Bianca Kates
@biancakates.bsky.social
Toronto-area. Transfemme. Like a McDonald's breakfast sandwich, I'm warm, soft, a bit cheesy, and have one freshly cracked egg.
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Bianca Kates
@biancakates.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Intro thing.
Hi, I'm Bianca (nee Lorne). I'm a software dev who is currently wading in the indie game dev waters.
I make jokes, repost funny things and lefty things.
Game in progress: rogue-like dice builder where you recreate the universe from scratch, made in @godotengine.org Follow for updates!
Hi, I'm Bianca (nee Lorne). I'm a software dev who is currently wading in the indie game dev waters.
I make jokes, repost funny things and lefty things.
Game in progress: rogue-like dice builder where you recreate the universe from scratch, made in @godotengine.org Follow for updates!
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And why? There's no reason for this. My profession was full-time until mergers and AI began making my work "obsolete", except it's not even a GOOD replacement for human beings. AI can't even caption sound effects for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, which is half the fucking point of closed captions.
November 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
And why? There's no reason for this. My profession was full-time until mergers and AI began making my work "obsolete", except it's not even a GOOD replacement for human beings. AI can't even caption sound effects for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, which is half the fucking point of closed captions.
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‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
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The reason we got and cannot get rid of Trump is that America is a business and he is a cash cow for way way way too many people including his ostensible opponents. He’s the Beatles of news, and that is an indicator that the news itself is broken.
November 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The reason we got and cannot get rid of Trump is that America is a business and he is a cash cow for way way way too many people including his ostensible opponents. He’s the Beatles of news, and that is an indicator that the news itself is broken.
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with the holiday season now officially upon us, it's time to start playing our favorite christmas songs
here's one of mine
here's one of mine
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
with the holiday season now officially upon us, it's time to start playing our favorite christmas songs
here's one of mine
here's one of mine
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If anyone is attending tomorrow's IPSC march in Belfast, be aware that fash types are openly planning some kind of confrontation.
If someone sticks a camera in your face, do not engage.
If you see instigators within the march/rally, point them out to stewards.
Keep yourself and your comrades safe.
If someone sticks a camera in your face, do not engage.
If you see instigators within the march/rally, point them out to stewards.
Keep yourself and your comrades safe.
November 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
If anyone is attending tomorrow's IPSC march in Belfast, be aware that fash types are openly planning some kind of confrontation.
If someone sticks a camera in your face, do not engage.
If you see instigators within the march/rally, point them out to stewards.
Keep yourself and your comrades safe.
If someone sticks a camera in your face, do not engage.
If you see instigators within the march/rally, point them out to stewards.
Keep yourself and your comrades safe.
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If someone felt like opening a can of worms I honestly believe AI captions are bad enough people could start suing streaming companies under the ADA.
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If someone felt like opening a can of worms I honestly believe AI captions are bad enough people could start suing streaming companies under the ADA.
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Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
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Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now.
But there's an even more important reason...
But there's an even more important reason...
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now.
But there's an even more important reason...
But there's an even more important reason...
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Like if it was "We're making a matter replicator to feed all humanity" or "We're building a computer to calculate how to deflect a meteor" or something, I'd be on board.
But this is "Fuck you we're ruining stock of consumer goods to make a machine that lies and can't do math."
But this is "Fuck you we're ruining stock of consumer goods to make a machine that lies and can't do math."
personally, i love how the market for computers is constantly being fucked up so the worst people in the world can make everything significantly worse
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Like if it was "We're making a matter replicator to feed all humanity" or "We're building a computer to calculate how to deflect a meteor" or something, I'd be on board.
But this is "Fuck you we're ruining stock of consumer goods to make a machine that lies and can't do math."
But this is "Fuck you we're ruining stock of consumer goods to make a machine that lies and can't do math."
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
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Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
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remora like these have a very, very, VERY lax definition of "work" because it's all cozy meetings and social lunches and paid-for business trips while being transported and fed by others
not being on your damn feet for eight or more hours, driving to/from work yourself, fixing your own meals...
not being on your damn feet for eight or more hours, driving to/from work yourself, fixing your own meals...
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
remora like these have a very, very, VERY lax definition of "work" because it's all cozy meetings and social lunches and paid-for business trips while being transported and fed by others
not being on your damn feet for eight or more hours, driving to/from work yourself, fixing your own meals...
not being on your damn feet for eight or more hours, driving to/from work yourself, fixing your own meals...
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The sheer number of ads touting AI tells you how fucked and over-leveraged these companies are. You don't spend this much on marketing a thing you called "inevitable" unless you are seriously underwater and it ain't inevitable
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The sheer number of ads touting AI tells you how fucked and over-leveraged these companies are. You don't spend this much on marketing a thing you called "inevitable" unless you are seriously underwater and it ain't inevitable
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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If you weren't familiar with who Marjorie Taylor Greene was before she ran for office, look it up. She was always crazy, and she spent most of the years post 2016 harassing Parkland survivors and left wing people with deranged and racist conspiracy theories.
November 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
If you weren't familiar with who Marjorie Taylor Greene was before she ran for office, look it up. She was always crazy, and she spent most of the years post 2016 harassing Parkland survivors and left wing people with deranged and racist conspiracy theories.
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I sincerely hope her falling out with Trump helps other Trump supporters see the error of their ways, man I cannot with this "I loved his toxicity until he turned it on me" shit.
She had to deal with a month of what she's put multiple people through for years.
She had to deal with a month of what she's put multiple people through for years.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for 6 years for. I gave him my loyalty for free. I've never owed him anything. Let me tell you what a traitor is -- a traitor is an American that serves foreign countries."
November 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I sincerely hope her falling out with Trump helps other Trump supporters see the error of their ways, man I cannot with this "I loved his toxicity until he turned it on me" shit.
She had to deal with a month of what she's put multiple people through for years.
She had to deal with a month of what she's put multiple people through for years.
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I wish cis people would understand just how stressful it is when every time there's news of gun deaths, far right trolls immediately jump to social media and claim the shooter is trans, and sometimes they'll circulate pictures of random trans women they want to incite violence against.
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I wish cis people would understand just how stressful it is when every time there's news of gun deaths, far right trolls immediately jump to social media and claim the shooter is trans, and sometimes they'll circulate pictures of random trans women they want to incite violence against.
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"Epic CEO angry that customers want to be informed and will refuse to purchase products they feel were made unethically so wants to take that choice away". There, fixed it for you.
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
r/pcgaming
www.reddit.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"Epic CEO angry that customers want to be informed and will refuse to purchase products they feel were made unethically so wants to take that choice away". There, fixed it for you.
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An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
ICE Detained an 18-Year-Old U.S. Citizen. This Is His Story.
YouTube video by The Hometown Holler
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
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Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
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"Everything Illegal Trump Did this Year (So Far)" by LegalEagle
I Compiled all of Trump's Illegal Acts So You Don't Have To
YouTube video by LegalEagle
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
"Everything Illegal Trump Did this Year (So Far)" by LegalEagle
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If you live in this district of Tennessee, definitely show up to the polls next week. If nothing else you can contribute to sending a message to Republicans.
BREAKING: The Democrat in next week’s special election in Tennessee has cut a Trump +22 district to a Republican +4 seat.
That’s stunning. If Democrats flip this seat, they will be one step closer to flipping the House, and I just spoke to the Democrat who could do just that.
That’s stunning. If Democrats flip this seat, they will be one step closer to flipping the House, and I just spoke to the Democrat who could do just that.
NEWS: National Republicans in Full Panic as Democrat Surges in Tennessee Special Election
We have major news coming out of Tennessee tonight, and it’s far bigger than anyone expected.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
If you live in this district of Tennessee, definitely show up to the polls next week. If nothing else you can contribute to sending a message to Republicans.