Volimance
@volimance.bsky.social
Who am I, what am I? I’m a mess really. He/him.
I'm going to say something that sounds like a booster (forgive me @edzitron.com). Any cybersecurity expert could tell you what modern AI does: it's a system that relentlessly, adaptively tests backdoors for human mistakes. From a DoD perspective, that's god tech.
I have a new story out, "The Road from Windy to Dragonroot," about postconflict pain and the start of healing--a human insurgent and a mountain spirit working together, in this case. It's in @lunastation.bsky.social 's issue (no. 67). www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/067/
Luna Station Quarterly
Stellar short fiction by women-identified writers since 2010
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When someone is overwhelmed and stressed out, telling them to “calm down” or “take it easy”, is about as help as pouring gasoline on a house fire.
Stop celebrating racist Yayoi Kusama This article from 2023 news.artnet.com/art-world/ya...
Yayoi Kusama Apologizes as Her Previous Racist Writings Surface, Clouding Her New San Francisco Museum Show | Artnet News
Ahead of her SFMOMA show, Yayoi Kusama apologized for her offensive, racist descriptions of Black people in her writings.
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Watching all the small local medical practices getting eaten up by the Coke and Pepsi style healthcare companies radicalize the small mom and pop pharmacies isn’t the beacon of hope I expected, but I’ll take any light I can see by.
Let’s see if I can get to roasting this this week. I do love me some fennel. Not from my garden.
Living in an economy that is stretching poor, working, elderly, and underserved people (imagine a vent diagram here folks) is just taking it out of me. Took a second to take this shot while on the phone with my partner. It was the first time I’d felt a moment of peace all day.
So yeah. This job. It’s really stressful. Looking forward to a little break soon.
I’m saying that my burnout will be fixed with an extra weekend day. I’m saying that an extra day for the weekend means I’ll be functional on Monday.
Can’t believe July is almost over. This year has already been a roller coaster. It’s a confusing mess of really hard, really wonderful, and “how is it already Friday/Monday” again!?!
The Easthampton City Council passed a resolution on Wednesday calling for Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell and the Northwestern district attorney to investigate and charge federal ICE agents when they violate state law. https://bit.ly/4fGFGkc
Easthampton City Council passes resolution to hold ICE accountable under state law
The Easthampton City Council passed a resolution on Wednesday calling for Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell and the Northwestern district attorney to investigate and charge federal ICE ag...
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To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
Michelle and I loved reading to this bright group of kids today! We hope this new Chicago Public Library branch at the Obama Presidential Center will be a place where folks come to read, check out books, and connect with one another for years to come.
If you need me to listen to a podcast after watching your show in order to understand your show, you failed in making your show.
listening to @aptshadow.bsky.social ‘s “Children of Strife” while weeding my garden and trying to train the pea tendrils onto their support structure is a whole different experience.
Trying to dip my toes in a little research about how a trade city might be laid out… all I get are ai prompts. No, I don’t not want ai help.
What a lovely surprise. Thank you @square-enix-games.com for the Switch 2 Rebirth code! Definitely going to have to play through this again before Spring... Plays better than I thought it would in handheld mode. Love that more people can enjoy these games now, and that part 3 is following suit
This is the message. Any Democrat willing to sacrifice trans folks—especially kids—will sacrifice anything.
Paul@pawlbologna.bsky.social · 3mo agoEd Markey tears into Seth Moulton: "Massachusetts deserves better than a senator who scapegoats trans kids." The crowd goes fucking wild.
Again, just in text: "When you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity to slop, & lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story"
Brian Phillips@brianphillips.lol · 4mo agoHere's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
I’ve got to find a way to make a living outside of pseudo corporate environments.
We're experiencing a strangely cool May here in western MA, but the flags are blooming all the same--accompanied by the cheerful warblings of our friendly neighborhood catbird & the plangent tones of a woodthrush out back. Time to get out for a trail run before the light fades too much. #AmRunning
When says go out and look at the sky it’s always worth it. Sunset from my street. #spring #sky #sunset #newengland #massachusetts #westernmass #westernma
I have made it to Friday. I have not yet made it through Friday.
Finding Hope You are worth the effort it takes to find your way back to yourself.
Finding Hope
You are worth the effort it takes to find your way back to yourself.
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