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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Sorry, wasn't trying to cast aspersions or anything, just typing while sick.

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Oh yes, completely understood! Maybe instead of believable I should have said relatable.

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Yeah as a goober myself that part felt the most likely of any of it tbh

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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works, if you'd like. And feel free to tell us about it. Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

We have an album out! essentialopera.bandcamp.com/album/some-o... leaf-music.lnk.to/lm279 It's five short Canadian operas and you can stream it just about anywhere (2nd link).

essentialopera.bandcamp.com

Some of My Stories: The Operas of Monica Pearce, by Essential Opera

31 track album

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jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

at some point between releasing projects people start to act as if you've either had a mental breakdown or died. im here to tell you both of these things are true

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I suspect in this comparison it's less about that (most ADHD meds are controlled substances) and more about whether there's an impetus to increase the number of appointments with prescribers?

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

What! I can only get 30 at a time. Prescription has 6 refills though I think (re your next post).

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Looks like we're at approximately "she swallowed a dog to fetch the cat"

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Machine learning of certain types, maybe. LLMs, nah.

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Oh my god he really did mean antidote then.

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I have a 7yo (?) S10E for my stubby lil Muppet hands and am constantly worried about the day it dies and there isn't an equally wee replacement! I haven't had this specific issue though, luckily.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Look at Marcel’s perfect little polkadot bean. 🫘

Close-up of the bottom of one of my tuxedo cats feet. He has black toe beans and a black foot pad but his pinky toe bean is pink with a black spot in the middle of it.

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I felt badly for only posting a goofy pic of this extremely handsome and dignified gentleman. #Caturday

Close-up on a tuxedo gentleman clutching the arm of a blue upholstered chair. He's got yellow eyes, a white sock, a black nose. He is Very Dignified.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Sir it is a dictionary thrown in a blender not a femme fatale

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Looks like it'd almost have to be a vierhänder tbh

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Oh ummm. I hope you somehow didn't know, and delete this.

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I was unready for the head shape when it turned!

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Rick Ansell @rickansell.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Also DuckDuckGo have created noai.duckduckgo.com ... does what it says on the tin. No AI and no Google and it's malarky and (some) privacy. ... because they understand their users but also understand their other users, who, for 'reasons', demand AI, presumably because Google uses it.

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Yes, why would there be multiple chyrons all showing the same story?

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Reminder to everyone that udm14.com exists and if you want to use Google without AI you can make it your home page. You can also change your default search engine right in your browser usually.

udm14.com

&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code

A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I suspect they are not at all targeted at this point. I know people getting those ads who should ABSOLUTELY NOT remotely consider or even idly think about any form of intentional weight loss (I'm with you, I cannot imagine going through the side effects if it weren't to urgently save my life!)

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Which SHOULD have led them to the other options????????

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I can't believe I sat on hold with Air Canada for 16 hours only to reach the frickin Vogons. *is demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass*

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

There is no way NO WAY a person who voluntarily has convoluted "conversations" with a chat bot can use keyboard shortcuts

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I was with them till the last bit?!?????

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Someone downthread posted this: bsky.app/profile/jame...

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

OMG YOU'RE RIGHT heck you don't even have to know about export, you can display just notes and copy-paste one(1) time Why doesn't it surprise me that this is a skill issue. Also, if LLMs knew things the way people keep assuming they do, wouldn't it say "hey boss do you want to do this instead?"

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

One of the best things you can do as an adult is realize that you didn’t actually have to stop drawing, coloring, painting, playing with clay, doing whatever else you loved as a kid. Even if you’re bad at it. Maybe especially if you’re bad at it

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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 22/05/2026

This week, you may have heard about fabricated, AI-generated quotes appearing in a book covering AI's reality-skewing effects. I talked to the author, and what came out is, I think, a fascinating look at how people justify their own continued of these imperfect tools arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...

arstechnica.com

AI put "synthetic quotes" in his book. But this author wants to keep using it.

Steven Rosenbaum explains how inaccurate quotes got into his book The Future of Truth.

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This is driving me bonkers. An hour you say? And at the end of that hour you'd know you had exactly the material you wanted. I'm gonna guess he spent an hour reading over 100 slides of notes looking for stray changes.

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Femi and the Foundation @femiandfoundation.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

what about sharing the revenue stream from our actual music?

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Or they mysteriously never, ever, ever have enough calcium and rot from the butt up (yes I tried that, and that and that and that)

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richard @halkyardo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I got the same thing the other day while trying to find a screengrab of the “will you have a drink, mate?” bar scene from Wake in Fright.

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An older man in a hat invites a younger man to have a beer with him in a seedy outback bar. Both men are wearing unsettling expressions

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

No need to explain but I do want to know if the van had a drink

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Also observed in much of Atlantic Canada, and in SW Ontario!

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It's a bold move. Me, I have no way to predict what my temperature needs will be on a plane. Sometimes it feels like I'm being sous-vided. Sometimes it's like being locked in the walk-in. I just assume the shorts people have a foil blanket at the ready.

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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

raccoon loves donuts

painting of a raccoon in the forest grabbing a delicious donut from a platter of donuts being watched by a snail

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 21/05/2026

I’m still salting the vibes with my dreaded PPE at the library but two different patrons have asked me where to buy good masks in the last couple days, so there.

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