I was on a panel 10+ years ago at a Video Game Law summit, and a (white, cis) man was SHOCKED when I told him that de-anonymizing the Internet would not stop the harassment of women and other marginalized people. It's yet another discussion that simply hasn't listened to victims for DECADES.

I feel this way about AI images and voiceover used in training materials. You couldn't thoughtfully build this lesson? Then why are we all mandated to learn it? How do we even know it's accurate or good if you outsourced its creation?

Today was the first time something I've said gained traction on this platform, and I hope it never happens again!

Car owners: Please, PLEASE learn to change your own cabin air filter and engine air filter. YouTube has tutorials, or I will come over and show you, myself. Mechanics LOVE telling you it costs $100 to do each, and in both cases, it's a $15-30 part you can swap out in 3 minutes.

I have to spend this 3-day weekend at a car dealership, the dentist, and a funeral. It's hard to rejuvenate from work-related burnout when the time off is spent experiencing every category of pain I can think of!

I am already married to my spouse, but if I weren't, the way they ask to see my Animal Crossing villager's outfits every day would definitely make me want to marry them.

I have an MBA. Pursuing it changed my life for the better, and it also doomed me to take psychic damage every single day. Our entire country is currently a few dudes seeing clearly that a company is a sham but all agreeing to make number go up, anyway, because they want more turbo wealth. Seems bad!

A world that doesn't suck is possible

A gentle reminder to us white women: criticism of your harmful position is not victimization. You are not being victimized when someone critiques the harm you are supporting or participating in. You are experiencing discomfort and it's distressing to you. That's not oppression.

It really feels like the Jewel app is designed to break my spirit and mind yet the price difference is so great that I must persevere

My dog did her favorite trick: Waking me up in the middle of the night with diarrhea. (It's never, ever during the day!) Exhausted. Chicago Bluesky, let's get through this stupid day.

I thought I was aging out of Asuka, but I fear I am aging into more Asuka.

Imagine you had so much food in your house that, no matter have hard they tried, your family couldn't possibly eat it. Then, imagine what would happen if you continued to buy and hoard more food, filling cupboard after cupboard. You'd be considered mentally ill Why is this never applied to money?

Generative AI is not *only* something its sex pest billionaire advocates are pushing on you without your consent, but it's also given infinitely more latitude with its inevitable fuckups than you would be given.

it's really something isn't it? a modest ranch home? burgers on the grill on sunday? maybe drive down to the grand canyon with the kids this summer for a few days? you can't have that. so they can have everything

As a decades-long fan and Rose Tyler cosplayer, YES. Take Star Wars with it. May we all be brave enough to embrace new worlds.

I’m getting tired of that Mr Roger’s “look for the helpers” quote. I am one of the helpers, and I’m telling you that there are not enough of us

I don't like any of my poems within a few days of writing them, but I love Chicago, and Chicago deserves declarations of passion. ("Dawn" in the title is a person's name.)

Attorney: (Gives extremely detailed description of property lines, how houses can settle and end up across the lines, how the shed is 5 feet over the line in one spot...) Me: (stone-faced) "And where... is the treasure buried?"

Hmm, I should probably tell my parents about the life-changing event happening tomorrow. ...Nah, I think I will play Animal Crossing with a total stranger from reddit! She needs pears, it is important!!

NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfaremedia.org's @katherinepomps.bsky.social finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.

I’ve never understood the “no no don’t worry guys, we’re just using gen AI for concepts not final product” angle some execs are trying to take. Like concepts aren’t the time you want interesting fresh ideas, not amalgamations of existing stuff churned together

God of War: Laufey is dredging up memories of growing up as a geek- and not in a good way! I have loved video games since I was sentient, I grew up longing for people to share them with... but men filling the space (who claim to want girlfriends!) see women as so subhuman they refuse to play as one.

twice a year, Chicagoans have the chance to catch Rare Trains. i missed Santa Train, so i now have an obligation to catch the Gay Train

Broke: "I am an impatient dumbass with poor spatial reasoning and too much hubris. I should stop sewing." Woke: "I would carry these traits into anything I try, I might as well stick to sewing." Bespoke: "100% of art created by impatient dumbasses is better than AI. Sewing is a moral imperative."

Attention, Chicago: if you have been brutalized by ICE, there are attorneys who are gathering information in order to build a case against ICE and unmask the agents responsible. Information is in the link below. www.instagram.com/p/DZGEYnyh-6...

Recently, in several contexts, I have been called "young" with "potential." Maybe I should be flattered, but I'm not. I'm 40. Media, hiring managers, even our own bodies are already sidelining us. No, elder millennial women haven't reached our "potential," but it isn't because we are "young."

LM Sacasas, on the AI industry's supposed "inevitability": "If there is some thing that you are meant to do, who the hell cares if there is a machine that can be made to do it just as well or even better? It is still your thing to do." theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/do-not-res...

Post a poster you used to have in your room, apartment, or house. ** College dorm. A horizontal poster felt extremely unique. It didn't literally have Nicole Kidman or Ewan McGregor on it, so I thought it was "subtle."

YOU - “Our lives are very different from each other.” JOYCE MESSIER - “No doubt -- but we share the same time and position on the planet's crust. That counts for more than you'd think.”

Anti-harassment training at work is using AI-generated videos. They are unhinged in a way that won't bother most, but the toddler word association kills me. "Harassment isn't always easy to see" (b-roll of a chameleon) "It could put you in a bad situation" (b-roll of a flood destroying a home)

Looking forward to saying "...during Pride Month??" after every minor inconvenience I experience for the next 30 days. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Do this to my body when I die. Lol lol jk I'm just kidding! Unless...

HAPPY PRIDE. I am pan and married to a nonbinary person. My dream is a country where this isn't noteworthy or unusual, but here we are! Pay me or fight me.

Chicago, I could use your help! 🙏 (thread)

My uncle once had a girlfriend whose child was a terror. In hindsight, this kid was obviously a product of neglect, desperate for attention, but I digress. He once held open the back door of my grandma's cottage and screamed, "I'm letting all the bugs in!" We still yell this when feeling impatient.

A bunch of photojournalists you should follow. Many of them covering things you won't see billionaire-owned media covering. go.bsky.app/AmdJsrV

Media tie-in merch has truly reached an all-time low. My spouse bought a bag of Sour Patch watermelons with Pokémon on the bag. There is nothing Pokémon inside, not a card, not candy shapes- there's just a Bulbasaur on the package for no reason. 1/2

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Threading my serger successfully took an hour and a half and gave me an ear-ringing migraine. It is like this every time. This thing is a demon machine, it wants me dead.

I just got an email from Lyft about a bill in Illinois Senate that would "make ride-sharing less affordable". Suspicious, I looked it up. It's a bill that would allow ride-sharing drivers to 😱😱 UNIONIZE! Fuck off Lyft. I support labor rights over corporate profits. www.ilga.gov/Legislation/...

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

Some days, I ALMOST sympathize with the retro stereotype of the breadwinner husband who comes home exhausted from work and just wants to relax. I work my ass off at my corpo white collar day job! ...Then, I remember those guys had secretaries, cigarettes, and cocktails at the office.

People in my neighborhood need to stop shooting off fireworks, because every time, I wonder if It Happened, and I check, and it's never that.

A 5-star island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I picked it back up a couple of months ago after a years-long break, and the day has come, at last. Check on your islands, if it has been a while. You may be surprised by how comforting it is to see your friends, and yourself.

Weather finally getting decent -> AIR QUALITY ALERT! This is just how it is, now, huh? The "find out" era is loathsome.

Humans will anthropomorphize anything, as proven by the way I relate to our air purifier. On no, not the red light, she is upset! She is doing such a great job, working so hard!!

That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.

A child is under no obligation to be grateful they were born, let alone grateful to you, specifically.