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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 14/10/2026

Not a recent observation but I'd forgotten to post: @annleckie.com's threads _and only her threads_ have lately been displaying to me as only the top post. I follow her just like I do many other posters-of-threads and I haven't seen this from anyone else. But I guess that 1/n is good for something?

An example of the thing I'm talking about. A short Ann Leckie thread only appeara with its first post (labeled 1/2), but above it a similar shoer David Cooper thread has both posts (with their 1/2 and 2/2 labels).

Intermixed is a post from Chicakō, revealing that I took this screenshot like three weeks ago.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026

Discord, why. I'm just glad I had a good solid education (Lord of the Rings as bedtime stories), because thankfully I know not to mess around with orbs from sinister sources, especially ones that come attached to vague promises of success.

A Discord pop-up, displaying an odd, vaguely round symbol that I suppose from context is an "Orb", even though it's not spherical and has a four-pointed concave star on the surface, in addition to other hard-to-interpret geographical features.

In bold, it reads "New look, new challenges", and then below: "Now your Orbs are easier to track and easier to earn." And finally there's a button labeled "See Challenges".

No further explanation is provided.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah, it really feels like shades of this again.

A screenshot of a Tumblr post from user magicmooshka, reading:

"recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen Al for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen Al for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that Al can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen Al will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't."

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 26/09/2026

Is this a pun, or am I seeing a failure of machine translation?

The Bluesky app's "translate" result for this post, which is the word(?) "unresolive".

You know, like "unresolve" meets "olive".

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 12/09/2026

For once it's a Friday and I actually have four good ones to show off. (For anyone who doesn't already know, letterboxd.com/anbaric_gare... is my Letterboxd account.)

My last four on Letterboxd, in chronological order (so, right to left): Céline and Julie Go Boating, Dragon Inn, Goodbye Dragon Inn, and The Spook Who Sat By the Door.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 09/09/2026

This made for one of those jarring social media experiences, btw:

The post I'm replying to, and Erika's first post in the thread, but with everything in between collapsed into "view full thread".

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026

Every time I'm walking across the southern edge of the Loop I'm reminded that downtown Chicago essentially has a pagan temple to Ceres (in her American mercantile aspect).

Statues of the personifications of Industry and Agriculture in the plaza right by Chicago's Board of Trade building. You can see behind them "Ceres Cafe", named for the famously faceless Ceres at the top of the building.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 22/08/2026

"If you see this, we implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation."

A sparsely populated timeline of human history from 10000 BCE to 2000 CE.

Labeled milestones are:
- early agriculture, around 9000 BCE
- earliest writing, a bit after 4000 BCE
- sack of Constantinople, just after 1000 CE
- Dashcon 2, the tiniest bit after 2000 CE

The point is of course to illustrate that the last two of those are pretty close together compared to the others.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 17/08/2026

"What's your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)"

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 13/08/2026

Same here. But also as per often I don't think I rate myself all that highly in general on quizzes like this. Open question how much I'm just applying exacting standards of self-directed attempts at honesty vs. how much I'm just not that virtuous of a person.

The result of this Undertale soul quiz, with

perseverance (purple) at 68%,
justice (yellow) at 63%,
integrity (blue) at 60%,
patience (cyan) at 47%,
determination (red) at 36%,
kindness (green) at 35%, and
bravery (orange) at 29%.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 10/08/2026

You're embodying the accurate "yes, actually" response to this post:

A 2023 post from Tony Tulathimutte reading "let me get this straight... I'm supposed to let the soft animal of my body love what it loves? the same body that's keeping the fucking score???"

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 06/08/2026

Breaking with tradition to explain a joke. I have a lot of self-consciousness about being boring, as a quiet non-artistic queer. Some interpersonal things have given me cause for this. Internally punning on meanings of "bore" helps me keep perspective, unlike, e.g.: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob5j...

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 06/08/2026

I don't know how to feel about these. At least, I suppose, they're not _all_ boring.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 14/07/2026

2026 gender census is out! They've been doing this for a while and are pretty reputable. This survey helps track trends in which terms people use to describe themselves by country and by other demographics, for instance. (I'm not affiliated with them.) Survey and more info: survey.gendercensus.com

Who can participate?

This survey intends to collect information from everyone who ISN'T adequately described by the "gender binary". According to the binary model of gender, everyone fits tidily into just one of these categories:

● Woman/girl - all the time, solely, and completely
↳ (may be cisgender, transgender, intersex, etc. for the purposes of this survey)
● Man/boy - all the time, solely, and completely
↳ (may be cisgender, transgender, intersex, etc. for the purposes of this survey)

Anyone who doesn't feel like they fit into one of these two boxes is invited to participate. There are no restrictions based on location, age, or anything else.

If you hesitate or struggle to place yourself into just one of those two boxes, or if you know for sure that these boxes were not made for you, please continue!

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 11/07/2026

Just shuffled my Camp Miasma trading cards in with my EarthBound trading cards, in case I need an "oracle deck" or whatever. Also what if anything am I gutsy enough to put this sticker on. Certainly not my work laptop, and my personal laptop is full up.

A stack of EarthBound trading cards from a long-ago Fangamer kickstarter, with Giygas on top, next to a smaller set of Camp Miasma trading cards, with Little Death on top.

Above them is a sticker with the stylized Little Death / ceiling vent nested squares iconography, orange on black, with silver text reading "Little Death is coming"-- only it's all caps, so, you know, the ambiguity.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 11/07/2026

At the Music Box for the preview screening of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma! I went all out for getting to see a new Jane Schoenbrun movie early. Even injected some estrogen into my body.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 21/06/2026

Oh, sorry, I think I already have plans on Monday, what were they... oh yeah!

A screenshot of Google Calendar on my phone, showing that at 7:00 in going to something called "U~te~na" at Regal City North in Chicago.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 20/06/2026

Honeybear Cafe has some good pride month specials.

Honeybear cafe's June specials menu, featuring mango french toast, tiramisu pancakes (the description mentions the ladyfingers), "bear-y good" BLT, and baja fish tacos.

Full text follows, but I copied off an OCR, so it's all caps. If that makes your screenreader experience bad, please back out now.

MANGO FRENCH TOAST - 19.99

THICK CHALLA GRILLED TO PERFECTION AND LAYERED WITH MANGO SWEET CREAM, MANGO COMPOTE & FRESH MANGO

TIRAMISU PANCAKES -19.99

FLUFFLY PANCAKES LAYERED WITH COFFE INFUSED LADYFINGERS, WHIPPED TOPPING CHOCOLATE SAUCE

BEAR-Y GOOD BLT - 18.99

THICK BACON, FRIED EGG, TOMATO, ARUGALA, AVOCADO, MAYO ON CIABATTA, SERVED WITH YOUR CHOICE OF HASH BROWNS OR FRUIT

BAJA FISH TACOS - 22.99

SEASONAED & GRILLED CATFISH, SLAW, AVOCADO, MANGO PICO, CORN TORTILLAS SERVED WITH BLACK BEANS & SOUP

BLACKENED SHRIMP SALAD - 22.99

BLACKENED SHRIMP, ROASTED TOMATO & PEPPERS, RADISH, CUCUMBER, MIX GREENS TOSSED IN A MAPLE VINAIGRETTE, SERVED WITH A PAREMSAN CRISP & SOUP

STRAWBERRY & CREAM LATTE - 6.49
MANGO COLD FOAM LATTE - (price cut off but it was probably about the same)

In the corner is a little "thank you for joining us", and there's a lot of flower art. The menu itself is pink, with largely white and light blue text.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 15/06/2026

It's fine! Anyway, turns out I'm not much like Evangelion characters, which is probably for the best? (You're aware that Kaworu may be inspired by certain remarks from the director of Utena about his(?) approach to life, right?)

My results on the Evangelion character test, which gave me 60% Kaworu, 35% Misato, 30% Ritsuko and Shinji, and 25%, 20%, and 15% Rei, Gendo, and Asuka, respectively.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 12/06/2026

Advertising right next to where I pick up my hormones.

A bunch of big outdoor posters for Boards of Canada's "Inferno".

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 11/06/2026

Anyway I'm very much looking forward to being bowled over by this new chapter and to updating my set of questions regarding what the heck is going on in this game.

Hinawa's letter home from the beginning of the fan translation of Mother 3, except it's glitched out, I think from being accessed before character names have been assigned?

Various sentences cut off abruptly, Lucas' name is "Mr. Passion" while Claus' is "Boney", and the letter is addressed "Dear Reconstructed Caribou".

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 08/06/2026

This sounds way more like me in my late teens and early twenties than me now.

The results from this test, with "your closest counterpart" being "The Philosophe" (1700s · France · enlightenment publicist / Diderot & d’Alembert, the Encyclopédie), described as:

"You aim wit and reason in public at superstition and cruelty, and you do not mind the enemies. You think ridicule and argument can drag the human race out of the dark."

And with "representative figures" of Voltaire, Denis Diderot, and Montesquieu.

The full "how the field falls" list is:

1. The Philosophe enlightenment publicist
2. The Projector political arithmetician
3. The Virtuoso experimental philosopher
4. The Common Mercenary soldier of fortune
5. The Skeptic libertin érudit
6. The Military Entrepreneur war-contractor
7. The New Astronomer observer of the heavens
8. The Salonnière précieuse
9. The Mercantile Burgher regent
10. The Mathematical Mystic cosmos as divine geometry
11. The Leveller radical democrat
12. The Hermetic Magus natural magician
13. The Rationalist mechanical philosopher
14. The Quaker inner light
15. The Humanist Christian humanist
16. The Pansophic Reformer universal reform
17. The Cambridge Platonist rational religion

...and then there were more, but the screenshot cuts off. I also didn't expand the "read more" above, but, if you're curious, it said:

Primary: Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary (1764)
Secondary: Jonathan Israel, Radical Enlightenment (2001)

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 05/06/2026

I was meaning to crop a photo of this panel; thanks for giving me the motivation.

Rem Saverem's depression bedroom from the flashback-in-a-flashback that's a little under half way through Trigun Maximum.

Rem has just woken up from a dream, and while the dream may have helped her work through some things, this does not show on her face. The room is a mess, there's bottles of alcohol scattered here and there, etc.. Also some space-age touches to remind the reader that it was The Future on Earth even before the ships launched.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 01/06/2026

I'm not the one who manages the flowers at our house, but I applied a little pressure on this year's selection.

A red geranium.

Only one bloom for now (which the photo is a close-up of), but several more buds.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 29/05/2026

Eh, I'm less creature-like than this suggests, but, whatever.

nonbinary Creature

you're not a woman or a man, you're more of a force of nature if anything. transphobes have gotten mad at you for being transmasc AND being transfem because they straight up don't know what the fuck you are. your hair is probably best described as "scraggly" and you're covered in random chunky jewelry on any given day.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 24/05/2026

From the textile festival in Amersfoort. Wish you could be here to see these, Nori.

Two fancy frogs on embroidery hoops, one facing the front and the other to the side-- and that one is on a branch and seems to be wearing a crown?

The frogs themselves look felt, but I'm not sure if the background is that or something else. It's all very textured and fancy, though. This was a serious business craft project.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 20/05/2026

"quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap" Since I did Sadie Killer and the Suspects last time, how about:

Shep and Sadie from the Steven Universe Future episode "Little Graduation". Sadie is holding the microphone up to Shep as they introduce their act on the old reliable Beachapalooza stage, and Shep is holding their EWI, an instrument I know basically nothing about.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 19/05/2026

It didn't arrive in time, but I did bring a fifth. They're mostly all quite short, though! ...and then I went book shopping. In my defense, I'd been meaning to pick up The Other Wind for a long time, and, in the US, The Red Scholar's Wake is only available in print from Amazon.

A hardcover copy of Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake and a softcover copy of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Other Wind (the fifth and last Earthsea novel), on a hotel bed.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 19/05/2026

This is a very easy exercise for me, and nor just because my gallery app doesn't make the scrolling particularly difficult. Meet Zoey. She lived out her old age with me, from 2012 to 2020, and she loved me and loved attention. She was more into being picked up than any other cat I've met.

A bad photo of a tabby cat lounged on an uncovered futon, sorts lazily having pounced a dangly feather toy, but her heart is more in being cozy than playing.

Next to it is a box on an end table, which is labeled like it's a gift box of fancy salmon someone sent my parents for Christmas once, but that contains computer parts. It has contained computer parts since some point in my teens, and I brought it with me to college because it's not like my parents were going to use those extra cables. I have it still.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 18/05/2026

I saw the North Sea today, for the first time. Also, um... that thing where mermaids who can't fulfill their contracts turn to sea foam, is that only in Denmark, or here too? Because there was a _lot_ of sea foam, and I'm told it wasn't even an unusual amount. What are the sea witches even selling.

A beach on North Sea, under a clear blue sky. The tide is out, and the sand is covered with tiny shells. The sea is relatively calm.

An old, disused pier made of uneven stones extending from said beach into the sea, towards a safety marked. You can see just an egregious amount of sea foam on the side of the rocks. More than one mermaid's worth for sure. I don't think I really understood what sea foam was until today.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 17/05/2026

I don't know if it was KLM or regulations around transatlantic flights generally but I felt less insulted than usual. Dinner was included, everyone's bags fit in the overhead, etc.. I can't imagine trying to sleep through that time change, though. Also I had to stick it to the genre snobs a little.

Catherynne Valente's book Palimpsest, in the "literature only" section of the back-of-seat storage thingy in the coach section of a plane.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 28/04/2026

Anyway, I've finally read "Trigun"! Such a quick read-- just Nebraskas, a sand steamer, three Gung-ho Guns, and then bang, zoom, straight to the fifth moon. Now I'm reading "Trigun Maximum". Which is _much_ longer. Pretty familiar so far, but it was nice seeing more of Meryl and Milly's co-workers.

A flashback page from early in Trigun Maximum.

Young Vash says: Rem... you like this flower?

And Rem replies: Yes, a lot. Red flowers are generally associated with love and affection. This one isn't the biggest, but I really, really like flowers that bloom brightly in the wild. But, you know, geraniums have another meaning. In the language of flowers... "determination"...

The top two rows of the page have the dialog bubbles over normal conversation panels, with closeups of Vash and Rem's faces. But the bottom row is a single panel of present-day Vash's usual gun surrounded by smoke and sound-effects that are translated as "ker-pow".

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 26/04/2026

I didn't have the book crawl in me today, but I did make it to Unabridged and picked up these two: Hailey Piper's much-recommended A Game in Yellow, and @slhuang.com's The Language of Liars which I'd been waiting for for a while and just came out this week.

The two books in question, held by me: The Language of Liars is a hardcover with a tentacle-y design, and A Game in Yellow is softcover with a picture of a melting woman.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 20/04/2026

I can't believe that, even after two decades, no one writing Xenosaga fanfiction has used what's just the most obvious title.

An AO3 search showing no results in the Xenosaga fandom for the title "Die fröhliche Wissenschaft", which, like the subtitles of the actual Xenosaga games, is the original German title of one of Nietzsche's books.

Another search with no results, but this time the title is "The Gay Science", which is what that book's title has historically been translated as in English, even though that makes the title somewhat misleading given contemporary usages.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 12/04/2026

We also stopped by Pilsen Community Books, which I hadn't been to since they moved to a building they own. Their SF/F section is a lot bigger now and feels like less of an afterthought! Anyway, I found some good news for WisCon-goers! And only one Mitchison, but it's the important one, as you know.

A possibly new or at least newer than I've seen before edition of Joan Slonczewski's A Door Into Ocean, a book that never failed to get at least one recommendation every year at WisCon.

A copy of Naomi Mitchison's Travel Light, inconspicuously nestled in with some other books (including a bunch of China Mieville and books #2 and #3 of The Locked Tomb).

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