Ashfae
@ashfae.bsky.social
American ex-pat in Scotland. I read a lot. Much more active in Tumblr. Sometimes if I'm lucky I write things. Definitely over 21, mostly she/her. Likely to post about politics, Good Omens, and random interesting things.
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Ashfae
@ashfae.bsky.social
· Jan 28
"On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies--God damn it, you've got to be kind." -- Kurt Vonnegut
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Man goes to the doctor, says his achievements are meaningless and lost in the sands of time.
Doctor says, “You should go see the ruined statue of Oxymandias, king of kings! Look upon his works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Man despairs, shaking sand out of his vast, trunkless legs, “But doctor...”
Doctor says, “You should go see the ruined statue of Oxymandias, king of kings! Look upon his works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Man despairs, shaking sand out of his vast, trunkless legs, “But doctor...”
October 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Man goes to the doctor, says his achievements are meaningless and lost in the sands of time.
Doctor says, “You should go see the ruined statue of Oxymandias, king of kings! Look upon his works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Man despairs, shaking sand out of his vast, trunkless legs, “But doctor...”
Doctor says, “You should go see the ruined statue of Oxymandias, king of kings! Look upon his works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Man despairs, shaking sand out of his vast, trunkless legs, “But doctor...”
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Turnip lanterns were still standard down our way (Scotland) in the '80s. Maybe it's nostalgia but I'll always reckon they looked more sinister than pumpkins. Heck of a job to hollow out, though.
[Image cribbed from BBC. Image description in quoted post: turnip with weird skull/Grey alien carving]
[Image cribbed from BBC. Image description in quoted post: turnip with weird skull/Grey alien carving]
October 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Turnip lanterns were still standard down our way (Scotland) in the '80s. Maybe it's nostalgia but I'll always reckon they looked more sinister than pumpkins. Heck of a job to hollow out, though.
[Image cribbed from BBC. Image description in quoted post: turnip with weird skull/Grey alien carving]
[Image cribbed from BBC. Image description in quoted post: turnip with weird skull/Grey alien carving]
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"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”
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October 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”
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My mum: You're not autistic!
Also my mum: Why is the inside of tomatoes /like that/ 🫠
Also my mum: if anyone scrapes their knife and fork together I will literally die
Also my mum: let's meet at this place and time every week and always order the exact same thing 🥰
Also my mum: Why is the inside of tomatoes /like that/ 🫠
Also my mum: if anyone scrapes their knife and fork together I will literally die
Also my mum: let's meet at this place and time every week and always order the exact same thing 🥰
Monks explained: “It’s all those young people on TicTac. In my day, we just got on with it, no matter how loudly the washing machine was screaming at us.”
They didn’t have autism in my day, says man unaware he had autism in his day
A man who claims that nobody had autism “in his day” is reportedly unaware that he both had autism in his day and that the sun has not yet set on his day. Gavin Monks, 65 - who books his car in for…
thedailytism.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
My mum: You're not autistic!
Also my mum: Why is the inside of tomatoes /like that/ 🫠
Also my mum: if anyone scrapes their knife and fork together I will literally die
Also my mum: let's meet at this place and time every week and always order the exact same thing 🥰
Also my mum: Why is the inside of tomatoes /like that/ 🫠
Also my mum: if anyone scrapes their knife and fork together I will literally die
Also my mum: let's meet at this place and time every week and always order the exact same thing 🥰
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dunk on bad people's actions, not lack of intelligence
many good people were never going to be scholars. we exist in a distribution, do our best with what we got. people may wish they were smart. don't be mad if you had an easier time in school, more options. if you're tall, help people reach stuff
many good people were never going to be scholars. we exist in a distribution, do our best with what we got. people may wish they were smart. don't be mad if you had an easier time in school, more options. if you're tall, help people reach stuff
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
dunk on bad people's actions, not lack of intelligence
many good people were never going to be scholars. we exist in a distribution, do our best with what we got. people may wish they were smart. don't be mad if you had an easier time in school, more options. if you're tall, help people reach stuff
many good people were never going to be scholars. we exist in a distribution, do our best with what we got. people may wish they were smart. don't be mad if you had an easier time in school, more options. if you're tall, help people reach stuff
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they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade
BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ
October 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade
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Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed.
THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
October 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed.
THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
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Realize that you are only now starting to become who you really are, and make peace with that, because it's actually a fucking beautiful thing.
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
October 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Realize that you are only now starting to become who you really are, and make peace with that, because it's actually a fucking beautiful thing.
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If you are a weirdo muppet dude and you like to interrupt pink creatures minding their own business singing thats called Manamanasplaining
two pink stuffed animals are standing next to each other with their mouths wide open .
Alt: two pink muppets with yellow lips and big eyes are standing next to each other with their mouths wide open singing with a weirdo bearded muppet in glasses
media.tenor.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:25 AM
If you are a weirdo muppet dude and you like to interrupt pink creatures minding their own business singing thats called Manamanasplaining
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the best answer i got for this:
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
the best answer i got for this:
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Word of the Day: BLOBBERY - a garden made of shrubs and bushes shorn to look like blobs. (📷: Paolo)
October 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Word of the Day: BLOBBERY - a garden made of shrubs and bushes shorn to look like blobs. (📷: Paolo)
Younger kid has just finished playing Roki. She's young enough that she'd forgotten most of the plot from when Chris played and is swearing it's the best game she's ever played or seen. I don't blame her in the least. Phenomenal game. Thanks @kanaratron.bsky.social !
October 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Younger kid has just finished playing Roki. She's young enough that she'd forgotten most of the plot from when Chris played and is swearing it's the best game she's ever played or seen. I don't blame her in the least. Phenomenal game. Thanks @kanaratron.bsky.social !
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BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well.
youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...
youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...
Pritzker calls for Trump to be removed from office
YouTube video by NBC Chicago
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October 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well.
youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...
youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...
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If you want to email Keir Starmer telling him, politely, what you think of his plan for digital ID cards we've made it super easy for you:
goodlawproject.org/campaign/kei...
goodlawproject.org/campaign/kei...
October 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
If you want to email Keir Starmer telling him, politely, what you think of his plan for digital ID cards we've made it super easy for you:
goodlawproject.org/campaign/kei...
goodlawproject.org/campaign/kei...
Not a drill! Ahhhhhh!!!
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September 24, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Not a drill! Ahhhhhh!!!
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If you're as angry as I am about how our trans brothers & sisters were treated this week, remember that not all of them got the loving parents we did & end up on the streets. Maybe today is a great day to donate to a local shelter & give trans kids a roof over their heads and the love they deserve.
September 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If you're as angry as I am about how our trans brothers & sisters were treated this week, remember that not all of them got the loving parents we did & end up on the streets. Maybe today is a great day to donate to a local shelter & give trans kids a roof over their heads and the love they deserve.
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If any one of us called for Brian Kilmeade to be killed by lethal injection, for any reason, we'd be rightly excoriated.
Yet he can go on national television, casually call for the extrajudicial murder of an entire group of people, and it'll be forgotten before the coffee gets cold.
Fuck this.
Yet he can go on national television, casually call for the extrajudicial murder of an entire group of people, and it'll be forgotten before the coffee gets cold.
Fuck this.
September 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
If any one of us called for Brian Kilmeade to be killed by lethal injection, for any reason, we'd be rightly excoriated.
Yet he can go on national television, casually call for the extrajudicial murder of an entire group of people, and it'll be forgotten before the coffee gets cold.
Fuck this.
Yet he can go on national television, casually call for the extrajudicial murder of an entire group of people, and it'll be forgotten before the coffee gets cold.
Fuck this.
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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We’re hearing that EHRC’s updated Code is now with the Minister for Equalities.
Now, more than ever, it’s critical to write to your MP to get them to pressure her for a debate & vote in Parliament, not for this Code to become statutory automatically.
Please do write; template letter linked below 🙏
Now, more than ever, it’s critical to write to your MP to get them to pressure her for a debate & vote in Parliament, not for this Code to become statutory automatically.
Please do write; template letter linked below 🙏
Success! We delivered our joint letter demanding full scrutiny, meaningful debate & a free vote for MPs on the new Code of Practice.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/02/e...
Many MPs we’ve spoken to are now ready to help.
❗️BUT they’ve advised that they need you—as constituents—to keep writing in❗️
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www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/02/e...
Many MPs we’ve spoken to are now ready to help.
❗️BUT they’ve advised that they need you—as constituents—to keep writing in❗️
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September 5, 2025 at 6:44 AM
We’re hearing that EHRC’s updated Code is now with the Minister for Equalities.
Now, more than ever, it’s critical to write to your MP to get them to pressure her for a debate & vote in Parliament, not for this Code to become statutory automatically.
Please do write; template letter linked below 🙏
Now, more than ever, it’s critical to write to your MP to get them to pressure her for a debate & vote in Parliament, not for this Code to become statutory automatically.
Please do write; template letter linked below 🙏
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BREAKING 🚨
The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared.
It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating.
But politicians still have time to stop this.
The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared.
It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating.
But politicians still have time to stop this.
September 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
BREAKING 🚨
The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared.
It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating.
But politicians still have time to stop this.
The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared.
It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating.
But politicians still have time to stop this.
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Lord Byron was so annoying that every woman he ever met was spurred on to great success out of sheer spite for this man
September 2, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Lord Byron was so annoying that every woman he ever met was spurred on to great success out of sheer spite for this man
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🚨Regarding the #Pentagon and #SpaceForce announcements:
Reps @rokhanna.bsky.social (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) are holding a press conference tomorrow, 9/3, 10:30am, with ten victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking.
Link to watch live:
youtube.com/live/q6fUosr...
🗣️ Release the Epstein files
Reps @rokhanna.bsky.social (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) are holding a press conference tomorrow, 9/3, 10:30am, with ten victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking.
Link to watch live:
youtube.com/live/q6fUosr...
🗣️ Release the Epstein files
September 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
🚨Regarding the #Pentagon and #SpaceForce announcements:
Reps @rokhanna.bsky.social (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) are holding a press conference tomorrow, 9/3, 10:30am, with ten victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking.
Link to watch live:
youtube.com/live/q6fUosr...
🗣️ Release the Epstein files
Reps @rokhanna.bsky.social (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) are holding a press conference tomorrow, 9/3, 10:30am, with ten victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking.
Link to watch live:
youtube.com/live/q6fUosr...
🗣️ Release the Epstein files