Spooky Mystery Quantum

Ok, back to my usual reposts, political gripes, and occasional random nonsense. I've threaded my real-time "reading" of There Will Come Soft Rains here for posterity. (CN/TW post-apocalyptic fiction, the dog dies)

And to make myself clear since this went over a lot of heads on Reddit, the comic is not saying “Leftists bad.” The point is a lot of terms and talking points are being used by bad actors to discourage voting participation, which definitely favors the fascists currently running the country. Go vote

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

my comment on the national DSA trying to torpedo nithya at the last minute: fuck off, be a serious political organization, what the hell are you doing this choice is not close

If you guys aren't reading @alepresser.com & @kbspangler.com's SIDE QUESTED, man, you are missing a TON of fun. Ale is just knocking it out of the park with the art, & the writing is very, very funny and smart. sidequested.com, but if you like that, you should support Ale at patreon.com/alepresser!

Imma boop you on the nose with a new Goblins comic! BOOP! Comic Page: www.goblinscomic.com/comic/page-3... The scene starts here: www.goblinscomic.com/comic/page-2... Follow me for new Goblins comic stuff coming up! Like/repost/comment! Confused or curious about stuff in the comic? Ask away! ❤️

Here's Lula celebrating tonight with Erika Hilton, a transgender politician who led the drive to end the six-day work week in Brazil. Erika showed workers solidarity, they showed her solidarity back. Solidarity is how fascism loses.

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

I’m sick of headlines treating these forays as something done independently. No. Anthropic created it. Anthropic did this. And they should be held to account, not some supposedly autonomous AI www.reuters.com/world/us/ant...

please please vote before election day, and tell your circles to. Republican mayors and governors are watching this unfold and getting ideas.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

You can't beat fascism by agreeing with fascism. You can't beat fascists by accepting a fascist frame. Corporatist Democratic Party leadership needs to be defeated and jettisoned. We have to fight them, not because we don't want to fight Republicans, but because they refuse to.

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

You know, sometimes I think about how when I was a kid, you had maybe two daily news shows, the local paper, and public broadcasting. I don’t love the way we’re inundated with news now, but it’s hard to overstate how factors like blogs and camera phones changed the ability to control the narrative.

lmfao

Snow puff! Photo from my collection, 1960.

We’re open for business at @milehicon.bsky.social and here all weekend. Come and get your @tkingfisher.com fix (and maybe some Furry books for “your friend who is into that stuff” 😉)

They just saved the internet, I’m cool with it

I am not at MileHiCon, but then I already have one of each! 😉

If you’re at MileHiCon, the Sofawolf table has some original Digger omnibuses, AND the original T-shirts! Limited quantities.

𝗛𝗲𝘆! Side Quested is up and SUDDENLY?!?!?!?!? 🔗 sidequested.com/page/book2-1... 🔷 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿? 🔹 Start here: sidequested.com/page/1/ 🔷 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: patreon.com/alepresser 🔹 #webcomics

Speedy is like "I'm gonna need a lawyer for that" and Peony "we're gonna be best friends, you'll see."

this is beyond fucked whether you follow any SW's or not, the fact that you are even on this platform is thanks in a large part to the SW community driving traffic in the early days. SW and trans people helped Bluesky win the clone war, and the leadership has done nothing but fuck them over since.

I'm out here sweating in the theory mines, discussing gender and race and tech, and these chucklefucks just tweet it out.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Shutting down *Bioware?* oh the games industry is in TROUBLE trouble.

On a related note, if any of you out there are looking to hire an AI-skeptical developer with 30+ years of OOP and low-level experience--including some PLC work and automation controls--hit me up.

Diminish a movie: Some things, here and there, in a manageable time frame

<GOP CANDIDATES> - “Furries are FORCING your CHILDREN into GENDER REASSIGNMENT SURGERIES at their SCHOOLS!! LITTER BOXES!!!” <me> “…fuck i hope the furries in global IT patch these horrendous exploits before they destroy the internet”

The Cato Institute can suck my fat one and we'll see how they like what trickles down.

If our system of justice can determine that shooting a one year-old is justified, then we do not have a system of justice, and our goal should be the eradication of the system we have and its replacement with something better.

I’m on Ditch Diggers with Mur Lafferty on Twitch right now!

it took four hours and emails across three agencies to determine if a simple, polite email invitation was legitimate, in case you're wondering whether AI has improved efficiency in my field

I am shoes now. Photo from my collection, 1976.

Joelle was tortured and murdered by the very people meant to heal her. The UK government is murdering trans + people to appease wealthy transphobes. This is beyond sick and obscene cruelty. She was a young woman. Killed because she was trans 😥😥😥

This is straightforward systemic murder. 🧵

Now is the time to care about everyone, not “once we win” The time to care about everyone is always always always now

This was unpinned for a month while I was doing my birthday fundraiser, but don't forget my starter pack of bluesky cat accounts run by real people who use ALT text! go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN