Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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The Two Genders

Surgeons' Hall Museum@surgeonshall.bsky.social · 11h ago

These brass name plates were taken from dental surgeon Thomas Dyke's practice. His premises was listed at Bank House, 11 Church Crescent in Dumfries in 1911.

Omar is the real deal

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 13h ago

Omar Musa wins 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award for Heart of Darkness 'critique', Fierceland

extremely difficult to narrow this prompt down but THIS because a) they close the film with the whole track over a montage, and b) one of the best endings to a B-grade horror film in the business , just hits different THE HOST OF SERAPHIM, Dead Can Dance share.google/WSEiHOPOXnEH...

THE MIST soundtrack - Lisa Gerrard

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 22h ago

Name your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.

these mfs got me invested in the outcome of the Michigan democratic primary, for fuck sake, I will never forgive this

hail followers, if you're new here, please know that there will be a special announcement when your numbers reach one thousand, you have been chosen

be warned, I used to work in second hand bookshops, so I'm a Massive Snob, but come at me

watching something called THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, so that I might better understand the sequel, and none of you reminded me that Emily Blunt was involved, you're all sacked

serious though if anyone hasn't seen PLURIBUS yet you should get on it, it's been a pretty bumper year for shows but at the time, I thought it was the best thing I'd seen in ages. Next Level TV. absolute JUICY role for Rhea Seehorn and she should get all the Emmys.

💥 furnace 6000 💥@furnace.bsky.social · 2d ago

ME: lol just put this episode of LIE TO ME on inbth background while I make dinner and next thing fuckin Michael B Jordan shows up in a guest role and my dumplings are burnt

Echo the Australian magpie annoying a tuxedo cat named Gilbert in Thames, New Zealand. The pair are known to be friends, though the magpie is often described as an annoying sibling that frequently pushes limits. They are part of a group called "Tuxedoes Unite" located in Karangahake, New Zealand.

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to bluesky

J.K. Simmons: What Did We Learn, Palmer?

Alt: J.K. Simmons in BURN AFTER READING: "What Did We Learn, Palmer?" Palmer: "Hard to say"

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Jaws@jaws-stone.bsky.social · 2d ago

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to bsky.

Skip to 3 min 25 if you're in a hurry, otherwise sit back enjoy music.youtube.com/watch?v=dWRC...

2021 Remaster "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Prince, Tom Petty & More | Rock Hall 2004 Induction

YouTube video by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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some personal news, I'm changing my Matrix Universe Nickname from "Zip Drive" to "Quarter Inch Jack"

To accommodate the growing number of spectators and designers, the event is taking place over two shows under the stars at the newly built Charles Darwin University campus in the Darwin CBD before a sold-out crowd, with the first held on Sunday.

Australia's biggest showcase of Indigenous fashion hits the runway

Held across two sold-out shows in a new location, this year's Country to Couture features 21 collections crafted by artists and designers from communities across the country.

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Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/

Honestly, getting the vibe it might happen in the next two or three weeks

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Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 3d ago

I was literally deceased by the end of this www.instagram.com/p/Dba8hsKyLXh/

Ah yes it’s the first week of August, 2026 — the week that Mitch McConnell will famously die

the whole time he's holding back tears, as if describing a vision he saw on a mountain whilst ingesting peyote

PinkNews@pinknews.bsky.social · 3w ago

That Steve Guy (TT: stevewatson.tnbui) shared a video detailing his experience going over to his lesbian neighbours’ house for chicken wings—a night so legendary he dubbed lesbians “an elevated form of the human race.”

AUSTRALIAN AI would go like It sounds like you're asking how to resolve tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, if so maybe in future don't be such a weak cunt you have to start a whole fuckin war so everyone knows how small your cock is

“'Mirage': Voice architect Noel Pearson breaks silence at Garma on referendum defeat”

'Mirage': Voice architect Noel Pearson breaks silence at Garma on referendum defeat

It marks the first major public speech by Pearson since the referendum was defeated nearly three years ago.

sbs.com.au

Lick My Ginger Balls, Bruh

RadarOnline@radaronline.com · 2w ago

Prince Harry is said to have offered five words as a 'peace' gesture to his older brother, William.

The biggest threat to our freedom rarely arrives wearing a balaclava. It usually arrives wrapped in the those awful 2 words, "public safety". NSW is quietly handing police unprecedented access to our digital lives. Are you paying attention?! #nswpol #auspol

NSW Police to Be Given Powers to Access and Download Phone Content on the Beat

The NSW government is introducing laws that would give police officers broad power to compel individuals to provide access to their digital devices for scanning and downloading.

sydneycriminallawyers.com.au

Hey pro tip, just because someone says something in a podcast, doesn't make it true or even remotely a news story

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 4d ago

Kyle Sandilands claims he received death threats in interview with Karl Stefanovic

Charlie Kaufman is reportedly adapting Susan Orlean’s critique of Emily Wilson’s critique of Christopher Nolan

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d ago

SUSAN ORLEAN HAS JOINED THE ENEMY IN THE ODYSSEY WARS

The fact that this was moderated tho

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Prudery is the enemy of art" - Soviet poster, 1980s

Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels

found the true cause of global warming you guys

2000s@popculture2000s.bsky.social · 4d ago

OMG MADONNA AND KYLIE PERFOMING TOGETHER !!!!!!