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Tim Chevalier

@youwere.cool
250 followers 171 following 415 posts

Semi-retired poster. Abolish policing, abolish borders, abolish the family, fuck LLMs. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸he/him

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
one thing about the AI in schools discourse is that while I think it's quite correct to assume it will be used to screw poor people out of a good education, the assumption that rich people won't hollow out their own kids' educations with expensive/exclusive versions of the same thing does not follow
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Matt Siegel @mattsiegel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
reminder, newsom is a fascist scumbag throwing unhoused people under the bus was one indication he doesn't give a shit about human rights individuals and institutions that don't support human rights need to be undermined and drained of power
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is your reminder not to let those joyless fucks convince you that human experience, knowledge, intellect, and art can be reduced to a pre-chewed paste of stolen labor.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The good men, the friends and lovers even, say to me later "well why didn't you just tell that creep off" as though I wouldn't be accused of starting shit, as though they'd stand up for me and not interrogate me to make the creep comfortable instead. Experience tells me most men will do the latter.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Tie, Rapidly Approaching @tietuesday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oh also add in "AI is the super riches attempt to capture and control thought and effort and public opinion and serves very little actual purpose"
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Tie, Rapidly Approaching @tietuesday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
screaming "trans rights free Palestine fuck all recruiters tricking the young gambling is a blight and i think we will look back at it the same way we do cigarettes now" at the start of every stream to give everyone an ad-free experience
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 29/09/2026
I'm supposed to ask the guy that stole all my work how to do my job and pay him for the privilege. and I'm supposed to be excited about it
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
given the sex cult stuff, and i guess the return to office mandate wasn't really anything more than "it's easier to fuck your secretary when you're both in the office"
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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i think about this post all the time. you might too
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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it’s really cool that somehow the media environment is so broken that the average legacy newspaper’s primary incentive is to become Kiwifarms
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 08/08/2025
part of my resentment towards LLMs is to do with them crowding out anything else we could be talking about. there are so many things I could be reading to get better at my craft but I'm presented with "you should actually get worse at it on purpose because nothing matters any more"
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Marcy @deadheadgirly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Feeling more and more like the Democrat platform regarding trans people is: Officially- yeah, they are icky and we'll do what we can to keep them upstairs when company comes over. Unofficially- we actually love you guys but have to pretend we don't. Don't take it personally. VOTE BLUE!!
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026
Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud
60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/09/2026
Right this is what I find so maddening. As far as I can tell, the problems LLMs are "solving" are caused by a combination of increasingly constraining application design and learned helplessness. MS office used to ship with a version of Visual Basic!
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
I’m gonna keep saying it. It‘s not purity tests. Or trans people. Or Black, disabled or queer people that got us Trump. It’s cishet white guys. you sound like a fool suggesting otherwise.
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💀 Em-balmed Arcadia 💀 @emarcadia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a good reminder that the Catholic church in the US has imposed a trans health care ban so severe that no elected Republican has been willing to even suggest making a similar law. The Pope has acquiesced to this ban.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the pope is anti-trans too and i'm nooticing a lot of you seem to be chill with that
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Like, genuinely, cis friends, cis followers: when you call something this administration does, something donald trump or elon musk or pete hesgeth does, "gender affirming care," as mockery, what point do you think you're making? what do you think the joke is, and who is the butt of it? stop.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 19/09/2026
The inference to make from this: it is safe to apply for and renew trusted traveller programme cards as long as your passport gender on your current passport is correct.
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🌑 @fell.energy · 18/09/2026
they dont care about kids except to abuse them and want adult targets that are easier to paint
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🌑 @fell.energy · 18/09/2026
our incongruity offends your sensibilities maybe you should let us have lives that are as close to normal as possible
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🌑 @fell.energy · 18/09/2026
puberty blockers were the compromise you motherfuckers
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cis people don't give a fuck if trans kids are gonna die, that's the fact. Democratic politicians don't give a *fuck*. This is a blue state with blue senators and a blue governor and nobody is protecting these kids. It's abysmal. And to be clear, adult care is next. We adults are not safe at all.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
In the past year, the Defense Department has rapidly made Maven a cornerstone of the US military apparatus. Several former senior US military officials now work for Palantir, including some with high-level security clearances in Centcom’s Tampa headquarters. Their role is to keep the software functioning inside secure military environments. Some Centcom personnel expected Maven to flag stale information or inconsistencies in the underlying intelligence assembled for potential targets, the officials said. It’s not clear why they had such expectations.
The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
These hospitals are failing at their jobs, and the states' attorneys general should be holding them to account for failing at their legal obligations, too. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/doj-s...
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DOJ Secures Agreements with NYU and UPMC to End Pediatric “Gender-Affirming Care”
Today, the Department of Justice announced agreements with two of the nation’s largest health care systems—New York University Langone Hospitals (“NYU”) and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (“U...
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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 18/09/2026
( web.archive.org/web/20160319... if you're curious, although the part about the name change is oral history that I can't find a citation for. The last time I checked, his surname at birth wasn't documented.)
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Genealogy of Antoine Cezar Chevalier and his Descendants
History of the Chevalier family
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
and so white nationalism must be a response to something, it can't be it is own ideological formation with its own history driven by people with their own agency
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
...given that right-wing political orgs are acknowledging that anti-trans ads have limited effect, it just seems like the Dems who have recently taken up anti-trans positions are doing so because in their hearts they are opposed to trans ppl existing & having equal rights bsky.app/profile/erin...
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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 18/09/2026
I never know what to say when people tell me I have a cool last name. Maybe, “Thanks, Napoleon gave it to my great-great-grandfather”?
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026
Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”
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Gretchen Leigh 🇨🇦 @gretchenleigh.zone · 17/09/2026
There’s this “AI is actually useful for coding” undercurrent that’s infected even largely anti-AI spaces, and I don’t think people are really going to realize how much asbestos is in the walls until the software ecosystem collapses.
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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 17/09/2026
yeah, the weird dichotomy between "AI for art" and "AI for code" has always bothered me. it's *all* bad, that distinction is meaningless.
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
it is and was always in retrospect too easy for implicit bias and explicit bigotry to discursively hijack the primacy of “feeling unsafe.”
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17/09/2026
Do not underestimate the power of your own individual NO. Ripples in the pond. We never know how things can reverberate. It all matters.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 17/09/2026
Some people may be confused by the recurring conflict between the transgender community and Bluesky moderation staff. So here's a quick explainer: Every single decision, since day one, that the Bluesky staff ever made has been wrong
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is why, rather than persuade us or reach out to us, they attempt to intimidate and silence us. We are not seen as of them- they see us like the Undecided movement, as an outside threat that might destabilize their coalition if we are allowed to speak.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 17/09/2026
The biggest problem with this website is that the people that make it use it way too much.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The thing about trying not to pick a side is that the nazis *instantly recognize* which side you picked. They immediately identify you as an ally. They know exactly what side you're on. It doesn't fool the victims, it doesn't fool the Nazis, the only people it could possibly fool is centrists.
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Lady Ru’etha & Timbit @ruetha.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Get vaccinated. Wear your masks. If someone in your household gets it, get Paxlovid or the new medication Xocova. Wear your masks. If you have immune compromised friends or family, test weekly. Wear your masks.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026
The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
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Tim Chevalier @youwere.cool · 15/09/2026
Pfft, I can be extremely annoying online and I consume a lot less water
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Virgo's Constant Groove @ceencrumpets.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A lot of things that have paywalls actually do not if you use the library.
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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I swear every time I see another scare piece about kids and medication, I get a little more radicalized favor of putting vending machines in all public facilities (including middle schools) that dispense estradiol, testosterone, progesterone, mifepristone, d-amphetamine, THC, MDMA, psilocybin, etc.
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