Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasAnnalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026Insisting that LLMs are Not People is not an academic argument about the nature of sapience or free will. It's a rejection of accountability laundering. If non-determinism made machines responsible for their own actions then revolvers used in Russian Roulette should be indicted for murder. 137484
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasRosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026Humaning. 6072141820
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I'm not gonna sit here and pretend I have any special insight, but I think it's safe to assume the people working at OpenAI have a better idea of how things are going there, REALLY going there, than I do. And they don't want to stay. And that's worth noticing. 419815
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026It turned out be the other way around. First it merged with performance art, then politics. 17912169
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasDelaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 13/08/2026May ICE forget their shock gloves are on as they go piss. 2736602925
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasBrawlcats @brawlcats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027 158363686428
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasMatt the Dad Dude @undefeatedmatt.wifeguy.online · 24/07/2026Congrats Hulk Hogan on going a year without saying the N-word 243685856
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasChef Kennedy🐸🏳️🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 17/07/2026ass out flower ate this is how i like pollinate 5982582272
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC 80113993391
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasValorie 🐈⬛️✨️ @meadowdays.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Happy National Library Week! 💙📚 95117893254
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasChef Kennedy🐸🏳️🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 25/03/2026Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos. 5280152179
Reposted by Not Insubstantial Gravytasmichael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 21/03/2026rip robert mueller you taught me it was okay to do nothing when faced with the most consequential task of my life 263748720
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Someone needs to send an ambulance to X 210162582917
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasMartha Wells @marthawells.com · 05/03/2026Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist. 8949271
Not Insubstantial Gravytas @blueskyblackdeath.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I have talked a lot of shit about Will Stancil. I have reversed the first letter of his first and last name, even. But I will hand it to him here- he's significantly more clear eyed about this ice stuff than most people 100
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasJohn @johnlk.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Sexy Barista Who Is Super Interested in Watching You Solo Game as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last we have created the Sexy Barista Who is Interested in Watching You Solo Game from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create the Sexy Barista Who Is Intere 21118
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasJason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 20/01/2026 01439
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasDex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 16/01/2026“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy 65170225058
Reposted by Not Insubstantial Gravytasberserk @worstplace.bsky.social · 13/01/2026How do I say goodbye to what we had? The good times that made us laugh outweigh the bad I thought we'd get to see forever But forever's gone away It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterdaybert 073
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/01/2026ICE guy at the new training course Democrats make him take paying attention and trying really hard to learn. 15693100
Reposted by Not Insubstantial Gravytaslastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/01/2026If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen. 1195035777
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasLocutus Tips @locutustips.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Locutus safety tip: To prevent identity theft, avoid having your own identity. 51589434
Not Insubstantial Gravytas @blueskyblackdeath.bsky.social · 25/12/2025And Tiny Tim, who did not die, and lies sleeping in Ryleh 030
Not Insubstantial Gravytas @blueskyblackdeath.bsky.social · 24/12/2025No shade to Serwer specifically (I don't really know who he is and he could be a fine journalist) but there's a definite irony in this message bring published by The Atlantic 000
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasHemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 04/12/2025"He's oppressing his people, who by the way are vermin" -every republican 1679
Reposted by Not Insubstantial Gravytasbort @crushbort.bsky.social · 03/12/2025when people ask “why don’t you criticize republicans instead,” this is the answer. these are the people who have the actual means to do anything and they fucking suck. everything else is just posting 224242
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 21/11/2025muppet starship troopers could fix us 751004177
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasKrassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 21/11/2025 466242437733
Not Insubstantial Gravytas @blueskyblackdeath.bsky.social · 18/11/2025I mean, ultimately it's Armus right? 120
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasPurrypurrydog @purrypurrydog.bsky.social · 18/11/2025I’m not locked here with you, you’re locked in with me. -Brad Lander probably- 21729
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasAn Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 18/11/2025 71877582
Reposted by Not Insubstantial Gravytasmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/11/2025A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys) 1503056596
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 06/11/2025low-information voter who thinks they just freed jared fogle 644553
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasKate Mulgrew @thekatemulgrew.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Happy to see common sense and equality prevail across our troubled nation. Keep showing up and voting - that's an order from the Admiral! 1275660
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasTade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Crows remember. 4447
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/11/2025The day started off great and just kept getting better 12118140
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Dick Cheney Was Doing War Crimes in Exactly the Right Way, by Ezra Klein. 514777837
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasXander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Additionally, the point isn't to defend Mamdani's political reputation, but to defend the countless people whose lives would be ruined by yet another manufactured crime panic. 61024111
Not Insubstantial Gravytas @blueskyblackdeath.bsky.social · 30/10/2025If I was Sting I would do a set of Bad Bunny covers 000
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasEclipse 🌙 @sirknight95.bsky.social · 29/10/2025(doorstop noises) 025627
Not Insubstantial Gravytas @blueskyblackdeath.bsky.social · 28/10/2025You know what, maybe I'm doing better than I thought I was 010
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Terry Gilliam: I told you motherfuckers 914518
Not Insubstantial Gravytas @blueskyblackdeath.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Tim and Eric watching the Reingold Tape: wrap it up, we're cooked 000
Reposted by Not Insubstantial GravytasRobert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 24/10/2025A fun fact is that contemporary political philosophy has something like ~no explanation for why democracy is something ordinary people would or should care about this much 481578226
Reposted by Not Insubstantial Gravytasweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/10/2025I'm like Muad'Dib, I got the ill communication, Muad'Dib I got the stillsuit for hydration, Muad'Dib I got the worm for transportation 514529