Eli

Eli

@rpgirl.bsky.social

She/her, my more serious account. Looking to shine a growing light amidst the darkness. I once had stairs in my house. Oh, and cheerfully a part of the trans conspiracy~! OoooOooOo Fun/Convention/Weeb Account : @Dexanth.bsky.social

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I'm a Californian and yea. Voting Steyer because he's the only one advocating policies I actually fully endorse. Would I prefer not voting billionaire? Yes! But I am more committed to voting for the best candidate, and as far as I can tell? That's Steyer

I was lucky/fortunate enough to have done this years ago in preparation for this moment. Hoped it wouldn't, but here we are. I love so much about California, but the cost of living is killer.

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a reminder, again, that AltNPS is a grifter account run by people who have no affiliation with the National Park Service and indeed who never did have any affiliation with the National Park Service. They have no sources, they have no information, they are purely there to scam you.

AltWatcher@altwatcher.bsky.social

"Receiving reports" my ass. AltNPS is not receiving reports of ICE raids in Saint Paul. They are seeing posts on social media like the rest of us. I DO have loved ones in Saint Paul. ALL of my loved ones. They're terrified. Fuck you.

Great thread. And the moral of this story I think is this keeps happening until we gate social media with the only tool that works: Registration Fees. Pay $20 for an account, get banned for being obnoxious, a ton of this becomes far easier to handle (because reg fees pay for paid moderation)

She gave permission for screenshots for posterity since she's about to deactivate, so I wanted to preserve these in particular. This is why I was going on about this issue so much last night amidst all of the lamentations in the passive voice. A lot of this awfulness is self-inflicted.

This thing isn't alive. It can't say anything. It's literally a fancy prediction engine. It 'apologized' because the math said that was the most likely respond to the prompt asking it to apologize. Stop falling for a Cuckoo mimicking a human. Actually that's an insult to the cuckoo.

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Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

Nuremberg 2.0 for all these assholes.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Breaking news: President Trump commuted the sentence of former congressman George Santos (R-New York), ordering Santos’s immediate release from prison and alleging he had been “horribly mistreated.” https://wapo.st/4nave4W

Anything good emerges from deep domain knowledge about the craft of character and storywriting, combined with some unique insight worth sharing with others. AI Chucklefuck bros have none of that.

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This whole thread right here. When SCOTUS behaves in an unlawful, unconstitutional way, we are not obligated to accept its unlawful, unconstitutional claims as lawful and constitutional. We ignore them, we undermine them, we elect Presidents who refuse to accept them.

I think it is about time that Democrats started familiarizing themselves with Lincoln’s response to Dred Scott instead of accepting the tacit premise that whatever a bare majority of the Supreme Court decides, dictates our constitutional fate

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Please, take it from a Californian born and bred: you cannot trust Gavin Newsom. I don’t care if he has Good Posters working for him; he’ll sell vulnerable people down the river without blinking an eye.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

Jay 🦋@jay.bsky.team

my favorite fruit is mangosteen

May everyone who voted for this fucking moron be visited by appropriate karma.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "When you have networks where I won an election in counties -- I guess it's 2,600 to 525, that's called a landslide times two -- when you have that kind of popularity or voter support, and yet 97% of the newscasts are against me ... I think that's really illegal."

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Le Gorafi (a French iteration of The Onion) reports that: "An American university has launched an investigation of a professor of archeology suspected of being a member of 'antifa' "

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The problem is that the cosplay radicals, mean girl aesthetic leftists, and clout-chasing #resistance accounts who dominate Bluesky have had close to zero interaction with real-world politics in their lives

SleepingGiant@sleepinggiant69.bsky.social

Anyone with literally any background in advocacy and organizing knows this. This is the most basic principle in modern organizing.

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Replying to @theonion.com

$99 a year? I can't afford that. Do you take the blood of the innocent as payment? I hear ole Zwiebel uses that to stay alive and I have a great source of adrenachrome.

Pritzker is Newsom if Newsom had, you know, a soul, and actual integrity. I'm shocked a billionaire is one of our best allies in this fight, but also I'll fight with anyone who shows up.

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Update - I want you all to know, this is a significant sacrifice for my wife, who said, and I am quoting this verbatim, “now I can’t watch my international soccer matches on the shittiest fucking app ever made, that’s the whole reason we had that stupid fucking ESPN bundle”

Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster@chriswarcraft.bsky.social

Just talked with my wife, we are cancelling our Disney+ subscription. If you have one, I encourage you to do the same.

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Replying to @whstancil.bsky.social

What fills me with incandescent rage is that these guys have never actually successfully won anything with their supposedly pragmatic focus on dull kitchen-table issues. It has no proven successes, and virtually the entire time it’s been an obsession for these guys the party has been in free-fall

This guy needs to be primaried asap because he's clearly completely incompetent.

Mike Quigley@quigley.house.gov

My ‘Miracle on Ice’ bill just passed out of Congress!🎉🏅🏒

This bill will award the 1980 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team, which beat the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, with a Congressional Gold Medal. (1/2)

I will say I feel bad for children whose parents die violently. But when those parents die violently as a direct result of their own actions, perhaps that parent should have prioritized their family over sowing hate.

You do not condemn the police or the courts when they sent someone's mom or dad to jail because the mother or father murdered people. You condemn the murderer.

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Do not be bullied, cowed, or shamed by bad-faith right-wing actors and MAGA that are blaming "liberals" and everyone who isn't MAGA for Charlie Kirk. Call them out for their hypocrisy. Go on offense. They are fine with political violence and mass shootings when it's against the rest of us.

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe." Charlie Kirk, 2023

Love this! But please properly credit Cory Doctorow, he didn't popularize the word, he /invented/ it.

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Also technically the definition isn't right, Enshittification applies to both users AND business customers. It's a two-sided squeeze. And it's not limited to digital stuff. Cars are being enshittified, food has been enshittified, etc.

You're smarter than this. The pie may be bigger but the slices have become so much smaller. If the pie were divided better, people would be less susceptible to fascist BS.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

The United States is rapidly going fascist and is the most materially prosperous large nation in human history by a huge margin. If that’s not rich enough to prevent a fascist resurgence, there simply is no amount of wealth that will stave it off and the problem is social and political.

Space Command shouldn't exist. It's a silly branch of the military and I refuse to treat it seriously, because it was created by a silly little man to feed his own ego. We have a space branch of the government. It's called NASA. Who cares that he's moving his vanity project? Just end it.

Trump’s decision to move U.S. Space Command to Alabama is deeply disappointing. It undermines national security, wastes taxpayer dollars, and disrupts military families. Colorado Springs remains the best home for Space Command and the men and women who serve there.

I feel bad for people who signed up to honestly serve in that farce, but the only good thing Space Command has produced is the silly mockumentary series with Steve Carell.

They were both poisoned. Fortunately, I've spent the last few years building up an immunity to Malort.

Bob Hille@bobhille.bsky.social

This is the one that hit me: Defiance + Chicago-specific humor rolled into one protest sign. 💪

The difference here : The primary is in 2.5 years away. If people insist on nominating Newsom after a major contingent going 'If this happens, no, we won't vote' for literal years? It's on them. The consequences were illuminated in bright red scarlet letters. I refuse to support 1 more useless pol

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I kept my mouth shut with Kamala, even though it was obvious she was a soulless corporate suit. It was obvious when she ran for Senate, and extremely obvious when she lost so badly in 2020's primary she didn't even make it to the nominating contests. And then Biden diversity picked her

And yes, I say diversity picked, because her actual accomplishments are ...not impressive. She ladder climbed fast! Whoo! That's...not a big deal. Lots of people do that. Gimme a Nina Turner whose a gadfly to the powerful, but consistently right over Kamala any day.

What a wonderful bit of news to wake up to! One less horrible person to worry about hurting us.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social

James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family and one of the most influential voices in the conservative evangelical movement, has died at age 89