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esg @esg.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

I was checking out one of your books on Libby, and there was this weird "the publisher hasn't indicated whether contributions to this title were made by AI" disclosure comment. Idk if you can ask your publishers to put a "HUMAN EFFORT ONLY" tag on your work? Dunno if it might dissuade AI haters.

Libby screenshot of novel information, namely so's I can show Ursula that there's this weird non-committal AI attribution thing on her book.

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esg @esg.myatproto.social · 03/06/2026

GNU Terry Pratchett.

"And that's what your holy men discuss, is it?"

"Not usually. There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment about the nature of sin, for example,” said Oats.

“And what do they think? Against it, are they?” said Granny Weatherwax.

“It’s not as simple as that. It’s not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray.”

“Nope.”

“Pardon?”

“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is."

“It’s a lot more complicated than that...”

“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes..."

“But they starts with thinking about people as things...”

--Granny Weatherwax, from Terry Pratchett's Carpe Jugulum

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esg @esg.myatproto.social · 10/03/2026

Jay quote-replies a skeet about the waffles-pancakes meme saying that "social media doesn't have to be this way".

Another user asks her if bsky has banned Jesse Singal yet, a notorious transphobe who likes doxxing transwomen and siccing his mob on them.

Jay replies, "WAFFLES". That is her post verbatim and in its entirety, like the shitty little transphobic punches-down techbrat that she is.

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esg @esg.myatproto.social · 11/07/2025

Please can I post the legendary Cap page on the same subject, despite it being the wrong 'verse?

Captain America comic page, in which Cap is yelling:
“Listen to me, all of you out there! You were told by this man, your hero, that America is the greatest country in the world! He told you that Americans were the greatest people, that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities hammered out of it and shine more brightly! He went on about how precious America was--how you needed to make sure it remained great! And he told you anything was justified to preserve that pearl of the great price that is America!
Well, I say America is nothing! Without its ideals--its commitment to the freedom of all men, America is a piece of trash! A nation is nothing! A flag is a piece of cloth! I fought Adolf Hitler not because America was great, because it was fragile! I knew that liberty could be easily snuffed out here as in Nazi Germany! As a people we were no different than them! When I returned, I saw that you nearly did turn America into nothing! And the only reason you're not less than nothing --is that it's still possible for you to bring freedom back to America!"

There is a long silence, then...

Crowd: "Th-that IS him!! That's the real Captain America!"

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esg @esg.myatproto.social · 20/02/2025

Look at this round buddy. This fuzzy blue round buddy. Yes. Him. Sunda blue-banded digger bee, Amegilla andrewsi

A bee hovers in front of a purple-pink flower. The bee has beautiful metallic turquoise stripes alternating with black. Its butt is round and its thorax fuzzy. It is very cute.

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esg @esg.myatproto.social · 18/02/2025

Poster 1: "my mom said someone in church said that jesus “will return through a black hole” and “might have an exoskeleton”. thinking about becoming religious again"

Poster 2: "American Christian eschatology has always been wild, but damn"

Poster 3: "Being a man and therefore of this Earth, our lord and savior is not free from carcinization"

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esg @esg.myatproto.social · 05/12/2024

"Do you understand what I'm saying?"
shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!"
"Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered his arm.
"What?" snapped Moist. "I do not! Who told you that?"
"I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People," said the golem calmly.
"I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!"
"No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game."

-- by Terry Pratchett, from Going Postal

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esg @esg.myatproto.social · 13/10/2024

This always seems timely. Which is a touch depressing.

Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.
a quote from Herman Goering, at the Nuremberg trials

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esg @esg.myatproto.social · 24/09/2024

Couple dudes holding up a banner that says "respect my trans homies or I'm gonna identify as a fucking problem", in true baller fashion

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esg @esg.myatproto.social · 22/09/2024

This amuses me, though it's really quite a nondescript number.

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,333,477, esgnat.bsky.social ‪@esgnat.bsky.social‬, joined on Oct 3, 2023"

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esg @esg.myatproto.social · 10/04/2024

it's a nice overcast day (been too hot lately...ha ha ha, +1.5C), i have a day off, so i went and bushwhacked some of the Mile a Minute weed off where it's smothering some native plants nearby. only so much 1 loon with a kitchen scissors can do, but -

"it ain't much, but it's honest work" meme - farmer standing in front of a field with the above text captioned underneath

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esg @esg.myatproto.social · 17/03/2024

"Meanwhile, Musk has been accused by shareholders of abandoning the company and has spent a lot of his time on X-formerly-Twitter spreading disinformation and furthering racist tropes."

two dudes toasting the camera and giggling

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esg @esg.myatproto.social · 29/02/2024

Kéré is a friggin genius. This walkway of his remains one of my favourites. It keeps the sun and some of the dust out, but allows airflow. Simple, sustainable (it's a bunch of wooden branches!!), practical, beautiful.

Man in a blue shirt walks down an outside corridor, shaded by wooden branches placed slantwise running from the outer edge of the corridor to the roof.

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