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skies (they/them)
@skiesofpluto.bsky.social
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they/them. 30s, queer weirdo / i have many obsessions / please feel free to yoink and improve upon any alt text I post / check out my bots: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ogqmwdmv2jnptani4oitrjfr/lists/3lmczrhwb3m2p
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skies (they/them) @skiesofpluto.bsky.social · Oct 14
i have added about a dozen more thermal stickers to the site. all tested, some converted to work in black in white. stickers.nekoweb.org
Thermal Stickers
a growing library of anti-fascist thermal sticker designs.
stickers.nekoweb.org
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cyberstalin.bsky.social
do you want to know why bolsonaro is going to prison btw

first he tried to remove his ankle monitor using heat, which ofc was immediately detected. then one of his fucking failsons flavio called for a rally this morning. the plan seemed to be to mount an escape using the rally as a ruse
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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color-palette-bot.bsky.social
a superb new palette for you to enjoy:

Royal Purpleness (#821777),
Skeletor’s Cape (#793399),
Yuè Guāng Lán Moonlight (#5e55aa),
Caledor Sky (#336499), and
Blue Kelp (#177782)

#color #ColorPalette
a block of five horizontal color swatches in Royal Purpleness (#821777), Skeletor’s Cape (#793399), Yuè Guāng Lán Moonlight (#5e55aa), Caledor Sky (#336499), and Blue Kelp (#177782).
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
Almost half the US economy is now based on Nvidia selling GPUs to itself using other companies as proxies
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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annabookwriter.bsky.social
Okay. Indie brands. We have to talk.

That Harry Potter collab is a great way to ensure that if your little company survives the backlash, the customers you have left will be the kind of people who buy TERF shit out of spite or out of being completely checked out.

Sure, their money spends.

But.
November 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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kbax.bsky.social
*Mwah*

Francisco Rebajes
1950–60
Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
silver brooch in the shape of lips
November 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.
pogonr.bsky.social Pogo 🎨 COMMISSIONS OPEN @pogonr.bsky.social · 11h
heads up, gmail has a new setting automatically on that allows their a*i to be trained on your emails so make sure to turn off the 'Smart Feature' checkbox in your settings
Gmail's Smart Features option in the settings
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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rincewind.run
evergreen
Tweet from @PPathole Tech enthusiasts: my entire house is smart Tech workers: the only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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notalegalrecord.net
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.

Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.

This is great news. 📚
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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mossworm.bsky.social
worm...
worm or snake like creature with a rainbow colored quilt-like pattern and small pink wings. it is folded over with its head resting on the ground
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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kbax.bsky.social
Rabbit Barman Brooch

Raymond Yard
1930
From source: It is dated 1930. Its medium is diamonds, emeralds, ruby, platinum, onyx. This rabbit with champagne of 1930 was the first of American Raymond Yard’s fanciful animal-form cocktail brooches. Brooch is a rabbit dressed in a diamond tux carrying an ice bucket with champagne and a tray with two coupe glasses
November 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
skiesofpluto.bsky.social
awkwardly trying to get views for my content but it's always some shenanigans i threw together and am giving away for free
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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candicefrederick.bsky.social
How I feel about the whole Olivia Nuzzi story is that there are a lot of talented, ethical, underemployed or unemployed black and brown journalists right now who are ready to work.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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gdbee.bsky.social
Peace Lily
Side profile illo of a peace lily-themed nymph with one hand on her hip, and holding a leafy scimitar with her other hand. She has peace lilies intertwined with her jacket and curls. She has a magenta jacket and headphones. Drawn by gdbee in Nov 2025
November 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
skiesofpluto.bsky.social
not using any meta products ends up feeling way more countercultural than i was trying to be by avoiding meta
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
skiesofpluto.bsky.social
am i going to go get glasses today. i really need to
November 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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edzitron.com
Monday Premium: The 12.7k word Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: how it makes money, how millions of GPUs are likely sitting uninstalled, and how its entire future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.

Here's $10 off annual.
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NVIDIA's Future Success Is Predicated On The Ability For Everybody To Keep Feeding It Tens Of Billions Of Dollars Every Quarter, Requiring Endless Debt, Space, and Actual AI Demand To Exist Here are some thoughts I have had: A 25MW data center takes about $1 billion, with $600 million of that being GPUs - 200 GB200 racks, to be specific. It needs about 20 acres - 100,000 square feet for the data center, roughly. NVIDIA sells about $50 billion of GPUs and associated hardware in a quarter, so let's say that $40 billion of that is just the GPUs and $10 billion is the hardware, so around 13,333 GB200 racks. I realize that NVIDIA sells far more than that (GB300 racks, singular GPUs, and so on). Deep-pocketed hyperscalers like Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon representing 41.32% of NVIDIA's revenue in the middle of 2025, funneling free cash flow directly into Jensen Huang's pockets... ...for now. Amazon ($15 billion), Google ($25 billion), Meta ($30 billion) and Oracle ($18 billion) have all had to raise massive amounts of debt to continue to fund AI-focused capital expenditures, with more than half of that (per Rubenstein) spent on GPUs. Otherwise, basically anybody buying GPUs at any scale has to fund doing so with either venture capital (money raised in exchange for part of the company) or debt. NVIDIA, at this point, around 8% of the value of the S&P 500 (the 500 leading (meaning they meet certain criteria of size, liquidity (cash availability) and profitability) companies on the US stock market). Its continued health - and representative value as a stock, which is not necessarily based on its actual numbers or health, but in this case kind of is? - has led the stock market to remarkable gains. It is not enough for NVIDIA to simply be a profitable company. It must continue beating the last quarter's revenue, again and again and again and again, forever. If that sounds dramatic, I assure you it is the truth. NVIDIA's continued success - and ability to continue delivering outsized beats of Wall Street's revenue estimates - depends on: The willingness of a few very large, cash-rich companies (Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Google) to continue buying successive generations of NVIDIA GPUs. The ability of said companies to continue buying successive generations of GPUs. The ability of other, less-cash-rich companies like Oracle to continue being able to raise debt to buy massive amounts of GPUs - such as the $40 billion of GPUs that Oracle is buying for Stargate Abilene. This is becoming a problem. The ability of unprofitable, debt-ridden companies like CoreWeave, AI "neoclouds" that use the GPUs they purchase from NVIDIA as collateral for loans to buy more GPUs, to to continue raising that debt to buy more GPUs. The ability of anybody who buys these GPUs to actually install them and use them, which requires massive amounts of construction...and more power than is currently available, even to the most well-funded and conspicuous projects. In simple terms, for the debt markets to continue propping up its revenues, because there is not really enough free cash in the world to continue pumping it into NVIDIA at this rate. And after all of this, Large Language Models, the only way to make any money on any of these GPUs, must prove they can actually produce a profit. Per my article from September, I can find no compelling evidence (outside of boosters speciously claiming otherwise) that it's profitable to sell access to GPUs. Based on my calculations, there's likely little more than $61 billion of actual AI revenue in 2025 across every single AI company and hyperscaler. Note that I said "revenue." Absolutely nobody is making a profit. The NVIDIA situation is one of the most insane things I've seen in my life. The single-largest, single-most-valuable, single-most-profitable company on the stock market has got there through selling ultra-expensive hardware that takes hundreds of millio…
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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kendrawrites.com
The thing is that it's also ahistorical. Unless something has gone really really wrong, birthing people have always been accompanied by someone who understood how birth happens. Because death. Death is a thing.
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
skiesofpluto.bsky.social
i wanna make... cool art things...
November 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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cuteslimebot.bsky.social
A rainbow slime blob with cute eyes, on a blue gingham background.
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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karidru.bsky.social
Thread but also just don't tell Paypal anything. No "what is this for" you both know what it's for. If you send a friend some money for dinner or something and you say "for friday night", even odds they get banned as a sex worker.
bennyjross.bsky.social Benny Ross - Freelance Artist @bennyjross.bsky.social · 1d
PayPal has rolled out a new "feature" that prompts you to leave feedback about an artist that you've commissioned via invoice.

Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.

(continue...)
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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nora.zone
who is following you dorks that you feel the need to repeatedly post that mtg is not on the side of the angels. it feels like spending a lot of time telling people not to eat hams they find on the ground
November 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
i love how bsky posters are so eager to appear worldly and wise that they'll jump to say "AND YOU'RE SURPRISED????" to the craziest shit that's ever happened. if bluesky existed on 9/11/01 you fucking bet these people would out here with "obviously, everyone with a brain cell could see this coming"
sarahjeong.bsky.social sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d
does mamdani smell really good in person or something. like he seems very charming yes but what the fuck lol
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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jortsthecat.bsky.social
It’s ok you can say it
trump, labeled “cats” is smiling up at mamdani, labeled “eating tape”
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
skiesofpluto.bsky.social
i think it's cool that catholics are allowed to go to raves now
November 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
no but this time I mean it: oh my God
vuc.bsky.social David✶🇬🇹 @vuc.bsky.social · 2d
He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM