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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

at the restaurant they had karaoke and toddler was intensely into it until someone did Creed, then shouted “NO” and covered her ears

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

yeah doomscrolling is overwhelming. So go make something with your hands, it’s the only thing I found that helps

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ohhhhh a new Control videogame out now??? Fans of There Is No Antimemetics Division, you deserve the highest quality version of that story, which is the 2019 videogame Control

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026

the fiber Coke Zero is pretty good, I drink it a lot when I’m in Asia

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 27/09/2026

I can’t believe we used to have airlines specifically for trans and pan americans. this country has really regressed on queer rights.

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m really enjoying Neoreaction a Basilisk by @eruditorumpress.com, which is extremely funny when I was prepared to be just in despair, and also about this set of horrible people

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"Do you know that every time you turn another page, you not only get us closer to the monster at the end of this book, but you make a terrible mess?" Grover, The Monster at the End of This Book
Let us assume that we are fucked. The particular nature of our doom is up for any amount of debate, but the basic fact of it seems largely inevitable. My personal guess is that millennials will probably live long enough to see the second Great Depression, which will blur inexorably with the full brunt of climate change to lead to a massive human dieback, if not quite an outright extinction. But maybe it'll just be a rogue AI and a grey goo scenario. You never know.
There are several reactions we might have to this realization, and many of us have more than one. The largest class of these reactions are, if not uninteresting, at least relatively simple, falling under some category of self-delusion or cognitive dissonance. From the perspective of 2017 the eschaton appears to be in exactly the wrong place, such that were either going to just miss it or only
*shitoads of people dying" bits. And even if it is imminent, there is no reason to expect most of us to engage with it differently than any other terminal diaonosis. which is to say to minimize the amount of time we spend consciously dying.
1 There is, if nothing else, a good Bavesian reason to do so given Brandon Carter's Doomsday argument, which suggests that it is probable humanity is closer to its end than its beginning.
* A hypothetical apocalypse in which self-replicating nanomachines convert the enturety of the world into themselves. Compare to footnote 5.

Indeed, my polite authorial recommendation would be to do exactly that if you are capable, probably starting by simply not reading this.
Hmm. Well, no one to blame but yourself, I suppose. A second category, marginally more interesting, is what we might call "decelerationist" approaches. (The name is a back formation from the accelerationists, more about whom later.)

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

cain culto album slaps. i am so sad this tour is sold out

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

“Although Black and Hispanic teen girls are disproportionately providing family care compared to white youth, Black boys and young men are also becoming the main caregivers in their families. During COVID-19, Black and brown youth caregivers filled gaps in a broken healthcare system.”

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Young Black Men and Boys Are Quietly Taking On a Caregiving Crisis Few People See

5.4 million children and adolescents in the U.S. are caregivers. For Black male youth, the picture is even more complicated.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

on the other hand, the Mountain Goats, at it since 1991, still dropping bangers once a year on average and torching stages around the globe with ever-increasing intensity

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/09/2026

The “jaw-dropping” El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months before its expected peak.

A line chart showing temperature anomalies in the Niño 3.4 region of the Pacific Ocean, compared to a 30-year rolling base period since 1982.

A gold line shows temperatures in 1997, a teal line in 2025, and a red line in 2026. The red line surpasses all others reaching 3.07ºC, and at an earlier point (September) than the previous El Niño that reached a comparable range in November 2015.

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a roadrunner in front of a cactus? That’s classic desert

A roadrunner in front of a prickly pear cactus

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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maya kern @mayakern.com · 19/09/2026

the sketch is not precious. nothing is precious. everything can be repainted. each “failed” iteration is a learning experience and each iteration teaches me about form + texture. it can be frustrating at times but generally i enjoy the process of discovery. it keeps the art from getting stiff #art

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the thing that haunts me is the sure knowledge for every horror that's reported at least two will become known years after anything could be done about it.

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Adrian Cantrell @adriancantrell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I feel extremely normal about this of course Hey did you guys know scientists had to go back like 70 years for some blood taken in rural China to find a blood sample that did not have PFOA No one’s done that yet for the other 10,000+ PFAS that are used

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aiwen!🍃永不坠落的朝阳 @limgrave.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

can’t stand hate on romantasy titles not bc i disagree but bc most of the time the hate is outdated by at least 5 years. no one titles with A Bowl of Mac and Cheese format anymore. it’s all words that make no sense together like “to bleed a fiery crown” you can’t even hate right and with the times

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Personally I would not pick this fight with the youtube guy who demonstrates all the ways he can nail you with an arrow at 200 yards using his feet while wearing 12-inch Pleasers, whose wife can also kill you with her bare hands, and has 9 billionteen followers who are all trans women with swords.

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i’m 57% of the way through 1996 cyberpunk lesbian noir and it has a whale now

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That night I went over the research, with Keishi's thoughts haunting my mind.
"Most images of the Holocaust come from photos taken during the Allied liberation of the camps," she said once, "but the Square Miles were liberated by the Unanimous Army, which did not take pictures, and whose component selves did not remember the experi-ence." And again: "The Nazis had only a few years to carry out their pogrom. The Guardians had nearly fifty, and they had the whole world to do it in. In fifty years you can raise new generations that have never known anything but tyranny. You can destroy not just a people, but all memory of a people." By nine ơ'clock the next morning-late evening by my body clock—my mind began to wander,

her voice intruding on my free associations in a surreal counterpoint. Soon my thoughts turned to what I'd felt from Keishi through the cable, and the moistdisk announced: "The homosexual prisoners of the Nazi concentration camps were not released when the camps were liberated. Not only were they returned to prison, but their time in the camps was not counted toward their sentences. Compare Calinshchina."
"Christ," I said.
"Yeah, that one's a bitch, isn't it?"

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asya @mabyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

some thoughts inspired by recent drama around AI allegations of a particular fic

There's a debate raging on x about whether or not a certain fic has used AI or not

It's revealed a lot to me about how many misunderstandings are out there about AI writing, AI in general, and AI detection tools
Part of this is I think a lot of us are relying on information we first got in 2023. And a lot of us hate AI and don't engage with it ourselves. So, a lot of our info is based on what we saw/were told in 2023 and is now outdated
If we're against AI (valid! important!) we may have knee-jerk reactions to certain things. But, those knee-jerk reactions can stand in the way of our ability to think critically and see nuance
I don't typically use AI tools myself, but in my line of work, I deal with AI writing a lot. Here's what I have learned over the last 3 years:

What does AI writing look like?

AI has improved tremendously. I see a lot of people saying AI writing is terrible. Unfortunately, it's not. It's really good and getting better (where "good" might be different from original innovative, authentic, etc). It's better than most people. :/
Strong grammar doesn't mean AI was used
Instead, there is a sort of templated "feel", common sentence constructions, common rhetorical moves, and common vocabulary that recur in AI writing and make it "sound" like AI to a trained ear
The presence of grammatical issues and awkward phrasing CAN coincide with AI writing (see below)

Humanizer tools exist and are part of every AI writer's workflow
Hybrid writing is a thing -- people can and do use AI, revise, put it through Humanizer tools, instruct it to include occasional grammatical mistakes, write in their style, write in other people's styles, etc. They write together with AI -- a lot of their ideas and writing are merged with AI generated ideas and writing, giving the entire thing higher quality and more of a human feel.
Recently there was a drama around hidden Claude tags appearing in some AO3 fics. I love when AI generated writing is indisputable like this. However, most AI writing won't have obvious tells like this.

How can I prove my writing is not AI?

Often, only other people's good faith belief in you
Apply high quality AI detection tools to your work
Comparison with a long body of already published work
Sadly, showing your revision history in Google Docs and drafts proves absolutely nothing (see Hybrid writing above) but I guess it could help combined with other things or if your audience is naive

AI detectors are trash right? Humans can't tell AI writing, either, right?

Multiple academic studies have shown that Pangram significantly outperforms other AI detectors (e.g., GPTZero), with accuracy rates in the 90th percentile. It also detects hybrid writing and writing that has been put through Humanizer tools. If Pangram detected AI in a large portion of a text, I would be inclined to believe AI was used
An academic study showed that people who regularly write with AI or detect AI have very high accuracy rates at detecting AI. Collectively, their accuracy rate was higher than the most accurate AI detection tool (Pangram) but also, Pangram outperformed every human detector individually. In other words, if someone works a lot with AI writing, you should trust their judgment more than some rando
The amount of text an AI detection tool is given influences its results: in short, the more text you feed in, the greater its accuracy is likely to be.

If I put writing through an AI detector, I am unethical
Maybe?
(For clarification, I am not personally running fics--or any writing--through AI detectors willy nilly, I'm just clarifying some misconceptions about AI detection tools)

There is a difference between putting published vs unpublished work (where published means posted online) through a tool
There is a difference between putting a minimum excerpt through a tool vs an entire work
There is no one big AI dataset -- if you put something in one AI tool (e.g., Pangram), it is not ending up in an amorphous "AI" cloud. Each company has their own model (although they may be based on an original common dataset in some cases and/or have agreements with each other -- e.g., Microsoft and OpenAI are in bed together; a lot of software licenses the use of ChatGPT in their own software)

Read the terms of service for a tool. Most AI tools must by law tell you they own your data and can use it for training. However, for AI detection tools, reusing your test cases is less attractive since training on their own results may worsen their accuracy. Be suspicious of detection tools that also have a generative wing (e.g., Grammarly has BOTH an AI detection tool AND GenAI functions. They are unlikely to use your prompts to train their detection tool, but they are likely to use your prompts to train their generative tool)
Most environmental damage occurs during the training phase of GenAI tools, not in their individual use (of course, usage of tools creates demand, which justifies training)
AI detection tools will create an arm's race > And? We're already there
You shouldn't use AI tools to combat AI tools > I didn't create this reality, but this is the reality we live in. Without AI detection tools, you will have few defences against AI slop. Because of its superiority to most writing, because of its speed, and because of its low cost, AI writing WILL drown out authentic human writing if there is not a scalable detection solution built into publishing workflows and online platforms.
I don't use AI detection tools in my line of work: I use only my own judgment. Because of that, I have a superior "spidey sense" of AI work. But I can also tell you that it's incredibly time consuming, stressful, emotional, and difficult for me to assess the use of AI. I think I am only catching 10% (due to my needing very high confidence to accuse) with a lot of time and energy squandered. I don't think it's realistic that most people or even a subset of people will be able to do this at scale.

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

PEOPLE WON'T BEHAVE IF THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Utena is the original dark jock academia

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Also I’m reading a lesbian cyberpunk noir from the 90s that is just delightful

Cover of the fortunate fall by cameron reed

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

this for the IRS when:

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ok but once you think DSM stands for "da sanity manual" it's hard to remember what it really stands for

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I also got into bookbinding and the first book I bound was my ripped paperback copy of Project Hail Mary, which prompted me to read it again over the past couple of days. It is such a fun utopian view of a future driven by science where humans come together and meet a caring universe

my handmade re-bind of Project Hail Mary, with a petrova line on the cover and a hand-painted spine in my not very good handwriting

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Dallergut Dream Department Store came across my path for some reason and as I’m filling out a childrens library for my own child this is a charming and delightful addition

Me holding a copy of The Dallergut Dream Department Store in the back of a car

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“I love fall I love fall” —> “I love respiratory virus season” that’s how you sound! Ok Yes I’m just bitter because I have covid

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Finally finished The Everlasting today after reading it all summer. The prose was a bit purple for me but I love a well done time travel plot and it’s a very good one

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aiwen!🍃永不坠落的朝阳 @limgrave.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

reading daniel kraus's THE SIXTH NIK and this shit is so grosscrazy (pos) (awe-filled) if i'd found this book when i was 16 it would have rearranged my atoms. good thing we like whatever we liked when we were 16 forever so it's rearranging my atoms right now too

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

a lot of the criticisms of capitalism are actually just criticisms of power, and the observation that "capitalism attacks the laws that sustain it" is just "power will always attack its restraints, leading to catastrophe" which makes the stakes much simpler

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Someone once told me “Abusers groom allies too” and I could feel my worldview shifting in real time.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/09/2026

Chili is an airport security specialist, which means that there absolutely is canonical terrorism in the Bluey universe.

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

WAKE UP BABE IT’S SUNRISE AND THE NEW PARIS PALOMA ALBUM IS OUT

Paris Paloma album playing in the car with a vaguely pink sunrise out of focus behind it

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 03/09/2026

I'm going to have to make a whole thread of "furry merch that was sold to cash in on 9/11." This figurine asks us to imagine an Al Qaeda terrorist attack in the Sylvanian Families cinematic universe: www.whitehouseholidays.com/Remember_911...

Remember 9/11 Mouse Commemoration Figurine

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." - Dolly Parton

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The Girl of Lemongrab @mc-hesher.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There is a vibrant core of humanist beauty still shining all around us, intertwined with the modern world and all its trials and tribulations. A better future is coming because the belief in a better world is unkillable, and we will march there arm in arm with the children of today and tomorrow

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I started reading The God and The Gumiho and both main characters are so delightfully bad people

Cover of the god and the gumiho by sophie Kim

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

NASHVILLE, TN (August 25, 2026) – Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000).

A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.

At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at www.dollyparton.com.

In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com.

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I do need some fuck around craft time or I start dying

Short row colorwork shawl, pattern Aerial by linnea ornstein

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

next knitting is just a big colorwork CUI BONO

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