Ryan

yay!

I think I was 13 when the first photograph of a live giant squid was published. I remember watching those old Discovery channel shows where they'd talk about searching for things like this and then not find them. And then... we did. And now... this??? There's so much cool shit out there.

rafo

I do not like it when my personal troubles and my national troubles line up at the same time.

Every time these folks talk about "expanding the tent," they're actually talking about MOVING the tent. Just picking it up & moving it to the right & leaving a lot of HUMAN BEINGS behind w/o protection.

All to pursue these mythical centrist voters who, what, don't mind fascism but HATE abortion?

I definitely remember struggling with those online discussion posts even back when people did write them. They definitely still were not thinking about them...

"I'm so upset I actually figured out how to spell obsequious" is how you know Bree is a writer because that's a banger line

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

yes!

I want a piece though, pizza sounds really good right now

What... the fuck

bsky.app/profile/ryan...

I feel like she'll probably be unphazed

Badly need news outlets to realize the Democratic Party having super low approval does not mean it's too far left

Everything---*everything*---is politics. If you're "not talking about politics" what you're actually doing is talking about something that isn't politically controversial among the people who are in the room with you.

Change who's in the room, and suddenly it can become politics again.

magic innit

Can't depend on anyone these days smh

help

I really do think the "humans are inherently evil and must fight against their nature to avoid spend eternity in hell" thing might be preparing people for the social order in maybe not the best way lol

It feels like one of those things that is a) completely incomprehensible, and also b) the only framework that makes a lot of their behavior make this much sense

People do crazy stuff when they're scared!

(But also maybe a religion centered around fearing God has some collateral damage...)

What is happening

Including the next part?

I am home. I am tired. I love all of you.

#WotCon

Ribbit Jordan!

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com I feel like you use this meme a lot

Temperature discourse.

All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.

I appreciate you! And sometimes I imagine the Bree hammer falling down and that helps 🤣

God I wish bluesky had my discord emojis

RAFO

I've spent a great deal of effort over the last ten years deconstructing that and I think I've been relatively successful, though as always there is more to learn.

It really bothers me when I interact with privileged people who do not appear to have made or want to make that effort.