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Probably won't post here, either.
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darrencullen.bsky.social
Did a new one
Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.
August 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
joepasaran.bsky.social
So sad how everything ended with Mastodon, and now this. Seeing Crack the Skye live in its entirety was one of the best gigs I've ever been to.

Rest in Power, Brent.
August 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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nug.monster
ozzy osbourne dies
everyone: "enjoy hell (complimentary)"
hulk hogan dies
everyone: "enjoy hell (derogatory)"
July 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
joepasaran.bsky.social
I... NURSE?!?!?
uglygame.bsky.social Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · May 20
🚨 Exclusive 🚨
Ian Rush has put his name to a 90-minute, score-settling, AI musical in the style of Hamilton about his legal battle against a Surrey scaffolding company and a small Wigan law firm, in so doing attacking, among others, Robbie Fowler and Jamie Carragher.
1/7
May 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Kurt Vonnegut man
Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."
April 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
joepasaran.bsky.social
DAN. FUCKING. BURN.
March 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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gregk.co.uk
To clarify: Rory Stewart, a very obvious spook, hosts the most popular politics podcast in the UK alongside the man who engineered support for the Iraq War in the press. Both are now interviewing Syria’s new leader, a former member of Al-Qaeda whose own militias’ practices have been compared to ISIS
An image still from YouTube for a video by The Rest is Politics Podcast, entitled “New President of Syria: Ahmed al-Sharaa”. The aforementioned Syrian President can be seen sat in an armchair opposite Rory Stewart, former chair of Le Cercle intelligence group, and Iraq War propagandist Alastair Campbell.
March 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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patrickwyman.bsky.social
Nate Silver 🤝 Noah Smith
Knowing nothing about the past, skimming Wikipedia and not doing the reading, and assuming they’ve invented a new way of understanding human history
timhenke.bsky.social 🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · Feb 21
Mom, come pick me up, they're coming up with the silliest possible version of the Great Man Theory of History
Nate Silver shares a screenshot of someone saying As an Elon Musk biographer, I would peg his IQ as between 100 and 110. There's zero evidence in his biography of anything higher And I want to repeat that now lest you think it a typo There's zero evidence, from his life history, of musk having anything higher than 110 IQ Nate Silver responds: He's an exceptionally smart and accomplished guy. The much better take is that high IQs serve as a force multiplier for both positive and negative traits. Like how can you be a remotely competent historian without recognizing that major events in human history are shaped by high IQ, high-agency people who are bad and/or flawed and/or dangerous.
February 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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wesburdine.bsky.social
Check out my new app iHessian that lets you book local gig economy mercenaries
February 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
joepasaran.bsky.social
Yeah I'm doing ok I guess
February 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Bizarre for a journalist to pretend not to understand that trivial issues can be given political salience by disingenuous media coverage.

Does Matt think the voting public fretting about email security in 2016 and then never again was a naturally occurring process?
bsky.app/profile/benf...
benfields.net Ben @benfields.net · Feb 17
I, um, think you live rent free in his head?
A screenshot of a Matthew Yglesias skeet that reads "As a centrist whining about language policing, I'm genuinely baffled as to what this is supposed to mean. The thing that we are whining about, that is the language policing" then the skeet has a screenshot of the start of the skeet thread this is attached to, by one Michael Hobbs.
February 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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bransonreese.bsky.social
If you read all four KISS autobiographies it's like Rashomon for idiots.
February 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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defjeff.bsky.social
Yes. Next question.
January 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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edzitron.com
I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks.

www.ft.com/content/a0df...
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property. The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of ‘distillation’, a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost. OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.
January 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM
joepasaran.bsky.social
Not sure if this new Chinese AI model is all it's cracked up to be, but if it is, a lot of Silicon Valley's going to be DeepSeeking some windows to throw themselves out of
January 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
joepasaran.bsky.social
Surely everyone knew Musk was dog shit at gaming when he posted his heinous Elden Ring build? The man is a fool.
January 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
joepasaran.bsky.social
One of the most powerful pieces I've read in a while. This should (must) be the clarion call for a new digital age, free of walled gardens and bullshit scam artists:
How much of your life is dodging digital debris, avoiding scams, ads, apps that demand permissions, and endless menu options that bury the simple things that you’re actually trying to do? You are the victim of a con. You have spent years of your life explaining to yourself and others that “this is just how things are,” accepting conditions that are inherently exploitative and abusive. You are more than likely not deficient, stupid, or “behind the times,” and even if you are, there shouldn’t be multi-billion dollar enterprises that monetize your ignorance. And it’s time to start holding those responsible accountable.
December 20, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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bencjenkins.bsky.social
[defensively, to the chad hunter gatherers mocking me while I till my fields],
Add for some kind of grain app on twitter with the testimonial “it’s actually enjoyable to sell my grain”
December 19, 2024 at 3:25 AM
joepasaran.bsky.social
At least Have A Nice Life sold out so quickly I don't need to justify spending several hundred quid going to it, while fucking off a million different plans under the guise of "trying to buy a flat m8"
December 19, 2024 at 12:01 PM
joepasaran.bsky.social
Finally folded, and confirmed what I knew all along: Balatro is pure grade-A gigacrack for me and will absolutely ruin my fucking life
December 12, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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roryblank.bsky.social
Ain't Right (2022)
A comic strip I drew in 2022 on thanksgiving that I am posting again rather than posting anything new. Hank Hill stands in a room. It is unclear where exactly, as there’s no background other than a checkerboard floor, saying “Dang it Peggy, this is the last straw. I can’t find the boy. He turned into a glowing sphere of light and floated into the sky.” Bobby’s face emerges from Hank’s forehead and says “I’m right here dad. I’ve cast aside the chains of my body, dad.” Hank looks distraught, and entreats “you get out of my head right now, Bobby.” Bobby replies “I’m not in your head, dad, I am you. I am everything. And you’re me, dad!” Hank says “If I am you and you are the universe then the universe ain’t right. I ain’t right… I am wrong. Dang it Bobby.”
November 28, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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msidouglas.bsky.social
It's not an echo chamber though. For me it's developing into a place you can talk / watch a football video without being served up some gross xenophobic/racist video you really didn't want to see.

The pivot is that simple 🤷‍♂️
theglobeandmail.com The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · Nov 22
Opinion - The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons: In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:20 AM
joepasaran.bsky.social
Could go on about this for ages but it really shouldn't be surprising that at a farmer/C.A type rally, a bunch of people are wearing stuff like Barbour - they create hard wearing, waterproof utilitarian coats, farmers love that shit!
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Nov 21
Barbour has always been vaguely conservative coded, especially in Western Europe. But this doesn't mean you can't wear it if you don't share those political views. It's all about knowing the different levels of Barbour. 🧵
November 21, 2024 at 9:28 AM