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kyffles@kyffles.bsky.social |
19 followers 47 following 138 posts
professional hippopotamus appreciator, mtg player & open university student (maths&physics) bit queer, they/them 🏳️🌈
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cait
@cait.bsky.social
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i think before people are allowed to post online they should have to take an introductory course to ensure they understand basic concepts such as "a joke" and "hyperbole" and "metaphors" and "women are people also"
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kyffles
@kyffles.bsky.social
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ohhh more people with the non-winter seasonal depression. i usually want to die in about april, i guess all the new flowers make me sad or something??
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Sunny Moraine
@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
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“I'm going to ask ChatGPT how to prepare a garotte and then I am going to strangle you with it, and you will simply have to pray that I roll the 10% chance that it freaks out and tells me that a garotte should consist entirely of paper mache and malice.” This is fucking glorious
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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
@belalugosisdad.bsky.social
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As both a professional archaeologist of 10 years and a political activist, this is fucking dumb, but if this is the thing you're mad about just know that if the A303 judicial review fails this year we're going to dig a 2 mile long tunnel through the site and get it stripped of World Heritage status.
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Debbie Moon
@debbiemoon.bsky.social
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Male journalist: asks a question about her ‘body type’, by which he means “fat” Nicola Coughlan:
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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it’s also called horrible internet memes
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kyffles
@kyffles.bsky.social
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would be great if someone could do my astrophysics exam for me today
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Annalee
@flowerhorne.com
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I had a creative writing professor who talked about ways to "prime the pump" and that image has always stuck with me (For folks who've never used a manual water pump: you generally have to work the lever a few times before the water starts flowing).
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Catbus
@catbus.bsky.social
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stop, stop, one woman can only be SO COOL
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Dr Eleanor Janega
@goingmedieval.bsky.social
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Oh for sure, man.
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kyffles
@kyffles.bsky.social
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even if there were people faking it, I'd much rather someone faking it got something they didn't need than a disabled person went without because they couldn't meet some stupid requirements...!
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Owen Dennis
@oweeeeendennis.bsky.social
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CEO of Sony Picture group, an executive finally saying publicly almost all the stuff that needs to be done to make movies profitable again: deadline.com/2024/05/tom-...
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Preeti Chhibber
@runwithskizzers.bsky.social
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What's fun about this is now instead of being able to tell my parents "they should just look that easy thing up on the internet" i have to show them how to do it bc the internet computer might tell them to eat glass
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Saraidh
@saraidh.bsky.social
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I'm more familiar with the business world, but Inigo Montoya's networking guide is a good start for most blind introductions, which can be particularly daunting.
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cassie
@its.cassie.baby
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“tops drive like this, bottoms type like that” stop it, just stop it. why. r. u. recreating. heteronormativity!!!
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Emily
@becausechaucer.bsky.social
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lukewarm take of the night: for every "kids these days can't even sit through a 10min video" there are at least 25 10min videos that could have been an email (or a significantly shorter video)
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Tom Gauld
@tomgauld.bsky.social
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My latest cartoon for New Scientist.
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Orcspiration
@orcspiration.bsky.social
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YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.
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kyffles
@kyffles.bsky.social
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💐🪦
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Hannah Alexander Artwork
@hannahartwork.bsky.social
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Swimming spot 🌊 #art
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Sarah Foxes Day 🖋️🦊
@sarahday.org
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A little louder: IT'S ACTUALLY EVIL TO BE POLITE TO PEOPLE WHO DO EVIL SHIT.
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kyffles
@kyffles.bsky.social
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wes streeting needs to go in a bin.
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Molly White
@molly.wiki
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"[A]nything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you."
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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sorry to be a spoiler but there is no way around a genuinely socially responsible AI without directly tackling systemic inequalities and building accountability mechanisms on the current concentration of power in the hands of big corps/AI companies
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Viktor Winetrout
@viktorwinetrout.bsky.social
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“Can you explain the gap on your résumé?” Yeah I don’t like working
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kyffles
@kyffles.bsky.social
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well my mp got deselected and the replacement was chosen by pretty sketchy procedure, so maybe i'll just be voting green 😒
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kyffles
@kyffles.bsky.social
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hi
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kyffles
@kyffles.bsky.social
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yeahhhhh they really don't want my vote i see
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Sonia Sulaiman
@soniasulaiman.bsky.social
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I've decided to share this opening paragraph of my story, The Forty, from Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction. It is inspired by our long exile, pilgrimage, and the Witnesses that once covered Palestine.
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Matt Novak
@paleofuture.bsky.social
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It absolutely is a laughing matter you psychos
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Costa Samaras
@costasamaras.bsky.social
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Oh, you’re experiencing a structural issue? Have you thought about chipping in with a few of your classmates and purchasing enough stock of a multi-billion dollar company to put forth a shareholder proposal?
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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The reaction to the Gaza protests reveals that there's a lot of people who genuinely cannot conceive of forming and holding a sincere, principled belief about the world on your own.
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A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
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Isn't it interesting that every killing by every cop is just a single bad apple that should never be thought to spoil the bunch, while every protest by and on behalf of marginalized people must be flawlessly perfect, or all participants deserve the brutality the police exist to deliver to them?
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)
@nora.zone
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i have been thinking a lot about how treating science fiction ideas like self driving cars as an inevitability does enormous harm
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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield
@patblanchfield.bsky.social
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just got an email from my alma mater saying it had been compelled to deploy police to defend the Community from violent outside agitators who had begun to protest on the quad; the first video in my feed is cops in full gear arresting the chair of the philosophy department
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Craig Calcaterra
@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
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Government workers reprogrammed a 47-year-old computer with the memory of a Commodore64 and which is currently sitting 15.1 billion miles away despite a 22-hour time lag.
Elon Musk, meanwhile, can’t make a pickup truck that can drive in the rain.
Viva socialism. blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024...
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kyffles
@kyffles.bsky.social
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a relative tried it because of diabetes. she had such a horrific time on it, and it didn't even work for her. there are no miracle cures and it's irresponsible for this drug to be presented as such. media is absolutely responsible for this too, all those stupid articles about how amazing it is
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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losing my mind over the constant shifting from evaluating causes to evaluating people fighting for them. If someone proved every single ceasefire protestor was an anti-Semite that cheats on their exams, romantic partners, and taxes, what would we learn about whether or not to support IDF bombs?
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Kingfisher & Wombat
@tkingfisher.com
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Fun fact—when you die a day or two after eating this, they will be able to pour your liver out of your body at the autopsy.
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Patrick Samphire 🏴
@patricksamphire.bsky.social
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This is true in every possible way.
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Premee Mohamed
@premeemohamed.com
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*studies nails* Quite weird how the one festival I'm doing this year that's primarily organized and run by BIPOC is the only one that hasn't spelled my name wrong 2,879 separate times in promo material Really makes you think
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Stephanie Leary
@sleary.bsky.social
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This is the highbrow print equivalent of the guy who jerks off under the table in Starbucks while staring intently at you as you work, and I think everyone involved in publishing this piece should be escorted from the premises and barred from returning.
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Solaris Books
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
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Are you ready for MOONSTORM, the first book in the new LANCERS series by Yoon Ha Lee (@deuceofgears.bsky.social)?
A tale of empire, mecha-robots, survival and family.
June 2024, preorder: geni.us/moonstorm
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kyffles
@kyffles.bsky.social
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i am cute
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Xopher Halftongue
@halftongue.bsky.social
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kyffles
@kyffles.bsky.social
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i had a haircut on thursday and gender is feeling very affirmed
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John Freeman
@johnfreeman.bsky.social
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Society of Authors survey reveals a third of translators and quarter of illustrators losing work to AI downthetubes.net/society-of-a...
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K.B. Spangler
@kbspangler.com
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I should take a mental health break from watching the news on the Middle East and see what’s happening on Bluesk—
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Obesity has gotten so bad that there are now 14.2 fat people per person on the planet.
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kyffles
@kyffles.bsky.social
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last windows update made my graphics card go on strike heh
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