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TheManxMissile
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jameshunt.bsky.social
Yesterday @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social and I saw some techbro giving “30 pieces of advice for people under 30” over on Twitter and it was all grind culture bullshit. As adults of 38 and 43 respectively, we compiled 30 pieces of advice that people under 30 won’t have heard before:
1. Phone calls are usually cheaper after 6pm 2. Read protect your floppy discs to prevent accidental data loss 3. Stop spending all your money on Pogs, they’re this year’s yo-yo. 4. Always label your VHS tapes so you know what’s on them. 5. Can’t afford posters of your favourite band? The splash pages from a recent issue of Smash Hits will look just as good blu-tacked on your wall 6. Unloading your mouse driver is a quick way to free up conventional memory when playing a DOS game 7. Hosting a tupperware party will allow you to meet people in your neighbourhood 8. Always carry a comb at work in case you need to neaten up that side parting at short notice 9. Pop a wheelie on your BMX to impress the older kids 10. Get in the habit of checking at the pump whether your petrol is leaded or unleaded to avoid costly mistakes 11. Rewind multiple tapes at once by threading several onto the same pencil 12. The right blacmange will wow your guests at any dinner party 13. A coax aerial splitter will allow you to watch Sky TV in two rooms at once with just one decoder card 14. You can temporarily pause your tamagotchi by pressing the A and C buttons together. 15. If your recorded programs look fuzzy, adjusting the tracking may improve the picture 16. Make sure you know your home phone number by heart: if you’re stuck in town without change, the operator can always reverse the charges. 17. If your internet connection keeps dropping, the culprit may be a call waiting tone - disable it by adding *70 before your ISP’s number. 18. If the local box office is out of gig tickets, don’t give up. Virgin Megastore may still have some behind the counter. 19. Travelling to East Germany? Apply for a visa at least two months in advance to avoid stress. 20. When sending mail to a new penpal, include an SAE to make receiving a reply more likely 21. If your NES cart fails to load, blowing into it will remove dust from the contacts 22. Ask your mum to hold on to toilet rolls and washing up liquid bottles in case Blue Peter ever repeats the Tracy Island instructions 23. Avoid confusion in the future by filling in your cheque stubs in full at the same time as the cheque 24. Buying a light meter will help you avoid wasting film on shots that just won’t develop properly. 25. Whenever you get a new planner or school diary, write your address inside the front and they’ll be more likely to find their way back to you if lost. 26. When meeting friends in town, agree on a precise place and time to meet in advance. If someone’s late, just wait there and see if they turn up. 27. Carrying a spare lighter, even if you don’t smoke, will allow you to strike up easy conversations at gigs and bars 28. Before heading out on a long car journey, write the road and exit junction numbers as a list - it’ll be easier to refer to than a road atlas. 29. Keep a note of which local shops close over lunchtime so you don’t waste a trip. If you aren’t sure, look them up in the yellow pages - a phone call costs less than a bus trip! 30. Learn your mental arithmetic: you won’t have a calculator with you all the time.
December 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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jewelknightjess.com
The AI the tech Bros thought they were making vs the AI they actually made
Cortana from Halo Holly from Red Dwarf
December 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
🎅🏼
Scene from the Deep Space 9 holiday spectacular. Weyoun is alien pictured in mid-thought. He has large and extra long ribbed ears that stretch further down the face than earth humans, aligning more with the jaw line, and have horizontal loafy ridges up and down. He's also quite pale with v dark hair. Closed caption reads, "Oh, ho, ho, ho."
December 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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richardcarrier.info
On how to use #AI #chatbots & why you probably shouldn't. This time I assume you're going to use them anyway, explain how to avoid their failures & follow with real-world examples. And do cite this at anyone quoting bot slop at you.

www.richardcarrier.info/archives/39401

#CriticalThinking
How to Use Pseudo-AI • Richard Carrier Blogs
Pseudo-AI is garbage and a bubble. And AI content is banned in comments on my blog. Yet people are still gullibly over-trusting AI chatbots, constantly sending me chatbot content and gushing over how ...
www.richardcarrier.info
December 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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squidgerugby.bsky.social
2025. An incredible year for rugby union. We count down every moment that made it special, silly, strange and so much more.

Live. TOMORROW. 23rd December.

7pm UK
9pm SA
12-2pm USA
8am NZ
6am Australia
8pm France/Italy/Spain/etc

youtu.be/7hVloJg_FsE
The 288 Greatest Rugby Moments of 2025
YouTube video by Squidge Rugby
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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dwisk.us
It's really great to open Nebula and know that none of this is made by robots and none of it is owned by people who hate art
Screenshot of the Nebula homepage
December 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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foxes-in-love.bsky.social
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are sitting with their backs facing each other, both deep in their own thoughts. Blue turns to listen as Green turns to look at him over his shoulder. Green: Did I just say that out loud? Blue frowns in confusion. Blue: ...No? Green turns back around, seeming relieved. Blue continues to stare at him, deeply baffled and suspicious. Green: Oh, thank goodness.
December 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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joshuablevin.bsky.social
I wrote for @theatlantic.com about the NFL's baffling scoreboard mystery: Why has a game never ended 36-23? Join me (via gift link!) on this @nflscorigami.bsky.social quest w/help from @jonbois.bsky.social, Dave Mattingly, some Scorigami-loving academics, and more www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
No NFL Game Has Ever Ended in a Score of 36–23
A scoreboard mystery
www.theatlantic.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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squidgerugby.bsky.social
So hey, I wrote a book!

So Rugby, What's That? is a grand adventure through all things rugby- From the great game's origins over a thousand years ago, to Ilona's USA and Siya's Springboks, stopping off at Jonah, Johnny, and the endless joy along the way!

Pre-Order NOW at sorugbywhatsthat.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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dwisk.us
Guest passes showed us that people who try Nebula end up paying. So now everyone can try Nebula.
nebula.tv Nebula @nebula.tv · Nov 6
Three-day free trials now available. Clear your weekend.
A series of Nebula Original and channel images, including Patrick Willems's The Dinner Plan, Tom Nicholas's Boomers, Adam Chase's Scav, and Jet Lag: The Game. Above reads text that says, "Too much to watch in three days." And below reads, "But we dare you to try. Start your 3-day free trial at nebula.tv/join."
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
themanxmissile.bsky.social
Try this! @nebula.tv is everything you want a streaming service to be! Sports ✅ Urbanism ✅ Media Deep Dives ✅ Documentaries ✅ Philosophy ✅ Jet Lag ✅ and I've barely scratched the surface
nebula.tv Nebula @nebula.tv · Nov 6
Three-day free trials now available. Clear your weekend.
A series of Nebula Original and channel images, including Patrick Willems's The Dinner Plan, Tom Nicholas's Boomers, Adam Chase's Scav, and Jet Lag: The Game. Above reads text that says, "Too much to watch in three days." And below reads, "But we dare you to try. Start your 3-day free trial at nebula.tv/join."
November 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Tasha Yar, Riker, and Data stand outside with some greenery in the background, a questionably perfect blue sky backdrop, and lots of fog. Yar and Riker have a defensive posture holding phaser pistols, Data is staring at his phone. (It's a tricorder). Closed caption reads, "Spooky " 👻
October 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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ricdesi.dpad.fm
Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:

• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
October 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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lixxieb.bsky.social
Found a tutorial on insta by someone called 'Merccimakes' for making pixel renders in blender so I couldn't resist trying it on an old model I made! I am so in love with how it looks!!
(I'll link the tutorial in the replies)
October 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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artofchira.bsky.social
the full production is available to view on archive.org

archive.org/details/xebp...
Great Performances - Much Ado About Nothing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
For the first time in over four decades, Great Performances presents a Public Theater production recorded live at Free Shakespeare in the Park. After a highly...
archive.org
June 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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mirandakeeling.com
For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵
October 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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josebird.bsky.social
Yes indeed! You can find me on Nebula starting today!

go.nebula.tv/jose
nebula.tv Nebula @nebula.tv · Sep 5
it's a bird. no, it's a plane. wait, it's José!
An image of a snowy forest with a road in the middle, with a profile picture of a blue jay and the name José and the subgenre Culture next to the picture. Text above and below the image reads, "New on Nebula" and "nebula.tv/jose", respectively.
September 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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coelasquid.bsky.social
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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mahoukarp.com
They live there
#art #sharks #comics
Comic of a shark looking at a sign that says "shark infested waters." Shark then looks at you and says "well yeah, I live here."
July 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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staxdeadempress.bsky.social
this is what you look like as a Harry Potter fan in 2025
guy handing money to JK Rowling "K*ll every trans person" - JKR "I'm an ally, I just really like Harry Potter!" - guy
July 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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beetlebuggyboy.bsky.social
Also as an addition; sign this petition ASAP if you're someone in the UK.

Rather than just sitting around and doing fuck all, we need to make it clear that this Bullshit OSA won't work. Ever. Nor do folk fucking want it.

Contact your MPs about the bill too.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
July 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
This is exactly what the internet is for.
July 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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ladyjenpool.bsky.social
Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
June 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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thebookseller.com
What Unbound’s demise has shown, to a quite alarming degree, is how little tangible, active advocacy is available to authors in this situation, say the authors affected by the collapse of Unbound in our recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky
Opinion: The Unbound authors' view
ebx.sh
June 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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angrygoose.ruins.party
Literally me🥲 sorry friends
Bert from the Simpsons with a cake that says "im sorry for forgetting to reply, im usually either very busy, depressed, shy or just plain forgot. Regaurdless, I don't ignore your messages and I appreciate them a lot"
June 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM