C.A. Petrov
@capetrov.bsky.social
she/her. aka FullMetaDuchess. Naturalized ✡️, absent most Saturdays. Learning every day if I'm lucky. On the downside of middle age and drifting ever leftward. Header from 'Dreams' by Melton Fisher. Please don't follow me unless you like reading my skeets.
my friend is having to argue with her TA's who think that awkward student writing they're seeing is from a chatbot (we both think it's not). impossible to function with this much uncertainty, distrust, and adversality(?)
This is basically Google Lens based on scraped images that, as the article notes, were taken from rental sites and property owners without permission as training data. *sigh*
An acquaintance is being sexually harassed at this job. I see him about once a week and ask how it’s going. Today he confessed, he can’t afford to leave because of his student loans. The point of debt at a national level, at an indivisible level, is docility. It’s capital’s greatest asset.
Tongues Out Tuesday! This is a male Gila Woodpecker and his tongue is out so far you can see the thick pink fleshy part I don't know what he was going after I didn't see him retrieve anything
If your historical setting is a major city it was never an all white place. Traders, migrants, laundry, railroad...pick a time period, somebody of color was always present. Sometimes as servants, more often as people going about their business. That's not DEI casting, that's actual history.
Daniel@deargodwhaat.bsky.social · 20h agoPrompts a fun question: whats the most niche historical inaccuracy in a piece of work that annoys you Not like 'oh they were referring to the wrong king' , more 'they had the wrong king on a banknote in one scene'
TL;DR - Using a hospital as a military command centre makes it lose its strict “off-limits” character, but leaves intact the special protection of civilians and patients inside it as well as the duty to preserve its ability to operate as a hospital, which largely precludes any bombing.
Florence Ashley@floralashes.bsky.social · 41m agoI see a lot of misunderstanding about the legal ramifications of Hamas allegedly using hospitals as military command centres. Under the Geneva Conventions, hospitals are owed two things—respect and protection. Only the second of these can be lost.
Breaking things is easy. Any toddler can break things. Putting things back together is much harder. Keeping people from breaking things is the hardest.
The house remembers being somewhere else.
Make art. Make BAD art. Get better. Fuck AI.
Caleb Dume@thacalebdume.bsky.social · 7h agoHave the courage to be bad at what you’re doing because that’s how you get good at what you’re doing. AI is fool’s gold because it promises you the ability to produce something good without getting good. You don’t believe in getting good at this thing. That’s why people don’t respect your output.
While the below is true, the fastest tell is actually that no publisher is going to reach out to you to ask about your work. Ever. They just aren't.
Carrie plays guitar 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@carriem.co.uk · 6h agoWriter pals: the scam reaching-out emails to authors are becoming increasingly convincing. As ever the fastest tells are overuse of the rule of three and the email address, which will be a gmail rather than the publisher's own domain: name.bigpublisher@gmail.com rather than name@bigpublisher.com.
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The naïveté of elite liberal pundits is really something to behold
personally I think it is not great that the federal government is not only weaponizing the criminal legal system against political opponents, but citing as their justification a 4chan conspiracy theory
The other day I talked to an aunt who has truly seen everything, and she couldn’t overstate how much more racist England now feels. When a working-class black woman in her mid-seventies tells you it’s bad, then it’s really bad.
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 18h agoThe Times, once again, calling for mass deportations of care workers and other legal migrant workers.
Hundreds of Western Alaska residents evacuated to Anchorage last year. They say they have experienced housing and food insecurity, along with transportation woes and culture shock — and the occasional silver lining.
One year after Halong devastated their villages, storm survivors navigate life in Alaska’s largest city
Hundreds of residents of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok evacuated to Anchorage last October. Residents say they have experienced housing and food insecurity, along with transportation woes and culture shock ...
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I spoke a bit about Matthew Shepard over the weekend in person to some folks, but I didn't want to let the anniversary of his death — October 12, 1998 — pass by without giving a moment to him and his memory here.
I really do still think at least once a week about all the panic buttons being ripped out of Ayanna Pressley's office
The official U.S. Department of Education account posted a Columbus Day video set to the song L'Amour toujours, which, if you don’t know, is a random dance song that’s been song co-opted by Nazi groups across Europe, complete with new (nazi) lyrics. link in next post. x.com/usedgov/stat...
maybe only trans people are bothering to notice, but there are also Democrats running explicitly anti-trans ads in Ohio so yeah when I'm saying *from personal experience* that ads from both parties are very much harming my well-being, perhaps do a quick google search before calling me ignorant
11th of #owltober Barred owl / Streifenkauz (Strix varia) Platinum ink and Micron pen #inktober #inkdrawing #penandink #sketchbook #sciart #kidlitart #art #animalart #birdart 🪶 #kleineKunstklasse
There is absolutely no way for an officially contracted writer for a licensed property who is writing to the specifics of who ever owns the IP, to then meet every individual readers story preferences and we really have to get away from that being treated as reasonable expectation.
In the transphobic narrative gender-conservatives traffick in, the transfeminine spectre is a rapacious other while the transmasculine is a corrupted innocence. The dehumanization of both is distinct but linked; transmasculine people are regendered as a patriarchal resource to be protected.
Ohhh... so, is this why pre-decimal European money worked the way it did? Decimals don't make sense in a ratio world? (Basically the only book I've read on the history of measurement is Hasok Chang's amazing Inventing Temperature; frantically googling)
Fitting metaphor, but also a tragic end for the vessel after numerous attempts to preserve it as a museum ship. The SS United States was a gorgeous ship in its prime. 😔
Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 15h agoI know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.