Akira K
@akirak.bsky.social
Writer, drummer, archer, dreamer. Big geek energy in tiny tired body. They/them.
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dig this guy's taste in art
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November 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
dig this guy's taste in art
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On your deathbed, you will probably not be thinking, "at least I totally owned those trolls on social media," and if you are it's unlikely there will be anyone there to hold your hand as you go
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
On your deathbed, you will probably not be thinking, "at least I totally owned those trolls on social media," and if you are it's unlikely there will be anyone there to hold your hand as you go
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it's here
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
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it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
2025 Queer Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
Welcome to the 2025 list of queer adult science-fiction and fantasy books! If you’re new to this dance, this list and the ones before (see: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019) are my answer t…
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November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
it's here
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
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There’s a thread going around about the horrors of teaching first-year English right now, and I fully believe that it’s true in many cases… but if you saw that thread and you’re sad, I just want to say… my students have never been smarter, more engaged, more passionate. I’ve never felt more hopeful.
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
There’s a thread going around about the horrors of teaching first-year English right now, and I fully believe that it’s true in many cases… but if you saw that thread and you’re sad, I just want to say… my students have never been smarter, more engaged, more passionate. I’ve never felt more hopeful.
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It drives Israelis crazy that Palestinians are the most resilient indigenous People in the world. Look at this
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
It drives Israelis crazy that Palestinians are the most resilient indigenous People in the world. Look at this
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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A touchstone, as I try to convince those I care for (including myself) that we are precious & loved separate from labor or even effort.
Re-reading Becky Chambers’ *A Psalm for the Wild-Built* for class & moved again by:
“You keep asking why your work is not enough, & I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world & marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live”
“You keep asking why your work is not enough, & I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world & marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live”
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
A touchstone, as I try to convince those I care for (including myself) that we are precious & loved separate from labor or even effort.
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And this is why voice actors are fighting so hard for AI protections in their contracts.
g33khq.org/amazon-ai-du...
g33khq.org/amazon-ai-du...
Amazon Rolls Out AI Dubs and They're Even Worse Than You Think - G33K-HQ
Amazon is testing AI dubs with "Banana Fish" and "No Game, No Life," and the results are... bad. Really bad.
g33khq.org
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
And this is why voice actors are fighting so hard for AI protections in their contracts.
g33khq.org/amazon-ai-du...
g33khq.org/amazon-ai-du...
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Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
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Reminder to treat zionists the same way you would treat a nazi. If you don't think a nazi deserves a 1 million dollar acting career than the same is true for zionists.
There are two outspoken Zionists on Stranger Things who have suffered zero consequences for publicly stating genocidal nonsense during the past 2 years. If you can't manage to boycott, or at least pirate that show, you can go to hell
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Reminder to treat zionists the same way you would treat a nazi. If you don't think a nazi deserves a 1 million dollar acting career than the same is true for zionists.
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
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Thank you to everybody organizing, posting, marching or protesting on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
Remember this:
Remember this:
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Thank you to everybody organizing, posting, marching or protesting on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
Remember this:
Remember this:
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I think life would be better if more people read books and spent time looking up at the stars
November 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I think life would be better if more people read books and spent time looking up at the stars
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We have fascism. We have long covid and cognitive damage. And we have also destroyed structural motivation to do anything but deliver product and receive results. It began with standardized testing, and "AI" is just the nail in the coffin.
WE MUST FIGHT THIS.
Study must be meaningful.
WE MUST FIGHT THIS.
Study must be meaningful.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
We have fascism. We have long covid and cognitive damage. And we have also destroyed structural motivation to do anything but deliver product and receive results. It began with standardized testing, and "AI" is just the nail in the coffin.
WE MUST FIGHT THIS.
Study must be meaningful.
WE MUST FIGHT THIS.
Study must be meaningful.
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If you rebooted RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK today with the same temporal margins, it’d be set in the 1980s. Neo-Nazi punks would have their faces melted by the opening of a forbidden arcade cabinet at the KB Toys at your local mall. Indiana Jones would wear a Hawaiian shirt and Chuck Taylor sneakers.
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
If you rebooted RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK today with the same temporal margins, it’d be set in the 1980s. Neo-Nazi punks would have their faces melted by the opening of a forbidden arcade cabinet at the KB Toys at your local mall. Indiana Jones would wear a Hawaiian shirt and Chuck Taylor sneakers.
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In other words if you don't use your brainpower you lose it
Which is like muscles really
Which is like muscles really
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
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Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
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November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
In other words if you don't use your brainpower you lose it
Which is like muscles really
Which is like muscles really
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#Rewilding One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats'. Available now in good bookshops an online nowwww.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
November 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
#Rewilding One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats'. Available now in good bookshops an online nowwww.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
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All of this. Write. Make. Create. Try. KEEP TRYING. Do new things. BE new things. Reinvent yourself every second Tuesday. Reinvent Tuesdays. Change your *name* to Tuesday. There is no age limit on becoming more than you once were, loving more than you once could, or being happier and more fulfilled!
Fuck that noise, do it even if you're old. I learned tattooing at 43. I learned editing and publishing at 46.
There is always still time to do or learn new stuff.
There is always still time to do or learn new stuff.
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
All of this. Write. Make. Create. Try. KEEP TRYING. Do new things. BE new things. Reinvent yourself every second Tuesday. Reinvent Tuesdays. Change your *name* to Tuesday. There is no age limit on becoming more than you once were, loving more than you once could, or being happier and more fulfilled!
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
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THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
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A book is not a luxury item.
(It can be, but so can food.)
Books are both amazing and cheap.
After all my years, I'm still thrilled by a new book.
Even a bad book is full of potential before you read it.
Read* more books. You'll see what the fuss is all about.
[*read paper or screen or listen]
(It can be, but so can food.)
Books are both amazing and cheap.
After all my years, I'm still thrilled by a new book.
Even a bad book is full of potential before you read it.
Read* more books. You'll see what the fuss is all about.
[*read paper or screen or listen]
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
A book is not a luxury item.
(It can be, but so can food.)
Books are both amazing and cheap.
After all my years, I'm still thrilled by a new book.
Even a bad book is full of potential before you read it.
Read* more books. You'll see what the fuss is all about.
[*read paper or screen or listen]
(It can be, but so can food.)
Books are both amazing and cheap.
After all my years, I'm still thrilled by a new book.
Even a bad book is full of potential before you read it.
Read* more books. You'll see what the fuss is all about.
[*read paper or screen or listen]
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I think the return of mid-budget sci-fi shows with 22 episodes and filmed around Vancouver would heal this planet
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I think the return of mid-budget sci-fi shows with 22 episodes and filmed around Vancouver would heal this planet
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Well now that's upsetting.
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Well now that's upsetting.