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Welcome to Computer Fairies, where the ✨​sparkles✨​ are lively fairy dust, not lifeless AI slop.

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Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

ukpol (rubbish) 

BBC, 2026-07-29, "Farage's by-election in Clacton officially confirmed": bbc.com/news/articles/cwylzxw7

Notable quote:

Green Party MP Hannah Spencer said: "We get to spend the summer watching Clacton, a farce of a by-election where one of the candidates is a joke character filled with rubbish and the other is Count Binface."

"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."

404media.co/we-are-living-in-a

Librarians removing AI from phones and teaching people they have a choice. Not political. Just information literacy, same as fighting book bans. The real work was always about helping people think critically.

bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02

Excellent @jasonkoebler piece in @404mediaco about the cultural shift in real-world and online flyers ...

... as people start posting AI-generated ones that all have the same bland creepy look

404media.co/we-are-living-in-a

(unpaywalled just in case: archive.is/pNTQh)

Amazon Mechanical Turk, the site named after a machine that was impersonated by a human, is being shutdown because too many workers are using machines to impersonate themselves. techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/amaz #MechanicalTurk #AI

hypothetical uspol 

Every proposal I’ve seen to carve up the United States has the territory redistributed between Canada, Mexico, other European countries, sometimes states becoming independent countries themselves, but I’ve never seen a single one that just. Simply returns the land to the natives. Because of course :r_haggard:

ukpol 

I can't think of anything funnier than the milkshaked fascist Nigel Facade losing his scandalous by-election stunt to Count Binface.

does anyone know why the latest debian live image won't boot on my machine?

CPU: transmeta crusoe flashed with custom 128bit RISC-V firmware
GPU: four nVidia TNT 2 cards running in SLI
RAM: dual mercury delay line (32 words × 17 bits × 2, XMP overclocked, ECC enabled)
storage: ZFS RAID2 array of three hundred free iCloud accounts
network: google pixel 9 pro running gemini nano with the prompt "you are an ethernet card. your job is to route packets. do not hallucinate."

The cosmos got tastier since the ranch flavored universe came out. However, even in ranch flavor, neutrinos still taste kind of empty.

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I reminder that I am very much anti generative AI-art, and my art will always be 100% human-made.
#witch #art #mastoart

Akkadian tablet where a guy declares "my son can go to hell, my daughter is my son now"

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Computer Fairies is a Mastodon instance that aims to be as queer, friendly and furry as possible. We welcome all kinds of computer fairies!