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Can’t be as bad as Battery Acid Spaghetti

Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

LLMs are a subset of machine learning, so it’s technically not lying to call their use ML. But also, this is just nonsense. There’s not a magic algorithm that can reliably and consistently detect LLM-generated content. Such a feat would be far bigger news to break

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

These things really bother me because games journalists are always saying they're pro-union. Well, Japan's game industry doesn't has mass layoffs because of the work of labor unions! Of strikes! But here we are, rewriting that history into "Japanese CEOs are nicer". Kill the neoliberal inside you.

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If it’s specifically trans people staying home that can be determined to be what made it a loss for the democrat, then… no, obviously the mistake was trying to win over votes by appealing to a low-priority issue at the expanse of part of your base, willful ignorance to claim otherwise

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If red state dems start winning on transphobia at the federal level, what do you think that’ll do to local level elections? Do you think it’ll make it easier to get pro-trans candidates into state and city level offices?

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Note that these type of allegations are levied at black writers and students more often than other people.

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Eld the Anti-fascist Malewife @eldjester.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hello folks, its been a bit for CAIN stuff but I figured: its been a bit since Weeping Mountain came out and we oughta celebrate that. It's very close to having either 21 000 view or 10 000 downloads, and if it gets there then my goal is to run a fun little contest for folks.

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GLITCH @glitchprod.com · 23/09/2026

She's missed you. Knights of Guinevere returns October 9. The season will feature 8 episodes.

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m not hearing the usual sorta juvenile-humored-adult-animation dialogue in what they’re showing off, and usually they can’t help but fill trailers with that if it’s going in that direction

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good to have a little evil now and then as a treat. Recalibration. Keeps your head on straight

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I struggle to remember the title but when I was first getting into the yuri genre I read one about two ace lesbians. And it was textually romantic, but iirc they don’t ever kiss because it’s not something that interests either of them

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Another change over lancer is those games don’t do diagonal movement. Until they do allow it, conditionally. Cause baseline limitations create opportunities for interesting exceptions. Hard do that when the game is grid agnostic though

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cackling as I greedily gather all the discarded hexagons and abscond with them to my evil lair

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You said yourself some democrats are waffling in red states, that’s what I’m addressing. You can respond to what I’m actually saying, or keep raging against the person you made up in your head. Your choice

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Kaptur is explicitly running anti-trans ads as a democrat, that’s ab active choice to leave trans people behind

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Did republicans make Kaptur run a transphobic ad? Did they make Talerico go on Fox News, or all programs, and say what he said? All democratic candidates have to do is *not* give ground on any part of their coalition’s rights, and there wouldn’t be infighting over it. Crazy how that works

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Quit acting like red states are lost causes. It’s bad enough republicans are flooding them with anti-trans propaganda all the time. How are we ever supposed to turn things around locally if the democrats join in making and make it look reasonable and bipartisan to unaffiliated voters?

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is a long term effort, and democrats agreeing with republicans makes the whole thing look more reasonable to underinformed undecideds, and that’s adding potential years to making any progress in these states. It’s abandoning the people who live in them as a lost cause

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How about you think this through: congressional elections aren’t the only thing happening in these states. Trans people live in them too. There are local elections that impact life for them. All this “playing to the state” is throwing a wrench in efforts to improve things locally.

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hey, Red state queer here! It sucks that people say it’s fine if democrats are transphobic if they’re running in red states, actually. It’s not just about raw voting numbers, it’s about how it validates and promotes anti-trans propaganda in a way republicans screaming into the echo chamber does not

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No, that’s a large number of democrats individually making trans rights a priority. They’re not doing it because the party enforced it. That’s what “systemically” refers to

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The party allows its candidates to benefit from the party machine while running ads advocating for segregation and othering of trans people. There are many trans ally dems, yes, the republicans universally want worse for us, yes. But does the party itself make our rights a priority, systemically? No

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You can’t blame Russia when a democratic candidate’s campaign runs an explicitly transphobic ad. That’s self-sabotage

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It won’t because the more hardcore transphobe is always going to appeal more to hardline-transphobes than someone trying to do “moderate” centrist appeals of transphobia. You have to give people who usually don’t vote a reason to vote, ie: convince them you will make their life better for once

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re taking like these candidates aren’t free-willed beings capable of just… not saying or doing terrible things. Like Talerico can’t help but be transphobic. Somehow it’s on trans voters to support him anyway, not on him to give them a good reason to vote? Is he not responsible for his actions?

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why does everyone seem to struggle with the idea that “not supportive of” isn’t automatically “actively antagonistic towards.” Individual democrats are standing up for trans rights. That does not mean you can accurately call it a party-wide stance

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Nowhere did Paul say all democrats are transphobic. And the big tent is no excuse for being accommodating of the transphobic candidates by any party

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Nobody is saying “the Democratic Party is transphobic,” that’s you twisting Paul’s words, in rather poor faith I might add. It’s like none of y’all understand the concept of neutrality. If the party allows both trans-ally and transphobic dems, the party is neutral, and the latter type is a problem

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We’re not talking about a poltician gacha game. We’re talking about proliferation of transphobia in the Democratic Party, which isn’t new. You can’t call a party growing that poison good at fighting it. You can call individuals within the party committed to trans rights good. The party is neutral

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

They’re also talking about voting for a transphobic democrat. No one is saying that not voting green is a vote for republicans, after all

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Saw an ad for a democratic candidate recently asserting that “boys shouldn’t play in girls’ sports,” a very transphobic piece of rhetoric. It’s not that democrats are good for trans rights, it’s that candidates good for trans rights tend to only be democrats. The party as a whole has both

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Paul is not calling this the position of the Democratic Party. He is saying that explicit opposition to it is also not the position of the party though, even if there are democrats who would individually oppose it. The poster is defending a transphobic democrat, after all

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh, so them talking about breaking that streak is nothing to worry about? People who do one good thing are ontologically good and can never go bad or be misled? Good to know

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That there are good democrats does not mean you can take it on faith any random democrat is good for trans issues. Thats what “democrats [as a whole] are great on trans issues” would mean. But people keep using “dems are good for trans rights” as an excuse for transphobic democrats, who are not good

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh, this one example of rhetoric used to support transphobia by some democratic candidates was said by a Green Party member? Well then, I guess it’s not an issue, even though I see the same sentiment repeatedly by numerous people every single day in support of the same transphobic democrats.

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don’t see the words “all dems are trash” in that quote you have there. If you include both transphobic and trans ally dems in the broader category of “dems,” you can’t say that dems are great because the former are bringing down the average.

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh, the motorcycles. I had never even heard their names before. They have always struck me as… odd. Most pokemon that are also objects kinda look like the object? And it’s implicit there’s a reason for it? Like the sword ghost. But these two lizards are just also motorcycles for… I don’t know why

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That’s the problem, how do you access the tech in a way that doesn’t run full tilt into all these problems? Most of the “useful” models are the product of unethical training and run on energy-hungry servers. They scrape the internet because you need massive amounts of data to train the things

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

*replacing a Republican, not “with”

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

At what point of “compromise” does a democrat cease to be worth replacing with a republican? Trans issues aren’t the only place where more conservative democrats have broken with the party to vote alongside republicans. Democrat is just a label. We need principled democrats, not mercenaries

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The majority of people are indifferent on trans issues. The person who cares enough to vote against trans people and isn’t already a captured Republican vote is… not non-existent, probably, but doesn’t seem like a viable demographic for democrats to pursue

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There’s a concept in biology called “niches.” Basically a survival strategy for an ecosystem. A niche is unlikely to be occupied by too many different species, as they’ll compete to fill that niche. Republicans are really good at the transphobic niche. It’s a waste to try to compete there.

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Let me put it another way: it helps with one kind of work, but it also generates another kind of work it can’t help with. And many who use it find that second kind of work less interesting and engaging, which inevitably is going to impact morale, which can also impact productivity

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Team of 5 also has more manpower to manually review problems. It’s the manually reviewing everything that’s been generated, which you can’t just delegate to an LLM, that you start to hit a problem

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thing is, even if it produced fewer errors per task than a human, and did it faster than a human, it could still generate errors faster than a human. Which could generate more work than a human. I remain skeptical of casual, subjective observations of productivity gains

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Things not working out when you don’t understand why can already be a big barrier for beginner bakers, too, and I can’t imagine having the wrong picture to compare to would help with that at all

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Do you have solid metrics that it’s boosting your productivity, or do you just feel like it is? Because the latter is overwhelmingly more common, subjective, and can easily be counter to the objective reality.

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Cancermantis Creations @cancermantis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wait. Do… does no one else see those? I thought it was just rude to talk about people’s speech bubbles!

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