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Aunt Fancy

@auntiefancy.bsky.social
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Fiber artist and opinionated Minneapolis leftist. Come for the embroidery, stay for the chaotic bisexual energy. BLM - ACAB nickeyrobo.com

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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 4h
Arguably the civil war was as much about northern states not wanting to be legally required to enforce the slavery laws of southern states as it was about the south wanting to continue enslaving people. Just mentioning that for no particular reason.
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 5h
Damn it would be so cool to rent this space and have a weird little store that opened out to the Greenway. Too bad it's over $5k/month :( www.loopnet.com/Listing/2836...
Interior of an empty commercial space with tiled floors, big windows and a garage door that faces the Midtown Greenway
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 5h
I saw Coyote Vs. Acme last night, it was delightful, but I'm left with one big confusion... I always thought the road runner was saying "meep meep." YOU'RE TELLING ME IT WAS BEEP BEEP ALL ALONG?
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am for this. More housing is good. But it also makes all the Roof Depot bs crystal fucking clear: Frey did not want to give up a piece of land that would one day be desirable for development, he wanted the city to have an excuse to hang on to it until the local gentry came calling.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is fantastic cultural geography. Very strong lede. Even if you don’t read it all (you should; remember we are working on our brains) the first three paras do the work. Thanks to the person who shared it. www.queergeographies.com/stuck-on-the...
queergeographies.com
Why We’re Stuck on the Last Ditch
Why does the public delight in watching lesbian bars unravel?
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Sewzinski @sewzinski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AI is another tool of misogyny and this photo is proof. These men want to steal from you until you have nothing.
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am for this. More housing is good. But it also makes all the Roof Depot bs crystal fucking clear: Frey did not want to give up a piece of land that would one day be desirable for development, he wanted the city to have an excuse to hang on to it until the local gentry came calling.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I worked at a nonprofit tracking donations in a database. Easy in theory but there are a lot of different platforms that do donation processing, and none of them talk to each other. Theoretically a great job to automate but there was so much sensitive financial info it had to be done by a human.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 28/09/2026
a stock image of a pair of scissors cutting a power cord
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So I looked it up and was like, wait, I have actually heard this... And the only reason was that it was on Todd in the Shadows best of 2025 list. So if you are also an old that wants to stay moderately up to date on popular music, watch Todd. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic_8...
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The Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2025
YouTube video by Todd in the Shadows
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What the heck is it about how engineering is taught that makes ppl educated in it often think they know everything and/or can master any subject with minimal work? Is it just the idea that once a problem is solved that's it and you do not need to continue considering alternate solutions?
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've been thinking about how weird it is that the Hollywood beauty standards keep getting more extreme when we're all spending many hours a day looking at regular degular ppl on social media. TV seasons are so short now our parasocial relationships are mostly w very normal looking ppl online.
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Omg guys let's come together as a community and buy the popcorn wagon! (Looks like it got a really sad remodel at some point, unfortunately)
Facebook ad for the Nicollet Mall popcorn wagonPhoto of popcorn wagon on a trailer
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Omg guys let's come together as a community and buy the popcorn wagon! (Looks like it got a really sad remodel at some point, unfortunately)
Facebook ad for the Nicollet Mall popcorn wagonPhoto of popcorn wagon on a trailer
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em cassel @biketrouble.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
here's something that's brought me a lot of joy over the last two weeks while apparently pissing off some of my neighbors lol
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An Interview With the Person Who Put Hundreds of ‘Wedding Crashers’ DVDs in South Mpls Little Free Libraries - Racket
'It is 100% a queer art installation,' Sable Adelaide tells us.
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
new profile pic from my trip to MA where I got to revisit the greatest photbooth I've ever used, the one inside Thornes in downtown Northampton.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
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james. @abacadabber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every single one of those investments that came before are reaching the end of their projected lifespan and require immediate investment, and instead if that, we’re lighting money on fire in a foolish quest for rich losers to develop a computer god. The dumbest timeline.
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ppl are sharing this bc of how ridic Huang sounds but I think Klein not knowing how to get anywhere without a mapping system is as bad as not knowing your own phone number. It's wild to me how many people are totally comfortable w permanent cognitive surrender to turn by turn directions.
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trying to understand the MA lesbian bar story w/out actually paying for the article and it all made sense when I saw the bar started as a Div III (akin to a senior thesis) at my alma mater Hampshire College. Hampshire is itself about to close forever bc they can't pay the bills w lefty idealism!
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We need better commercial vacancy fines, too. It's not as cruel as leaving residential units empty long term, but the fact that speculators can just unilaterally blight an area w empty storefronts is bad for everyone. Both these bldgs have been empty for 6+ years.
Corner of Bloomington and 38th. All units were filled before Dan Coleman bought the building in 2019.Corner of SE 4th and 13th, empty since the landlord kicked out all the commercial tenants in 2018.
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Southside battletrain
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 23/09/2026
Finally someone has invented a machine that can do my hobbies for me so i finally have time to sit in silence and stare at the wall.
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trying to find ethical producers of baby bibs and christmas stockings with low minimums and it's so confounding. Trying to use Faire and their platform is almost as bad as etsy in terms of having dubiously produced slop. The filtering doesn't even seem to work >:(
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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philippos42 @philippos42.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Y'all're just reinventing Millerism. A lot of AI has been mechanical turks and glitchy autocomplete. There's no superintelligence there, let alone a Supreme Intelligence. The Singularity in full apocalyptic mode is largely a human delusion. The belief is more dangerous than the non-existent tech.
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Purchased w forfeiture funds? So they were bought with stolen money. Cool. "The motorcycles cost about $136,500 to purchase and outfit, department spokesman Sgt. Garrett Parten said, which he called an “unbudgeted expense using federal forfeiture funds.”"
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Can someone lend me a few thousand bucks real quick so I can buy a tiny ceramic cat? Thanks. www.bonhams.com/auction/3258...
A small ceramic cat with crazed eyes holding a bloodied bird in it's mouth
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 21/09/2026
So bad the Strib is even taking it seriously
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
First morning using my moka pot for coffee in months (it's above 60º I only drink iced). Honestly I wouldn't mind a little more summer weather but this feels very cozy.
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As someone who is very happy to pay extra for no ads (although I don't personally have a Disney+ account) this feels like a very bad precedent.
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Some cute embroidery projects stitched this weekend! Got an idea you want me to stitch for you? Come see me Fridays from 12-5 at Audrey Rose Vintage in Longfellow.
A red Minnesota outline on a black hoodieAn black apron embroidered with a wave and clocksA puppy with a bandana that says Adopt Me!
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Y'all remember how heinously bad the weather was when we had the super bowl here? I feel like mother nature wants to ensure these kinds of big corporate events fail in Minnesota (fine with me)
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways.
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I really think someone should open a bathhouse at Bloomington and Lake and call it PowderHorny
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Good lord. Yet another we need to make sure Waymo is not welcome in Minneapolis! (or anywhere - but with no functional federal regulators we need to handle this within our local communities)
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 17/09/2026
I for one think it’s critically important to national security for us to beat China at high speed rail. We must invest in this race immediately
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Derek Doom @thescratchmonkey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
http://twitter.com/amyhoy/status/1602077621595971584

Amy Hoy (@amyhoy)

this is the best explanation of roko's basilisk ever written

likes 1799  retweets 444

null @nova@starflower.space

computer boys are realy like "imagine a boot so big that logically we must start licking it now in case it might possibly exist someday"

12/10/22, 1:50 PM
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I cannot overstate how good this video is. Gonna go try to enjoy myself. youtu.be/-TqouS7Zy7Q?...
youtu.be
This is why nothing feels fun anymore
YouTube video by Hazel Thayer
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
I’m sorry folks, but if you are among those who both understand how insane the Rationalist AI Sex Cult currently running the U.S. AI industry and who can explain it to others, you have a patriotic duty to do so now. Even though reading their writing absolutely does cause brain damage.
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tech bros have invented Computer Calvinism with the apocalyptic fervor of the Left Behind novels, built from Harry Potter fanfic, and it sounds insane to even say it.
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026
The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
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cageyratfish (UTC-7) 🐟🏳️‍⚧️ @cageyratfish.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this is one of those things that sounds completely bogus, "terminally online" & "not relevant " but news media & others are doing us all a *dangerous* disservice when they ignore this whole huge chunk of the A.I. plague story. This is where they get that "kill all humans" shit from, & it MATTERS...
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I keep trying to talk about this but they keep thinking I must be misunderstanding conspiracizing but I swear I'm not, this shit is truly crazy making.
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I need whoever designed our airport bathrooms to redo the ones at the state fair bc they are truly so awful
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I like it. We need more poorly dressed celebrities. Helps us remember that they are simply fallible humans like the rest of us.
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Last week I went to see the current Met Costume Institute show and the small section of plus size garments (which were almost all kind of grotesque and made fat bodies seem like monstrous deformities) was labeled "The Corpulent Body" and I cannot get over the old timey offensiveness of CORPULENT
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says"
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm an artist, AI is not my area of expertise or academic focus, but the feeling "what you are claiming you will build simply does not seem possible" hit me hard as I learned anything beyond the surface level about LLMs. It surprises me every day how much ppl take claims about AI at face value
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