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Me catching up on the state of this site
October 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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The Academy really dropped the ball on future AI/Al posts
Poster for S1MONE (2002) showing Al Pacino and Rachel Roberts
October 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Starmer's correct, we shouldn't vote for obviously racist scumbags who only care about the rich and powerful at the expense of everyone else.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Screenshot from linked article: Headline: Starmer wants rethink on international law to tackle migration <Still of video showing Starmer> Watch: Starmer says he will "look again" at human rights laws
October 1, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Screenshot of "Evil" Spock from the episode of Star Trek: The Original Series "Mirror, Mirror". He looks identical to normal Spock but with a goatee.
September 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Just when you think you can't muster any more contempt for Starmer and his government...

www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...
Screenshot from link in post: BritCard: a progressive digital identity for Britain For a progressive society to work, it needs to be able to collectively agree who is allowed to join it. Because it will exclude those who cannot join it, it needs to give its members proof that they belong. The UK doesn’t do this. Our conflicted historic approach to issuing identity credentials has led to a situation that represents the worst of both worlds. We currently can’t effectively stop people from living and working in our country illegally. Nor can we efficiently support legal citizens and residents to exercise their rights.
September 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Just when you think you can't muster any more contempt for Starmer and his government...

www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...
Screenshot from link in post: BritCard: a progressive digital identity for Britain For a progressive society to work, it needs to be able to collectively agree who is allowed to join it. Because it will exclude those who cannot join it, it needs to give its members proof that they belong. The UK doesn’t do this. Our conflicted historic approach to issuing identity credentials has led to a situation that represents the worst of both worlds. We currently can’t effectively stop people from living and working in our country illegally. Nor can we efficiently support legal citizens and residents to exercise their rights.
September 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Why the fuck does Starmer think countering the "rise of the populist right" means buying into their hateful rhetoric and creating laws based on fear and othering?

Oh. Yeah. Because he's a bigoted scumbag looking for any excuse.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Screenshot from linked article: Keir Starmer has publicly acknowledged "where some on the left went wrong" on immigration, saying that his party needs to tackle "every aspect of the problem". Writing in the Telegraph, the prime minister said that Labour was being forced to counter the "rise of the populist right", noting the increasing popularity of Reform UK posed a challenge for both the Conservatives and the left. He is expected to announce plans for a compulsory UK-wide digital ID scheme in a speech on Friday, as part of Labour's push to address illegal immigration. His government has been under pressure to tackle the issue, with more than 50,000 migrants arriving on small boats since Labour came to power. Screenshot from linked article: "There is no doubt that for years, left-wing parties, including my own, did shy away from people's concerns around illegal immigration," Sir Keir wrote in the Telegraph, external. "It has been too easy for people to enter the country, work in the shadow economy and remain illegally." Sir Keir wrote that the government "must make and win the case for patriotic national renewal, based on enduring British values", calling on "fair-minded Britons" to reject Reform's "toxic" solution. He also warned against the perils of "poisonous" online debate, and of a "coming struggle, a defining struggle, a violent struggle" for the nation.
September 26, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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NES game cartridge with a label showing an 8-bit character wielding a sword bigger than themselves leaping upwards through a blue sky and clouds above the title "Attack and Dethrone God" "Nintendo Entertainment System" has been replaced with "DocGarby Bad Fan Art"
September 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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September 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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As was requested by discord
Drawing of Sam and Dean from the show Supernatural posing at the open trunk of their car. Both are hold saxophones. There are three more saxophones in the trunk, one is being used to propose it open. Dean's face has been replaced with a photo of Tom Reimann's and Sam's face has been replaced with David Bell's.
September 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Bad Fan Art: Him-Boos After Dark Edition

@gamefullyun.bsky.social

m.soundcloud.com/david-bell-3...
Drawing of Sam and Dean from the show Supernatural posing at the open trunk of their car. Both are hold saxophones. There are three more saxophones in the trunk, one is being used to propose it open.
September 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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An excuse to post some old Bad Fan Art? Don't mind if I do!
Drawing of a microphone growing out of a bean
September 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Jeff and Abe: Hat Guys!
Doop from X Men wearing a Jeff May "M" hat Abe re-imagined as Slurms MacKenzie from Futurama wearing a baseball cap with "SB" on it
September 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Cropped screenshot of Jason Lee as Brodie in Mallrats sitting on a bench and shouting
September 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Can we sue "Labour" for false advertising?
Screenshot from BBC News website Photo of 6 cyclists waiting in traffic in front of a car and a bus. Headline text: "LIVE No 10 says commuters 'rightly fed up' with Tube strikes and calls for more talks London"
September 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Wesley wishes he'd been Boxey. Then at least he would have had a cool robot dog-bear as a friend.
Screenshot from Battlestar Galactica (1978) of the child character, Boxey, petting his robot dog-bear, Muffit II
September 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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On Sunday 7th September at 3pm there's going to be a test of the emergency alert system in the UK.

If you have a phone you need to keep secret because of domestic abuse then you can opt out using instructions via the link.

Screenshot in case you can't click link

www.gov.uk/alerts/optin...
iPhone To opt out: Go to your settings and select the ‘notifications’ menu. Scroll to the bottom. Turn off ‘severe alerts’ and ‘extreme alerts’. Android phones To opt out: Search your settings for ‘emergency alerts’. Turn off ‘severe alerts’ and ‘extreme alerts’. Other mobile phones and tablets Depending on the manufacturer and software version of your phone, emergency alerts settings may be called different names, such as ‘wireless emergency alerts’ or ‘emergency broadcasts’. The settings can usually be found in one of the following ways. Go to: ‘message’, then ‘message settings, then ‘wireless emergency alerts’, then ‘alert’ ‘settings’, then ‘sounds’, then ‘advanced’, then ‘emergency broadcasts’ ‘settings’, then ‘general settings’, then ‘emergency alerts’ Then turn off ‘severe alerts’, ‘extreme alerts’ and ‘test alerts’. What time will the emergency alert be sent and what will happen? The alert will be sent to millions of devices around 15:00 BST on Sunday 7 September. Compatible phones - the vast majority of those currently in use - will vibrate and make a siren sound for roughly 10 seconds.
September 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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How I imagine Jeff looks when posting about Christmas in September
Version of the Claremont and Miller Wolverine #1 cover from 1982 but it's a grinning Jeff May, wearing his signature "M" baseball cap, with three candy canes between the fingers of his right hand in place of Wolverine's claws as he beckons the viewer with the index finger of his left hand.
September 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Bad Fan Art: In The Mouth Of Heartbreak Edition

Inspired by @gamefullyun.bsky.social covering In The Mouth Of Madness because my Bad Fan Art is always topical.

Listen here:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Posterised style drawing of Sam Neill from In The Mouth Of Madness wearing a hospital gown covered in hand drawn crosses laughing maniacally with multicoloured light streaming past him with the text "Somehow, madness feels good in a place like this"
August 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM