it used to take months or even years to curate your own insane cult belief system, now the computer does it for you and you can be totally insane in days

Illustrating @rossignol.bsky.social's article about @cavesofqud.com for 7th issue of @wyrdscience.bsky.social is one of my favourite work from 2025. I am never tired of reposting stuff commissioned by Wyrd Science magazine.

Since people seem interested, I've coded a version of this that yields better results, is more optimized, and allows you to customize the texture of the noise. It's free, and forever will be free. Enjoy! chaoclypse.itch.io/xerox-hell

Chaoclypse (Brandon Yu)@chaoclypse.bsky.social · 2d ago

I coded a web app that xerox's your images for fun! Just drag an image in and play with the dials. If nothing shows up (or it's all black) you may want to play with the threshold (first slider). Press "S" to save the image! editor.p5js.org/Chaoclypse/f...

This is a pretty good summary of why this stuff has zero appeal to anyone who actually enjoys making anything, and there will never be anything Ai companies can do about that. (Green absolutely torching his own credibility is just an astonishing unforced error. Write your own words!)

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 18h ago

The specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...

I think people are seeing the mass arrests of people for wearing t-shirts and holding signs in support of Palestine Action and are assuming there's One Weird Trick to force the cops to treat Nazis the same

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · yesterday

www.thenational.scot/news/2641894... This is great and all, but the police already ignore it when Nazis turn up with Combat 18 flags and combat 18 has been banned since they went on a bombing spree in Muslim Jewish and Gay areas in London.

This thread 💜💜💜

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2d ago

Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

Dark Horse leadership is bullying DHWU stewards. www.instagram.com/stories/dark...

🔴 NEW: The Scottish Government says the move was needed to tackle the "administrative burden" caused by the growth in AI-assisted objections to energy projects. Critics say it is a way to mute public opposition. Our latest: http://theferret.scot/ai-ban-emailed-objections-energy-projects

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

If women wore smart glasses, they'd be banned. (soigomaa/x) Think about it. If millions of women wore smart glasses, recording men's behaviour, conversations, comments, their driving & bar chats ... can you imagine the panic? Trust me, smart glasses would be regulated before you can say 'Meta'.

Lmao. Not the ending I expected.

IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

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Super excited for Sequential this weekend! Such a great event with amazing exhibitors and great vibes 😎✌️

Quindrie Press@quindriepress.com · 3d ago

This weekend is Sequential Scotland, the biggest and best indie comics event in Scotland! There's panels, workshops, art & cosplay competitions, and over 100 exhibitors. Quindrie won't be there because Eve is one of the co-organisers but lots of our creators will be! 🍂 sequentialscotland.co.uk

Absolutely damning of the fall of Scottish Labour and its new role on the right of the Scottish Parliament. The one left wing leadership candidate, the only woman, struggling to reach the view because her colleagues are too transphobic to let her. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...

Left wing MSP will not be a candidate in Scottish Labour leadership contest

Katy Clark confirmed she will not try to succeed Anas Sarwar in a statement this morning.

dailyrecord.co.uk

None of these people have been convicted of a misdemeanor, much less a felony. This means they are NOT eligible to be enslaved by the US prison system, and are therefore hostages held in concentration camps.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

I put on The Last Stand for some reason and all I can think of is the greatest tumblr post of all time

You'd have to read to the thirteenth paragraph to discover the pull quote for the title was from Marcus Siding, a 23-year-old Swedish man living in Sweden that wanted to become a cop, but his ADHD diagnosis at the age of 12 barred him by law from becoming a Swedish cop Seems relevant

I had a great time at Lasagnacon today!

Paolo of Lost Pages 🔜 Sequential Scotland@lostpages.co.uk · 3d ago

Lasagnacon 9 officially ended*! Thank you all for participating, see you next year! *: ok there's still a game going on in my living room but I'm going to fall asleep any minute.

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Calling it now: the Indonesian TTRPG Renaissance is upon us!

Afraid of Encounters (He/Him)@isaacisafraid.bsky.social · 5d ago

There's an Appx. N Jam 2026 Indonesian submissions Collection (not made by me). Last year there were only 3 Indonesian submissions. This year there are 21 Indonesian submissions. Awesome OSR adventures and other TTRPG modules, made by Indonesians! itch.io/c/7897044/ap...

This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors

JK Rowling centre says Amnesty apology does not solve ‘reputational damage’ — The Independent

Beira’s Place was among organisations labelled ‘anti-rights’ in a briefing document.

apple.news

Most of the political groups being infiltrated “posed no threat to public order, let alone democracy”. They included pro-Palestinian supporters and leftwing groups. "No undercover capability existed to infiltrate dangerous terrorist groups.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told

Senior officer behind closure says SDS caused ‘incalculable harm’ by infiltrating groups that posed no threat

theguardian.com

Aaaaaaand we're off! https://itch.io/jam/rpgenesis2026 Day 1 of the #RPGenesis​ game jam is aiming at 700+ words for your brand new #ttrpg Write first and tell us about it later. Or the other way around, it's all good.

#RPGenesis 2026

A game jam from 2026-08-01 to 2026-08-09 hosted by dreamup & Lady Entropy. 🇵🇹🇧🇷 Olá! Clica aqui para ler o anúncio em português Faz do teu RPG uma realidade neste intenso exercício criativo imbuído de espíri...

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car #lowpoly

Why are tax payers paying for this bunch of twats to get shitfaced? Serious question.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5d ago

‘MPs have had their stomachs pumped’: concerns over ‘alcohol-soaked’ culture in Westminster

What do you call it when the federal government secedes from the union?

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.