[MOD EDIT - AI generated comic strip removed]
[No AI on B3ta, thanks]
(, Fri 11 Sep 2026, 17:43, Reply)
that does look like one of those ai generated cartoons that people use for lazy political memes
seems to be a default style or something
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 12 Sep 2026, 7:19,
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It is AI - the name on the decks changes for a start.
Then the arrangement of things on the desk changes amoung many many other things.
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Sat 12 Sep 2026, 9:42,
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fk me! I never thought the puritans would be all over the b3ta-sphere - the anti-ai crusade is some trip like. Crate digging? sampling? Collage art? Compositing? Automated processes? Templates? Demo Songs? Modifying presets? nah, there's clearly no labour, or direction? Word to the wise, it's not going to uninvent itself, maybe recognise where judgement should begin and end.
(, Sat 12 Sep 2026, 17:40, Reply)
“I’m sorry, you’re totally right to call me out on doing a bit, would you like me to do a bit more?”
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LP, Sat 12 Sep 2026, 19:53,
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ai is not a healthy use of resources
it might have its uses,though im yet to be convinced. being a way for lazy people to try and be "creative" is not one of them.
(, Sat 12 Sep 2026, 20:11, Reply)
It depends on how it is used.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 12 Sep 2026, 20:51,
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porn is the only acceptable use
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 23:30,
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no, I think on balance
Fuck AI
The world will move fully to post truth, artistic endeavour will be swapped with low effort slop, The CEO class see AI as a way of mass sacking leading to mass unemployment. Data centres will make the world burn that bit faster. The quality of services will drop, you will be stuck talking to incompetent ai bots whenever you have problems ( see mass unemployment)
So yeah, fuck AI
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simbosan is too tired, Sat 12 Sep 2026, 21:06,
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In general, in 2026 it's older people who get excited about AI, overuse it, and spread AI slop. Younger people seem to treat AI like washing machines - useful but boring, up to the point of the mass unemployment threat.
In customer service and science, AI is already used heavily
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 5:27,
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I know, and it's shit
Here's an AI chat bot talking bullshit to me. I complained and got a bit of cash. Are you saying this is acceptable? I repeat, fuck AI. It's just an excuse to sack people and replace them with bots that will say any old shit It's just another way to get low effort enshittifcation in our lives.
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simbosan is too tired, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 8:36,
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Before deep learning and post the AI winters, people just called it machine learning, because "artificial intelligence" sounded ridiculously pretentious and misleading. I don't think machine learning as a method is shit. We've all been using it in some way for years. But AI products like the ones you had to deal with definitely are and should never be released
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 10:46,
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LLM is not machine learning
Driverless cars don't use LLM. LLM is a specific tech distinct from trad machine learning and recognition
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simbosan is too tired, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 12:36,
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An LLM is a machine learning model
A type of deep learning model
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 13:47,
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i think calling it a thieving maching learning model is more accurate
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 23:34,
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Kinda yeah and kinda no
Machine learning as a phrase is usually referring to stuff like image recognition. LLM has become sufficiently specialised to deserve it's own treatment separate from say using image recognition to spot cancers in x-rays and stars in telescope data. That special treatment is to say "fuck it" it will end everything of value
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simbosan is too tired, Mon 14 Sep 2026, 1:11,
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that comic you linked was probably created in a one paragraph prompt, if that
A lot of ai videos that are packing out social media have no human prompting at all, they just recursively generate themselves from viewing and user data.
so we're not talking about somebody who's automated some minor tedious task in a long process. it's outsourcing human creativity to a probablistic code model. all those choices and even the words, determined from some LLM that polls vast librarys of stolen content. It's also why the humour is pretty lame. It's not really inventive, it's derivative by nature
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 14 Sep 2026, 0:27,
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We all know it's really a bunch of lads in India
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Mon 14 Sep 2026, 17:41,
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NWOT Manic dog digs streams
www.youtube.com/shorts/H1t2M5LFMTU
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 12 Sep 2026, 20:54,
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I am shocked that BPB, the pretend leftist malignant narcissist, regurgitates billionaire's pro-AI propaganda.
I am shocked that he evidently hates the planet that we are all sadly forced to share with him.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 15:25,
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Could you repeat that? It's hard to hear you with Sam Altman's cock and balls so deep in your mouth.
I can however very easily recognise when someone on the internet has their camera pointed the wrong way round.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 19:08,
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Pointing a camera at yourself and wittering on about the ugliness of politicians is art is it?
How's that denial of being a malignant narcissist working out for you so far?
If the tables were reversed I'd be more upset at being called a planet-hating fake leftist and a billionaire's useful idiot, personally.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 20:10,
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by "turning a camera on myself" I assume you are referring to my Livestreams? They have a decent regular audience and al ot of folk watch them after, I have had some great guests so far - with more planned. How does my choice to livestream make me any different from the millions of other people who do this? And yes, about your art , could you let me know where I can see, or hear it please?
(, Mon 14 Sep 2026, 16:08, Reply)
Millions of other desperate narcissists have normalised your narcissism? If millions of people do a harmful thing it stops being harmful?
This being the one thing that you take offense to is quite the tell.
Please try to keep sight of the fact that I'm criticising you for parroting billionaire ultra-capitalist, pro-AI, anti-environmental talking points while you pretend to be a leftist, and if you weren't a malignant narcissist this would be the thing that would upset you.
And do you really need me to tell you how to navigate this website?
Click my name, genius.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Mon 14 Sep 2026, 19:44,
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*applauds"
Now do it with a live audience while accompanying on piano.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 11 Sep 2026, 23:11,
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La Prima Formaggio.
Space Wars The Next Generator, but in Italian.
(, Fri 11 Sep 2026, 10:12, Reply)
I appear to be flaming
Have some music to soundtrack your Friday.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 11 Sep 2026, 10:00,
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Flamin'
happy candles day!
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 11 Sep 2026, 12:22,
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Buys new apple phone to count your candles
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hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Fri 11 Sep 2026, 19:11,
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Every issue of Byte in one big image
Every issue of Byte in one big image. Searchable and very, very zoomable.
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eXOBeX, Thu 10 Sep 2026, 22:55,
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Rather good.
Layers in focus
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hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Fri 11 Sep 2026, 1:17,
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Eighty dollars for 4k of RAM!
What a great idea - I wish it had a text search feature. I'm wondering how much wall space would be needed to print it on wallpaper and still have it readable.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Fri 11 Sep 2026, 6:20,
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erm, top right, is a search box...
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Fri 11 Sep 2026, 11:38,
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Love all the open, honest, brazen piracy in the classifieds.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sat 12 Sep 2026, 4:46,
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This is great.
I just found an ad for "Palantir Software"
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blugg (it's all gone horribly wrong), Mon 14 Sep 2026, 13:40,
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If you follow Three Bean Salad podcast this will bring a tear to your eye
if you don't then BASOOOOOOOOON!!!!
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Thu 10 Sep 2026, 13:14,
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"Think of you as a daughter"
DO NOT let your actual daughter see this!
(, Fri 11 Sep 2026, 17:59, Reply)
A paper from 1937 that is a blue print how democracy can defend itself against fascism
I made this!
Converted and translated the thing to make it easier to consume. It is scary to see the similarities of parties in all of Europe right now.
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sinisterduck, Thu 10 Sep 2026, 12:57,
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In case you missed it: someone dressed as Kermit, got fisted live on stage and sang "Bein’ Green"
The actual Jess Dobkin Kermit performance is difficult to describe without acknowledging its explicit nature. Picture this: Dobkin, painted entirely green from head to toe, wearing only a Kermit collar, lip-syncing to “Bein’ Green” while being penetrated by someone dressed as Jim Henson.
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sinisterduck, Thu 10 Sep 2026, 12:55,
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Is this how cars work?
Lovely animated short from Japhy Riddle. It's very simple but also shows his very good understanding and skill with animation, and the sound design is great too. Enjoy : )
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rowlification 今は今, Wed 9 Sep 2026, 19:19,
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Love it
Reminds of Bill Plympton
m.youtube.com/watch?v=D1LyTXncHpc
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David Sylvanian, Thu 10 Sep 2026, 2:33,
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so many ai thumbnails in that
it's like they're not even trying to hide the scam
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LP, Wed 9 Sep 2026, 12:57,
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The scam goes deeper too.
Once they have a regular customer or someone determined to be especially vulnerable, they start making "mistakes" and "accidentally curse" the victim, and the mark then has to pay for "extra materials" that are not kept in stock, to cast a spell to remove the curse. Not joking :)
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Wed 9 Sep 2026, 13:04,
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About 30 years ago I used to dabble in closeup magic
after a few corporate gigs where I had women saying "you're really good! do you do palm reading?" So I did a bit of research, learned enough to blag a convincing reading - it's really not hard to throw out a few platitudes and barnum statements... and the readings went OK.
Then a friend suggested "stop the reading, pretend you've seen something bad and refuse to go further"
I tried it, and omg it amplified the results 100x - suddenly I was an absolute psychic wizard and was being asked if I did private readings etc.
It scared the crap out of me that such a simple trick would hook a punter in that convincingly, and I stopped giving readings.
It's such an easy scam to work
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LP, Wed 9 Sep 2026, 14:44,
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I have no issue taking money away from stupid people.
It limits what they can do in the world, so that I might carry on my Good Deeds unhindered.
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Wed 9 Sep 2026, 14:55,
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My problem is that
while it's fine if the fool can afford it, it's not fine if they can't
and it's impossible to reliably tell who can/can't afford it, or who will fall down the rabbit hole and drain their kids savings or go without food etc.
My dabbling was at the thin end of the wedge, and while it's all fun while you're getting drunk at the work christmas party - I have no way of knowing who I might be pushing over the edge
But "taking money from stupid people" describes much of my IT career so...
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LP, Wed 9 Sep 2026, 15:19,
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We're all stupid now and again
the problem is that even the most wily, cynical and streetwise of us can be manipulated when we're at our most vulnerable. The best con artists can identify, exploit and even manufacture the weaknesses each and every one of us has.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Thu 10 Sep 2026, 9:14,
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It is the power of 3s
If you cast a spell, you get it back 3 times.
That's their lore.
If you get one of their things and use it, expect them to offer protection for the threefold consequences, they'll tell you that part later, or before if you look very desperate.
The marque, is a person who has marked himself. Magicians use the word mark as a target, similar to the marque who puts himself in the crosshairs because he's desperate, then there are the marqueés, they're french tents and some other things.
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An Egg ,D, Thu 10 Sep 2026, 0:57,
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eBay has them too.
I imagine every online marketplace is riddled with psychic/occult/magic scams. Sad, isn't it.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 9 Sep 2026, 18:02,
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It's so frustrating
Apparently the community of real witches and psychics are up in arms. How can anyone tell which ones are actually genuine?
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Wed 9 Sep 2026, 22:41,
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Sets up online course
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hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Wed 9 Sep 2026, 22:53,
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Not a witch
or a psychic.
You can find out about food, herbs and spices: There are metabolic accelerants, liver boosters, blood thinners, things that carry oxygen to the heart, foods that you can cook to lose weight, build muscle...
You can stop eating processed foods. Eat shit and die, it isn't an order, it is cause and effect.
You can contemplate your life: Pray, meditate, just contemplate your life on a regular basis, look for what you want in the future, maybe before sleeping, when things appear to line up you'll know what they are and seize them.
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An Egg ,D, Thu 10 Sep 2026, 1:33,
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You fucking what mate?
Could you cosmic order me a 16" four cheese pizza and a 2L bottle of Tango, cheers.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 10 Sep 2026, 17:51,
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If you have a functioning liver, what does a "liver booster" do
other than extract money from credulous idiots standing on the peak of Mount Stupid on the Dunning-Kruger graph?
(, Fri 11 Sep 2026, 12:14, Reply)
My quick search for "liver boosters" returned little more than fake science and fake wellness sites promoting detox scams.
Sad, isn't it.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sat 12 Sep 2026, 17:31,
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"things that carry oxygen to the heart"
GET YOUR HAEMOGLOBIN HERE, 3 FOR A FIVER! BEST QUALITY!
(, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 19:36, Reply)
Yes the genuine charlatans are the real victims here.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 10 Sep 2026, 18:02,
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Keep out of reach of children.
Very sage.
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hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Thu 10 Sep 2026, 1:08,
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Championship Gurning
I made this!
For yeeeears I’ve wanted to do a gurning game and finally got round to fiddling around with a fancy face pose library just in time for the real-life championships on the 19th
Had to devise my own nose distortion analysis as library’s got nothing, and it rewards asymmetry to force wonkier expressions
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malevole, Wed 9 Sep 2026, 10:44,
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That is brilliant
I'm off to try our TENS machine on my face to see if it improves my score. I'll report back.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Wed 9 Sep 2026, 19:07,
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I've had this stuck in my head for months now
please stick it in yours too
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LP, Wed 9 Sep 2026, 10:11,
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The truth will set you free
Either that or infect your YouTube feed with clips from Minder and The Sweeney, which would be no bad thing.
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simbosan is too tired, Wed 9 Sep 2026, 4:03,
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Prosthetic Wings
This left me speechless.
Wait for Prince Vultan to appear.
(, Mon 7 Sep 2026, 23:26, Reply)
his channel is called 'Adam savage tested'
but in the 11 minute clip they don't jump off anything with em on
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 8 Sep 2026, 0:49,
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well, i could skip through the vid in a few seconds
just mention it as it seems a little off-brand, for him to build stuff without roadtesting its functionality. though they do look quite cool
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 8 Sep 2026, 2:46,
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He's also practical effects guy. And I don't think "functionality" is really on the cards for these wings.
Having said that, I found Laura's body language was sometimes really emphasised by the wings. They look "natural".
I just found them enthralling.. I'll pipe down now. :)
(, Tue 8 Sep 2026, 3:03, Reply)
Robustly constructed and excellent movement.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 8 Sep 2026, 3:27,
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reminds me of that doco about the making of Brazil
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdmZgXsdGlI&t=320s
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simbosan is too tired, Tue 8 Sep 2026, 5:54,
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That’s a thing of real beauty.
Is it engineering or art?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 8 Sep 2026, 17:27,
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Chrome plugin for Google maps - that asserts US ownership of everything on the planet
I made this!
This should also:
1) Reduce the risk of invading places they notice are non-American
2) Massively increase their test results for international geography
3) Make navigation a little tricky, unless you want to go to America
(, Mon 7 Sep 2026, 17:00, Reply)
Apparently he also asserted ownership of the moon today. I give it a week before he decides to rename the capital after himself instead of that loser Washington.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 7 Sep 2026, 21:42,
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Trumpton...
... has a nice ring to it.
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El Cid ...wing attack plan R..., Tue 8 Sep 2026, 7:48,
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Now when you google "Amazon" the first link is an American company
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Mon 7 Sep 2026, 23:41,
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I know, it's getting harder and harder to find good pics of Xena
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 8 Sep 2026, 0:37,
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I assume someone installed the plugin for him.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93ek32pqd2o
(, Tue 8 Sep 2026, 20:16, Reply)
Nope
But close (I'm the guy from that one, that went and did the other one)
(, Thu 10 Sep 2026, 18:33, Reply)
yeah admin privledge means I saw your domain
and was I REMEMBER THAT
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rob, Fri 11 Sep 2026, 11:50,
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we're still there
just pulled up the drawbridge and locked ourselves inside, pretending the last decade or two haven't happened.
(, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 14:52, Reply)
First far-right party to win a state election in Germany since the last one
hopefully this one feels it has sufficient lebensraum
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 7 Sep 2026, 0:06,
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At this point, it's not a history lesson, it's an instruction manual
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Octo I ruin everything., Mon 7 Sep 2026, 9:45,
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