Suzi
@suzisteffen.bsky.social
Writer, reader, editor, occasional arts journalist, rider of adult tricycles, traveler. #NWSL, #WNBA, #NCAAWBB, #WSL fan. Oregonian. Gardener. Aunt. Fan of equal rights for all. Duolingo addict. She/her. Use alt text, or f*ck all the way off.
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Suzi
@suzisteffen.bsky.social
· Sep 19
when your entire life is emails and going to lunch, LLMs are truly inspirational
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"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
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Submit your best garbage Bear art!
Artists have an opportunity to have their bear-themed art work depicted on Juneau trash cans built to keep the animals out — and win a $10,000 award.
A contest for art to go on bear-resistant trash cans in Juneau opened today
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings is partnering with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to host an art contest. Selected artists will have their art turned into miniature murals that will be printed…
www.ktoo.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Submit your best garbage Bear art!
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1) I was having drinks with @gregrucka.com who is in LA for VERY SECRET REASONS and we were discussing this post, because he had just finished A Thing and I am in the middle of A Thing and write all day, literally 9 to 5, and we were talking baout how THAT felt ...
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas
In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…
terribleminds.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:12 AM
1) I was having drinks with @gregrucka.com who is in LA for VERY SECRET REASONS and we were discussing this post, because he had just finished A Thing and I am in the middle of A Thing and write all day, literally 9 to 5, and we were talking baout how THAT felt ...
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"ON does not maintain a public record of how many companies hold water-taking permits, or how much water is withdrawn each day... without strict oversight, mining can drain rivers and aquifers, increase water pollution and harm ecosystems." 🤨
#onpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/09/n...
#onpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/09/n...
Ford moves to let mining companies take water — no permit required
Ontario is proposing changes that would allow hundreds of mineral exploration companies to take water for early-stage work without a permit.
www.nationalobserver.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"ON does not maintain a public record of how many companies hold water-taking permits, or how much water is withdrawn each day... without strict oversight, mining can drain rivers and aquifers, increase water pollution and harm ecosystems." 🤨
#onpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/09/n...
#onpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/09/n...
I actually laughed out loud during the preview. Sigh.
monkey’s paw situation with me wanting legitimate blockbusters being made that make people excited to go back to theaters and james cameron releasing movie 3 in his white savior universe
December 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I actually laughed out loud during the preview. Sigh.
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Can somebody who lives near other cc people please gather a group, put them in N95s and photo the heck out of them, then submit to stock photos? THANK YOU.
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Can somebody who lives near other cc people please gather a group, put them in N95s and photo the heck out of them, then submit to stock photos? THANK YOU.
welp this is fun
"We asked critics from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said. Critics from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We asked critics from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
Critics from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
welp this is fun
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Just remembering how when I went to talk to that local high school last week one of the kids asked "So in THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST how come you made the main character so old?"
And I almost began my answer with "Look, you little shit" but I did NOT
And I almost began my answer with "Look, you little shit" but I did NOT
December 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Just remembering how when I went to talk to that local high school last week one of the kids asked "So in THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST how come you made the main character so old?"
And I almost began my answer with "Look, you little shit" but I did NOT
And I almost began my answer with "Look, you little shit" but I did NOT
just saw this on FB and like wow OK a whole clean-out
Thank you Hanna, Olivia, Mikayla, and Julia for your work, your spirit, and commitment during your time with the club. 💙
#ForeverReign
#ForeverReign
December 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
just saw this on FB and like wow OK a whole clean-out
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PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
I am baffled by this because I have had so many friends with shingles and NONE of them made it sound fun. Not one. A vaccine that made me absolutely miserable for 48 hours would still be a huge improvement over the mildest case of shingles I've heard of. (Also it made me tired for 1 day.)
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
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My colleague points out here that possibly one in seven requests to our library now may be assisted by LLMs.
When those point to fictional documents, that's a huge staff time drain. There's often no quick way to check if an undigitized primary source doc exists beyond physically pulling some boxes.
When those point to fictional documents, that's a huge staff time drain. There's often no quick way to check if an undigitized primary source doc exists beyond physically pulling some boxes.
December 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
My colleague points out here that possibly one in seven requests to our library now may be assisted by LLMs.
When those point to fictional documents, that's a huge staff time drain. There's often no quick way to check if an undigitized primary source doc exists beyond physically pulling some boxes.
When those point to fictional documents, that's a huge staff time drain. There's often no quick way to check if an undigitized primary source doc exists beyond physically pulling some boxes.
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I know two older adults who got shingles this year and it was absolutely awful for them. Both had to go on gabapentin for months to manage the pain. One went temporarily blind when it got in their eye. Get the damn vax.
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I know two older adults who got shingles this year and it was absolutely awful for them. Both had to go on gabapentin for months to manage the pain. One went temporarily blind when it got in their eye. Get the damn vax.
help I can't get a very specific Xmas song out of my head! give me something else, 🦋
December 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
help I can't get a very specific Xmas song out of my head! give me something else, 🦋
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related: follow @carlylane.bsky.social for good & thoughtful romance takes!
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
related: follow @carlylane.bsky.social for good & thoughtful romance takes!
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no hate, but this is an incorrect take imo -- it's an amazing adaptation
(once again asking for more romance-knowledgeable critics to be hired to write about these things!!!)
(once again asking for more romance-knowledgeable critics to be hired to write about these things!!!)
People keep asking if the gay hockey show is good or bad but it is simply too horny for either of those words to apply
December 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
no hate, but this is an incorrect take imo -- it's an amazing adaptation
(once again asking for more romance-knowledgeable critics to be hired to write about these things!!!)
(once again asking for more romance-knowledgeable critics to be hired to write about these things!!!)
Yuuuup
Also, if you want a league that isn't about a singular star, then invest in better media and better storytelling. You could have many more stars that help drive up revenue, but we're working from the singular USWNT star model, and this is where we end up.
December 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Yuuuup
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Breaking News: A dozen FBI agents sued the bureau’s director, Kash Patel, and the Trump administration after they were fired for having knelt during a racial justice protest in 2020.
FBI Agents Sue Patel After Being Fired Over Kneeling at George Floyd Protest
A five-year-old photo of agents kneeling at a D.C. protest after George Floyd’s killing led to the firing of about 16 agents.
nyti.ms
December 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Breaking News: A dozen FBI agents sued the bureau’s director, Kash Patel, and the Trump administration after they were fired for having knelt during a racial justice protest in 2020.
#Oregon waves
The thing about the property tax cap is that the government knew, and more or less accurately quantified how bad the impacts would be in advance.
Reports from the time basically read "Do not do this! It will be very bad!"
And then we did it anyways.
substack.com/@grandparade...
Reports from the time basically read "Do not do this! It will be very bad!"
And then we did it anyways.
substack.com/@grandparade...
Halifax founders under provincial tax CAP
No one knows how property taxes work
substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
#Oregon waves
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First B1G win of the season ✅
100th win for Lindsay Gottlieb ✅
Hands Washington their first loss ✅
USC beats the Huskies, 59-50
Jazzy Davidson has her 2nd career 20pt game & double double:
22pts, 12rebs, 4ast & 2blks on 10-21 FG
100th win for Lindsay Gottlieb ✅
Hands Washington their first loss ✅
USC beats the Huskies, 59-50
Jazzy Davidson has her 2nd career 20pt game & double double:
22pts, 12rebs, 4ast & 2blks on 10-21 FG
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
First B1G win of the season ✅
100th win for Lindsay Gottlieb ✅
Hands Washington their first loss ✅
USC beats the Huskies, 59-50
Jazzy Davidson has her 2nd career 20pt game & double double:
22pts, 12rebs, 4ast & 2blks on 10-21 FG
100th win for Lindsay Gottlieb ✅
Hands Washington their first loss ✅
USC beats the Huskies, 59-50
Jazzy Davidson has her 2nd career 20pt game & double double:
22pts, 12rebs, 4ast & 2blks on 10-21 FG
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Can't wait for Bugs Bunny's new owners: Jared Kushner and the Saudi Arabian, Abu Dhabi and Qatari sovereign wealth funds.
December 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Can't wait for Bugs Bunny's new owners: Jared Kushner and the Saudi Arabian, Abu Dhabi and Qatari sovereign wealth funds.
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I really want to thank billionaires for making fiction so much easier by expanding the range of explanations for evil behavior that are believable.
"His brain was cooked because he had too much money" is the easiest sell.
"His brain was cooked because he had too much money" is the easiest sell.
December 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Also, LOLsob, people responding "But paper! The trees!" have, let's say, slightly cooked brains around Personal Responsibility For Climate Change. Corporations aren't decimating national forests for (*extremely* recyclable) NEWSPRINT.
This is awesome. Print is such a good way to get around a bunch of distribution (and surveillance!) mechanisms that seem otherwise mandatory in this very gross economy. It is really nice to see it spelled out like this.
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
December 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Also, LOLsob, people responding "But paper! The trees!" have, let's say, slightly cooked brains around Personal Responsibility For Climate Change. Corporations aren't decimating national forests for (*extremely* recyclable) NEWSPRINT.
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This is awesome. Print is such a good way to get around a bunch of distribution (and surveillance!) mechanisms that seem otherwise mandatory in this very gross economy. It is really nice to see it spelled out like this.
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
www.404media.co
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is awesome. Print is such a good way to get around a bunch of distribution (and surveillance!) mechanisms that seem otherwise mandatory in this very gross economy. It is really nice to see it spelled out like this.
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
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“Even progressive pronatalism risks ratifying the notion that women’s most important contribution to solving major social problems is to birth and raise children.”
The right likes the birth rate panic because it helps them do more misogyny. But they also like it because it tricks democrats into re-framing good progressive social policies as solutions to a problem they probably won't solve. (Partially because it doesn't exist.) newrepublic.com/article/2040...
What If Both Sides in the Birth Rate Debate Are Wrong?
The right wants to steer women away from work and toward motherhood. The left wants to provide them with more state support so it’s easier to have children. We should refuse this choice.
newrepublic.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“Even progressive pronatalism risks ratifying the notion that women’s most important contribution to solving major social problems is to birth and raise children.”
Trapping a cat & taking it to the low-cost vet is STRESSFUL. Elton ( I call him Eltie-boo after trap-training him for three weeks) will have a much better life via Willamette Animal Guild & Twitchy Tails Rescue, but my adrenalin is UP. Thanks for coming to our yard; you made the right choice, baby.
December 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Trapping a cat & taking it to the low-cost vet is STRESSFUL. Elton ( I call him Eltie-boo after trap-training him for three weeks) will have a much better life via Willamette Animal Guild & Twitchy Tails Rescue, but my adrenalin is UP. Thanks for coming to our yard; you made the right choice, baby.