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MissDarcyFantastico

@msdarcyfantastico.bsky.social
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A bitch and her cat. Archivist by day, depressed puddle by night, enraged 24/7.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 2h
Most of AI (in business terms) is driven by a false belief that TECHNOLOGY is what drove the internet and telecommunications booms of the last two decades. Technology unlocked better communication and business processes. THOSE then drove the boom. Tech was a means to an end, not the end in itself.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1h
It annoys me just how much "turn it off and turn it on again" is actually the way to solve 80% of computer/phone/tech issues. On one hand: Actually great because it's simple and easy. On the other: generations of IT dudes being smug because they were right all along.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
But speaking of staying in one's lane, can we PLEASE switch the default position from "It's fine to use 'AI' for this thing I'm not an expert in" to "Yeah, I'd be really skeptical of any use cases and need to see strong evidence that it's okay, but I'm not the one who can produce that evidence"?
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2h
can't believe this essay is four years old, but yeah, the key to understanding a lot of policy debates about urbanism is that by controlling where people live, you can profoundly affect their life outcomes this is kind of obvious stated plainly but is worth reflecting on
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NIMBYism Is Segregation Persisting
In a hot convention hall in Philadelphia in 1788, the last member of the Constitutional Convention set his pen to the page and sealed in ink slavery as one of America’s foundational institutions. On C...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20h
they'll be packing me into a padded cell while i scream about how autocorrect used to be good
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 18h
Blue Shield: Your health insurance premium will increase by $124 in 2027 Also Blue Shield: Your insurance will cover less and your copays are increasing 🥰
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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
About three months ago Tavia Nyong’o & I conceived of a collection of essays on The Epstein Class and the University meant to consider the ubiquity is sexual violence in the university & the fundamental fact that access to young women has long been a side perk of university employment & attendance.
A photograph of an art exhibit from the Donald J Trump and Jeffrey Epstein library showing a shelf of redacted Epstein files
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
As a free thinker alpha male one of my highest values is unquestioning obedience to authority. Boss knows best, that's why he's the boss
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today in why your librarian is stressed: academic journals increase in cost about 5% every single year while our funding continues to, at best, stagnate. And that's just the things we already purchase, much less the new acquisitions our patrons need or want.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Outside the pandemic, U.S. information-sector employment is now at its lowest level in more than a decade. BLS data shows 2.739M jobs in September, down ~12% from the 2022 peak. The entire post-pandemic hiring boom has now been erased. I expected AI to cause Big Tech to shrink but not all tech. 😞
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lastly, if you want to know what an academic institution with no library or a library with no librarians is like, look no further than primary and secondary education. We have hollowed out school libraries and fired school librarians, and things aren't great down here.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Anyway, it's Banned Books Week, and one easy way to ban books is to have untrained staff running a library. If you are at one of these higher ed institutions swapping librarians for subject experts, take this week to voice your complaints. Everyone else, tell admin you support your librarians.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Look, I got a lot of issues with the MLIS, esp around gatekeeping the profession. But by arguing that you don't need trained librarians to do the work of a trained librarian is just an excuse to push us out. It's a devaluation of our skills and knowledge.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The realization we had in the field years ago was that it was less important to have deep knowledge about one specific subject than it was to know how to organize, maintain, collect, conserve, and provide access to that subject material.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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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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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Ghastrogen Scratch Ghosts @estrogenpatchnotes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"tell people what you like about them directly and frequently" is shaping up to be the single most impactful resolution I have made in my life
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Larry Mitchell @drlarrymitchell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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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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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Give me romance and don't condescend to me. And keep your lit fic which continually thinks its reinventing the wheel. Stop pretending people being depressed and breaking up (or 'discovering reality') is more innovative than people navigating human relationships and love. Just stop.
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I get pretty fucking sick of people assuming romance readers are stupid to be honest. As someone who works on the history of romance, who teaches romance, there is always so much going on. Reflections of and on contemporary society, questions about love and relationships, about gender...
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Engaging with an existing trope or plot pattern, isn't about simplicity or robot formulas. It's rather about an acknowledgement of the history of your field, a constant intertextual conversation with (or against) the meanings that have built up around certain tropes.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:
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ceej @ceej.online · 05/10/2026
we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 04/10/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "If everyone would stop waving their dicks around for ten seconds we could get some fucking work done"
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jay, god's most perfect princex @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
why pay for school photos when, for the low, low price of feeding your own child's sensitive personal information to a machine that churns out child sexual exploitation imagery, you could get a bunch of photos of a creepy waxwork simulacrum of your child instead?
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Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This book clarified a lot of the underlying economics of the irrational AI push every where. It’s a push for tech to grow and displace labor. Hated the AI flood at work already (hard push by admin and course design folks) but now I hate it even more.
The reverse centaur 
‘S guide to life after AI by Cory Doctorov
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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 02/10/2026
This is also the time of year every coffee shop makes 'scary' lattes by putting charcoal in them. If you take birth control by mouth, that shit will not work when there's charcoal in your stomach.
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V’s Knees @gothicneo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Donato Giancola's Tolkien art is fantastic, and often as horny as the Renaissance greats he emulates.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In photography you really just wanna make sure that the cat is properly exposed. Photo from my collection no info/date.
Black and white photo of a light skinned man wearing a plaid sports coach and watch in a skinny dark colored tie. He is looking down at a long-haired grey kitten that he cradles in his hands. The photo seems to be somewhat under exposed because the man’s skin tone is blown out, but the kitten looks perfect.
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 02/10/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "how the fuck did we get here"
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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People assume the sewers are unpleasant, but that’s because they never go down there. You really need to hang out down there to see how wonderful they are
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Ju Li Khaw @juleshortstuff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's fucked up AI companies are telling people how dangerous and powerful their product is and how they have to be held back for the sake of humanity and also seem to be rolling out a bunch of cute mascots to try to appeal people to use AI. It's still all bullcrap but makes me hate them even more.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
Shopping isn't politics, and while voting *is* Politics (Big P), it's *also* not politics (small p). A boycott, on the other hand, *is* politics.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
And yes, as part of a boycott, you make some consumption choices. You buy X instead of Y. But "shopping" by itself isn't a boycott. You can't "vote with your wallet" (especially not when billionaires get to vote against you with *their* wallets): pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/c...
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Pluralistic: Wallet voting (13 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 02/10/2026
Good morning & Happy Friday 🍁🎃🐈‍⬛ Fed up with food recalls and other generally horrible news? Only one more week in GA until you can early vote and make these turds accountable. Go forth and fuck their shit up.
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Kris Wernowsky @kriswernowsky.com · 02/10/2026
For my European friends, American healthcare in a nutshell: You pay money every month To still pay a bunch of money to doctor Until you’ve paid enough money Then maybe everything is covered (probably not tho) Employers get massive tax breaks for it Everyone hates it Paperwork fucking everywhere
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In my next meeting I'm going to read some of my slam poetry and if anyone objects I will say that AI wrote it, so it's actually very innovative and productive of me
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