Kari Dru
@karidru.bsky.social
Blind painter, tea drinker, and weird hermit. They/He
https://ko-fi.com/karidru
October.Rosehip on discord
https://ko-fi.com/karidru
October.Rosehip on discord
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he's still at it
February 17, 2026 at 11:04 PM
he's still at it
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lol my husband just suggested I’m “seeing sex everywhere” bc I have sex on the brain. Examples of where I’ve seen sex recently that he listed:
* Moby Dick
* Walt Whitman’s poems
* commander Riker of Star Trek
* Shakespeare
Kids & I enjoyed laughing at him about it. 😂
* Moby Dick
* Walt Whitman’s poems
* commander Riker of Star Trek
* Shakespeare
Kids & I enjoyed laughing at him about it. 😂
February 17, 2026 at 9:22 PM
lol my husband just suggested I’m “seeing sex everywhere” bc I have sex on the brain. Examples of where I’ve seen sex recently that he listed:
* Moby Dick
* Walt Whitman’s poems
* commander Riker of Star Trek
* Shakespeare
Kids & I enjoyed laughing at him about it. 😂
* Moby Dick
* Walt Whitman’s poems
* commander Riker of Star Trek
* Shakespeare
Kids & I enjoyed laughing at him about it. 😂
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California sober, meet Maryland vegetarian
Aye. Perfection is the enemy of progress.
I had a friend from Maryland who was vegetarian except for crab.
I had a friend from Maryland who was vegetarian except for crab.
February 17, 2026 at 7:42 PM
California sober, meet Maryland vegetarian
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eternally doomed to be the only person in the world who remembers trumps first term
February 17, 2026 at 6:51 PM
eternally doomed to be the only person in the world who remembers trumps first term
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Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras.
This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.
This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.
Ramadan Mubarak!
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Laissez bon temps rouler!
Hodesh Adar tov!
Y'ALL
⭐
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Laissez bon temps rouler!
Hodesh Adar tov!
Y'ALL
⭐
February 17, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras.
This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.
This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.
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Did you know that anyone over age 18 can join the AARP?
Most people refer to its many discounts, but for my money the best reason to join is that AARP is the largest political lobby that any adult can join - and it advocates strongly for Medicare, Medicaid, and caregiver resources.
$15-20 per year
Most people refer to its many discounts, but for my money the best reason to join is that AARP is the largest political lobby that any adult can join - and it advocates strongly for Medicare, Medicaid, and caregiver resources.
$15-20 per year
The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
AARP doesn’t only provide services to elders. They list resources for many social needs that impact seniors, including hunger.
To search: enter the name of your state, then “AARP” - “hunger” - “food” - “resources”
AARP doesn’t only provide services to elders. They list resources for many social needs that impact seniors, including hunger.
To search: enter the name of your state, then “AARP” - “hunger” - “food” - “resources”
February 17, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Did you know that anyone over age 18 can join the AARP?
Most people refer to its many discounts, but for my money the best reason to join is that AARP is the largest political lobby that any adult can join - and it advocates strongly for Medicare, Medicaid, and caregiver resources.
$15-20 per year
Most people refer to its many discounts, but for my money the best reason to join is that AARP is the largest political lobby that any adult can join - and it advocates strongly for Medicare, Medicaid, and caregiver resources.
$15-20 per year
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“I asked ChatGPT”
Oh yeah well I asked a tree and it made a weird clicking noise and added a bit of bark to my gender
Oh yeah well I asked a tree and it made a weird clicking noise and added a bit of bark to my gender
February 16, 2026 at 11:41 PM
“I asked ChatGPT”
Oh yeah well I asked a tree and it made a weird clicking noise and added a bit of bark to my gender
Oh yeah well I asked a tree and it made a weird clicking noise and added a bit of bark to my gender
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It is, in fact, exactly like this. The pivot to demonizing trans people began promptly in 2015 as soon as they lost the fight against gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges. The specious arguments against trans people now are directly reused from those against gay/lesbian people in the 90's.
HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
February 16, 2026 at 7:31 PM
It is, in fact, exactly like this. The pivot to demonizing trans people began promptly in 2015 as soon as they lost the fight against gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges. The specious arguments against trans people now are directly reused from those against gay/lesbian people in the 90's.
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Good morning bsky! Real quick before I head out to take care of some things, we are at $2431.50 of the $5900 needed to keep my 3 sets of neighbors housed for March! Thank you so much for your help supporting them & let's keep pushing!
Venmo Caz-A
paypal.me/ccabb
Venmo Caz-A
paypal.me/ccabb
February 17, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Good morning bsky! Real quick before I head out to take care of some things, we are at $2431.50 of the $5900 needed to keep my 3 sets of neighbors housed for March! Thank you so much for your help supporting them & let's keep pushing!
Venmo Caz-A
paypal.me/ccabb
Venmo Caz-A
paypal.me/ccabb
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I admit I've under-emphasized this point, but it should be higher up in my list of reasons never to use "AI".
"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence."
Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...
Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...
February 17, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I admit I've under-emphasized this point, but it should be higher up in my list of reasons never to use "AI".
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I send out a periodic newsletter highlighting new self-pub & small press queer romances I think look promising.
IF YOU are putting out a queer romance in 2026 for retail sale and you are (like me) NOT publishing on Amazon, please reply / DM so I can get you on my radar.
Reposts very welcome. 🌈💜🌈📚♠️
IF YOU are putting out a queer romance in 2026 for retail sale and you are (like me) NOT publishing on Amazon, please reply / DM so I can get you on my radar.
Reposts very welcome. 🌈💜🌈📚♠️
February 17, 2026 at 3:58 PM
I send out a periodic newsletter highlighting new self-pub & small press queer romances I think look promising.
IF YOU are putting out a queer romance in 2026 for retail sale and you are (like me) NOT publishing on Amazon, please reply / DM so I can get you on my radar.
Reposts very welcome. 🌈💜🌈📚♠️
IF YOU are putting out a queer romance in 2026 for retail sale and you are (like me) NOT publishing on Amazon, please reply / DM so I can get you on my radar.
Reposts very welcome. 🌈💜🌈📚♠️
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The headline doesn't even begin to describe how wildly unethical the background of this story is, which is that the survivor only shared the story with one person- her psychiatrist- who is Kamel Doud's wife
His novel was praised for giving a voice to the victims of Algeria’s brutal civil war. But one woman has accused Kamel Daoud of having stolen her story – and the ensuing legal battle has become about much more than literary ethics.
‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s life story?
The long read: His novel was praised for giving a voice to the victims of Algeria’s brutal civil war. But one woman has accused Kamel Daoud of having stolen her story – and the ensuing legal battle ha...
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:21 AM
The headline doesn't even begin to describe how wildly unethical the background of this story is, which is that the survivor only shared the story with one person- her psychiatrist- who is Kamel Doud's wife
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important thread about a crucial online literacy skill! it is a VERY common abuse tactic (not just online) to act charming and fun and harmless to build trust and only later use that trust to get something from you, whether it's your money, your data, your radicalisation, or all of the above.
had a spidey sense an account was inauthentic a few days ago but couldn’t find any metadata tells right away, but someone just DM’d me to tell me they were on X spouting DEEPLY disturbing stuff
So I just wanted to remind everyone one of the principles of malignant accounts: the 60-40 rule
So I just wanted to remind everyone one of the principles of malignant accounts: the 60-40 rule
February 16, 2026 at 6:38 PM
important thread about a crucial online literacy skill! it is a VERY common abuse tactic (not just online) to act charming and fun and harmless to build trust and only later use that trust to get something from you, whether it's your money, your data, your radicalisation, or all of the above.
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Gang.
GANG.
LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS.
STOP USING THEM.
GANG.
LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS.
STOP USING THEM.
Just because I keep seeing those "I checked this piece and it's written by AI" - this is an old article of mine, before AI was available. So could we not?
February 16, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Gang.
GANG.
LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS.
STOP USING THEM.
GANG.
LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS.
STOP USING THEM.
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Image description: screenshot of an AI Detection Result. It shows a 72% chance the text was written by AI and only a 28% chance it was written by a human.
Just because I keep seeing those "I checked this piece and it's written by AI" - this is an old article of mine, before AI was available. So could we not?
February 16, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Image description: screenshot of an AI Detection Result. It shows a 72% chance the text was written by AI and only a 28% chance it was written by a human.
Gonna show my age but film cannisters being great weed storage will not leave my brain til i say it.
Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?
February 16, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Gonna show my age but film cannisters being great weed storage will not leave my brain til i say it.
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Now $2025 of $5900! I really appreciate y'all helping me keep my neighbors housed and safe while we continue to deal with the ramifications of a city full of violent fascist kidnappers & murderers.
Ways to send (also on original post if you follow the quote inception)
Venmo: Caz-A
paypal.me/ccabb
Ways to send (also on original post if you follow the quote inception)
Venmo: Caz-A
paypal.me/ccabb
HELL YES $1975 / $5900 that puts us just past our 1/3 marker tonight! Would love to have it raised by about mid-next-week so we can get it all transferred over and they can make their payments on the 1st! As always, any extra goes to them - their choice, cash or I'll do a grocery run for them.
Fresh post, same ask. Currently $1215 / $5900 for rent for 3 neighbor families who are sheltering in place due to ongoing ICE terrorism in the Cities. Even if ICE left rn (and they're NOT) these folks have been out of work for weeks and will NOT catch up without our help.
Venmo Caz-A
paypal.me/ccabb
Venmo Caz-A
paypal.me/ccabb
February 16, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Now $2025 of $5900! I really appreciate y'all helping me keep my neighbors housed and safe while we continue to deal with the ramifications of a city full of violent fascist kidnappers & murderers.
Ways to send (also on original post if you follow the quote inception)
Venmo: Caz-A
paypal.me/ccabb
Ways to send (also on original post if you follow the quote inception)
Venmo: Caz-A
paypal.me/ccabb
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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
Hello from Iowa where a couple friends and I are still living that 2020 pod life... nobody else sees our faces ever, but we've been masking around each other this winter because *gestures at that dark maroon band of states*
Yeah. Also I hear the flu this year SUCKS.
Yeah. Also I hear the flu this year SUCKS.
PMC COVlD Report, Week of Feb 16, 2026 (U.S.)
14 states are still experiencing High/Very High COVlD levels amid a lingering 12th wave.
Minnesota may be at an all-time high.
THREAD 1 of 4 🧵
14 states are still experiencing High/Very High COVlD levels amid a lingering 12th wave.
Minnesota may be at an all-time high.
THREAD 1 of 4 🧵
February 16, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Hello from Iowa where a couple friends and I are still living that 2020 pod life... nobody else sees our faces ever, but we've been masking around each other this winter because *gestures at that dark maroon band of states*
Yeah. Also I hear the flu this year SUCKS.
Yeah. Also I hear the flu this year SUCKS.
Today in my least pressing problem: a fountain pen vendor notified me a week ago that they've changed their policy and my discount level from prior purchases will expire today if I don't buy SOMETHING. And I feel like this is simultaneously completely fair but also wtf kind of notice is that.
February 16, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Today in my least pressing problem: a fountain pen vendor notified me a week ago that they've changed their policy and my discount level from prior purchases will expire today if I don't buy SOMETHING. And I feel like this is simultaneously completely fair but also wtf kind of notice is that.
They really DON'T think the arts involve skill OR dedication.
I know that but it gobsmacks me whenever I see it demonstrated.
I know that but it gobsmacks me whenever I see it demonstrated.
Ah yes artists, famously undedicated to their work, never obsessive, who don’t understand {checks notes} creating things.
This shit right here is why people hate you AI assholes. Myopic and arrogant.
You’re not creating or iterating anything? You literally invented a soulless box to do it for you.
This shit right here is why people hate you AI assholes. Myopic and arrogant.
You’re not creating or iterating anything? You literally invented a soulless box to do it for you.
February 16, 2026 at 12:08 AM
They really DON'T think the arts involve skill OR dedication.
I know that but it gobsmacks me whenever I see it demonstrated.
I know that but it gobsmacks me whenever I see it demonstrated.
Yeah. But for the past several years it's been constant "you're not struggling, the economy is fine!"
I don't care what "the economy" says when a packet of frozen bean burritos is $9.
I don't care what "the economy" says when a packet of frozen bean burritos is $9.
Apparently there’s grocery inflation discourse again, but as I’ve been buying groceries for other families during this crisis, often under duress, it’s brought me out of my own optimized grocery spending habits, which rely heavily on Costco. And damn, there is a huge price to pay for being poor.
February 15, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Yeah. But for the past several years it's been constant "you're not struggling, the economy is fine!"
I don't care what "the economy" says when a packet of frozen bean burritos is $9.
I don't care what "the economy" says when a packet of frozen bean burritos is $9.
Apparently evergreen ask: If there is text in your image, please include all of it in the alt text.
If you used a widget to extract the text from an image, please read through it to make sure it transferred correctly. It doesn't always.
If you used a widget to extract the text from an image, please read through it to make sure it transferred correctly. It doesn't always.
February 15, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Apparently evergreen ask: If there is text in your image, please include all of it in the alt text.
If you used a widget to extract the text from an image, please read through it to make sure it transferred correctly. It doesn't always.
If you used a widget to extract the text from an image, please read through it to make sure it transferred correctly. It doesn't always.
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Folks like to talk about how Norman Rockwell was more liberal than we remember, but a big part of that is that he represented a broad American consensus that was more liberal than we remember.
The idea that Americans haven't died—in huge numbers—specifically to defend multiculturalism is horseshit.
The idea that Americans haven't died—in huge numbers—specifically to defend multiculturalism is horseshit.
February 15, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Folks like to talk about how Norman Rockwell was more liberal than we remember, but a big part of that is that he represented a broad American consensus that was more liberal than we remember.
The idea that Americans haven't died—in huge numbers—specifically to defend multiculturalism is horseshit.
The idea that Americans haven't died—in huge numbers—specifically to defend multiculturalism is horseshit.
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If you want to dismiss this, the exact same shift happened on immigration.
I'm old enough to remember when "build the wall" was mocked as a fascist delusion even by fairly conservative figures like Clinton, then it became "we'll build the wall but better." Do not forgive and do not forget.
I'm old enough to remember when "build the wall" was mocked as a fascist delusion even by fairly conservative figures like Clinton, then it became "we'll build the wall but better." Do not forgive and do not forget.
This is horrific and a reminder of how we got here.
Also: Clinton's a massive terf and she's only gotten more blatant about it over the years, so I'd expect "we'll dismantle trans rights, but the correct way" to be a similar talking point as 2028 gets closer.
Also: Clinton's a massive terf and she's only gotten more blatant about it over the years, so I'd expect "we'll dismantle trans rights, but the correct way" to be a similar talking point as 2028 gets closer.
Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."
February 15, 2026 at 4:50 PM
If you want to dismiss this, the exact same shift happened on immigration.
I'm old enough to remember when "build the wall" was mocked as a fascist delusion even by fairly conservative figures like Clinton, then it became "we'll build the wall but better." Do not forgive and do not forget.
I'm old enough to remember when "build the wall" was mocked as a fascist delusion even by fairly conservative figures like Clinton, then it became "we'll build the wall but better." Do not forgive and do not forget.