Serenity "🜔🝆🜌🜂" Dee 🍜
@sapphixy.bsky.social
Economist, writer, strange nerd. she/her. trans. lesbian. White, anti-whiteness. Opinions solely my own. On unceded Eno territory.
what's "funny" is aipac probably would've ghosted stevens if she won, because then it'd be zionist vs zionist (rogers has taken half a million from aipac already) and it wouldn't have mattered that much to them who won. but now that it's AES vs rogers, they might double down on the general campaign.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 9h agoUnfathomable
In the Year of Our Potato 2026, Tom Morello gifted a song to FFXIV that was used in a raid fight, and it is a fucking banger. *drops mic*
Tom Morello - Everything Burns (ft. Beartooth) (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Tom Morello
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Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 13h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
And given the response to this disclosure, would many have donated if they knew how much agentic AI was involved in the process? Honestly, my real point is that this post doesn’t really explore this subject enough or with any depth beyond the surface level. I do not feel like an informed voter.
And here’s where I want you to hold my hand bc I need you to understand that I am *NOT* taking a position when I ask this question. I am thinking out loud: What is the necessity of Blacksky’s existence? Does the desire for this sort of community justify the harm of other communities?
vibe coding is not acceptable bsky is already vibe coded; if I switch and donate to Blacksky I would therefore be supporting two companies that are paying Anthropic for slop code use of these technologies and supporting the currently requisite infrastructure is indefensible
Blacksky Algorithms@blackskyweb.xyz · 4mo agoAs promised, we’ve created a policy document outlining our thoughts on AI and agentic coding (AI for software development). We’re releasing a vote later this week for Blacksky community members to offer their feedback. We look forward to hearing from you all.
garbanzo! what a gift, to see other people’s pets—especially ones that tend to be shy, like cats—at their most comfortable, something we never would’ve had without pocket internet + camera + computer device 🧡🤍 (this is my personal theory of why other people’s pets media is forever popular)
Abdul El-Sayed holds an 8 point lead over Haley Stevens in the hotly contested Michigan Senate primary with 16% votes reported in. McMorrow, whose campaign was softly supported by Stevens as an “alternative” (read: spoiler) candidate has made no significant dent. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
on a daily basis I use my pocket computer that is significantly more powerful than the supercomputers that existed when I was in high school to show people I wouldn't have even known existed pictures of my ridiculous pets (I graduated from high school in 1994)
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 13h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
On August 3, Michigan reported two deaths associated with its cyclosporiasis outbreak. The state didn't say how either person died, how old they were, or what conditions they had. It did say both had "significant underlying health conditions." That was almost the only detail. 🧵
Who Gets to Feel Relieved When Sick People Die? Michigan Reports Two Deaths in Its Cyclospora Outbreak | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
nb. CDC has added Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania to the list of Cyclospora outbreak states. I continue to urge caution, this o
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it's funny that this website keeps thinking that making an example of one of us will get the rest of us to simmer down and in actuality i've never been more committed to making ken jennings piss his pants and cry
If Jennings is the ally he claims to be, he would use his celebrity and privilege to get this lady her account back.
Karrid 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@karrid.myatproto.social · yesterdayWell, it appears that, sometime in the last 17 hours, Gwen Pepperoni was suspended for the crime of pointing out Ken Jennings' transphobia.
things you should consider when building a fantasy setting: - how do you make clothes? (h/t @louisathelast.bsky.social) - where does the poop go? - how is food produced and distributed? - how quickly and in how much comfort can people travel? individually? in groups of different sizes? (cont'd)
David J Prokopetz@prokopetz.bsky.social · last wk.To write in the classic high fantasy mould, you need not be hung up on food specifically, but there must be SOME very mundane thing you're sincerely interested in and prepared to describe in excruciating detail every time it comes up. Clothing. Furniture. Architecture. It doesn't work without it.
I’m gonna say virtually all authors need to get serious about textiles. Who is weaving them? Out of what? Who’s turning them into clothes and how much does it cost and do you have any idea how HARD all of that was before modern mills
David J Prokopetz@prokopetz.bsky.social · last wk.To write in the classic high fantasy mould, you need not be hung up on food specifically, but there must be SOME very mundane thing you're sincerely interested in and prepared to describe in excruciating detail every time it comes up. Clothing. Furniture. Architecture. It doesn't work without it.
Ben owned up to the mistake he made with this post, which was to assume that the vitriol was from a place of unconsidered malice rather than deeply considered contempt
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d agoSad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.
He beat up his pregnant partner and freely admitted to wanting to rape children. He deserves every ounce of vitriol and if you support him then you deserve the same amount
If you want people to be nice when you die, don't write articles about wanting to shag year 10s. (Actually, I believe his phrasing was "probably wouldn't dabble much below year 10" - year 10 being 14/15. Note "probably" and "much" in there.) Yet another reason I'm anti-BBC.
Leo Enright@ollopa11.bsky.social · 2d agoI am saddened by the tone of commentary in this place about my former BBC colleague. The level of vitriol seems more suited to the other place. I worked with Rod at the Today programme. He took no prisoners, but he was witty and personally capable of genuine warmth. My sympathy to his family.
Blowing a ton of expensive weaponry on an unnecessary war that leaves us in a worse geostrategic position than before we started and the country we attacked in a stronger one. www.reuters.com/world/us-has...
EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say
The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the...
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"The Treasury Secretary said the deal would allow freedom of movement in the strait when asked whether Iran would be allowed to charge a toll." So... they're going to be allowed to charge a toll. Trump is doing a bunch of "last chance" stuff to set the stage to surrender to Iran.
You'd have to be total morons to buy this, so...
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · yesterdayTrump has made big threats and given Iran a one-last-chance at least 8 times now, backing off without getting anything every time. "A whole civilization will die tonight" was April 7! He has claimed Iran is making concessions, desperate for a deal, and a deal is imminent too many times to count.
Out of all the films I watched last week, MYSTICS IN BALI (1981) was the one I looked forward to the most, but was most disappointed with. The amazing horror, SFX & Debby Cynthia Dewi couldn't save it from the awful, unbalanced pacing.
Experience the magic again with this thread
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)@shengokai.blacksky.app · 2d agoOkay, I'm watching Pluribus. THESE FUCKING NERDS. YOU DON'T JUST WHIP UP A BATCH OF SOME UNKNOWN BIOLOGICAL FROM A SIGNAL YOU INTERCEPTED FROM SPACE. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING.
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
