Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 1hThe Detroit Free Press is now including AI summaries at the top of their articles. Great message from The Mgt.: "Here's important news, don't bother reading it." Are they paying for this "service", or being paid to promote AI, I wonder. 010
Reposted by Maia 🏳️🌈Micah @rincewind.run · 21hDiscworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight “There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.” 4654138
Reposted by Maia 🏳️🌈John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/10/2026And while we're on the subject: there's no ethical use of a product brought to market through unethical means. It doesn't matter whether the product is "AI" or chocolate or diamonds. Most generative "AI" was knowingly developed through massive theft from creatives; we have the emails admitting this. 9995188
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Imagine the way this would shimmer with every movement. 010
Reposted by Maia 🏳️🌈Worn On This Day @wornonthisday.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Cotton T-shirt worn #onthisday in 1979 by a member of the Texas delegation to the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Washington, D.C. #OTD 📷️ Texas Fashion Collection, UNT Libraries 0309
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The only way to use generative AI in a way that protects and supports human creators is — don't use it at all. It's built on the theft of real people's work. 000
Reposted by Maia 🏳️🌈Frank&Stein @brandtandstein.com · 14/10/2026This isn’t it, folks. There’s no way to use generative AI without supporting wholesale theft, supporting billionaires and hedge funds over creators, and supporting every piece of misinformation and shoddy regurgitation from the software. This isn’t it. 035417
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026That library was practically my second home when I was growing up in Columbus. The original Carnegie building is a wonder. 010
Reposted by Maia 🏳️🌈Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Good morning butterflies, it's #MineralMonday again! Of quartz, we're still celebrating the winner of #MinCup26! 🧪⚒️💎 3398
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026That looks so comfortable! Twenties chic, but you don't have to be stick-thin to look good in it. 010
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026A year later: the school gave an award to the 8th grader with the best grades. That was me. They decided to give two awards, one to the boy with the best grades and one to the girl. Because God forbid a girl be acknowledged as better than any boy. Can you guess what radicalized me? 020
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026When I was in 7th grade, another girl told me to stop answering in class so much, or boys won't like me. As young as I was, I realized that if I hid who I was, it wouldn't be me they liked, so what was the point? 120
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I think I've always known. But then, when I discovered science fiction fandom, I realized that I wasn't weird, I was just out of context. 000
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Make it red, blue, or yellow, and it's a Starfleet dress uniform. 020
Reposted by Maia 🏳️🌈Micah @rincewind.run · 12/10/2026Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies “I had to learn. All my life. The hard way. And the hard way’s pretty hard, but not so hard as the easy way.” 660186
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I'd love it if zinnias self-seeded. But they're worth the small effort of planting the seeds myself. 030
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Sometimes I need a clue about what the image is, and what it might mean. 000
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I plant zinnias for the butterflies. And for myself, of course. I love zinnias. 160
Reposted by Maia 🏳️🌈Micah @rincewind.run · 11/10/2026Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent “I THINK PERHAPS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE’S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED “LIVING.” WOULD YOU LIKE A PRAWN?” 481299
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026It was meant for a big compliment! So much skill went into your drawing. 120
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This reminds me of watching the sun set over Lake Michigan. Truly beautiful. 150
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026For some reason, this makes me think of M. C. Escher. 160
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I was grateful to this Monarch butterfly for posing for me. 3320
Reposted by Maia 🏳️🌈Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 156165195567
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Heinlein way underestimated how crazy the Crazy Years would get. 020
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Way back in 2005, the Henry Ford had an exhibit of Elizabeth's wardrobe, which she'd bequeathed to the museum. I was especially fond of the 1920s and 1930s dresses. (BTW, the wall of shoes in the Fabric of America exhibit was just a small part of the shoes in the 2005 exhibit!) 050
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Ruin a book by adding a word: The Light Fantastic Four 010
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This video is as traditional as turkey for Thanksgiving. 17317
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026"Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses" applies to everything in life. #GNUTerryPratchett #Discworld 021
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Getting half a dozen fundraising texts per day from candidates in other states. 050
Reposted by Maia 🏳️🌈Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This took me a second.. 😅 291267176
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I was thinking of this bowl, too. (And the bowl always makes me think of The Luggage in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.) 140
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Important kitty news! www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...si.eduLitter of Five Cheetah Cubs Are Born at Smithsonian Conservation Campus; Cheetah Cub Cam Returns | Smithsonian Institution 020
Reposted by Maia 🏳️🌈Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026Discworld QOTD, from Making Money “Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.” 656169
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026NOM! Now I'm thinking I should put cookies out for my chipmunk, but the squirrels would probably mug the poor thing and steal the cookies. 000
Reposted by Maia 🏳️🌈Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Sam Vimes would NEVER. 412425
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Unfortunately, some parents even need to be taught that it's important to hold their babies and interact with them face to face. 060
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I remember colored toilet paper. I remember when the manufacturers were persuaded to stop making it because the dye was definitely not good for the water system. 270
Maia 🏳️🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"Nice bird feeder you got there, pity if something should happen to it." 050