@hardlylikely.bsky.social
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(1/3) UPDATE: Woolworths Customer Care centre workers have been LOCKED OUT by the company until Saturday night as retaliation for their 3-hour strike action this morning. We need your help!
December 19, 2025 at 4:26 AM
(1/3) UPDATE: Woolworths Customer Care centre workers have been LOCKED OUT by the company until Saturday night as retaliation for their 3-hour strike action this morning. We need your help!
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The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.
December 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.
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the thing about white academics claiming they lost jobs because of whiteness is always funny to me because if you keep asking questions you find out they think they deserve a professor job because their dad had one.
December 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
the thing about white academics claiming they lost jobs because of whiteness is always funny to me because if you keep asking questions you find out they think they deserve a professor job because their dad had one.
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25% reduction in all cause mortality over 4 years for those vaccinated against covid, huge study.
Wow, this almost suggests covid is implicated in an unbelievable number of deaths. And that vaccinated people should wear respirators if they want to remain abled.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mrn...
Wow, this almost suggests covid is implicated in an unbelievable number of deaths. And that vaccinated people should wear respirators if they want to remain abled.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mrn...
mRNA COVID vaccines tied to drop in death rate for 4 years
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
25% reduction in all cause mortality over 4 years for those vaccinated against covid, huge study.
Wow, this almost suggests covid is implicated in an unbelievable number of deaths. And that vaccinated people should wear respirators if they want to remain abled.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mrn...
Wow, this almost suggests covid is implicated in an unbelievable number of deaths. And that vaccinated people should wear respirators if they want to remain abled.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mrn...
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The most racist, supremacist garbage is being vomited across Australian media right now. Criticising Israel is an unacceptable threat to Jews so speech must be restricted but we have to ensure the restrictions don’t stop us from saying Muslims are terrorists or that brown people shouldn’t migrate.
December 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The most racist, supremacist garbage is being vomited across Australian media right now. Criticising Israel is an unacceptable threat to Jews so speech must be restricted but we have to ensure the restrictions don’t stop us from saying Muslims are terrorists or that brown people shouldn’t migrate.
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Meanwhile, in Canada
![Bear is a novel by Canadian author Marian Engel, published in 1976. It won the Governor General's Literary Award the same year. It is Engel's fifth novel, and her most famous. The story tells of a lonely archivist sent to work in northern Ontario, where she enters into a sexual relationship with a bear.[1][2] The book has been called "the most controversial novel ever written in Canada".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7eo57fyhhlpov2t3iia3ydou/bafkreihxrslxadkmx3mch6t55bboldny4bukxglmc7eu67hg76gdjqfdfq@jpeg)
July 1, 2023 at 2:05 AM
Meanwhile, in Canada
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Friend of mine is a PHD in Inuit art history and posted this image from the Greenland National Museum
June 30, 2023 at 9:58 PM
Friend of mine is a PHD in Inuit art history and posted this image from the Greenland National Museum
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Don't bother recommending a book to me unless the cover goes at least this hard.
July 25, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Don't bother recommending a book to me unless the cover goes at least this hard.
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French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
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Crunch time is always a failure of management.
NEW: For the last seven weeks, Naughty Dog has enacted mandatory overtime for staff to finish an internal demo of their next game, Intergalactic. The game won't be out until 2027, leaving some staff wondering: If they're crunching now, what will next year be like? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime for ‘Intergalactic’
The Sony-owned gamemakers have been racing to hit a December deadline
www.bloomberg.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Crunch time is always a failure of management.
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Ladies and gentleman: The President of the United States
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Ladies and gentleman: The President of the United States
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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Something I can't really stop thinking about is how after Sep 11, in Australia right-wingers basically spent 2.5 decades fantasising about and warning that a mass broad civilian-targeted terror attack on Australian soil was imminent, and the fact it never happened made them lose their minds
December 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Something I can't really stop thinking about is how after Sep 11, in Australia right-wingers basically spent 2.5 decades fantasising about and warning that a mass broad civilian-targeted terror attack on Australian soil was imminent, and the fact it never happened made them lose their minds
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Game accessibility isn’t niche — over 1 billion people worldwide have a disability. Accessible design expands your audience by default.
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Game accessibility isn’t niche — over 1 billion people worldwide have a disability. Accessible design expands your audience by default.
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U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says
“If I had no concerns and I was confident in the lawful order, I would definitely execute that order.”
“If I had no concerns and I was confident in the lawful order, I would definitely execute that order.”
U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says
“If I had no concerns and I was confident in the lawful order, I would definitely execute that order.”
theintercept.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says
“If I had no concerns and I was confident in the lawful order, I would definitely execute that order.”
“If I had no concerns and I was confident in the lawful order, I would definitely execute that order.”
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meanwhile, the US attorney general also wants to categorize trans equality activists as belonging to “designated terrorist organizations”.
a leaked Justice Department memo from December 9th added “radical gender ideology” as part of its definition of “domestic terrorism”.
a leaked Justice Department memo from December 9th added “radical gender ideology” as part of its definition of “domestic terrorism”.
December 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
meanwhile, the US attorney general also wants to categorize trans equality activists as belonging to “designated terrorist organizations”.
a leaked Justice Department memo from December 9th added “radical gender ideology” as part of its definition of “domestic terrorism”.
a leaked Justice Department memo from December 9th added “radical gender ideology” as part of its definition of “domestic terrorism”.
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The increasing capitalisation of third spaces, the social media ban, disconnect from public sentiment around current affairs in other places atm, and boredom. So much boredom
📢 Riot police were called in to disperse a large group of teenagers allegedly brawling on Mordialloc beach.
Teens clash with police on popular beach after storming Mordialloc supermarket
www.smh.com.au
December 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The increasing capitalisation of third spaces, the social media ban, disconnect from public sentiment around current affairs in other places atm, and boredom. So much boredom
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holy shit guys i think my laptop just became sentient??
December 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
holy shit guys i think my laptop just became sentient??
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1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
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If I was running a large and well-loved video game studio that had just announced a major sequel, I would simply not post on the Nazi Blogging Site.
December 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If I was running a large and well-loved video game studio that had just announced a major sequel, I would simply not post on the Nazi Blogging Site.
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
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"tyrannosaurus rex" is kinda one of the craziest called shots of all time if you think about it some dude in 1905 was like 'this was definitely the most badass dinosaur so I will name it as such' and 120 years of research and new discoveries keeps proving him right.
December 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"tyrannosaurus rex" is kinda one of the craziest called shots of all time if you think about it some dude in 1905 was like 'this was definitely the most badass dinosaur so I will name it as such' and 120 years of research and new discoveries keeps proving him right.