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@opalescentopal.bsky.social

I do crochet stuff and sometimes math stuff. (she/her)

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a group of cartoon characters are sitting in a classroom . Alt: Bart Simpson's class, expectantly waiting as Milhouse tells him to deliver his classic line.
11.02.2026 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

10.02.2026 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 20837    πŸ” 7614    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 285

My father's government name is nowhere in his yearbooks. When I went to his step dad's funeral, NOBODY used I had ever heard him called before.

Before transition, I went by my middle name, not my first name, because my mother didn't like using my first name.

Wasn't an issue until "Opal".

11.02.2026 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Baffled by transphobes insisting that the name on your birth certificate is Your True Name Forever when it was common in my grandparents' generation to just...pick a name you like and use that, nbd. I literally found out both of my grandma's birth certificate first names FROM THEIR OBITUARIES.

09.02.2026 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1584    πŸ” 339    πŸ’¬ 103    πŸ“Œ 221

Billionaire businessman Leslie Wexner, the other predator named by Ava Cordero in *2007*, was identified as being in the redacted Epstein files in Congress today.

10.02.2026 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 949    πŸ” 312    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 6

Age verification?

My first cassette tape was Weird Al's "Even Worse".

My Nintendo's cartridge loader got fucked up & wouldn't work without a Game Genie.

We knew 10 highly violent parodies of the Barney theme song and sang them constantly.

Jurassic Park used computer effects? Holy shit, how?

10.02.2026 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

USA? Oh yeah, I heard of that country.

That's where the pedophile president openly kidnaps children and everyone lets it happen, right?

10.02.2026 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

🎢 we don't want him, you can have him, he's too fash for me 🎢

10.02.2026 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"The DOE contends it is eliminating unnecessary excess regulations without sacrificing safety. But... the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and other outside observers remain concerned that safety is falling by the wayside to better serve the global AI race."

09.02.2026 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 9

The guy who is my bellwether for where the dumb money is goingβ€”he had a cloud engineer phase, crypto phase, nft phase, AI phaseβ€”has pivoted back to DJing, which is what he was first doing when I met him 20 years ago.

23.01.2026 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 300    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 12

Call it a "ladder mate" if you want; I'm gonna keep calling it "dog-walking my bitch until he falls over".

09.02.2026 11:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as: β€œOne day a bridge collapsed, and no one came to fix it.”

09.02.2026 06:32 β€” πŸ‘ 940    πŸ” 213    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

I'll take "this motherfucker" over "this individual" any day of the week.

09.02.2026 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

08.02.2026 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 16892    πŸ” 5123    πŸ’¬ 233    πŸ“Œ 222

thinking about Ring's mesh surveillance and tapping the sign

09.02.2026 04:59 β€” πŸ‘ 763    πŸ” 204    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 3

Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.

09.02.2026 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 8014    πŸ” 1235    πŸ’¬ 96    πŸ“Œ 42

But, Soatok, what if I just watch it for the ads?

09.02.2026 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Inshallah.

09.02.2026 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ma'am if you want to change the outcome of elections, you need to talk to white people

Black people do not put republicans in office.

08.02.2026 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 199    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

looking at twitter is self-harm
staring at the horrors is self-harm
looking at twitter is self-harm
staring at the horrors is self-harm
looking at twitter is self-harm
staring at the horrors is self-harm

it doesn't make you more informed just more anxious and scared

that is what they want

08.02.2026 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

it does rule that the villains have to pretend this is good

08.02.2026 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 156    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 0
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It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio PeΓ±a, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out β€œfully autonomous” means β€œa guy in the Philippines.”

06.02.2026 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 22307    πŸ” 6790    πŸ’¬ 629    πŸ“Œ 1090

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

07.02.2026 05:01 β€” πŸ‘ 31895    πŸ” 6607    πŸ’¬ 209    πŸ“Œ 151

man just one or two more posts and I'm gonna fix american leftwing politics i can feel it

06.02.2026 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 685    πŸ” 67    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 4

Why the fuck would anybody want to come here?

07.02.2026 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 481    πŸ” 112    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1

My commissions have made me very happy over the years. I have always tried to pay a fair amount, typically including a generous tip because artists need money.

At no point did that make me an artist, and at no point will typing a prompt into Midjourney ever make anybody else an artist, either.

06.02.2026 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In the end, a "creative prompting" expert is still not an artist. They were never being "gatekept" by people who put in the work. They never learned how to make art; only to commission in the most asinine way (and be the bullying BITCH of a patron who constantly asks for changes and modifications).

06.02.2026 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What AI has done is not to give people without talent a new artform or creative outlet.

It has given these nitwits unlimited access to commissions by no-cost "artists" that don't actually have any soul or capability to understand or contextualize or make a statement with their "work".

06.02.2026 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I've commissioned art from people before. I got to give a description of what I wanted, and art was made. I always try to leave as much to the artist as possible, because tiny details should not take precedence over the artist's creativity.

At no point would I EVER claim to have "made" that art.

06.02.2026 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If I ask for an AI image of the Everglades, I'm sure I'll get back an uncanny valley picture of America's largest swamp.

If I ask an artist to draw the Everglades today, I might get back a sketch of a concentration camp, because that's today's context and the artist's view right now.

06.02.2026 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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