Looking at art as Art - something that doesn’t have to swaddle you up in emotional comfort and confirm you - gives you the chance to think about what you hold as moral and why. If you want art to agree with you all the time, you erode your ability to question the world and yourself

i should run the nfl. the tush push and taunting are all legal. who cares. let them play ball

i just keep coming back to the chasm between the excitement i felt as a kid with the ways technology could help me connect with more people directly and the demoralizing way LLM use now is abstracting away from connection by putting a chatbot between people

every time we talk about parental permission in terms of book banning I'm like fuck man. kids have rights too. a 17-year-old should be able to check out books at the library without Mom and Dad stepping in. so should a 10-year-old or 7 or whatever. kids deserve SOME goddamn freedom and privacy

Absolutely none of us know what we're doing. Become a writer

Firing everyone who calls a loser a loser does not make the loser less of a loser and that's what these losers don't get. They will NEVER NOT BE LOSERS

trans people aren't the downfall of civilization no matter how many monster truck show people who pivoted to blasphemous megachurch spectacles say so. they weren't right about pokemon cards or e-drugs or whatever, they're not right about this. it's a stalking horse for social domination by losers

this shit on us is a trial balloon. the spiritual equivalent of the most obnoxious motherfucker in your office will not rest until he can call the cops on you for buying the wrong shoes. they never do. cut that shit off at the pass or you're next

here's the nut of my appeal to cis people on the escalating transphobia: do you really want some college debate club dweeb who fooled a bunch of dealerships into buying him a state senate seat deciding how you dress and act and live for you

congratulations to our amazing friend @zinrock.bsky.social for being invited to panel at a con that will both fill the creative well AND is an accessible local Florida event! let’s help Teri get to this creative community! gofund.me/369353d91

well there's been a lot of bullshit today but hopefully we can at least end it with the Dallas Cowboys getting their shit kicked in on national television

seeing this cast specifically in this modeling way reminds me of reading a quantum mechanics primer and a florentine patronage letters academic book in tandem - language is a tool of positionality as well/in line with it being a tool of communication.

This! And encoded in that difference is the whole neoliberal capitalist mindset, because to the people who build these things, those objections are, respectively, (a) irrelevant to profits;(b) a forgettable externality; (c) a healthy marketing environment; and (d) the whole point in the first place

“stay in your lane” is a difficult line to hold when so many people have made it their mission in life to attain zero knowledge about how anything actually works such that they effectively have no lane to stay in when it comes to conversations requiring some degree of expertise

the only thing worse than proving them right in their joyous assumptions is the inevitability of proving yourself right in the hollowness of your own. i wouldn’t be able to stand the smugness of their celebration, probably, so why not let the bitterness of my victory kill me instead?

I used to have time for defeatism on this subject and then after 2 weeks of lockdown the canals of venice were clear enough to see fish and the dolphins were back in the Ganga so yeah, the climate doomerism also now feels like an op

I feel like we’re not that far off from people associating complete sentences with genAI and accusing anyone who can form a coherent thought that wouldn’t get underlines in Word 2003 as being an LLM

the amount of people who still don’t understand this utterly foundational fact is staggering

continuing to ask what people even think the point of being alive is if even the most personal of emotional communications efforts are things to be outsourced to the alphabet soup plagiarism machine

this stance toward engaging with art/life (or, not engaging, as the case may be) again makes me wonder what exactly it is this kind of person thinks you’re supposed to be doing with your finite time on earth

no one ever asks, “what’s it like to be perfect?” we all assume, of course, that perfection is impossible. but in the asymptotic approach… it’s maddeningly good. the kind of good that makes you yearn for self-destruction.

“live fast, die young”? no, i’m here to live slow, and live forever.

for just one year the NFL Draft should be conducted conclave style. just put the GMs in a room and don't come out or report anything until all seven rounds are done.

the 18-game season is obviously bad for NFL players, and is a shameless money grab for the league. if anyone was actually interested in player health and safety, one way to extend the season - increase the size of the active team roster, and prohibit any player from playing in more than 16 games.

you are a story my dreams keep telling me is too good to be real, but then i wake up to you

low key think some of these sports journalists who are super high on Rodgers to the Steelers have bets out on where he lands/that he lands because idk how you’ve watched football in the last couple of years and think he’s a good acquisition for any team

i love this story and you should definitely read it! i love when the structure of a story invites the reader into the scene with the characters!

when will the old white men (bots?) on here realize it’s blocking on sight when i check their follows and see they only follow femmes/women

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FLY EAGLES FLYYYYY 🦅🦅🦅 nothing better than a decisive win!!!

primary every single one of these billionaire boot lickers good god

a poem from me for your reading pleasure, part of @smallwondersmag.com issue 20!

victory monday in the office 🦅

against truly staggering odds the Philadelphia Eagles have become America’s Sweethearts

GO BIRDS! 🦅

as i prep for my upcoming move, i’m once again pruning my two biggest personal collections: clothes and books. today is a book pruning day!

i’m always excited for new stories from Ghost Orchid Press! there’s so much talent and vision on this shelf!!!

American tech ghouls are all following the Elon Example of daring regulators to enforce the rules, and I really wish the EU would finally just knee them in the junk with steel-toed boots like they’re begging for.

Periodic reminder that coral reef reduction, elephant poaching are both things actively being reduced because of AI data analysis, to name just two, LLMs are the scam, data analysis is not

anyone else get the sense that interactive appliances that serve up genAI/LLM “engagement” are a ploy to remind women their place is in the home by making it “interesting” to do basic maintenance chores? taking the convenience factor out of these appliances by making them distraction machines

understanding fully that we live in an upside down logical political environment… aren’t the allegations in most of these lawsuits against TikTok (which are being used to build the case to ban it in the US) also true for like, the majority of social media sites?

have spent part of my holiday down at my parents’ dusting and re-alphabetizing their library, and there’s something so satisfying about organizing books

Real life is not like science fiction, where the power usage required for processing rarely, if ever, factors into the plot. I still care very much about the ethics of AI usage but I really think its environmental and infrastructural impact desperately needs more exposure.

A couple people are like “she’s actually barely lost any net worth” and that’s kind of the point: you can do an incredible amount of stuff and give away billions of dollars and not even notice it and 95% of rich people won’t even do that because they’re nihilist assholes

the thing i keep questioning with these kinds of services is why anyone would want this? if you want content written that sounds like your style, why aren’t you writing it yourself? isn’t that the point of having a style? it’s a thing you have and continue to craft, which is the fun part

I keep listening to the radio out of Asheville and hearing a person calling in to locate folks and another calling back to say they just went and checked on them because they’re nearby and no they don’t know them but they’re okay—we do not need cops after disaster, we do need community radio

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feature request: irl time should not advance when you sleep

Genuinely begging major news outlets to realize that there are more nuancedly critical stances on "AI" than "optimist" (read: "hype merchant") and "pessimist" (read: "skynet fearing x-risk hype merchant"). Like… fucking PLEASE stop this.

check out this lovely short from my friend and fellow BSFW writer @rachelgutin.bsky.social! the way i would be like, a designated hitter for umbrella sharing lmao, can’t help myself. 💜☂️