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ricardo pinto

@hermitabroad.bsky.social

dark fantasy and scifi writerโ€ฆ mostly known for The Stone Dance of the Chameleon series (and trilogy)

72 Followers  |  58 Following  |  67 Posts  |  Joined: 21.09.2024  |  1.6461

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๐Ÿ˜ quite a late reply indeed! Iโ€™m not finding it as easy to engage with or as compelling as FB

15.03.2025 06:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My garden just now

11.03.2025 17:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Another Polish film posterโ€ฆ this one for Vertigoโ€ฆ perhaps a tad overwrought?

10.03.2025 12:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Polish poster for #Cabaret

โ€œBlending raw intensity with haunting beauty, these posters reflect the psychological landscape of a society shaped by repression. This poster, inspired by Bob Fosseโ€™s Cabaret (1972), is from the archivesโ€

09.03.2025 12:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜He who comes too late is punished by lifeโ€™ Rather than lamenting the perceived irrationality, corruption or indecency of Team Trump, Europeans must recognise what is truly at stake

This casts some light on the change in the #worldorder that it seems we are experiencing

20.02.2025 17:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Snow Queenโ€™s hairbrush?

18.02.2025 14:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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*swoons*

18.02.2025 09:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Clever! (By Zez Vaz)

17.02.2025 12:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wonderful page from #Druillet book Ygarael

16.02.2025 08:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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What Happens in a Mind That Can't 'See' Mental Images Podcast Episode ยท Quanta Science Podcast ยท 11/12/2024 ยท 21m

Short, fascinating podcast about #aphantasia: people who donโ€™t have an โ€˜inner eyeโ€™ #imagination

08.02.2025 15:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations | Quanta Magazine Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities.

For those of you out there who believe that #LLMs are โ€˜reasoningโ€™, and thus that #AGI is within reach

07.02.2025 09:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Snowdrops, medlar, my house and the moonโ€ฆ

06.02.2025 16:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ˜

31.01.2025 09:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Special Edition: Glenn Diesen on Trumpism, Ukraine, and the Hegemon's End Podcast Episode ยท Multipolarity ยท 30/01/2025 ยท 1h 2m

I find this a convincing view of where things are at, globally: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

31.01.2025 09:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Followed!

31.01.2025 09:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Or a secret wish for oneโ€ฆ

31.01.2025 06:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Or the rabbits are the peasantsโ€”who are docile and preyed uponโ€”and the knights are, well, the knights, the landed aristocracyโ€ฆ and that the rabbits rising up is a comment on the Peasantโ€™s Rebellion ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ

31.01.2025 06:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dลซnhuรกng murals ais: Traditional patterns of the Year of the Snake

#chineseart

29.01.2025 06:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Yup #artist

24.01.2025 09:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ˜

23.01.2025 20:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You should have become a doctorโ€ฆ

22.01.2025 12:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œphoto from Mehmet Karaca, the third-place macro winner, shows that enjoying the morning sun is absolutely not limited to the human race. This baby chameleon, which is evidently no bigger than a flower, is getting a few rays in Turkeyโ€™s Kapฤฑรงam Nature Park.โ€

22.01.2025 11:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ok, after much monkeying around, this is how my writing ended up. Your turnโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜

22.01.2025 10:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Actually, thinking about it, it's probably cowardice...

22.01.2025 10:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

:) it wasnโ€™t โ€˜my schoolโ€™, it was just โ€˜schoolโ€™; restyling my writing was just an artistic escape from boredom

22.01.2025 09:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Chinese New Year poster

22.01.2025 09:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thatโ€™s not my experience. I spent much of my childhood, in school classes, experimenting with my writing, shifting it this way and that, seeking beauty

22.01.2025 09:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I donโ€™t understand that: youโ€™re an artist, why didnโ€™t you apply that to your writing?

22.01.2025 09:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Illegible, but beautiful?

22.01.2025 07:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand? We are far more likely to use our hands to type or swipe than pick up a pen. But in the process we are in danger of losing cognitive skills, sensory experience โ€“ and a connection to history

This has even more bite in a time of AI encroachment

21.01.2025 18:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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