Looking for your next read? Why not join us in Alamantra for @mashashy.bsky.social's debut epic fantasy series, The Light of Miera? Out now in ebook and paperback. linktr.ee/TreatYourGeek #thelightofmiera #treatyourgeek #epicfantasybooks #booksbooksbooks

And when those real people take up this line of discussion this is what’s happening. It’s a huge tell.

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JRR Tolkien but happily

I reference this meme at least once a week.

Gen AI The generation that doesn’t exist, but destroys the world as we know it

Say what you like about the internet but one good thing is that it allows us to resolve disputes between my (Australian) sibling and their (English) spouse about how we pronounce words over here.

also, she’s not an astronaut. she was a passenger. we don’t call people sailors because they took a ferry ride one time.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

It's been a week already?! OK then, let's roll out #SelfPromoSaturday Pop your promos below and remember that uplifting others is the best way to build your community 💜 No AI thanks

Calling all #TTRPG creators! We've got mid-roll ad slots up for grabs 🎧 If you've got a podcast, video, stream or product the world has to see, shoot us a DM or email [email protected]. No charge, but advertising us in kind is appreciated! Let us shout from the rooftops with you 📣

The startings of an angry goblin who will be wearing a pumpkin lid, all chosen by the spin of a wheel as we build our Frankenfriend! We have reached over £300 in donations and the next spin at £400 determines a body part from another monster 👀 Dono link up top, live now!

Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive. #Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing

We have a new show on our YouTube, DEMO DIVE. Our team will be playing through various demos so you don't have to, giving a quick review to help you decide if you need to add these games to your wishlist. First up Altered Alma. #AlteredAlma #treatyourgeek #gamereview youtu.be/9YKKj56mdhM

Happy Saturday! We managed to get halfway to our £500 October fundraising target for Samaritans in one stream yesterday, let's see what we can do today! Less than £50 to go til we can spin the wheel again, and find out what the next part of our Frankenfriend will be.... www.twitch.tv/Cosy_Witch

we must refuse to debate the worth of other people. We must agree that everyone has value at a human level, and that it’s not tied to their health, their job or their bank account. When we start allowing ourselves to debate someone’s worth, we’ve already lost. You are worthy, just as you are.

Every day, someone in a position of great authority does something that makes me wonder how I ever developed imposter syndrome.

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Repost to showe thyne appreciacioun for the social media folks at Merriam Webster, the best arounde!

Yes I spent too long in the shower and getting ready for bed, but in my defence I was busy very enthusiastically telling my captive audience* all (and I do mean ALL) about my 2017 solo two-week 6,000-km Queensland road trip, with tangents and asides and everything. *Me. There's no-one else here.

What day is it?

also I'd just like to say that this moment and like the decade afterward sure did feel like everything was going to work out

when do we start using a term other than “social” media?

Things I am in awe of: - Fanfiction writers - Multilingual people - That despite the vast emptiness of space and the fact that everything in it is constantly moving relative to everything else in at least three different ways at any given time, we still managed to put robots on Mars - Drummers

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I love how I'll wake up so dizzy my vision is swimming and immediately think "oh I'm probably faking it for attention". Bitch, whose attention? No one else's home!

Keeping the tradition 😅

Final slow motion video of the snowy egret catching a fish after the fish thought it escaped. shot in 120FPS 4K. one of the few good recent tech innovations is high speed consumer/affordable pro video, can't wait to get even better ones like this in 3-4 years! 🪶

Can we just, like... speedrun thru every permutation of this bullshit publicity-stunt and just skip to the part where everyone shuns these things on sight? AI news anchors. AI sports-matchups. AI presidential candidates. AI reality TV shows. AI zoos. Ok? We done? search.app/nF7QG

art is all about embarrassing yourself over and over until no one else can tell

🌟 New article on @theconversation.com today My thoughts on why we should stop saying "the Autism spectrum" and just use "Autism" theconversation.com/why-its-time...

The only "AI" I'm interested in is "AY I...'m walkin here!!!"

You absolutely could not get me up these stairs. These are pure snapped-neck nightmare fuel.

I don't know how many times this needs to be posted, but clearly it is MANY TIMES. Sigh.

This format is incredibly helpful for reframing debates. It's also pragmatics 101. Negation only operates on the "comment"/focused part of an utterance. If you introduce a presupposition, negation will not be able to eliminate it. Example: A: Have you stopped stealing office supplies? B: Yes/No?

LIVE ON YOUTUBE Watch part2 of @mossyent.bsky.social @thelastomnitect.bsky.social @feyearth.bsky.social & @arandomelle.bsky.social continue their award ceremony on our Blades in the Dark campaign youtu.be/m3PFlWmd5uI

A tiny second year male Variegated Fairy-wren is taking a moment to preen in the early morning sun and is joined by another second year male, most likely his brother from the same clutch . . . but they're fairy-wrens so nobody can be sure whether they share the same father. #birds #birding #nature

Yeah that's not a thing to celebrate We need welfare above the poverty line and supermarkets to price their food to sell rather than exploit a necessity #RaiseTheRate #NobodyDeservesPoverty #BTPM www.foodmag.com.au/ozharvest-an...

We've launched a new documentary highlighting the devastating impact of climate change on the Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu. Save Tuvalu, Save the World is presented by Walkley Award-winning journalist and former ABC Four Corners reporter @stephenlongaus.bsky.social. #auspol Watch ⤵️

Oof, I really feel this one...

Always! Listen! To! Sci fi! Writers! We are either trying to WARN you, or, exploring some weird sex thing we're pretty sure we came up with. Sometimes it's both.

Oh dear.

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now that it's october im legally allowed to post this

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Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶

I would repost so much more art if y'all would start adding alt text.