Alyssa Long

I *think* it’s because my oldest is 8 so he was like, kinda sentient during the worst of the pandemic. Enough to reeeeeeeally internalize some things and enforce them for his younger sibling lol. Also school has pretty strict germ policies - no sharing food, handwashing, sanitation stations

I was 9 in ‘95 and went to all the home playoff games with my grandpa (though I admittedly mostly played Barbies in the stands and ate a lot of hot dogs lol) and gosh I really want Dan and Edgar to make the World Series 🥹

“I hope you all got your flu shots because that’s how you get a flu. Do you LIKE barf???”

LMAO I’m doing a great fucking job 😂

The Covid babies are disturbed by all the spitting in baseball on like a molecular level. We are at the bottom of the 8th and I’ve heard “there are GERMS in there, body fluids stay in your body!” *at least* 14 times lol lol lol

Thank you! They are making me very happy this week ☺️

A pile of brightly colored 3D printed boat shuttles, printed in two kinds of rainbow filament. The top two shuttles have a cream and a teal thread wound onto the spools

A bold rainbow matte boat shuttle with a matching bobbin. The bobbins wound with cream thread

A shimmery, slightly translucent pastel rainbow boat shuttle with a matching bobbin. The bobbins wound with teal thread

Two boat shuttles resting on top of a piece of weaving still on the loom. The weaving is done in small cream and teal pinwheels and each boat shuttle is wound with corresponding colors

Happy Sunday, who needs a RAINBOW SHUTTLE?? And spools, obviously. I’ve been using them on my latest towel project and I like them a lot! 🌈🧶 #weaving #bsnm

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I could see it pooling weird on knitting or crochet! Hoping weaving it avoids that ☺️

"don't worry" they shout as they fire projectiles at your grandmother's head. "we're hot manly men with appropriate facial hair! no uggos!"

‪From “THEY’RE VIOLENTLY CAMPING OUT, SEND THE SWAT TEAM” to “where are the young protestors doing peaceful civil disobedience to stop authoritarianism 🥺‬”

“don’t be bigoted towards AI.”

your AI data centers are poisoning Black communities as we speak, please get some fucking perspective. jesus christ

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Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹

This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨

Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
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I have been saying for a few years now that people really need to take a seriously long look at the center of that venn diagram where the circles are marked "AI Culture" and "Disregard For/Violation Of Consent." The whole "AI Actress" situation is more of why.

I know I did not wake up to “AI is people” discourse after FIVE FUCKING YEARS of you assholes telling me and every other disabled person to die already so you can eat brunch without having to think of us

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

as an actual disabled minority I don't care if people think hating AI is ableist or racist and I notice a lot of folks complaining are people I've never seen speak up for people like me

I just want to keep saying that tear gas is

1) an abortifacient

2) extremely painful and scary

3) outright dangerous for people with respiratory issues

4) has effects, especially reproductive health effects, that long outlast the acute stage of exposure. I'm talking months of symptoms.

more like the American legal system is inherently unequal and that fact has inevitably reached powerful people

how about you care about actual fucking people on this planet before you start wondering if your toaster has a soul.

Once everyone materially demonstrates they care for all people on this planet and we deal WITH ALL THAT and all the animals too

then we can talk about your nonsense.

this post is so funny, my god. the "(whatever that means)" absolutely kills me. it means "it's not a real person!" it's not complicated!

sorry if the eugenics issue that is getting your goat right now is not *gestures wildly at pile of ableist anti-vax bullshit* and is instead that you think the billionaire's pet toy should be treated like a "real person," your judgment is sus.

Tonight’s game was…exactly as described lolsob

gonna get canceled for my machinist microaggressions against Tilly Norwood, whose gender and pronouns I can’t help but notice the techbros are having no trouble responding even though she is basically a hot NFT

It’s 80% merino and 20% nylon. Super soft ☺️

I can tell I’m old because every time they do a close up on one of these baseball players I’m like “…are we drafting children now…?”. Why does our pitcher look like he needs to pick up his date up for homecoming later 😭

Two hand dyed skeins of yarn held up in a white person’s hand. The one on the left is pink, cream, brown, and blue, and the one on the right is orange, pink, gray, and green.

Got my hands on some Round Mountain fingering and they are so PRETTY. These are Painted Lady Butterfly (left) and Jumping Spider (right) and they’re going to be some gorgeous scarves - I’m already dyeing some warp to match 👀🥰🧶

A tabby cat looking annoyed as he looks just off camera

You’re not gonna believe this but the neighbors are doing things in their own yard AGAIN despite heavy cat disapproval

I think that’s what I’ll do next time, it doesn’t neaten it up enough to make it worth it for me so far. My towel weaving book said it was too much work to do plain weave selvedges but like…it’s all so much work so I might as well lol

Consumer-facing "A.i." is controlled by rightwing billionaires with an interest in spreading disinfo. Excise it from your lives, friends. It's trash.