ptero pan nation

ptero pan nation

@spiregrain.bsky.social

they/them (en); iel/iels (fr). I paint pictures & leather goods, & sometimes I write things. lover of languages currently working on modern greek, spanish, and welsh.

75 Followers 101 Following 321 Posts Joined Sep 2023
1 day ago

search your camera roll for hell

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2 days ago

Is it just me or is cannibalism a lot of work

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2 days ago

If I had your job I would spend all my time making every purchase that it was possible to make into a veritable trial garden for the Guest

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4 days ago
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Latvian braid added

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4 days ago

they do if you’re not a coward

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4 days ago

I'm sorry but "we went too far in fighting racism" is not a take I consider serious from absolutely anyone who considers themselves on the left so long as mass incarceration, the eviction crisis, the school to prison pipeline, educational segregation, lead water pipes, and the economic draft exist.

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1 week ago

The things y'all credit them with being right about, leftists were right about first. But now y'all crave the empire that worked silently oppressing instead of announcing it on social media and affecting your personal budget.

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1 week ago

I wonder what percentage of people who think they are funny are actually just mean but insulated from consequences of their mean jokes because they have social power.

If people are laughing just to avoid being the next target, that’s not a valid laugh.

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1 week ago
Petition e-7195 - Petitions

To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

If you’re Canadian please sign it.
If you’re not, please share ❤️

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1 week ago

You didn't "fail" to make an unworkable situation work. It was not on you to make the unworkable work. You should not have been put in the position of believing that it was your job to make the unworkable work. You don't deserve to be punished for the unworkable not working.

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2 weeks ago

Here’s the thing about folks speedrunning the creative process with AI:

I could go to the beach every morning and put a grain of sand in a cup. They’d take their cup to the beach and fill it one day; but the point isn’t to have a cup of sand. It’s to fill my life with a thousand trips to the beach.

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2 weeks ago

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

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1 week ago

🤷

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2 weeks ago

Adding in that the exploitation from the system for that promise of "join up and leave poverty" is why Native Americans and trans people are 1 and 2 for "highest % of population having served".

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2 weeks ago
Preview
The hypothetical nuclear attack that escalated the Pentagon’s showdown with Anthropic Start-up Anthropic and the U.S. military are careening toward a clash over government use of artificial intelligence — and whether it should be allowed to kill.

Yesterday I dumped some bookings for an upcoming trip into Claude and asked for an itinerary. I panicked when I saw a flight was a day later than I planned. But it wasn't. Claude just doesn't know how days of week work.

This is the tool the Pentagon wants to deploy to autonomous killing machines.

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2 weeks ago

I think I strive for neutrality more than positivity, even as an ideal. Like, I take pretty good care of the stuff that is my responsibility to care for, it doesn’t really need a “charge” to be worth respecting… but that’s what personally works for me

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2 weeks ago

If our taxes have to pay for something, I’m proud that they’re paying for our government to battle our government

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2 weeks ago

given how reactive so many chemicals are with one another, and how many molecules make up organic material, it’s kind of amazing that you can just eat food, drink beverages, etc., without just bursting into flames

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2 weeks ago

I love trying to sleep at night because all of a sudden my brain will be like, “hmm yeah get comfortable bc here’s the most graphic way to visualize what it would be like for you to be a subject of brain surgery while awake”

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2 weeks ago
the first few rows of a knitted hat made with a glossy purple yarn photo of a knitted hat with ear flaps and horns on the top, in dark gray yarn photo of a knitted hat with ear flaps and horns on the top, in cream yarn with a flowering cactus enamel pin

hats

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2 weeks ago

Without downloading any new pictures, where are you mentally?

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2 weeks ago

this seems to me like a basic tenet of not being unpleasant to be around for anyone who is not your literal clone

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2 weeks ago

yeah it baffles me as well. am I not here to learn? also stuff like, my friend was just diagnosed with a disease so in order to be able to understand what they’re telling me about it, I also read about it elsewhere. so that I don’t make her miserable having to tell me basic shit repeatedly

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2 weeks ago

Neurodivergent brains are more like cornstarch slurry (“gak”). If you’re pushing them with a lot of pressure they stiffen up & crack. Conversely if you can just let go & create a usable space for them, they can be very effective at achieving the same thing

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2 weeks ago

Think of your brain as a literal material. If you’re not operating with disabling neurodivergence, it’s like clay. Might be hard to work with under certain conditions but generally speaking you can make it do kind of the thing you want it to do

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2 weeks ago

Thinking about how certain types of tics work has kind of opened up how I think about other forms of neurodivergence as well. I’m going to be annoying & use a metaphor & speak really, really broadly

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2 weeks ago

yeah I just meant because customers who are jonesing for something are always at least a little more irritated or unhappy. like morning coffee shop shifts suck imo, but evening coffee shop shifts are nice

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3 weeks ago

of course if you were going to build a business to own yourself, the first one probably has a much more stable income stream. anyway this is why I want to do fragrance copywriting so bad

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3 weeks ago

the worst retail jobs are ones where you sell people an addictive substance that they’re out of, imo. the best ones are the ones where you sell people a special treat that they don’t usually get.

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