Kari Dru
@karidru.bsky.social
Blind painter, tea drinker, and weird hermit. They/He
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“I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.” — Ray Bradbury
February 10, 2026 at 1:46 AM
“I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.” — Ray Bradbury
All of the above being similar for me might explain why I don't just regard this tech as ominous and a bad idea, but I'm also taking it PERSONALLY.
What I hear from llm boosters is "now that we have humanities robots it's finally over for you bitches but as a consolation, you can pretend to code."
What I hear from llm boosters is "now that we have humanities robots it's finally over for you bitches but as a consolation, you can pretend to code."
This would get too long but yes, my life experiences in this arena are also exactly why I have very complex feelings about LLMs.
February 11, 2026 at 6:16 PM
All of the above being similar for me might explain why I don't just regard this tech as ominous and a bad idea, but I'm also taking it PERSONALLY.
What I hear from llm boosters is "now that we have humanities robots it's finally over for you bitches but as a consolation, you can pretend to code."
What I hear from llm boosters is "now that we have humanities robots it's finally over for you bitches but as a consolation, you can pretend to code."
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I did a partial payment today but I still need to take care of the rest of my back rent to keep my housing. It needs to be taken care of ASAP. You can also buy books in my digital shop to help!
January rent is past due and I also need some help to keep the lights on and pay me health insurance. Any amount helps and so do shares 💖
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February 11, 2026 at 1:03 AM
I did a partial payment today but I still need to take care of the rest of my back rent to keep my housing. It needs to be taken care of ASAP. You can also buy books in my digital shop to help!
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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I got some wild ass news this morning.
On a whim, I applied to further my acting training and I got accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London for an advanced acting short-course. I’m still in shock about it, but I do need to raise funds for my time over there. I made a GFM—
On a whim, I applied to further my acting training and I got accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London for an advanced acting short-course. I’m still in shock about it, but I do need to raise funds for my time over there. I made a GFM—
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February 10, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I got some wild ass news this morning.
On a whim, I applied to further my acting training and I got accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London for an advanced acting short-course. I’m still in shock about it, but I do need to raise funds for my time over there. I made a GFM—
On a whim, I applied to further my acting training and I got accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London for an advanced acting short-course. I’m still in shock about it, but I do need to raise funds for my time over there. I made a GFM—
A. Nonsense. There are doubtless billions of people whose names are not in the epstein files and large numbers of those could invent cool things, write cool books, or be competent senators.
B. Don't threaten me with a good time, tho.
B. Don't threaten me with a good time, tho.
“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.”
Works for me.
Works for me.
February 10, 2026 at 9:59 PM
A. Nonsense. There are doubtless billions of people whose names are not in the epstein files and large numbers of those could invent cool things, write cool books, or be competent senators.
B. Don't threaten me with a good time, tho.
B. Don't threaten me with a good time, tho.
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Thread.
In addition: we are at 140 year old tech with fountain pens. Most of the innovations are incredibly far out of patent.
As with knitting patterns, 5 points of difference is sufficient, and it need not be drastic.
Boosting corporate interests never ends well. Diversity of manufacture does.
In addition: we are at 140 year old tech with fountain pens. Most of the innovations are incredibly far out of patent.
As with knitting patterns, 5 points of difference is sufficient, and it need not be drastic.
Boosting corporate interests never ends well. Diversity of manufacture does.
Ran across a post about duped fountain pen designs and how we shouldn't accept it, and I have complicated thoughts about that which would make a better thread than response so here goes.
The tldr tho is that dupes are a price we must pay for less litigation and no monopoly.
The tldr tho is that dupes are a price we must pay for less litigation and no monopoly.
February 10, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Thread.
In addition: we are at 140 year old tech with fountain pens. Most of the innovations are incredibly far out of patent.
As with knitting patterns, 5 points of difference is sufficient, and it need not be drastic.
Boosting corporate interests never ends well. Diversity of manufacture does.
In addition: we are at 140 year old tech with fountain pens. Most of the innovations are incredibly far out of patent.
As with knitting patterns, 5 points of difference is sufficient, and it need not be drastic.
Boosting corporate interests never ends well. Diversity of manufacture does.
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I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:
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When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
February 10, 2026 at 6:52 PM
When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
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They're excellent, folks.
Got hit with a $3000.00 vet bill yesterday. Still looking for work. So, uh, buy my books, maybe?
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February 10, 2026 at 7:13 PM
They're excellent, folks.
Ran across a post about duped fountain pen designs and how we shouldn't accept it, and I have complicated thoughts about that which would make a better thread than response so here goes.
The tldr tho is that dupes are a price we must pay for less litigation and no monopoly.
The tldr tho is that dupes are a price we must pay for less litigation and no monopoly.
February 10, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Ran across a post about duped fountain pen designs and how we shouldn't accept it, and I have complicated thoughts about that which would make a better thread than response so here goes.
The tldr tho is that dupes are a price we must pay for less litigation and no monopoly.
The tldr tho is that dupes are a price we must pay for less litigation and no monopoly.
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Oh she’s phenomenal. This is Sophia Chang.
February 8, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Oh she’s phenomenal. This is Sophia Chang.
Oh, no. No I don't like that.
Finding out that top execs from both LifeTouch and Chuck E. Cheese are in the Epstein files has pissed me off in a way that I didn’t think was still possible.
February 10, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Oh, no. No I don't like that.
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Shawn is turning SEVEN on Friday, provided I don't do a murder here with all the crime he's committing today, and there'll be a sale on Dweller in ebook and audio over the weekend to celebrate and also pay his constant vet bills.
February 9, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Shawn is turning SEVEN on Friday, provided I don't do a murder here with all the crime he's committing today, and there'll be a sale on Dweller in ebook and audio over the weekend to celebrate and also pay his constant vet bills.
Tonight's dinner came out nice looking, so: salad which i later put sweet onion dressing on, with caramelized onion rye grilled cheese with Meunster and aged cheddar.
February 9, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Tonight's dinner came out nice looking, so: salad which i later put sweet onion dressing on, with caramelized onion rye grilled cheese with Meunster and aged cheddar.
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Hey can we bring back all those internet safety campaigns we had when I was a millennial teen? It is NOT my job to parent someone else's kids and have to submit my ID to places to sanitize the internet for some puritanical outrage about kids. Parents should be doing this themselves.
February 9, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Hey can we bring back all those internet safety campaigns we had when I was a millennial teen? It is NOT my job to parent someone else's kids and have to submit my ID to places to sanitize the internet for some puritanical outrage about kids. Parents should be doing this themselves.
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If you're feeling helpless in the onslaught of shitty, shitty news, I cannot recommend highly enough that you join @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's community (or another of the awesome orgs doing the work!) and find ways to get engaged. Working with our people is literally what keeps me going. :)
February 9, 2026 at 8:17 PM
If you're feeling helpless in the onslaught of shitty, shitty news, I cannot recommend highly enough that you join @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's community (or another of the awesome orgs doing the work!) and find ways to get engaged. Working with our people is literally what keeps me going. :)
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There is no way forward that preserves our republic without winning elections. Yes this means we have to win ones that they rig or subvert. To do that we have to overwhelm them so that their plans cannot work. We are already seeing gerrymandering backfire. It's entirely doable to overcome this
February 9, 2026 at 7:17 PM
There is no way forward that preserves our republic without winning elections. Yes this means we have to win ones that they rig or subvert. To do that we have to overwhelm them so that their plans cannot work. We are already seeing gerrymandering backfire. It's entirely doable to overcome this
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And please stop referring to your recipes as "slop" or "kibble" have some pride in your cooking!!!
February 9, 2026 at 7:25 PM
And please stop referring to your recipes as "slop" or "kibble" have some pride in your cooking!!!
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The idea that top surgery is more extreme, more risky, than repeated inpatient hospitalizations or increasingly hard core psych meds is a fallacy.
No, the surgery may not be fully reversible. Neither are those other things.
No, the surgery may not be fully reversible. Neither are those other things.
February 9, 2026 at 7:26 PM
The idea that top surgery is more extreme, more risky, than repeated inpatient hospitalizations or increasingly hard core psych meds is a fallacy.
No, the surgery may not be fully reversible. Neither are those other things.
No, the surgery may not be fully reversible. Neither are those other things.
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this is really… not great
Okay but you absolutely cannot be serious that we're just glossing over "there are more data centers under construction than there are active data centers in the U.S"
web.archive.org/web/20260208...
web.archive.org/web/20260208...
February 9, 2026 at 6:04 PM
this is really… not great
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this was way more prevalent when i was still on tiktok but it feels like people are getting really weird about alcohol, coffee, anything that might make you happy--even in innocuous amounts! feels like we're re-engineering puritanism as a method of maintaining control (over ourselves, each other)
starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
February 9, 2026 at 6:05 PM
this was way more prevalent when i was still on tiktok but it feels like people are getting really weird about alcohol, coffee, anything that might make you happy--even in innocuous amounts! feels like we're re-engineering puritanism as a method of maintaining control (over ourselves, each other)
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We are living through a movement moment whose workings must not be wholly visible, even though the movement itself must be visible. That's complicated. Fashion will be part of it.
February 9, 2026 at 2:59 PM
We are living through a movement moment whose workings must not be wholly visible, even though the movement itself must be visible. That's complicated. Fashion will be part of it.
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You don't know what else someone who's wearing a red knitted cap is doing, and they prob shouldn't announce all the things they are doing — nor do we want the fash to be able to identify who is and isn't doing heavy resistance work by virtue of a hat. Let symbols be popular.
February 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM
You don't know what else someone who's wearing a red knitted cap is doing, and they prob shouldn't announce all the things they are doing — nor do we want the fash to be able to identify who is and isn't doing heavy resistance work by virtue of a hat. Let symbols be popular.
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Re: the backlash to "craftivism."
Stickering is cool and punk and floods the environment with our messaging.
The hats are not "performative"-- they're doing the same thing! But graffiti is seen as more male, knitting more female, and there you go.
Stupid gender ruining the party for all of us.
Stickering is cool and punk and floods the environment with our messaging.
The hats are not "performative"-- they're doing the same thing! But graffiti is seen as more male, knitting more female, and there you go.
Stupid gender ruining the party for all of us.
It's sexist too, I suspect, because knitting is such gendered work.
February 9, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Re: the backlash to "craftivism."
Stickering is cool and punk and floods the environment with our messaging.
The hats are not "performative"-- they're doing the same thing! But graffiti is seen as more male, knitting more female, and there you go.
Stupid gender ruining the party for all of us.
Stickering is cool and punk and floods the environment with our messaging.
The hats are not "performative"-- they're doing the same thing! But graffiti is seen as more male, knitting more female, and there you go.
Stupid gender ruining the party for all of us.