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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 37m

Oh, yeah, we had some vegan Chinese places like that in Philadelphia. The only downside is that _maybe_ they were cult-affiliated. In that they seemed similar to some places I'd heard of from friends in other cities that were, but I don't think anyone I knew knew for sure about the Philly places.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 54m

It's a pretty food heuristic for tasty food!

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 18h

Of course this may limit the sorts of hobby programming I do. But since I currently don't do _any_ hobby programming and don't anticipate having the desire to do so until I'm no longer writing code for a living, I'm not too worried about this.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 18h

Oh hey, the Fish shell prohibits LLM-based contributions! I guess if I ever have the time to do hobby programming it'll take the form of Fish scripting and Standard ML programs compiled with whichever of MLton or Poly/ML treats me better on any given project.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

What kind of anthropologist would you have expected?

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Tess Scilipoti @scilipoti.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

dolls to watch out for "Girl Research"

a comic. "Dolls to watch out for" titled "Girl Research". Harriet needs a little extra cash, so she signs up for a focus group... she thinks "I wish i hadnt said I was trans." Focus group leader says "Okay! How does this image make you feel? And don't lie, I'll know." It's a poster of a sexy dog girl. Harriet says "Dog girls are a little passe, aren't they? Sorry." Other focus group members are mad at her. Leader says "Actually, Harriet's assertion aligns with our product analysis." She turns to page to show a chart. "Dog girls have peaked. Bunny girls are big now. We're very bullish on mouse girls next quarter." Another member says "What about cat girls?" Leader says "Old money. No movement." Harriet says "What product are you people allegedly researching, anyway?" Leader says "You ever heard of Castration Movie?"

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Technocracygirl @technocracygirl.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Don't forget to scroll to the bottom and turn OFF "for deep search only". Even if your library buys an AI book, don't check it out!

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

Well it sorta depends on whether you're talking about the classic one or the recent one. But neither have the same number of guns as the manga.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

I suppose I haven't seen season 1 of Buffy, but who's the Buffy Beryl equivalent? And the Sailor Moon Spike equivalent?

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Hey, Chicago, anyone connected to a mutual aid group/community org providing support to immigrant families in Bucktown? (Connected! We have a list from google to reach out to.) We're working to get 2 girls under 12 home to mom in Venezuela, but in the meantime, the aunt who has them is struggling. ❤️

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026

Oh god this would be so good. Even if it's not a direct route. Like, I don't wanna get my hopes up. Because I haven't forgotten the events of 15 years ago. But seriously, Madison could benefit so much from passenger rail service, even apart from it being nice for me personally.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026

Is this for standing next to your girlfriends with matching heaven-arrow and purgatory-arrow shirts?

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026

This is very exciting, but, as some of you may know, I have this problem with actually getting to playing visual novels. It's why I haven't played Ladykiller already, tbh. Do I know any locals who'd like to make playing this together our thing for a while, for when we hang out? It'd make us blush!

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Archaeologists working off the coast of Turkey have found a shipwreck dating back around 4,700 years....Clay analyses indicate that the amphorae were likely produced in workshops in the Jordan Valley.... 🤯

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World’s oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey | CNN

Archaeologists working off the coast of Turkey have found a shipwreck dating back around 4,700 years, making it the oldest in the world.

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Babe wake up someone just discovered new code in House of Leaves, a 26 year-old book. www.reddit.com/r/houseoflea...

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

(If you're keeping track, yes, every trans person I'm dating in Chicago is now out of work. Most of my partners and close friends everywhere are, in fact, or they're barely getting by on gig work. And I know it's like this everywhere. I know you know and hate it too. I don't know what else to say.)

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

My partner Jordan has updated her fundraiser: www.gofundme.com/f/help-jorda... She's still looking for work. A real promising lead evaporated recently, and, as you probably know, finding any job anywhere, for anyone, is really hard these days. If you could help, or share this somewhere, please do?

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Donate to Help Jordan Avoid Homelessness Again, organized by Jordan Scism

Update: Hey Y'all, Well, it looks like I interviewed well and had great expe… Jordan Scism needs your support for Help Jordan Avoid Homelessness Again

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mcc @dryad.technology · 15/10/2026

Fucking jeepers, opened my NVidia app up and there it was

AI Agents and App Connections
Allow Agents to control NVidia App

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

But I'm A Cheerleader For Tax Purposes [Honestly this one works? Running a small cheerleading business largely to rack up active losses you can deduct, to cancel out the active income from your (presumably much more lucrative) other gigs. Like farm owners, or celebrities with vineyards, but gayer.]

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

"Ruin a book by adding a word." Klara and the Sun Lamp (It's just me at my desk at the start of each day from October through February.)

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

Jessica says "the little tongue!" and "awwwww".

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

I've seen this summed up as the idea that transfem children are dangerous men but transmasc adults are misled girls, which, yeah. We don't need to argue about who "has it worse". These are two facets of the same oppression, and it's one that is way broader in its scope than just trans people, even.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

I do know a few enbies who are on both. And not all with the same history of puberties, even!

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

It's certainly friggin' accurate, regardless of where it came from.

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

Ghost Trick is a very cute game with a big heart, lots of silliness, and some fun and weird puzzle mechanics. I feel like it didn't become very well-known in the DS era, aside from among certain sorts of nerds who'd already played all the Ace Attorney games, but it deserves more attention than that

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

Chicagoans: anyone want a ticket to Victorian Psycho tonight at the Music Box? 9:45 showing, but it's part of CIFF and they say that they'll start releasing empty seats as standby tickets at 9:30(!), which is new to me. (I'll most likely be there earlier for empanada dinner, which is optional.)

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

Huh. Then I have no idea why we'd be seeing different things.

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

Are you on the official Bluesky PDS (the default), or somewhere else? Because I'm not, even though I'm seeing this while using the official Bluesky web client and app. That might be a factor?

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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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mcc @dryad.technology · 14/10/2026

What does this sentence do? Probably nothing. It's just a sentence. Sentences don't "do" anything.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

I mean, conservative Christianity is a sturdy and powerful political force only when held up by the social factors (influential rich people, abusive families, etc.) that make it so. If those aren't in play then it's a house of cards re: what religious aspects need to be taken exactly how seriously.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

Those of you who've known me for a long time might be like, wait, but I don't remember you doing anything genderfucky, just nebulously coming out without a new name or pronouns until years later? To which I say: please don't discount how terrified and shy I can be, especially wrt being perceived.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

Tumultuous year-or-so that started with wearing a pink shirt and led to realizing that performing genderfucky-but-starting-from-"man" wasn't what excited me and that I needed to get the stupid hormones-- that had always intrigued me ever since I'd heard of transition over a decade prior-- already.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

Well, that's the movie, which is volume turned all the way up so no one misses the point this time. I meant more the dismissal of things as "childish" in especially the last two episode. But also, desperation stemming from the unacknowledged of social safety nets is more an American thing, I think.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

The next time you're able to spend time with my roommate (which might be November) y'all will have such story-sharing opportunities over this. She has one report in particular at the current gig who's just a constant source of "how has no boss ever been baseline supportive of you in any way" stories

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

Yeah you've gotta frame it in Akio-esque language so you're not thinking in terms of "the weird old woman who lives alone dies in a preventable way because no one comes to check on her for a month" or "you can only get a job and pay your rent if you can convince the bosses that you'r normal enough".

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

I forget the exact details, but the two main kids are 12 (and twins), and they have different feelings about turning 13 and officially becoming Teenagers.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

I think there's an unstated aspect of that kind of taken-as-mandatory growing up is absorbing the idea that, if you don't, you're likely to materially suffer for it-- maybe in really big ways-- but absorbing it in an unacknowledged way so that you don't see society treating people this way as wrong.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

The "not wanting to turn 13" part reminds me of a bit from Gravity Falls.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

Yeah it was a popular framing then. (And at other times too.) With my parents I get how they ended up there and missed the classism of it. They both had parents who were sort new to white assimilation and some of the most educated people in town despite not being financially better off. But still.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

Your mom had/has a lot of wrong ideas. Anyway I would've been a geologist, but I think in my case I was right to conclude that I didn't have the endurance for that. At the time I just thought about the tedious fieldwork outdoors, but honestly the academia side would have eventually been a lot too.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

(It wasn't enough to counteract the loneliness, or to stop me from to some extent changing how I acted in the hope of fitting in-- especially during the dark times of adolescence. I never had it in me to endure without social connections at all. Also, ridiculous how I missed the gender of it all.)

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

My parents encouraged me to frame everything as people being "dumb" and "jealous" because I was "smarter than them", and I don't think I need to explain how this is a really unhealthy worldview?? So I'm glad I had the early idea that being a weirdo was by default good and cool rather than shameful.

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Klara commits to the cause @klara5.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

Because having _any_ positive associations with being different was the only counterweight I had for the various growing up milestones where it hit like a ton of bricks that the friendship and camaraderie I wanted were largely inaccessible at school, etc.. Usually for unacknowledged gender reasons.

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