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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14h

2. It's not that AI sucks, it's that it does more to help people who suck suck faster that it does to help people who don't suck not suck faster 3. I liked having a job where I solved puzzles for money, and then my boss wanted me to have the AI solve the puzzle for me, and that sucks

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14h

I've realized that my lingering issues with LLMs basically fall into three buckets 1. It's not that AI sucks, it's that capitalism sucks and AI accelerates the ways it sucks

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October issue

The cover of Vizier Monthly with a shapely big-haired woman in a loose blue gown with a trailing yellow scarf, seated in a throne-like chair. Headlines around her read:
"Some of us are hot": Urda the Fair on the Politics of Pleasure
Ladies of Miss Rule: Tyranny knows no gender!
Oh My Goddess! Simple Ways to Make Him Worship You
Poison Rings: Hot or Not?
It's Lit! Arson, Parliament, and You
So You've Been Overthrown: 10 Tricks to Get Back on Top

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revolver ocelthot @rnaboursiii.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Life hack: if you disassociate just right you can experience a training montage.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Okay, end of episode 5. Gonna take a break for now, but be back for more at some point in the future. It's enjoyable having somewhere to dump my bullshit that people can choose to read if they want, but I'm not actively inflicting it on anybody.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Okay, this is actually lowkey a wild stunt. Especially when this was before stunt doubles.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I like the idea that everybody else just writes off the possibility of Irma Vep having anything to do with The Vampires as "too obvious, they'd never do that."

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Time for Mazamette to be a bro again. I want to be clear that I am, in fact, deeply enjoying this. I will take "this silent thriller sometimes drifts into the cartoonish" over "Lost Cause propaganda" any day of the week.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I just checked and, yes, this is after Chekhov invented guns.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh, at some point somebody is getting in one of these suits of armor. I've seen enough Scooby Doo to know how this goes.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ah, the old "get somebody to stick their neck out a window, and use a loop on a stick to pull them to the ground" trick.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Did I say "cyanide" and "dies"? I meant "sleeping pill" and "has a little nap".

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

*Guy takes a cyanide capsule, dies in the office, and gets carted off on a stretcher* "Well, anyways, back to business..."

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When the next one comes out in October, I'll probably not have gotten *super* far, and will just kinda... watch any new additions from the start to get caught back up, but I don't necessarily want to treat that as precedent for when I'm further along.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I also fully expect this project to take me around a decade, with starts and stops in enthusiasm for it. So doing this thread is also kind of a weird form of accountability, I guess? I also haven't figured out how I'm gonna handle new editions coming out.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Since it's a serial, and thus closer to a tv show, I have been letting myself step away between episodes instead of binging all 7 hours in one sitting.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Okay, episode 4 finished, onto episode 5: The Corpse's Escape.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Okay, non-jokey post time. I really didn't have an appreciation for the fact that black and white films could be tinted differently at different points, and love the use of blue tinting to depict things happening in darkness.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I hate when I open the false back to my neighbor's safe to find out he's keeping a body in there.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hiding behind a curtain, under the bed -- you can tell this guy became an investigator before the hide-and-seek competitive meta really matured.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You let Mazamette off the hook for stealing from you once and let him keep the money to take care of his kid, and he's fucking ride or die for life.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You get me starting in the middle of episode 4 of the 1915 French crime serial Les Vampires, which is the 4th entry in the book. Because I'm not subjecting myself to fucking Birth of a Nation again.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've started going through 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die and have decided to start live-skeeting them with very little context while I watch.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I frequently have dreams that *should* be nightmares, but it's the emotional experience of watching a fun horror movie instead. And then when I have a dream that's less blood and guts and more social anxiety, that actually feels like a nightmare

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I once accompanied @facilitatrix.bsky.social to a particularly long hair dyeing session. I got so bored that I went out onto the sidewalk to sing some opera. Two men cornered me and asked if I wanted to sing backup on their album.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

And, in a way that totally doesn't translate to the metaphor, there is reduced (but still present) stigma against people who can manage without mobility aids, but would benefit from them, using them.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Back in my day the term we used was "marriage material"

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

And the maps, specifically, help them map the human heart by revealing to them where you are whenever you use it.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

And there are jungles where... all of the things I just said about woods, and they'd really appreciate you stop asking why they list these separately, but it's like... totally in line with the age of sails guys.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

*Sigh* And there are woods where the trees are so thick that their mapping from space with science can't pierce the canopy of the trees, so they have to rely on the maps people have build on foot.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The only thing is that there are parts of the ocean too deep to know what lies underneath. And the caves beneath the earth are a twisting labyrinth, so they haven't made much progress on mapping the whole thing. And every once in a while a part of the caves they've already mapped changes.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I cannot stress enough that the map they're giving away is really just one project among many, and is just a footnote in this whole thing, but if you want to know the lore, it's an accurate, always nearly up to date map, of almost the entire world.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Oh, is the most prominent of these the son of emerald tycoons from the southern tip of Africa, and also in an uneasy, but ultimately cowed, friendship with the mad tyrant president of the United States?

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Oh, are using these, and many other such projects, helping the heirs of the East India Trading Company race to build a map of the hearts of man, and I'm sure you can imaging what the heirs of the East India Trading Company would do with that.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Oh, are the heirs of the East India Trading Company just giving away maps of all the Earth and Seas, accurate within an arm's length in any direction? And a large but slowly shrinking portion of the population are hailing this as benevolent?

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Colonialism is when the cyberpunk dystopia has age of sails adventure lore. Labor relations is when the cyberpunk dystopia has folk horror lore.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Guy at his second rodeo: This ain't my first rodeo.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I genuinely think the world would be a much better place if more people understood that the typical orgy is a woman who shops at Walmart sitting criss-cross-apple-sauce to suck dick because her knees are bad while people at the potluck buffet watch.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

"this popular left-wing figure is rude and has problematic views on some issues" yeah man OK the Secretary of Defense believes the fighter pilot we just rescued is basically Jesus and the FBI is building lists of anyone to the left of Rush Limbaugh. But yeah that streamer sounds scary.

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OutOfTouch 🇲🇽 @outoftouch.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I'm very much not a "msth is the language of the universs" math person, I'm a "math is a fun little puzzle that's not so little and has consumed millennia of human thought" person.

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nessa, a broken thing 🪞 @shemeshka.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

"Suburban father awkwardly attempting to give "the talk" to his kids"

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Corey (Local Cryptid) 🌈 🦇 @coreypoetry.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

Oh hey, today's a great day to celebrate Ireland's solidarity with Palestine. Tiocfaidh ár lá! 🇮🇪 🇵🇸

A mural expresses solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza in a Nationalist area on the Falls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland [File: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters] Two hands reach through prison bars to hold eachother. One arm has the Irish flag colors, the other has the Palestine flag colors. The writings says Solidarity P.O.W.s

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