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Not professional, but I've taken a lot of pictures at museums. A polarizing filter helps some, but it's not perfect. Shooting at a slight angle also helps, but you may end up stuck trying to perspective correct with software later, depending on what you're trying to do.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's really the only alternative to crabitalism: bsky.app/profile/pape...

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

That's how I knew Obama was a piece of shit. Opposing gay rights in 2008, he was either a liar or a villain. Nothing he's done since has disabused me of that. Better than everyone he ran against, but still, fuck that guy. If you'll throw anyone's rights out, you'll throw everyone's rights out.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I remember seeing something ages ago to the effect that if you want to make a dragon look threatening, model it after a cat, and if you want to make it look goofy, model it after a dog.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This might be a more immediate issue than use in prisons. I don't know that area as well, but I'm guessing there's less heavy-handed control over what gets inside refugee camps, as far as information or subject matter is concerned. I think that's one of the biggest obstacles for AI in prison tech.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh, yeah. I meant specifically education in prisons. The obstacles there are a little different.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is definitely already being pitched, at least in the educational sphere. I don't think there's been much uptake yet, but it's absolutely coming.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I think most of us behave sometimes in ways that are contrary to our values. But I would not support as policy something that forces individuals into service to the state, military or otherwise. That is neither a means nor an end that I could get behind.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

With both, always, because means and ends are not separable.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I don’t think there is an anarchist way to do conscription, and I’m not sure that any context could create one.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Updated (and toned-down) version of Proudhon saying, "I dream of a society in which I should be guillotined as a conservative."

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

They were also told that marches are how change happens, so it's reasonable that a lot of them would think, "I want things to change. I guess I should march about it?" So getting people out at those events who want to organize and connect with the people who aren't yet on board can be important.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm not even a normal person, and I can't tell.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Same movie, apparently! In the US, it's the Lion King One and a Half, and internationally, it's the Lion King 3.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You can probably start by assuming pretty much everything is "I'm not a good monarch" until proven otherwise.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

No, that's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This guy gets asked, "How do you defend something like this?" His answer is, "We have a sniper post on top of this building." Absolutely astonishing. On the other hand, I guess I don't really have a huge problem with making something ridiculous and using it to bilk the rich?

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I mean, I assume it's Schindler's List, but there is one other possibility.

Screenshot from the movie Grosse Pointe Blank, in which John Cusack plays Martin Blank, a professional killer who attends his 10 year high school reunion. He is wearing a black suit, standing in front of fa much smaller woman with short brown hair wearing a tweed jacket. His high school English teacher. He's asking her, "Are you still, you know, inflicting all that horrible Ethan Frome damage?"

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The example that immediately came to mind was Bonnie Bartlett as Lynn Bernstein in V. Admittedly, in this case, the "going back to being a kind old lady" is partly just a disguise to not be noticed, but also she never really stopped being a kind old lady.

A woman with gray hair lighting a Molotov cocktail. The caption reads, "This one's for Abraham."

It is dusk on a city street. An older woman with a little two-wheeled cart calmly walks away from a small alien shuttlecraft as an explosion bursts from the door. A cop an and an alien are shielding themselves from the blast.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Probably not, and yet that intro would still probably not make the top five wildest Chang moments.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What exactly does the literal king of England think that song is about?

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I mean, I think turning the power of the state against our enemies using legal procedures is very much guillotine logic, though I do still agree with your broader point.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I do kind of suspect that part of the problem is that the things it is sold for, the things it gets the most attention for doing, and the things it is actually good for are basically all entirely different things.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you detonate a sufficiently large capitalism close to the existing capitalism, it uses up all the oxygen, and both capitalisms are extinguished.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Would you like her in a box? Would you like her with a fox? I would not like her in a box. I would not like her with a fox. I would not like her here or there. I would not like her anywhere. Perhaps if she were pecked by hawks, Or maybe we rethink that box.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I do not like her in a bar. I do not like her from afar. I do not like her in the surf. I do not like that rancid terf.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you do think those things will be enough, I can respect the consistency, even if I don’t agree about the likelihood of that outcome.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

And you genuinely see those two things (electing better people to office and nonviolently disincentivizing antisocial behavior) removing all republicans and some democrats from office? Because if not, your theory of change is at least as much a fantasy as vigilante violence.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Assuming you're right about the solution, the system currently in place makes that virtually impossible. If you see a scenario where every republican and some (probably most) democrats are "removed from office" without violence in, say, the next ten years, I'm curious as to what that scenario is.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Fun fact: that is a full grown snow leopard. It just looks that way next to him.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My brain has the strongest privacy options available, which is admittedly more than can be said for my mouth. But both have a much better track record than Meta.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Justifiably! Basically what I did. I envy the folks who are going!

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Can confirm. I wish I’d known sooner how that voucher situation was working.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Exactly! They’ve structured the movie to present two awful options so they can present moderately benevolent monarchy as a triumph.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Yeah, but in the context of a pop cultural product, it mostly serves to discredit the entire concept by implying that the best we can do is a king who opens community centers.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Part of what’s so frustrating is that his basic criticism seems pretty sound. Killing monarchs is pretty unobjectionable. Distributing technology and arms to the oppressed, cool. Good idea. It’s mostly just that last phase when he’s like, “And then I’ll be in charge.”

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I think there's plenty of blame to go around. The people who voted for him, the politicians who enabled him and minimized a coup attempt, the journalists and editors who treated all those politicians as credible and reasonable, the networks who invited them onto tv shows and gave them a platform.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Given how incredibly rare it is for any story, however damning, to have any meaningful consequences at all for the subject, it seems like it’s nearly all just chumminess.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This thread might be my favorite thing I've ever seen on Bluesky. Thank you.

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EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I guess the one in the middle is the one who didn't quite come out right. They make him wear different clothes, and he's using some sort of miniature hammer on a generator. Probably a toy they give him so he feels useful.

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