Aphid
@aphidjay.bsky.social
He/they. exhausted. You might get art here.
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That there exist tiers of wealth beyond which it is literally impossible to ever make enough bad financial decisions to impoverish yourself no matter how puddingbrained you are is something we either have to eliminate or else make that the case for all people at all income levels.
December 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
That there exist tiers of wealth beyond which it is literally impossible to ever make enough bad financial decisions to impoverish yourself no matter how puddingbrained you are is something we either have to eliminate or else make that the case for all people at all income levels.
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OpenAI actually does lose more money than this every quarter while accomplishing nothing.
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
OpenAI actually does lose more money than this every quarter while accomplishing nothing.
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Samantha Fulnecky, the functionally-illiterate college junior who wrote a gross tirade against her teacher instead of doing her homework, would have been expelled if OU were still a real college.
The University of Oklahoma says that the graduate teaching assistant who assigned a failing grade to a student for a psychology essay on gender stereotypes will “no longer have instructional duties” at the university.
Oklahoma instructor who gave student a zero on gender essay barred from teaching duties, school says
The failing grade has prompted protests at the university in recent weeks, and the state's governor weighed in.
www.nbcnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Samantha Fulnecky, the functionally-illiterate college junior who wrote a gross tirade against her teacher instead of doing her homework, would have been expelled if OU were still a real college.
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My training was very firmly in an evolution oriented EEB dept. As a visibly GNC queer, I have actually found EEB spaces to be a more welcoming home than neuroscience. Working on animal sexual behavior from an EEB perspective really highlights the sheer diversity of ways that sex can be organized.
Hey, fellow evolutionary biologists:
If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community
If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community
And that’s a follow.
Actually I do have a question if you have a sec.
Without exception the most transphobic group of scientists I’ve run into online are evolutionary biologists. Every single one of them has expressed the same opinion: transness cannot be anything other than social contagion. Why?
Actually I do have a question if you have a sec.
Without exception the most transphobic group of scientists I’ve run into online are evolutionary biologists. Every single one of them has expressed the same opinion: transness cannot be anything other than social contagion. Why?
December 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
My training was very firmly in an evolution oriented EEB dept. As a visibly GNC queer, I have actually found EEB spaces to be a more welcoming home than neuroscience. Working on animal sexual behavior from an EEB perspective really highlights the sheer diversity of ways that sex can be organized.
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I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday
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December 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Like the suburban developments named after whatever natural feature was destroyed to build them
It’s funny when you remember Bari Weiss called her outlet The Free Press
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Like the suburban developments named after whatever natural feature was destroyed to build them
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*laughs in archivist* anyone who thinks it's all been digitized is out of their goddamn mind. We don't have the staff, resources, or digital infrastructure to digitize, store, check, and maintain at preservations standards a digital copy of every single item in our collections.
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
December 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
*laughs in archivist* anyone who thinks it's all been digitized is out of their goddamn mind. We don't have the staff, resources, or digital infrastructure to digitize, store, check, and maintain at preservations standards a digital copy of every single item in our collections.
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please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
The fictional hockey players are rewiring my brain as we speak
December 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The fictional hockey players are rewiring my brain as we speak
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Reflecting on my recent posts by London & Millay considering the urgency of life.
In this we see love is brief, fragile, and fiercely present. Williams reminds us that tenderness matters because time doesn’t wait.
We must speak gently, hold carefully, and love now.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
In this we see love is brief, fragile, and fiercely present. Williams reminds us that tenderness matters because time doesn’t wait.
We must speak gently, hold carefully, and love now.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
December 20, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Reflecting on my recent posts by London & Millay considering the urgency of life.
In this we see love is brief, fragile, and fiercely present. Williams reminds us that tenderness matters because time doesn’t wait.
We must speak gently, hold carefully, and love now.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
In this we see love is brief, fragile, and fiercely present. Williams reminds us that tenderness matters because time doesn’t wait.
We must speak gently, hold carefully, and love now.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
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Bluesky isn't a place where trolls come to get mocked and insulted. They love that.
Bluesky is a place where trolls come to be blocked and isolated and ignored — which they hate.
If you're seeing a lot of shitty people in your feed, you aren't blocking enough people.
Bluesky is a place where trolls come to be blocked and isolated and ignored — which they hate.
If you're seeing a lot of shitty people in your feed, you aren't blocking enough people.
Lot of bigots showing up. Remember, don't interact. Just report and block block block.
September 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Bluesky isn't a place where trolls come to get mocked and insulted. They love that.
Bluesky is a place where trolls come to be blocked and isolated and ignored — which they hate.
If you're seeing a lot of shitty people in your feed, you aren't blocking enough people.
Bluesky is a place where trolls come to be blocked and isolated and ignored — which they hate.
If you're seeing a lot of shitty people in your feed, you aren't blocking enough people.
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19 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- In bizarre British Med Jrnl intertiew, Hilary Cass suggests that 5 or less trans kids seen by NHS should get GAMT, compares its mild side effect to those of chemotherapy & radiation, and equates withholding GAMT from them with "helping" & "supporting" them.
“This is why the trial is necessary”: experts behind the puberty blockers study respond to mounting opposition
As the NHS launches its most contested clinical trial in decades, Deborah Cohen speaks to Emily Simonoff, Pathways lead investigator, and Hilary Cass, the author of the review that led to the study
T...
www.bmj.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
19 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- In bizarre British Med Jrnl intertiew, Hilary Cass suggests that 5 or less trans kids seen by NHS should get GAMT, compares its mild side effect to those of chemotherapy & radiation, and equates withholding GAMT from them with "helping" & "supporting" them.
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new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced
September 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced
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If you are in the position to substantially help us in any way but have been holding off I would like to request you do it NOW before youre hearing I died in Dec-Jan a few months down the road.
linktr.ee/wylder
RIGHT now. While I can still SEEK care.
linktr.ee/wylder
RIGHT now. While I can still SEEK care.
December 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If you are in the position to substantially help us in any way but have been holding off I would like to request you do it NOW before youre hearing I died in Dec-Jan a few months down the road.
linktr.ee/wylder
RIGHT now. While I can still SEEK care.
linktr.ee/wylder
RIGHT now. While I can still SEEK care.
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I love working at the Department of Justice and participating in a conspiracy to cover up the demented 80 year old president's sex crimes. I spend 18 hours a day redacting documents and there's a putrid husk where my soul used to be
December 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I love working at the Department of Justice and participating in a conspiracy to cover up the demented 80 year old president's sex crimes. I spend 18 hours a day redacting documents and there's a putrid husk where my soul used to be
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From this point on, I'm forced to assume that every elected politician who does not immediately call for Trump's impeachment is in the Epstein files. Sorry. Just cutting the Gordian knot here, as one does during societal collapse.
December 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
From this point on, I'm forced to assume that every elected politician who does not immediately call for Trump's impeachment is in the Epstein files. Sorry. Just cutting the Gordian knot here, as one does during societal collapse.
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My prediction that RFK would kill more than Hitler and Stalin combined is probably the darkest I've ever made and yet
RFK Jr. is going to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It will take a few years before the deaths and disabilities ramp up to a level that even the most vile Republican cannot tolerate.
RFK Jr. will be long gone and unaccountable, as our babies die from preventable illness.
It will take a few years before the deaths and disabilities ramp up to a level that even the most vile Republican cannot tolerate.
RFK Jr. will be long gone and unaccountable, as our babies die from preventable illness.
December 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
My prediction that RFK would kill more than Hitler and Stalin combined is probably the darkest I've ever made and yet
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SNAP benefits should be universal, with zero means testing, and generous.
Even from a purely capitalist perspective this would benefit the economy massively.
The only reason to be against this is because you're pro-suffering.
Even from a purely capitalist perspective this would benefit the economy massively.
The only reason to be against this is because you're pro-suffering.
December 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
SNAP benefits should be universal, with zero means testing, and generous.
Even from a purely capitalist perspective this would benefit the economy massively.
The only reason to be against this is because you're pro-suffering.
Even from a purely capitalist perspective this would benefit the economy massively.
The only reason to be against this is because you're pro-suffering.
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The cis people not standing between them and trans people are not my friends and never will be.
You don't just owe them your acceptance, you owe them your support and love, and we see your silence and won't forgive you.
You don't just owe them your acceptance, you owe them your support and love, and we see your silence and won't forgive you.
Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
December 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The cis people not standing between them and trans people are not my friends and never will be.
You don't just owe them your acceptance, you owe them your support and love, and we see your silence and won't forgive you.
You don't just owe them your acceptance, you owe them your support and love, and we see your silence and won't forgive you.
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If you do not support trans people - by actively dedicating your time and money (if you have it) and voice to their cause - you are a failure of morality and humanity and you are not just a bystander but a culpable participant in one of the most violent attempts at eugenics of our time.
December 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
If you do not support trans people - by actively dedicating your time and money (if you have it) and voice to their cause - you are a failure of morality and humanity and you are not just a bystander but a culpable participant in one of the most violent attempts at eugenics of our time.
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update I got curious about "like possums" and it's like half a song and I really rather like it but I'm never gonna do anything with it so here
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rl71w...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rl71w...
www.dropbox.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
update I got curious about "like possums" and it's like half a song and I really rather like it but I'm never gonna do anything with it so here
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rl71w...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rl71w...
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Could a person with depression do this?! (grimly goes about activities of daily living)
December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Could a person with depression do this?! (grimly goes about activities of daily living)