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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

we already live in a post-scarcity economy

abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

yes I still have facebook, no I almost never use it except to like the odd post that crosses my feed and buy things on marketplace, but lately they have been experimenting on me and making it easier to quit because every time I log in it's like 13 notifications that are never relevant to me at all

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

isn't injecting additional testosterone for no medical reason exactly why Elon Musk and Donald Trump have such strange silhouettes?

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

during WWII the Allies smuggled an anti-facist pamphlet written by Bertol Brecht into Nazi Germany and now you get thirty years just for moving a box of antifa zines

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

no Raptors fan would ever cheer against OG

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

the strong denial is making me think he's your guy

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

AI chatbots should be banned for everyone not given to our most vulnerable and credulous???

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

just like Charlie Chaplin woke up today in the lap of a monument on the day of its unveiling. oops

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

why anyone thinks they're just saying shit is beyond me

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

instead of working on my personality I'm making an appointment to get diagnosed

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

the only crime I see is profiteers driving up the cost of rent and groceries or destroying social services that put vulnerable people out on the street. cops aren't going to help with that

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Neil Surkan @neilsurkan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Hi Calgary! I'm launching Empties TOMORROW (Sunday) at 5PM! Location: the WONDERFUL bookstore THE NEXT PAGE! With @ryannekap.bsky.social, @annaveprinska.bsky.social, Mikka Jacobsen, and Blair Palmer Yoxall It'd be such a treat to see you there! 🧜‍♂️

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

sorry sir, my father was a vacuum cleaner and my mother was a microwave, and that's the reason all of my essays are flagged as AI

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

yes Logan you're absolutely right, Socrates's suspicion of writing in the Phaedrus is a great argument for why we shouldn't be upset whenever anyone uses LLMs to do their thinking for them

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I know it's been a long time since anyone did this properly but theoretically you give tax breaks to businesses because they bring jobs to your communities. the reality is more fucked but I don't think there's even a theoretical argument for giving tax breaks to AI data centres

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

has anyone else read "The Last Samurai" by Helen DeWitt and thought while reading that there must be a world in which everyone else is constantly talking about this book?

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

when this is all over I guarantee you that generative AI will be seen as having been about as impactful as the introduction of Excel

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

never thought I'd see the turtle who got got by the plastic straw on the other side of the culture war, but found out today Peter Thiel funded him in order to generate resentments in middle America. Now he's got a podcast where he asks innocent "questions" about the ROI on community time and leisure

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

in my ideal world everyone would have a literary magazine and every literary magazine would be a hammer dismantling received assumptions about the world which narrow the field of possibility

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I will admit I spent more time than I should wondering if I should photoshop an image of the goose

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dissected @trepanation.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

1 million people are working together to give me diarrhea using psychic powers

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I don't know, have you read "Don Quixote"?

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

last night dreamed I ate cat food and hated it and also that there was a kind of goose called "the nun's priest goose" which was what the Chaucer tale was named after and it looked like a partridge and flew vertically oriented, only sort of bobbing two or three feet off the ground

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

please tell me it's not actually snowing tomorrow

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

yes! my mind is a wax slate upon which the phantasms of my senses appear

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

essentially, it's a toy—cute, maybe fun to play around with for five minutes, but it shouldn't be a load-bearing pillar of our economy

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

nah dude the technology sucks, do like five seconds of research

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

LinkedIn headshot to support of genocide and climate destruction pipeline

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

nothing more disappointing to me than travelling to LinkedIn and discovering how many of my esteemed graduate student colleagues, some of them former union stewards, have become pampered shills for AI

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

the AI "boom": a gold rush but after you pulled the ore out of the earth it turned out to be copper and the roads had to be destroyed to get there and you came back stupider than when you left and perhaps two or three people out of seven billion made money

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

especially since somehow even though they have numerous options that are supposed to be passed on to the drivers somehow there is no way of knowing for sure where the money goes... deeply, deeply wrong

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

the crazy shit is that the United States is the richest and most productive nation in history and they act like austerity is natural and not the result of endless greed

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

do you think it's likely the mid-terms will be fairly administered

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

yeah thanks very practical, everyone in Canada put a greenhouse in their condo building. I love Carney's rhetoric but I would love for him to find solutions that are NOT putting extra money in the hands of companies literally making record profits off the backs of ordinary Canadians

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

stop giving free money to corporations like Loblaws and actually do something to break up their monopolies if you want to increase food security at home

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I don't know. what is posting in this time

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

if you're going to impose a large language model over a legacy media institution hijacked by silicon valley vultures, we can at least make it very expensive to run

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

reading Margaret Wertheim's "The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace" because I am becoming especially interested in the late 1990s but finding myself strangely consoled by the possibility that we live in ten dimensions and that every bit of matter is just folded and distorted space

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

ah yes, time for me to borrow an ebook from the university library, which means download it one chapter at a time, because that is how every person in the world reads books, in discrete chunks, like a squirrel raiding a library to line a nest

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

Homeland security post The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world. A photo of an old 70's tan car on the beach with palm trees swaying in the wind as the surf comes in. with the text America After 100 million deportations.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

even among really smart folks, i think ppl have greatly underestimated just how much resources the ultra-wealthy have put into culture war bullshit to get us to fight each other instead of them

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

This is more than twice the amount of money paid to every writer in Canada in royalties who has had their book taken out of a library in the past year.

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

it's a lot of trainers, let's be real

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

what is better than watching a Mary Beard documentary and imagining yourself walking through all those columns

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