Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eLord Juiblex @lordjuiblex.bsky.social · 15hPee is not stored in the balls. Pee is stored in the mind. 9407
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][ePop-E-mperor Rhizic the MoreWrong, KSC, KHS @revrhizic.bsky.social · 18hWhere all them Effective Altruists at? A rounding error for you could help save my friends home! #philanthropy #charitablegiving #altruism 011
𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e @enkiv2.bsky.social · 19h(off memory) in the 70s Kodak developed a new film stock that brought out the highlights in brown, photographers bought it because they could finally take good color photos of non-white people, but it also got used for interior design magazines, & then digital cameras weren't good at brown for 20y 041
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][efesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I managed an office that used anonymous surveys. They were truly anonymous. But the responses were so obviously attributable to certain employees, I was 95% sure who said what. And so was my boss. That's how people got on the radar. Anonymous doesn't equal unrecognisable. 2023012
𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e @enkiv2.bsky.social · 19hWhy so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names | PC Gamer www.pcgamer.com/games/why-so-many-s… 000
𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e @enkiv2.bsky.social · 21hjust so i'm not imposter syndroming myself out of jobs... when a JD says 'distributed systems' they mean Real Distributed Systems like bottom-up p2p compute swarms & not, like, web services on different ec2s or setting up an elasticsearch cluster right? 000
𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e @enkiv2.bsky.social · 21hCrimethInc. : A Demonstrator’s Guide to Understanding Police Batons : And How to Protect against Them crimethinc.com/2020/12/15/a-demonst… 021
𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e @enkiv2.bsky.social · 21hFolk Etymologies – The New Inquiry thenewinquiry.com/folk-etymologies 000
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eMemento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 22h"I love carmilla and its zany melancholy but I haven't read anything else by him, I should fix that" sheridan le fanu: some twink drank so much tea he was suicide baited by a ghost monkey who hates Jesus "this was an excellent choice" 183
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eJuliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 06/10/2026Good comparisons. Of course, "completed" isn't really the right word, since you'll have to slog through and double-check everything, too. 082
𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e @enkiv2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026AI won't kill you by sending a robot to shoot you; it will kill you because your doctor consulted ChatGPT when deciding your course of treatment 021
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eNaraka Final Ghoul @eris.anarchogoth.rip · 06/10/2026down so bad she's levitating 081
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eAn American Werebadger in Oregon @werebadger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026CW: animal cruelty as metaphor We had hunting dogs when I was a kid. My father was extremely strict about their place as machines to be used and not the same as our pets. They were not physically abused, though there were unpleasant (and ineffective) training. 122
𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e @enkiv2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026As a fan of Cronenberg's film of Crash, I didn't realize how focused the book was on puke 010
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e🏳️⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Can someone explain to me: 1. Is Jenny Holzer real, and 2. What is her bit 331
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eJesse and the Purple Crayon … of Death!! @misctakes.com · 05/10/2026I'm kind of like Columbo in that my enemies underestimate me as bumbling and harmless but kind of not in that I am mostly bumbling and harmless. 1172
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eJesse @misc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026Is it just me or is “jagged intelligence" just a way for AI pushers to spin “our whole premise was wrong”? 3256
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eJeremy O'Kelley @jeremyokelley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026everyone pull your tails out. we're going to make a rat king 001
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eJelly 👣 @jellyfoot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is how i flirt. (Halloween Edition) 052
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eJesse and the Purple Crayon … of Death!! @misctakes.com · 05/10/2026Grave faced doctor telling you you have a Sam Altman exclusive. 111824
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eMarkoff Chaney @markoffchaney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#APAB Same as #ACAB, all means all. #1312 001
𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e @enkiv2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026LinkedIn post: Everyday, <clear description of actual problem>. That's why, at <company>, we <incoherent mass of buzzwords that actually make the problem worse>. 000
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eJuliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 05/10/2026Every time you do harm, you should be at risk of ruining your own life. Losing an opportunity. Getting shunned. We need to stop associating these consequences with identity. Link them to harm and control. A victim who speaks up isn't ruining anyone's life. The perpetrator chose to ruin their own. 0237
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eJK @miniver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I have a folk theory that there are actually a series of uncanny valleys. Computer graphics get better until they hit a sweet spot, then for a while developments makes them aesthetically worse, then eventually they start to climb out of that uncanny valley until they hit a new sweet spot, on and on 183
𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e @enkiv2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026last night i realized that barbarella is, basically, a retelling of the myth of the journey of innanna to the underworld, and is therefore perfect for watching during venus retrograde in scorpio 000
𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e @enkiv2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Selected spooky content is on sale now through the end of October: itch.io/s/203289/halloween-sale 010
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eJesse and the Purple Crayon … of Death!! @misctakes.com · 04/10/2026It really is striking how much this is true 042
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eskyking @jkachmar.com · 04/10/2026dustin pointing to attention from 2023 downplays the fact that the community has been fracturing and shedding people for a lot longer than that, but the old guard is still very firmly entrenched. that isn’t an indictment on its own, but look at what they’re doing with power now. 151
𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e @enkiv2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Selected spooky content is on sale now through the end of October: itch.io/s/203289/halloween-sale 000
𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e @enkiv2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026percieving unexpected events requires paying attention to the outside world; interpreting them requires integrating with the inside world 000
𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e @enkiv2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Selected spooky content is on sale now through the end of October: itch.io/s/203289/halloween-sale 000
𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e @enkiv2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Loiterers Resistance Movement - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loiterers_Res… 000
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eeff. @fabjx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026handing out leaflets to anyone who enters my dreams saying "don't worry, we won't remember any of this" 0208
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eDr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Acknowledge that people are interested not in reading the same thing over and over again, but in exploring one thing from an almost infinity of approaches an angles. Of exploring different facets of the thing itself. Of making a familiar thing new, of using to explore different ideas or realities. 321426
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eDr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026And each trope, can we be rethought, refigured, played out in a thousand different ways, which questions, challenges, reinforces ideas previously explored. You can have more complex conversations precisely because you're entering a pre-existing discussion. 114711
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eDr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Engaging with an existing trope or plot pattern, isn't about simplicity or robot formulas. It's rather about an acknowledgement of the history of your field, a constant intertextual conversation with (or against) the meanings that have built up around certain tropes. 117723
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eDr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026In other words, these are existing forms that you engage with and use, but this is not an act of plagiarism or repetition. Instead, through iteration (repetition) and variation, these 'strong forms' 'accumulate connotations' across the genre. They become richer, more complex. 415115
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eDr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The note that genre fiction (in their case the Gothic) uses 'strong forms' (familiar patterns and tropes) which 'easily lend themselves to codification in terms of conventions or 'rules' of composition. They are constraints authors take upon themselves.' 11247
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eDr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I find the concept of 'formulaicity' (articulated by Manuel Aguirre and Beatriz Sanchez-Santos a really useful way to stop thinking about shared elements between books as something to hold in disdain. So let me share the idea and how it changed my way of approaching tropes and 'strong forms' 112511
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eDr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it. 8422131
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e🏳️⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 03/10/2026where the weed is dank and the beer's three-fiddy 05510
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eAJ: A Mario Bava Film @ajmacready.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My wife handed me a package. "That's for you. It has my name on it but it's yours." I opened it and just stared, legit shocked to see it. I don't even remember telling her. She didn't forget. Y'all. I don't deserve her. (If you know why this is a Holy Grail book for ya boy, you are truly My People.) 5865
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eLord Juiblex @lordjuiblex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026No one on Bluesky Ottawa said they want this so I am going to leave it... somewhere. Have to decide where. 🤔 1142
Reposted by 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eEdwardo Lobo @edwardolobo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It's not my fault, I swear, he says, to a room full of people who did not think it was his fault but, now, are not so sure. 001
