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Brandon O’Brien, but wearing a wolf mask @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 22h

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Some options are easy—despite how comfortable one may be, there are dozens of alternatives to Substack & many of them are better. Some others are hard—there is an ATProto streaming service that I barely hear mention of (note to self: it's stream.place) & if subs keep your lights on, you're SOL.

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Brandon O’Brien, but wearing a wolf mask @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 21h

Before we sing we hum lullabies and sing in bathrooms without shame and we make up silly sounds! Before we draw we doodle and scrawl and make improbable shapes! You think the first poem I wrote was perfect? But it was a thing of glory because it gave me joy and that was how I knew I wanted to do it.

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Brandon O’Brien, but wearing a wolf mask @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 21h

—not just that that theoretically trained artist not only has that experience, but that they endured the experience of their first work being imperfect. But more than this—that many of our first moments of discovering that we enjoy art was just about finding joy in the idle making of the thing!

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Brandon O’Brien, but wearing a wolf mask @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 21h

If being bad at a thing doesn't give you enough joy that it can be a bulwark against the potential embarrassment of working to get better at it in public, then why does it matter to you to be able to make the thing? Or rather, to have the thing made for you, devoid of that embarrassment—OR THAT JOY?

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Shar(yna)Tran/Shark(aeopteryx) @sharksonaplane.mastodon.sandwich.net.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Yesterday I thought the non-"option 3" numbers were bc it was still quite early in the poll and perhaps the people it was reaching are just that behind on vernacular but now…

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Drew Mochak @prism.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I'm more upset than I've been in a while. Windows 11 sets the default documents folder to onedrive\documents. Anything that gets saved there gets backed up to one drive. This includes various save games, all my Reaper stuff, and various other odds and ends that I like to, you know, save. To […]

mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

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namely, using slop is a choice, whereas being born in a country is not, so you see the qualitative difference between the statements, right?

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

(angry annelids and cnidarians in my mentions)

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I feel a kinship since I've also been known to squeak in anger.

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

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She likes to hang out here so she can look you in the eye when you come around the corner. #PicaTheCat

Pica the cat looks around the corner at eye level. She is cute, curious and maybe a little judgemental.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Oh to be an ice fish making a circular nest in great sandy expanse deep under the ink black-blue water that sits unknown under a glacial shelf on the edge of Antartica....

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

saw someone reacting to a report that 80% of the fascist party ads in america are LLM slop by asking "how did we skip the step that made this illegal" and let me tell you how: "i was forced to use it at work" "there are some good uses" "well, i see all the downsides but i just don't care" […]

mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

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thinking about how we posted www.whitesupremacyculture.info/wors… in re: slop and this got some complete stranger in our mentions to be like "i'm white and dyslexic and what do you think about the possibility of the LLM to disrupt this mechanic and devalue the […]

Marie Brennan @swan-tower.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

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What about January? That's not a Writer's Little Book; that's CODEX MEMORIAE, my next short story collection, chock full of historical fantasy! www.swantower.com/writing/codex-mem…

Cover art for CODEX MEMORIAE by Marie Brennan. Background is a lichen-spotted gray stone slab inscribed with Japanese writing.

Marie Brennan @swan-tower.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

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Then in March, it'll be THE WRITER'S LITTLE BOOK OF REVISION, with advice on what to do with what you get from crit -- and also how to develop your self-editorial skills! www.swantower.com/writing/the-write…

Cover art for THE WRITER'S LITTLE BOOK OF REVISION by Marie Brennan. Background is a sheet of lined yellow paper with notes saying "add more description," "fix protag motivation," and "make ending work;" the first two are checked off and the last is not.

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Marie Brennan @swan-tower.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I have figured out what the next two WRITER'S LITTLE BOOKS will be! After RHYME and FORMS, February will bring THE WRITER'S LITTLE BOOK OF CRITIQUE, with advice for what to do in workshops and crit groups: www.swantower.com/writing/the-write…

Cover art for THE WRITER'S LITTLE BOOK OF CRITIQUE by Marie Brennan. Background is a faded-out manuscript page with notes and suggestions in red pen.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I'm using the short hand of "good kids" and "bad kids" here but I'm also aware that bad kids don't really exist. Instead you have young people without enough adult support and care in their lives... or in some cases too much of such control though that's more rare. But, I think these kids have […]

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CM Harrington @octothorpe.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Imagine being such a giant fuckface you order developers who integrated accessibility measures into the most popular CMS on the web to REVERT their changes and fuck off. How about we just tell that fuckface to fuck off into the sun. What a total shitgibbon unworth your time.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

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If this is you just stop. Everyone will forget about it in a few weeks. That's the solution. Just stop using AI to make the images or "improve" the writing or to design the flyer. The other option is to clearly label all such work as "made with AI" and if you don't want to do that? Let us […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Everyone can tell you used AI to do it. They just aren't saying anything about it because they want to be polite. (Do you know someone who needs this thought to pop unbidden into their head?)

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CM Harrington @octothorpe.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

The other day I learned that one of the towns here in CT is doing a halloween costume exchange. It’s a great concept, as most costumes are worn once and chucked. Of course, many are engineered with that in mind, but what a great way of getting more life out of something de facto one time use […]

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Kirsche 🐰🐱| Commissions Open @cherrypixelbun.yiff.life.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Seeing so many of my friends post about going to see the Street Fighter movie we all know sucks got me like

A 4chan screenshot.
The first post contains a drawing of a meditating monk (maybe a wojak?) with the text "I will not see the movie"
Below is the reply "And it will do a billion in box office."
Beneath that post is a closeup of the monk-jak. "billion - 1"

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forest :therian: @swiftyshq.critter.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

dogthingtober 15 - window #art #furry

a watercolor painting of a dogthing in a wooden paneled house peering out at spruce trees. text next to the dogthing reads "i want to go outside before the sun goes down"

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

"you can't call all AI changes slop!!" actually yes we can, that's definitional. hth

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

"Nerds would rather be slavers than admit that their stochastic token predictor is not intelligent" reveals way more about nerds and their views on other human beings than it says about Chatbots.

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

it is amazing how many LLM guys just freely admit they never learned to use any of their tools, then they insist that the LLMs they’re pushing are tools and it’s everyone else’s problem for not using them correctly LLMs are fucking horrible at everything that an editor or IDE can do. trivially […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

so, Albert Heijn, one of the main Dutch grocery chains, has had a major IT disruption because of some sort of ransomware attack, and this has caused stores to not get deliveries of fresh fruits and vegetables Some passerby was quoted on the news as saying to chin up and stop whining because […]