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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

@clbennettauthor.bsky.social Just a nerd writing a lil thing no one but my friends will ever read, but... I absolutely and completely know you created an algorithm for converting Gregorian dates to Andorian dates. Please share? My lil dude needs a diegetic birthday. <3

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

:< Damn, that's like the ONE media category I'm actually not into. Clearly this is a self-fulfilling prophecy, and I must go acquire an extensive manga collection, so, as someone who owns zero (0) manga... GO. What should be my first?

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

Anyway, I logged on for the purpose of community and positivity, and even if I got derailed, there's still something lovely out there. Rescued this orchid from the HEB clearance rack because most of its leaves were desiccated and/or rotten, but its roots are good, and it'll thrive with me.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

I think I've been maliciously placed on some blocklist. I keep replying to posts in support and then very shortly thereafter finding myself blocked by the OP when I'm in agreement with everything they've ever posted and have never interacted with them directly.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

I am not remotely pro-Biden. I am 100% pro- "One's ability to articulate their positions verbally in a high-pressure environment is not in any way an indicator of their cognitive capacity, because verbal expression =/= intelligence." Check out "nonverbal" autists who communicate ably when given AAC.

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Mike Spahn @fistydollars.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

The literal Ur-Example

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

Pro-trans politicians are usually pro-trans because they have trans family. Not to be cynical or anything, but in this social climate, people with no PERSONAL stake tend to vote against the faceless "them". Thus, everyone on my side is leaving, because they must, for the ones they love. I can't.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

Feels super unfair that Ea Nasir gets all the name recognition for the tablet when Nanni did all the work

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

I do not have this kind of stutter. I DID once mix up "hit them up" and "shoot them a line" and state "Let's go shoot up the History Department." Was unable to process the horrified reaction in real time, took three days to figure out what went wrong, have been stewing in mortification ever since.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

Re: ST:DISCO, I will be forever mad that we didn't get far more of Fred and his uncomfortably intense phonology fetish. I expect there are already LOADS of excellent Fred fanfics, so please do link me. Bonus points for liberal inclusion of weird phonological observations.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

WTF, Prime Video app has apparently implemented a Hulu-style "When you reach the end of this series, we will automatically play something else at random" policy, and I CANNOT PUT INTO WORDS HOW MUCH I HATE leaving the room for a sec and coming back to "Sausage Party."

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

Love gunshots in the area late at night. -__- Sure is fun to live in Texas.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

Anyway, started Earth: Final Conflict next in the queue of Big Scifi of My Lifetime that I missed out on due to parentals. And... I have issues with this one literally from the get-go. Like, SERIOUSLY, Roddenberry HAD to go with "he" for the explicitly sexless, genderless aliens?

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

Finished BSG, have... issues... with the finale. Largely satisfactory, but also elements of wtf.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

Wow, fell asleep on the couch, apparently had a dream, but all I remember is: "And who are you?" "Uh... Gary." "You don't sound very sure about that." "Look, you can call me Garoline if you want, but you'll be the only one other than my mom." Garoline is unquestionably my next D&D character.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

But also, the fact that they DID NOT DO ROSLIN'S NAILS. That one REALLY significant closeup of her hands in S04E21, she has cracked, uneven nails that don't shine like mirrors. Didn't use a hand model or soft focus. Just used the actual hands of a middle-aged woman, and that shouldn't be noteworthy.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

Lesson: You do not put people who only marry cousins in charge of large armies. Other Lesson: Serbia really should have gone in for vampire-based tourism instead of Balkan conquest because now Romania is eating their lunch.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

Darkly ironic that it doesn't have a hood.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

HOLY SHIT WE HAVE GIFS NOW??? I truly need to log in more often.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

LOL at Lestat saying millennials make terrible vampires. I don’t even need context to know he’s right about us.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

200,000YA-like 1400 CE: progress takes a reasonable pace, subtle advances that take root over hundreds of years. 1400-1800CE: Things heating up, y'all. Science figuring out weird shit that upsets people. 1800-1900: The YOLO era of science. 1900-1990: The Fuckit era of science. 1990-present: Die.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

Also, I simply cannot articulate my actual feelings about Gaius Baltar. The dude has like 3/4 of a whole moral, the self-esteem of an intact tomcat, and literally all of my anxiety disorders. IRL I would avoid him like the plague. Onscreen I want to punch him. But he is SO entertaining.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

I also absolutely LOVE the BSG reboot's scifi aesthetic of "What if the distant future(?)/past(?) designed all their tech with the visual sensibilities of Windows '98?"

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

I cannot BELIEVE I had never watched BSG before. Really should have gotten to it earlier. It's one of the few shows that really does "unlikable" characters well.

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Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

“'And it’s not just Hopi that objected. Numerous tribes were against allowing that permit because it brings negative consequences to us.'" 🏺 www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

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Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse scraps US filming plans after outcry from Native American groups

Hit show’s British host Graham Hancock has been criticized for promoting fringe beliefs about advanced lost civilization

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

What do you call the mouth noise made by forming a seal between tongue and upper front teeth and drawing the tongue back quickly? I'm watching a show on Netflix, and the subs keep saying [KISSES TEETH]. I'd call it click/cluck/tsk/tcha. [kisses teeth] is weirding me out. Regional?

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

They were happy with outside time for like, twelve seconds, but it was just too damn hot.

A cranky-looking tuxedo cat giving up and walking away from an rolly orange cat on his back, both on a sunlit wood porch with white vinyl siding in the background.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 19/06/2024

I got word that a female peregrine falcon has been getting into combat with a male that isn't her mate. The father she was nesting with is dead but I don't know if this rogue male killed them or not. Either way I got this shot after sunset tonight. 🪶

A peregrine falcon chasing another one after Sunset above the ocean

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Okay, so, on the topic of morally grey areas, give me morally iffy protagonists from stories where you could identify strongly with THEM but not with their ACTIONS. #writing #authors #fiction

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

And the rich believe they will always cost less than human labor which is problematic. Oh sure, they'll have their sweat shops, they love that. But their ideal concept involves a slave with no will to break, utterly owned and subservient. A thinking machine. Which is why we need UBI.

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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

"The view that people are merely biological computers who spit out words based on the totality of what they’ve read is offensively cynical. If we lower the standards for what it means to be human, however, machines look a lot more impressive." this is so fucking on point

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Challenge for the willing: Selfie right now. oh NO.

Extremely grouchy white person in glasses with glasses, exaggerated frown. They are wearing a black t-shirt with a United Federation of Planets emblem (from Star Trek) in Pride colors.
Beige wall and the corner of a Leonid Afremov painting of a violin in the background.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Can we get a solid thread of Fuck-AI-links here?

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Prosper Tipaldi 🌱🌿 @prospertipaldi.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

This article goes in depth on this question, with the right angle: The comparison with human learning is a way to justify theft. Hope it helps :) www.tomshardware.com/news/ai-does...

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AI Lie: Machines Don’t Learn Like Humans (And Don’t Have the Right To)

Some argue that bots should be entitled to ingest any content they see, because people can.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

One of my favorite things about Discovery is the depiction of disability. Specifically, characters choosing to be visibly disabled. Detmer could get a prosthetic eye identical to her organic one. Probably could have had a new organic one cloned. She has an obvious prosthesis because she wants to.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

I want more TV aliens with WILD sexual dimorphism that doesn't even vaguely adhere to media beauty standards. Makeup depts, stop designing the males first and then making females "same but kinda smoother."

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Still a hypothesis based solely on the responses of subjects located by searching anti-trans forums. Which, I shouldn't have to say, is inherently a sample sufficiently biased as to render the results completely void.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

I literally dreamed it again, beat for beat. At this point, this is probably an omen.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

A verse from unjust involuntary committal, 2020: When the air burns your skin, you can only turn inward to the cool quiet you always keep in reserve. When stares freeze and words pierce, you can only turn inward to the alone-place, the I-am space, that-which-is-no-one-but-me. And be.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

A verse from unjust involuntary committal, 2020: Do not fear the wind, my child, however it may roar and moan. It calls a thousand names in a thousand tongues, but not yours, not yet. Stare into the void; it stares back. Stare into the sun; go blind. Look away. Look down. Live and be free.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

I do have to say - watching BSG for the first time - the soundtrack is incredible. The theme is incredible, but just the incidentals... It's very *delicate*, subtle in addition to usually being quieter than the music in most shows. I really, really love it.

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Anyway, my mini-rant about anthropomorphization was inspired by FINALLY watching Battlestar Galactica ('04), which I somehow never had. I'm always fascinated by "Just how human is the Other?" stories, but I think it's also worth asking "How Other are we, and does it even matter?"

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

I've noticed that a lot of people who rail against anthropomorphising animals swing all the way in the opposite direction of "They aren't human and therefore definitely do not have anything in common with us and relating to them is useless." That is an equally unsupported position.

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 13/06/2024

i also think that it is a massive oversight to attribute any of this shit to "neurotypical culture". that's just a bad lens. the problems you have are with hierarchy, capitalism, kyriarchy, male dominance, cultural hegemony, ableism and/or white supremacy. autism doesn't make us immune to that shit.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

If you saw the Senate in another country, you'd think it was a preposterously undemocratic institution leedrutman.substack.com/p/wither-the...

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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

There's this new commercial for Snapchat I've been seeing on Amazon Prime. D: Not since the days of Head-On have I been so viscerally, fanatically determined never to use a product purely because the ad is so obnoxious.

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