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Rory Hunter
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Swiss-army software engineer and miniature painter
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navmecheng.bsky.social
An actual comic of theirs.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/604
July 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
pugnascotia.bsky.social
You should sign this:
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
Lula: A veto for the Amazon!
I just signed a petition to stop Brazil's 'devastation bill' – a reckless law that opens the Amazon to destruction. Lula has the power to veto it – let's show him the world is watching. Join me and sh...
secure.avaaz.org
July 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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joemuggs.bsky.social
Truly the Yaatt is the mascot of our times.
40 › Create an image of the alphabet with each letter represented by a thing, animal, insect or parasite whose name begins with said letter. Image created B A Apple H Grape MN Mouse 25 Snake Crab Jnsect Orange DE Dinosaur 題 Jar King Pig U Rabbit Fox Lion R Quail Tree Yacht Umbrella parasite 愛wxX Parasite Parasite Z Yaatt Yacht Parasite
July 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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kjcharleswriter.com
I just received a contract on Docusign for review and signing, and it offered to give me an AI-generated summary that I could read instead to save time.

That's AN AI-GENERATED SUMMARY ***OF A CONTRACT***, in case you need to let that sink in.
June 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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chrislewislee.com
It's my birthday 🎉. If you fancy helping me out, please repost my art. It's very much appreciated!
June 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
pugnascotia.bsky.social
My Cerastus Castigator Chaos knight is coming along. It's almost completely assembled now. Next steps are some small decals, and lots of weathering and grime to tone down the colours. It's taken me most of the year!

#warhammer #warhammercommunity #40k #chaos #chaosknights #miniatures #painting
June 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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raphdee.bsky.social
WE HAVE TOO MUCH TECH. WE DON'T NEED NEW TECH THAT WILL BRING US PROBLEMS WE HAVE NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE. INNOVATION FOR THE SAKE OF INNOVATION IS STUPID AND DISRUPTIVE.
June 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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orkneylibrary.bsky.social
Remembering that time we catalogued a Collins Nature Guide to the seashore and found all the new insults we could ever need.
Entries from Collins Nature Guide to the Seashore. The entries are: Fan-bristled Robber Fly, Calcareous Tube Worm, Yellow-plumed Sea Slug, Dune Chafer, Great Scallop, Stinking Iris, Thick-lipped Dog Whelk and Sea Potato
June 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
pugnascotia.bsky.social
Stand up to the far right by donating to @goodlawproject.bsky.social’s fighting fund for their High Court case against Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

goodlaw.social/z53b
We’re suing Farage’s Reform in the High Court | Good Law Project
Update (25 March 2025): We’ve just filed a landmark legal claim against Reform UK at the High Court.
goodlaw.social
June 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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avaaz.org
The world is watching kids flee schools-turned-infernos from Israeli airstrikes. The aid is ready. The hope is waiting. Only one decisive step is needed to secure Gaza’s lifeline. Tell PM Keir Starmer to sanction Israel until the blockade is down: avaaz.org/Sanction_Israel
May 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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hiddenstash.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
pugnascotia.bsky.social
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
Rights for whales!
Whales could soon have legal rights — thanks to Pacific Indigenous leaders. Let’s help them take this bold plan to the UN with a million voices
secure.avaaz.org
May 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie
Incredible work from everyone involved here
May 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
pugnascotia.bsky.social
100 times this!
May 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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edfortune.com
Last day to back this @gavthorpe.bsky.social & Andy Chambers game.

Story and links over on @starburst.bsky.social

www.starburstmagazine.com/gav-thorpe-g...
Gav Thorpe Game Zeo Genesis Fully Funds - STARBURST Magazine
Today is the last day to back Zeo Genesis, a skirmish wargame from legendary games creators Andy Chambers and Gav Thorpe. The game features small teams of warriors fighting in Zeo-Forms, basically pow...
www.starburstmagazine.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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joles.bsky.social
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
May 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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jenx459.bsky.social
I just watched an orangutan tie a knot. You should see it too.
May 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
pugnascotia.bsky.social
Instant pre-order.
jamiesmart.bsky.social Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · May 13
Thrilled to reveal the cover for Bunny Vs Monkey book ELEVEN! Intergalactic Monkey Business is released in October, but available for preorder now! 🐰🐵🚀
May 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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soverybritish.bsky.social
Life = one long panic punctuated by cups of tea.
May 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM
pugnascotia.bsky.social
🚨 Thursday’s elections prove it: First Past the Post is broken. 5 parties, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented. We need Proportional Representation — NOW.
✍️ Sign the petition:

actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...
📢 No More First Past the Post Elections!
Thursday’s election results confirm what so many of us already know: the current voting system is broken. With 5 parties polling strongly, First Past the Post is delivering chaos and turning election...
actionnetwork.org
May 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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darkmechanic.bsky.social
Zeo Genesis, a game I've been working on as lead concept artist, is currently live!

If you like small skirmish table top games, sci-fi, mechs, and GW alums such as Gav Thorpe & Andy Chambers, then please join the campaign using the link below! There is even a free STL to use right now!
May 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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skadivore.bsky.social
Can you help me share this?

I would like to announce my first own artbook - part of the Artbox Series by @spiridude.com caurette editions
The cover features a reworked piece from 2018, one that we felt was perfect for this. And still… something about it didn’t feel like me anymore.
A dreamy, pastel-hued illustration of a long-haired woman tenderly holding a young child in her lap. They sit by a calm pink-hued body of water, surrounded by lush tropical plants and glowing flowers. Soft butterflies float through the air as the warm light of a full moon glows behind them, casting a magical and serene atmosphere.
May 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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theguardian.com
‘Whipped in front of everyone’: three women on being flogged by the Taliban
‘Whipped in front of everyone’: three women on being flogged by the Taliban
Hundreds of women forced to confess to ‘moral crimes’ they did not commit have been publicly lashed in Afghanistan
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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tranniehathaway.bsky.social
"Sydney Sweeney could have an entire career of choosing only hits, of never taking a break, and still not reach the kind of money the generation before her made more or less passively once their work was done."
You could be the most popular novelist in the world and not make $21/word to report. You could argue that no writer today is as good or popular as Hemingway was at his peak, but no writer today is even making half or a quarter of what he made, and writers only ever get so famous. If someone were paid $5/word in 2022—which is something I have never heard of happening and is a full $2 more than than anyone I know has ever been paid per word—that would be a quarter of what Hemingway was paid. That writer would be able to pay their rent and health insurance premiums and tuck some money away in savings off a standard-issue story per month, but again, that lucky writer does not exist. The money produced by art has not disappeared. The issue is not that the people of the world value television less than they did in the 1990s. The reality is that the people with the most money have devised, at every turn, new and more bulletproof ways for them to make and keep more money, and for the people who make things to make less. This is the eternal story of labor and management; it just has hot people in it, in this case. Here is the crux of the issue: If Sydney Sweeney cannot afford to take six months off, it is a safe assumption to make that no one in Hollywood without family money can. That means that even one of the most famous and in-demand actresses working right now is less secure than every nepotism baby who sauntered into an audition because their dad had been the legal counsel for Warner Bros. or whatever. It's easy to see how this makes the art those studios produce worse, but also easy to see how it persists. It's also not a world I want to live in. I don't want to exist in a place where the people who make the most money off art don't make it at all
March 9, 2024 at 12:53 AM