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@vamplanaut.bsky.social
ex bird app. looking for art, furries, generally cool stuff, maybe friends?
they/them
(might have books to promote in the future too, who knows)
they/them
(might have books to promote in the future too, who knows)
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extremely important and amazing video laying out big tech's relationship to the genocide in gaza, and showing clearly that the xbox/microsoft boycott is working!!
would urge you all to watch it and pledge your support for at nogamesforgenocide.com!
would urge you all to watch it and pledge your support for at nogamesforgenocide.com!
December 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
extremely important and amazing video laying out big tech's relationship to the genocide in gaza, and showing clearly that the xbox/microsoft boycott is working!!
would urge you all to watch it and pledge your support for at nogamesforgenocide.com!
would urge you all to watch it and pledge your support for at nogamesforgenocide.com!
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started / going
December 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
started / going
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They can take any two large, longhaired tabbies and BAM they've got themselves a Maine Coon factory. Two longhaired white cats? BAM instant Turkish Angora factory. Shorthaired greys? Russian Blue factory. As OP states, nearly 100% of cats are not any breed and there is NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. 👍
December 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
They can take any two large, longhaired tabbies and BAM they've got themselves a Maine Coon factory. Two longhaired white cats? BAM instant Turkish Angora factory. Shorthaired greys? Russian Blue factory. As OP states, nearly 100% of cats are not any breed and there is NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. 👍
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horrifying: teenage cousin told me a classmate will word for word memorize a chatgpt essay as a way to cheat on a blue book exam. im genuinely kind of at a loss for words like the lengths some children are conditioned to "win" to avoid learning anything
December 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
horrifying: teenage cousin told me a classmate will word for word memorize a chatgpt essay as a way to cheat on a blue book exam. im genuinely kind of at a loss for words like the lengths some children are conditioned to "win" to avoid learning anything
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Trying to regulate your tone as an autistic person involves regulating your nervous systems and consciously thinking about tone in a way that (I think!) is comparable to removing a stutter
December 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Trying to regulate your tone as an autistic person involves regulating your nervous systems and consciously thinking about tone in a way that (I think!) is comparable to removing a stutter
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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...is the birb the baby jesus??
December 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
...is the birb the baby jesus??
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Did you guys know there’s a game called the game where you lose the game if you think about the game?
December 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Did you guys know there’s a game called the game where you lose the game if you think about the game?
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I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!”
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!”
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
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Regular reminder that the majority of the people who dreamed up the stories you love are, like, BROKE broke, and that most of the money spent on their work was given to Some Guy™️ instead.
December 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Regular reminder that the majority of the people who dreamed up the stories you love are, like, BROKE broke, and that most of the money spent on their work was given to Some Guy™️ instead.
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Okay real talk, the only sense in which GenAI is "here to stay" is that even after the bubble pops, AI is digital asbestos that is poisoning everything and we'll probably be picking the detritus out of everywhere it's ended up for years, assuming there's a will to remove it en masse that is.
December 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Okay real talk, the only sense in which GenAI is "here to stay" is that even after the bubble pops, AI is digital asbestos that is poisoning everything and we'll probably be picking the detritus out of everywhere it's ended up for years, assuming there's a will to remove it en masse that is.
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Any time you work on anything, you are going to hit those "UH OH" moments where your stomach drops as you see a similar project that makes yours feel derivative and uninteresting and doomed to fail.
That's normal! Regroup, adapt, persevere! Your perspective has value!
That's normal! Regroup, adapt, persevere! Your perspective has value!
Reposting with alt text because I felt it too important no to share
December 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Any time you work on anything, you are going to hit those "UH OH" moments where your stomach drops as you see a similar project that makes yours feel derivative and uninteresting and doomed to fail.
That's normal! Regroup, adapt, persevere! Your perspective has value!
That's normal! Regroup, adapt, persevere! Your perspective has value!
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Survived the shortest day of the year and eagerly will count the seconds until the sun sets again after 7 PM like it should be
Sunsets before 4:30 PM feel like they are literally draining the years off my life
Sunsets before 4:30 PM feel like they are literally draining the years off my life
December 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Survived the shortest day of the year and eagerly will count the seconds until the sun sets again after 7 PM like it should be
Sunsets before 4:30 PM feel like they are literally draining the years off my life
Sunsets before 4:30 PM feel like they are literally draining the years off my life
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i love this explanation so much
"Generative AI" doesn’t tell the truth, which is believing you know facts & trying to communicate them; it doesn't lie, which is believing you know facts & trying to obscure them; it isn't even "mistaken," which is Trying to tell the truth but erring in either what's known, how it's told, or both.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
i love this explanation so much
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"I realized, oh my goodness, there's an invisible community with an invisible center helping invisible people. And it's not right. It needs to be kept alive," Steves said.
Homelessness is a curious combination of exposure and invisibility. This is huge. Thank you SO much @ricksteves.bsky.social!
Homelessness is a curious combination of exposure and invisibility. This is huge. Thank you SO much @ricksteves.bsky.social!
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"I realized, oh my goodness, there's an invisible community with an invisible center helping invisible people. And it's not right. It needs to be kept alive," Steves said.
Homelessness is a curious combination of exposure and invisibility. This is huge. Thank you SO much @ricksteves.bsky.social!
Homelessness is a curious combination of exposure and invisibility. This is huge. Thank you SO much @ricksteves.bsky.social!
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we need to normalize "it's done when it's done" with fandom projects... things aren't dead just because people are silent for a month or two, especially in adulthood/non covid era 😭 updates will come when there is progress to show!
December 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
we need to normalize "it's done when it's done" with fandom projects... things aren't dead just because people are silent for a month or two, especially in adulthood/non covid era 😭 updates will come when there is progress to show!
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My no-fun-at-parties take is that "christmas is a secular holiday" is an uncomfortable way of assuring me that christianity is the status quo and everything outside of that is an aberration. Sorry! It's still a christian holiday!! Just because you're an atheist doesn't make it secular!
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My no-fun-at-parties take is that "christmas is a secular holiday" is an uncomfortable way of assuring me that christianity is the status quo and everything outside of that is an aberration. Sorry! It's still a christian holiday!! Just because you're an atheist doesn't make it secular!
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I’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere.
Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?
Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?
My conspiracy theory about genAI in games blowing up more and more by big companies is that they’ve all got a ton of investors insisting they use genAI tools otherwise they(investors) won’t be able to bankroll em anymore
December 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere.
Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?
Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?
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new video shows Kit Kat did not “dart underneath” the vehicle as waymo originally claimed. he was sitting under the car in front of the right wheel before it just ran him over. someone even approached the vehicle to try and get him to move seconds before it happened. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
December 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
new video shows Kit Kat did not “dart underneath” the vehicle as waymo originally claimed. he was sitting under the car in front of the right wheel before it just ran him over. someone even approached the vehicle to try and get him to move seconds before it happened. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
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that AI cop video going viral worries me but not necessarily bc people couldn’t detect it was fake, i’m worried about people knowing and not caring.
November 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
that AI cop video going viral worries me but not necessarily bc people couldn’t detect it was fake, i’m worried about people knowing and not caring.
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This guy is an unabashed poster of AI slop. None of the videos/images he posts can be taken at face value. He knows what he shares is fake, and has proudly stated he does not actually care
Since the AI labeler is down and this dude is so odious, and I seem to know ppl that follow him, caveat emptor
Since the AI labeler is down and this dude is so odious, and I seem to know ppl that follow him, caveat emptor
December 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This guy is an unabashed poster of AI slop. None of the videos/images he posts can be taken at face value. He knows what he shares is fake, and has proudly stated he does not actually care
Since the AI labeler is down and this dude is so odious, and I seem to know ppl that follow him, caveat emptor
Since the AI labeler is down and this dude is so odious, and I seem to know ppl that follow him, caveat emptor
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I'm old enough to remember when you'd go into a restaurant and the first thing they'd say was "smoking or non" as if cigarette smoke would stay on one side of an enclosed space. The cultural shift on tobacco use over my lifetime is really remarkable and I don't think it could be replicated today.
it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.
Bring back residential-use lead paint, you cowards.
December 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I'm old enough to remember when you'd go into a restaurant and the first thing they'd say was "smoking or non" as if cigarette smoke would stay on one side of an enclosed space. The cultural shift on tobacco use over my lifetime is really remarkable and I don't think it could be replicated today.