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Baby octopus
@mancalledhorse.bsky.social
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With alt text, so nobody can be spared the eldritch horrors from the nvidia dimension
Above the awning of a pleasant looking wine bar, a banner with a picture the full width of the building has been hung. From a distance it appears to be a crowd scene with a Christmas nativity scene at the top centre. There's a river or pool stretching from the nativity stable around a section of the crowd. It's a very busy picture with what could be several hundred people in. At a glance, at least - the next images look closer to reveal some very disturbing genAI artefacts Closeup on a section of the banner. Here's a snowman wearing a top hat and red chequered scarf! How jolly! Except he has three eyes from two different faces, and teeth. Large teeth, with moist red gums. On the side of his head some brown furry material like teddy bear fabric is sort of melted in where an ear might be. Except part of the brown material is fused into the glove of the human appearing character next to the snowman, whose forearm is bent in an unnatural way. Some other people's faces and anatomy are melted or deformed, like in a dream where you can't quite make the face out and you're afraid to examine it closer. However the fabrics of their clothing is rendered in a very life-like manner A close-up on a part of the edge of the water in the large banner. A bearded man is seen waist up grinning as if he's half in the water. But there's a woman's face growing half out of the left sleeve of his coat and half out of the neck of one of the brown and white dogs around them. Except those are no dogs, they are nightmare creatures assembled from parts of dog and scenery. A stick held by a character out of frame swells and grows fur to becomes a dog's lower front leg. There's a very realistic looking bit of water worn granite forming the bank of the water Closeup on more dogs in another bit of water. One of them is made of legs but has a nearly realistic doggy face. The red peak of a baseball cap grows from its forehead and it's jaw appears to be dislocated. Another dog-thing disappears out of frame, it's taillegface is black and tan. The third thing has a reasonably plausible dog body with a head shaped like a gull, with human teeth in the upper jaw and eyes joined into the top lip/upper beak. The water has nicely detailed waves and splashes.
November 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
mancalledhorse.bsky.social
Reposted with actually useful alt text
Tweet from Nobi Hayashi 林信行 @nobi Why is the Save button in Excel depicted as a vending machine with a purchased drink can at the bottom? this question is currently being discussed by young Japanese people on a forum [screenshot of Excel with the stylised 3.5" floppy disk Save icon magnified. The graphic icon is so simple that it can indeed be interpreted as a stylised vending machine, with the rectangular disk label being the vending machine window and at the bottom the disk shutter with its window looking like a drink can on its side]
November 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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@crushingbort's classic tweet from 2014: hmm well I'd say I'm fiscally conservative but socially very liberal. the problems are bad but their causes...their causes are very good
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Homer and Bart "worst day of your life so far" image with no caption
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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I mean
Screenshot of an X post: UK Prime Minister @10DowningStreet We're taking action to stop migrants working illegally as food delivery drivers. DELIVERED BY WHO? [Silhouette of a food delivery rider on a bike with a box backpack, casting a menacing shadow] Our new agreement means the government will share asylum accommodation locations with Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Uber Eats. So they'll know if riders are staying there and can take action. PLAN FOR CHANGE
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Scottish Labour really working hard to make sure they don't accidentally get any voters back from the Greens eh. Only the most tedious Telegraph Tory nonsense opinions must be agreed with
Photo of a page from Monday's Daily Record ANAS SARWAR The menace on our streets goes on two wheels
November 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Dr Naomi Wolf No! No!!
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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......ok
Meme image of someone pointing at themselves in the mirror. Caption: "It's not about you but you get in there and make it about you"
November 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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#EggClub What I had for lunch today
A pan on a hob with freshly made shakshuka in - a red pepper, onion and tomato stew with an egg baked in the centre of it. Next to the pan is a blue and white patterned plate with a warm flatbread, waiting to be topped with the hot shakshuka
November 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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The decor and fittings he ripped out dated from the Truman era and were gorgeous
Art deco bathroom with pistachio green tiled walls and white tiled floor with a white strip running around the room about 50cm above the floor. There is a recessed square bay with wide white ceramic sink, with large mirror and panel light above. The toilet cistern is concealed. There is a cupboard alcove on the right wall with mirror door and white shelves below. It is a lovely, calming and tasteful room
November 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
mancalledhorse.bsky.social
100%. I live in Scotland and this is what I get: north American sportsball teams, one of them twice, some guy I've never heard of is at the top, and there's a US politician who I've only heard of because of the dominance of US politics content in English speaking Bluesky
Explore Q Search for posts, users, or feeds George Springer Hot 226 posts Sports 2. Blue Jays 10h ago 1.1K posts Sports 3. Nancy Mace ago 3.8K posts Politics 4. Dodgers 15h ago 4K posts Sports 5. Blue Jays 15h ago 2.5K posts Sports Discover New Feeds Art: 2D Animation Vids Feed by @wanderlingworld.bsky Pin Feed 2D animation videos by artists with the most likes in the last 12 hours. Filters out AI/NFT kevword Liked by 37 users MusicSky Feed by @cookieduh.xyz 4 Pin Feed MusicSky is a feed for music lovers. This feed populates posts with the Hashtaq #MusicSky and Posts from O
November 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Epic cloud + sun conditions in Arrochar today. Good day out with eldest child even if we did miss the planned train back to Glasgow and were forced to eat good pizza in an excellent wee bistro while we waited for the next train
A full 360 degree circle of fogbow - like a pale double rainbow with a dark annulus between the two brighter rings - seen on/in mist drifting across a rocky mountainside. At the exact centre of the circle, a small shadow of a person is projected on the mist with a rainbow halo around their head - a Brocken Spectre with a Glory. Beyond and through the mist are other mountains and drifts of cloud below a bright blue sky A boy with a rucksack stands with his back to the camera admiring the magnificent mountain scenery beyond. Below blue sky, a rugged crag-set mountain peak is wreathed in mists. The angles and features of the crags are defined by shadows, mists and bright illumination from the sun. The mist is thickest on the left slope of the mountain and the broad arete that connects the minor summit where the boy is standing to the peak. The boy has a bright blue rucksack with a hiviz bike helmet dangling from it, and he's holding walking poles. A pointed tooth of mountain - the South Peak of the Cobbler - emerges dramatically from a dense bank of cloud, seen from high on the neighbouring hill of Beinn Narnain The sun glowing wanly through a bank of cloud above the shining ribbon of Loch Long, as seen from high on a craggy mountainside. Mist pours through the glen below on the right, half obscuring the hill ridges beyond, but the loch is clear
October 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
mancalledhorse.bsky.social
I got a decent reply from Tidal about their "AI Tools"
Gian Carlo T. (TIDAL) Oct 9, 2025, 3:29 PM EDT Hi Thank you for getting in touch with TIDAL Support. At a time of great concern around the use of AI in music, Tidal is choosing to be transparent so you can feel confident your music and your listening experience are in good hands. The AI-powered tools that we will be introducing to Uploaders by November 7 include tools that enable you to transcribe your track’s lyrics, identify important details about your track such as BPM to increase searchability, and, if your track is explicit, tag it as such. You will be able to learn more about these AI-powered tools and your control over how they’re applied at https://tidal.com/terms/ai-tools prior to November 7. To be clear, our AI-powered tools do not provide a way to produce AI-generated music. And, as stated in Section 6 of our updated terms, we will never use anything you upload to Tidal to train generative AI models that aim to replicate or synthesize your voice, music or likeness without your explicit consent. Kind regards, Gian TIDAL Support
October 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
mancalledhorse.bsky.social
Absolutely incredible follow up as well
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com 2h Bluesky Elder I ended up on swifty TikTok and the comments are absolutely killing me. "9th grade slam poetry", [a photo of boiled chicken], "album for cop wives", "If Taylor wrote this that's bad, if ChatGPT wrote this that's worse, and if Travis wrote this I'm actually kind of proud of him". 20 134 A Follow Gaby @gs2u.bsky.social Disclaimer: not a swifty by any stretch, except perhaps for her standing up against trump. Sorry to hear you have opinions on things you shouldn't comment about. Could you please put them on threads and not spoil your timeline here? Asking for a friend. October 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM 2 quotes 5 2 A ↑ Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com 2h Bluesky Elder You should consider writing your reply on the side of a cactus and then shoving it up your ass n 34 Gaby @gs2u.bsky.social Thanks. I'll remember white old men dumping on strong women with your picture next to it. https://du.ping du.ping 3 1h Marcus Hutchins A @malwaretech.... 1h Bluesky Elder I just emailed your post calling me white to Equifax, hopefully they'll increase my credit score 2 3
October 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
mancalledhorse.bsky.social
A modern instance of a long tradition of scaring the devil
18th century illustration for "the devil of pope-fig island". A woman lifts her skirt and shows her vulva to the devil, who looks absolutely terrified. Image nicked from the vagina museum's website
October 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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With alt text
Freddy from the scooby gang lifts a Keir Starmer mask from the captured villain to reveal their true identity FREDDY: It's Tony Blair! (VOICE OFFSCREEN): Jinkies! BLAIR: And I would've succeeded if it weren't for you meddling kids!
September 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
mancalledhorse.bsky.social
Community labellers on Bluesky can be very informative
Hamid's screen name and handle as it appears to me above his post. There is a label there that says "Harper's Signatory" Close up on the label. The icon is a letter H in a crossed out circle. Next to it is the text "Harper's Signatory"
September 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Good piece this but as usual for the graun it swerves making the connection to the other very high profile groups that use "protecting women and girls" as cover for violent bigotry, because that would get awkward at the office lunch
“When you use the phrase ‘protect women and children’, you’re focusing the listener’s mental image on the idea of defence rather than threat,” Ford said. “You’re saying: ‘We’re not the aggressors. They are the aggressors’. “Secondly, the phrase also brings to the fore the most negative possible stereotypes about immigrant groups. From the dawn of the far-right debate about immigration in Europe, you’ve seen violent criminals and rapists being the go-to trope.” Sarah Pochin Sarah Pochin: ‘[Reform] are the only party that is talking about what we need to do to protect women and children from illegal migrants living in our communities.’ Photograph: Isabel Infantes/Reuters The phrase also had a powerful mobilising impact, he said. “If you’re trying to mobilise people, you need to get people to see a political issue in terms of a clear and present danger, an imminent threat that they need to defend against. They all use this language because it serves all three of these purposes.”
September 20, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Bluesky is supremely uninterested in this ad-riddled automated clickbait spam account
Inbella bsky profile shows they made 117,200 posts but only have 481 followers
September 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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And managers working on the show knew he did it and protected him
www.digitalspy.com/media/a43377...
"There was a man standing next to a camera with headphones on who seemed to be running the show, so I went up to him and told him Jimmy Savile had just put his hand up my skirt," she said. "He was very cross and told me to get lost. He said it was just Jimmy messing about and I was being stupid. Then he said he was busy and moved me out of the way because I was blocking a camera shot." She continued: "I was a naive girl then - I'd never slept with anyone - and was shocked. I didn't know where to go or who to speak to after getting rejected like that"
September 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
mancalledhorse.bsky.social
I have this saved from 2021 and I'm sure it was already a couple of years old at that point
Cartoon of glinner, the king of the lesbians, riding out from Mumsnet towers on the back of a grateful woman (she says "thank you sir") to trample a trans flag. He's holding afloat a burning pride flag, and his shield has all emblem off a pink triangle inside a crossed out circle that's the top of the "woman" symbol. His crown has "terf" written on it. MN towers is flying the "straight pride" checkerboard flag
September 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Oh that looks like my commute to work, which I cycle several times a week. Glasgow sometimes gets used in films to double up for SF because the streets are so steep.
Screenshot of Google street view image looking up the hill on West Campbell Street in Glasgow. It's steep. The slope is very apparent against the buildings that line the street Streetview image looking down Blythswood Street in Glasgow. It's even steeper. In just a few blocks it descends 60 metres.
August 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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It's not really people's fault though if they don't know about better - it's the top suggestion from Bluesky when someone tries to tag Labour and the account has the party logo and a screen name 'The Labour Party'
Screenshot of post being composed, saying: Hey @labour why do you suck so much The tag suggestions Bluesky gives for '@labour' are: The Labour Party @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social LabourList @labourlist.bsky.social SSLH Society for the Study of Labo..@ssih.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Update: M&S are cool and GCs and the Sun are filthy liars
I can confirm that this is the case indeed, we want our stores to be inclusive and welcoming places for all our customers. I hope you enjoy the rest of your day. Kind regards Vince Struelens Your M&S Customer Service M&S [Redacted] wrote: On 18 August 2025 at 15:26:43 UTC, Hi Vince, Thank you for getting back to me so quickly and for stating M&S's position on inclusion. Could you please confirm that M&S will continue to allow trans women to have bra fittings and will not be changing that policy in the face of this obnoxious bullying campaign? Thank you,
August 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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I do not understand why these people are like this
Elias Vance @mancalledhorse.bsky.so... 11m She's not complaining about their support of Zelenskyy. The complaint is about those leaders' inconsistent invocation of international law, and the context is that none of those leaders have stopped supporting Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Zach @zach116.bsky.social This isn't the time to talk about Gaza when Zelenskyy is facing a critical make it or break it moment for the war August 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM Elias Vance @mancalledhorse.bsky.social now I'm sorry you can only hold one thought in your head at a time but I assure you that the European leaders assembled to support Zelenskyy against Trump's pathetic capitulation to Russia's imperialism are all actually capable of thinking about more than one war. And they don't read Bluesky anyway
August 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM