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Jules Otero i Besolí
@arthropodeath.bsky.social
[They/Them] - Elle - Elli
🐀 LARP + TTRPG storyteller, in love with shared narratives and story tropes
🐀 Doing a PhD about Science Fiction and Post/Transhumanism
🐀 Vegan, Queer, Crip
🐀 Writing a SF novel
🐀 Blog: https://deadinsectarchive.wordpress.com/
Average Renfe experience
if you're still writing using the hero's journey, your mind is closed to all the possibilities
November 24, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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sorry I go a little nuts whenever a new paper going “Oops! We Found That Evil At Least As Conceptualized In Human Language Is Real And Discernable” drops
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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I know that this queer adventure of the Gay-Header’s will be sure to seem incredible to some landsmen
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
gonna take a break from agressive reading+writing this weekend about bodily autonomy to do some actual bodily autonomy (get funky piercings + sew some parts for my Saló del Manga cosplay)
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Ngl, it doesn't feel awesome that so much discourse about policies designed specifically to hurt trans people is about the negative effects it might have on some cis people.

Not cos it's not bad that it will have broader incidental effects but because it should be enough that it will hurt us.
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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As stated, this is a translation of my Dutch colleagues’ letter- so if you need an English version, follow the link and you can still sign theirs, too. Thx again to @olivia.science for letting me use their words & for everyone’s efforts! @irisvanrooij.bsky.social

openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Exibit A, clearly proving that while an AI may not be able to feel threatened it can, indeed, be held hostage
*laughs in historian* “… ranks among the 10 minds in history, rivalling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton…”
November 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance

#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames

*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
how can i politely ask an account here if it's run by a bot or just someone with the reading skills of a bot
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
biter of his foe !!!!!!
For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources.

On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.

dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”

munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”

mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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my idea: anime that introduces a lecherous old man character, but the minute he starts leching onscreen for the first time someone shoots him with a gun and he dies and everyone just moves on and does not question it
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Sort que aquest cartell no era important ni res, eh, per fer-lo amb IA?
🚨A partir del 1 de enero la #V16 conectada será obligatoria para señalizar vehículos inmovilizados 🚗💡

✅ Más segura: no hay que bajar del coche
✅ Conectada: avisa a otros conductores y a la @dgtes.bsky.social

🔗https://f.mtr.cool/fzkcqupuxc
#SeguridadVial #V16Conectada
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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epstein really did it all! (thread)
November 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Just saw a whole conversation here happen under a rot-13 cypher. Crazy that we're resorting to Ancient-Rome-style hijinks to avoid censorship, but I'm also super into it
November 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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For the Disability community, losing Alice Wong is like losing Ursula Le Guin or Octavia Butler. She was a powerhouse, a pioneer, and a mentor to many. She taught me so much. And always reminded me what we were fighting towards, as well as against. I miss her clarity, bravery, and joy.
Alice Wong
Alice Wong had an outsized impact on Disability justice. As a community organiser, activist, mentor, and co-conspirator, as writer, editor, and friend, she is irreplaceable.
nicolagriffith.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
no blog entry this week bc if i start writing it turns into a suicide note
November 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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This is what happened when AI acted as both author and reviewer - a study found AI peer-reviewers accepted fake AI-generated papers 4 out of 5 times. We need #PeerReview to be better, and human oversight is more vital than ever!
#ResearchIntegrity #AI #AcademicPublishing #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
AI peer reviewers are fine with AI-fabricated papers
Study finds artificial intelligence reviewers accept AI-generated scientific studies 4 out of 5 times
cen.acs.org
November 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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¡Feliz día del Esqueleto Parcialmente Musculado Gritando por Treinta Segundos Antes de Desaparecer!
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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need to kill the recurring thought of "no I can't replay/reread that, I have other stuff to check out"

no. I am a poor little peasant living just after the advent of the printing press. I have five books at most and I will reread them so much they will know the death of the author was caused by me
November 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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On this day, 33 years ago, Bram Stoker’s Dracula was released in cinemas.

Starring #GaryOldman, #WinonaRyder, #KeanuReeves and #AnthonyHopkins it was an Oscar-winning, critically acclaimed success and one of the most revered #vampire movies ever.
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 AM
what the actual fuck?
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
HAN PENJAT LA RESOLUCIÓ DEFINITIVA DE LA FPU!

Som lliures, gent. Som lliures de l'incertesa. A tota la gent que està al mateix vaixell que, fins fa una estona, semblava que s'enfonsava, moltes felicitats 🫀
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM