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confusedalpacart.bsky.social
help ive ammassed a pile of art i forgot to post again
painting of a fae in a forest, sat at the base of a ruined statue, offering a hand to a creature
December 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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confusedalpacart.bsky.social
mini paintings
painting of an alien in a bubble helmet floating in space painting of a crab reaching for a knife hexagonal painting of a t-rex on a tropical beach
December 8, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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jinglejam.co.uk
That's £1,000,000 raised - for CALM, The Trevor Project, Autistica, WWF, Make-A-Wish, The Grand Appeal, Become, and War Child. And that's all thanks to you!

These funds will make an incredible difference to so many around the world. From all of us at the Jingle Jam: thank you!
A gold graphic with a red festive section at the top. A gold banner with the number “£1,000,000” is in the center, and below this, large white text reads “Milestone reached”. Other text reads “We did it!” with the jingle Jam logo and the Jingle Jam Tiltify web page address.
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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confusedalpacart.bsky.social
christmas cards for the market have arrived!!!!
photo of 3 christmas cards featuring new zealand birds.
December 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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celechii.itch.io
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out comparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy background comparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlights comparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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jinglejam.co.uk
Because you've been so good, we're letting you open a few of your presents early this year.

Core Keeper, Dungeons of Hinterberg, Tactical Breach Wizards and an exclusive Jingle Jam edition of Train Sim World 6 are your first four games in the 2025 Jingle Jam Games Collection!
A blue graphic with the Jingle Jam logo and an image of four game thumbnails - Dungeons of Hinterberg, Core Keeper, Tactical Breach Wizards, and Train Sim World 6. Below this is a red banner with large white text that reads “2025 Games Collection”, followed by a smaller white banner that reads “Out Now”.
November 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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shenanigansen.bsky.social
Panel 1: An old, grey haired, mostly bald version of Shen is laying in bed, in a residential room, with a nightstand with a lamp on top and wooden flooring. There's a man with similar hair to him laying his hand upon the old Shen's. Old Shen says "Son ... I can feel myself passing ..." Panel 2: Closeup of the son's hand resting on old Shen's. Old Shen continues, "My ... final request ... is ..." Panel 3: Closeup of old Shen, opening his eyes slightly. "Please make a 3D model of me ... a-and ... COUGH ... make it do gay little anime dances on a screen at the funeral." Panel 4: Old Shen, resting contently in an open casket, and above him is a screen and two speakers, the screen showing him doing a gay little anime dance, and the speakers playing presumably the anime music he's dancing to. Two wake-goers are there looking at it.
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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miamidsa.org
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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erininthemorning.com
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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flow.blacksky.app
Gates insistence on prioritizing intellectual property rights before distributing the COVID vaccine definitely resulted in unnecessary deaths of children.

www.wired.com/story/opinio...
The World Loses Under Bill Gates’ Vaccine Colonialism
As many countries wait for Covid vaccines, the world needs a patent-free “People’s Vaccine”—not more of Gates’ intellectual property stubbornness.
www.wired.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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sirhannah.bsky.social
my partner and i can no longer buy a home together because they were fired by Rockstar, without warning,

*checks notes*

for talking about working conditions with their colleagues in a private union discord server.

🙂
chrisbratt.bsky.social Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 14d
EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".

PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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ratherpeculiar.bsky.social
Seeing AI slop on any product in a store has the same effect on me as brightly colored frogs have on birds and snakes. It signals that it's toxic, dangerous and not for consumption.
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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katelynburns.com
lately i've been thinking about how LLMs must feel really amazing to use if you're a dumbass, but incredibly frustrating if you're just basically competent in life.
sarahoconnorft.ft.com Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 24d
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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edzitron.com
The AI Bubble inflated by a dereliction of duty from those meant to seek out and publish the truth. LLMs have been sold on myth and outright lies about what they do or will do, and when the bubble bursts, retail investors will be left with the consequences.

www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...
Why Are We In A Bubble? You’re tired, I’m tired, we’re all god damn tired of the AI bubble. It’s been three years and very little has actually happened other than hundreds of billions of dollars being incinerated to build data centers or sustain the reckless and directionless ambitions of Sam Altman and OpenAI, or any number of near-identical AI startups that all claim to be worth somewhere between $5 billion and $500 billion. Yet what truly upsets me about AI is the lies. Despite the fact that Large Language Models cannot really be trusted to do any particular job without endless prompt engineering and tinkering, so many people talk about them as if they’re the second coming of Christ, capable of doing just about anything if you put your mind to it. In reality, LLMs are capable of some stuff but not a lot of stuff and most people you talk to use it as either a coding assistant (that they have to either give very simple tasks or constantly check up on) or as a replacement for Google search that may or may not be better. Yet for years people have said things about LLMs that they don’t actually do, and when pressed to explain further, they’ve said that “these models are getting exponentially better.” We have seen a dereliction of duty by those who are meant to know the truth — the media and analysts — who are either ignorant of reality or refuse to live within it, saying instead that every bit of proof that we’re in a bubble is just “doomerism” or “skepticism” or proof of some sort of corruption or animosity toward the future, rather than an attempt to speak of what’s actually happening and inform the public. LLMs are limited! What they do today is similar to what they did a year ago, and what they’ll do a year in the future! The time of LLM innovation is over, this era is over, and every day we extend it only beckons further retail investors to throw themselves into an active volcano after being convinced that it’ll transform them into a golden god. It’s insu… It is insane to me that we still, to this day, have people claiming that “agents are coming,” or still peddling out the dog-brained “Uber and Amazon Web Services burned a lot of money” talking points, or somehow justifying the hundreds of billions of dollars burned by saying that “ChatGPT is really popular,” as if that makes up for the theft of millions of people’s art or the destruction of our planet. We’ve known that OpenAI was burning billions of dollars since the middle of 2024, as we’ve known the same of Anthropic, as we’ve known that every AI company is unprofitable, as we’ve known that models will hallucinate forever, as we’ve known that the “scaling laws” paradigm was a bucket of bullshit. These facts have sat baking in the sun for anywhere from a year and a half to two years, yet the media narrative has only fairly recently shifted to consider whether there’s any problem with an entire industry of unprofitable companies building wrappers on top of models made by unprofitable frontier AI labs. AI has proven that we live in an era of high information and low processing, and that the majority of people — the media, investors, analysts, and even government officials — simply take the top-line analysis from whatever the most “trustworthy” source they can find. As a result, TV networks like CNBC publish outright nonsense to back up things like OpenAI promising to pay $1.4 trillion in compute costs in five years with “trustworthy” analysts like Futurum’s Dan Newman, who had this to say about how OpenAI might afford it: This is a company that its biggest backers and investors believe will become the largest hyperscaler in the future. So it isn’t just going to compete for these software and for these ChatGPT and video making, uh, models, they're going to be focusing on taking over this AI layer, going down the path of Anthropic, playing the enterprise, developing these biggest models, and then ultimately developing a model to make money. This is a fucking analy… This is why people are going to lose so much money! This is why people are being failed! The mainstream media is deliberately, aggressively pushing nonsense narratives with enough buzzwords to keep the bubble inflated. In reality, our society is built on a lot of beliefs that are extremely thinly-held, and LLMs took root because society has been primed by science fiction to believe that it’s inevitable that we’ll have an autonomous computer in our lifetimes. We are trained to follow smart-sounding people from birth, and what constitutes “smart’ is judged by a combination of right-sounding words and braggadocious confidence, and while that’s sort of worked before, Large Language Models feel as if they’re purpose-built to exploit these semiotic tropes. ChatGPT can convince an imbecile he knows quantum physics because it gives him the topline definition in simple enough terms that he can repeat. ChatGPT can give a convincing-enough impression of a person that it can convince somebody that it wants him to leave his wife. ChatGPT can give a convincing-enough impression of writing code that it can convince basically every investor and member of the media that it will replace software engineers in mere months. And because ChatGPT did a convincing-enough impression of a person writing something, Satya Nadella decided to buy as many GPUs as possible, and because Satya Nadella was doing a convincing-enough impression of a CEO who knew what the fuck he was doing, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg and Andy Jassy immediately copied him, so that they too could do convincing-enough impressions of executives that knew what they were doing. And because we live with markets that are poisoned by growth-at-all-cost thinkers, they fell in line behind the hyperscalers, claiming that the “era of AI” was here without any proof that was the case, all because the already-existing businesses underpinning the magnificent 7 kept growing. That, and the media has entirely failed to hold the… There is only one way to avoid this happening again: holding every single booster’s feet to the fire for months and months after the bubble bursts, and make sure that any other hype cycles they push are met with venom and receipts the likes of which God has never seen. If I sound like I have an axe to grind, it’s because I do. Regular people are already getting hurt — their communities destroyed by data centers, their art stolen, their loved-ones driven mad by AI psychosis, and, most likely, their 401Ks ravaged when this ends. I will have no mercy for those who failed to do their jobs. Will you?
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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captaindisillusion.bsky.social
I'm gonna need @possumeveryhour.io to upgrade to Possum Every Minute, pls. Stress is just too high.
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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oregonzoo.bsky.social
Oh to be an armadillo frolicking through the forest
May 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
Nothing is sacred.
4 frame comic. The author is in bookstore. Text above reads : I went to my local bookstore today, and the first thing I saw upon entering was a display of children's books made with aI. In second frame, she holds a book. Text reads : telling stories to children is so quintessential to the human experience. why would anyone want to let robots do it for us? In the third frame there is a recipe book open on a cake picture. Text reads : a few months ago, I bought a recipe book that turned out to have been made with aI. hallucinated cakes that I unknowingly placed next to a binder containing my mom and grandma's hand- written recipes. In the last frame, the author as a child is baking with her grandmother. Text reads : I'm not against aI because it might ''steal my job'' as an artist. I'm against aI because it robs society from the very experiences that connect us.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
today, like every day, is a good day to remember everything Lake Superior has taken from us. the only language the Great Lakes understand is force.

RIP to the Eddie Fitz
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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mandofeovg.bsky.social
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June 1, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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stefmowords.bsky.social
succubus - female demon that seduces men

incubus - male demon that seduces women

vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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jasonschreier.bsky.social
BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.

Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Grand Theft Auto’ Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firings
Union says 30 and 40 people were terminated. Rockstar Games’ parent company cites ‘gross misconduct’
www.bloomberg.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
AI and Crypto data centers need to be the first ones to lose power in a brown out.
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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beaujohnson44.bsky.social
People who want you to meet bigots halfway are not on your side.
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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archai.bsky.social
This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
Photo of NBC’s exit poll data (from my work laptop, lol) showing Mamdani splitting the straight vote equally with Cuomo, but taking the LGBTQ+ vote by more than 5:1. Even though the LGBTQ+ slice is only 14% of the population, they were a LANDSLIDE in his favor.
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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sherlockhulmes.bsky.social
So happy to hear about Mayor Mamdani’s win in NYC!

Some other dem wins over there too, and with the UK Green Party and Zack making waves over here, a small part of me is beginning to believe there’s still hope. That not everyone has forgotten kindness and empathy and fairness. ❤️
November 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM