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Jan 30, 2026
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I too was concerned for their wellbeing afterwards.
And they don't have the option of doing what that lady who left after 20 minutes did.
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The Daily Record reported a total of 16 tickets sold in Edinburgh and Glasgow as of this morning. ABC reported 50 pre-booked tickets across the whole of Australia for opening day.
https://dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/melania-trump-documentary-sells-just-36641836
https://abc.net.au/news/2026-01-31/melania-trump-movie-and-why-we-might-need-to-follow-the-money/106285248
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#Melania #MelaniaTrump #USMovies
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OUCH! "It’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality. I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy
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@cstross@wandering.shop The review in @GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk 's thread is one of those recycled quotes that actually comes from elsewhere according to Snopes; but lower in the thread people have su
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They're not far off, either.
I just turned up this. Apparently, 4 people joined The Metro's reviewer on opening night, plus an additional 1 who was apparently another movie reviewer.
So a third of the audience was people who were being paid to watch the movie. (-:
https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/30/sat-a-near-empty-cinema-melania-thought-26612808/
Amusing coincidence: Kimberly Bond also writes features for Cosmo.
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OUCH! "It’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality. I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy
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Jan 30, 2026
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The review in @GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk 's thread is one of those recycled quotes that actually comes from elsewhere according to Snopes; but lower in the thread people have suggested that the ticket sales for these places can be accounted for *entirely* by the news/magazine movie reviewers who did not have advance screenings.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@GetCarter/115982369126621417
#Melania #MelaniaTrump #USMovies #VueCinema #Islington #Amazon
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RE: https://social.secret-wg.org/@julf/115963296932688188 Can anyone verify this? (I'm not 100% certain of the bonafides of an X account called "YouAnonTV)
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Jan 26, 2026
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Not the specific claim, but there is news coverage claiming that opposition to U.S.A. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is being suppressed on #TikTok.
Standard caution about question headlines applies, of course.
https://forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2026/01/26/are-new-owners-censoring-tiktok-top-democrats-influencers-celebrities-raising-concerns/
https://cosmopolitan.com/politics/a70144099/tiktok-ice-censorship/
But let's put it this way: the notion has reached Forbes and Cosmo, and isn't just some anonymous poster on Twitter stirring the pot.
#USPolitics #fascism
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RE: https://telescoper.blog/2026/01/19/barry-wards-letter-about-grok-ai/ Translation for Americans: a member of the Irish parliament (the Dail) who happens to be a barrister (an attorney specialising
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Jan 20, 2026
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If anyone wants more confirmation other than PasteBin, here's the Irish Independent's article on this, from yesterday.
https://independent.ie/irish-news/government-td-reports-x-to-gardai-under-child-sex-abuse-laws-over-grok-ai-images/a45604064.html
The Independent has been covering this quite a lot over recent days, and Barry Ward is not the only TD to speak up about this. Here's Niamh Smyth from the day before.
https://independent.ie/irish-news/elon-musks-x-is-trying-to-let-grok-off-the-hook-for-nudification-app-says-minister/a1109922538.html
Here's a Gardai rep speaking to an Oirechtas committee on the 14th.
https://independent.ie/irish-news/gardai-probing-200-images-relating-to-grok-ai-tool-amid-nudification-scandal-committee-hears/a1501424291.html
#Grok #BarryWard #IrishPolitics #Twitter #Garda
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Found elsenet:
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Jan 19, 2026
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It's peace prizes, belligerence, gunboat diplomacy, and invasions on the crazy monarch calendar, today. Secret police, disappearances, murder, and breakdown of the rule of law was yesterday. They might return later in the week.
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#DonaldJTrump #MonarchistParty #USPolitics #Greenland #FIFAPeacePrize #NATO
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RE: https://berlin.social/@mina/115621229392325027 "Guillotines won't save us from these sea slug oligarchs!" — headline, coming maybe next year
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Jan 16, 2026
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Guillotines might. Missing from the social media discussion of these is that this only happened to young sea slugs. Older ones just died after some days, and did not regenerate their bodies.
https://sciencefocus.com/news/solar-powered-sea-slugs-are-able-detach-their-heads-and-regenerate-a-whole-new-body-within-weeks
So the middle-aged sea slug oligarch/monarch, sitting all green on xyr emerald seaweed throne, is not as safe from the French Revolution as xe might think.
I suppose that now you have an excuse to use '#kleptoplasty' and '#autotomy' in a story. (-:
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/115891393375690963 Grifters know their own kind. When they start backing away? It's about to break bad.
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Jan 14, 2026
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It might be about to kick off for a different reason.
https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/115892467098565720
Combine that with the MAGA divisions over #DonaldJTrump's cover-up of Eppstein, the oil industry declining to deliver the promised $100B to #Venezuela, the only postponed economic effects of the #TrumpTarrifs, and #BoycottWorldCup.
#USPolitics
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2026-01-23 is the day of the #MinnesotaGeneralStrike, which (apparently to avoid the barmy stigma that U.S.A. people attach to the word 'strike') they are calling a 'Day of Truth and Freedom'.
It has been called in response to the death of #ReneeGood and the general military and paramilitary violence in the U.S.A. over the past few months.
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/ice-protest-faith-union-and-community-leaders-call-for-one-day-economic-blackout
The #Minnesota Star Tribune and FOX9 have failed so far to report this. But CBS has it.
#NoKings #NeverAgain #fascism #MIRAC
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I think we need a better name for J. D. Vance than Couchfucker, and after due conideration I'd like to submit, for your consideration, "Beelzebubba"
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@cstross@wandering.shop In a Cthulhuesque format perhaps Sofashagga
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@etchedpixels@mastodon.social Nope, needs to be a name riffing on a Christian devil, for maximum offense. Also needs to knock his carefully contrived Appalachian/"poor white trash" imposture (hence "b
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Jan 11, 2026
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Unfortunately, Robert F. Astaroth Jr, Prince of Health and Human Services, has taken one of the demon names.
JD Beliar?
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CONTEXT: This was in the context of a hilarious explosion of singularitarianism on BlueSky, and is NOTHING to do with Trump declaring war on Venezuela. https://wandering.shop/@cstross/1158281579044138
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Jan 03, 2026
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The laws of physics of this Post-Stross Universe hold. You still talked about a future better than reality turned out to be, where a #FIFAPeacePrize awardee started a war 28 days later.
Although the universe taking less than 6 hours to hit below your mark must be something of a record.
#Venezuela #USPolitics #PeteHegseth
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I'm getting a LOT of new followers this weekend and today from mastodon.social that claim to be news aggregators. all created in the past 72 hours. Someone's spinning up a MONSTROUS propaganda/fake ne
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Dec 09, 2025
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It's not the past 72 hours, though.
There's a very quiet out-of-the-way node (even quieter than Glasgow.Social) where I have an account for a limited specialized purpose.
For the past month or so I've been reporting war propaganda accounts continually springing up in its local timeline, all of which are set up with (hidden) followed/follower webs for getting them visible off-node.
They've just decided that your account is useful as a follow target this week.
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This is what malicious compliance looks like (sub-editor handed repugnant article: "hmm, I wonder what photo I can pair with this to undermine it …") https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/115645966654
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Dec 02, 2025
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To save everyone else the work, I've located the original. It's from Adobe Stock, by someone known only as "dantada", and tagged 2006, which is presumably the year when it was taken.
https://stock.adobe.com/images/new-york-spring-street-manhattan-508749781/508749781
Amusingly, the stock image is a fair way down the #NewYorkPost article. The generated montage has skipped over some images of already pedestrianized school roads, 14th Street buses, and suchlike.
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Just noting that our American acquaintances celebrate Danksgiving on Saturday 29th—the day the toilets all back up because the turkey dinners have hit the U-bend and got stuck. Busiest day of the year
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@cstross@wandering.shop Out of curiosity, I just checked. The place to go on the #FediVerse for #BrownFriday plumber posts is Mastodon.Social. Both MastodonApp.UK and Mastodon.Scot have had the hashta
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@JdeBP@mastodon.scot What are you on about?!? (I just dropped an obvious joke! Had no expectation that it was a thing …)
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It is indeed a thing, you'll be interested to learn, or at least a meme of about 3 years's standing. The Wikipedia article was created in 2023.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Friday
It's interesting how it has (and has not) spread to non-U.S.A. parts of the FediVerse.
If memory serves (I've since deleted it off the TiVo.), it was on this week's episode of QI. So it might do the rounds in the U.K. a bit more, this year.
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Just noting that our American acquaintances celebrate Danksgiving on Saturday 29th—the day the toilets all back up because the turkey dinners have hit the U-bend and got stuck. Busiest day of the year
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Out of curiosity, I just checked.
The place to go on the #FediVerse for #BrownFriday plumber posts is Mastodon.Social.
Both MastodonApp.UK and Mastodon.Scot have had the hashtag since 2023, but only MastodonApp.UK has pulled the Mastodon.Social posts.
Toot.Wales, SFBA.Social, Mstdn.Social, and Mstdn.CA all have the same 1 BlueSky #BrownFriday post, from yesterday; and Mastodon.London and Glasgow.Social have not yet had any posts with that hashtag at all.
(-:
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Hey, @beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange why are you illustrating your article about a 7-zip vulnerability with a photo of a computer that was discontinued 12 years before 7-zip first shipped AND CAN'T
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Nov 24, 2025
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The original source of the image, used as stock art in quite a number of places, a photograph of a museum display taken by Théodore Poncet, is misleadingly labelled "a laptop on a table". M. Poncet's LinkedIn history says that in 2022 when xe took the photograph xe was working as a developer for Apple.
So there's that. (-:
https://unsplash.com/photos/a-laptop-on-a-table-QZePhoGqD7w
#BadJournalism #AppleIIe #StockArt
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Very noteworthy how most of these professions are typically female-gendered in US culture. Also, it completely misses the point that a profession is an occupation REGULATED BY A STATUTORY BODY with sp
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This one is undergoing Telephone Game alterations as it passes around social media.
What's actually happening is that #DonaldJTrump's new "big beautiful" law said that only "professional students" can have certain levels of student loans, and the RISE committee of the USDOE is having a bit of a barney about what "professional degrees" qualify for this because of a wording mis-match.
https://ed.gov/media/document/rise-2025-loan-limit-definitions-lily-112447.pdf
https://law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/1087e#a_4
https://law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/34/668.2
#USPolitics #StudentLoans
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Circa 1993, Vernor Vinge wrote that the first working AI would be the last thing that humanity ever invented. We don't *have* a first working AI, and at this rate—shifting the global economy to run at
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Nov 19, 2025
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Trained on 4chan! Given its propensity towards em dashes, "AI" is trained on your writing — and, indeed, on mine.
That said:
I can name at least one subject where I know that it's trained on my writing because it's a fairly technical keyword set and I'm one of only a few people to have written about the subject. I did use em-dashes.
Google's machine-written "AI" result currently points to me, mashes together some stuff incorrectly — and strips out the em-dashes.
#AI #LLM
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Can't park there, mate https://dresden.network/@longiflorum/115560279958319155
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Quite interesting is @glitzersachen@hachyderm.io's subsequent analysis of how the AI-generated alt text completely misses the crux of the image.
#AI
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Nov 13, 2025
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We call them "garden darts" or "lawn darts" here in the U.K..
Almost 60 years ago there was a U.S.A. children's toy brand named "Javelin Darts", #Hasbro's original name. Other companies got in on the act, too.
You can probably guess what's coming from the name. They had sharp metal spikes for noses instead of the soft wide noses that they have to have today.
Several thousand children were injured and some died.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-09-27-mn-10632-story.html
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