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40s queer sad sack | traditional & digital artist
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@crankible.bsky.social
· Sep 23
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#supernatural #fanArt #SamWinchester #DeanWinchester #spnFamily #traditionalArt
acrylic on paper, 12x16"
prints etc: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1742...
#supernatural #fanArt #SamWinchester #DeanWinchester #spnFamily #traditionalArt
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I would get sworn in on a copy of the Lord of the Rings
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
January 1, 2026 at 11:15 PM
I would get sworn in on a copy of the Lord of the Rings
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I will raise my hand and swear on my cat that my only motivation for suggesting this is helping people preserve as much personal history as possible: we run no advertising and have no investors to care about metrics, so us hosting your backup does nothing but COST us (a very tiny bit of) money.
January 1, 2026 at 11:26 AM
I will raise my hand and swear on my cat that my only motivation for suggesting this is helping people preserve as much personal history as possible: we run no advertising and have no investors to care about metrics, so us hosting your backup does nothing but COST us (a very tiny bit of) money.
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Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:
January 1, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:
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THIS. Medical professionals shaming ANYONE, even anonymously, for seeking medical care for a thing society already treats as a punchline further stigmatizes and disincentivizes people seeking medical care! I know of an instance of a responsible, safe toy designer HIMSELF, who KNOWS the rules --
I might be the Too Woke Friend here but as someone who has done chaplain care with people who have things stuck in their butts in the emergency dept I don't actually think it should be a journalism thing.
It's really traumatizing for people! And it shouldn't be traumatizing to make a sex mistake!
It's really traumatizing for people! And it shouldn't be traumatizing to make a sex mistake!
January 1, 2026 at 12:01 AM
THIS. Medical professionals shaming ANYONE, even anonymously, for seeking medical care for a thing society already treats as a punchline further stigmatizes and disincentivizes people seeking medical care! I know of an instance of a responsible, safe toy designer HIMSELF, who KNOWS the rules --
December 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
i would run away from any actual interaction, my two captive audience celebrity not-interactions
1) flight from miami and don francisco of sábado gigante fame was walking down the aisle shaking hands and kissing babies
2) in line at the edison and ford winter estates museum in fl with vanilla ice
1) flight from miami and don francisco of sábado gigante fame was walking down the aisle shaking hands and kissing babies
2) in line at the edison and ford winter estates museum in fl with vanilla ice
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
i would run away from any actual interaction, my two captive audience celebrity not-interactions
1) flight from miami and don francisco of sábado gigante fame was walking down the aisle shaking hands and kissing babies
2) in line at the edison and ford winter estates museum in fl with vanilla ice
1) flight from miami and don francisco of sábado gigante fame was walking down the aisle shaking hands and kissing babies
2) in line at the edison and ford winter estates museum in fl with vanilla ice
re: What's an insult you'll never forget?
as a teen i got called an ice queen by a friend of my then-bf, to my face, and i don't know that he really understood it was an insult? or was just happy to tell me. was probably the first time i understood how my social anxiety came across to (some) people
as a teen i got called an ice queen by a friend of my then-bf, to my face, and i don't know that he really understood it was an insult? or was just happy to tell me. was probably the first time i understood how my social anxiety came across to (some) people
I wrote a DC comics character in a way that I guess didn’t line up with how someone remembered that character from when they were young so they said that I had skullfucked their childhood.
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 6:24 AM
re: What's an insult you'll never forget?
as a teen i got called an ice queen by a friend of my then-bf, to my face, and i don't know that he really understood it was an insult? or was just happy to tell me. was probably the first time i understood how my social anxiety came across to (some) people
as a teen i got called an ice queen by a friend of my then-bf, to my face, and i don't know that he really understood it was an insult? or was just happy to tell me. was probably the first time i understood how my social anxiety came across to (some) people
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Make the holidays extra gay if you can. Like make it uncomfortable.
December 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Make the holidays extra gay if you can. Like make it uncomfortable.
was waiting for my pneumonia vax at cvs this afternoon and noticed... the BIBLE??? upon later inspection, almost all jesus related.
December 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
was waiting for my pneumonia vax at cvs this afternoon and noticed... the BIBLE??? upon later inspection, almost all jesus related.
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Cornell Watson for Bloomberg in Rocky Mount last night.
December 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Cornell Watson for Bloomberg in Rocky Mount last night.
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One thing that absolutely definitely happens for real in the academic job market is that when you do not get a job, the Dean calls you and explains why you didn't get it. This is extra-super true when the explanation is something legally actionable on its face.
You’ll never guess who else experienced ‘racism’ on the job market despite their unimpeachable academic credentials.
December 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
One thing that absolutely definitely happens for real in the academic job market is that when you do not get a job, the Dean calls you and explains why you didn't get it. This is extra-super true when the explanation is something legally actionable on its face.
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The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
December 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
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i was reading this at the bus stop and having complicated feelings about it, and the bus came and i got on and sat down and i noticed the guy next to me was watching tiktok (you know, like everyone on the bus), and i glanced over, and it was a jamelle bouie video
so ok universe you win this time
so ok universe you win this time
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
i was reading this at the bus stop and having complicated feelings about it, and the bus came and i got on and sat down and i noticed the guy next to me was watching tiktok (you know, like everyone on the bus), and i glanced over, and it was a jamelle bouie video
so ok universe you win this time
so ok universe you win this time
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Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
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I mean we are absolutely in a place now where the only solution to this information disorder is for everyone to constantly evaluate the source of information. Never trust a chatbot, but also don't believe a video unless you know and trust where it comes from.
Unfortunately... that's a lot of work.
Unfortunately... that's a lot of work.
December 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I mean we are absolutely in a place now where the only solution to this information disorder is for everyone to constantly evaluate the source of information. Never trust a chatbot, but also don't believe a video unless you know and trust where it comes from.
Unfortunately... that's a lot of work.
Unfortunately... that's a lot of work.
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Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
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Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist.
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist.
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
gah this reminds me, i had an inhumanly itchy and huge rash (but weirdly not around my incisions 🤪) that took two rounds of methylprednisolone to get under control after, presumably, smth they prepped me w/ for my last surgery. never had a reaction like that before and still dunno what it was from 🫠
I'm allergic to iodine, for example, so we have to use chlorhexidine to prepare the surgical incision site instead
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
gah this reminds me, i had an inhumanly itchy and huge rash (but weirdly not around my incisions 🤪) that took two rounds of methylprednisolone to get under control after, presumably, smth they prepped me w/ for my last surgery. never had a reaction like that before and still dunno what it was from 🫠
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A couple of years ago I made a Facebook page to cross-post educational videos because someone said to me "you know who I want to see your content about AI ethics? my dad but he's only on Facebook."
So after several years Facebook has suddenly decided to start showing my videos to people and...
So after several years Facebook has suddenly decided to start showing my videos to people and...
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A couple of years ago I made a Facebook page to cross-post educational videos because someone said to me "you know who I want to see your content about AI ethics? my dad but he's only on Facebook."
So after several years Facebook has suddenly decided to start showing my videos to people and...
So after several years Facebook has suddenly decided to start showing my videos to people and...
literally never heard her music before reading this post and i was hooked from the first track, only challenging thing is my mid spanish and not being distracted by an endearing castilian accent
I wrote about Rosalía's "Lux," martyrdom, and our collective gastrointestinal health johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/eat-me
Eat Me
On Rosalía's "Lux" and our collective gut health
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
literally never heard her music before reading this post and i was hooked from the first track, only challenging thing is my mid spanish and not being distracted by an endearing castilian accent
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T&S: the job where literally whatever you do, it's going to be wrong! *jazzhands*
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
T&S: the job where literally whatever you do, it's going to be wrong! *jazzhands*
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A man who was set to be executed — for a killing his brother admitted to — has been granted clemency at the last minute
Tremane Wood Spared From Execution In Shocking Decision
His case marks only the second time Gov. Kevin Stitt has commuted a death sentence since entering office in 2019.
www.huffpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A man who was set to be executed — for a killing his brother admitted to — has been granted clemency at the last minute
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There is a very good reason why the thing I say most consistently about situations like this is "the violent rhetoric policy is my least favorite policy to write and enforce, and the policy that creates the most upheaval among the userbase when it is applied"!
"bluesky will suspend you for anything vaguely resembling a death threat" is maybe the single most consistent moderation policy they have I don't know why anyone is surprised by this one
yes, even if it's a reference to song lyrics
yes, even if it's a reference to song lyrics
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
There is a very good reason why the thing I say most consistently about situations like this is "the violent rhetoric policy is my least favorite policy to write and enforce, and the policy that creates the most upheaval among the userbase when it is applied"!
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If you are a researcher who happens to know other researchers who study Reddit/use Reddit data, I beg of you to please send them this paper.
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Remember the Human: A Systematic Review of Ethical Considerations in Reddit Research | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Reddit is one of the world's most prominent social media platforms, and also a valuable
source of data for internet researchers. However, working with this kind of data also
presents novel ethical com...
dl.acm.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If you are a researcher who happens to know other researchers who study Reddit/use Reddit data, I beg of you to please send them this paper.
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...