turboeasteregg
@turboeasteregg.bsky.social
Gender apathetic gen xer, but she/her for least controversy. Fuck fascism, climate change, capitalism, genocide, colonialism. acab. Conscientious objector to ai: llms and art. Long covider: me/cfs version. Nobody coming to save us, we gotta save each other
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This is a moral fight between Right and Wrong. It isn’t time to retreat from it, to parse out legal trespassing as reality is being tirelessly shifted.
Stop looking to the referees and institutions. They’ve failed you. Stop expecting someone to save us, they won’t. This is on us.
Stop looking to the referees and institutions. They’ve failed you. Stop expecting someone to save us, they won’t. This is on us.
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I wrote this essay for The Walrus 11 years ago and it's always interesting seeing white people finally realize the title also applies to them: thewalrus.ca/meritocracy-...
December 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I wrote this essay for The Walrus 11 years ago and it's always interesting seeing white people finally realize the title also applies to them: thewalrus.ca/meritocracy-...
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Last month, I got the idea to write an illustrated guide to survival that would cover everything from rain harvesting to wiring up solar panels. Now it's a 50-page draft.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/were-almost-...
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/were-almost-...
We're Almost at 50 Pages
A draft showcase.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net
December 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Last month, I got the idea to write an illustrated guide to survival that would cover everything from rain harvesting to wiring up solar panels. Now it's a 50-page draft.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/were-almost-...
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/were-almost-...
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If you are waiting to get THE INTERMEDIARIES in softcover… please know the publisher just told me there will not be a paperback. The same is true of my fiction—no paperbacks are coming. I’m sorry, and I know it affects sales. I wish there was better news, but only bestsellers tend to get softcover.
December 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
If you are waiting to get THE INTERMEDIARIES in softcover… please know the publisher just told me there will not be a paperback. The same is true of my fiction—no paperbacks are coming. I’m sorry, and I know it affects sales. I wish there was better news, but only bestsellers tend to get softcover.
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far post-apocalypse reconstructed society which now regards YMCA as a tetragrammaton like YHWH. centuries of scrolls debate the exact nature of this unknowable metaphysical entity
December 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
far post-apocalypse reconstructed society which now regards YMCA as a tetragrammaton like YHWH. centuries of scrolls debate the exact nature of this unknowable metaphysical entity
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“Sometimes people do bad things”
Vs
“Oh, this is a consistent pattern of behavior for which these people are actively rewarded”
Vs
“Oh, this is a consistent pattern of behavior for which these people are actively rewarded”
December 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“Sometimes people do bad things”
Vs
“Oh, this is a consistent pattern of behavior for which these people are actively rewarded”
Vs
“Oh, this is a consistent pattern of behavior for which these people are actively rewarded”
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IT’S THE FUCKING PROCESS
It’s not the product, it’s the process
It honestly fills me with crushing despair how capitalism has so throughly cooked our brains that a huge number of us seem totally incapable of grasping that
It’s not the product, it’s the process
It honestly fills me with crushing despair how capitalism has so throughly cooked our brains that a huge number of us seem totally incapable of grasping that
& this nonsense that whomever has “the most ideas the fastest” is “the most creative” is ridic. There’s ppl with 1,000 ideas for paintings yet will never paint The Starry Night. An idea and $2.90 will get you a ride on the subway in NYC.
Artistry isn’t solely manufacturing ideas. It’s the process.
Artistry isn’t solely manufacturing ideas. It’s the process.
December 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
IT’S THE FUCKING PROCESS
It’s not the product, it’s the process
It honestly fills me with crushing despair how capitalism has so throughly cooked our brains that a huge number of us seem totally incapable of grasping that
It’s not the product, it’s the process
It honestly fills me with crushing despair how capitalism has so throughly cooked our brains that a huge number of us seem totally incapable of grasping that
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I've said before that one tactic of abusers is to claim that their actions aren't the problem, the problem is your complaining about their actions. If you'd just keep quiet, there wouldn't be a problem. Enablers are the ones deploying this "let's not do this the wrong way so let's do nothing".
December 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I've said before that one tactic of abusers is to claim that their actions aren't the problem, the problem is your complaining about their actions. If you'd just keep quiet, there wouldn't be a problem. Enablers are the ones deploying this "let's not do this the wrong way so let's do nothing".
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"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time
December 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time
I always have to call out when the post hoc fallacy actually yields a solution to a problem lol. our Wi-Fi started glitching after we piled a bunch of boxes and small appliances (heaters and fans) in front of it, and I just moved that shit and the Wi-Fi immediately started working smoothly again.
December 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I always have to call out when the post hoc fallacy actually yields a solution to a problem lol. our Wi-Fi started glitching after we piled a bunch of boxes and small appliances (heaters and fans) in front of it, and I just moved that shit and the Wi-Fi immediately started working smoothly again.
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If you’re dealing with a chronic illness flare, remember it’s ok to rest.
You’re not failing.
You didn’t do anything wrong.
You’re not being punished.
Flare ups happen and the best thing we can do is lean in to radical rest as much as possible.
Save your spoons and give yourself grace.
You’re not failing.
You didn’t do anything wrong.
You’re not being punished.
Flare ups happen and the best thing we can do is lean in to radical rest as much as possible.
Save your spoons and give yourself grace.
December 6, 2025 at 5:01 AM
If you’re dealing with a chronic illness flare, remember it’s ok to rest.
You’re not failing.
You didn’t do anything wrong.
You’re not being punished.
Flare ups happen and the best thing we can do is lean in to radical rest as much as possible.
Save your spoons and give yourself grace.
You’re not failing.
You didn’t do anything wrong.
You’re not being punished.
Flare ups happen and the best thing we can do is lean in to radical rest as much as possible.
Save your spoons and give yourself grace.
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Remaining politically unbiased requires staying neutral on matters like evidence, relevant past behavior, clear patterns, obvious lies, and observable truth, which is worth remembering whenever somebody starts complaining about political bias.
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Remaining politically unbiased requires staying neutral on matters like evidence, relevant past behavior, clear patterns, obvious lies, and observable truth, which is worth remembering whenever somebody starts complaining about political bias.
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When they said AI requires a lot of water I did not think they meant six bathrooms in a 3-bed
December 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
When they said AI requires a lot of water I did not think they meant six bathrooms in a 3-bed
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Sometimes I imagine what it would have been like had we adapted to Covid instead of giving up.
If we had clean air in public spaces.
Respirators in healthcare.
Free masks for those who need them.
Better tests & treatment.
Paid time off.
We would all be healthier.
If we had clean air in public spaces.
Respirators in healthcare.
Free masks for those who need them.
Better tests & treatment.
Paid time off.
We would all be healthier.
December 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Sometimes I imagine what it would have been like had we adapted to Covid instead of giving up.
If we had clean air in public spaces.
Respirators in healthcare.
Free masks for those who need them.
Better tests & treatment.
Paid time off.
We would all be healthier.
If we had clean air in public spaces.
Respirators in healthcare.
Free masks for those who need them.
Better tests & treatment.
Paid time off.
We would all be healthier.
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It was six years ago today that a man in Wuhan, China began feeling ill.
He would become the first known COVID case.
Covid is still with us. It’s still killing and disabling.
Clean the air. Wear a mask. Get your boosters.
Public health is a social justice issue.
He would become the first known COVID case.
Covid is still with us. It’s still killing and disabling.
Clean the air. Wear a mask. Get your boosters.
Public health is a social justice issue.
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
It was six years ago today that a man in Wuhan, China began feeling ill.
He would become the first known COVID case.
Covid is still with us. It’s still killing and disabling.
Clean the air. Wear a mask. Get your boosters.
Public health is a social justice issue.
He would become the first known COVID case.
Covid is still with us. It’s still killing and disabling.
Clean the air. Wear a mask. Get your boosters.
Public health is a social justice issue.
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How would you actually store food and water for an emergency? How do you actually start a little homestead in your backyard? I'm tackling these questions every week in my new illustrated guide. Here's the intro:
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/the-book-gro...
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/the-book-gro...
The Book Grows, and There Will Be Two Editions
A formal edition, and a casual one
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
How would you actually store food and water for an emergency? How do you actually start a little homestead in your backyard? I'm tackling these questions every week in my new illustrated guide. Here's the intro:
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/the-book-gro...
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/the-book-gro...
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"This sowing of mistrust in our relationship with media is... a huge effect of this synthetic media moment we’re in..."
“I’ve been thinking about ways to refuse it, and the simplest, dumbest way to do that is to only search before 2022.”
Something to try out and be thankful for this year!
#Pinks
“I’ve been thinking about ways to refuse it, and the simplest, dumbest way to do that is to only search before 2022.”
Something to try out and be thankful for this year!
#Pinks
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"This sowing of mistrust in our relationship with media is... a huge effect of this synthetic media moment we’re in..."
“I’ve been thinking about ways to refuse it, and the simplest, dumbest way to do that is to only search before 2022.”
Something to try out and be thankful for this year!
#Pinks
“I’ve been thinking about ways to refuse it, and the simplest, dumbest way to do that is to only search before 2022.”
Something to try out and be thankful for this year!
#Pinks
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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I’d suggest offering more than one thing- hey can I get you something? We have beer, coke, lemonade and water!
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I’d suggest offering more than one thing- hey can I get you something? We have beer, coke, lemonade and water!
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the time between when I learned there was a new bad thing but before I read it... That was a nice time.
November 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
the time between when I learned there was a new bad thing but before I read it... That was a nice time.
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In the 1970s, with our portable tape players up next to the radio trying to catch the song at exactly the right moment.
November 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
In the 1970s, with our portable tape players up next to the radio trying to catch the song at exactly the right moment.
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“Search history,” a poem (by me)
How to prepare duck breast
In the fall of democracy,
And protect overwintering bees
And immigrants.
De-icing your freezer
And town square,
And saying what you mean
To get a knee off your chest.
Six ways to make casserole
Without health insurance.
(Cont)
How to prepare duck breast
In the fall of democracy,
And protect overwintering bees
And immigrants.
De-icing your freezer
And town square,
And saying what you mean
To get a knee off your chest.
Six ways to make casserole
Without health insurance.
(Cont)
November 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
“Search history,” a poem (by me)
How to prepare duck breast
In the fall of democracy,
And protect overwintering bees
And immigrants.
De-icing your freezer
And town square,
And saying what you mean
To get a knee off your chest.
Six ways to make casserole
Without health insurance.
(Cont)
How to prepare duck breast
In the fall of democracy,
And protect overwintering bees
And immigrants.
De-icing your freezer
And town square,
And saying what you mean
To get a knee off your chest.
Six ways to make casserole
Without health insurance.
(Cont)