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jasper pilled

@hoovybaby.bsky.social

December 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM

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your friendly neighborhood futch

@dykeonik.com

The quoted meme of red-button choice with the fuck AI option extended:
"RAM & storage prices return to normal & capital loses power & energy & water & land are less wasted & critical thinking is less damaged & oligarches lose a major avenue for propaganda & fewer people experience psychotic breaks & creativity is actually valued & the code that materally impacts your life has fewer bugs &" the last line is partially cropped

December 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM

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Cyriak

@cyriak.bsky.social

This is the good shit ⤵️

swedemason @swedemason.bsky.social · 4d

Berry Bars

December 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM

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Jacob Aron

@jjaron.bsky.social

It's astonishing how a technology called artificial intelligence has revealed the actual stupidity of so many people. This tweet hasn't been bettered

December 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM

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mattie lubchansky

@mattielubchansky.com

a little perspective | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: MATTIE and a FRIEND are walking outside. The FRIEND is looking at his phone.
FRIEND: More grim news! God.
MATTIE: Yeah, and my personal life is also completely falling apart!

PANEL 2: Closer in
FRIEND: Everyone I know is having the worst year.
MATTIE: I guess the silver lining is it really does give you a little perspective on the small stuff, right?

PANEL 3: A HUGE BIRD swoops down, grabbing MATTIE by the shoulders. The FRIEND ducks and screams.
SFX: CAW
FRIEND: AIEEE!!!

PANEL 4: MATTIE, up in the air. She looks down.
MATTIE: Hmm.
MATTIE: Honestly? Not a bad view from up here.

December 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM

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milo edwards

@miloedwards.bsky.social

December 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM

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kit

@kitworldz.bsky.social

HIS ASS SHOULD NOT BE DRIVING

#indiegame #gamedev #godot

December 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM

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Robin Ince

@robinince.bsky.social

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

This is the saddest day of my professional life.
Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage.
I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys.
I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show,
A show that I named and helped develop over all those years.
Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry.
These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter

In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices.
Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'.
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I chose the latter.
It broke my heart.
I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make.
I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer.
I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence.
One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.

I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more.
I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost".
James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice.
Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences.
I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness.
Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire.
I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal.
I am so sorry to let you down.
I hope that you can understand my reasoning.
I have to accept that I am not what the current
BBC expects of their freelance presenters.

Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not
"just a job"
I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world.
From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too.
The strawberry is dead.
Long live the strawberry. B

December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM

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Apex

@apex.atproto.ceo

give it up for mutexes! give it up! please give it up. we are going to fucking deadlock

December 13, 2025 at 3:49 AM

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c0nc0rdance

@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social

A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.

Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.

A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).

December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM

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Haus of Decline

@hausofdecline.bsky.social

A man drinks heavily. His elbow digs into the table's surface as it supports his sullen head. Behind him is a spilled wine bottle and a notice that says "SCHULDEN!" He says "starting my street magic career in Germany was a terrible idea..." On the street in Berlin, the magician sets up in front of a German man in a black trenchcoat, mesh shirt combat boots and sunglasses. He does a trick where he appears to float in midair. The German man states "There is a rational explanation for how you are doing this."

December 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM

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Kenny Logins

@kennylogins.bsky.social

it is wednesneigh my dudes

October 16, 2024 at 9:08 AM

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Misty De Méo

@cdrom.ca

Really loving the replies on that “Gen Z likes old tech” story along the lines of “Windows 98 was the peak of Windows”. It bluescreened so often there was a way to make Windows try to keep hobbling along post-BSOD. Win98 wasn’t great! Your nostalgia is lying to you!

December 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM