Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It's just bizarre that this is not part of every discussion where someone is talking about ai feelings/sentience. 030
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026What makes me good at my job isn't just that I'm good at the work. It's that I know a lot about it, and can make unusual connections between things that don't appear related, in part because I retain information from all the times I've had to plow through a lot of stuff for another task. 020
Reposted by TorethaBookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores. 2854543345
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ET in the middle of the stuffed animals. I was maybe 3 or 4 and walked into a room where my cousins were watching ET right at that scene. Horrifying. 010
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm firmly of the opinion that that is the best sort of craft desk 000
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's just easier to have proof that it's [harmful/not private/not actually making scientific discovery/deskilling] readily available 000
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm so fed up with people talking about how useful ai is in meetings that I've started keeping a folder of news articles about ai being terrible 111
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Huh I just opened bsky after being told an allo dude is jealous of ace people because he'd like to have more time for his hobbies, so this scream worked out timely for me even though I don't know what movie it is 100
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Also! It's always presented as the adult children leaving. But how often do they leave because they've asked again and again for change and been denied? The choice is often made by both sides, the parents choosing not to change, and yet framed only as the children's action. 000
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A word on these "experts." When she was a teen someone told my sister that she should become a psychologist, and she looked horrified and said she would NEVER asked why, she said, "have you seen what they do to their children?" Their degrees do not make them safe viewpoints 130
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I haven't and won't read it; they're always the same: about the perspective of the cut off parents and the "experts" who aren't the therapists working with the adult kids cutting them off. It's an obvious power choice of whose perspective matters in the articles, and it's never the one leaving. 141
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Does she make herself a real hazard when I'm going a paint by the numbers and cause multiple smears by nuzzling the paintbrush? Yes. Is she also totally worth every smear and washed paw with her incredible cuteness? Very yes. 020
Reposted by TorethaODB @obitron.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026a lot of white queers don't understand what whiteness is, and that makes much of their interactions with queer folk of color suck, so I'll explain a little. The two facets of whiteness that are most important in this context are that it is a social and legal exemption from racial oppression. 51137512
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026And the answer in our society for a crime is.... To lock the crime committer away from society, which while I object to our current incarceration system for humans seems like a really appropriate penalty for a computer program-it's taken offline and not allowed to operate for a few decades 060
Reposted by TorethaAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Honestly, the asexuality part is really important. (Polyamory too for legal reasons especially.) People always demand why asexuality requires protection, but it’s already happening in many religiously conservative places—it’s being labeled a deviant “ideology”. 4311105
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It always scares me the tone people take like their forcible correction suggestions are to help me, not a threat, they genuinely seem to believe it. 031
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026God yes, I've felt so much safer since I started calling myself queer. And I now vet new therapists by sending them an email saying I'm ace and like it asking if that will be an issue they can navigate me mentioning without trying to to fix or pathologize. Saves me a lot of energy. 020
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'm getting worried about this fuel situation as summer turns into fall, which will turn into winter. Oil heaters are hard enough for people to afford oil for now, I'm really worried about what will happen this winter with that. 000
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I've run over an alligator in a canoe, and I'm giggling over the idea of watching Olympians trying to keep their boat from throwing them in the water/trying to turn hard in the middle of a race. The idea of the commentary we'd get! 050
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In the us, state law determines what's allowed so different states may have different answers. In the state I live in that's allowed 010
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Ughhhhhhhhghhbvfjpckgpciyvholh vphjvp I mean, saw it coming but 000
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Young person: so I have jury duty, but I don't know the law how will that work? Me: *explains fact finding and judge instruction of the jury re: law* Also me: it's also important that you remember that jury nullification is part of why we have juries, let me explain that to you, little tadpole 141
Reposted by TorethaHildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This post is making the rounds again for some reason and therefore I feel I must inform you that they’ve hired another one so there are now TWO forensic pathologists working in Iceland. 542430586
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 15/09/2026God bless the lunatics who made legends of tomorrow and it's insane over the top glory in every episode. And especially bless the soundtrack people for going so brilliantly along with every over the top theme 000
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Me, an anxious Muppet: MY CAT DRANK FOUR LICKS OF A PEPPERMINT MILKSHAKE I MUST CALL PET POISON CONTROL 000
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 11/09/2026One of MY best friends is trans and was delighted with you saying that when I showed him your screenshots. 030
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 11/09/2026One of my trans friends once told me he knows people use him as the "one of my best friends is trans" and he always wants to tell them that just because he's friends with them doesn't mean he endorses them to people. 070
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The sequel to an unlikely coven is coming out this fall! 000
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Preordering is like sending Future You random surprise presents 030
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My first reaction is to question if this is legal for people in two party consent states to use. 000
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'm much more low brow than you (see what I did there?) and my favourite part is when Gen tells the Magus that HE arranged proper not horse riding transportation for HIS road trip 150
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026But then you can read return of the thief! Which does not contain a lot of costis and kamet but which does really satisfying stuff in other directions so you end up feeling sated anyway 000
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026And you know at least three people who will know all the crucial details and be very happy to share or get your reactions 100
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026You should for sure do that. Or! Finish and then reread! It's a series that really repays the reader who has read all the books rereading 100
Reposted by TorethaXerrickLaMerrick @xerricklamerrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026IMPORTANT INFORMATION 073
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A. I'm going with the numbers all the other ones depend on your case not being dismissed 000
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 06/09/2026(I'm still periodically going around the city and putting zines and whistles in bus stops though, local officials aren't enough) 000
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Which is to say: local officials are a pressure point that makes a big difference and who are much more susceptible to local advocacy because they have to live with you 100
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Cops in my city refused to even let ice park in their parking lot. We're not safe--but other cities in the state are getting a lot more ice than we are now. 110
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Can you look at this picture and believe I never made pasties or worked with puff pastry before? 100
Toretha @toretha.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Were they trolling readers? A terrible boss who got malicious compliance after telling an abused under-editor to make a table of contents? Someone who just broke up with a Tolkien scholar and this was their revenge? 010
