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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 23h

lol Vash from TNG is Skinner’s wife in X-Files? Not sure I knew this. Not sure I remembered skinner having a wife 😂

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

sorry netflix is doing a *straight* hockey romance to get on the heated rivarly train? there's like 4 seconds of actual hockey in that show lmao

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St. Simeon the Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here’s one that is extremely powerful: “Dude, gross.”

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Willie Young @willieyoung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Would someone like to ask the professor how we know what Plato or Socrates thought?

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Checked what department this guy is in, and whew, as someone who majored in philosophy at a small liberal arts college, having to do a 45 minute oral exam instead of writing a paper would have made me break out in hives. Would have avoided this guy's class like I avoided all the 8:30 ones.

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Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's a great irony in presenting an argument in writing while refusing to teach students the skills they need to do the same. Maybe this guy should've just blabbered aloud for 45 min., and spared us all his engagement with the outdated technology of the written word 🙄.

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am in my 40s and just TIL Ranger Danger was regional and not everyone had him? 🤯

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Would love to know why United Healthcare can't cover a routine blood test, but finds it within them to email me once a week about their "weight loss resources" when i do not need to lose weight. (It's not even, like, a matter of perspective. I weigh 137 lbs. Are they trying to give ppl a complex?)

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Had to log into the fertility portal that I have not logged into since I quit IVF literally the week of the presidential election, and wow did that bring up ALL SORTS OF SHIT

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NOT A DRILL. It went into the 70s last night! The LOW 70s even! I mean the high is still 90 today, but IT IS CLOSE. IT IS COMING. I CAN FEEL IT. #nolatwitter #nolasky

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For a mere $17, I am tempted hahaha

It's the American Girl doll New Orleans Saints ensemble, a thing that exists although I cannot explain why.

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was literally trying to explain to my husband the other night why women got bad vibes off Bernie Sanders back in the day, and it's 100% him hanging out with dudes like this.

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Mike Bischoff @mpbmke.com · 27/09/2026

They should be careful. We killed everything from the diamond industry to fast casual restaurants, we can still come for them.

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this is just a holdover for when i would always do it too early and the damn things wouldn't work. Also I always look 1000 years old using the tap or phone, because WHY DO THE PAY THINGIES ALL HAVE THE SPOT IN DIFFERENT PLACES. You stand there trying different ways like, derp derp

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is NOT A DRILL. We are up to Jose Chung’s From Outer Space in our X-Files rewatch

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I thought everyone but me hated the candy corn & tiny pumpkins made of pure corn syrup. And then I discovered my husband GOT INTO THEM LAST NIGHT. Before I even had some!

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You know what, on second thought I'll pass on Bluesky today

Trending:
1. Peter Thiel remarks on morality
2. Rahm Emanuel weighs 2028 run
3. Debate over iced coffee at interviews

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

once again the actual "story" behind Tilly Norwood is how the company's PR firm continues to get these stories placed in ostensibly legit outlets over and over despite zero demonstration of the supposed phenomenon being written about ("AI movie star Tilly Norwood") being real

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As a Lady Who Carries a Giant Purse, I can have whatever I want and no one will know. Men, you gotta be safe enough in your masculinity to have a giant bag. Solves all sorts of issues.

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As a fan of both, there's literally no way Downton Abbey is better than the Expanse. Like, in no universe.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just found multiple 1-2 sentence book pitches in my notes app that I have NO MEMORY of writing or even ever thinking about. Clearly the 3 AM ones haha

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I yell at the kitten so much that when the robot vacuum did something I wanted it to stop, I called it Liara

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This week has been such a struggle. We have learned I cannot fly 6 time zones west, which I also learned when I went to Hawaii 3 years ago but I hoped it was a fluke. Going the other direction is fine!! 😭

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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

adding on to this: national Dem support for Democratic candidates has historically been almost completely absent in red states. if the Democrats would care to get behind this candidate on a national level, I think it has the potential to change the race. people DO NOT LIKE Letlow.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

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🦉 @theowlseye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Using AI to make a bunch of slogans you can find on mugs with clearance stickers at TJ Maxx

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

why is there always SO MUCH RANDOM TEXT in inconsistent fonts?

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Picking up the Kaweco AL-Sport I have been wanting on my trip to England... admittedly I just bought it there bc I wanted to remember buying it in Oxford. Inked with Oxford Blue (it was already my favorite blue, but appropriate!)

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I got like 4 slightly different darjeelings in a tea shop in Bath, so I can't wait for the weather here to cool off so I can get back into tea

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I can confirm the books are great--and also we don't want these cats getting out and getting lost!

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

OMG this exact thing happened to my friend 2 years ago. She kept texting me photos like "I'm on a bus! Driving through Iceland! We've been driving for an hour! NO ONE KNOWS what is going on!"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

video games as a whole make hundreds of billions of dollars a year and apparently somehow nobody can make any money on them or pay anyone to make them

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is partly a story of personal corruption and government waste but the driving force is consistent with RFK Jr's policy objectives: he is a eugenicist who wants certain groups of people to die.

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“You’re 45, so it’s time to get a colonoscopy.” Cold. Impersonal. Uninspiring. “Two score and five autumns have cooled your brow, so we must search your corn-maze for haunts.” Mysterious. Fun. Seasonal.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/09/2026

there are so many amazing, life-changing things you can do with computers and i think it's a serious problem the companies that make them keep trying to sell them by saying "do you hate everyone in your life? are you less of a person than a hollow automaton waiting to be told what to do by me?"

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s so cool that every American elite is desperate to stop having to think for themselves or learn anything

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Looking at jobs for the first time in... 7 years? And immediately depressed about how half the writing jobs are editing slop that AI churns out. I CAN'T HELP. IT SUCKS. HIRE A PERSON. I wouldn't get through the interview lol

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

fucks sake, I don't even have a REAL ID. What the hell is the point of getting one then

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 21/09/2026

“Everything is 40% more expensive because of AI” is a great line for an opposition party trying to unseat the AI-supported incumbents, if any Democratic consultants wanted to take a short break from dehumanizing trans kids to actually try winning a contested election.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/09/2026

I have an AI booster in family circle who has explained to me that AI could lift the “drudgery” of writing… and then proceeds to list the fun parts of writing. Which leaves me to like format the book and do intense copy editing on some shit I didn’t even write?

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A typical morning at the Anthropic head office

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think this is giving a religion that has survived the depiction of its prophets as anthropomorphic vegetables too little credit

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good god RFK looks like something hiding inside a wall on the X-Files

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