Quark Bee

Quark Bee

@quarkbee.bsky.social

tired and jaded, here for the cats and the gay stuff Trans Rights and Free Palestine

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I cordially invite everyone involved in green lighting this documentary to take a long walk off a short pier above a raw sewage outfall in the North Sea. Without a snorkel.

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Seeing Merz whine about German workers being "lazy" (again) it occurred to me that fucksticks like him have managed to embed capitalist propaganda into literal dictionary definitions of German words. Specifically, two compound nouns that appear on the news daily: "Arbeitgeber" and "Arbeitnehmer".

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The alleged "work givers" TAKE work from the alleged "work takers", and the alleged "work takers" GIVE work to the alleged "work givers".

Capitalist bastards have been manipulating the German language since the industrial revolution, to the point they have managed to embed capitalist propaganda into the very dictionary definition of words, in a sleight of hand that defines takers as givers, and givers as takers.

Seeing Merz whine about German workers being "lazy" (again) it occurred to me that fucksticks like him have managed to embed capitalist propaganda into literal dictionary definitions of German words. Specifically, two compound nouns that appear on the news daily: "Arbeitgeber" and "Arbeitnehmer".

"Arbeitgeber" ("employer") literally means "work giver" while "Arbeitnehmer" ("employee") literally means "work taker". Which is THE OPPOSITE of their roles: Employers *extract* (take) labour (for profit), employees *supply* (give) it (for salaries that increasingly don't cover the cost of living)

Today, on the occasion of Spain's "day of hispanicity" (?) I feel compelled to state that am a huge fan of the Christopher Columbus monument in Barcelona because he's pointing east like a dipshit and there's always a pigeon shitting on his stupid head. Happy puente, everyone, and fuck Columbus.

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Trans voice actresses of color (Black, Asian/Pacific Islander, Indigenous, Latina, SWANA), I wanna know how many of y’all are on BlueSky! If any of you know any BIPOC trans actresses, feel free to share recommendations as well!🏳️‍⚧️✨

I'm gonna change my name to Alfredo so I can go by Al and tell rich dipshits that I'm the future and they can either accept that and give me their money, or get left behind.

As a speaker of British English I would have chosen the term "rubbish" over "garbage" but other than that I have no notes on this eloquent statement.

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WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE A HAUNTED TOE THAT FELL OFF A WHITE DUDE'S DIABETIC FOOT

Bill Corbett@billcorbett.bsky.social

Infuriating attempt by Zuckerberg et al to worm their way into our lives even more. And then to create this fake Adventure Time abomination to do so? UNACCEPTABLE! www.bbc.com/future/artic...

the German for "bra" is "BH" which is short for "Büstenhalter" ("bust holder") if you're 100 years old, or "Busenhalter" ("boob holder") if you're not also the German for "nipple" is "Brustwarze" which literally means "breast wart" you're welcome

On this day in 1714, Barcelona fell to the Bourbons after 14 months of brutal siege, betrayed by the dastardly British. On this day in 1973, the USA supported a military coup in Chile that killed Salvador Allende, its democratically elected leader, installing a brutal dictatorship.

On today's sombre day for Norway you should know that the King they're mourning, to them, shall forever be known as "Kong Harald" and I think that is beautiful.

Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty AI Firm: the tap water in your glass is now a sludgy brown and it's also flammable - swallow it or be left behind by the Future, you pathetic worm

Listen. My explosive diarrhoea is from 💯 certified organic cryptosporidium only. I don't want my pathogens to be doused in pesticides and chemical fertilizers.

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The biggest single source of primary microplastics in the environment, by FAR, is car tyres.

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

("primary microplastics" means that they're already micro when they enter the environment - there's also a fucktonne of secondary microplastics from larger plastic crap that has disintegrated)

Just went to the pharmacy to pick up my Salbutamol inhaler and do you know what I had to pay for the thing? FORTY NINE EUROPEAN CENTS. The consultation with the doctor who prescribed it for me cost nothing. I GLADLY pay taxes to support public healthcare and will defend it until my dying breath.

Top 15 tv shows ever, gut instinct only: Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Good Place Derry Girls Fawlty Towers Die Sendung mit der Maus Pan Tau Sesame Street Star Trek Voyager Star Trek DS 9 Don't trust the B in Apt 23 The Pitt The Golden Girls ALF Chernobyl Coronation Street

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@olivia.science how does one respond constructively, without expletives, to someone simulating humans in ChatGPT to "develop better policy options for justice and sustainability"? (Janne M. Korhonen in case he blocks me. Wouldn't even blame him, my responses seem unhinged. Men like him trigger me.)

Janne M. Korhonen@jmkorhonen.fi

So. I study how well LLMs can simulate human responses. Tuning an #LLM to respond like a particular human or a group is a legit idea that interests not only marketing companies but academic researchers too. (Me, for one.) And the results can be *surprisingly* good. Like 85% accurate. (Thread.)

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social wrote that the phrase "nobody saw it coming" tells you who the speaker considers to be "nobody" Because plenty of "nobodies" DID see it coming: feminists, black people, disabled activists, environmental justice activists, indigenous people, trans and other queer people...

I think the exact same applies to the lament I hear a lot right now, from all the Cassandras: "Nobody listened". Plenty of people DID listen. Let's not erase them by calling them "nobody". Let's not refer to OURSELVES as "nobody".

We WERE listening, and we're NOT nobody. We just lacked power. It's time to seize that power back from the motherfuckers who took it from us.

Hard disagree. Children and adults can and do enjoy a lot of the same things. What we *do* need to get better about casting off, though, is stuff that upon reflection is actually pure shit. Like stories where a girl gets ridiculed for wanting to abolish slavery and the hero ends up being chief cop

Boo!-per Lund@cooperlund.online

My increasingly close-held crank take is that we need to be way better about casting off childish things, or at the bare minimum recognizing they’re for children and feeling weird about that

As a bone fide biologist, let me say that the UK High Court has just demonstrated that it doesn't know *fuck* about human biology. Or what the word "biological" even means. Also, I kinda wish I *weren't* a biologist, because if I was a rocket scientist, I could fire JK Rowling into the fucking sun