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floot "god's a fucking nerd" @flootdraws.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh thank you I've wondered that before now. TIL!

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Dr. M.A. Davis @mikedavis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"it is easier to get high-quality diasporic food in parts of the world where that diaspora lives" is a proposition people people have trouble with but it seems pretty straightforward.

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floot "god's a fucking nerd" @flootdraws.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People so often say to me omg Mexican food is so bad in the UK and so good in the US and I am like have you looked at a map lately 🤷🏻

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

it's called a rabbit maybe you've hared of it

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I guess I don't see what the point is, or the problem. Value judgments on art shouldn't be a factor -- art that's mid to me might be transformative to you. The problem here is AI literally can't be creative or original. It steals, eats and spits back out. It makes no choices. Creativity is human.

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floot "god's a fucking nerd" @flootdraws.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Someone pointed out that "I love you" are some of the least original words in the English language, having been said millions of times; it's the humanity behind them that means something.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

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floot "god's a fucking nerd" @flootdraws.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the first time I experienced an adaptation of something I loved & that was desperately important to me that I didn't think did justice to the thing I had not yet hit double digits, & yet I managed to go "welp guess I won't consume that again" & went on with my life. just throwing it out there.

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 23/09/2026

to be clear: if you use any generative AI products for your research or writing, you are not doing research or writing. not only are you violating so many ethics (where to even start), but you are poisoning academic research and devaluing rigorous and thoughtful work. your work. my work. our work.

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frenchie | thefrenchpress @frenchpresswriter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’ve got Janeway on the brain right now ☕️✨ #kathrynjaneway #captainjaneway #startrekvoyager #startrekfandom

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frenchie | thefrenchpress @frenchpresswriter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Still on my VOY shit 🪐✨ #chakotay #startrekvoyager #startrekfandom

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com · 20/08/2026

If Altman had any knowledge of literature whatsoever, one could argue that was a reference to Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" (Gulag prisoners reluctant to stop working because hard work = escapism) which would at least be ironic... But he doesn't, so one can't, so it isn't.

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

And we come full circle back to the age of magic. BRB pulling my hat out of storage and dusting it off

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It isn’t just that current systems force artists to play the lottery to make a living, it’s that playing that lottery—constantly subbing work, applying to grants, applying to fellowships, etc—is itself a full-time job. The more you play, the more you win 🙃

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Joanne Limburg @jlimburg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Medical condition vs social construct is a false dichotomy. All diagnoses are cluster concepts.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

what will it take to get Hacker T Dog to The Museum of English Rural Life

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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We do actually need food. No one needs a hallucination machine to write their email.

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floot "god's a fucking nerd" @flootdraws.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

No, it's very far fetched. I can eat meat and it will help keep me alive. The AI-prompted slop email just lands in my inbox and gets deleted. Comparing the two is absurd. We should all eat less red meat. That's not an excuse to keep funding the automated plagiarism slop machines.

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Ben Kovalik @ben.kovalik.net · 18/08/2026

hey just to clarify: I don't need to eat emails to live. thanks champ.

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Charles Martin-Shields @charlesmartinshields.com · 18/08/2026

This is so stupid. It’s possible to eat less or no meat AND not use AI slop tools; the either/or element of this article is dumb. I’ll got step further though and add this analysis elides *scale*. It’s like the author has no idea how much email gets sent every day.

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Starshark @starshark.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I could be a pain in the arse about this because I'm a vegetarian. But I don't even need to do that. You have to eat. You don't have to use a machine to send an email, especially if that machine screws it up more often than not. This is false equivalence on steroids.

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Jesper Alf 🇵🇸 @jalf.dk · 18/08/2026

Do these people think people draft one email for every two pounds of pork they eat? 🤔 Or are they just trying to shut down criticism of AI and data centers?

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Greg Dobbins @thatgregdobbins.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One email = Two pounds of pork. Standard international scale, everyone knows that.

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Tricksy Spirit 👻🤍🖤 @tricksyspirit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Legit AI bros comparing gen AI to agriculture piss me off, like yes we should cut down meat consumption but we actually need food we don’t need damn AI slop.

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Tricksy Spirit 👻🤍🖤 @tricksyspirit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You can eat meat, you can’t eat gen AI 🤪

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floot "god's a fucking nerd" @flootdraws.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The meat is food. I can eat it. It will help keep me alive. The email is something I could write by myself and not use the extra water. Holy shit my dude, this is not rocket science 🤦🏻

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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One, no one actually knows how much water generative AI uses because they won't release accurate figures. Two, yes, meat is terrible for the environment. It really is. It uses vast amounts of land and water. It would be good if everyone cut down. BUT: one is a crap email, the other is food.

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