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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 4m

#LastSeen on Apple TV is much better than I expected! Not life-changing or anything, but a solid jolt of suspense.

pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 2h

A recent bout of forced AI use at work ended with someone saying they “hope [I] will go be an AI evangelist to my teammates after this”...

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 5h

I reposted one of the screenshots from America’s stupid chatbot thing yday and then thought better of it. So just reupping my longtime refrain: Don’t talk to them, even for a joke! You’ve seen screenshots of the Minecraft thing - you don’t need to waste the water to try it yourself!

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 5h

AI boosters always want to argue “but it’s so useful!” and I reject the premise of that argument. Its utility or lack thereof is completely irrelevant to someone whose job (or breathable air, or clean water, or green space, etc.) was sacrificed on the altar of AI.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 6h

Everyone in every industry, throughout 2026:

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caffeine anxiety ego death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 8h

my god i am so weary of "everything is bad and only going to get worse and there is no end in sight" from every direction, all the time, nonstop

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scary again, naturally 🎃 @renandpen.bsky.social · 8h

Every word of this piece! ❤️‍🔥 conversationalist.org/2026/09/29/p...

Your thoughts are all you have. Your experiences, your unique way of seeing the world, your tastes. These are hard-won, often over decades of exploration. You may have to read hundreds of books or watch hundreds of movies that you don't even like to arrive at what you do. If you're a writer or artist, you might have to spend years being bad at the thing you love before one day, you aren't so bad anymore. That work is worth doing.

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 22h

Anyone who claims not to have heard Pee by janice toilet is lying for clout

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think this premise is just plain wrong. I’m one of the lefty AI haters he’s referring to, and I’ve never touched it *voluntarily, in my own time, or on a personal device*. I am FORCED to use it at work, so I know exactly what I’m talking about when I say it ain’t shit.

In many corners of the internet, especially on the left, people pride themselves on never touching the stuff - while simultaneously making bold, deeply mistaken claims about its nature and capabilities.
I understand the reluctance to give these companies your money, your data, your attention. But using what is increasingly an indispensable technology is not an endorsement of the industry building it, any more so than using Instagram to advocate for aggressive regulations on social media would be an endorsement of Mark Zuckerberg's toxic empire.
Moreover, the people using Al are going to outcompete the ones who don't, bending the world in their preferred direction, while forming a deeper understanding of the technology itself. Bosses will use Claude Code to replace workers, while the leftist policy analyst Matt Bruenig is having it build a publicly accessible, automatically updating database of National Labor Relations Board decisions. If you're serious about your mission, you should use whichever tools work best.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/04/2024

GIRL AT COFFEE SHOP: Hey, this might be a little forward, but I’ve noticed we’re both in here a lot and I thought one of us should finally say hi! ME: I’m really glad you came over, I've been think-- AI PIN CLIPPED TO MY SHIRT: FAT ASS WHITE GIRL, HOT GIRL 4K, BIG HUGE BREASTS TRENDING ON ARTSTATION

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merritt @merrittk.com · 28/09/2026

there is only one major kind of business today and it is stripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society to buy more money before the world ends

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“You’re so organized and put together!” I’m sorry WHAT??? Literally everything I own is in little piles all over my house. Little Piles of Stuff: the organizing system of the past, present, & future!™️ Please be serious. Who are these people referring to?

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I so wish it was possible to see yourself as others see you. The things people praise me for - especially in a work context - have no basis in reality whatsoever.

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The past few months, I feel like I’m in a constant state of worry. I don’t know if it’s just these “interesting” times, an ageing thing, or a problem. If the we rose up as one tomorrow and installed a benevolent, corrective, moral gov’t, would I still find SOMETHING to keep me up at night?

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While reminding me to go spray the entrance/exit, Mom said, “Your father is worried they’re building a nest inside the ceiling/exterior wall”. I DID NOT EVEN KNOW THAT WAS A THING??? Anyway, this attempt to get me to DIY has very much backfired bc I’m calling my professional bug murderer today.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Someone making a ton of money off of AI: “ai is the future and it’s inevitable” Someone not making any money off of AI: “this looks like shit”

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LOLKNBR @lolknbr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One last time … with feeling, everybody!

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It is September 27th and I reject the wasps building a nest on my front porch this late in the year in the strongest possible terms!

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ohhhhhh my god someone wrote a song about texas? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party?should we invite greg abbott

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have had my reading glasses for over a year and I still gasp every time I put them on after trying to read without them. Who knew the world was so CRISP and DEFINED?!?

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On a better note, have this screenshot I took from Jon Ronson’s The Castle this morning. The whole thing is very shareable, but I’m refraining bc you should get your own copy. (And you’re welcome for the 8am too-lazy-to-get-my-glasses font size 😘)

There's a word for something that love bombs you, mirrors you, manipulates you into giving it all your attention, and isn't in the least bit embarrassed when caught lying. I think ChatGPT is a psychopath.

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Noon on the east coast, and we have officially reached the Backlash To The Backlash phase of posting about The Song! Those who love The Song are snarking defensively about how anyone who hasn’t heard it is a crusty snobby bitch. You can like it! That’s fine! “I haven’t heard it” ≠ “it’s crap”!

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Frances Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 27/09/2026

i'm sorry baby, i swear it'll never happen again, after the midterms

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In a fit of exuberance, I opened the windows before the first frost. Now the cats and I are learning about some new kinds of bugs!

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In last night’s dream, I read a web comic over & over but didn’t get it. Glanced down at my hand to find the comic tattooed on my palm. Got lost/forgot who I was while running an errand for my Mom. The cops trying to ID me took a blood sample from the knuckle of my thumb.

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It is objectively nuts to insist that everyone MUST have heard this song when the single defining characteristic of our time is that everyone is siloed off in their own personal media/culture cocoon.(I also have not heard the song)

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 26/09/2026

one of the greatest joys of life is pressing buttons and clicking your mouse and seeing things happen on your computer screen

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

cuth pube

A sign that attempts to spell out "the Cube pub" by shifting the B in Cube down with the PU right before it and TH before the E.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 26/09/2026

can't a guy walk down the street anymore without being harassed by artificial intelligence

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Still working through this week’s playlist and found another case in point! Granted it’s Tom Morello, and he’s always been “political” (laudatory), but this kind of message is really A Thing this week!

Song lyrics screen from Apple Music:
ADJOURN Adjourn It (feat. Ser) Tank
Tom Morello

Make them pay for their crimes

Adjourn it

Never buy their racist lies

Unearth it

Help our brothers, sisters stay

They've earned it

Written By: Roman Morello, Serj Tankian, Tom Morello, Zakk
Cervini
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/09/2026

this kind of outcome was predictable the moment so-called "agents" became productized. the Spam Economy azhdarchid.com/imagining-th...

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Imagining the Car but not the Traffic Jam

Your typical example of how AI can make life better is analogous to saying

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you post “I know some HORRIFIC STUFF but I’m not gonna a say it bc you would PANIC and LEAP OUT OF A WINDOW”, your “not causing a panic” ship has already sailed. Just say whatever you have to say.

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

LRT is sthg I was thinking about earlier. Sometimes non-college-educated people I know seem to think I did book reports for 4 yrs. No, it was about learning HOW to read! Whose POV are you getting? Who doesn’t get to speak? Why not? Is the narrator reliable? …and those are the most basic questions!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Is all the food in your country made of poison now? Why not get an Rx for a GLP-1? GLP-1s: reduce the ‘food noise’ during the coming famine!”

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This week’s New Music Playlist from All Songs Considered has lots more urgent, at-least-tangentially political music than usual. It feels like a tidal wave of Artistic Response coming out of nowhere. Is it a fluke? An indication of an *actual* vibe shift? Just a new person picking the songs?

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pumpkin spice eeyikes @eeyikes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Look, if you wanna start selling Halloween decor in July, fine by me. Whatever. But if you start selling *limited edition* pumpkin spice doughnuts in August, there won’t be any left by the time we get our first sub-60° morning! ASK ME HOW I KNOW.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026

i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The fantasy that you can make an existential threat to the earth worse in the short term because maybe somehow magically in the long term it will solve it in some magical way already dismissed is part of artificial idiocy. We have the solutions. We just need to implement them.

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