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Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Interesting AI stance quiz via @kottke.org. I didn't skew as far "zealous curmudgeon" as I expected, but the results certainly cover one aspect of my AI concerns. bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/

Test results with a graph showing Overhyped/Transformative on the x axis and Good/Bad on the y axis. My position is deep Bad and slightly Overhyped, which gets me "The Union Organizer, patron saint: Cory Doctorow. AI is a real tool being used to extract real labor value from real people without paying them. You don't care about the singularity - you care about the artists, writers, and workers getting strip-mined for capital. You're not anti technology. You're anti theft."

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Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Congrats to whoever made the ball-possession graphic for the FOX World Cup broadcast, your color choices irritated me enough to include it in my 2026 stitch journal

Close-up of some tiny embroidery, one of which is a ring of blue, teal, and a slightly different teal

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Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

High heat warning in the forecast on a morning when you wake up to classic PNW 50F June drizzle. (I will gladly take 90 over the week of 115 we had a few years ago.)

A weather forecast that shows a shift from mid 60s F and raining to 90F in 4 days

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Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Remember how I said yellow monkey flower dgaf? It's growing in the driveway crack. "I can't garden, I have a black thumb" here you go. I planted one 4" pot last fall and it's springing up 20+ ft away in all kinds of conditions.

A yellow monkey flower blooming among the weeds in a driveway crack

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Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Arrowleaf buckwheat, one of my favorite Columbia Gorge wildflowers but tough to find in plant nurseries. After establishing for a year, ours flowered this spring for the first time. #BloomScrolling

Fluffy white flower clusters on branching stems

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Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Yellow monkey flower, gleefully popping up all over my driveway hellstrip. Truly a flower that dgaf. #BloomScrolling

Abundant small yellow flowers growing on line green foliage

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Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Foamflower, a groundcover I'd happily let take over my yard #BloomScrolling

Foamflower, a plant with delicate purplish-white flowers on tall stems above dark green leaves

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Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I am pretty “old man yells at cloud” about most LLMs but I was curious to check out Talkie: it’s trained on pre-1930, public domain text. It was entertaining, but not particularly helpful (it isn’t sure if women can vote; no it will not come up with SEO strategies)

My question: “What are the benefits of space exploration and which nation do you think will first send people to space?” Talkie’s answer: “The benefits are twofold: scientific and practical. Scientific exploration will increase our knowledge of the universe, and practical exploration will make the earth safer to live in. The practical benefits will come first; the scientific will follow. The nation which sends the first explorers to space will be Germany. The Germans are an eminently practical people, and the present Emperor has long had a desire to send men upward into the air. The first explorers will probably be sent up in huge, pear-shaped balloons, each containing enough gas to last for forty-eight hours, and carrying only two persons, a commander and an observer. The explorers will start from some point in Central Europe, and will ascend to a height of at least ten miles. From that elevation they will be able to survey a large part of Western Europe, and possibly some portion of the Mediterranean shores of Africa. The information acquired may not be immediately applicable to any useful purpose, but in the end it can hardly fail to be of service to mankind. The Germans are a patient, methodical, and thoroughly trained people, and what they learn they will learn well. After them, other nations may follow, and the exploration of space may become a recognised branch of scientific activity.”

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Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

What in the chicken-fried fuck is an "AI-style" script

A snippet of a job description that reads "based copywriter to write approximately 100 short-form AI-style scripts monthly for"

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Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Been writing to my reps and stitching this. A little screaming into a pillow, as a treat.

$Embroidery of the phrase "tyranny breaks" with a Rebel Alliance symbol and a fractured line splitting the word "breaks"$

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Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I like to stitch up my patterns before I put them on Etsy. Unfortunately since I have both crappy hands and ADHD, this pattern won't arrive until shortly before the heat death of the universe.

An unfinished cross stitch depicting a D20 that rolled a 1, a half complete wizard's staff, part of a mushroom cap, and the words "what doesn't" on a banner. Someday it will say "what doesn't kill me gets me more XP."

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Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Who needs to see a ridiculously tiny frog

A tiny green tree frog perched in the middle of a leaf

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Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

A fresh tiny stabby pattern for your delectation: theembroiderybard.etsy.com/listing/1868...

Small cross stitch of a dumpster fire with the phrase "forged in the fire"

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Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The horrors persist but so do the tiny stabbies.

A small cross stitch piece done on blue fabric, depicting a small dumpster fire with the text "forged in the fire."

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Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

It's a good day to be a dog.

A tan brindle dog on a sunny river beach amid dormant vegetation

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Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Did you know we get to see 6 planets at once tomorrow night? I stitched 3 of them! (Okay one's a moon.) theembroiderybard.etsy.com/listing/1721...

Close-up of an embroidered pendant resting on a blue hardcover book. The pendant features three embroidered planets on dark blue fabric set in a brass tray with a brass chain.

An embroidered pendant resting on a blue hardcover book. The pendant features three embroidered planets on dark blue fabric set in a brass tray with a brass chain.

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Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Stitching is helping me regain my writing creativity post-2020. It's also fun and lets me stab things. So much stabbing. I sell some of the stabbed things and also PDF patterns to create pretty stabby things yourself. www.etsy.com/shop/TheEmbr...

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Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I am historically not great at Finishing Things or Accomplishing Goals, so I'm pretty proud to have kept up an embroidery journal for the entire year AND to be finishing on time. Especially considering wrist problems put me ~8 weeks behind at one point.