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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 18h

Sad to hear the news about Margaret Hamilton. "Margaret and the Moon" was one of my kid's very favorite books when she was small and we both enjoyed learning about her. Rest easy, you're among the stars now.

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 20h

Stockton Rush famously had some quotes about safety........

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Georgia, today's the deadline to register to vote for this year's midterms! Also, check to make sure you're still registered, bc Kemp loooooves to purge to voter's lists. This is where you can check! There's also a link to register, it can be done online with a valid DL. mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

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GA My Voter Page

Use the Georgia My Voter Page (MVP) to check your voter registration status, find your polling location, view your county's early voting locations, review your sample ballot for upcoming elections, an...

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just gave me flashbacks to the time when our insurance co got in a fight with the hospital 5mins from us, so the closest in network one became 45mins away. For almost a year. Like, ha ha, hope you don't have an emergency 😀

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Horrifying. Was, legit, terrified that sickly death-white E.T. was gonna come sliding out from under my bed too.

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Alt: Sickly white E.T. from the movie E.T.

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hell yeah, it's #BannedBooksWeek gonna read some Toni Morrison bc the POS superintendent of my kid's school said we shouldnnnnnn't!

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh geez, that's tough. Gotta have money to have a car, but more often than not, gotta have a car to get money. (US specific)

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I guarantee it: even if you are not a furry, the internet is better with Fur Affinity on it.

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ah, I remember the fetal pig dissection. My lab partner and I discovered that the arteries were stretchy for some reason?!

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mine's got a killer impression of Ralph now, and it's absolutely hilarious

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My brother and I had 200s and were the envy of all 😆

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Literally my husband and I 😆 We finally sat down and watched some with our kid and watching her mind get blown as she realized her parents communicate in Simpsons references was delightful. "THIS IS WHY WE CALL IT MALK?!?!"

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here's my #Inktober list for #Inktober2026 Gonna post all my drawings underneath this as a thread in addition to posting them separate.

A hand drawn/written calendar of prompts for Inktober. Each numbered box has a prompt, and the calendar is colored orange and gray in a checkerboard pattern.

The prompts are:
1. Shadow
2. Trinket
3. Secret
4. Pen Pal
5. Pouch
6. Swatch
7. Costume
8. Midnight Snack
9. Armor
10. Mirror
11. Pattern
12. Crochet
13. Spice Drawer
14. Moon Rabbit
15. Secret Recipe
16. Starlight Tea
17. Self Portrait
18. Mask
19 Dark Flower
20. Mend
21. Gooey
22. Glowing Frog
23. Friendly Witch
24. Matchbox
25. Overgrown
26. Socks
27. Range
28. Shimmer
29. Notebook
30. Pocket
31. Hat

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this post a vampire that isn't Dracula This movie was better than anything I ever expected.

John C. Reilly as Crepsley in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Going through my saved posts and hell yeah, glad I saved this one.

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#Inktober is coming. No, I'm not using the "official" promptlist bc it's always dumb and the guy that runs it kinda sucks anyway. Yes, I'm still using the tag bc it's easy to find, and I use ink every year. Going with SakuraOfAmerica's list on IG bc I got a ton of ideas when I looked at it.

A list of drawing prompts.
1. Shadow
2. Trinket
3. Secret
4. Pen Pal
5. Pouch
6. Swatch
7. Costume
8. Midnight Snack
9. Armor
10. Mirror
11. Pattern
12. Crochet
13. Spice Drawer
14. Moon Rabbit
15. Secret Recipe
16. Starlight Tea
17. Self Portrait
18. Mask
19 Dark Flower
20. Mend
21. Gooey
22. Glowing Frog
23. Friendly Witch
24. Matchbox
25. Overgrown
26. Socks
27. Range
28. Shimmer
29. Notebook
30. Pocket
31. Hat

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cosigned. Broke my pinkie toe when I was a kid, Not Fun.

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reminded me: I'll never forget when friends were driving me around in England and the passenger in the front seat turned to face me, in the back, and I (thankfully, internally) fully freaked out until my brain caught up and I realized they weren't on the driver's side 😅

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Even if this were Ye Olden Times, I would have missed this one. My radio station was always tuned to the local pop/rock station, and nary a country song was heard.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about all these genAI fuckwits like Jensen Huang constantly announcing in public that they don't know basic life skills, is that they are billionaires. They have outsourced *every single* hassle in life. They then attribute their soft babylike life to genAI and not their wealth.

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Omg, my group and I literally spent 45 minutes on that beach bc we discovered that we could pick each other up in the chairs....and throw each other.

A picture from the game Big Walk. The characters are strewn about in a weird horizontal configuration because of game physics. I'm sorry I don't really know how to describe this well 😭

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I definitely still mask on planes and conventions, etc. I don't care if I get weird looks, I'd rather not get sick!

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 22/09/2026

Amazing. Also--you never know what will make an impact, no matter how small it seems.

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Parenting goals. Also this comic is great.

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fwiw this discourse has given me a handy block list 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For real. I loved Daria when I was a teen....but I also outgrew it.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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ChaoticRambler She/Her @chaoticrambler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My historically accurate version of the Odyssey did not dominate the box office as I hoped.

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I like a good cave tour, but I would *never* do a wild cave. Hell, as my claustrophobia gets worse, some of the tourist caves are out, too 😅

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It starting to cool off in September, even down here in the southeast US. 😮‍💨

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'll be checking with mine tomorrow!

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'll be rolling up my sleeve again tomorrow then!

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Are the 2027 covid boosters out? I got my flu shot already, but held off on covid bc the updated one wasn't out yet 😔

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh yeah, I meant there's more Doctor Who in a general sense!

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It was Hartnell, he had white hair.

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not sure, I'm not familiar with most of the stuff before 9th Doctor, myself. But pretty sure it was OG Doctor. And the Daleks were in it. 😆

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We ended up catching an old black and white episode of Doctor Who at my F-I-L's house when there was nothing else to watch. I didn't think my tween would be into it but when it ended she was like, "Mom, is there, like, more of this?" MY SWEET SUMMER CHILD, THERE SURE IS...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026

The Hugging Face Attack was garden-variety cybercrime, wrapped in the faux cloak of science fiction, and someone should go to jail for it. Instead, the media leaves the labs blameless, treating LLMs as an unknowable intelligence versus cloud software. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

And I also want to be clear about something: The Hugging Face attack was dangerous, reckless and somebody should go to prison for it. If a regular person used massive amounts of compute capacity to hack something, they’d be arrested. While I’m not a lawyer, the numerous cybersecurity experts I’ve discussed this with are stunned by the complete lack of any legal action against OpenAI, which appears to have committed a crime that gets you anywhere from a year to a decade in the slammer. The fact that LLMs from both Anthropic and Meta have been involved in similar incidents is a sign that we need to arrest more people.

Editor’s Note: When the late Kevin Mitnick was eventually arrested and sentenced to 48 months in prison (plus a further 22 months for violating the terms of his parole), prosecutors argued that he was capable of launching nuclear missiles by whistling (seriously) into a prison phone in a way that would mimic the shrill chirps and beeps of a dial-up modem. As a result, he spent eight months of his prison term in solitary confinement, and throughout his sentence, was subject to numerous restrictions on his communications.

I mention this simply to contrast the fact that LLMs from two massive labs have committed similar computer crimes to those which Mitnick was convicted of — with the key distinction that said labs have, at various points, said that their technology may ultimately result in the mass extinction of the human race.

Mitnick, for what it’s worth, always protested that the idea that he could whistle his way into launching nuclear armageddon was ridiculous. Because it was.

If I didn’t believe that prolonged stretches in solitary confinement were a form of torture (and if I didn’t believe that torture was always morally wrong), I’d suggest that not only do we need to arrest more people, but (for the sake of consistency) we need to ensure that said people are kept in a small cement room with nothing but a cockroach for company.

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That's so sweet! I don't think we're ever too old to be read to. I honestly think they are better when read aloud. I struggled with LotR when I tried to read them myself, but reading them to my daughter was much more enjoyable.

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oof. I think I lucked out. I read them aloud to mine, and I didn't think she was really retaining them, just kinda falling asleep to my voice, but she would recount bits later and ended up really enjoying it and the movies as well.

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

She really hated The Goonies, but ended up being kinda into TMNT. I've also managed to sneak getting her into things by putting old stuff on while she's playing video games (X-men animated sucked her in, lol) 2/2

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I did Mean Old Mom Movie Night over the summer, mostly so she would get common pop culture refs. But A) it had to be something I thought she might *actually* like, and B) she wasn't forced to watch it. Like, no watching a video on her phone, but she could draw/craft or something similar. 1/2

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KAST | AWAY UNTIL 12TH OCT ✈️ @kast.haus · 30/08/2026

Chauncy the Penguin 🐧 Poor little nervous wreck,,,, #kastyoureyes #furryart

A nervous wreck of a penguin wearing a white shirt, yellow bow tie, and a red and black tailcoat-vest

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I really liked B. Toys, when my kid was younger. Good palette that's still colorful, but generally less saturated.

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