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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 25/07/2025

This is such a good point. Ozzy Osbourne had a band called Black Sabbath and invented heavy metal music and Hulk Hogan was in the Rocky movies and had children's shows and action figures. Ozzy is now universally beloved and people are holding marathon forgetting sessions to rid themselves of Hogan.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

PSA: If you're moving a big metal bathtub in the bed of your pickup, even if it FEELS like it's not going to go anywhere no matter how many bumps you hit 'cause it's heavier than a dead star...you still need to tie it down.

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DJW 🎨 🔞 @djwaglmuffin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

"I don't want to raise my children! Let's let Visa do it!" That's all I'm hearing right now. Nobody knows what a god damned power button is, or what parental controls are, or, you know , TALK TO YOUR KIDS!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

you rail against how wasteful AI is since it’s an idiotic technology and yet you meet your basic needs using modern conveniences? interesting.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your children are not extensions of you. They are their own people. They have rights. It is your job, should you have children, to protect those rights. And it is the community’s job to call you the fuck out if you’re not doing that.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Until my toddler's pronunciation gets clearer, her emotional support stuffie's name will unfortunately be Fuck.

Toddler's emotional support stuffie. It's a fox. A FOX.

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 17/07/2025

It's true; there's just a lot of darkness to muddle through first 🤘🏼😈

inner darkness aside I am filled with whimsy and love
[Illustration of a unicorn with a red eye and its legs over a barbed wire fence]

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Speaking as an academic, and as a punster: I am in awe.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Got the stinkiest of stink eyes from my oldest this morning because I noticed she'd left her dinner leftovers out the night before and put them in the fridge...not knowing she'd deliberately left them out so they'd spoil overnight and she wouldn't have to eat zucchini casserole.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 10/07/2025

When I talk about my opposite and naked hostility toward AI, people will point to emergent technology in the past that disrupted. But the thing is were I there at the time, I would have been an opponent of that too. This does not mean I am anti-technology, or didn't want the tech to develop. 🧵

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Oh, the things I could achieve if I had half the tenacity and conviction of a toddler steadfastly refusing to eat her eggs (which she likes and asked for) for some goddamn reason.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

My older kid left for summer camp today, and apparently made us an offer we couldn't refuse on her way out. 😳

My kid's hobby horse tucked into her bed with its head resting on the pillow.

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

A graphical asset in the shape of a cog. It contains the following text 'This developer assures that NO GEN AI' was used in this indie game

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roygbiv @bocuma.online · 06/07/2025

AI has allowed the most incurious people on earth to briefly surface like cicadas before fizzling out and leaving the landscape dotted with their abandoned husks. Just IMO

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I don't like fireworks, but please enjoy this picture of a well-fed monarch butterfly caterpillar on the butterfly weed plant at my inlaws' house. #gardening #butterflygarden

Big yellow, black and white-striped monarch butterfly caterpillar with long cartoon-looking antennae snacking on a butterfly weed plant with clusters of small bright orange flowers.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The fun thing about the age gap between my kids is, it's just big enough that by the time the older one finally stopped making massive messes by picking up big globs of cooked rice and eating them like apples, the younger one discovered the joys of doing just that.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

SIGHHH. Happy "dinguses you wouldn't trust with a butter knife set off actual explosives the week before AND the week after the actual designated fireworks day, making your kids' sleep worse and giving your pets PTSD" Independence Day to my countryfolk who celebrate, I suppose.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Your daily reminder not to ask ChatGPT for help with your legal troubles. Or your medical questions. Or your homework. Or...anything, really.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

People have our ice cube trays all tied up making ice cubes (with plain old *water!* Imagine that!) But it's been 90ish degrees out for days and we have some silicone candy molds I could repurpose to make coffee ice cubes, so I guess I can't complain.

Glass of cold brew with cream and dainty little scallop shell shaped ice cubes.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

So glad I woke up to see this. Signed. Immediately and without hesitation. ‘Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers’ To add your name, please read and sign here: lithub.com/against-ai-a...

AI may give the appearance of understanding our humanity, but the truth is, only a human being can speak to and understand another human being. Every time a prompt is entered into AI, the language that bot uses to respond was created in part through the synthesis of art that we, the undersigned, have spent our careers crafting. Taken without our consent, without payment, without even the courtesy of acknowledgment.

The purveyors of AI have stolen our work from us and from our publishers, too. The hard-working editors and copy-editors and publicists and publishers that cared for and developed and launched the books we’ve written? Their jobs are also in jeopardy, which means that book publishing as an art form—a collaborative art form, nurtured at every stage by the personal touch of a human being—is in jeopardy, too. The audiobook narrators who have breathed life into our stories have already been sidelined by cheaper, simpler AI imitators. To add insult to injury, use of AI has devastating environmental effects, using great amounts of energy and potable water. What happens next?

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The lavender bush that has to be trimmed every year because it hogs the sprinkler head yielded a nice little crop of culinary lavender. Perfect for the one person (me) who likes lavender in our household. #gardening #ediblelandscaping

Small bundle of lavender sprigs with buds that I harvested this afternoon.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

A garden ninja paid us a visit last night. Probably to tell us to stop being lazy and put down more mulch. #gardening

A good-sized and well-camouflaged toad in one of our mulch beds.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Older kid: Mom, I spilled water on my bathroom floor. I need... Me: *reaches for the rags* Older kid: ...a "wet floor" sign.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Got nothing done because I spent the afternoon baking rhubarb pies, but I can't say that I regret it.

Pie #1 with homemade crust and streusel topping.

Pie #2 before application of the meringue.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

My husband spent the morning teaching our older kid to cut down the small dead tree in our yard (mostly) by herself, making this possibly his most daddish Father's Day yet.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I want La Dolce Vita. For 3 days I've been rereading Carmilla. I just finished making veal parm and ate it with ppl I love now I'm gonna read the pretty book on the patio, while birds sing. if I get drowsy I'll fall asleep. When I wake up I'll water my plants. Thankful we're not the same.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Just to be clear, I've seen my local parks packed with more people for Pokémon Go events.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

If you are an ordinary, pleasant person who isn't a greasy-looking creep or a homicidal Christofascist pig and were saddled with "Vance" as a first or last name before 2024... ...you probably aren't actually entitled to any sort of compensation. But you absolutely *should* be.

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.

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God @thegodshow.com · 14/06/2025

Imagine still being on Twitter and having the nerve to judge people who use Bluesky. Fucking insanity.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Love the kid logic that leads them to argue you have no right to be upset about them sneaking 11 cookies to their room because they "didn't leave any crumbs."

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

A friend just texted to congratulate me on a forthcoming project, about which she learned from ChatGPT. Never mind that I am ... not currently writing a book on the divine feminine... ? Again, again, again: AI is bad and wrong and won't give you accurate info, friends. It's not a search engine.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I understand that some vulnerable people are being caught by these things but if you get talked into ruining your life by the magic Speak-N-Spell then I dont know what to tell you

Mr. Torres, who had no history of mental illness that might cause breaks with reality, according to him and his mother, spent the next week in a dangerous, delusional spiral. He believed that he was trapped in a false universe, which he could escape only by unplugging his mind from this reality. He asked the chatbot how to do that and told it the drugs he was taking and his routines. The chatbot instructed him to give up sleeping pills and an anti-anxiety medication, and to increase his intake of ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic, which ChatGPT described as a “temporary pattern liberator.” Mr. Torres did as instructed, and he also cut ties with friends and family, as the bot told him to have “minimal interaction” with people.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

look, the only thing worth a damn that trump does is turn on people who support him so you're going to have to forgive me if i get a little pleasure out of it when he's asked about stephen miller and trump says miller looks like he has a fridge in the garage just for human feet

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Like I always tell my kids, be careful what you wish for, 'cause you just might get it...

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I wish this light bulb would die properly so we can replace it, instead of hanging around making it look like we shop at 90's Underground Rave Supply or Cursed Liminal Spaces R Us.

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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Saying to be against gen ai “is ableist” is actual ableism! You’re not only dismissing thousands of years of art and work done by disabled people, who have always been creating, but by supporting ai you also cutting off a big source of income for many disabled artists on top of stealing their work

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

the thing about not having an algorithm here is it's ok to have one fucking place that's not a popularity contest. we have the nielsen ratings. we have the charts. we have meta. everything is is already a popularity contest and it fucking sucks, globally. we can have one place where you vibe it out

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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 10/06/2025

My humble brag is that I'd never have known ChatGPT was down if you hadn't told me.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

There is a CACTUS growing in the rock bed outside the place where my older kid has swimming lessons, and I am confused. We live nowhere near prime cactus habitat. Our winters get far too cold for too long, and our climate is the opposite of arid. How are they doing this?! #gardening #succulents

Low-to-the-ground and not outstandingly healthy-looking, but alive prickly pear cactus in a region where I very much was not expecting to find a prickly pear cactus.

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jordan [ham] @nursemurderer.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I like how republicans are all LA IS ENGULFED IN THE FLAMES OF ANARCHY and I just got some tampons delivered from cvs.

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Today I discovered that the sound of compressed air being blown through our HVAC vents makes the toddler shout "watersh, watersh!" and demand a drink of water. She's sucked down two full cups of water since it started.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 10/06/2025

This is what happens when liberal arts majors finally snap.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/06/2025

Left this comment about the current fears that people have over AI and what gives me hope on the Better Offline Reddit and wanted to share. I’m sure I missed something but whatever

Hello! I’m so sorry to hear you’re feeling like this, and want to say that I along with thousands of different other people on here hear you and sympathize. The current state of affairs everywhere is one so oppressive and heavy, like ambient heat, constantly radiating some sort of toxicity, smugness, aggression or derision. The pride that some of these people have in harming others or seeing others put under the boot is disgraceful - some people seem to truly want artificial intelligence to replace people, or believe it‘s so inevitable that they just want to get it over with. This is part of why you feel bad - because there are many people in the media who want to tell you how bad things are for many different reasons.

The point is, nothing is fucking inevitable.

Nothing you are feeling is illogical or intellectually ridiculous. You are feeling reasonable things because of the constant radiation of doom emanating from fucking everything.

Let’s talk about AI job loss, and a little about my monologue I did, where I don’t think I clearly stated that while there are jobs being lost to AI, and jobs will on some level be lost to AI, the dramatic nature of this job loss is not imminent nor is it inevitable.

Generative AI does not do the things that actually replace a person. It can do things that a person does in an extremely shitty way that demands that the person looking at it actually knows what “good” or “right” is, because generative AI does not know a single thing. While there are some bosses that will see this and fire some people, they will quickly realise that this doesn’t actually work, because what they’re actually doing is outsourcing risk and anxiety. A machine that sometimes gets something right cannot replace a human being in a way that is sustainable or satisfying, and in most cases just flat out can’t fucking do it.

You have AI fantasists vigorously grunting at the idea that they’re able to replace 20 coders at once with the power of a generative codi…

And the reason is because a bizarre tax code law kicked in in 2022 that stopped them being able to deduct 100% of all R&D expenses immediately, literally just as they way overhired during 2021, the year when everybody was stupid and everything grew in the most insane way!

We are seeing cutbacks from the most egregious overhiring of all time, except they have no idea how far to cut back because they never really understood who they hired in the beginning.

They also are aware that AI is not giving them the growth they need. This is a tech industry problem but will eventually become an economy-wide problem when the mag7 gets shat on. Things aren’t going to be fun.

10-20% though? I sure hope not. And I don’t think that’s coming from generative Ai, nor do I see or hear any truly promising thing. This “artificial jagged intelligence” thing is really dire, like someone farted. Nobody likes it, it’s bad.

Mass-automation is not what I fear, nor should you either.

On Slop

I think it’s alarming how many people fall for slop, but the reality is that there is something off with AI art that makes even the most normal normie uncomfortable, and I’ve seen it for myself with the normal people I know who do not drink directly from the firehose of the internet and tech news.

People do not like AI. They find it nasty and revolting. It feels off. Everybody feels it. I do not believe LLMs ever go away, and I think that the existence of ChatGPT has unleashed a kind of sludge across the internet, as have meme generators and any kind of easy-to-copy image format. It sucks. It sucks that our information systems are now clogged with this bullshit, and in many ways that’s google’s fault - they don’t give a fuck and are emptying a septic tank into their own kitchen. What a bunch of fucking freaks!

Anyway, they’re going to get broken up, on some level, because of my other theory:

Nobody Likes The Tech Industry But Everybody Loves Tech

We love our phones and our computers. We love going online and talking to people. That’s why so many people do it. It fucking sucks right now because the bastards are very much in control, but something is changing. The average person is beginning to really dislike these freaks, they know something is wrong, and they are absolutely pissed off - and they want to know exactly who fucked up the thing they loved.

You know that attachment that an uncomfortably large amount of people have to Marvel Movies and Star Wars? I believe far, far more people truly yearn for a smartphone that just does the fucking things they want. Everybody knows how much this sucks, and I believe there is growing apolitical pressure to suppress these fuckers.

AI right now is the shiny political object, but when this turd begins to circle the drain, the economy is going to have some real fucking problems that can’t be propped up by spending $40bn a quarter on fucking GPUs. This entire movement is hysterical, and even if it continues far longer than I anticipate, it remains hysterical - the tech industry is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on GPUs to put in data centers only to turn them on and make - and this isn’t profit! - at best $13 billion dollars in a god damn YEAR.

Once this shit falls apart, people are going to be looking for someone to blame, and we have an entire industry piloted by the most charmless, unsympathetic, dull, annoying and actively annoying buffoons to ever grace this Earth. Steve Jobs was a piece of shit but at least he was entertaining and seemed to want to rule the world by selling it what he believed was a perfect device (I’m not saying he succeeded). Big tech’s CEOs feel like the bad guy in a kids movie, lacking any real definition or purpose other than the fact that they will defend Their Decisions At All Times, even i…

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Carly Orosz @carlyorosz.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The best part about having small children is getting fed all sorts of weird, hallucinatory incorrect information without having to ask an LLM.

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