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Dana S

@mapperbee.bsky.social
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Technology Cassandra, photographer, knitter, real hard hitter. Mostly just posts cats, crafts, and garden photos.

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Damon Charles @damonmakespictures.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wondering why you've seen so many "Ai Company / Mouthpiece Says We Need Cooperation To Stop Ai Destroying Humanity" stories lately? Wonder no more - Here's another one of those "Summed up something I've been struggling to articulate" articles from @doctorow.pluralistic.net.
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Jess 💖 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Millennial bisexuals everywhere arise! The beacons are lit!
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz on the set of The Mummy 4
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LJ Amber @ljamberfantasy.com · 24/09/2026
By the way, the fact the major AI companies all started screaming about this at the same time should tell you they're in a cartel.
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Austin James @underwhelmed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"What if all the Ai is gone tomorrow? How would everyone survive without it?" is sort of like asking "what if herpes suddenly stopped existing?"
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tapeworthy @tapeworthy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
FYI, a CDN govt petition about AI and data centres that closes Sep 24th. (if you do sign, make sure you follow thru w email confirmation click). www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... (there's actually several ongoing petitions from several MPs about AI and data centres but this is the one that ends 1st)
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Petition e-7550 - Petitions
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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I've got those little Lego plant friends on my desk at work, and the last two weeks I have come in after the weekend to them moved so it looks like they have had a fight.
Two little smiling Lego planters, one yellow and one blue, are sitting on a monitor base, holding hands and looking at the camera. This is their usual placement on the desk.The scene that greeted me at the start of last week. The yellow planter on the right is in the same place, but the blue planter on the left has been moved several centimetres away and has been turned 90° clockwise so his back is turned on his friend. It looks like they have had a fight.The scene that greeted me this morning. It's similar to last week, but the blue planter has been moved even further away and has been turned around so his back is turned to the camera.
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Trash Mob Minis @trashmobminis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What you need to understand is nothing we built was “off the shelf.” Store-bought environmental assets for stop-motion features do not exist. We were given concept art and told “make it look like this.” Everything you see here, down to the dirt and moss, was meticulously designed and crafted.
A forest path from Wildwood
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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Newly discovered cuties! gizmodo.com/scientists-d...
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Scientists Discover First New Cat Species in Over a Century—and It's Love at First Sight
The tiny cats only measure between one and two feet long and weigh between four and six pounds.
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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I've been working part-time in an independent bookstore and buying too much yarn, mostly
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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm at the point where I can't tell if the people at these companies believe this garbage, or if they're trying to get the masses to blame the computers for all of the layoffs and the climate disasters triggered by data centers. "It's the computer's fault we scammed billions out of the economy."
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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sure, genAI systems probably are going to be devastating to humanity, because the dipshits pushing them are gunning for total economic and environmental collapse. Their statistical models are not going to launch all the nukes like in the movies, and only complete simpletons believe that.
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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Well, instead of logging everything properly, they got a couple of tree crushers and started rolling over the trees, and then started flooding the reservoir before they got all the machinery out. There's so much dead driftwood in the reservoir that I'm surprised no one saw something like this sooner
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 03/09/2026
Q: How does one become invisible? A: If you’re a woman, enjoy being seen while it lasts. Much like puberty, being seen is just a phase. You’ll grow out of it. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...
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FAQs for the Women’s Invisibility Network
“The Women’s Invisibility Network (or WIN) is a neighborhood support group for women in their sunset years. We assist aging women tossed aside by society, wh...
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
ffs
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Katie West @katiewest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If you're in Canada and want to tell Tim Hortons that their Harry Potter marketing campaign is shit, you can contact them here: www.timhortons.ca/support
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Tim Hortons Help Centre
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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I've been messing around with the Open Camera app, because I'm getting tired of the processing garbage that keeps getting shoehorned into the base camera in Android, and it's nice to be able to take sunset photos that don't have the colors autocorrected out of the image
The blue sky above a parking lot at sunset, full of soft golden clouds A blue sky full of crinkly golden clouds at sunset
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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There's Diana Wynne Jones' books, there's Tamora Pierce's YA titles, there's the Akata series by Nnedi Okorafor. ND Stevenson is working on the Scarlet Morning series. If graphic novels are more your thing, there's Amulet, and Lightfall, and the Tea Dragon Society. There's just so many better books
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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I cannot even communicate how angry this image makes me. Clearly approved by some incurious dipshit who has never seen food or bugs, why are these fools the ones who get to decide things
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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I still hold that nerds need to understand that talking to computers in Star Trek was a storytelling device. It was never a design for an interface that would be helpful in most situations for the majority of users.
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Jill Damatac on the racism endemic to academic institutions and the horrific death of Dr. Arday www.vogue.co.uk/article/camb...
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I Aspired To Get My PhD At Cambridge – I Left Because Of The Racism
“I could write a second memoir solely on the racism I experienced at Cambridge University as a Master’s and PhD student,” writes Jill Damatac, a Filipino-American author who was a student at Cambridge...
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
you already know who's got those PDFs hot'n'ready for you like a horny little caesar, don't you? Like a Snowball: The Growth and Impact of the Gender Critical Movement in the UK: cis.fm/Like_a_snowb... (412KB) A Growing Threat: The Anti-rights Movement in the UK: cis.fm/Report_-_A_g... (354KB)
image showing the front pages of both reports named and linked in the post
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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Ben can take his wasted degree and shove it up his ass, and his job can go to someone who actually worked for their education.
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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I went to Barkerville this past Saturday, and met this lovely cat at the Wells Hotel when we stopped there for dinner. His name is Sammy.
An orange tabby with white paws is curled up on a fancy dusty rose brocade sofa. His head is resting on a red brocade pillow and his front paw is stretching towards the camera.An orange tabby with white paws is curled up snoozily on a fancy dusty rose brocade sofa. His head is resting on a red brocade pillow, with all of his paws arrayed around his nose.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 07/08/2026
Hello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...
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Foxy Knitter @foxyknitter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is very useful info. #knitting #knitsky #crocheting #crafting www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/ho...
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How to Spot an AI-generated Fake Pattern – Modern Daily Knitting
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/08/2026
I led a report about the environmental and resource parts of this! Companies intentionally conflate wildly different machine learning applications: using a sprinkling of good to justify a tsunami of bad ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...
A two panel info graphic showing energy consumption is mostly from generative

But climate benefit claims are mostly traditional AI
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Guys, I didn't even ask them to do this, but the engineers have named SHERA's astrometry pipeline ADORA (Astrometric Differential Optics and Retrieval Algorithm), and I just CAN'T with how amazing that is and how much I love it. (Adora is her name when she's not She-Ra.) #PIDaily
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She-Ra Time! Adora's Transformation
Alt: She-Ra Time! Adora's Transformation
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 23/07/2026
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
T. Kingfisher is a treasure
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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"I use chatgpt as a search engine" "I use minesweeper as a website browser" "I use the lego pirate ship when I want to boil an egg"
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Hunter Felt 🏳️‍⚧️ @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
HOME DEPOT: We didn't tweak the design or anything. The skeleton just started doing it on its own. And the only thing it says is the exact date that you will die. We cannot kill it because it was born dead.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Good news, for once! The saliva test for endometriosis is available in the UK. I assume it’ll be more of a fight to get it available here because OB/GYNs make more money doing surgery to find out if you have it. people.com/endometriosi...
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Endometriosis Can Be Diagnosed Using a Rapid Saliva Test in ‘Game-Changing’ Development
Two new tests, EndoSure and Endotest, have been approved for NHS use in England and Wales, aiming to speed up endometriosis diagnoses with less invasive testing.
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
For folks struggling to figure out how to deal with wildfire smoke, I put together some information a few years ago: apihtawikosisan.com/2023/09/miti...
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Mitigating Exposure to Wildfire Smoke: What I’ve Learned So Far
Folks, we need to talk. I’m shut up in the house again, windows tightly closed, air-filters running, because the outside air quality is absolutely terrible. It’s “wildfire season&…
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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
She can try and bring it, the moldy old harpy
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Repel mosquitos, attract cats, win win www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes, study finds
Researchers testing a cheap, homegrown oil in Uganda found what cats knew all along – it worked as well as the artificial chemical used globally
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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I'm always going to go to bat for paper maps, they're great! Useful in remote areas with no cell service, useful on long backcountry trips, you can out them up on your wall as art if you want, they won't send you down roads that don't exist, maps are pretty dang useful
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Aaron Alexovich @aaronalexovich.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Man, I feel bad for the creative team on this. Imagine thinking you’re working with “the Invader ZIM team” but it’s really just, like, one person in the Paramount licensing dept. www.comicsbeat.com/invader-zim-...
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Updated: INVADER ZIM creator Jhonen Vasquez wasn’t consulted re: the Boom Studios ZIM comic revival
In social media posts, Invader ZIM creator Jhonen Vasquez reveals he wasn't consulted regarding the new Boom Studios comic revival.
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Kerstin Hall @kerstinhall.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
oh hey, it looks like Second Spear is on sale for $2.99. (I‘ve got about $60 left on my advance of this book, so if anyone feels so inclined…)
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Second Spear
Check out Second Spear - <p> <b>Kerstin Hall's <i>Second Spear</i> is the thrilling follow-up to the Nommo Award finalist, ...
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Andrew Ferguson @dontfuck.men · 27/06/2026
Canadian friends, please sign this govt petition by my MP to stop unregulated ai data centres
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Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · 24/06/2026
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Loki (Tom Hiddleston) Dismissive 'Yes, Very Sad'
Alt: GIF: Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Dismissive 'Yes, very sad… anyway!”
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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This is a scary thread, more scam garbage to keep an eye out for I guess
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J. Anderson Coats (she/her) @jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/
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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Happy to see the project fronted by a trans creator overcome the movie that is being promoted with pronoun jokes
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Ted nails it. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
theatlantic.com
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 04/06/2026
A statement regarding @darkhorseunion.bsky.social: bit.ly/4uOQHVM
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Statement Regarding Dark Horse Workers United :: Dark Horse Comics
To the members of Dark Horse Workers United and everyone at Dark Horse: I am pleased to announce that Dark Horse Comics is willing to voluntarily recognize Dark Horse Workers United as a recognize...
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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Tell me you fired your QA team without telling me you fired your QA team
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Cariad Heather @cariad.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
If you are Canadian, please sign this.
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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I knew that quitting dating apps in favour of reading books and hanging out with my cat was the correct choice I just didn't know that slop matches would be a new exciting reason for why it was the correct choice
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Dana S @mapperbee.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I'm really excited that my copy of this finally arrived on Tuesday, it's so good so far!
A copy of All Hail Chaos, the second book in the Time of Iron series by Sarah Rees Brennan sits on a white countertop. The cover features the undead Emperor lounging on a throne of snakes.
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