They've goon off at the deep end.
Harpers essay on gen Z wanking culture.
The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 6 Nov 2025, 21:40,
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Interesting coverage
From the frontlines of human evolution. It broadened my horizons and made me appreciate my chosen paths in lifeβ¦
Thank for sharing
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pallimut Ancient Lurker, Mon 10 Nov 2025, 12:39,
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Fraser Cain patiently answers yet more dumb questions about COMET 3I/Atlas
Even serious news sources are reporting on this bullshit now.
Avi Loeb is such a prick.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 18:25,
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I don't know what happened to him,
but he's said that the comet is probably made of antimatter, that the semi-random inclination, the low perigee, and various other comet-like properties of the comet mean it's probably aliens pretending to be a comet.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 19:44,
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Freaky chemical stuff
Some more MP4 links here
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c03160#_i15
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simbosan is too tired, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 13:41,
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Interesting, I'll have to look that one up and try it.
My best guess is the common ion effect. Acidified with dilute HCl, the copper precipitates as CuO at the border between the two solutions, hence the darkening.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 6 Nov 2025, 13:58,
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Christ, don't mention darkening at borders, you'll set everyone off
(, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 14:19, Reply)
Magical!
But I'm wondering where I put my science hammer...
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 17:03,
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Them Chinese Sex Bots from a few links down really are coming along, aren't they?
(, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 11:46, Reply)
What's possibly better than an adblocker?
Something that silently clicks on every single advert, so the companies that bombard you with ads suffer financially and get no ROI...
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 14:41,
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seems like a good idea
I see a downside though - it makes your browsing history more obvious
(, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 14:51, Reply)
I can think of another
it might open you up to malicious adverts.
I think I posted in haste...
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 14:55,
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to be fair
I haven't read their paper
they might have covered all this
(, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 15:14, Reply)
One would hope
they anonymise it so it doesn't add to the mountain of data they already have on you.
I too, have not read the paper.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 19:25,
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they seem to have robust defences against malicious ads
or as much as ublock anyway
and the rest depends on what settings you use, it goes from 'see all ads and click on everything' to 'see no ads and click on none'
(, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 19:58, Reply)
The click is still going to come from your IP.
Even if it blocks *all* fingerprinting methods, that still ties "you" to the interest. That thing was made by a moron.
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 9:48,
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Yes.
If you think I missed the part where they explicitly mask your IP, please do reference it - it's possible I missed it after all.
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 12:54,
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Can't help but feel they already get a shit ROI
due to the sheer amount of bot traffic on the web.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 15:59,
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I just set up a new pc and had to use a virgin browser
with no adblock or ublock, there are still fuckloads of ads
so maybe they haven't reached the tipping point quite yet
(, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 16:38, Reply)
Advertisers are getting the same enshittification treatment
as everyone else, though. They aren't winning.
Edit: I was waffling. Waffle removed.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 13:25,
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All that will do is affirm your interest in them.
You're also giving the ad companies money, and costing the business that paid for the ad. It won't "help" at all.
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 9:05,
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costing the business and obfuscating real clicks is the stated purpose, yes
(, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 12:07, Reply)
While enriching the likes of Google even further.
Actual brainlet thinking. Sticking it to The Man, while giving the Bigger Man even more.
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 13:28,
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Maybe if the companies paying for the ads get few genuine leads, they pay for fewer or ads somewhere else. ROI as others have suggested.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 7 Nov 2025, 4:15,
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I could easily break that
by loading up a local news website
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Fri 7 Nov 2025, 7:26,
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As it's my B3thday, here's the best thing I've seen in a while.
The fake trailer for Thames Television's 1974 adaptataion of J.G. Ballard's Crash, starring Paul Eddington.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 14:40,
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Happy Candleday Fred!
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 14:42,
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Thank you all. I always wonder what it was about that particular bonfire night that made me join up.
But I'm glad I did.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 9:32,
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Hahahahahahaha. Fucking hell... Pt.2
Police launch manhunt after Algerian prisoner mistakenly released from London prison
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This country really is a fucking shambles at the moment isn't it?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 14:41,
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It's been a shambles for quite a while
115 prisoners were mistakenly released in the last year of the previous government, but it's only an issue now, apparently.
I recently found out that it's down to individual jails to work out when a prisoner should be released rather than a central body. With overcrowding, sentences have been cut across the board but the whole system is fucked and prisons have small teams who are overstretched so it's hardly a surprise that they screw up. Screws? See what I did!?
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 8:01,
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It has always been an issue.
But that issue becomes a monumental fuckup of epic proportions when one of the prisoners mistakenly released is the same individual who's arrest sparked a series of riots and significant media coverage, and then not a week later, another foreign national sex offender (who is also technically in the country illegally) gets released from the same bloody prison.
You'd have thought that after Kebatu's release, the prison would have taken every possible precaution to make sure that a similar incident didn't occur in in the succeeding weeks, never mind days. That's the biggest issue, in my opinion. Not so much that the prison is leaking like a particularly efficient sieve, but that the governors don't actually seem to give a single fuck. Apparently Kebatu went back to the Prison a number of times after his erroneous release, and the fuckers kept turning him away! Absolute madness.
(, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 11:44, Reply)
I'm watching a doccy on the iPlayer about that woman guard who bonked a prisoner
and the video got out and it ends up being a bit of an expose of the whole system. Fucking hell, it's absolutely fucked up the bum with a cactus. Totally shot to hell. Corrupt, disfunctional, violent, abusive - for the staff as well as the prisoners.
The only bit we see of it is the screw ups with prisoner releases but frankly that's the tip of the iceberg.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 13:51,
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It doesn't surprise me at all though, really.
You'd have to be a fucking wrongun' to have aspirations of working as a Prison Officer.
The field is going to be full of the sorts of people so unsuitable for a position of responsibility and authority that even the Police couldn't take them, people with aspirations of getting shagged by an inmate, or people recovering from severe childhood bullying traumas that have decided to enact their revenge on the types that made their early years hell.
About the only people I can imagine wanting that job for any kind of legitimate reason would be ex-RMP/RNP/RAFP coming from a similar background in the forces - but I doubt many of them would be joining the system as entry-level officers unless they were utter wronguns in their previous positions, too.
And the pay is absolutely fucking shit.
I mean, it's not their fault that all these people are being released. But I can't imagine it's only the bottom rung of the ladder that's fucked. I imagine there's a whole lot of internal promotion going on in that part of the system.
(, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 14:28, Reply)
what?
I thought brexit was going to give all this extra money to fund public services? But you're saying it's now shittier and poorer than ever despite forcing out all the poles and frogs? Better focus on the evils of the next group of foreigners, like this dangerous jihadi incarcerated for,*checks notes*, visa overstaying. it's bound to be the nub of the issue this time.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 13:14,
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It is easier than actually sorting out real problems.
Keeps the peasants occupied, hating foreigners, disabled people, anyone who looks different etc while the ruling classes, grifters and foreign business take what's left.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 6 Nov 2025, 13:26,
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I don't believe it was overstaying his visa that got him incarcerated.
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Maybe the headline should have been 'sex offender' rather than 'Algerian prisoner'.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 6 Nov 2025, 14:38,
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Yes, they should, but often don't, then make decisions on feelings alone.
Which is why populist grifters do so well.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 6 Nov 2025, 17:25,
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I must say, it's so refreshing to read such a reasoned, progressive response.
It's a damning reflection on our society when we're so explicitly focused on this poor man's sexual offence and attempted burglary convictions for no other reason than the fact that he wasn't born here.
And then on top of that, we use a technicality on his visitor visa to boot him back out of the country! What has become of this once-welcoming nation?
It wouldn't surprise me at all if the flashing and robbing were all coping mechanisms to deal with the absolutely appalling casual prejudice and racism this individual faced. We should be offering this bloke an honorary citizenship for all the hardship he's faced since setting foot on English soil.
You're a shining example of how to be a true advocate for the needy and persecuted. Bloody good show.
(, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 14:14, Reply)
My point --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> You
as you struggle with sarcasm, I'll state things plainly
Brexit attempted to frame britain's principle issue as foreigners from poland and the like coming over here, taking our jobs and being a huge burden on public services. It promised savings, some 350 million pound a week that could be invested in those public services. It toured the country with this claim on the side of a bus, so it was a major selling point. It also used dog whistle tactics appealing to xenophobia in the community with a spate of articles around feckless european immigrants taking britain for a ride. However, as the critics and economists who they dismissed as Project Fear predicted, the opposite happened.
Since Brexit. successive governments have posted deficits, and struggled to publicly fund critical services, like the NHS or in this case the HM Prison service.
Instead of looking at why not funding public services properly is responsible for the enshittification of the UK, that spending on health and social protections as a share of gdp fell year on year from 2012 to 2020 under the tories while corporation tax almost halved in the same period and the share of tax the top 50% and particularly the top 10% of earners paid fell while the bottom 50%s burden rose a corresponding amount, you've once again focussed on outrage bait that seems to always involve brown immigrants. I'm sure that brown muslim aspect is purely a repeated coincidence as other foreigners, including illegal australians, also commit crimes, and you and tony, assuming you're not sock puppets of one another, have posted a series of links on b3ta on boat people and ones like this that echo all the outrage bait about freeloading foreigners coming over to get treatments that was shared in lead-up to the brexit vote.
So a) you're once again getting suckered into misdirected animosity, and b) what's all this outrage bait being posted on b3ta anyway? It's not funny or what this site's about, it's not even some deserving famous figure like Formerly known as Prince Andrew or Russell brand. And even if you feel compelled to post unfunny outrage-bait crime shit why always pick on foreigners? Plenty of pensioners get bashed and burgled, and women sexually assaulted by solid british yeomen stock. Here's Tony Heath www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly4w452dd8o from just a couple of weeks ago, a fine home-grown multiple rapist from Avonmouth. Surely he merits a shout-out in your "britain is going to shit and we have no real insight as to why" roster?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 7 Nov 2025, 1:42,
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on an unrelated note, and I know this is minority opinion, but I don't find what prince andrew did that reprehensible
he's basically fucked a 17 and half year old prostitute, with the age of consent of being 17 where he fucked her. It's grubby, but prostitution is rife despite being illegal in all states but nevada, and it's unlikely he'd get a conviction as it wasn't done in exchange for compensation, just for that weasel epstein to get an in with him. with a possible future blackmail sting. He's a single pointless royal who like to fuck. If he wants to go to prozzers that's his business. The fact that giuffre was groomed at 16 by Epstein and maxwell and whored out to johns based on who knows what relationship isn't Andrews business, and an awful lot of prostitutes are forced into it anyway, as our sockcooker who spent years brothel creeping in thailand should know. They're often kidnapped from their villages and forced to suck off sunburnt poms in oasis singlets under debt servitude, rather than flown around in private jets. From andrew point of view epstein was just a discreet pimp businessman who came with some pretty high faluting recommendations who was willing to let him fuck for free, to a man used to getting freebies everywhere he goes. He should have leaned into it, said "I've always been a pantsman,everyone knows that, but I should have enquired about this one's backstory, sorry" instead of coming across as a feckless liar with the lamest excuses. That's what caused the blood in the water that's hammering him now. I don't have a huge amount of sympathy for him, but I won't pretend to be outraged either. in the end the story is that he fucked a prostitute for free
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 7 Nov 2025, 4:04,
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I suspect that'll be a relief to Cumquat when he wakes up this afternoon with a raging hangover.
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and a screen covered in jizz
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 7 Nov 2025, 9:37,
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Headliner: deepfakes at the shallow end (Simple face-overlay tool)
I made this!
Grab a suitably outrageous headline, upload your best βIβm innocentβ selfie and you're one* click** away from being the main character of the day. It was only a matter of time
*several
**and some gestures too
Works best with a profile picture and some front page of a Sunday tabloid
(, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 4:49, Reply)
'No image found in drop'
Using Vivaldi browser on a fantastic PC.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 14:16,
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Hmm
What file type are you adding? Are you dragging and dropping or choosing the file from the file system? Are you dragging the image from the OS or from a browser?
I'll see if i can investigate
(, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 15:02, Reply)
tab to tab, dragging from ddg image search results to your background frame
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 15:27,
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Sorry. I have not been able to replicate that issue using ddg in Vivaldi. Are there any errors in the console log?
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I just checked, it happens every time, face frame too, console is blank:
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 16:51,
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I will investigate this. Does it work at least if you drag files from the OS file browser?
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Kind of.
I get to the next stage, at least. The result of my experiment was shite though. Weirdly rectangular cropped face minus mouth, minus top of head, plus semi transparent nonsense either side.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 17:57,
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And I know it's not ideal, but does it work with another browser (If you use any others that is)
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You're not going to like this, but
in Opera I can't even drag and drop a picture from one tab to another.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 18:00,
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How it's made
NSFW
The sex doll episode...
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 4 Nov 2025, 23:20,
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I thought it would work well with Come On My Selecter by Squarepusher
for the line "I'm the fucking daddy!"
Click
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David Sylvanian, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 5:28,
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Apex Twin
Come to Daddy
Scope for all the creepy face swap stuff as well.
If only I had the patience to edit it
Edit: stupid autocorrect combined with uneditable subject lines
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LP, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 18:09,
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I'm not the only one who thought he looked like a gurner, even before HT posted yesterday..
But I can't believe anyone opens a wrapped album/present that way around.
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unclepills Sixty 25th of Decembers, Wed 5 Nov 2025, 16:58,
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Have you got a bike in the shed just sitting there that could do with a new lease of life??
The Bike Farmer shows you how easy it is.
I also love his longer-form vids where he waffles along while repairing normal bikes, not the Β£10,000 wank stuff most cycling channels showcase for the wannabe racers.
(, Tue 4 Nov 2025, 18:54, Reply)
Also sprach Zarathustra
By way of Flash Gordon. If this doesn't put a big stupid grin on your face, then you have to be dead inside.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 4 Nov 2025, 7:55,
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Try this version then
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpJ6anurfuw
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Tue 4 Nov 2025, 17:02,
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Gesundheit
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 4 Nov 2025, 20:54,
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Someone posted a link to the original of Atlantique Sud by M83
I made this!
and I was inspired to do a little remix of it with just the piano and strings. Some imagined art work too.
B3ta is a great place for serendipidous song discovery. Thank you to whoever first posted the link to the original.
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It's a beautiful little song, but it wasn't until going back and listening to it that I realised how desperately over-produced it is. It doesn't need all the drums and horns and nonsense he's put on it.
Yours is a much calmer and therefore better version.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 4 Nov 2025, 8:11,
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Very nice and that is an improvement.
Cheers, I originally posted it here. I discovered it on a Jenkem mix some years ago.
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I'm not really struck on their early stuff.
It sounds a bit too crazy.
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How to deal with those pesky drones*
*May not be 100% accurate, Terms and Conditions apply.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 3 Nov 2025, 13:59,
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Grimly funny
He didn't have to change much from reality.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 3 Nov 2025, 20:20,
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Do you know what time it is?
(on mercury)
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 3 Nov 2025, 11:05,
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This appeared in my feed some time ago
and I've been avoiding it because it appears to be a saga about piss.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 3 Nov 2025, 17:40,
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Well it is and it isn't.
It could also be about out of work actors and their mates make an entertaining documentary in the hope of work/exposure.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 3 Nov 2025, 19:09,
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Bob Ross vs Mr. Rodgers
Nsfw cos swears
mod: No AI slop please (I know we implement this policy inconsistently). Link changed.
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I smash things in my sleep uruk-hai ...and I'll look low. Now where'd they go?, Sun 2 Nov 2025, 15:19,
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Now playing "AI Slop" by the Garbage Collectors
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I smash things in my sleep uruk-hai ...and I'll look low. Now where'd they go?, Sun 2 Nov 2025, 18:25,
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