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Lark

@larkylark2.bsky.social
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Person. Parent. Educator. Completing my migration from the (former) birdsite. BIPOC, Gen X, they/she.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 16h
A painting of a bird beside the text "dickhead season starts earlier every year"
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Lark @larkylark2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
THIS
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 08/10/2026
So just for the record for anybody who is realizing that any grants they submit will have to call it “super intelligence”: while I recognize that you sort of don’t have a choice I absolutely will think less of you for it and absolutely do think you should think less of yourself for doing it. Sorry!
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Lark @larkylark2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sitting on my thumbs so I don’t risk getting piled on by the psychologists of Bluesky
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Lark @larkylark2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is why universities need to stop hollowing out their humanities departments. Every day I think about how this all comes down to incredibly basic questions. What is life *for*? What is worth our time? What gives life meaning?
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
FUCKING THIS. The process of inquiry is almost the WHOLE POINT. It's why we keep fucking going when the experiment fails, the hypothesis doesn't work out, the chords are discordant, or the words don't come together.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"To fight back, Americans need to learn the counterspy techniques of C.I.A. officers: using multiple sources to check information; testing those sources regularly for reliability; never getting complacent and trusting one source without thinking."
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

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Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.
New York City's subway is powered by the millions of rats running underneath the rails.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wow, that's way heavier than I would have guessed.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this might be the greatest power move social media has ever seen
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
its okay to sincerely like things
cover of THIS PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE GETS ME OFF IN A FUN AND SINCERE WAY BECAUSE IT’S OKAY FOR PEOPLE TO ENJOY POPULAR THINGS WITHOUT BEING SHAMED FOR THE PERCEIVED “BASICNESS” OF THEIR BEVERAGE CHOICES featuring a ladybuck on the left with red hair lookin confident in her beverage choice. on the right is a to-go cup from coffee shop ALSO lookin good
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
“The bias conversation puts you in a position where it’s almost like you think it can be fixed and it is possible to have equitable AI systems, and that always felt wrong to me because once you introduce these things into a market logic, they are going to discriminate…”
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These were the ‘Adams and Eves’ of facial recognition technology | CNN
For nearly a decade, the artist Trevor Paglen has exhibited the original faces that the U.S. military used to develop facial recognition technology. Now, we’ve all become the dataset.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Libraries do not mess around.
Libraries employ bounty hunters to bring in people with overdue books dead or alive.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The year is 2030. Taylor Swift released a new album last week. She has already re-released 9,000 versions of it. You ask if this is a bit much, and a Swiftie immediately decapitates you. This is legal for them to do, as has been decreed by God Emperor Taylor Swift.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "I Peaked in a Past Life" Pin. To be fair, I was a capybara in a past life. The bar is high. collabs.shop/mpbtov
An enamel pin of a pink and purple lotus flower resting on green lily pads, with a banner underneath that reads "I Peaked In A Past Life".
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a perfect library joke 📚
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Lark @larkylark2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
15/10 no notes
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.
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Lark @larkylark2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dude we passed like ships in the night. Graduated in 1999. And you’re so correct about that
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Dartmouth provost's decision to stop writing by substituting AI-assisted text production is a great opportunity to have the kinds of conversations every institution should be having about AI use in higher education. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Dartmouth’s provost has stopped “writing.”
Dartmouth’s provost raises a tension we should examine.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good morning
a restaurant called Spicy Memory
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When we tell students that we have to use generative AI because it’s inevitable, we spread antidemocratic misinformation, while also saying that the following are all inevitable too: surveillance, white supremacy, language homogenization, mass theft, environmental devastation, and and and…
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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is why it is important to push back on the idea that these models can think and reason just like a human, it leads people to think this is both possible and a good idea Stop huffing farts in the philosophical debate and look at what is actually happening
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Lark @larkylark2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
ASSISTANT EVIL OF PRACTICE
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Lark @larkylark2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
lol. Lmao, even
THE NERVE

For one, he's still smarting from a six-year-old petition that tried in vain to get him removed from a linguistics association for alleged racist statements. "In the old days," he said of cancellation culture on a recent podcast,
"there were public hangings, public crucifixions, burnings at the stake. The electronic equivalent is the internet petition with 600 signatures."
That petition must have hit extremely hard.
After all, to liken it to a crucifixion is not a very Steven Pinker thing to do. Generally he considers it prudish wokeism to complain that words are "toxic" or "violent." Like many American academics, he believes that speech, no matter how bullying or racist or cruel, can never be criminal. Just last year he tweeted:
"Speech is not violence. Violence is not speech."
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Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dave @davebrowne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
AI could kill is, but it would be because people were stupid with it, not because it was smarter than us.
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Lark @larkylark2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Showed my white husband, who is not the quickest to interpret imagery, and even he saw it instantly
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 19/09/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "shit like this makes me worried for the fate of humanity"
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Lark @larkylark2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Void shouting here to literally nobody, but. The idea that we can always finger point and absolve ourselves from culpability is preposterous. If you’re American and you pay taxes, you’re implicated in bad shit, full stop. It’s not rocket science
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Lark @larkylark2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I spend most of my Bluesky time on my fandom account, and for good reason. There really is a particular kind of person here who lives to take things personally and can’t wait to pick a fight in replies, isn’t there?
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Lark @larkylark2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
*heavy sigh* I feel like I need a shirt that says “I’m sorry for who we are”
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
It's always a good time to share this.
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Lark @larkylark2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Read Low Quality Facts while eating at your own risk 😅
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Lark @larkylark2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I almost choked 😂
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Lark @larkylark2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Perfect 😌 (h/t @nameshiv.bsky.social and @effinbirds.com)
Screenshot of two consecutive posts in my feed. 

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice... • @nam... • 10m
The absolute refusal to learn from anything even once is why you should try not to put the literal stupidest people alive in charge of your country, don't do it again 3/3

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com • 11m
Painting of a bird with the text, “just as I suspected: dumbfucks
@effinbirds”
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The one reason why you should make me your Senator for all 50 states:
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