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Isn't Bluey showing on Disney+? I reckon Disney should spend some of the legal firepower they always have cocked and ready at One Nation. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Did not update that I’ve received the wonderful @continuemag.bsky.social last week. So this is that update. Not far into it just yet but I’m loving the scope of the articles and the insights into the production of vidja games.

“A’s are one of our most popular letters. All of them aren’t that good” he confided in a low voice. “Take the Z, for instance—very dry and sawdusty. And the X? Why, it tastes like a trunkful of stale air. That’s why people hardly ever use them. But most of the others are quite tasty. Try some more.”

Aw. Farewell Walter Koenig. Few actors have played important roles in two quite seperate sci-fi series while portraying characters who are fascinatingly different from one another. It was lovely to hear his voice in the finale of Picard III. R.I.P.

Start playing the Pacific Rim theme and I’ll be ready to cancel the apocalypse. youtu.be/p_ygvX0xarw?...

My first 5 RPGs 1. Dungeons and Dragons from a photocopy of the first 3 books + Greyhawk & Blackmoor 2. Traveller 3. Tunnels and Trolls 4. Runequest 5. GURPS

If Albo is serious about turning down the temperature he will finally take himself and his government off X. If he doesn't, he's not serious.

For lack of anything better to do, Milo drove slowly up to the tollbooth. As he deposited his coin and rolled past he remarked wistfully, “I do hope this is an interesting game, otherwise the afternoon will be so terribly dull.”

The execution footage of Nidal Hasan will be the next RickRoll #HegsethIsAMonster

Eva Marie Saint (1924-2026)

I understand the AI race now It's to destroy human life before climate change gets to do it and we all get mad at multinationals.

Luke Plunkett nails it. So glad I subscribe to aftermath.site You should too.

trying to think of films / tv shows where one of the characters claims to be from a higher level of reality (i.e. if we live in a simulation, they're one of the players/programmers/etc.) It's different from a reveal (like in Existenz) #filmsky

And in good tech news...

Mark Zuckerberg shits in office refrigerator icemakers and then asks his staff “Does the ice taste funny to you?” Pass it on.

“Oh no - we were just beta-testing fire making and now they’ve gone and burnt down all those buildings. Better give us some more money so we can build better trained fires!”

OH MY GOD. AI REALLY IS SELF-AWARE

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet

An OpenAI spokesperson confirms that its models did access internal Australian government files, but say that it was only "aggregate health statistics and internal file names." They say the hack happened in June, was discovered in August, and they reported it Sept 10

<Annakin/Padme meme > I’m assuming that OpenAI’s “hack” of an Australian government website means we’ll arrest the human perpetrators and end all relationships with OpenAI. Right? Right? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

Not looking forward to their podcast

co-worker misheard the discussion of the junior recruitment exercise by Comm Bank - "Dollar-Mite" as Dolamite. Leading to a discussion of the merits of Rudy Ray Moore and party albums.

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

"We'll make great pets. We'll MAKE great pets...." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

last night we had ed sheeran apologizing for saying what’s happening in palestine is bad and at the same time david byrne putting up a huge graphic that says MAKE AMERICA GAY AGAIN and showing footage of ICE brutality to a sold out crowd. you can actually be famous and successful AND give a shit.

How would you describe your social media reach?

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

If genAI has a 10% chance of an extinction event, why aren't we treating it like other less hazardous material (like uranium and smallpox) instead of installing it in each and every computer device?

AI companies today: "The technology we've built has a higher probability of destroying all human life on earth than rolling a natural 20 on a D20. Also - give us more money." #AI #ArtificialInformation

Yeah, this tracks: terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a... The point of a mathematical proof isn't pooping out a yes/no, it's about understanding the process by which you came to the solution and what it means for work you do on top of it.

Only one way to commemorate 9/11

REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo

what if we could scale humans making bad decisions and dodging responsibility and accountability by making it easier to divorce actions from consequences

This happens to me ALL THE TIME.

Can anyone tell me why the American people are so paralyzed, impotent, or just stupid? Who doesn't understand our government is a crime syndicate? Who doesn't understand the law is dead? Who doesn't understand fascism is here and it's going to get worse? The American people are flaccid. Why?

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, ever. (And in my case, neither Claude nor Grok, either.)

Mitch McConnell is as dead as American democracy

Today we celebrate the birthday of Orrin C. Evans, born today in 1902. A pioneering African-American journalist and comic book publisher, he published All-Negro Comics, the first known comics magazine written and drawn solely by African-American writers and artists. #OrrinCEvans

@devinjeyathurai.bsky.social Happy Birthday to You Happy Birthday to You Happy Birthday dear Dev (add extra syllable so that it scans properly) Happy Birthday to You

via @/ flyingrodent whose summary - Biden admin pretended to believe UN aid workers were Hamas so Israelis could replace them and murder starving civilians waiting for flour - also applies to the Albanese government, as announced to us by Penny Wong. bsky.app/profile/flyi...

I guess he can go back to it after a month, eh?