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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I do like how much that ILM documentary on Disney+ mentions cheats, time saves and ‘getting away with’ things. All creative work is a magic trick, and I think we can be shy about that, like the work is diminished by admitting that it’s done in spite of limitations and constraints.
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Will the organized & "extremely visible online" resistance always skew moderate on core principles? ✅️ We've all seen pro-violence actors—because hot takes earn clout—but is the rest of their approach sound? Or does it just resonate enough at superficial level to hit notes for visibly online folks?
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I remember how badly I coveted the @dodgethis handle on Twitter. ...How often I checked to see if that low activity account would be purged: "Have they made it available again, yet?" Now, it would be worthless to me! There is a lesson in that.
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Wait up it's 420pm imma go elect a tiny new pope
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
And the winner is... AI Pope Tyrannicus! Your favourite reality TV show will be back whenever we define what constitutes death for AI systems!
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
What if ai assistants could shield all of us other humans from having to deal with fascist executives and imperial state-craft operators? A room full of Civ2 advisors that are chatbots editing JIRA boards. They could manage comms with us ON OUR TERMS by acting as buffer where next in command sits.
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
stink stank stunk 2017: stonk TBD: stenk, stynk
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
it is i your nemesis digital display case you will never be contented after rearranging me!
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Seeking comfort fights facism through subversion of its mechanisms to instill terror and reinforce cruel complacency in its subjects
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
30 years ago the marketing hook for KFC was like Toonie* Tuesday Now the hooks are subtle like Thaï Express intentionally spelling day of week Thuesday on their weekly exploration menu because some impressionable smuck will tweet about it like this *two dollar Canadian coin for you American folks
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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 02/05/2025
The Epic Games Store will now take a 0% cut on the first $1M revenue earned. (Epic Games Store blog)
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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
We are all so worried about next 5 years, it's hard to speak clearly about pretty alarming trends for the next 25 years. Social media does not seem to be helping with that anymore. Remember when climate change was front and centre of discussion? Now that impending future is yesterday's news.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Atlantic's @dkthomp.bsky.social wrote about a worrying trend in the economic data—the unemployment rate for recent college graduates is unusually high. One theory: Firms are hiring fewer grads into white collar jobs, and using more AI. *This* is what an AI jobs crisis might look like.
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
We should not have let corporations or apps become the arbiters of personal achievement. Immediacy and intimacy of phone interaction has oversaturated the balance we need to weigh between legitimacy & ease of access.
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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I would be a lot more happy about paying more for games if I knew that revenue was actually going to the devs who worked on it. Getting residuals would fundamentally change the structure and nature of this industry.
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
so my 5yo is quoting that one Latin phrase from Genshin Impact all the time now. Ad Astra Abyssosque! [To the stars and the abyss!]
Katheryne and Venti looking across counter at each other at Adventurer's guild. Latin motto overlaid on image in yellow, pink, and cyan bubble letters.
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Humans trying to manage invasive species is hypocritical. Colonial descendants trying to manage invasive species is ignorant and anthropocentric, in addition to the usual settler offenses.
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Gave up on my dreams of achieving 80s hair metal look
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 01/05/2025
Why celebrate May Day? This year, in taking the streets, we are showing each other who is prepared to fight: "Take a stand—we'll be there, too." Every year, we are showing that we are part of a story greater than ourselves, stretching back centuries. Life reinventing itself in defiance of death.
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The May Days: Stories of Courage and Resistance
A century and a half of rebellions, uprisings, daring escapes, and adventures celebrating May Day and our collective capacity for freedom and self-determination.
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Paternalism is the weirdest framing of social interactions. It is definitely applicable & useful to view society this way. But when I look back at the advanced medical ethics course I took, weak paternalism feels so much grosser than utilitarianism in terms of motivation: even when result is valid.
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
3yo who is home sick just asked me if i want to sit with them and play with some plastic food toys from around the house. they said the game is called "you get a little, i get a lot." should i stop playing gacha games in front of my children?
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
1000x procrastination combo breaker points today
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
pushing framing outside of transactional lens is vital. If they demand receipts for social interactions, these 2 Qs must be asked in same breath - who got what support? - for how much relative effort or resources? conservatives often hold firm when progression or extraction dominate conversations.
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
It seems like people who want social change have no answer when people conflate "getting out what you put in" and "meritocracy." Here the conflation protects conservative views: "doesn't my inherent quality merit the compensation I receive? why is someone else worthy of larger proportional share?
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
modern worldviews teach us two conflicting principles: 1. generally, people only get out what they put in to work, society, etc 2. society has no obligation to cater to everyone's need fairly! It "does its best" with the average able-bodied white male cishet voter locked in as its target market
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
My heart goes out to the Filipino community in Vancouver after a car drove through a street celebration for Lapu Lapu day yesterday night. Such a sad loss of life, and painful to see it happen in this way—when people were celebrating overcoming their hardships together as a community.
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
There are 10 steps on my iterative path to enlightment Reconstruct >>> Ruminate >>> Reconfigure >>> Rationalize >>> Recontextualize >>> Refactor >>> Recompile >>> Review changes >>> Retcon >>> Brainwash . . . Repeat 🔁
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Happy Alien Day, I didn't have candles so
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the word gfff is on a screen surrounded by other screens
Alt: Ellen Ripley from Alien looks up as the word gfff is on a board surrounded by flashing white lights from computer signals.
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Graham Reznick @grahamreznick.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Simon doing some great work here highlighting and digging into why this is the case (not directly based on what we wrote), why we expected it to be so (we didn't create the game), and what the underlying issues are (video game writing = not unionized). (And I'm seeing the film tonight! stoked!)
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 25/04/2025
I think people need to get rid of the idea of a “return to normal” whatever that even means. The political and economic situation of the world with climate change getting worse is not going to be less chaotic
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
without downloading any pics, where are you mentally?
A yellow box of children's hair elastics knocked down and scattered across a small set of wooden stairs.
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
How do you find energy to celebrate culture at a time like this? Because we must act and live our culture to keep it alive. Because to lose that joy and connection is too high a cost for more efficient victory over oppression.
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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Words to live by.
Screenshot of a tweet by @louisethebaker

The text reads, "I’m almost 50, and here is the best thing I have learned so far: every strange thing you’ve ever been into, every failed hobby or forgotten instrument, everything you have ever learned will come back to you, will serve you when you need it. No love, however brief, is wasted."
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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Chicago! On May 22nd, 6:30 to 8:30 pm I'll be part of a discussion organized by @prisonculture.bsky.social at Walls Turned Sideways: "Why Make Zines in 2025: Information Control Under Fascism." Also participating are Lewis Raven Wallace, and K Rochelle R-Drennan. Come! whyzines2025.eventbrite.com
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Why Make Zines in 2025: Information Control Under Fascism
Join us for a discussion about zinemaking under fascism
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Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 21/04/2025
The closure of the CDC’s entire FOIA office is unacceptable and in fact, illegal. Americans shouldn't be left in the dark about how the CDC is operating. Transparency matters. So we're suing.
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CREW sues to challenge destruction of CDC FOIA office - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The closure of the CDC's entire FOIA office violates both FOIA and the Administrative Procedure Act and the CDC must be compelled to follow the law.
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 22/04/2025
Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Ordered 2 resign aft showing a safety flaw. According to Balan, she was simply following Musk's orders to "talk to me" if staffers thought it was the "fastest way to solve a problem for the benefit of the whole company," according to an email he sent to all employees in 2013, as quoted by Electrek.
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 21/04/2025
"A mobile, community-led crisis response team based in six communities across British Columbia is showing that police don't have to be involved in mental health emergency calls." "99% of [their] calls were resolved without involving police." #BritishColumbia #Canada #Healthcare #Policing
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Many Mental Health Calls Don’t Require Cops, Program Shows
Operating in six communities across the province, CRCL offers trauma-informed care that resolves without police 99 per cent of the time.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Pretty much all I do is just continuous validate my shitposting behaviours from those golden days of social media here. It's better than behaving that way on company slack etc. Though it does transfer over! That personality & way of expression were less practiced during email & text messenger times.
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Bluehost feels like a shade of Twitter in its hey day for real interactions with people. To be fair, I worked hard to top 1000 followers on that platform. So that successful effort changed both my experience & sunk cost evaluation.
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Ask not what your country has done for you; but who has it murdered, exploited, and excluded to offer you those benefits?
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
My parents try hard to be included in my life and I can respect that effort. But certain things, like my intestine, will never be safe around them. Forgot to skip their soup and have been regretting it since 3am.
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dodgethis.ephemera (he/him) @dodgethis.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
#photography kitsilano in spring
Bike lane at major intersection near kitsilano sign at burrard bridge, Vancouver, BC. Trees and buildings in background on beautiful sunny day.Southbound cars at major intersection near kitsilano sign at burrard bridge, Vancouver, BC. Trees and buildings in background on beautiful sunny day.Northbound cars at major intersection near kitsilano sign at burrard bridge, Vancouver, BC. Trees and buildings in background on beautiful sunny day.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Imagine this: On the evening of March 8, you and your spouse unlock the door to your apartment building. As you step inside, two men—not in uniform—push their way in behind you. They tell you your visa has been revoked and that they are there to deport you.
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Rosemary @sophygurl.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Just read this MoJo article about just such a case: www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
this is about much bigger and broader issues but something i've been thinking about a LOT this week is how often police charge victims of assault (especially if they're mentally ill or otherwise marginalized) with reporting a false crime
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