Lolsob—imagine a world where Diane Wynne Jones and Diana Duane were THE Famous Wizard Writers and JKR is crowdfunding for heating oil. Probably that timeline has different presidents and less warcrimes too

This is a sheer indulgence on my part, but it turns out I never actually shared the poem here, so: 🍃

intentional compensation for eating is one of the most common normatively-disordered behaviours I see people engage in we should probably talk about that

for two weeks in a row #StarfleetAcademy has shown me that they remember and care about Voyager episodes other than Threshold or Tuvix and honestly I'm reeling with shock. A Real Life reference AND an Omega Directive reference? Ambassador, you're really spoiling us

a lot of you haven't rewatched firefly recently and it shows, in the sense that you probably shouldn't rewatch it ever if you want to keep thinking it was good. it was a mass delusion that i also participated in but in my defense i hadn't started reading feminist blogs yet at the time.

Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.

my fave is Shakespeare's queerest play (As You Like It). It's so weird and so queer! (to ward off potential disputes, I'll add that Shakespeare's gayest play is Coriolanus, his bisexualest play is A Midsummer Night's Dream, his transest play is Twelfth Night, and his lesbianest play is Much Ado)

In early 2024, I got to speak to Deans from up & down the West Coast of the US & Canada about "AI". I told them that the only value of ChatGPT for university administrators is as a contrast-dye test to show where resources are lacking.

as a star trek pervert, I also love Lower Decks. truly it is for everyone

on DS9 any person on the Promenade can just turn a corner into the open-doored doctor's office and talk to a doctor immediately and this is how set design can communicate utopian ideals

YIMBYism but for pylons

once again I reiterate that I have never found a more effective barometer for "is this space safe for my fat cis body" than "show me your specific policies for creating a safe space for trans bodies" it has a 100% success rate everywhere from doctors to waxing to clothing-optional soaking pools

want to know how these people really feel about defending effeminate gay men? watch how they talk about trans men who are fem and/or gay (but i bet you can guess)

terry pratchett said "evil begins when you begin to treat people as things." a strong case can be made for this. however, increasingly i believe evil begins when you begin to rate your fear of what MIGHT be as more important than the reality of what IS. so much harm flows from that poisoned well.

this garbage should be given the same weight as saying 'let's consider burning down people's homes bc there might be ghosts inside, and if there were, and i went in, i might be scared!' if you want to cause real harm based on hypothetical fears of hypothetical problems, YOU are in fact the problem

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I deeply miss the days of ship manifestos!

I will not submit anywhere that uses AI for art or content. I will permanently end my relationship (subscription, sharing, etc) with any magazine/site that does this. If it's a mistake, I need to see real changed behavior and a policy that works to prevent. No quarter.

Yeah this is truly upsetting. I'm cancelling my @dropout.tv sub for this. I had just upgraded to Superfan. Not like there is any ethical consumption under capitalism but I had a modicum of faith here.

Michael Burnham is first on this list. No question in my mind. Then maybe Janeway, then Archer & Pike share a spot, then Kirk, THEN Picard (c'mon, he hates managing!) then Sisko and Ake at the bottom (chaos captains ilu but it's true)

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

something v encouraging to see lately is how clear eyed people have become about assigning fault to institutions rather than individuals. BAFTA/BBC tried to throw that poor man under the bus by seating him where they did and airing what they did but no one’s buying it

I was honestly on the fence about unsubscribing from @dropout.tv but @samreich.bsky.social's condescending asshole non-answer on the issue has pushed me into a decision. he could've apologized, or addressed the issue directly! he clearly expects it to blow over on social media. fine. let's find out.

absolute garbage answer from @samreich.bsky.social. "I hear the mixed feedback and people who feel that way"??? WHAT WAY??? he doesn't even mention what the concerns are. you are producing copaganda. I don't give a fuck if Nathan Fillion was nice to you! that's not the issue!

Sam's awnser boils down to: the chance to work with Nathan Fillion (yikes) and be on network tv is more important than any moral or principled stance. IF you unsubscribe and stop giving us money AND we don't get a bump of subscribers from the show airing, maybe we will reconsider doing this again

the scene in lord of the rings where gandalf is like "would you deny an old man his walking stick" except it's this

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"The Corporations don't intrinsically have souls, but they've got rights. The only corpo that contained a soul was Costco - the only one born with a soul. The Chamber of Commerce was empty, you see. These things are just vessels. That's why I'm going to destroy them. Because I hate them."

got an email that the executive director of our local arthouse theatre is stepping down from his position and my immediate irrational thought was "oh is he in the Epstein files?" no, he's not, and also, I should spend less time online

Lord of the Rings, this was before platforms existed so it was just someone's random website that archived the 15 Legolas/Gimli fics on the baby internet at that time, probably 12 years old

I decided to stop using Canvas this semester (due to all their shady OpenAI connections and, you know, the fact that they're working to end teaching and learning) so we're doing it all on paper, and a curious effect of that is that I am WAY more caught up on my grading than I used to be

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deeply disappointed that @dropout.tv is doing this copaganda bullshit (a Game Changer crossover with The Rookie). the function of The Rookie is to manufacture consent for the LAPD. congrats, that's now the function of Game Changer too.

Remember when this was funny because it was so absurd nobody thought it would happen??

NZ banned "online prediction markets" if anyone wants some good news

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

We had $18k in rent requests come in just today (so far). We’re anticipating needs at our neighborhood school to be over $100k again this month, but this time donations are WAY down. We don’t have enough money to cover everyone. Please help us keep our neighbors w/ young kids from being evicted!

I struggle to articulate why the dehumanizing speech AI systems I study are a dangerous threat, because it is SO clear to me that they are made by people who hate human beings. I can’t understand why I have to keep explaining that when this dude is out here saying these things every single day.

I used to think strawberries, but now that I live in a place where you can grow peaches and eat them sun-warm from the tree, I will say peaches

me preparing my friends to watch the first Mirrorverse DS9 episode: okay so you know how in the nineties there would be a character who was bisexual in an evil kinky sadistic slutty way, and we all knew it was bad representation, but also it was just a lot of fun?

in Canada we have a store called "Canadian Tire" and you're probably thinking "a store named after a tire definitely has a circle for a logo" but no, you're wrong. they chose a colossal red triangle

all right guys, I made it to the end. pls rec me the Heated Rivalry goodfic. Goodfic can be: - wow author can write - someone with too much knowledge of X does deep dive into X in form of fic - Hornt

It’s the freakin weekend

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Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Karim Diané talking about being the first gay klingon and meeting George Takei 😭 www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xdwTAG/

every time #StarfleetAcademy puts the sweet gay Klingon boy in a skirt, it earns 500 free passes from me on any and all other bullshit. truly they have found my greatest weakness

I just want someone to appreciate how funny I am when I design a syllabus. This set of readings paired together makes me laugh every time I look at it

just got a really weird antisemitic spam comment at AO3. so just a warning to my friends that that's happening! I reported it but I haven't received that particular kind of spam comment before (and it was clearly spammed).