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bernie.

@saveknut.bsky.social

software engineer and musician from portugal. looking for a better internet.

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Latest posts by saveknut.bsky.social on Bluesky

I don't think you can play an instrument with bluetooth phones without horrible latency.

15.11.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

for those who might have missed it - the third book of dust came out last month. πŸ˜—

14.11.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

HA

06.11.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I uh, still don't get the glasses bit. it's driving me a bit mad after reading your comment.

06.11.2025 06:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
David Bowie in Japan. He's waling up some steps while wearing a long black coat and smoking a cigarette.

David Bowie in Japan. He's waling up some steps while wearing a long black coat and smoking a cigarette.

David Bowie in Japan. He's standing in front of a train while wearing a long light-colored coat.

David Bowie in Japan. He's standing in front of a train while wearing a long light-colored coat.

David Bowie in Japan. He's riding a subway car while wearing a long dark-colored coat.

David Bowie in Japan. He's riding a subway car while wearing a long dark-colored coat.

David Bowie in Japan. He's walking away from a train while wearing a long black coat, gray checked scarf, charcoal trousers, and black shoes.

David Bowie in Japan. He's walking away from a train while wearing a long black coat, gray checked scarf, charcoal trousers, and black shoes.

most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing

20.10.2025 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 10401    πŸ” 1322    πŸ’¬ 171    πŸ“Œ 67

why even have it, is my point πŸ˜„

18.10.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

green x emoji wins the award for most confusing

18.10.2025 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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a pixel art drawing of a snake in a grocery store ALT: a pixel art drawing of a snake in a grocery store
17.10.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

jfc don't blow the candles before your birthday

16.10.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

27.09.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4882    πŸ” 1798    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 106

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

22.08.2025 09:19 β€” πŸ‘ 25016    πŸ” 7154    πŸ’¬ 276    πŸ“Œ 486
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Cracking the art code

22.08.2025 05:59 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

why is the ocarina of time title screen music playing over this video

20.08.2025 06:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the overlapping lines in this game are hilarious. best one is
"you're comparing yourself to me? HA! you're not even good enough to b-"
"I'LL MAKE YOU EAT THOSE WORDS"

20.08.2025 06:36 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

12.08.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 32798    πŸ” 6960    πŸ’¬ 407    πŸ“Œ 241
A very mistaken list of the last 12 presidents of the United States and their years in office produced by the Ph.D level scholar known as ChatGPT-5. Includes John F. Katwady, president 1991-1968; George W. bush, president 220Z-1999), and Bill Christen, president 1999-2001

A very mistaken list of the last 12 presidents of the United States and their years in office produced by the Ph.D level scholar known as ChatGPT-5. Includes John F. Katwady, president 1991-1968; George W. bush, president 220Z-1999), and Bill Christen, president 1999-2001

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

08.08.2025 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3188    πŸ” 818    πŸ’¬ 447    πŸ“Œ 761

I would rather die than create an account to continue

30.07.2025 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 7985    πŸ” 1480    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 36

f you I won't do what you [the wokes] tell me

14.07.2025 08:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ahahah stomping around like it's kid rock or something.

14.07.2025 08:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

op has big "I liked RATM before they got political" energy.

13.07.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying Β£7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a β€˜moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.

11.07.2025 08:23 β€” πŸ‘ 6698    πŸ” 1878    πŸ’¬ 233    πŸ“Œ 85
What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business?

The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday.

The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times.

That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working.

You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step.

If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.

What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

07.07.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4284    πŸ” 909    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 151

Por acaso tambΓ©m me irrita que atΓ© a esquerda tenha adoptado o discurso do "eles estΓ£o cΓ‘ porque a economia precisa deles". Migra-se por casamento, para apoiar um familiar, para estudar, por paixΓ£o, por degosto, porque sim. Nem tudo tem de ser economicamente justificΓ‘vel. A vida acontece.

12.06.2025 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Foto bem de perto do narizinho marrom brilhante de um cachorrinho marrom clarinho pedinho bem filhotinho olhando pra foto bem de perto com olhos arregalados

Foto bem de perto do narizinho marrom brilhante de um cachorrinho marrom clarinho pedinho bem filhotinho olhando pra foto bem de perto com olhos arregalados

Nariguinho de chocolate

29.05.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 512    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4
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Pope Leo XIV didn't once urge people to 'be woke' "To be called 'woke' in a world that sleeps through suffering is no insult - it is Gospel," a meme featuring the quote read.

I take no pleasure in this, but it appears the quote is fabricated. ☹️ www.snopes.com/fact-check/p...

26.05.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The world needs more of this and less of most other things

12.05.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 24649    πŸ” 4191    πŸ’¬ 381    πŸ“Œ 239
A brown bunny snuggles with a pokemon eevee plush toy inside a blue, patterned pet bed.

A brown bunny snuggles with a pokemon eevee plush toy inside a blue, patterned pet bed.

12.05.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 9598    πŸ” 1370    πŸ’¬ 76    πŸ“Œ 59
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I can't stop laughing. πŸ˜‚

10.05.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 11717    πŸ” 3294    πŸ’¬ 561    πŸ“Œ 495
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Eveyone & their brother is using ChatGPT to avoid doing the reading/homework & we’re all going to suffer bc of it.

07.05.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 7776    πŸ” 1917    πŸ’¬ 422    πŸ“Œ 206
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#booksky

06.05.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3551    πŸ” 432    πŸ’¬ 66    πŸ“Œ 76

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