Em, enby extraordinaire

@ninethenby.bsky.social

1994. They. Gamedev at UbiMtl. Sexy monster appreciator. Not for kids. Linguistics and languages enthusiast. Opinions my own not my employer's. I write erotica fanfics on AO3

Genuinely believe in my heart that part of the reason mamdani is doing so good is that he legally cannot become president. It's rare that a politician's ultimate goal is like......doing a good job

I think the cat spent the night in my yard actually. It seemed to come out from under my shed while I was having coffee on the deck. It eventuallt walked around me and return to its own yard and I think they've let it in.

Em, enby extraordinaire@ninethenby.bsky.social · 2d ago

The cat seems to have vacated. I can't see it under my deck. I walked around the street corner and can't see it anywhere around its own house so hopefully it's inside or in its own yard.

Hello PC enthusiasts of Bluesky, I am in the process of sourcing parts for a 13-year-old boy who has been selling lemonade to earn money for their first gaming computer. Lovely kid, really wants something to play Roblox, Minecraft, and other games

Additional Alt text [ old time newspaper sketch of a lady dressed as one does in 1902 (white long sleeve blouse, ascot type thing, hat, dark long dress skirt.) Her left hand has a basket. Her right hand has a snake right behind the head ]

jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · 2d ago

GIRL SNAKE CATCHER. she makes a snug little income by securing reptiles for traveling shows SHE JUST GRABS THEM (The Washington Bee, Washington DC, November 8, 1902)

Charles Schulz drew a new Peanuts comic every single day for almost 50 years. That is 17,897 individual comic strips. I'm sure, somewhere in that vast archive, you can find an ACTUAL DRAWING that fits whatever you want to say and easily edit in your own speech bubbles instead of using "AI" slop.

An image of Charlie Brown and Linus from the Peanuts comic strip in color leaning on a brick wall. Linus is looking at Charlie Brown, who is looking slightly aside of the "camera" Charlie says:

It's not very leftist of folks to use fascist corporate "AI" to make memes of me regardless what they say

Posted on LinkedIn for the first time in a while figuring that I should post. Unfortunately I never know what to post and the only thing that I could think of could put me in a hard position with the AI apologists and AI-sloppers. So pray for me.

I guess I should post something once in a while on here to display how real I am or something, but I'll be honest I never know what to post here. Because it's supposed to be "professional" but "genuine" and I'm already known to be a bit overly casual on my discussion topics at work, but you have no idea how casual I can be (that's for another post that could get my colleagues to look at me differently).
I log into LinkedIn everyday to do the little daily games. I love word games and logic puzzles and I am happy to do them (keep my mind sharp-ish y'know), but I don't scroll posts. So many of them are just "AI"-gen slop or praise for the slop. It's not a nice experience. Once in a while I see posts that are critical of the slop, but they are so rare and the algo clearly favours slop and its praise.
I'll be real with you, the AI-Gen stuff sucks, it's bad at what it does (or I guess it's good if you consider what it does is in fact "sycophantically make you feel like you're the smartest person born in 1996", but I digress, it's bad at what it claims to do) and makes nauseating infographics and images.
I won't go around saying I can _always tell_ when something is generated by co-pilot or whatever "agent" because I can't. Even some images now are harder to parse, and you need to look well to find the artifacts (but they always do feel so hollow).
I can tell you though that your co-pilot meeting notes: they suck. Do you read them when you get them generated by co-pilot? Because I have read them in the past, I stopped. They misgender people and they don't acknowledge that people sometimes have the same first names, they misattribute points, and even misinterpret points.And it's scary to publicly say here that GenAI use makes me lose respect and trust in people. Because a lot of the people "big on AI" are the ones that get to decided if I continue to have a job, they can decide to make my professional life hell because I hurt their feelings by pointing out that the output of GenAI is terrible and unreliable, that the continued use of GenAI will make them worse that their job, and that the environmental and human impact of GenAI use is devastating. I could cause myself to get alienated very badly with this post.
When I joined LinkedIn, it was because I wanted to be able to find human connections with colleagues through the waves of layoffs we're seeing. But I have seen very little humanity on here. What humanity am I supposed to show in a hyper-sanitised "social media for professionals" invaded with GenAI  content and its worship?

(I'm leaving comments on because I decided I'm not a coward actually and I hope that maybe through this very long post maybe I'll find like-minded people? I probably shouldn't post all this, I'm deeply bothered though and tired of shutting up. If I see GenAI defence, I'm gonna find out about linkedIn's personal experience curration systems I guess.)

Hello. Actual sex worker here. I'm only speaking for myself. I know some sex workers get...annoyed...at the double standard of 'this type of sex work is okay....bt this is taboo'. Which yes, I do too. It's called both stigma (the negative oppression/views against sex work/ers) and whorearchy...

Barry Deutsch@barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is particularly maddening. If a YouTube creator has posted sexy content ANYWHERE - for an unspecified definition of sexy - then they can lose their account, their income, possibly their career, without appeal. I like (some) sexy content. Probably you do too. Why do the prudes get to rule?