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a clayote @clayote.myatproto.social · 12/09/2026

I'm pretty sure that's a medieval trash picker

A trash picker. It is a telescoping rod with a hand grip on one end and two pads on the other, in a claw.

When you squeeze the grip, the claw closes. That means you don't have to bend over so far to reach trash on the floor, and your hands stay clean. The medieval model has far shorter range, though you could probably mount it on a stick

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a clayote @clayote.myatproto.social · 20/08/2026

Is it any worse, or meaningfully different, than the argument for escapist art, generally?

“Having lost his mother, father, brother, an grandfather, the friends and foes of his youth, his beloved teacher Bernard Kornblum, his city, his history—his home—the usual charge leveled against comic books, that they offered merely an escape from reality, seemed to Joe actually to be a powerful argument on their behalf…

The escape from reality was, he felt—especially right after the war—a worthy challenge… The pain of his loss—though he would never have spoken of it in those terms—was always with him in those days, a cold smooth ball lodged in his chest, just behind his sternum. For that half hour spent in the dappled shade of the Douglas firs, reading Betty and Veronica, the icy ball had melted away without him even noticing. That was the magic—not the apparent magic of a silk-hatted card-palmer, or the bold, brute trickery of the escape artist, but the genuine magic of art. It was a mark of how fucked-up and broken was the world—the reality—that had swallowed his home and his family that such a feat of escape, by no means easy to pull off, should remain so universally despised.”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

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a clayote @clayote.myatproto.social · 16/08/2026

what is Ursa's opinion of Horace the Infinite, of RockPaperShotgun lore?

A cute bear rides a sled over some festive hills. He must only have the two paws, because his abdomen snakes back over the hills and the horizon and, it follows, the edge of space

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a clayote @clayote.myatproto.social · 21/06/2026

This is how Barthes' original essay "The Death of the Author" starts The connection to Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus is left as an exercise to the reader, because spelling it out doesn't work, either

THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR
ROLAND BARTHES

In his story Sarrasine Balzac, describing a castrato disguised
as a woman, writes the following sentence: ‘This was
woman herself, with her sudden fears, her irrational whims,
her instinctive worries, her impetuous boldness, her fussings,
and her delicious sensibility .’ Who is speaking thus? Is it
the hero of the story bent on remaining ignorant of the
castrato hidden beneath the woman? Is it Balzac the
individual, furnished by his personal experience with a
philosophy of Woman? Is it Balzac the author professing
‘literary’ ideas on femininity? Is it universal wisdom?
Romantic psychology? We shall never know, for the good
reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, of
every point of origin. Writing is that neutral, composite,
oblique space where our subject slips away, the negative
where all identity is lost, starting with the very identity
of the body writing.

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a clayote @clayote.myatproto.social · 29/05/2026

Have the full alt text (No, I didn't retype it; this is from www.newocr.com)

32 SHE-MANNERS

Prejudice is like some harmful bacteria. Once it enters your
system, it is difficult to eradicate. It multiplies in short time. It
can only be conquered by developing an antibody. The only anti-
body you have for fighting prejudice inside yourself is to have
a sense of well-l being i in relation to the world outside yourself.

For example, in a community where citizens are raging against
integration because it will spoil a hundred-year-old pattern of
imposed segregation, there will always be some citizens who favor
integration. The segregationists have the harmful bacteria and
are not trying to fight them. The integrationists have built up
antibodies to the bacteria of prejudice. Perhaps their parents gave
them a more balanced understanding of the Negro-white situation.
Perhaps they are people who feel secure and at ease with them-
selves, so they don’t have to take out their frustrations on a
minority group. Perhaps they are people who want to see the
world change and want to take part in this change.

The growth of prejudice can be explained very simply. If you
had an unpleasant experience with a red-haired boy, you would
probably not assume that all red-haired boys are evil. But if you
had been taught from infancy that all red-haired boys are evil,
the seed of prejudice was already in you. Your one unpleasant
experience with a red-haired boy would only prove (to you!) that
your prejudice was right. From then on you would be a violent
anti-redhead.

It’s just the same—whether your prejudice i is anti-Catholic, anti-
Semitic, anti-Protestant, anti-Negro, anti-German, anti-. Anything,

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a clayote @clayote.myatproto.social · 09/05/2026

good morning, and welcome to today's bluesky discourse

A jester.
Would you date him?
- is alive solely for the pleasure of the king
- has bells that jingle merrily
- comforts you by telling you bawdy riddles
- could die at any moment if he's not funny enough, but is chill about it
- feeds u cheese he stole from the royal kitchen

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a clayote @clayote.myatproto.social · 26/02/2026

As it happens, I saw this pass my feed just now. Kasparian is the executive producer of The Young Turks.

Ana Kasparian on X:
"Hey, bitch, the goyim are waking the fuck up. Deal with it."
12:45 AM - Feb 26, 2026 - 040.7K Views

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a clayote @clayote.myatproto.social · 12/10/2025

So you simultaneously agree and disagree with the definition depending on what suits you! You are a deeply unserious person, and your views on atheism are worthless.

‪Steven (Cube) he/him‬
‪@cubesteven.bsky.social‬
· 22m
I am not disagreeing with the definition.
‪eggynack‬
‪@eggynack.bsky.social‬
· 21m
Oh, cool. So you agree with the following definition of atheism: "a philosophical or religious position characterized by disbelief in the existence of a god or any gods".
‪Steven (Cube) he/him‬
‪@cubesteven.bsky.social‬
· 21m
Atheism isn’t philosophical.
‪eggynack‬
‪@eggynack.bsky.social‬
· 20m
So you are disagreeing with the definition.
‪Steven (Cube) he/him‬
‪@cubesteven.bsky.social‬
· 20m
Nope.
‪eggynack‬
‪@eggynack.bsky.social‬
· 19m
So you agree with it?
‪Steven (Cube) he/him‬
‪@cubesteven.bsky.social‬
· 14m
Nope.
‪eggynack‬
‪@eggynack.bsky.social‬
· 13m
So you disagree with it.
Steven (Cube) he/him
‪@cubesteven.bsky.social‬
Nope.
October 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM

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a clayote @clayote.myatproto.social · 11/09/2025

Studio Mintrocket is just a division of Nexon.

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a clayote @clayote.myatproto.social · 26/08/2025

I looked a little further down in that report and apparently we killed around two thousand civilians in Iraq in *just* the week of March 23, 2003

Table 3. Iraqi Civilians Killed from 19 March - 19 April 2003 by U.S. Coalition56
Week Beginning
Sunday, March 16, 2003
Sunday, March 23, 2003
Sunday, March 30, 2003
Sunday, April 6, 2003
Sunday, April 13, 2003
Total
Killed by
Air Attack
389
905
828
189
12
2,323
Killed by
Other Means
603
1,413
1,467
1,029
208
4,720
Killed by All
Means
992
2,318
2,295
1,218
220
7,043
Percent Killed
by Air Attack
39.2%
39.0%
36.1%
15.5%
5.5%
33.0%

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a clayote @clayote.myatproto.social · 10/08/2025

Nah, I was trying to get you to admit to being a bad person because of these posts here, where I jumped in. You're the one who started from the position that every possible job done in service of empire is morally equivalent, and people who say shit like that tend to have dirty consciences.

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a clayote @clayote.myatproto.social · 05/06/2025

But, if Sweeney is correct, that style will be implemented by a bunch of poors making $2/hr who probably won't even play the game. Maybe not even know what game they're working on. They'll just be annotating generated content, like this. I do not want that future. Do you?

GIF showing someone annotating a screenshot showing what parts are text and what tokenizer to use on them

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a clayote @clayote.myatproto.social · 16/05/2025

Discord...still...has them?...

I am entering a Discord status message that says, "Frobnicating the contrabulator". It technically isn't an *away* message because I didn't change my status to "away" before taking this screenshot. I can't be bothered to get another one, sorry not sorry

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a clayote @clayote.myatproto.social · 09/05/2025

"If you are a Nazi, GTFO" is a political statement

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a clayote @clayote.myatproto.social · 18/04/2025

Sandwiches are real. I eat them all the time. Yet, reasonable people on websites like this one disagree about what is and is not a sandwich. Does that mean it's meaningless to make a sandwich and eat it? No, that's silly.

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a clayote @clayote.myatproto.social · 04/04/2025

You can already do this, it's at the bottom of your Profile settings

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