Cristin, the dyke who hates ice

Intro! I'm Cristin. I've been working in visual effects for a very long time in the media I love dearly: movies and tv. I post about all kinds of stuff from machine learning to #vfx to disability rights to camera design and more. I am a #wheelchair user, queer AF, and intersectional feminist...

You look down and you see a tortoise, Marissa, it's crawling towards you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back Marissa. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without your help...

you know, I never thought that my collection of vintage geiger counters would ever fucking actually be needed. but ffs, the last thing we need is a technofascist with plutonium who has no fucking idea what he is doing.

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

Elon Musk just poured half a million dollars into this race to try to keep his puppet Mike Lawler in office, just like he did back in 2024. But the Hudson Valley can’t be bought. Mike Lawler has sold out to his trillionaire and corporate backers at our expense —

in the narrative of this ad, kyle, our white plagiarist, isn't even depicted as worried about his own job performance; he steals labor because seeing someone who's not a white guy being praised "really got to him" if that doesn't sum up where we are with all of this, i don't know what does

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

We cannot merely vote. We cannot merely vote in numbers so massive, MAGA is drowned in their wake. We must make it clear what are votes are for & about: a real repudiation of the whole fascist agenda not only a backlash against higher prices. Thank you Congresswoman.

WaPo published my letter, but first they censored it. Here’s the story . . 1/

Buster Keaton was born 131 years ago today, on Oct. 4, 1895 (The Bell Boy 1918)

by the way #1password didn't back down. I'm done with them. Don't know if it is any better, but I'm going with Proton password management for now. At least they don't openly support the ethnic cleansing of Europe like karimov and omarchy do.

gavin can take his right wing tech bro supporting self and fuck right off. don't hurt with trans kids, gavin. that is the mark of a loser.

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

And, for the coup de grace, two bills protecting fire survivors from predatory insurance companies, which he vetoed, deliberately, to punish fire survivors for rejecting his "reform" bill that was actually a huge payout to SCE for starting fires. calmatters.org/economy/2026...

30 years ago, Congress passed #AEDPA and #IIRIRA, shifting immigration policy toward detention as the default, not the exception. In 1995, fewer than 7,500 people were detained daily. Today, that number is nearly 70,000. That growth didn’t happen by accident. truthout.org/articles/cli...

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

This is a good school to send your kid to if you want a school run by people who hire murderers.

I have hopes the next generation will stick it to the tech oligarchs. Ours has too many complicit folks in power.

"Tilly Norwood" should always be in quotes, as it is simply an algorithm. It is not an actor, it has no consciousness- it is operating in some datacenter somewhere and only when it is running. The only appropriate pronoun is "it" Never anthropomorphize this shit. #notIntelligent #notConscious

"NPR sat down with this solar calculator and asked it to explain this poem about God"

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

holy crap. cnn. what. the. fuck.

Shout out to everyone who said it was just a temporary distraction and not a central organizing principle of modern fascism.

if @1password.bsky.social doesn't apologize and come correct with reparations like firing karimov, I'm done for good. I'll give them a few days, but I'm not hopeful. I have no room in my life for racist software.

post your getaway vehicle

Look, damaged donny just violated a 225 year old treaty. He doesn't care about folks living in the USA, he doesn't care about treaties made with Indigenous Americans. He just wants adoration and money for his billionaire cronies.

Karen Bass wants to keep Forest Lawn Drive dangerous. Here is a link to email to legislators (seriously, just two clicks) to voice your opposition to backroom politics and to help make this dangerous road more safe. While you are at it, vote against Bass in the election.

1) DHS asks a federal judge for a warrant to hoover up private data from journalists, activists, and trade unions. 2) Judge denies because it is an obvious violation of the 1st and 4th Amendments with no justification. 3) DHS issues its own "Administrative Warrant" and sucks up the data anyway.

Guess what? 1) You can 3D print a crow and squirrel feeder that looks like a Flock camera 2) Crows are extremely good at pattern recognition 3) People are fucking hilarious and creative and I hope every Flock camera gets its own personal murder (of crows) www.printables.com/model/180491...

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Followed by federal immigration agents or asked to take down their zines, these artists are aware of the danger that comes with speaking out and still going strong. The full story: lataco.com/immigration-... By Amy Torres

At least 4 journalists are being dragged to court in Newark, NJ, TOMORROW following their arrests while covering protests at Delaney Hall. YOU CAN HELP: Use this form to tell prosecutors they must drop all charges. It takes 1 minute. Supporting democracy has never been this quick, free and easy...

Definitions, quotes are LAPD's own language: Unfounded = "did not occur as you described" Exonerated = "actions occurred but were justified, lawful and proper" Not resolved = "investigation unable to yield enough evidence to either prove or disprove" Shaggy Defense = it wasn't me Full tracking:

When people die and the media says they had “pre-existing conditions”… they’re pacifying the public. Anyone could die from Cyclosporiasis, but they want you to believe it can’t happen to you. It can only happen to the weak, the disabled, the elderly. The expendable people. Eugenics.

I know it's an ass pain and a slog but Ghost and buttondown exist and are right there and even have tools to help you transfer your old posts and subscribers. Please leave substack.

Whoa-ohh, we're halfway there: "This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby" www.404media.co/this-app-war... bsky.app/profile/wolv...

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

We've made a list of games that use Gen AI and updated the Carrd! This will eventually be expanded to cover more things, but we're still figuring out the layout It contains both games that we've posted and ones that we haven't yet so you may see some new titles docs.google.com/spreadsheets... -E

According to Trump's DOJ, doing the following things means you're involved in a conspiracy: • Posting “we need to become ungovernable” on Facebook • Wearing a sweatshirt that says “I’m Antifa!” • Possessing a bullhorn