Kay Orchison
@kayorchison.bsky.social
Former visual artist. Occasionally still a musician. Mostly writing SF/horror these days, with excursions into amnesiac memoirs. Disabled, keen indoorsman, BLOCKS WITH GAY ABANDON. You were warned. He/him
www.amnesiana.com
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Kay Orchison
@kayorchison.bsky.social
· Aug 23
Facial ID has arrived in the UK and is coming to Australia in November, so I'm putting my Signal contact here for anyone who's lost DMs.
Here I block on vibes. On Signal if you're not someone I already know you're gonna have to work pretty hard not to get blocked.
Try me here first
KayOrchison.71
Here I block on vibes. On Signal if you're not someone I already know you're gonna have to work pretty hard not to get blocked.
Try me here first
KayOrchison.71
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Please help Hammam's family survive Israel's continuing genocide, donations are very slow since the 'ceasefire', & winter rains are flooding the camps & making life hell for Palestinians. Supplies & shelter urgently needed:
November 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Please help Hammam's family survive Israel's continuing genocide, donations are very slow since the 'ceasefire', & winter rains are flooding the camps & making life hell for Palestinians. Supplies & shelter urgently needed:
Iocaine and a land war in Asia
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Iocaine and a land war in Asia
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Front half or back half?
A new study finds that about half of the physical variation seen in modern dogs existed during the Stone Age. n.pr/3MmIfM2
The origins of your dog's unique look may be older than you think
A new study finds that about half of the physical variation seen in modern dogs existed during the Stone Age.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Front half or back half?
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Hookland Unexplained Team (HUT) have made a career of turning up to places where a bloke coming back from the pub has seen a movement in the hedge and assumed it’s a Star Wraith or a Harrow Hound. You journalists have enabled them in scaring the populace because bullshit sells papers. - #DICallaghan
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Hookland Unexplained Team (HUT) have made a career of turning up to places where a bloke coming back from the pub has seen a movement in the hedge and assumed it’s a Star Wraith or a Harrow Hound. You journalists have enabled them in scaring the populace because bullshit sells papers. - #DICallaghan
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This is why we need to let the computers control everything.
I tested a machine learning model designed to detect NSFW content. It marked this image as unsafe, because of Tim Allen's breasts (marked in blue) and my hand-penis (marked in green)
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This is why we need to let the computers control everything.
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" "suicide" "
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
" "suicide" "
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Good morning, my weirdos 💚✨️
November 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Good morning, my weirdos 💚✨️
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SPOILER: Palantir is one of the most evil companies that has ever existed. They make their money by spying on ordinary people for the CIA, & making it easier for governments to crush people like you & me to benefit corporations.
In a just world, Palantir - & Peter Thiel - couldn't exist.
In a just world, Palantir - & Peter Thiel - couldn't exist.
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
SPOILER: Palantir is one of the most evil companies that has ever existed. They make their money by spying on ordinary people for the CIA, & making it easier for governments to crush people like you & me to benefit corporations.
In a just world, Palantir - & Peter Thiel - couldn't exist.
In a just world, Palantir - & Peter Thiel - couldn't exist.
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OpenAI must be consigned to oblivion.
Sure sure you might say that my client's knife "caused" the victim to stop being able to pump blood to their brain, but Hume's 𝘌𝘯𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘺 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 really makes it clear that we should all have some reasonable doubt about the concept of "causation"
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
OpenAI must be consigned to oblivion.
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No donations for 2 days. Shimaa was shot by an Israeli quadcopter trying to keep her baby safe & lost her husband to Israel's genocide in Gaza. Please help her keep her daughter, who's very sick & malnourished, alive. They urgently need food, medicine, shelter from the cold:
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM
No donations for 2 days. Shimaa was shot by an Israeli quadcopter trying to keep her baby safe & lost her husband to Israel's genocide in Gaza. Please help her keep her daughter, who's very sick & malnourished, alive. They urgently need food, medicine, shelter from the cold:
Ok holy fuck though look at the SIZE of the bloody thing
And the pure horror movie shapes and textures of it
What a magnificent motherfucker of an organism!!
And the pure horror movie shapes and textures of it
What a magnificent motherfucker of an organism!!
Ooh!
A 13-year search for one of the world's rarest flowers in Indonesia ends in a 'magical experience'
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Ok holy fuck though look at the SIZE of the bloody thing
And the pure horror movie shapes and textures of it
What a magnificent motherfucker of an organism!!
And the pure horror movie shapes and textures of it
What a magnificent motherfucker of an organism!!
This is going to cause suicides and a homelessness epidemic
Any other Aussies get the impression Labour is at war with poor people?
We've already had; "Maladministration of the Targeted Compliance Framework has caused thousands of welfare recipients to have their Centrelink payment reduced and cancelled unlawfully."
Now we're getting ⬇️ #auspol
We've already had; "Maladministration of the Targeted Compliance Framework has caused thousands of welfare recipients to have their Centrelink payment reduced and cancelled unlawfully."
Now we're getting ⬇️ #auspol
November 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
This is going to cause suicides and a homelessness epidemic
This is increasingly the case in all creative industries everywhere.
@queenofland.bsky.social a certain someone could possibly do with a big picture infographic on declining pay and hiring rates across creative industries in general, if such a thing might be found.
It's as real as climate change.
@queenofland.bsky.social a certain someone could possibly do with a big picture infographic on declining pay and hiring rates across creative industries in general, if such a thing might be found.
It's as real as climate change.
And the folks who are actually writing full-time generally only got there after years of day jobs, family support, or both.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
This is increasingly the case in all creative industries everywhere.
@queenofland.bsky.social a certain someone could possibly do with a big picture infographic on declining pay and hiring rates across creative industries in general, if such a thing might be found.
It's as real as climate change.
@queenofland.bsky.social a certain someone could possibly do with a big picture infographic on declining pay and hiring rates across creative industries in general, if such a thing might be found.
It's as real as climate change.
Essentially Labor—like UK Labour and the US Democrats—are amoral shitheads who like power and influence but don't want to work too hard for it.
The only major differences between them and the right are Murdoch press support and a thirst for blood.
They let the right go too hard then take the chair
The only major differences between them and the right are Murdoch press support and a thirst for blood.
They let the right go too hard then take the chair
This is sad but true - Albo has destroyed the LNP by replacing them in every way, but with more women & less Culture War bullshit.
Labor is doing all the same pro-war, pro-fossil-fuel, pro-climate-change crap that the LNP has always stood for, & the LNP have no idea how to cope with it.
#auspol
Labor is doing all the same pro-war, pro-fossil-fuel, pro-climate-change crap that the LNP has always stood for, & the LNP have no idea how to cope with it.
#auspol
can i say there's no real difference between the two majors now without a bunch of #auspol dipshits yelling at me?
it's extremely telling how - here and in the UK - when the more "right" of the two majors collapse, the "left" immediately mutates to take its place, almost like they share an agenda
it's extremely telling how - here and in the UK - when the more "right" of the two majors collapse, the "left" immediately mutates to take its place, almost like they share an agenda
November 26, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Essentially Labor—like UK Labour and the US Democrats—are amoral shitheads who like power and influence but don't want to work too hard for it.
The only major differences between them and the right are Murdoch press support and a thirst for blood.
They let the right go too hard then take the chair
The only major differences between them and the right are Murdoch press support and a thirst for blood.
They let the right go too hard then take the chair
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Any punk or goth knows that clothing is a message you are sending to the world.
My friend and fellow menswear writer Bruce Boyer is fond of saying that clothes are more important than most people think, but less important than fashion people think. I'm of the same mind. I'm of the same mind. I think it's perfectly fine to use clothing to communicate something about yourself.
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Any punk or goth knows that clothing is a message you are sending to the world.
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As a citizen of an allied-nation that the CIA "regime-changed" back in the '70s because we voted in a Socialist, I can assure you all that this is 100% the America that we all know.
“This is not the America I know,” added Slotkin, ***a former CIA analyst.*** 🤨
“This is not the America I know,” added Slotkin, a former CIA analyst. “I’m not going to let this next step from the FBI stop me from speaking up for my country and our Constitution.”
When we fight, we win! Keep fighting!!
#FightBack
#BulliesSuck
When we fight, we win! Keep fighting!!
#FightBack
#BulliesSuck
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
As a citizen of an allied-nation that the CIA "regime-changed" back in the '70s because we voted in a Socialist, I can assure you all that this is 100% the America that we all know.
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I've said this before: a Michelle Yeoh + Ming-Na Wen sapphic John Wick/Equalizer type movie where they're retired spies or assassins or whatever, living a quiet life when something happens that causes them to have to go kill a BUNCH of dudes.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I've said this before: a Michelle Yeoh + Ming-Na Wen sapphic John Wick/Equalizer type movie where they're retired spies or assassins or whatever, living a quiet life when something happens that causes them to have to go kill a BUNCH of dudes.
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There's only a few days left for Rook to raise rent & still a few hundred to go
Please help them if you have anything to spare, they're a great friend & have been going through medical hell all year
Please help them if you have anything to spare, they're a great friend & have been going through medical hell all year
Urgent!✨️
Still at $345/$775 for rent by Dec 1st while dealing w/ multiple disabling health issues.
$430 & only 7 days to go til due. Please help keep this disabled queer trans artist housed! TYSM! 💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #HelpFolksLive2025
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CashApp/Venmo: foxrook
Still at $345/$775 for rent by Dec 1st while dealing w/ multiple disabling health issues.
$430 & only 7 days to go til due. Please help keep this disabled queer trans artist housed! TYSM! 💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #HelpFolksLive2025
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CashApp/Venmo: foxrook
November 26, 2025 at 4:54 AM
There's only a few days left for Rook to raise rent & still a few hundred to go
Please help them if you have anything to spare, they're a great friend & have been going through medical hell all year
Please help them if you have anything to spare, they're a great friend & have been going through medical hell all year
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Did you know there was an entire fandom around abandoned, rotting supermarkets? (Izzzyzzz) youtu.be/EsGVw56alFQ?...
The Rotten Supermarket Fandom
YouTube video by Izzzyzzz
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Did you know there was an entire fandom around abandoned, rotting supermarkets? (Izzzyzzz) youtu.be/EsGVw56alFQ?...
Cunce
all of this and they're not even talking about increasing the rate of welfare payments lol
Rents rose by 4.2% annually, accelerating from 3.8% in September.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Cunce
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Wondering about The Freedom, and that solarpunk needs a total radical sea change for it to work.
ko-fi.com/post/The-Fre...
#solarpunk #sff #ecofeminism
ko-fi.com/post/The-Fre...
#solarpunk #sff #ecofeminism
The Freedom
Joyce Chng published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Wondering about The Freedom, and that solarpunk needs a total radical sea change for it to work.
ko-fi.com/post/The-Fre...
#solarpunk #sff #ecofeminism
ko-fi.com/post/The-Fre...
#solarpunk #sff #ecofeminism
I know pumpkin pie is supposed to be a dessert for Americans - it's not really a thing here - but people posting about disasters where someone put garlic or cumin in one just has me going "no I can see how that could work"
I'm gonna have to make a savoury pumpkin pie out of American mistakes
I'm gonna have to make a savoury pumpkin pie out of American mistakes
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I know pumpkin pie is supposed to be a dessert for Americans - it's not really a thing here - but people posting about disasters where someone put garlic or cumin in one just has me going "no I can see how that could work"
I'm gonna have to make a savoury pumpkin pie out of American mistakes
I'm gonna have to make a savoury pumpkin pie out of American mistakes
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My friend Nancy recused an awesome stray cat, but it needed some significant vet care and the bills are piling up. If you could throw even a little cash Nancy's way, you'd be helping both her and the kitty a lot. Please repost this. Thanks.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ob-th...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ob-th...
Donate to Help OB the Stray Cat Heal and Find a Home, organized by Nancy Collins
Hi, my name is Nancy A. Collins. Some of you might know me as a novelist and … Nancy Collins needs your support for Help OB the Stray Cat Heal and Find a Home
www.gofundme.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
My friend Nancy recused an awesome stray cat, but it needed some significant vet care and the bills are piling up. If you could throw even a little cash Nancy's way, you'd be helping both her and the kitty a lot. Please repost this. Thanks.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ob-th...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ob-th...
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I know nothing is truly simple - but I think we could go a long way to fixing a few societal problems if we regulated social media algorithms to ensure they didn't boost posts that appealed to fear and anger above others.
November 26, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I know nothing is truly simple - but I think we could go a long way to fixing a few societal problems if we regulated social media algorithms to ensure they didn't boost posts that appealed to fear and anger above others.
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You talking about my books, or the books of any author you love, goes exponentially further than that author talking about their own books, especially on social media where your posts can go viral
I mean. Remember Bigolas Dickolas?
I mean. Remember Bigolas Dickolas?
FWIW: Mention books you like or you think others might like. You never know what'll happen:
I saw The Sad Bastard Cookbook here so I mentioned it on Masto (in a "in case you need this" sense). It kinda went viral (1K shares). It jumped to a high ranking on Amazon and then they got media attention.
I saw The Sad Bastard Cookbook here so I mentioned it on Masto (in a "in case you need this" sense). It kinda went viral (1K shares). It jumped to a high ranking on Amazon and then they got media attention.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 AM
You talking about my books, or the books of any author you love, goes exponentially further than that author talking about their own books, especially on social media where your posts can go viral
I mean. Remember Bigolas Dickolas?
I mean. Remember Bigolas Dickolas?