In fact, I'm going to say if you are allo and you're writing a character on the asexual and/or aromantic spectrum, you must first read Refusing Compulsory Sexuality by Sherronda J. Brown and Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace by Eris Young. At the very least.

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS lyra.horse/x86css/

Raise your hand if you have ever felt personally victimized by Monday morning 🙋‍♀️

It is both true that Israel‘s behavior has created fertile ground for antisemitism to grow and also no antisemitism is justified ever so if you’re not Jewish and starting to have some thoughts about “the Jews“ that’s on you. You’re responsible for not being an antisemitic twit.

I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe. @tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here: tante.cc/2026/02/20/a... A few further comments, 🧵>>

Taking a break from copyediting with some Project Hospital over at twitch.tv/tachyondecay

Looking forward to Mark Carney’s unhinged Truth Social post about how the USA is a bunch of hosers

What do you mean it’s snowing again

It never fails to amaze me how people *on* welfare have often been convinced poor people and immigrants are somehow taking advantage of the system when, in reality, it is the billionaire class who are extracting untold wealth from the public.

Guess what’s my most-consulted section of Chapter 6 (Mechanics of Style) of the APA7 Publication Manual

Vance keeps going back and asking the Pope to humiliate him. It's the weirdest, cringiest kink, but they're two consenting adults, and I'm not one to yuck someone else's yum.

it is not enough to disable the feature that produces an AI summary of my emails at the top of my emails in gmail, I need a button that delivers an electrical shock to the person who thought it was a good idea

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

I was trying hard to hate the Khionian stuff this week, but damn it, Jay-Den's speech was beautiful and Darem helped sell it. The Caleb and Genesis story was so cute. Both were rather predictable, but I'll remind myself that I'm not the target demo #StarfleetAcademy

I would humbly request the snow to stop now

LOL Goodreads adding a did not finish shelf in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-six after a decade of neglecting and deprecating its features is the funniest shit 📚💙 I'm still posting there, but you'll always find my reviews at kara.reviews There's even an RSS feed! Remember those?

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

Canadian BDS activists just won a historic victory: Scotiabank, once the largest foreign shareholder in Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer, has dropped all its shares in Elbit Systems. @desaima.bsky.social and Harrison Samphir report on the years-long pressure campaign that led to divestment.

I have finished rewatching all of Hell's Kitchen. I am now a qualified chef. Next up: Shark Tank/Dragon's Den. VC here I come!

Procrastinating by streaming some cozy games this afternoon twitch.tv/tachyondecay

Me in a comment: "this sentence uses a lot of nested verbs but I can't think of a way to reword it, lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" (Obviously I phrased it more professionally.) I might return to it before I finish this edit, but at the end of the day, sometimes as a copyeditor all you can do is flag something!

Dear American friends: I know y’all probably aren’t thrilled to celebrate Presidents’ Day this year. FYI, in many Canadian provinces, today is Family Day! On behalf of Canada, I donate this day to you, so you can celebrate Family Day instead!* *Offer renews each year until you unsubscribe

So this is how the robot uprising begins

🚨It's GAME NIGHT on twitch.tv/thecozycooperative We are LIVE!! I've had an absolute epiphany on the meaning of some double entendres and I'm on a revenge quest against two particular safes in BLUE PRINCE tonight!

Me: We're going up, up, up, this is our moment! Carney: Gonna be gonna be— Me: NO, MARK. Not like that. Get out of here. Go!

Thinking about the way LLMs have poisoned the well, probably for decades, for AI in general, and how it's awful because there really are very many things I would like AI to do for me. 😭 None of them is currently what the tech bros think I want it to do for me 🤷‍♀️

Watching Work It, which is a movie where Sabrina Carpenter can't dance, and it's delightful. One of my favourite things is people who are very skilled at a thing having to pretend they aren't skilled at the thing.

I should be having one of those relaxing long weekends but instead my brain has decided, for no reason, to turn the dial marked "homeowner anxiety" way up and make me think my house will fall down in some spectacular way because I'm not a better homeowner

Live on Twitch with a new game: Blacktail! twitch.tv/tachyondecay

I have been grumpy about Ars Technica’s credulous coverage of LLMs for a while now, but it looks *really* bad when you publish an article containing what appear to be hallucinated quotations from someone and then delete it with zero transparency or corrections.

There is a very dumb update to this, as it turns out in the burst of tech news rushing to cover the story, Ars Technica published an article full of fake quotes. And not by some anonymous freelancer. The article (since deleted but archive here) is bylined by two staff editors.

I wouldn’t be who I am today without the web. Although it’s far from perfect, THIS IS FOR EVERYONE: THE UNFINISHED STORY OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB is a really fascinating memoir and history of the web by its inventor kara.reviews/this-is-for-... 💙📚

Jay-Den and Kyle are so cute together #StarfleetAcademy

This shows just how powerful manufactured consent is. These corporations are craven and will roll over if we make noise. They only win when our apathy does.

That about sums it up.

Rarely has anyone ever sat a racist down and forced them to answer these questions in a professional setting and the results are glorious.

you're doing amazing everybody ❤️

Babe wake up, the new bubble just dropped

Let me get this straight, Skip: I have to spend $60 to earn $15 worth of points? The math is not mathing.

This is the fundraiser for the families affected by the Tumbler Ridge shooting (CBC shared the fundraiser). It's a joint fundraiser, organized by the Parent council, mayor's office, etc. www.gofundme.com/f/tumbler-ri...

As we all move through the grief that news out of BC is bringing, I hope that this info is not eclipsed by sensational coverage about the shooter's gender. Everything about this is heartbreaking.

School shootings are an access to guns and ammunition, childhood abuse, lack of community, and lack of health care problem. These are problems with solutions.

Tumbler Ridge shooter was a trans woman according to RCMP. I can't. The ghouls are about to have a field day. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Every fucking company is like "hey guys you know that thing we make? That we are famous for? Well we're not doing it anymore. Here's a chatbot that'll tell you to drink bleach instead. You're welcome"

sigh

The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance. bsky.app/profile/pron...

We are all collectively responsible for this genocide.

Tech companies: We'll need your ID, face scan, blood type, and a photo of you posed next to a croissant in order to verify your age. The DoJ Epstein Files database: