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I know that the ‘AI’ hype grift is turbocharged by and aimed squarely at precisely the sort of investment bankers who make up BoA, but it’s still a bit insulting that they apparently had such trouble seeing through it. I saw through it right away and I’m an idiot.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 9h

I think I heard that one and it put me off crusts - one of my bullies had curly hair and I’ve harboured a deep-seated dislike for it ever since.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 11h

Local cat claims innocence in salad incident

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 12h

Similarly the nutrients in bread are in the crust

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 13h

Awww. Do they love each other or is this more the annoying younger sibling bothering the older one?

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 13h

my parents cats absorbing one another. just for your entertainment

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 17h

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

Libby menu interface showing Content Controls: AI Contributions with the Hunan authors only and Human narrators only options selected.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 14h

((Why someone would donate a used ball gag to a charity I don’t know. Like these are people who give us actual trash but still.))

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 14h

Which has happened IRL sort of (someone donated a ball gag and it got out onto the shop floor because the sorter thought it was “something for dogs maybe?”).

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 14h

Huh. I just dreamed that I had to explain to the nice old ladies at the op shop that the weird furniture we’d just got in was for BDSM and we couldn’t sell it.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 14h

The nagging feeling like I’ve forgotten something or there’s something I need to do … but I can’t think of anything I’ve not done. :(

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 15h

Coming back to this I guess you do get some examples in PC gaming but they tend to be grimdark (see XCOM again). My eyes are old and can’t distinguish between all those greys and blacks, I want bright colours. It’s the same problem with hack-and-slash ARPGs really.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 15h

I need to get around to reading Carl Sagan’s ‘The Demon-Haunted World’ one of these days.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 15h

IDK there are probably philosophers and psychologists who’ve articulated this better than my rambling but the pandemic really took the lid off of peoples’ magical thinking and it rubs me the wrong way.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 15h

See also ‘but what was she wearing?’; a thought-complex designed to hand off blame in order to preserve the validity of the user’s worldview and their comfort within it.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 15h

Saying ‘if you mask properly you don’t get sick’ is the inverse of ‘you got sick so you must not have been masking properly’; it displaces the failure of the ritual talisman onto the person experiencing that failure rather than confronting the fact that the talisman isn’t real.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 15h

Masking lowers your likelihood of getting sick but unless you’re leaving the house in a hazmat suit with an independent air supply the chance is never zero.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 15h

I think a lot these days about magical ritual behaviour as exemplified in physical talismans. I have my mask so disease can’t get me, or I have my assault rifle so government tyranny can’t get me, or more abstractly I’m a good Christian so God would never let that happen to me. That sort of thing.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 18h

rare October daisy

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 19h

One tumblehome, one end?

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 20h

You have accurately described Myers-Briggs.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 20h

Which fits perfectly. Oh for Special Circumstances,

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apofiss @apofiss.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Northern lights cats! ₊˚⊹. ݁˖✨

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Shall we do a bit of theory? I think we need the proper language to describe all of this, and I think the concept we need to discuss is 'necropolitics'. 🧵

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

This goes back to Engels’ theory of ‘social murder’, surely.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

🏷️ Clothing label 😄 ⬇️ (Taken from my Facebook 'Memories' - I’ve no idea of the source.)

Clothing label reads:

Size: 3 - 4 Y / 104

100% Polyester

<icons for care>

Wash inside out

Remove child before washing

Made in China

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I recall reading something recently about protecting coral from bleaching by giving them little undersea umbrellas. Obviously not a solution that scales well but if healthy coral can help bleached coral recover that fast then it might be useful.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Traditional sash for a kimono.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I found a wonderful length of pink and green silk at the shop today. I think it might be a former obi, one of the really wide ones. I’m thinking of making a nightgown out of it.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Cribbing from Bernini’s St Theresa I see.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I’ve been considering giving my villains some sort of deeply embarrassing trait. Because current events have taught us that evil isn’t tortured or nuanced, it’s sadism done by total losers.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

You could equip them with lens caps but then some grunt is 100% going to forget to take it off before firing.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If it’s a functional modern digital TV with all the cables and such you could try a second hand store. Mine takes them.

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Jim Unwin @jimunwin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Found a folder of oil rigs. Not sure what I was researching?

an oil rig. It is standing on really high, broad legs. Moving through what appears to a fjord

An oil rig. It looks like a block of flats. It is isolated in the middle of a dark grey stormy sea

A jackup boat, its upper portion is lost in mist

An oil rig. It is grey and yellow and rises out of the sea on a single central leg.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

*historical costuming, that is. I accidentally a word.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I’ve said before that historical brings out in women the sort of laser-focused pedantry and devotion to accuracy you normally only see from men reviewing war movies.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Given how much I have to juggle the various vitamins in my diet I am aghast and awed and slightly frightened that you don’t seem to have All The Deficiencies.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Arrrgh. It is new estradiol patch day and I am feeling the Effects. 😳

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Roz Loves Food @rozlovesfood.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Just a man with his paper.

A black cat curled on his side with his head and back visible - the rest of him is obscured by brown packing paper. He likes to push paper around, sometimes running with it. So much rustle rustle rustle

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“I think we'll look back on the last decade as a time when social media gave previously marginalized groups the ability to speak directly to elites and, as a result, elites lost their minds.” --Michael Hobbes I think the reality is funnier. The marginalized were merely talking to themselves.

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DarkLordNecro, PNW Progressive @darklordnecro.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The "controversial" comic with over 43 false reports to silence the creator and the real feel of the people. Enjoy, like and reshare "The Day All Billionaires Died..." By #noneofthisisok

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

You’d think it would be easier to find isometric turn-based RPGs these days given the popularity of Fire Emblem. If I could get a modern FE:Awakening or a fantasy XCOM sort of thing I’d be a happy camper.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

There may not be a ghost type Eeveelution but there sure is a fighting type!

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Lane Moore @hellolanemoore.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

doing a cover of a song and changing the pronouns in the lyrics to make sure the listener knows youre straight should be punishable by death

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Also it feels like the idea that villains have to have some nuance or trauma or grand goal driving their decisions is a purely literary convention. IRL villains are just evil manchildren who hurt people because they enjoy it or just don’t care about the damage they do.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Capitalism has been extractive from the start. I really think that if society survives the 21st century we really need to factor in ‘externalities’ in planning. No more saying ‘oh well, I’m legally indemnified, it’s not MY problem’.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I get what you mean but I disagree about your specific applications of it in this case.

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Washingtonians! You may not have the statehood you deserve, but you can have this incredibly photogenic kitten! Baltimoreans! Take her home and feed her crawb!

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I suppose the existence of supertasters implies the existence of inferiortasters.

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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A reminder for those at the back.

A redraw of the i nice panel from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, where Batman snaps a rifle in two over his knee.

He says "THIS is the weaponnof the enemy. We do not NEED it. We will not USE it."

I've replace the rifle with a plank of wood labelled "AI Slop"

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