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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

and even if they did... it wouldn't be. sorry, man: even if I couldn't tell the difference with my ears, it matters to me that people made it. especially when it comes to art and media. it's part of the soul of it. a blood diamond is still a blood diamond. the card my kid drew is THEIR art.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ours passed yesterday. it's hard. I'm so sorry you're going through it, too. just want you to know you're not alone and... it's hard. losing family is hard.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Why should my tax dollars go to giving houses to people who can't afford them?" Why should MY tax dollars should go to satisfying your desire to see desperate people living desperate lives? I'd rather save money and solve the problem, rather than spend money to exacerbate it.

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Already noticed some AAA games from the last few years slipping in quality due to the attack on labourers by the wealthy class and uh... I think gamers need to know it's gonna keep deteriorating in small ways, not a big bang Games will still drop for a while, but they'll be quietly worse

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

the cash, hands down. the potential debt exceeds my personal capacity to pay and exceeds the guaranteed reward by 20x. if I could afford the debt, maaaybe I would think harder about the gamble. but probably would land on the guaranteed income either way.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

pausing to complement your colors, and I really enjoy how you do proportions - lovely balance of stylized and natural. thank you for sharing your work and art! imo this piece came out wonderful - you added some art sunshine to at least this internet stranger's timeline, and it's appreciated. :)

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

as someone who used to work in trust and safety at Facebook / Meta, I sometimes think "I couldn't possibly despise Meta leadership more than I already do." and then, somehow, they prove me wrong again. and again.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

answering "yes" to this question immediately disqualifies you from being an expert, so the subhead makes no sense.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

just pausing to say thank you for sharing your voice, work, and art with us. you add sunshine to the timeline, and it's truly appreciated. I also love how you do figures - feels like a mix of anime and quirky modern western cartoons (eg, owl house) and yet also unique to you. lovely and charming!

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

i adore a great deal about your art (the characters are absolute sunshine). but I especially want to shout out how good you are at creating a scene that has a coherent emotion just baked into it. like, that beach picture radiates peaceful cheer in the same way that oven-fresh cookies smell good.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

even if they weren't drivers of unkindness (of acting or supporting overt transphobia), they were drivers of indifference and of looking away (or not looking at all).

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

both of these removed subtle (but big) feelings that didn't make me ACT explicitly transphobic, but that probably added friction to my choices to listen to, learn about, engage, or support transgender people, community, and causes.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

in my case, this largely reaffirmed my cis identity to myself (though it did also help me challenge what that meant). but more importantly, it taught my brain that there was nothing unsafe about this, and helped me build empathy with folks on those journeys.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I just personally found this practice to be a powerful part of my personal experience in breaking down my own implicit / unconscious sources of transphobia. at least for me, I think one of those sources was a fear of the question itself. this practice helped remove that fear.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I don't disagree with this, but do want to add: I think it's good to intentionally take moments and ask yourself if you might be trans, and to imagine yourself as the opposite gender or agender. Not because I think it's likely you'll be surprised by the answer! (cont)

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

lol, ya. just took me a moment to transition from thinking this was a health info share (learn what's going around so you can be prepared!) to realizing it was a FUN info share (cool insects!).

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

lol, don't worry. it's tame. I just read this as "getting (sick with) the bug of the month (that the kids brought home)".

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

this is helpful. but I can tell I have the brain of a parent-with-kids-in-school, because I read this very differently than intended, lol.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

in addition to being lies made in bad faith, this is such a bleak worldview. "THEY are hurt, therefore WE have won." even if you believe that the destruction and suffering was worthwhile (it wasn't) or necessary (it wasn't)... what did it make better? (nothing - it made the world worse)

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

in other words: AI works best when it... is developed the way ML is meant to be developed, lol. which could be achieved with much more focused, less expensive, and more accurate ML solutions.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

and when does it sometimes work kinda ok? when it's used by experts on their area of expertise... esp if the use is focused on (relatively) structured and context-insensitive inputs (eg, code)... and esp if developers of AI tend to be familiar with or sensitive to those use cases (eg, CODE).

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

put together, it encourages ongoing and at scale compute to try to get a non-specialized tool to do stuff it wasn't really designed for (since it wasn't designed for much in particular).

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

and it is presented confidently to a general audience, with fig leaves for attempts to educate and convey limits (at best, usually just enough to limit liability; at worst, marketing to make AI seem like more than it is).

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

solve-anything AI is built on tools and methods that are inherently NOT meant to be solve-anything. it's built at a scale and speed that makes the needed expert curation, review, and context understanding impossible.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

because of those constraints, good ML is rarely power or compute hungry at anything like the scale of "AI". high compute is usually restricted to development, maintenance, or targeted runs limited people or orgs (the audience / consumers of the tool).

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

good ML: * carefully designed for narrow contexts (or with awareness of context limits) * designed by ML and topical experts, with expert curated data and expert reviewed outputs * designed for specific needs and consumers, and kept up to date for both * clear training / comms on use and limits

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

they're happily dragging a genuinely powerful and valuable discipline and collection of tools into the mud to break things and make money. and they either understand ML enough to know it and they don't care, or they're ignorant (and probably don't care or can't see it).

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I'll take this a step further: most of the AI proponents I see - especially with social platforms - don't understand the methods, theories, debates, and philosophies of machine learning either (aka - the three raccoons raccoons tech companies are shoving into a trenchcoat and calling AI).

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

it's all politics. and that's ok. we need to stop letting people hide their politics - and / or their disinterest in participating in or supporting their communities - behind vague claims of being "apolitical".

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

instead we pretend that having a heterosexual romance in a show is not political, but having a transgender character is political. no, they're both "political" and if you think one is ok and the other isn't SAY IT WITH YOUR CHEST, YOU TRANSPHOBIC COWARD.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

they're just arguing about what politics get to be seen as so normal or acceptable that they FEEL invisible. are there beliefs and politics that SHOULDN'T be tolerated? YES, I THINK SO. and we should have honest conversations about what we allow (and how it gets represented).

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

the folks arguing about keeping "politics" out of X or Y thing are really just saying "keep belief, group, process, or organization that seems bad OR uncomfortable OR unusual TO ME out of it." there are plenty of politics in the thing no matter what!

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

sure, you can argue that it is more political when those processes and organizations get more formalized. but if you have beliefs about what you or other people should do or be able to do, how communities should be managed, how harms should be addressed, etc: THOSE ARE POLITICAL BELIEFS.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

the "I don't do politics" thing is so hollow, empty to me. you ARE part of communities. EVERY community creates processes and organizations for communicating, understanding, negotiating, and organizing with itself and other communities. those processes? politics. those organizations? political.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

this is stunning - the colors and the scene made made me feel lighter. thank you for sharing your art and work, and for bringing sunshine to the timeline.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

thank you for sharing the post, and your own feelings and experience.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

and if you are on the left and you didn't vote for Harris: I don't blame you! we shouldn't have to vote for the "lesser evil", esp one that actively doesn't respect us or try to meet us.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

everyone on the "left" that I know voted for Harris. did we champion her or defend her? no, and why would we? what were we offered directly or as a compromise that would earn that? we're just as valid as the mythical centrist, AND WE DON'T REQUIRE SHIT COMPROMISES TO "APPEAL" TO US.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

"the LEFT helped Trump win!" no they didn't. a broken capital-owned media, abused and capital-influenced government, and Democrats did tho. Democrats in particularly assumed the left would support them (as always), and so were fine actively ignoring or disparaging them.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

why would I vocally support a candidate who doesn't rep me or my community? no thanks: I'll criticize you and push for someone better, and if that hurts your campaign THAT'S ON YOU. you might get my "least evil" vote if there are no other options, but you don't deserve my respect or work for that.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

wild too how little folks seem to understand talking to power. will i vote for the last shitty option when we get there? ya. but until we get there: NO I WON'T. you want my support? earn it. you want me to defend you? earn it. you want my commitment to vote for you? earn it.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

ya, grew up in Minnesota and I've always just assumed that "ope" (not really a thing) was how people heard Minnesotans say "oops" or "oh" (ya, pretty common and we kinda drop the "s"). now, if you wanna talk "duck, duck, grey duck" or "hot dish"... those topics got some meat on them (pun intended).

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

thank you for sharing your joy with the timeline. may you have much more. =)

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

just a passing internet stranger saying: that sucks and I'm so sorry you've ever experienced that. thank you for calling it out, and may you never have to again.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

hey man, kinda insensitive. those are COMBAT PIERCINGS and they're an important part of her CULTURE. in this essay I will explain the ways your actions were offensive to gith everywhere... 1/50

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

is that Claudia Black? absolute legend of voice acting, acting, and just being cool af?

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

these are all wonderful, and the elf in the bottom left (the third picture?) is immediately one of my favorite fantasy arts ever. thank you for sharing your work, time, and art! the sunshine you give is truly appreciated. :)

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

oh man. I made a mini rant about this a day or two ago. it's either intentional bad practice or such a waste of an opportunity to NOT did into those discrepancies. bsky.app/profile/yeta...

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