Kris Ripper (ze/zir)

absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

Picture of my adorable puppy lying on his back, white fur, loads of face freckles, Stephen King's It harness, totally passed out... sprawled across my leg.

The thing that most helps get me through this puppy life I'm currently living is the mantra "at least he's not a human baby, at least he's not a human baby". 😂

No shade to human babies or the people who love them! I'm good with babies. I just don't want to cohabitate with one.

Aww, that's a great response!

I think they squeak in a different way for sure. I always remember Hugh Laurie being on a late night talk show talking about how impossible it is to raise girls and bemoaning the lack of manual on how to do so (not in a shitty way, just a flummoxed way). Interesting though.

Oh, good clarification! No, it tends to be about *being* a girl-child, which is why I wonder if it's projection? Like "Oh, the girls are so mean." "All the drama." "They never stop gossiping and backstabbing." But if that's what you experienced as a girl, it makes sense that concerns you!

Screenshot of the results: 79. Mel Gibson

I don't know who needs to know this, but if you look for synonyms for "asshole" on OneLook, the term "Mel Gibson" is number 79. YOU'RE WELCOME.

Okay, who had "on hold at Planned Parenthood and their hold music is muzak Lynyrd Skynyrd" on their bingo card?? Because that's the alternate timeline my Tuesday morning is taking.

Oh, interesting. I've been wondering why some folks seem to be losing their minds in a very intense, outward way.

I'm not happy with how things are going, but it's an extension of how they were already going, not some brand new form of oppression. I had not considered inverted class vulnerability.

It's astonishing how many (white, they have all been white) moms tell me I'm lucky my kid is a boy because boys are so much easier than girls. Like. Is this just projection? Do these people not have brothers or friends who experienced boyhood? It's wild as fuck. Adolescence screws every body.

Oh wow, such great company! Thank you!

Me at the high school football game taking many pictures of my kid, who's playing tonight.

He's in his cute little uniform and shit just like all the other kids.

And yes, he plays tenor sax. 😂 Was there something else going on tonight? <looks around vaguely>

<whispers> Also, it's PIRATES! 🏴‍☠️ <cough cough>

snoop dogg is giving a speech in front of a microphone and saying i wanna thank me for believing in me Alt: Snoop giving a speech in front of a microphone and saying, "I wanna thank me for all the hard work. I wanna thank me for believing in me. I wanna thank me for no days off."

That moment when you're agonizing over wtf happens in the last 25% of a novel (and your deadline is in like a couple of weeks), then it occurs to you to read the synopsis you wrote two months ago where, miracle of miracles, you spelled out a fun, exciting, nail-biting last 25%.

danny devito in always sunny in philadelphia saying "you would have to be a real lowlife piece of shit to be proud to be an american"

Which is also why they reacted so strongly to being called ‘weird’.

Whoa, how was I unprepared for dumbass people defending Newsom? I thought we had all seen through his bullshit by now? (Some of us saw through it when he made his name jumping on the gay marriage thing in San Francisco like he was the benevolent giver of rights.)

Me too! And the audiobook of Ancillary Justice is one of my favorite performances of any book. It's incredible. I had not considered that I was responding to some of the same themes somehow, so thank you for that insight!

I wish I had seen this when I wasn't falling asleep. I'll have to think about this later, but I had not considered those two stories in that frame and... yes. So much yes.

100% most relatable post on Bluesky today. So good to hear!

I told every kid I knew about this when I read it. No one believed me. Those pages ended up looking dog-eared for all the wrong reasons!

I was also violently pissed off Bev had to do everything. Richie and Eddie? Clearly fucking. Stan and Mike? Get it on! A girl gets tired ffs.

a woman is doing a plank with a dog on her back and the words the petcollective are visible Alt: White woman with ponytail is doing a plank (the exercise kind) on a yoga mat while a truly delighted dog climbs under her and lies down on her arms, then proceeds to lick her face. RELATABLE THOUGH.

I keep learning new things. I thought "planking" referred to people doing, you know, planks in public. Like. The exercise. I didn't get it, except I have seen people post workout videos so hey.

APPARENTLY IT'S EVEN WEIRDER THAN THAT.

Gif is what I thought people were doing...

Okay, I won't ruin it for you! 🤣

wilee the coyote from looney tunes is standing in the desert with his mouth open . Alt: wile e coyote from looney tunes is standing in the desert with his mouth open (love that AI; he's actually raising and lowering his eyelids really fast)

I just this minute figured out what kind of animal Wile E Coyote was supposed to be. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but if you need to know, hit my DMs.

I would read that fanfiction

Look the JK Rowling thing is pretty cut and dry she is still personally being directly enriched by consumption of Harry Potter and then using those riches to actively participate in a campaign against trans people

This ain't a case of a problematic author, it's material support to terrorism

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When the US began to strip trans people of rights, revert documentation, move trans women to men's prisons, censor research, and move towards healthcare bans, most cis people posted things like "the government can't tell you who you are!"

They think our biggest issue is validation, not actual harm.

Right back at you. What a frigging timeline this is. SMH. ❤️

Getting through the day, trying to drip just enough current events into my brain so I know where my little family stands, but not so much that I can't sleep at night (which is essentially impossible). But we have our health and a roof over our heads and food on the table! ❤️