Elegy
@dansemothabre.bsky.social
Volcarona lover, cat parent and erstwhile metalhead.
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At first you're like, why does this have a wiki page
Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever
Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
At first you're like, why does this have a wiki page
Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever
Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever
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In short we don't like "AI" because we can see a fucking used car salesman coming a mile away and yet you keep insisting there are five lights.
We're not all stupid and we're not all gullible, and we won't blindly accept an obvious scam.
You fucking ruined every product you've touched you assholes
We're not all stupid and we're not all gullible, and we won't blindly accept an obvious scam.
You fucking ruined every product you've touched you assholes
November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
In short we don't like "AI" because we can see a fucking used car salesman coming a mile away and yet you keep insisting there are five lights.
We're not all stupid and we're not all gullible, and we won't blindly accept an obvious scam.
You fucking ruined every product you've touched you assholes
We're not all stupid and we're not all gullible, and we won't blindly accept an obvious scam.
You fucking ruined every product you've touched you assholes
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If you want to give/get signed books by me for the holidays, you can place an online order with Hyperbole Bookstore (a family-owned indie) in College Station, TX hyperbolebookstore.com and ask for signature via their email contact for the Murderbot books, Witch King, Queen Demon, anything in print.
Hyperbole Bookstore
A family-owned independent bookstore in College Station, TX
hyperbolebookstore.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
If you want to give/get signed books by me for the holidays, you can place an online order with Hyperbole Bookstore (a family-owned indie) in College Station, TX hyperbolebookstore.com and ask for signature via their email contact for the Murderbot books, Witch King, Queen Demon, anything in print.
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I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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This is a lovely use of data and visualisation and a wake up call for those who still seem to think Twitter isn't a pernicious platform with questionable motives.
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This is a lovely use of data and visualisation and a wake up call for those who still seem to think Twitter isn't a pernicious platform with questionable motives.
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
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The Predator’s heat vision is actually pretty shit or it would be able to see Arnold’s exhaled breath. In this essay I will
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The Predator’s heat vision is actually pretty shit or it would be able to see Arnold’s exhaled breath. In this essay I will
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Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
highlight of my day!!!! vote @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social vote @workingfamilies.org ❤️❤️❤️
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Important: there is a pub in Holborn where a cat wears a ruff. His name is The General
September 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Important: there is a pub in Holborn where a cat wears a ruff. His name is The General
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what an efficient reminder that "free speech" only ever applies to a really specific type of guy
“The State Department indicated it would review the legal status of immigrants ‘praising, rationalizing, or making light’ of Charlie Kirk's fatal shooting.”
State Department warns immigrants not to mock Kirk's death
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau posted the warning on Thursday.
www.axios.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
what an efficient reminder that "free speech" only ever applies to a really specific type of guy
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"sorry 🥺🥺 im just not smart enough to write without AI 🥺🥺🥺" is not an argument any writer can take seriously bc, unfortunately, we have met us
July 31, 2025 at 11:45 PM
"sorry 🥺🥺 im just not smart enough to write without AI 🥺🥺🥺" is not an argument any writer can take seriously bc, unfortunately, we have met us
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The thing about all this Itch had no choice handwringing is that it reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of how corporate culture works.
Visa and Mastercard have caved to Collective Shout because they believe the reputational threat is a real risk.
They need to be shown the alternative is worse.
Visa and Mastercard have caved to Collective Shout because they believe the reputational threat is a real risk.
They need to be shown the alternative is worse.
July 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The thing about all this Itch had no choice handwringing is that it reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of how corporate culture works.
Visa and Mastercard have caved to Collective Shout because they believe the reputational threat is a real risk.
They need to be shown the alternative is worse.
Visa and Mastercard have caved to Collective Shout because they believe the reputational threat is a real risk.
They need to be shown the alternative is worse.
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You don’t have to like, approve of, or engage with porn and nsfw work to see how right wing extremists are using fear and stigma around smut to ban queer people from public life, define “good” sex as only between married people for procreation, and otherwise further force white supremacy on everyone
July 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
You don’t have to like, approve of, or engage with porn and nsfw work to see how right wing extremists are using fear and stigma around smut to ban queer people from public life, define “good” sex as only between married people for procreation, and otherwise further force white supremacy on everyone
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Creating an imprint solely for male authors will not magically get men reading literary fiction again. You're locking the barn door after the horse is long gone. Your enemy is not women; your enemy is decades of educational decline and the profound cultural dominance of visual media.
July 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Creating an imprint solely for male authors will not magically get men reading literary fiction again. You're locking the barn door after the horse is long gone. Your enemy is not women; your enemy is decades of educational decline and the profound cultural dominance of visual media.
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gently: it's fine if you don't love explicit sex scenes in fiction but it would be cool if you could talk about it without sounding indistinguishable from moms for liberty
July 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
gently: it's fine if you don't love explicit sex scenes in fiction but it would be cool if you could talk about it without sounding indistinguishable from moms for liberty
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bisexual wooper doodle
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June 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
bisexual wooper doodle
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I've already reposted a few bits from this, but seriously, read the whole thread. AI doesn't save work; it either increases it, or abdicates it entirely because you no longer give a shit about truth, fairness, and accuracy.
Okay, a lot of people are expressing outrage about this, and I also feel outrage about this, but since everyone else has already expressed my feelings for me, I'm going to put on my Teacher of Analytical Thinking Pants and point out something important.
Statement From Worldcon Chair: We have received questions regarding Seattle’s use of AI tools in our vetting process for program participants. In the interest of transparency, we will explain the process of how we are using a Large… seattlein2025.org?p=3859
April 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I've already reposted a few bits from this, but seriously, read the whole thread. AI doesn't save work; it either increases it, or abdicates it entirely because you no longer give a shit about truth, fairness, and accuracy.
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I just got sent the final design for Vol. 1 of the Lady Trent deluxe edition omnibus, and it is SO PRETTY, Y'ALL 🤩 The campaign will be launching soon!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wra...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wra...
Coming soon: The Memoirs of Lady Trent Vol 1 - Illustrated Deluxe Omnibus
Books 1-3 of Marie Brennan's Hugo-nominated study of dragonkind comes to Wraithmarked!
www.kickstarter.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I just got sent the final design for Vol. 1 of the Lady Trent deluxe edition omnibus, and it is SO PRETTY, Y'ALL 🤩 The campaign will be launching soon!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wra...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wra...
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While it doesn’t feel like doing much in the face of everything, I can help uplift trans voices.
Trans authors, I’ll be offering free 15 min calls to demystify the publishing industry and answer any questions. My email is on the Ki website!
(NOTE: this is not a platform to pitch for rep)
Trans authors, I’ll be offering free 15 min calls to demystify the publishing industry and answer any questions. My email is on the Ki website!
(NOTE: this is not a platform to pitch for rep)
April 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
While it doesn’t feel like doing much in the face of everything, I can help uplift trans voices.
Trans authors, I’ll be offering free 15 min calls to demystify the publishing industry and answer any questions. My email is on the Ki website!
(NOTE: this is not a platform to pitch for rep)
Trans authors, I’ll be offering free 15 min calls to demystify the publishing industry and answer any questions. My email is on the Ki website!
(NOTE: this is not a platform to pitch for rep)
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Behold the majestic floof of this canary-shouldered thorn moth and let your Monday be that little bit more bearable.
This majestic moth eats birches and alders; to help look after it please look after local trees & report any damage to your council.
Thank you from the Moth Promotional Board ✨🦋✨
This majestic moth eats birches and alders; to help look after it please look after local trees & report any damage to your council.
Thank you from the Moth Promotional Board ✨🦋✨
August 12, 2024 at 8:50 AM
Behold the majestic floof of this canary-shouldered thorn moth and let your Monday be that little bit more bearable.
This majestic moth eats birches and alders; to help look after it please look after local trees & report any damage to your council.
Thank you from the Moth Promotional Board ✨🦋✨
This majestic moth eats birches and alders; to help look after it please look after local trees & report any damage to your council.
Thank you from the Moth Promotional Board ✨🦋✨
@oliviaatwater.com Your book has made it to Malaysia! I just saw it at a bookstore. Forgot to snap a picture unfortunately.
March 9, 2025 at 5:40 AM
@oliviaatwater.com Your book has made it to Malaysia! I just saw it at a bookstore. Forgot to snap a picture unfortunately.