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So this looks interesting - magnetic-based position trackers for VR full body tracking. They are about to kickstart the first manufacturing run it seems... www.fluxpose.com #vr #vrchat #cluster
FluxPose | VR tracking system
FluxPose is an occlusion-free 6DOF tracking system for FBT, robotics, DIY and more.
FluxPose offers occlusion-free, low-latency, and precision tracking at a fraction of current costs.
www.fluxpose.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
So this looks interesting - magnetic-based position trackers for VR full body tracking. They are about to kickstart the first manufacturing run it seems... www.fluxpose.com #vr #vrchat #cluster
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The only fic, to my knowledge, ever inspired by a tweet of mine. It includes a phrase I would be proud to have written: “A man who does not love naked hot sauerkraut wrestling truly cannot be said to love our country.”
NB-
This is a reference to a simpler time (apparently 7:10 PM · Jul 2, 2021) . Fic thoughtfully bearing witness is archiveofourown.org/works/33342418
This is a reference to a simpler time (apparently 7:10 PM · Jul 2, 2021) . Fic thoughtfully bearing witness is archiveofourown.org/works/33342418
![Screenshot in intro to a fic (citation above)of two tweets [The link for the first one no longer works]:
Once upon a time, Ursula Vernon a.k.a. T. Kingfisher tweeted these two tweets in response to a troll:
https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1411096126657335303
FATHER? WHY DO YOU LOOK SO FORLORN? HAS THE PIG GOTTEN INTO THE VODKA AGAIN?
WHAT? MOTHER? MOTHER HAS DIED?!
WHAT DO YOU MEAN, "CABBAGE POISONING?!"
https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1411100077079339023
NO, FATHER. PUT DOWN THE AXE. PUT IT DOWN, I SAY! WE SHALL BURY MOTHER AMONG THE CABBAGES.
...VERY WELL, WE SHALL BURY HER WHERE THE CABBAGES WOULD BE IF THE TSAR'S MEN HAD NOT TAKEN THEM ALL FOR THEIR INDECENT HOT SAUERKRAUT WRESTLING RING.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i33m3atdwnpjjocc2spipqex/bafkreicosl3pqxufuxkfufqrqhwg6wtm6pg6rv2e7ou3jrhmlfi2gk6ft4@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The only fic, to my knowledge, ever inspired by a tweet of mine. It includes a phrase I would be proud to have written: “A man who does not love naked hot sauerkraut wrestling truly cannot be said to love our country.”
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There's a shawarma restaurant chain in Canada that markets via well-produced YT / TikTok shorts. Their running gag is that if you put ketchup on the shawarma, their guy is going to hunt you down and take you out. I keep wondering when they're going to get dinged by a platform's moderation.
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
There's a shawarma restaurant chain in Canada that markets via well-produced YT / TikTok shorts. Their running gag is that if you put ketchup on the shawarma, their guy is going to hunt you down and take you out. I keep wondering when they're going to get dinged by a platform's moderation.
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Yikes. Banning people for activities such as co-authorship and advising a graduate student is completely unreasonable in a modern research environment. And a retroactive 5 year ban is wildly unfair.
November 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Yikes. Banning people for activities such as co-authorship and advising a graduate student is completely unreasonable in a modern research environment. And a retroactive 5 year ban is wildly unfair.
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What is truly pathetic about Labour is that this is all they have got. They have failed so spectacularly already, despite a whacking great majority, to even attempt to govern positively that all they have is punching down on marginalised groups and saying "oh but Reform will be worse".
November 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
What is truly pathetic about Labour is that this is all they have got. They have failed so spectacularly already, despite a whacking great majority, to even attempt to govern positively that all they have is punching down on marginalised groups and saying "oh but Reform will be worse".
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who has *not* always wanted their very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammer head shark
i ask u
i ask u
Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor?
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
who has *not* always wanted their very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammer head shark
i ask u
i ask u
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Every time this kind of thing comes round it's because the people saying this are remembering being kids and of course the world seems better when someone else is worrying about taking care of you and you can spend most of your time just riding bikes.
Ah the 1970s.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Every time this kind of thing comes round it's because the people saying this are remembering being kids and of course the world seems better when someone else is worrying about taking care of you and you can spend most of your time just riding bikes.
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
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Nice job senate republicans you fucking clowns
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Nice job senate republicans you fucking clowns
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Absolute nonsense. Anyone who lived through the period, or who has studied the period, will know how daft, how dangerously silly, this kind of rot is. If I may, I was there. It was FAR more grey, tough, poor, bigoted, boring, terrifying, violent & frequently flat-out insane than nostalgia insists.
November 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Absolute nonsense. Anyone who lived through the period, or who has studied the period, will know how daft, how dangerously silly, this kind of rot is. If I may, I was there. It was FAR more grey, tough, poor, bigoted, boring, terrifying, violent & frequently flat-out insane than nostalgia insists.
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it is fucking insane to me that ubisoft connect STILL
TO THIS FUCKING DAY
COMPLETELY FUCKING IGNORES MY LANGUAGE SETTINGS
It goes "ah, you see, you selected english, but i have detected that you're european so I'm going to pick a language from a hat and serve it to you"
THIS IS A SOLVED PROBLEM
TO THIS FUCKING DAY
COMPLETELY FUCKING IGNORES MY LANGUAGE SETTINGS
It goes "ah, you see, you selected english, but i have detected that you're european so I'm going to pick a language from a hat and serve it to you"
THIS IS A SOLVED PROBLEM
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
it is fucking insane to me that ubisoft connect STILL
TO THIS FUCKING DAY
COMPLETELY FUCKING IGNORES MY LANGUAGE SETTINGS
It goes "ah, you see, you selected english, but i have detected that you're european so I'm going to pick a language from a hat and serve it to you"
THIS IS A SOLVED PROBLEM
TO THIS FUCKING DAY
COMPLETELY FUCKING IGNORES MY LANGUAGE SETTINGS
It goes "ah, you see, you selected english, but i have detected that you're european so I'm going to pick a language from a hat and serve it to you"
THIS IS A SOLVED PROBLEM
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funny seeing Jimmy Saville cited by people here - mostly, I think, non-Brits. the weird thing about Saville was that in my experience *no one liked him* - at least, children. He was almost universally seen as a creepy weirdo if you were a kid in the era of Jim'll Fix It, etc.
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
funny seeing Jimmy Saville cited by people here - mostly, I think, non-Brits. the weird thing about Saville was that in my experience *no one liked him* - at least, children. He was almost universally seen as a creepy weirdo if you were a kid in the era of Jim'll Fix It, etc.
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It got put on my timeline so now you have to see it too
WHAT.
whhhhattttt.
To be clear we are talking about Donald J. Trump fellating William Jefferson Clinton?
IS THAT WHAT I AM READING
whhhhattttt.
To be clear we are talking about Donald J. Trump fellating William Jefferson Clinton?
IS THAT WHAT I AM READING
Mark Epstein asked his brother Jeffrey Epstein whether Steve Bannon could confirm if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba. Jeffrey Epstein: "I thought I had tsuris,” using the Yiddish term for troubles. #OpDeathEaters
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It got put on my timeline so now you have to see it too
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Pointing out (in my 'BBC' accent) that I don't qualify can be amusing, as the 'reasonable' person tries to avoid saying 'but you're White?!'. Yes, with two Irish grandparents on my father's side. Which incidentally now means my British passport can be taken off me, thanks to the last Tory govt 2/3
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Pointing out (in my 'BBC' accent) that I don't qualify can be amusing, as the 'reasonable' person tries to avoid saying 'but you're White?!'. Yes, with two Irish grandparents on my father's side. Which incidentally now means my British passport can be taken off me, thanks to the last Tory govt 2/3
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Pre the last election, I explained the passport thing to a Tory canvasser on the doorstep as one reason why they would never get my vote. I won't apologise for taking considerable satisfaction in watching his jaw literally drop with horror as he said, 'but - my wife's Canadian - so my kids...'
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Pre the last election, I explained the passport thing to a Tory canvasser on the doorstep as one reason why they would never get my vote. I won't apologise for taking considerable satisfaction in watching his jaw literally drop with horror as he said, 'but - my wife's Canadian - so my kids...'
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I think people are missing the point with this Epstein thing.
The question is not did he have sex with underaged girls. He did.
The question is not did he have illegal financial transactions with Epstein. He did.
The question is not did he serve as an asset and agent of Putin. He did.
The question is not did he have sex with underaged girls. He did.
The question is not did he have illegal financial transactions with Epstein. He did.
The question is not did he serve as an asset and agent of Putin. He did.
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I think people are missing the point with this Epstein thing.
The question is not did he have sex with underaged girls. He did.
The question is not did he have illegal financial transactions with Epstein. He did.
The question is not did he serve as an asset and agent of Putin. He did.
The question is not did he have sex with underaged girls. He did.
The question is not did he have illegal financial transactions with Epstein. He did.
The question is not did he serve as an asset and agent of Putin. He did.
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I know both these words very well and somehow never made this connection till now. TIL
To explain: "Kabbalah" is a term referring to a wide array of mystic practices and texts in Judaism, but antisemites have LONG used it as an example of Judaic secretiveness and evil
Ergo describing some evil secret group as a "cabal"
Anyway, now you know
Ergo describing some evil secret group as a "cabal"
Anyway, now you know
November 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I know both these words very well and somehow never made this connection till now. TIL
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In the Museum of Brands and Packaging down in Notting Hill, you can see this happening again and again. “McIntosh’s Radio Toffee”. “Vimulon Atomic Soap: now with Uranium!” “Tinford’s Electric Cufflinks”. It’s always bollocks. It’s the giveaway it’s a nine day’s wonder, before it all calms down.
![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
In the Museum of Brands and Packaging down in Notting Hill, you can see this happening again and again. “McIntosh’s Radio Toffee”. “Vimulon Atomic Soap: now with Uranium!” “Tinford’s Electric Cufflinks”. It’s always bollocks. It’s the giveaway it’s a nine day’s wonder, before it all calms down.
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The UK government says London’s COVID memorial wall will be permanently preserved. The 8-foot-high Portland stone wall along the Thames will honour 240,000+ lives lost and the sacrifices of key workers, especially in health and care sectors.
Source: archive.li/S1F7y
Source: archive.li/S1F7y
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The UK government says London’s COVID memorial wall will be permanently preserved. The 8-foot-high Portland stone wall along the Thames will honour 240,000+ lives lost and the sacrifices of key workers, especially in health and care sectors.
Source: archive.li/S1F7y
Source: archive.li/S1F7y
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Behavior bio people, check out this guy's experience training an octopus!
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Behavior bio people, check out this guy's experience training an octopus!
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Art train! 🚂
Next station:
This train is accepting invertebrate art and photos. Show me your bugs! 🪲🐡
Next station:
This train is accepting invertebrate art and photos. Show me your bugs! 🪲🐡
November 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Art train! 🚂
Next station:
This train is accepting invertebrate art and photos. Show me your bugs! 🪲🐡
Next station:
This train is accepting invertebrate art and photos. Show me your bugs! 🪲🐡
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I hope everybody who even *thinks* about suggesting we go back to the high-risk healthcare pool situation is diagnosed with a pre-existing condition tonight.
November 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I hope everybody who even *thinks* about suggesting we go back to the high-risk healthcare pool situation is diagnosed with a pre-existing condition tonight.
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Addendum: I quickly wrote something partially about the results, and the potential for misunderstanding, but also about history's profound irony.
open.substack.com/pub/arutherf...
open.substack.com/pub/arutherf...
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Addendum: I quickly wrote something partially about the results, and the potential for misunderstanding, but also about history's profound irony.
open.substack.com/pub/arutherf...
open.substack.com/pub/arutherf...