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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

"Financially ruin the entire AI industry". PLEASE

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape.

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Beyond reprehensible. Cops should face justice, but you just know they won't.

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

F-18 actually stands for how many hundreds of fathoms deep the plane now is

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Tech Bros once again solving the problem of being an unlovable, hollow shell of a human by leaning harder into being an unlovable, hollow shell.

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

May Rowling spend every remaining day in complete terror and dread.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

No, the Democratic Party isn't losing because it's Too Woke:

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

This kinda stuff makes me unreasonably sad. Can't help but imagine this lil fella floating sadly in isolation for all time.

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Clark & Weir's Birdeater (2023) was genuinely such an unsettling horror experience. I can't get it out of my head. Worth a watch, because it's so painfully real.

Poster art for the film BirdEater. Four drunk mails, with their eyes scratched out on the poster, surround a distressed looking woman.

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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Happy International Women's Day! May every woman find their way into the room where their voice is most needed—whether that's a board room, a legislature, or a PTA meeting. When we stand up and speak our values, women change the world!

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Got a friend hanging out with me tonight. He's a real laugh. #birds #ausbirding

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I sneezed in the grocery store, whilst reaching down to pick up a jar of pickled olives, and pulled a muscle in my shoulder. What hurt was not so much the torn ligament, but the sudden, agonizing realization that followed: I'm getting old.

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

What I'd give to relive the first time I played Mass Effect

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

You can pry em dashes from my cold dead hands

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Been very tempted lately to try writing some dino horror...

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

You have a right Not to be killed Unless It was by a policeman or an aristocrat

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Australians, please be aware we are not immune to the sort of bullshit going on in the US. Vote wisely this year, and don't let this Trump wannabe screw us over. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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Dutton praises 'shrewd' and 'reasonable' Trump after Gaza comments

The opposition leader said Trump was a "big thinker and a deal maker" with a "genuine desire to see peace and stability".

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Set over 3 centuries of intrasolar tensions between a war-struck Earth, Annexed Mars, Imperialist Venus and those beyond the belt, the history of stellar colonization unfolds ship by ship, decade by decade. Mankind learns maybe it should have stayed back in Sol. #AskAnAuthor #BookSky

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

My first 'official' update on progress of my sci-fi body-horror short story collection! Hoping this'll help keep me on track. Story titles are all WIPs, and word counts are the current count. There's a common thread that links each story, but they are otherwise standalone.

A small graph depicting the current status of each story I am writing for my collection. From writing, all the way to complete. There are seven stories, 3 of which are untitled and not yet started.

"The Field of Rocks at the Edge of the City" is in progress, with 3396 words written.
"Perdix" first draft is complete, at 3995 words
"The Human Machine Must Endure" is in progress with 3624 words.
Finally, "Trappist" is in its second draft, with 9608 words.

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This all feels like that scene in Revenge of the Sith where the Palpatine gets emergency powers, and everyone cheers meanwhile Padmé is standing there all dumbfounded like how can anyone NOT see what the fuck is going on.

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

“Though there is still more to do, and as a prototype, I care little if a purpose is achieved beyond the perfection of our art.”

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

"It seems to me now almost incredibly wonderful that, with that swift fate hanging over us, men could go about their petty concerns as they did." - H.G Wells

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Story inspiration really does just come from the most random things, doesn't it? What's the oddest source of inspiration you've had? For me, I'd have to say a 2.5kg barbell plate. #writingcommunity #writers

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🌈Jess McGuire | aspiring author💙🦓 @protanyakateyo.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

For anyone from #booktok or #writertok looking for their community tonight

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Really enjoyed watching the LOTR musical on stage. Incredibly charming and fun.

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Theo M | Sometimes Writer @theodoremercer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Twitter's a toxic bot-fest. Facebook & Insta are cooked. TikTok's possibly going offline (in the US anyway). Are we looking at the start of the end of the Social Media era? Please let it be so

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theo (is looking for work) @yeruruk.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hello #portfolioday 🪜 I'm Theo, I'm a 2D digital and traditional artist. I love horror, folklore, myth, and nature, especially in darker settings. I'm open both for work and commissions. If you need me, find me here: 🖋️ yeruruk.myportfolio.com ✉️ czajkateodora@gmail.com

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