Mrs. Darsy is Writing 🏳️‍🌈

Popping in to say, long live truly free speech and true journalism. My husband used to update his website with quotes every so often. Here's the one from January 2002:

Oh my god if Emma were around today, she would one hundred percent be a menace in the comments on AO3, starting fights over competing headcanons.

RIP Walter❤️

Been saying for a while that these folks are going to get a bunch of businessmen and billionaires on their side and make a centrist party that takes over everything with milquetoast 'concern' style Speaking To The History Books governance. I should write that novel so I look prescient I guess.

EVERYTHING wrong with this but I noticed: he's wearing a uniform, yes? So the adults involved don't seem to want to defend him, AND it seems like this is meant to have a chilling effect on him for continuing. As in 'you don't get to play because the other kids' parents will risk your life w/cops.'

When we signed my youngest up for piano lessons they asked us for something similar and I spent a while trying to figure out how to explain this extraordinary, clever child to someone who had never met her before. Imagine being so daunted by that you outsource it to something that CAN'T meet her??

ive talked on how i wont engage with writers who use ai, i wont eat at a restaurant with an ai menu, i wont have anything to do with it. but what this post illustrates is regardless of how OTHERS react, ultimately the worst part about using ai is that you are punishing YOURSELF and dont even know it

What if 'no one wants to work anymore' in 2026 is more about how flooded every job application process is with bots?

Jesus Christ, these people fucking suck. What is even the point of not responding with a simple, "Yes, of course"? Even for people who don't like El-Sayed, you sound like a fucking mutant who was raised in a lab with this answer.

I love it for Ramaswamy that he has tanked his entire political career and made Amy Acton a classic study in courage with one, single ad drop.

It's a central pillar of MAGA to never admit fault, to never back down and when confronted, double down. This is the logical outcome.

if you're at the top of your field and you don't even want to try anymore, then get out of the way and let someone else take the wheel for a change. jesus christ.

Remember 'the only moral abortion is my abortion?' Apply that to the entire *concept* of hypocrisy. A 'wife guy' who often talked about how despicable cheaters are cheated. A candidate arrested for child endangerment goes on to call her opponent unsafe for kids. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT HYPOCRISY.

I saw some folks on Reddit suggest he knows he's going to lose and did this so that his 'Acton Wins' bets on Polymarket will make up for the mess he's made. I guess it's a win/win--he shows MAGA voters who he truly is & wins their hearts OR he makes bank.

They're ready to let us end up in a fascist religious autocratic surveillance state to preserve their righteous, bipartisan image in future history books... ...only to end up in those history books as even worse because the fascist religious autocratic surveillance state will write them.

It's Philip K. Dick's world; we just have the misfortune to live in it.

that's the way the Jets Lag!

I think we need to consider the possibility he’s made a huge Polymarket bet on Acton winning the election and is actively trying to throw it

When I was a kid my family went to DC to see the cherry blossoms every single year (my uncle and aunt both worked in the Pentagon so we'd be visiting them as well). We visited enough through each year that I knew DC better than my local city. I was PROUD to. This is heartbreaking.

It wasn't just Tommy he was talking to, it was the person in the crowd who came in and thought "is Tommy right?" and left thinking "I think Tommy's wrong."

My FIRST thought was JFK and gosh, I love how you hold interest and speaks to truth in a crowd because YEP you bring that up. It's almost bringing me to tears as someone who used to want to be a speechwriter, someone who's obsessed with history. Thank you for this hope, Sir.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Tip I discovered while doing this - you may also want to toggle off the “deep search only” button, which is on by default.

Been waiting for this @drewmagary.bsky.social review since the second the first Elizabeth Holmes trailer dropped. AND IT DELIVERS. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

This is such a stupid attempt at dividing people. This is a good take, it doesn't much matter who makes it. Siccing 8 million people (with a video that has 45 million views) on a small business, even if it's owned by wealthy people, is bad. Check out Pablo Torre's recent video, 'nuff said.

Chris warns crickets could 'self-replicate' in moist kitchen crevices, can only be stopped if you give Chris more money to buy crickets

hey quick question if an ai company is warning that 'rogue ai agents' could self replicate in our 'smart' appliances, that means they should be working toward making sure that doesn't happen with their own product, right right?

the year is 2026. it’s unclear if the white house press secretary knows how to read.

I'm a trans woman, my life is inherently political whether I want it to be or not, so I try to keep my social media presence as a fairly bummer-free zone. But if you live in Arizona, please vote in these midterms, 'cause I'm kinda terrified of what's on the ballot right now.

all chutes no ladders today

The new waffle place near us just put up slop poster and it looks like the waffle is made it constrained beans or pupating or something. Even if I didn't hate slop I would hate ordering something that looks like this; do people just not know what food looks like? How are people printing these lol

Generations is still one of the most beautiful Star Trek films, whatever else you might say of it. The D never looked better.

If you ever need a stellar example of rape culture, look no further.

I was so horrified to watch Hannah Fry's video on how she tried an AI Agent and WHOOPS it emailed all the journalists on her contact list and teehee, bought hundreds of paper clips and oh gosh, it posted her passwords publicly. You'd fire a human assistant! Fire this one!!

if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult

I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'

Fair winds sir, from a fellow Aliquippa alum.

Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!

Also stop the repulsive grandiosity and smug threats about your product. I’m gonna be left behind? What the fuck are you even talking about? I don’t care! I’m old and have plenty to do and don’t want to follow your parade of lazy shitheads! I don’t know enough about it? Yes I do! You failed.

Also do the honest work of eliminating any trace of plagiarism in your beloved product. How? Not my fucking problem! If you can’t run your business / technology without stealing other people’s work, it deserves to die. Personally I’m happy to see it die, so don’t try to make it my responsibility.

The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.

Wake up, babe, a new 'basic humanity' poll is out

Always a fan of comments that are funny both in and out of context

This is yet another example of how when you have enough money and fame you can AFFORD to ignore the differences between yourself and, say, a Trump supporter. Likely nothing that guy will do can actually hurt you, so why not make a solidarity track?? ffs