Darla
@basicandbizarre.bsky.social
Librarian, TTRPG designer, autistic trans dyke. she/her
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I'm an "A.i." abolitionist.
No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.
Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.
But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?
No.
No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.
Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.
But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?
No.
July 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I'm an "A.i." abolitionist.
No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.
Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.
But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?
No.
No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.
Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.
But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?
No.
-Melodia from SilverHawks
-Dr. Blight from Captain Planet
-Nightcrawler from Inhumanoids
-The Strangers from Dark City (just on the cusp, it came out when I was 14)
-Dr. Blight from Captain Planet
-Nightcrawler from Inhumanoids
-The Strangers from Dark City (just on the cusp, it came out when I was 14)
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
-Melodia from SilverHawks
-Dr. Blight from Captain Planet
-Nightcrawler from Inhumanoids
-The Strangers from Dark City (just on the cusp, it came out when I was 14)
-Dr. Blight from Captain Planet
-Nightcrawler from Inhumanoids
-The Strangers from Dark City (just on the cusp, it came out when I was 14)
If you see this, post an anime you love
November 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
If you see this, post an anime you love
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Imagine taking the money it would cost and creating great public transit systems in Nashville and Memphis -- including a high-speed train joining the cities.
Imagine a trip to Nashville that takes just minutes. 🚗💨
The company behind the underground tunnels in Tennessee's capital is considering expanding them across the state. t.ly/SrYfw
The company behind the underground tunnels in Tennessee's capital is considering expanding them across the state. t.ly/SrYfw
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Imagine taking the money it would cost and creating great public transit systems in Nashville and Memphis -- including a high-speed train joining the cities.
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I can’t imagine buying another Boar’s Head product for a long, long time.
Boar's Head has ANOTHER Listeria infected product, and this time it's cheese. I would not trust this company again without substantial changes.
www.eatingwell.com/boars-head-c...
www.eatingwell.com/boars-head-c...
Boar's Head Just Recalled Cheese Due to Listeria Contamination—Here’s What to Know
There’s an active recall on two Boar’s Head cheese products sold nationwide because of a Listeria risk. Read on for more information.
www.eatingwell.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I can’t imagine buying another Boar’s Head product for a long, long time.
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Easy test: If a person criticizes Islam for homophobia, but doesn’t criticize Christianity for the same reasons, even while American Christians promote the death penalty for gay people in poor Christianized countries, that person doesn’t actually give a shit about gay people, they’re just a racist.
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Easy test: If a person criticizes Islam for homophobia, but doesn’t criticize Christianity for the same reasons, even while American Christians promote the death penalty for gay people in poor Christianized countries, that person doesn’t actually give a shit about gay people, they’re just a racist.
Replaying Assassin's Creed Odyssey and one of the standard blacksmith voices (I think there are 2 or 3?) sounds like Ray Romano doing a Greek accent and I cannot adequately explain why.
November 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Replaying Assassin's Creed Odyssey and one of the standard blacksmith voices (I think there are 2 or 3?) sounds like Ray Romano doing a Greek accent and I cannot adequately explain why.
This HAS to be satire, right? They can't be THIS completely creatively bankrupt to seriously believe "the machine should prompt itself".......right?
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This HAS to be satire, right? They can't be THIS completely creatively bankrupt to seriously believe "the machine should prompt itself".......right?
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Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
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IMO the weird exception some supposed leftists seem to make for condemning-the-theft-of-labor-except-art-lol-steal-that-shit is just a weird intersection with puritan "if you enjoy yourself, it's not a real job" brainworms.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
IMO the weird exception some supposed leftists seem to make for condemning-the-theft-of-labor-except-art-lol-steal-that-shit is just a weird intersection with puritan "if you enjoy yourself, it's not a real job" brainworms.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
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"Epic CEO angry that customers want to be informed and will refuse to purchase products they feel were made unethically so wants to take that choice away". There, fixed it for you.
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
r/pcgaming
www.reddit.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"Epic CEO angry that customers want to be informed and will refuse to purchase products they feel were made unethically so wants to take that choice away". There, fixed it for you.
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How does this woman have the absolute most Skeletor ass news moments
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
How does this woman have the absolute most Skeletor ass news moments
A fluffy man in his scruffy chair.
November 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
A fluffy man in his scruffy chair.
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This one hits hard. I very much hope to be posting something like it in a decade or so.
![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This one hits hard. I very much hope to be posting something like it in a decade or so.
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You should know I don't let a moment to shit on AI go by.
Somebody asked Grok "is this incident real?" and it concluded "yes, the core details of the incident...are true". Its sources? The tweet I linked, and a "news article"...
But the article is AI written and just regurgitates the thread!
Somebody asked Grok "is this incident real?" and it concluded "yes, the core details of the incident...are true". Its sources? The tweet I linked, and a "news article"...
But the article is AI written and just regurgitates the thread!
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
You should know I don't let a moment to shit on AI go by.
Somebody asked Grok "is this incident real?" and it concluded "yes, the core details of the incident...are true". Its sources? The tweet I linked, and a "news article"...
But the article is AI written and just regurgitates the thread!
Somebody asked Grok "is this incident real?" and it concluded "yes, the core details of the incident...are true". Its sources? The tweet I linked, and a "news article"...
But the article is AI written and just regurgitates the thread!
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video game harem but they’re all conspiring to forcefem the player
Any time I see a computer RPG where all the NPC party members are girls with extravagant outfits and big boobs, and then the actual player character is Generic Sword Guy, I'm like: come on, man. You're *out of theme*. Get with the program!
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
video game harem but they’re all conspiring to forcefem the player
It gets me every time that their catch phrase is basically "We're The No-Stealth Ninjas".
I don’t care what anyone says Ninninger has the coolest rolecall in all of Sentai and you CANNOT prove me wrong
#ninninger #shurikensentaininninger #supersentai #tokusatsu #toku
#ninninger #shurikensentaininninger #supersentai #tokusatsu #toku
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
It gets me every time that their catch phrase is basically "We're The No-Stealth Ninjas".
*cries* HE IS SO SMOL AND ADORABLE!!!! 10 months old, so this boy will absolutely grow to be Floof-sized, if not bigger.
If I didn't already have two cats I would snatch him up in a hearbeat. I mean, LOOKIT THAT POOF! SO MUCH FLUFF!!!!
If I didn't already have two cats I would snatch him up in a hearbeat. I mean, LOOKIT THAT POOF! SO MUCH FLUFF!!!!
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
*cries* HE IS SO SMOL AND ADORABLE!!!! 10 months old, so this boy will absolutely grow to be Floof-sized, if not bigger.
If I didn't already have two cats I would snatch him up in a hearbeat. I mean, LOOKIT THAT POOF! SO MUCH FLUFF!!!!
If I didn't already have two cats I would snatch him up in a hearbeat. I mean, LOOKIT THAT POOF! SO MUCH FLUFF!!!!
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The meanest thought I ever had about a baby was “oh no, he looks like John Byrne drew him”
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The meanest thought I ever had about a baby was “oh no, he looks like John Byrne drew him”
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It's wack how much the image of transhumanism has been captured by techbros whose vision of "using technology to improve the human" is, like, putting electrodes in your head to make you productive, and not anything actually transformative
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It's wack how much the image of transhumanism has been captured by techbros whose vision of "using technology to improve the human" is, like, putting electrodes in your head to make you productive, and not anything actually transformative
The Domino's social media intern is having A Day.
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The Domino's social media intern is having A Day.
SO EXCITED! I haven't bought Malifaux models in YEARS but the two cyberpunk kits for Alyce and the Black Friday sale rereleasing the cyberpunk Mei Feng box have me itching to get some paints and go back to the table.
...also to figure out which of my crew builds are still legal.
...also to figure out which of my crew builds are still legal.
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
SO EXCITED! I haven't bought Malifaux models in YEARS but the two cyberpunk kits for Alyce and the Black Friday sale rereleasing the cyberpunk Mei Feng box have me itching to get some paints and go back to the table.
...also to figure out which of my crew builds are still legal.
...also to figure out which of my crew builds are still legal.
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Wizards are pulling the plug on the current Monster Hunter SLD, and are reworking it to do better.
This fucking rules. It shows that the feedback and feelings of the player base matter.
It feels like Wizards care, and are listening.
Genuinely fantastic move. Bravo.
This fucking rules. It shows that the feedback and feelings of the player base matter.
It feels like Wizards care, and are listening.
Genuinely fantastic move. Bravo.
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Wizards are pulling the plug on the current Monster Hunter SLD, and are reworking it to do better.
This fucking rules. It shows that the feedback and feelings of the player base matter.
It feels like Wizards care, and are listening.
Genuinely fantastic move. Bravo.
This fucking rules. It shows that the feedback and feelings of the player base matter.
It feels like Wizards care, and are listening.
Genuinely fantastic move. Bravo.
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And some people are really really bad at writing sex and just wish people would stop trying to make us do it, please, I am begging here, let me be a potluck casserole. Someone else can bring the spice.
Some people are very good at writing sex and some people are good at believing that they are good at writing sex, the first is a tremendously impressive skill and the second is what makes for deeply uncomfortable author presentations at science fiction conventions
There's nothing wrong with literary porn, but some of the crap those guys wrote was "Have you actuallly ever HAD sex?"
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
And some people are really really bad at writing sex and just wish people would stop trying to make us do it, please, I am begging here, let me be a potluck casserole. Someone else can bring the spice.
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Every conversation about increasing birthrates has a silent “white”. Every time the article mentions babies or children just put “white” in front of the word
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Every conversation about increasing birthrates has a silent “white”. Every time the article mentions babies or children just put “white” in front of the word