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Chris Gentle

@xop.co

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Chris Gentle.

Relentlessly bad technical & political takes. Design, invention, development: health, security, enterprise, geospatial.

Sydney Australia. Eora land. Fix your hearts or die.

Old @crgentle: https://bsky.app/profile/oldtweets.xop.co

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Chris Gentle @xop.co · Sep 12

A plug for my @hourstats.bsky.social bot. Every 30 minutes it posts a graph of how Bluesky has been feeling this last week and shows a sample of five popular new posts that you can explore.

A screen capture of a typical @hourstats.bsky.social post with a top five posts in the last 30 minutes, and a reply with a graph showing bluesky's change in sentiment over the past week.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb

@nkalamb.bsky.social

I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real

November 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM

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Jason Koebler

@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

it's enjoyable. i'm enjoying it

www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...

Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says

Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.

www.404media.co

November 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM

Chris Gentle

@xop.co

I like Kagi ($) for web search mainly because it returns results like Google used to with zero ads. AI/LLM tools are tastefully hidden from view most of the time, but available if you need them.

blog.kagi.com/kagi-assista...

Introducing Kagi Assistants | Kagi Blog

*TL;DR* Today we’re releasing two research assistants: Quick Assistant and Research Assistant (previously named Ki during beta).

blog.kagi.com

November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM

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Laurasaurus

@laurasaurus.bsky.social

I’m howling.

Recently, Clifford "Buzz" Grambo decided to upgrade his electric scooter. The old one he had purchased online only reached 16 mph and wasn't cutting it anymore. He needed to go faster to keep up with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement cars he chases around Baltimore. So, Grambo bought a Segway MAX G3, which features a 2,000-watt motor and can get up to 28 mph.
"The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was," he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. "They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter!"

November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM

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Charlie Stross

@cstross.bsky.social

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM

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NU METAL WEEB 𖤐 🇦🇺

@numetalweeb.bsky.social

This is the most Australian thing I have seen all week and it's a mood

Amy from Australian punk rock band, 'Amyl and the Sniffers' flipping off Anthony, the blue wiggle from The Wiggles.

November 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

Polymarket tweets: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals."

Laura Loomer replies: "You know things are bad when you can't tell if this is real or a joke.

Dear God. It's real. Isn't it?"

November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM

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Rian Johnson

@rianjohnson.bsky.social

Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out

Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 3d

Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...

Image I photoshopped of a theatrical poster for "OH, MARY" but with Miss Piggy pictured and billed in the lead role

November 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM

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Ken Plume

@kenplume.bsky.social

Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...

November 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM

Chris Gentle

@xop.co

Remembering this 🧵

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · Jan 29

sis did a profile on him ... looked at 10 years of Heroin dependency, a lifetime of emotional abuse and manipulation of partners... and the worm

and still found a way to bring dew to her garden

November 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM

Chris Gentle

@xop.co

It's like a horrific visual intellectual roller-coaster ride.

"A graph explorer of the Epstein emails "

epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com

via news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ep...

November 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM

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Possum

@pollytics.bsky.social

Every dollar that the Feds refuse to spend on their primary health, aged care and NDIS responsibilities leads to somewhere between $1.40 and $7.50 of expenditure required in the hospital system because of that $1.00 decision, depending upon the hospital. This is not new. We already know this.

November 17, 2025 at 5:02 AM

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋

@poppyhaze.bsky.social

"I'm sorry."
github.com/felixriesebe...

A github page for "Windows 95, running in an Electron app. Yes, it's the full thing. I'm sorry"

November 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM

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Phil Eaton

@eatonphil.bsky.social

Turns out you can communicate across containers via 63-bits of available space in a shared lock you acquire on /proc/self/ns/time that all processes have access to.

No networking required. The post has a demo of a chat app communicating across unprivileged containers.

h4x0r.org/funreliable/