Reposted by Elly "Enormity" BangsMeg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 13hPlease remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich. 11141478
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 5hI think it's a mistake to assume this president won't nuke a major American city himself. It's not as if he experiences empathy or remorse. 160
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The worse everything gets, the harder it becomes to honestly know which vice you're succumbing to. 040
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Ultimately we may be forced to fall back to the original Vulgar Latin pronunciation and call it oo-RAHN-uice 250
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There's an entire planet in this star system that we don't talk about because we're not really mature enough 370
Reposted by Elly "Enormity" BangsCharlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...blog.documentfoundation.orgYes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community BlogOne of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us... 5055482101
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Nothing but respect and appreciation for sword lesbians but I am a bow lesbian through and through. 5193
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Something that sucks about this is that it gives us cognitive biases towards *both* willfully ignorant wishful thinking *and* excessive catastrophizing. Either mindset produces feelings of control. 170
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Reposted by Elly "Enormity" BangsBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/10/2026The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted. 201174278
Reposted by Elly "Enormity" BangsJordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 01/10/2026waking up every day in 2026 like: 1148011107
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026On a clover, if alive, erupts a vast, pure evil: a fire volcano. 182
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New four-word philosophy of life just dropped 0111
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026All these so-called "experts" may tell you *not* to eat sand -- but have you tried asking the very wise sock puppet who lives at the end of my arm?? 1132
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Maybe? Like an umbrella term equivalent to LGBT+ except broadened so far beyond that as to encompass... uh, Kinsey-0 heterosexuals who just like to tag along at bars? I keep looking for some way for her original post to be a joke but if it is it goes too far over my head to even show up on radar 110
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I am so bewildered by the combination of statements and self-identities she has presented here. 110
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Or that people like me will still be legally permitted to write them, etc. 070
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The hardest part of starting work on a new book is having to operate on the questionable assumption that books will still exist by the time it has a chance to go to print. 3130
Reposted by Elly "Enormity" BangsThe Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 28/09/2026The "social contagion" thing drives me screaming angry. When I was young I had no clue trans ppl existed. I'd never met anyone trans. I saw cruel caricatures in pop culture occasionally. When I realized trans was a thing someone could be, it hit like a lightning bolt. My life felt newly possible. 381784326
Reposted by Elly "Enormity" BangsTim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 24/09/2026in the age of AI, making art is a radical act 2082613151
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sometimes somebody says something that reveals to you that none of their opinions, neither on that particular subject nor any other, will ever offer you any useful insight into anything. On such an occasion the block button is a marvelous friend. 090
Reposted by Elly "Enormity" BangsTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Buddy you couldn't even get into the bar you were sent to write about so you padded out the story by vamping about how people who mask on the subway have personality defects 222414
Reposted by Elly "Enormity" Bangs(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think a bit about how we've been subjected to a couple of years of "actually everyone is secretly using AI and just denying it" pieces and how this sort of projection based propaganda depends on an alienation to society to the point of theory of mind collapse by the authors. 13611
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It's like a heartfelt flash mob marriage proposal from someone you thought was just your best friend 020
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Cautiously optimistic that I've dodged viral fame once again 010
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026• The owner of our paper has invested billions in AI and in completely unrelated news you will literally die if you don't start using AI for everything right this instant 000
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is a heartwrenching object. Its telos is too strong. I've never smoked but I know that in its presence I would smoke like a chimney: it would offer me a cigarette with such pure and delicate care and hopeful love that if I were to decline its offer I would bawl in fear I'd hurt its feelings. 2194
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I just want to get nebulated for a Nomina someday 170
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And I believe learning and teaching that lesson is how Petrov would want us to honor his memory. He didn't want hero worship, though he earned it. He wanted nobody else to ever have to make the choice he made. 0102
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We've all been saved several times by several people. Vasili Arkhipov, the cooler heads in the room during the Training Tape Incident, et al. We have built a world where the sun rises each day only because the right person was in the right place at the right time. Luck is not an infinite resource. 1131
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Stanislav Petrov made a very narrow snap decision that is, in all likelihood, the only reason the human race survived beyond 1983. As we give thanks to his memory, we must remember that nuclear weapons remain an existential threat to humankind and must be abolished if any of us are to survive. 1256
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Every headline now: • Polls show Gen Z foolishly believes it's acceptable to blink during the workday • Wealthy socialite you've never heard of says eating sand is the key to happiness • Trump abolishes legislative and judicial branches, raising eyebrows among some constitutional scholars 23610
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think it's just called a palindromic sentence ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ 010
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026static.klipy.comCreepy Old Evil Witch from Snow WhiteAlt: The witch from the old animated Snow White, cackling as she descends into the floor and closes a trap door behind her 030
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Reviled did I live," said I, "as evil I did deliver." 140
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Is it weird how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how weird it is? 3285
Reposted by Elly "Enormity" Bangsweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 63107162532
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Shout out to bisexual women in particular, who for some totally inexplicable reason were the only women who were ever remotely interested in me before I came out. 091
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Is it weird that a lifetime of watching Brad Dourif play creepy, unhinged villains has filled me with an unquenchable thirst to see him cast, just once, in the role of a fairly normal friendly guy 260