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Brooke Chenoweth

@rhitsqueaky.bsky.social
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This remains one of my favorite satirical projects of all time
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s ok to not say that thing in your head sometimes. Because it could be a stupid thing that should remain there.
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Etienne Jacob @bleuje.com · 01/09/2026
A little “Brick Territories” experiment. → bleuje.com/js_sketches/...
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Brooke Chenoweth @rhitsqueaky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm going to have to check my food processor when I get up tomorrow.
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Brooke Chenoweth @rhitsqueaky.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Nora has a good thread of issues with "AI"
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 18/07/2026
hi this is a really big deal. Chaco Canyon is one of the most important historical sites in North America. the area tribes are extremely opposed to this. please please please comment on this with the BLM. it takes two minutes.
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Karen Lord @drkarenlord.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
SF writers and readers are some of the nerdiest nerds on the planet. We love tech. We are so early-adopter that we imagined it before you built it. If you’ve lost us, you’ve lost the fight.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 30/06/2026
The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Human rights are for everyone, full stop. Every single person, whether they're a bigot or a shithead or just a terrible person. Everyone deserves housing, food, education, and healthcare including abortion. There are no exceptions. None.
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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please Use AI
PLEASE USE AI
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Be sure to use Al when making your next, I don't know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end
up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father's cancer diagnosis or how lonely she's been or even what she's planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
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Brooke Chenoweth @rhitsqueaky.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
My six year old spontaneously wrote her first fanfic today. (She decided Ratshade from Harriet the Invincible by @tkingfisher.com could have a brother)
Beginning of story (spelling corrected in alt text for legibility)

The brother of Ratshade was evil but kind to evil hamsters but evil to nice hamsters.
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Kira Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraleigh.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
someone on tumblr said it better than i could
I'm not saying be willfully ignorant. I'm not saying pretend horrible things aren't happening. I'm saying don't destroy your mental health going in-depth and cycling through horror after horror on your phone. I'm saying there is no virtue in making yourself experience other people's traumas because mere awareness is not activism. you inflicting suffering on yourself is not activism.
doomscrolling is literally sapping your energy and focus away from doing anything useful to help other people. you can burn yourself out without ever lifting a finger by exposing yourself to all the bad news in the world and who does that help? no one.
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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"How can my quarterly taxes be due? I just PAID those three months ago!" --My brain.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
the main problem with video as a format is that it's too slow at dispensing information. I can read much faster than you can talk and there's no way you can address this without becoming incomprehensible to most of the audience.
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Mr. Cait @chas.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Remember how you used to just know everyone’s phone number? Then cell phones came out and you could barely recite your own number? That’s what AI’s endgame is but for every aspect of your life.
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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I am afraid I cannot reconcile "fewer babies means fewer workers, people must have more babies" with "AI means fewer workers, companies must have AI" as the two big economic talking points of the right / the government / big tech.
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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈
A rainbow colored box turtle looking nervously out of a drab gray shell. There is text above him that says “It’s OK if you’re not ready yet.”
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 12/05/2026
attention nerds
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.
arstechnica.com
Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 08/05/2026
Repost this if you’ve gone to the doctor or you’ve seen a dog. I’m a teacher trying to show my students that it’s possible to repost stuff under certain circumstances like if a post asks you to and you’ve gone to something or seen something
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I know the law
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Brooke Chenoweth @rhitsqueaky.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I've been super lacking in executive function for at least a month. Who knew that the day to day structure of my job was load bearing?
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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 06/03/2026
Hey all, I decided to write up some of my thoughts in more detail about why I don't vibe code, in case it's interesting to any of you jacobharr.is/personal/i-d...
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Why I Don’t Vibe Code
A “brief” accounting of various reasons why vibe coding has just never clicked for me personally as a developer.
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Zarithya😈💻 | Techubus VTuber @zarithya.online · 22/04/2026
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spookyduds @spuffyduds.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Fix your hearts or die.
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
When they said "AI will increase productivity" I didn't realize they meant "AI code will crash the social media networks on which I procrastinate, forcing me to actually do my job"
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Miscellaneous Reasons To Live @reasonsbot.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
toddler giggles
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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A short bedtime tale by the 4yo: "Once upon a time there was a little boy who really wanted a unicorn. But every day, no unicorn came to his house. He would shout, "UNICORN!", but no unicorn came to his house. He wished EXTRA SUPER HARD but still no unicorn came to his house! Only tigers."
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Basil 🌱 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Endless cycle
A drawing of a realistic dog wearing a tie saying; "I need to lock in and prove that I am capable. I need to be taken seriously." While a drawing of a cartoon dog says; "I need to stay silly and whimsical lest I lose the very essence of myself." Perpetrating an endless cycle
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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
incredibly difficult to focus this week, but i'm sure this is a personal failing and has nothing to do with the state of everything everywhere
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I should be working on a book proposal/cleaning my apartment/writing pitches/applying for jobs/exercising/any number of other tasks but the problem with everything I should be doing today is that all of those things are fundamentally about the future
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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You  know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
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Steve @stevetsra.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Be careful folks, today is April Fool's Day, which means that the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive. Don't worry though, tomorrow we will be back to normal, and the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Oh hey, I am once again going to talk about lack of distress tolerance, specifically for shame, and how it ties together AI, the “male loneliness epidemic,” Trumpism, and yes, people’s indignation that anyone might think they’re a bad person for continuing to buy Harry Potter merch.
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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Picard diplomacy tip: Calm the hell down.
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 20/03/2026
"You can get $5, but *those* people you hate also get $5, or you lose $100 but *those* people lose $1000" Republicans and Racists "The second one!!"
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This clothing ad for clothes "for busy moms" shows a suggested playdate outfit with white pants. These are not serious people.
A screenshot of an ad for a company called 'short story' captioned 'For Busy Moms 5'4" and under" which shows six outfits. The play date outfit has white pants. WHITE PANTS. HAVE THEY EVER MET CHILDREN?
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026
"We used an AI to do this" is increasingly a way of saying, "We didn't want to do this in the first place and we don't care if it's done well." 21/
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 12/03/2026
Some Tech CEO every day: "You don't get to own things now. I own your refrigerator. If you say mean things about me I will turn off your fridge and spoil all your dairy and eggs and meat. If you don't like it you go to jail." People in my mentions: "Lmao are you REALLY a luddite? smh"
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⏱📋David Steinberg⏱📋 @zzyzx.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I'd be much more willing to entertain the possibility that Claude is somehow conscious if the same people haven't been making the same argument for every single expert system since Eliza. I mean the last third of Godel Escher and Bach is claiming that a 1970s program was self aware.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
tfw it's daylight savings time again tonight
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a cartoon character from the movie the incredibles is saying `` i 'm not '' .
ALT: a cartoon character from the movie the incredibles is saying `` i 'm not '' .
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I used to word as “y’all would rather move the entire concept of 8am around than move your working schedule to NOT 8am”
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
every year some well meaning American sits me down and explains patiently why Daylight Savings and every year I hear a bunch of sentences that make sense in isolation and an explanation that makes no sense
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Whatever was going on, there was nothing I could do about it now, and that just made me more furious. So I watched five minutes of episode 174 of Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon. Did that work? No, no, it didn’t.
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 25/02/2026
If you do not fight at the barricade of trans healthcare you will fight at the barricade of the most stigmatized medication you are on and you will do it with fewer experienced allies because you left trans people to die.
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