Think it's time to mute some words. My feed has been like 90% Michigan Senate primary takes today and the sniping is getting old.
The Final Peckening
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@danacorn.bsky.social playing the Golden Hour open mic, Olympia Olympus Trip 35, Ilford Delta 3200 (pushed 1 stop)
@danacorn.bsky.social playing the Bula Bar open mic, Olympia Olympus Trip 35 camera, Ilford Delta 3200 film (pushed 1 stop)
I feel like this is tied to a more general idea that freelancers aren't entitled to time off.
uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄@danacorn.bsky.social · yesterdayHonestly, “it’s unprofessional for an artist to post personal art while doing commissions” is a horrible thing to say. Just because someone does something for money doesn’t foreclose their right to do it for their own happiness, and share the results. You’re an entitled jerk if you object to that.
A lot of accounts here are just live posting their own depressive spirals.
Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 2d agoSomeone replied to my post about the Verge quote actually being about sports with a no shit "the country is burning and they want to distract us with sports"
fascists will be like The Noble Wisdom of our Ancient Past but then you'll open an actual book and the noble wisdom will be "snakes flee at the sound of the mandolin because they have no spleen, the organ of lust" and "electrum makes you gay"
I used to work at a bank and if you took something with a pretty, modern UI and dug down at most two layers deep you hit COBOL.
Rose Valley Campground, Los Padres National Forest, California. September 2024. Rolleicord camera, Lomography Purple film.
Way back when I was a kid with a VIC-20, I wrote a program in assembly language and then, because I didn't actually have an assembler, hand-assembled it into machine code. Does that mean I'm 40 years ahead of what Elon's LLMs can do?
Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d agoThe richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.
This short-term funding bill blocks a corrupt policy that would allow Trump to hold even more federal grants hostage—and it closes House Republicans' loophole to pull funding for other agencies to give to Border Patrol. My full statement.⬇️
Senator Murray on Release of CR Text | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
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airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
I can't remember the last time I encountered a supposedly "AI" service that wasn't just a barrier between me and what I needed. Every customer service system is now infested with LLM chatbots trying to deflect me away from talking to a human that could help me.
When did people get the idea that the purpose of science fiction is to be optimistic? Science fiction is always a product of the hopes AND the fears of its time.
🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕@meehawl.com · 4d agoI'm very impressed that the top reply after that is along the lines of "well I've read your book twice, and your other stuff, and here's why you're wrong about your book." www.reddit.com/r/accelerate...
I checked the replies to the quoted post, not one gender critical terf pushed back on the homophobia. Probably because gender critical terfs are largely homophobes with a small group of gay quislings supporting them.
If you don't like big piles of trash on the street, you're not a Real New Yorker. BTW the same apocalyptic "this will destroy the look of the city forever" argument was used against bike share docks.
Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...
The Sex Pistols were a goddamned boy band. A real punk band has something to say, not just an aesthetic.
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
*sad trombones* And the shares of people who got stock before the IPO haven't even unlocked yet.
While not as significant as eradicating smallpox, the launch of the first cell phone network in 1979 is significant. Not so much for developed countries, which already had good wired phone service, but for developing countries, which leapfrogged past the challenges of deploying copper wire.
Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 5d agoI like this brainstorm: greatest achievements since 1969. Number one for me: eradicating smallpox What else?
This is basically people complaining the author of "Don't Build The Torment Nexus" is anti torment nexus, and getting schooled by the author of "Don't Build The Torment Nexus."
Mihai@mihailim.bsky.social · 5d ago
1. Newer writers, just don't fucking use "AI" for anything, ever 2. How odd that being an established writer with a firm "no 'AI'" stance and ample pre-"AI" IP will become a definite competitive advantage over "new, hot, and possibly copyright compromised" deadline.com/2026/07/ai-q...
AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On 'Call Me, I'll Hide The Body' Novel
That screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.
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The moment when you smack your hand with a mallet is usually a good time to re-evaluate the tools you're attempting to use and whether they're actually right for the job.
"What else is there to do on a farm in the middle of winter?" -- My grandpa, when someone pointed out all his offspring had October birthdays.
maybe: annie rauwerda@annierau.bsky.social · last wk.starting a collection of quotes like this
It's almost impossible to win a defamation case in the US. Filing one just advertises to the world how thin skinned you are.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · last wk.A federal judge has thrown out the FBI director’s lawsuit against a blogger who called him a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch.” trib.al/ouHgmYA
What misleading place names are you familiar with? I grew up near Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Mount Pleasant sits in the middle of the Michigan Basin, the flattest part of the entire state. There are no distinguishing hills or peaks anywhere near it.