Doc Fancy
@docfancy.bsky.social
Writer, singer, marine biologist. Enjoys making smartarse remarks and quips, getting the laughs, explaining things with nerdy enthusiasm, and ranting, but tries to make the rants entertaining as penance.
I am back in my house in the woods.
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Doc Fancy
@docfancy.bsky.social
· Jan 22
Seems timely to cross-post a thread of mine from the Bad Place, about karyotyping: essentially, examining people’s chromosomal arrangements.
This can be done for many reasons, but in this case, I’m focusing on bigoted arsehats thinking they should test for sex chromosomes.
Copy pasta, let’s go!
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This can be done for many reasons, but in this case, I’m focusing on bigoted arsehats thinking they should test for sex chromosomes.
Copy pasta, let’s go!
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This is chilling, and shocking, and at the same time not surprising. It should be bigger news.
“How dare people hold us accountable for crimes against humanity! We should be allowed to commit those with impunity!”
Fkn monsters.
“How dare people hold us accountable for crimes against humanity! We should be allowed to commit those with impunity!”
Fkn monsters.
In a back channeled "offer" to the International Criminal Court, the United States proposed dropping sanctions on ICC officials if the Court
•Dropped charges on Israeli officials and pledged not to indict anymore
•Stopped investigating crimes in Afghanistan
•Amended the ICC treaty
the ICC said: no
•Dropped charges on Israeli officials and pledged not to indict anymore
•Stopped investigating crimes in Afghanistan
•Amended the ICC treaty
the ICC said: no
Exclusive: ICC shuns US demands to drop Israel war crimes probe and amend treaty
Washington also called for end to Afghanistan investigation and change to Rome Statute in return for lifting sanctions
www.middleeasteye.net
December 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This is chilling, and shocking, and at the same time not surprising. It should be bigger news.
“How dare people hold us accountable for crimes against humanity! We should be allowed to commit those with impunity!”
Fkn monsters.
“How dare people hold us accountable for crimes against humanity! We should be allowed to commit those with impunity!”
Fkn monsters.
This makes me so fkn angry I don't have the words. If you feel the same way, please sign.
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
Hands off our State Library!
Library workers deliver essential services to 2.8 million people in our community each year. They run information services, connect people online, hold free workshops, develop community connections an...
www.megaphone.org.au
December 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This makes me so fkn angry I don't have the words. If you feel the same way, please sign.
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
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Wait a minute.... hang on... something's finally trickling down.... Oh shit, IT'S A FUCKING ANVIL!
'Maybe if I praise billionaires they'll give me some of their immense wealth!'
From the makers of, 'we can't tax the rich, in case I unexpectedly become rich one day'.
From the makers of, 'we can't tax the rich, in case I unexpectedly become rich one day'.
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Wait a minute.... hang on... something's finally trickling down.... Oh shit, IT'S A FUCKING ANVIL!
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insane local news just dropped. i've lived in a part of KC for ~decade and it's been an inside joke with friends and service workers that the local biz/party district is ran by a cartel of biz owners who bully out new ventures and replace them with generic dive bars for white suburbanites.
Well UH
Well UH
December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
insane local news just dropped. i've lived in a part of KC for ~decade and it's been an inside joke with friends and service workers that the local biz/party district is ran by a cartel of biz owners who bully out new ventures and replace them with generic dive bars for white suburbanites.
Well UH
Well UH
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I propose a solution to our ongoing RAM shortage:
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I propose a solution to our ongoing RAM shortage:
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The End of the Year Fantasy Mega Bundle is live now!!! Hosted by @chiefwritesbook.bsky.social , the bundle includes 64 fantasy books, including my book Return the Rose!.
Check the bundle out here: itch.io/b/3409/end-o...
Check the bundle out here: itch.io/b/3409/end-o...
December 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The End of the Year Fantasy Mega Bundle is live now!!! Hosted by @chiefwritesbook.bsky.social , the bundle includes 64 fantasy books, including my book Return the Rose!.
Check the bundle out here: itch.io/b/3409/end-o...
Check the bundle out here: itch.io/b/3409/end-o...
The first place my brain went was “ChatGPT Rap Battle” and now I would like a new brain.
Okay, this is deeply intriguing: adversarial poetry prompts have a significantly higher rate of jailbreak success on nearly every model the researchers tried. Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI’s safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds
Poems containing prompts for harmful content prove effective at duping large language models
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The first place my brain went was “ChatGPT Rap Battle” and now I would like a new brain.
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Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
I gave my dad a copy of Ben Goldacre’s book, “I think you’ll find it’s more complicated than that.”
I wrote this quote on the flyleaf.
…I still do not know if my dad has read the book, but he did read the quote.
I wrote this quote on the flyleaf.
…I still do not know if my dad has read the book, but he did read the quote.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." - H. L. Mencken
December 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I gave my dad a copy of Ben Goldacre’s book, “I think you’ll find it’s more complicated than that.”
I wrote this quote on the flyleaf.
…I still do not know if my dad has read the book, but he did read the quote.
I wrote this quote on the flyleaf.
…I still do not know if my dad has read the book, but he did read the quote.
HOW DARE YOU CALL ME OUT LIKE THIS.
Also brb I have about 50 calls to make.
Also brb I have about 50 calls to make.
Jay Chester, 40, can’t believe it’s been so long since you last met up and genuinely intends to remedy the issue – and will spend the next decade genuinely intending to remedy the issue.
“We mustn’t leave it so long next time” says AuDHD friend who’ll see you in a decade
An AuDHD friend who has vowed to get better at staying in touch will see you whenever the next parent dies, sources have confirmed. Jay Chester, 40, can’t believe it’s been so long since you last…
thedailytism.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
HOW DARE YOU CALL ME OUT LIKE THIS.
Also brb I have about 50 calls to make.
Also brb I have about 50 calls to make.
Look, even if the guy was completely on the level, and willing to act to his own financial detriment in order to advance housing affordability and access for those who *need* it—
—how the FUCK is he supposed to relate to *needing* help, *needing* a change in the system, without blame?
1/25
—how the FUCK is he supposed to relate to *needing* help, *needing* a change in the system, without blame?
1/25
Making a guy who owns 16 houses the shadow housing minister is truly inspiring stuff from the Libs - like the time Labor made the guy with 7 houses the regulator for landlords.
Amazing things happening with the Victorian ruling class 🤩
Amazing things happening with the Victorian ruling class 🤩
November 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Look, even if the guy was completely on the level, and willing to act to his own financial detriment in order to advance housing affordability and access for those who *need* it—
—how the FUCK is he supposed to relate to *needing* help, *needing* a change in the system, without blame?
1/25
—how the FUCK is he supposed to relate to *needing* help, *needing* a change in the system, without blame?
1/25
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Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.
Thread [1/9]
Thread [1/9]
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.
Thread [1/9]
Thread [1/9]
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The highest calling of journalism isn’t to tell two sides of a story.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The highest calling of journalism isn’t to tell two sides of a story.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
All night write-in at the Pancake Parlor winding down to a close (still just shy of 90 minutes to go).
I wrote nearly 6,000 words, ate many pancakes, had a toblerone cocktail, and discovered what happens when
1. you mix red bull and maple syrup
2. you pour that on a pancake and eat it
Good times.
I wrote nearly 6,000 words, ate many pancakes, had a toblerone cocktail, and discovered what happens when
1. you mix red bull and maple syrup
2. you pour that on a pancake and eat it
Good times.
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
All night write-in at the Pancake Parlor winding down to a close (still just shy of 90 minutes to go).
I wrote nearly 6,000 words, ate many pancakes, had a toblerone cocktail, and discovered what happens when
1. you mix red bull and maple syrup
2. you pour that on a pancake and eat it
Good times.
I wrote nearly 6,000 words, ate many pancakes, had a toblerone cocktail, and discovered what happens when
1. you mix red bull and maple syrup
2. you pour that on a pancake and eat it
Good times.
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We have fascism. We have long covid and cognitive damage. And we have also destroyed structural motivation to do anything but deliver product and receive results. It began with standardized testing, and "AI" is just the nail in the coffin.
WE MUST FIGHT THIS.
Study must be meaningful.
WE MUST FIGHT THIS.
Study must be meaningful.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
We have fascism. We have long covid and cognitive damage. And we have also destroyed structural motivation to do anything but deliver product and receive results. It began with standardized testing, and "AI" is just the nail in the coffin.
WE MUST FIGHT THIS.
Study must be meaningful.
WE MUST FIGHT THIS.
Study must be meaningful.
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“I was just following otters.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“I was just following otters.”
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If more men learned to flirt from bird documentaries, the world would be a far more interesting place
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
If more men learned to flirt from bird documentaries, the world would be a far more interesting place
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
This *in particular*, my god. I find it hard to map my writing skill, because developing that has been largely an innate progression.
Music? Innate singing only got me so far, and the conscious development of vocal skills, guitar playing and composition has been a joy I cannot express.
Music? Innate singing only got me so far, and the conscious development of vocal skills, guitar playing and composition has been a joy I cannot express.
Every single actual creative person has experienced the experience of finding effortless what was once effortful.
A generative AI user is completely alienated from this experience, it's alien and unfamiliar to feel pride in the outcome. Or, even to actually give a fuck about it at all.
A generative AI user is completely alienated from this experience, it's alien and unfamiliar to feel pride in the outcome. Or, even to actually give a fuck about it at all.
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This *in particular*, my god. I find it hard to map my writing skill, because developing that has been largely an innate progression.
Music? Innate singing only got me so far, and the conscious development of vocal skills, guitar playing and composition has been a joy I cannot express.
Music? Innate singing only got me so far, and the conscious development of vocal skills, guitar playing and composition has been a joy I cannot express.
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I imagine most of the people trying to claim that stealing indie ebooks is leftism simply have never had to worry about paying rent or for groceries but sorry, your desire for free luxury goods is outweighed by the material needs of their creators
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I imagine most of the people trying to claim that stealing indie ebooks is leftism simply have never had to worry about paying rent or for groceries but sorry, your desire for free luxury goods is outweighed by the material needs of their creators
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I really do get an amazing amount of mileage out of this shirt
(Alt text for the quoted post: Me at the Texas Book Festival, showing off my aggressively pink, rainbows-and-unicorns shirt that says "ALPHA MALE" in big playful balloon letters)
(Alt text for the quoted post: Me at the Texas Book Festival, showing off my aggressively pink, rainbows-and-unicorns shirt that says "ALPHA MALE" in big playful balloon letters)
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I really do get an amazing amount of mileage out of this shirt
(Alt text for the quoted post: Me at the Texas Book Festival, showing off my aggressively pink, rainbows-and-unicorns shirt that says "ALPHA MALE" in big playful balloon letters)
(Alt text for the quoted post: Me at the Texas Book Festival, showing off my aggressively pink, rainbows-and-unicorns shirt that says "ALPHA MALE" in big playful balloon letters)
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I'm going insane because people constantly recommend using AI for things and it is always, ALWAYS worse than repeatedly bashing my head on a brick.
It's like you have an actual problem & all anyone recommends is "have you tried talking to my cousin? He drinks bleach & doesn't wash his pants"
It's like you have an actual problem & all anyone recommends is "have you tried talking to my cousin? He drinks bleach & doesn't wash his pants"
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm going insane because people constantly recommend using AI for things and it is always, ALWAYS worse than repeatedly bashing my head on a brick.
It's like you have an actual problem & all anyone recommends is "have you tried talking to my cousin? He drinks bleach & doesn't wash his pants"
It's like you have an actual problem & all anyone recommends is "have you tried talking to my cousin? He drinks bleach & doesn't wash his pants"
Husband, calling out from the other end of the house: “I’M JUST GETTING SOME CLEAN SOCKS OUT OF THE LAUNDRY.”
Me: “MAKE SURE THEY MATCH OR IT WILL DRIVE ME INSANE WHEN I GO TO PUT IT AWAY.”
Husband: “YES I KNOW.”
Me: “RESPECT MY AUTISM.”
Husband: “WE DON’T FUCK WITH THE TISM.”
Me: “EXACTLY.”
Me: “MAKE SURE THEY MATCH OR IT WILL DRIVE ME INSANE WHEN I GO TO PUT IT AWAY.”
Husband: “YES I KNOW.”
Me: “RESPECT MY AUTISM.”
Husband: “WE DON’T FUCK WITH THE TISM.”
Me: “EXACTLY.”
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Husband, calling out from the other end of the house: “I’M JUST GETTING SOME CLEAN SOCKS OUT OF THE LAUNDRY.”
Me: “MAKE SURE THEY MATCH OR IT WILL DRIVE ME INSANE WHEN I GO TO PUT IT AWAY.”
Husband: “YES I KNOW.”
Me: “RESPECT MY AUTISM.”
Husband: “WE DON’T FUCK WITH THE TISM.”
Me: “EXACTLY.”
Me: “MAKE SURE THEY MATCH OR IT WILL DRIVE ME INSANE WHEN I GO TO PUT IT AWAY.”
Husband: “YES I KNOW.”
Me: “RESPECT MY AUTISM.”
Husband: “WE DON’T FUCK WITH THE TISM.”
Me: “EXACTLY.”
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Hilariously (in the lolsob sort of way), Australia has concluded their social media ban law cannot actually be used to ban underage Australians from Roblox because it's not a social media site
Me: Australia's social media ban for under 16s is a deeply terrible idea and is going to make a lot of problems much worse
Also me: we should ban Roblox for all ages
Also me: we should ban Roblox for all ages
Oh, God, this is one of those "where do I even start" things, because Roblox is, like, *fractally* fucked. They are terrible at content moderation. A lot of the games are rated incorrectly, so kids can encounter graphic content (sex or violence) out of nowhere --
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Hilariously (in the lolsob sort of way), Australia has concluded their social media ban law cannot actually be used to ban underage Australians from Roblox because it's not a social media site