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@ambersweet.bsky.social
Owned by cats. Horror movie lover. Liberal or leftist, whichever annoys you more. Fuck AI and Silicon Valley. (she/they)
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Every time I look at the news Trump has done something I was assured he couldn't do when I expressed fears about it in November 2024
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man, trump fucked our economy. under joe biden, you could buy a car with this
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
man, trump fucked our economy. under joe biden, you could buy a car with this
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When I say that locking mothers in the suburbs with small children breaks them? This is what I mean.
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
When I say that locking mothers in the suburbs with small children breaks them? This is what I mean.
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
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putting lights on a tree is the best idea anyone’s ever had
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
putting lights on a tree is the best idea anyone’s ever had
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I don't have children and thus will not have grandchildren, but this is nevertheless how I feel about current events. What would I want my descendents to think of me and my actions?
I don't have children and thus will not have grandchildren, but this is nevertheless how I feel about current events. What would I want my descendents to think of me and my actions?
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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I don't have children and thus will not have grandchildren, but this is nevertheless how I feel about current events. What would I want my descendents to think of me and my actions?
I don't have children and thus will not have grandchildren, but this is nevertheless how I feel about current events. What would I want my descendents to think of me and my actions?
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What they said about Harris never was about being opposed to wars.
It was about being opposed to a woman commanding them and defending our allies and classical liberal values.
They never opposed following Donald Trump to commit plunder, rape, and murder for fun.
It was about being opposed to a woman commanding them and defending our allies and classical liberal values.
They never opposed following Donald Trump to commit plunder, rape, and murder for fun.
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
What they said about Harris never was about being opposed to wars.
It was about being opposed to a woman commanding them and defending our allies and classical liberal values.
They never opposed following Donald Trump to commit plunder, rape, and murder for fun.
It was about being opposed to a woman commanding them and defending our allies and classical liberal values.
They never opposed following Donald Trump to commit plunder, rape, and murder for fun.
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Modern society is what *lets you* sleep in until 7am.
Before industry you got your ass up earlier because you couldn't afford to burn daylight not working. Assuming you wanted to eat this winter.
OTOH car culture causing shitty commutes is why you have to get up at 7 to get to work by 9.
Before industry you got your ass up earlier because you couldn't afford to burn daylight not working. Assuming you wanted to eat this winter.
OTOH car culture causing shitty commutes is why you have to get up at 7 to get to work by 9.
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Modern society is what *lets you* sleep in until 7am.
Before industry you got your ass up earlier because you couldn't afford to burn daylight not working. Assuming you wanted to eat this winter.
OTOH car culture causing shitty commutes is why you have to get up at 7 to get to work by 9.
Before industry you got your ass up earlier because you couldn't afford to burn daylight not working. Assuming you wanted to eat this winter.
OTOH car culture causing shitty commutes is why you have to get up at 7 to get to work by 9.
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Every app, tool, and website I engage with has gotten glitcher, slower, and less reliable over the past year and I feel confident it's largely due to not-ready AI tech being shoved into everything and time, money, and labor being diverted to AI workstreams.
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Every app, tool, and website I engage with has gotten glitcher, slower, and less reliable over the past year and I feel confident it's largely due to not-ready AI tech being shoved into everything and time, money, and labor being diverted to AI workstreams.
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I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.
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no it isn’t!!! fuck you!!!
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
no it isn’t!!! fuck you!!!
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Here’s a handy protocol to determine whether AI could be helpful with your problem or project.
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Here’s a handy protocol to determine whether AI could be helpful with your problem or project.
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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this is like when that screenwriter asked AI to write a screenplay, and all it did was ask him for more time to complete it. Took a while before he figured out that it wasn't a complex task; "need more time" was the predicted response to "write a screenplay"
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
this is like when that screenwriter asked AI to write a screenplay, and all it did was ask him for more time to complete it. Took a while before he figured out that it wasn't a complex task; "need more time" was the predicted response to "write a screenplay"
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The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.
heads up, gmail has a new setting automatically on that allows their a*i to be trained on your emails so make sure to turn off the 'Smart Feature' checkbox in your settings
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.
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Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.
I refuse to use a scale that requires an app. I do not need my phone to be involved in weighing myself. I am not hooking up a scale to wifi. What the absolute fuck.
One inch away from buying one of those old-school doctor's office scales where you slide the metal weights back and forth.
One inch away from buying one of those old-school doctor's office scales where you slide the metal weights back and forth.
November 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I refuse to use a scale that requires an app. I do not need my phone to be involved in weighing myself. I am not hooking up a scale to wifi. What the absolute fuck.
One inch away from buying one of those old-school doctor's office scales where you slide the metal weights back and forth.
One inch away from buying one of those old-school doctor's office scales where you slide the metal weights back and forth.
Well that was insane.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Well that was insane.
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[RFK, trying to be sexy]: LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH
November 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
[RFK, trying to be sexy]: LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH
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“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
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The computer Golden Rule: The one who writes the code makes the rules.
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The computer Golden Rule: The one who writes the code makes the rules.
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I've gone through gamergaters, comicsgaters, terfs, and the worst of the alt-right getting mad at me on Twitter and in all of my years on there I was never misgendered as much as on this site. It's a real problem with Bluesky culture that needs to become socially unacceptable.
The fact this site reflexively misgenders people (I’ve received this too) for having opinions it doesn’t like is one of its most truly appalling aspects
Fine. You all win. I’m logging off for the day because I‘m a big smelly man who’s also a Nazi and a bigot because I liked it better when Groypers didn’t have 1,770 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. Feel free to brag in your discords about how my jimmies have been rustled and I was owned.
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I've gone through gamergaters, comicsgaters, terfs, and the worst of the alt-right getting mad at me on Twitter and in all of my years on there I was never misgendered as much as on this site. It's a real problem with Bluesky culture that needs to become socially unacceptable.
I feel like I've seen the finale of season 3 of The Morning Show before
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I feel like I've seen the finale of season 3 of The Morning Show before
I've been using the process in the link below for a few months and so far it cuts out all the AI garbage. tenbluelinks.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I've been using the process in the link below for a few months and so far it cuts out all the AI garbage. tenbluelinks.org
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imagine being so disconnected from reality that you're propping up the entire economy on a piece of technology so loathed you have to blackmail people into using it
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
imagine being so disconnected from reality that you're propping up the entire economy on a piece of technology so loathed you have to blackmail people into using it
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ok when you uncheck it, it takes away the promotions tab. which was the only way I was surviving in my inbox.
it honestly feels like this is deeply punitive, they are holding a gun to our head to try to force us to opt-in to this shit no one wants
it honestly feels like this is deeply punitive, they are holding a gun to our head to try to force us to opt-in to this shit no one wants
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
ok when you uncheck it, it takes away the promotions tab. which was the only way I was surviving in my inbox.
it honestly feels like this is deeply punitive, they are holding a gun to our head to try to force us to opt-in to this shit no one wants
it honestly feels like this is deeply punitive, they are holding a gun to our head to try to force us to opt-in to this shit no one wants