Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 12hOne of those many sequels is, in fact, my current read. It took me a few chapters to get how I was supposed to approach the first book—I wasn't sure whether it was sincere or super dry tongue-in-cheek humour—but it turns out it's very sincere and extremely good. Thanks @maxgladstone.bsky.social! 110
Reposted by Undead or Ghostly Variety TurtleMaevatiana N. Ratsimbazafindranahaka @rmaevatiana.bsky.social · 23hI’m looking for a highly motivated international candidate interested in applying for the France Excellence Eiffel Scholarship to pursue a 3-year PhD with our lab! www.campusfrance.org/le-programme...campusfrance.orgLe programme de bourses France Excellence Eiffel | Campus FranceLe programme de bourses Eiffel est un outil développé par le ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères afin de permettre aux établissements français d’enseignement supérieur d’attirer les meill... 126
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 15/10/2026"Self-defense isn’t violence. Self-defense is intelligence." - Malcolm X 030
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 14/10/2026"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." 010
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Every day that passes makes me feel that Herbert's Butlerian Jihad was not only prescient but may be as essential to the real world as it was to the Dune universe. 100
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I want to buy a ticket to Eurythmick Jagger. 030
Reposted by Undead or Ghostly Variety TurtleGennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Divest from Harry Potter and JKR, y'all. It's okay to feel sad about no longer engaging with something that meant a lot to you, but a fictional world that funds a very real assault on trans rights will never be more meaningful than caring about the safety of trans folks. 161331533
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Scandal near election while woman. 000
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I also have it, but *have* read it. I found it witty and thoroughly enjoyable, as @scottlynch78.bsky.social's works do tend to be, and recommend it unhesitatingly. 010
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I've seen people advocate registering your property as a rewilding area for native species of flora and fauna to try and work around municipal lawn-mowing orinances and HOA overreach. Wonder if that'd work for your location. 110
Reposted by Undead or Ghostly Variety TurtleChris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Why Democrats must keep calling out GOP bullsh*t on sight by @marisakabas.bsky.social Immediately diffusing Republican desperation drastically shortens the life cycle of their clownish ideas. www.thehandbasket.co/p/democrats-...thehandbasket.coWhy Democrats must keep calling out GOP bullsh*t on sightImmediately diffusing Republican desperation drastically shortens the life cycle of their clownish ideas. 213828
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I'd long since written them off for general shitty practices, but it's good to know that they're so vehement in their desire to validate my decision. 000
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? IT engineer: We were downstream victims of the network outage same as our clients. We rely on network to deliver our services; when network is unavailable, we are unavailable. We were up and responsive on our end had anyone been able to connect. 040
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Once again, zero advertisements and absolutely zero AI. Subscription is totally free (I have no paid tier at all), and comments are open to all subscribers. 010
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Twelve hours late nearly to the minute, but it is still Sunday. My streak remains intact, now at four. Today we're taking the basic concepts and techniques introduced in last week's navigation post and extending them into two practical navigation scenarios. turtletalk.beehiiv.com/p/on-navigat...turtletalk.beehiiv.comOn Navigation, Pt 2Musings on how to figure out where you're going and where you've been 120
Reposted by Undead or Ghostly Variety TurtleÁine @actuallyannalise.bsky.social · 10/10/2026"Be glad you're not living in one of those communist countries where secret police can just pull you out of your car or shoot you down on the street on cold blood" and other lies my dumb ass once believed. 061
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Pretty sure I'd watch that last one. Twice. Per day. 020
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I've got the Roy Rogers version of this song on a cowboy ballads playlist! 110
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Easy. They'll spin of a subsidiary which holds all the debt and liability but has no assets, and then file for bankruptcy for that subsidiary and shut 'er down. 000
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 07/10/2026698 followers at this moment. That's gonna be an interesting time. 010
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This whole thing feels kinda a lot like "People give Amazon a lot of data; are shocked when Amazon has a lot of data about them." 010
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Honestly, given that this allows you to import shopping profiles from other """"AI"""" "assistants", I'd kinda like to see people build massive misinformation shopping profiles we can all share and throw in our AI profiles to muddy up the waters. I will not be correcting any of these conclusions. 100
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Ford F-150 miss is especially fascinating because they somehow chose to believe I have that instead of the vehicles I've actually got saved to my "Amazon Garage" for parts compatibility checking purposes. 100
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Departments: household cleaning." That's it, that's an entire "insight." I guess, yes, it's true that I sometimes order household cleaning supplies, but I'm not sure what benefit that knowledge is supposed to grant you. "Departments: home lighting"; yes, I've ordered light bulbs before too. 100
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It seems a roughly even mix of stupidly obvious, and conclusions drawn on little to no supporting evidence. Some seem based on one single purchase ever. It seems to really like one-off purchases from years ago. I "prefer" a specific brand of paracord? No. I have no paracord brand loyalty. 100
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I looked at mine and I don't have anything shockingly specific in it. Frankly, it's pretty laughable. Full of such "insights" as "probably lives in <city where all my orders get sent>" and "probably owns a Ford F-150". Friends, I have never owned a F-150 or any other pickup truck my entire life. 100
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I love grape-nuts, but this made me laugh because you're not wrong. 040
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I love grape-nuts, but feel approximately the same as Ben Collins about shredded wheat. 020
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's also common that they'll want to helpfully write the regulations themselves to maximally disrupt their competitors while minimally disrupting themselves. 010
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The trouble with the maples (and they're quite convinced they're right); they think the oaks are just too lofty and they grab up all the light. But the oaks can't help their feelings if they like the way they're made, and they wonder why the maples can't be happy in their shade. 010
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Best of all it's completely, totally, and utterly free. 010
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Have I mentioned that Turtle Talk has zero advertisements, zero annoying popups, zero autoplay videos, and absolutely zero AI? Just click on the link and get straight to reading something interesting. Today, that something interesting is navigation principles. turtletalk.beehiiv.com/p/on-navigat...turtletalk.beehiiv.comOn Navigation, Pt 1Musings on how to figure out where you are 120
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026camelcamelcamel.comcamelcamelcamel.comAmazon US price tracker, price history, price watch, price drop alerts, and price notifications.camelcamelcamel: Amazon US price tracker, price history, price watch, price drop alerts, and price notifications. 121
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026CamelCamelCamel is your friend. 110
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It occurs to me, perhaps somewhat belatedly, that the local populace might *not* acclaim me a hero of myth and legend for filling in their wadi with dry sand so I can drive heavy equipment over it more easily. #roadcraft #sand #pavedparadisejusttoputupaparkinglot 120
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Are we doing October New Year waterflows? My local watershed wishes to contribute this glacial meltwater stream from Tahoma (also known as Mount Rainier), Washington State. Ohanapecosh Glacier -> Ohanapecosh River -> Cowlitz River -> Columbia River -> Pacific Ocean 1222
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm having the worst, hardest time with the "little" part, ngl. 110
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Got it. I put the diced onions on mine at service along with the cheese, hence my confusion. 110
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Found my problem. All this time I've been hideously overcomplicating dogfights in Digital Combat Simulator. 001
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Chili Chwednesday? But where's the shredded cheddar? 110
Reposted by Undead or Ghostly Variety TurtleRaven Amos (Spoopy Edition)🎨🐦⬛ @alaskanime.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm probably going to get muted or blocked for this, but as a fellow science communicator, using AI-generated imagery/text is really a bad look all around. It not only steals from your fellow scientists because it's all trained on stolen data, it also makes up fake science. 612523
Reposted by Undead or Ghostly Variety TurtleBen from Spookily Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The assumption is that it doesn't matter because no human will ever need to understand their output, and that assumption is way bigger than most programmers realise, never mind non-programmers. What I'm seeing is an engine for creating technical debt. 492
Reposted by Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtlelukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Inside me are two turtles. One is chilling on a sunny log. The other climbs up the side, rolling it over and dumping the first one 220524
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 28/09/2026But yes, I agree that there's an even larger problem where we're *not* in a pure software space; we're in a real, living, breathing, messy world with real people who we have to account for and interact with, and even the least of these people is real, has value, and deserves dignity and compassion. 020
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Problem even in a pure software space is, once you feed all the early- to mid-career dev jobs to AI, where do the senior engineers and architects of tomorrow come from? Folks who can be trusted to fully understand the problem space, engineer solutions, babysit juniors and AI, and drive innovation? 240
Undead or Ghostly Variety Turtle @emmavaria.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sadly, “CEO says” is, and has been the entire time, the only form of “news” reported by the majority of mainstream media about AI. 010