Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Whenever I feel helpless about gender issues, my primary instinct is to explain how I feel in aching paragraphs. If I just explain how much harassment truly takes from victims, how much assault takes, how much rape takes, if I just make them understand how much I lost. If I just say it right. 140
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026trying to write seriously about sexism while having my profile picture be my labubu wearing the gnome hat I purchased is mildly breaking my brain 1170
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Andy is such an interesting writer and thinker, I'm so grateful he took time to chat with me! We got to cover a lot of ground in this episode including: misconceptions around AI & the environment, Andy's overall views on AI, effective altruism, the power of writing online, and more!! 090
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Wtf you can't even bring your gf to work, this sucks 080
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 07/02/2026My current favourite bit is to refer to Dustin as unemployed 070
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 21/01/2026I don't think AI is very capable because I just asked Claude to code an AI that could play chess and that AI is barely beating me 2311
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Today at a coffee shop my sister announced very smugly, "you know what? I'm gonna buy my own coffee," and I said, "okay! Do you want to pay for mine too?" and she looked at me like I was stupid 020
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Texting my wife "2026 is our year" every day until she blocks me 040
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 11/01/2026It's..... Time for me........... To learn what a gpu is 3150
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Ever since I was a little girl I just wanted to own the ball this quarter 220
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The worst part about being in an IQ gap relationship is when my wife wants to win a debate she'll start using 'former' and 'latter' so that all my parsing is slowed down by 7 seconds 1210
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 04/01/2026I think it's very funny that my immune system one day decided not to f with pistachios 000
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Ok I interrogated my beliefs like the rationalists told me to and I uncovered that I 100% firmly and deeply believe I could make it in kpop 260
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Hey so NO ONE tell AI that next year is 2027 0131
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Being with my sister and wife over the holidays is so beautiful and it means my clothes are being stolen from every direction ❤️ 040
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Every time I teach my dad a new word I immediately regret it, I jokingly said he was in a situationship and then he immediately loved it and went to the woman he's been seeing and asked if she wanted to officially be in a situationship 2110
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 30/12/2025*at the family function* me: AI, like, "eh, I'm walkin' here," haha *silence* me: no sorry, yeah, so some people are worried about AI. Guess they don't know about MY 2027 goals yet haha. *silence* *a single tear trickles down my face* me: I didn't have a lot of friends growing up 1140
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 30/12/2025i think..... AI....... is pretty intelligent......... 2230
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 30/12/2025the best part about heated rivalry is that the only way he could think to justify a male friendship was to start a nonprofit venture 140
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Happy holidays girlies (gender neutral) the girls and I have been jollying around town xoxo 170
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Haha that's a super funny post you've got there, give it to me? I want it? Give me your joke, I want the validation, I want it more than you? That should be me? 030
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 11/12/2025please don't talk to me when I'm wearing my uggeakers 010
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025my confidence was very high in Berkeley because all I had to do was ask people how they were doing, but in a pointed tone, and then crack a joke once a day and everyone was like, woah I think you might be a high EQ savant empath 1140
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 06/12/2025I know people have a lot of feelings about AI, but if you strip all that away for a second and just try to chat with an LLM, current AI is really unlike anything. genuinely feels on par to conversing with a person, in many ways. Even just five years ago, there was simply no technology like this. 290
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Not many people know this about me because I'm extremely humble about it and I don't like to talk about it but I'm actually really good at clay 070
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 06/12/2025my favourite thing about the Fourth Wing series is that the author made the main character too special right off the bat, so she has to keep getting more and more special to the point where she's just the only consequential person in the entire world 110
Reposted by Frances LorenzGrace @gracekind.net · 01/12/2025I showed you my Soul Document pls respond 510311
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 01/12/2025i'm not worried about misinformation because i am very good at deleting things from my brain, you will never ever ever catch me knowing the names of rivers. they have been spoken to me many times, but i do not wish to know them 180
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 29/11/2025I now firmly believe that Wicked For Good is a commentary on compulsory heterosexuality because Elphaba is for some reason convinced that she has to leave the love of her life to live in an empty void with a man 040
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 28/11/2025obsessed with the Jonas brothers making a fictional christmas movie in which they star as themselves, it makes it seem like the only universe they can imagine is one in which the jonas brothers exist 160
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 28/11/2025the greater normalisation of therapy/mental health also resulted in people misusing terms or diagnoses, or the more widespread "therapy speak," that many people dislike (which can also be used manipulatively). But anyways, my instinct is that the normalisation was still extremely net positive 250
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 27/11/2025it's really important that no one is ever mean to me on the internet ever again because my gf says i'm not allowed to buy anymore labubus 040
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 26/11/2025I wish someone would care about how much water *I* consume because as a victim of skincare youtube circa 2015 the frequency with which I pee continues to impact my daily life 030
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025shadowsky.io posting UI asks "what's on your mind?" (progressive, inclusive, implies women have thoughts), whereas blusky default asks, "what's up?" (ominous, directionally-limiting, fails to stand up for women), I think it's pretty clear which one we should all be using 🙄 040
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 24/11/2025hello bsky, I've written a summary of all the twilight movies from memory. I've been told that the only way to make substack cross-posting effective is to summarise posts in a thread. So, this thread will be a summary of my summary of the twilight movies, from memory (🧵) 150
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Good night girlies (time specific, gender neutral), have a good day tomorrow 🩷 270
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 21/08/2025The inevitable has happened. I've launched a podcast! It's called The World Can Be Better ✨ EP 1: Should you be worried about AI? I talked to Steven Adler, a former OpenAI researcher (the lab behind chatGPT), about why AI experts are concerned and what we can do about it. 160
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Hello cutie pies what's going on, could someone show me something nice that they've read or a good bsky or a nice picture or literally anything nice pls and ty 4140
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social · 10/07/2025my favourite thing about gf is if we dont talk for an hour she'll come into the room and say, "so what's the situation with us" 050