Kieran Coughlan
@sortafriends.bsky.social
He/him. Engineer. Vegetarian. Animal lover. Husband. Believer in kindness. CoderDojo Mentor @coderdojoathenry.bsky.social
Stuff like this is tragic for those involved in the development because so many, myself included, will see "Gen AI" and never give this game another look. It's toxic.
TiGames, the developer of rabbit-starring action game Zoopunk - one of the eye-catching trailers in Microsoft's Xbox Game Preview Event yesterday - has defended itself amid allegations of generative AI use. https://bit.ly/3LQskFH
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Stuff like this is tragic for those involved in the development because so many, myself included, will see "Gen AI" and never give this game another look. It's toxic.
Reposted by Kieran Coughlan
What we consider to be "ancient Egypt" had archeologists for THEIR ancient Egypt
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
What we consider to be "ancient Egypt" had archeologists for THEIR ancient Egypt
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Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
I have deep love for Blender. Give it a little boost if you can.
Did Blender help you this year? Help back! 🧡
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
#b3d
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
#b3d
November 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I have deep love for Blender. Give it a little boost if you can.
Reposted by Kieran Coughlan
Did Blender help you this year? Help back! 🧡
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
#b3d
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
#b3d
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Did Blender help you this year? Help back! 🧡
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
#b3d
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
#b3d
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Please donate to ensure Blender stays available for all. I owe them so much, so I just did. Please share and spread the word!
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Please donate to ensure Blender stays available for all. I owe them so much, so I just did. Please share and spread the word!
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A short thread of observations using Max Andrew's tool to explore the network of relationships revealed in the Epstein estate email cache. @thatsjustlikeyouropinionman.com
🧵
1. There is a tight inner circle, densely connected. Trump is in the near outer rim.
epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com
🧵
1. There is a tight inner circle, densely connected. Trump is in the near outer rim.
epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
A short thread of observations using Max Andrew's tool to explore the network of relationships revealed in the Epstein estate email cache. @thatsjustlikeyouropinionman.com
🧵
1. There is a tight inner circle, densely connected. Trump is in the near outer rim.
epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com
🧵
1. There is a tight inner circle, densely connected. Trump is in the near outer rim.
epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com
Reposted by Kieran Coughlan
![[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)
I understand when people think that this is going to bounce off Trump too, but know that most of those in power who seem to support him also hate him and fear him. They're just too cowardly to do anything. If the momentum shifts, they'll all turn on him in a heartbeat.
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I understand when people think that this is going to bounce off Trump too, but know that most of those in power who seem to support him also hate him and fear him. They're just too cowardly to do anything. If the momentum shifts, they'll all turn on him in a heartbeat.
Reposted by Kieran Coughlan
Vincent van Gogh ~ Mulberry Tree, 1889
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Vincent van Gogh ~ Mulberry Tree, 1889
The Epstein Ballroom always and forever.
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The Epstein Ballroom always and forever.
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Fixing the puncture in the inflatable ball-pit, in the below manner, is (and I suspect will remain) the most MacGyver-ass shit I’ve ever done.
October 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Fixing the puncture in the inflatable ball-pit, in the below manner, is (and I suspect will remain) the most MacGyver-ass shit I’ve ever done.
Reposted by Kieran Coughlan
"Ballerina Aesha Ash wandering around inner city Rochester breaking the stereotypes about women of color and to inspire young kids."
October 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"Ballerina Aesha Ash wandering around inner city Rochester breaking the stereotypes about women of color and to inspire young kids."
Just got a message from Microsoft saying that my Game Pass Ultimate subscription won't be increasing in price as long as I don't unsubscribe. This is in Europe.
A new effort to retain subscribers? I was expecting the price increase at the next billing renewal and I was planning to drop Ultimate.
A new effort to retain subscribers? I was expecting the price increase at the next billing renewal and I was planning to drop Ultimate.
October 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Just got a message from Microsoft saying that my Game Pass Ultimate subscription won't be increasing in price as long as I don't unsubscribe. This is in Europe.
A new effort to retain subscribers? I was expecting the price increase at the next billing renewal and I was planning to drop Ultimate.
A new effort to retain subscribers? I was expecting the price increase at the next billing renewal and I was planning to drop Ultimate.
Reposted by Kieran Coughlan
Lora Webb Nichols’s photographs of boom and bust in her small Wyoming town might be the largest photographic record of the era and region.
A Woman’s Intimate Record of Wyoming in the Early Twentieth Century
Lora Webb Nichols created and collected some twenty-four thousand negatives documenting life in her small town.
www.newyorker.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Lora Webb Nichols’s photographs of boom and bust in her small Wyoming town might be the largest photographic record of the era and region.
If there's a church of her, sign me up, because this is fire.
August 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
If there's a church of her, sign me up, because this is fire.
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trust but verify
alternate title: I Found Out Recently That I Am Bad At Corporate Politics
alternate title: I Found Out Recently That I Am Bad At Corporate Politics
August 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
trust but verify
alternate title: I Found Out Recently That I Am Bad At Corporate Politics
alternate title: I Found Out Recently That I Am Bad At Corporate Politics
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
Reposted by Kieran Coughlan
It genuinely is haunting me that so many people are turning over their lives to OpenAI without thinking for a moment about "huh, what would happen if this company turns out to be evil."
Often these are even people who do think that Meta is evil - they're just totally unable to extrapolate!
Often these are even people who do think that Meta is evil - they're just totally unable to extrapolate!
Oh boy, like, it's obvious that employers want to just own labor in the form of AI, and that that is the entire game
August 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
It genuinely is haunting me that so many people are turning over their lives to OpenAI without thinking for a moment about "huh, what would happen if this company turns out to be evil."
Often these are even people who do think that Meta is evil - they're just totally unable to extrapolate!
Often these are even people who do think that Meta is evil - they're just totally unable to extrapolate!
Finished Mafia: The Old Country. Great story. I really enjoyed it.
A little too rigidly linear for me though. I'd have really enjoyed the opportunity to take my time getting to the next mission and explore a little, but you almost never feel like you have that option.
A little too rigidly linear for me though. I'd have really enjoyed the opportunity to take my time getting to the next mission and explore a little, but you almost never feel like you have that option.
August 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Finished Mafia: The Old Country. Great story. I really enjoyed it.
A little too rigidly linear for me though. I'd have really enjoyed the opportunity to take my time getting to the next mission and explore a little, but you almost never feel like you have that option.
A little too rigidly linear for me though. I'd have really enjoyed the opportunity to take my time getting to the next mission and explore a little, but you almost never feel like you have that option.
Reposted by Kieran Coughlan
Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
Great racing, some heart-in-the-mouth stuff. Congrats Alex Dunne on the win and regaining the championship lead! #f2 #formula2 #alexdunne
July 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Great racing, some heart-in-the-mouth stuff. Congrats Alex Dunne on the win and regaining the championship lead! #f2 #formula2 #alexdunne
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You don't have to be Lebanese but it helps
July 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
You don't have to be Lebanese but it helps
Dell, I'm open to considering renewing my support contract on my one-year-old PC, but I certainly won't if I can't see up-front what it's clearly going to cost me.
July 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Dell, I'm open to considering renewing my support contract on my one-year-old PC, but I certainly won't if I can't see up-front what it's clearly going to cost me.
I remember reading about Russia entering dictatorship under Putin.
For a while, the TV satirists could still make fun of him. Then they couldn't. Shows went off the air.
That's when a lot of people understood they now lived in a dictatorship.
For a while, the TV satirists could still make fun of him. Then they couldn't. Shows went off the air.
That's when a lot of people understood they now lived in a dictatorship.
July 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I remember reading about Russia entering dictatorship under Putin.
For a while, the TV satirists could still make fun of him. Then they couldn't. Shows went off the air.
That's when a lot of people understood they now lived in a dictatorship.
For a while, the TV satirists could still make fun of him. Then they couldn't. Shows went off the air.
That's when a lot of people understood they now lived in a dictatorship.