Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”

My bag of chios mastic broke, and I had to sort the little resin tears from the bits of mugwort and sage that had fallen to the bottom of the incense bin. So I got a lil tray and a business card... and I'd like to thank the stoners in my life for preparing me for this moment.

I learned a new term: Epistemic Trespassing It’s when an expert makes claims in a field where they don’t have the relevant expertise and pass judgment anyway. This is why we have tech bros on the verge of tanking the economy, a “businessman” as president and men in charge of women’s healthcare.

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I still fucking believe this. I think we all need to accept that practice is essential to self improvement, that means accepting you cannot be perfect. You have to make mistakes to learn or grow. Your perfectionism will never serve you, it’s a trap.

Alex Arrelia@alexarrelia.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I think we haven’t sufficiently discussed the allure of AI to people who struggle with literally disabling levels of perfectionism. And instead of learning coping skills or developing self esteem, they’re outsourcing to a machine that burns down hectares of rainforest.

I have hit one of those times in my life where suddenly everything is synched up and going full speed ahead. I know that when times are like this I am copiloted by the Gods and can feel my Agathodaimon close. I have learned to hold the reins and ride through these Chariot times. (whee!)

"Anyone who speaks of revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life—without grasping what is subversive about love and positive in the refusal of constraints—has a corpse in his mouth." —Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life brooklynrail.org/2011/12/last...

Just over here on my computer googling "Lev Levin" and "Dmitri Pletnyov" and "show trials" and "Doctors' Plot," no particular reason

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

men when christopher nolan casts a non-white actor: that is not ACCURATE they were all WHITE men when emily wilson points out christopher nolan’s inaccuracies: oh come on it’s just a film it can’t be 100% faithful to the original

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism

I tried listening to my body but my brain is singing autonomous delivery robot by grandson over and over This is better than yesterday; yesterday it was the piña colada song coming in mid-thought while I was trying to answer tech support requests But ADHD + perimenopause still sucks

Chronic Illness Humor@chronicillness.bsky.social · 2w ago

I tried "listening to my body," but she's being a bitch

The fact that we almost did not get this movie about a little guy taking on a corporation focused only on profit because the studio decided to axe it for short term profit is frankly too much for me right now.

Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Final trailer for ‘COYOTE VS. ACME’ has been released. In theaters August 28. #CoyoteVsAcme

Cover illustration for 'The Odyssey' by Homer that I had the immense pleasure of painting for @wraithmarked.bsky.social 's Special Limited Edition 🏺🌊

I have 20+ pages of notes about Resh, have handed in my application for Minerval, and made a truly cursèd design for a "Tzaddi's little princess" crop top. 93 I guess

its been like 5 weeks now since we’ve had an accurate and reliable count of how many us senators are alive

I've said it before and I'll say it again, a West Wing style hyper-saturated but not melodramatic episodic hopecore drama series about a progressive political operation that was just the Mamdani administration with the serial numbers filed off would have endless viewership numbers.

Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”

The only good thing to come out of the dipshit Odyssey discourse is that at one point I commented “if we’re worried about accuracy, then Jason Mantzoukas should be playing Odysseus,” and now I can’t get it out of my head 😄

The knowledge that the Editor in Chief of Science, while writing his article "AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse and more expensive" is doing so from inside a bubble so opaque that he believes chatbots are the only way "anyone" searches for anything anymore, is uhhhh extremely sobering

Holden Thorp@holdenthorp.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hi, this is Holden emerging from my Bluesky hiatus to tell everyone that when checking the links in the piece, I used ChatGPT as my search engine (does anyone use Google anymore?). The piece was written by me and edited by humans. So all the links were checked by me and again by our copyeditors.

A $27 plant stand from Lowe's, some assembly, a hand towel, and a local-artisan-made ceramic salad bowl, and I have a lustral waters station for the home ritual space that does not require dismantling, cleaning, and resetting my incense offering tripod every bloody time. Yay!

I keep the Old Ways.

"But the present magic of “AI” is performed on us without our input, without our knowledge, and without our consent. There’s another word for that kind of magic; binding, subjugating magic performed on you against your will is called a curse." -Dr. Damien Williams, Any Sufficiently Transparent Magic

Fire Writing

Alt: a gloved hand writing on parchment that is bursting into flames

static.klipy.com

They called it the Spanish Flu because Spain was the first to acknowledge it as a public health crisis and did something about it.

Doe@doefulwoeful.bsky.social · 3w ago

Not to go to bat for a fast food conglomerate but they were the first business to blow the whistle on this, pull potential contaminants from their stores and alert people to the potential harm. It is not their fault their supplier gave them an invisible parasite. It's a supply chain problem

*frantically googling* moral arc bent wrong how to fix wikihow diy moral arc fix moral arc technician near me

Joe Garland 🦋@bsky.dad · last yr.

Who up bending they arc toward justice