Bess Hamilton
@besshamilton.bsky.social
Writer. Canadian. May I be a star in the dark time. She/her. My opinions & views are mine alone. Am guaranteed AI-free.
Just a bunch of weird insecure dumbasses making their personal insecurities and psychosexual hangups into the problem of *literally every other human on earth.*
Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19h agoWe don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
Tell the world how you feel about AI. Original watercolors, hand-painted and unique. They don't scale. They don't make "economic sense." Whatever artologica.etsy.com
Thank goodness for audio books. I'm currently in bed with a sinus infection and I can't read a physical book or e-reader comfortably. But I can listen to a book.
There is also a strain of jealous author who looks at a successful thing that is not remotely close to what they write, and they say, "That should not exist. Then their readers would read my thing instead." Reader, they are both crass *and* wrong.
Katie Croonenberghs Art@kamakru.bsky.social · 18h agoHaven't seen it yet but they're all the same when you boil it down. "I've been conditioned into hating this thing! How dare it be popular and people enjoy anything at all. This is the Internet, where personal opinions represent the whole. The world should conform to me and me alone."
Flimsy Steve is back! Note: I don't have any water features in my yard. Only chaotic wildflower gardens full of rodents.
Bess Hamilton@besshamilton.bsky.social · 2y agoI named the heron that hung around my yard hunting mice for a couple weeks last fall Flimsy Steve. Just felt right.
I can’t believe this was published, but I say that a lot these days
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · yesterdayThe National Post is using language that seems wildly irresponsible and dangerous here Citing ancient “Jewish law,” it labels Avi Lewis as a “rodef” The ultranationalist extremist who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin rationalized his killing on the same basis: www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...
Opinion: It could have been worse for Pierre Poilievre — at least Scott Aitchison isn't leaving the Conservative caucus to join Mark Carney’s Liberals. The eighth departure from Poilievre’s caucus is in itself remarkable — the Conservatives have now lost more MPs than the New Democrats won in 2025.
Susan Delacourt: Pierre Poilievre’s MPs are disappearing even faster than he is
thestar.com
What the fuck, Joyce. I don’t even read romance novels but this kind of thinking pisses me the fuck off. It further pushes that mentality that some books as “lesser” which is bullshit! All books count!
oh man, I will admit that while I rarely miss things about twitter, I do miss the chaos of getting online and finding out JCO is posting but not knowing if she's doing some lightly incoherent racism or delivering two to the chest and one to the head of some right-wing weirdo
Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · last yr.JCO casually doing murders last night
The thing about Joyce Carol Oates is she posts like a monkey with a gun. She'll get off five good posts where you're like "Yeah! You tell 'em!" but then the seventh post will have to be an apology for the sixth post accidentally supporting race science or something.
The “Cornell 7” framing rubs me the same way described in this thread. We usually use that language for people falsely accused of crimes. Personally, I’ll be going back to “the Cornell gang rapists.”
lilli 🤠@lillianbf.bsky.social · 17h agoTime for another language lesson! Stop calling them the “Cornell 7” or I’m going to throw things at you.
I absolutely despise how successive Canadian governments have used my tax money on legal cases meant to help them weasel out of their obligations.
Anna Mehler Paperny@mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · yesterdayIf we're going to talk about truth and reconciliation we should talk about Canada fighting First Nations in court. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/liberal...
I love the serendipity of Winners or Marshall's food and pet sections. I'm also a big fan of Princess Auto's surplus section for random finds
Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 18h agoI still go to Winners or Marshalls and hunt for stuff like cheaper dog toys, exotic dried fruit, or fancy chocolate.
It blows my mind when people’s defence of using gen AI is, ‘Well, if I need a picture, what do you suggest I do? I don’t have time to learn to draw!’ The same thing you did four years ago, you microwaved fruit loop.
"A.I. tools condition people to expect immediate responses and deny them the experience of working through challenges, the authors say, which is crucial for skill development and one of the strongest predictors of long-term learning." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Will A.I. Make Your Brain Lazy?
We’re starting to learn more about how the technology can change us.
nytimes.com
Worth noting: MacDonald's first attempt a establishing a Canadian Pacific Rail line STARTED in 1873 (when he and other officials were bribed as part the Pacific Scandal). Final construction wasn't completed until 1886. 13 years, not 4. Then, as now, the delays were political and regulatory.
Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · yesterdayThese are not serious people.
It’s a close race but this might be one of the dumbest things he’s ever done and that’s saying A LOT.
Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d agoUnited States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."
I would gently urge @naomiaklein.bsky.social and other writers to reconsider using Substack, who paid this evil man a hefty advance to write for them 👇🏼
Lindsey Boylan@lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 2d agoThis man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal
Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social · 2d ago@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social keeps talking about bringing back shame. I think "criminal corporate behavior must not be something you can simply price in and keep doing" is one structural equivalent that we seriously need
Love playing the game of "is it hot in here or am I just 47?"
as an artist I'd love this but I also think everyone else should also get it. I think UBI should just be default. But I think that would transform the economy into TRULY being the free marketplace of ideas, the car capitalists chase and hope they never catch lol #politics
UBI Works@ubiworks.bsky.social · last wk.Ireland's artist basic income returned €1.39 for every €1 spent. They made it permanent. South Korea just announced plans to follow. Now Scotland too.
THIS is what UBI is for: freeing us up to do what matters to each cleaning up public areas? producing art? volunteering at a shelter - animal or human? caring for a family member, mentoring, teaching, or just being able to *rest*
Lauren Jordan@loremjay.bsky.social · 4d agoI know so many people who want UBI so they can volunteer more. It’s not even that folks don’t want to work, they’ll literally do it for free, it just needs to MATTER. I pick up trash for fun and for free! I like it!!! I could do more of it if I didn’t have to scrounge for beans!!!!
This is why it's such nonsense for anyone to say that with UBI, people will lose meaning. First, jobs aren't any source of meaning for many people with jobs. Second, the jobs people can't say no to are in the way of a getting a lot of meaningful work done. And third, the rich seem to find meaning.
butter bean@blobulouscat.bsky.social · 4d agoTHIS is what UBI is for: freeing us up to do what matters to each cleaning up public areas? producing art? volunteering at a shelter - animal or human? caring for a family member, mentoring, teaching, or just being able to *rest*
Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.
Hannah Vardit@hannahvardit.bsky.social · 2d agoi worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
