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C. L. Polk

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I write stuff. I knit stuff. I cook stuff. Ask me about my weird little books. https://www.clpolk.com/

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · Nov 14

Okay I need to tell y’all something

if someone doesn’t act right in my replies I must block them

People don’t know how to act here yet, and will come to argue or dunk back and drag it out and listen Bluesky doesn’t put up with that

I don’t either

Conduct yourselves

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Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3h

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 51m

the cackle i carkled

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 4h

Well well well

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 5h

i will never vote for Gavin Newsom. i want every other politician to look at how badly Newsom destroyed his own political career by pivoting to fascism & see it as a clear warning that the dignity of marginalized people is not negotiable.

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 2h

This person took this when they called the race

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 10h

The science fiction version of this story was overdone 30 years ago

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10h

I wonder: over time what is the effect of the machine inaccurately reporting to you your daily activities?

When my husband left the house carrying a shotgun, the alert said he was carrying a garden tool. It’s unclear whether this is intentional (I’ve reached out to Google), but not identifying weapons seems like a significant oversight for a security-focused system. I would like to know if there is a person with a gun on my porch or wielding a knife in my home.
However, the daily Home Briefs is where it got weird. Around 8:30 each night, the Google Home app presents its interpretation of the day’s events in a new Activity Tab. You can customize this to focus on things you’re most interested in; for me, that’s animals and teenagers arriving home past curfew.
The summaries were about 80 percent correct, with a few less concerning confusions — it said a pizza oven was delivered when I was actually taking it away. But my main issue was with the heavy-handed editorializing in the summaries. Gemini took accurate real-time descriptions of events and turned them into a narrative full of declarative sentences that were simply incorrect.
For example, on Halloween, the summary said “Jenni and R were seen interacting with the trick-or-treaters and enjoying the festive atmosphere.” While I did pass out candy, my daughter R wasn’t home. Another summary detailed how my husband and I had spent an enjoyable evening relaxing on the couch along with others. We were home alone.

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metal dot txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 12h

that thing everyone said was going to happen is happening

dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 12h

On August 7, according to the FBI, three men in black vests entered a New York restaurant
claiming to be ICE agents. Inside, they tied a worker's hands and pulled a garbage bag over the person's head. Another, believing the burglars' story, surrendered themselves, only to be kicked to the ground and tied up as the intruders robbed an ATM.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 11h

Oh boy, pablumatic verbiage extruders will be schlorping so much water for this chorus of whining

C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 14h

i'm glad I have a lymphatic massage appointment today

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Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 15h

One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong.

How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.

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Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 23h

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social):

As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead."

But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that"

Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 18h

So it’s just me? Okay now i get to play is this a technical problem or

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 18h

No but really. Is this function broken for everyone on Blacksky? Or just me?

C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 18h

I still can’t subscribe to @stechlab-labels.bsky.social‘s labeler. is this normsl for blacksky users, to not be able to subscribe to labelers?

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 18h

It works on bluesky just fine. First thing i tested.

C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 18h

i really don’t know what is going on here. Something feels very wrong.

C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 18h

I still can’t subscribe to @stechlab-labels.bsky.social‘s labeler. is this normsl for blacksky users, to not be able to subscribe to labelers?

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 18h

I still can’t subscribe to @stechlab-labels.bsky.social‘s labeler. is this normsl for blacksky users, to not be able to subscribe to labelers?

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 1d

I have to separate it regardless. I'm very picky about what fabric I let touch me and a lot of it has to be in a net bag or it can't go in the dryer or it can't be dried all the way to dry or i have to hand wash it or I have to press it a certain way before it can hang up