Kate
@hellapants.bsky.social
Gotta know your limits with a boombox
I was told at such a young age that I was adopted that I never questioned it much, but jfc thinking now about how I apparently barely made a peep as an infant and that was probably a reaction to being dumped with strangers
On infant adoption:
"Because they have never formed attachments to birth parents, these children seldom experience their loss as traumatic, nor do they fell a painful loss of biological siblings, grandparents, uncles, aunts, or cousins."
Uh-huh.
"Because they have never formed attachments to birth parents, these children seldom experience their loss as traumatic, nor do they fell a painful loss of biological siblings, grandparents, uncles, aunts, or cousins."
Uh-huh.
December 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I was told at such a young age that I was adopted that I never questioned it much, but jfc thinking now about how I apparently barely made a peep as an infant and that was probably a reaction to being dumped with strangers
explain your username 🎤
A doorknob I dated briefly years ago commented on the fact I was wearing a skirt when we met and also the first time we hung out, something ding-dongy like, I like that, I like chicks who dress like chicks & don't just wear hella pants. Made me laugh and stuck with me
A doorknob I dated briefly years ago commented on the fact I was wearing a skirt when we met and also the first time we hung out, something ding-dongy like, I like that, I like chicks who dress like chicks & don't just wear hella pants. Made me laugh and stuck with me
December 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
explain your username 🎤
A doorknob I dated briefly years ago commented on the fact I was wearing a skirt when we met and also the first time we hung out, something ding-dongy like, I like that, I like chicks who dress like chicks & don't just wear hella pants. Made me laugh and stuck with me
A doorknob I dated briefly years ago commented on the fact I was wearing a skirt when we met and also the first time we hung out, something ding-dongy like, I like that, I like chicks who dress like chicks & don't just wear hella pants. Made me laugh and stuck with me
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The results are in! People hate AI! But not as much as they hate the people foisting it on them!
December 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The results are in! People hate AI! But not as much as they hate the people foisting it on them!
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i'm fascinated by how much people love and are amazed by chat gpt saying "nice catch!" and "great observation!" because i personally find the condescension and obsequiousness the most skin-crawling thing about how LLMs "talk"
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
i'm fascinated by how much people love and are amazed by chat gpt saying "nice catch!" and "great observation!" because i personally find the condescension and obsequiousness the most skin-crawling thing about how LLMs "talk"
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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Conservatives love AI because it's far easier to abuse a population that can't read, can't write, can't think, and can't tell what's real
December 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Conservatives love AI because it's far easier to abuse a population that can't read, can't write, can't think, and can't tell what's real
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it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
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I just want some of these fucking people to face real consequences
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I just want some of these fucking people to face real consequences
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"I'm going to tax the everloving shit out of the rich people who made your life miserable and put every masked thug who broke the law or traitor who wrecked the government for their own profit in prison" I admit is too long for a sign, but at the very least this should be the spirit of the thing.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"I'm going to tax the everloving shit out of the rich people who made your life miserable and put every masked thug who broke the law or traitor who wrecked the government for their own profit in prison" I admit is too long for a sign, but at the very least this should be the spirit of the thing.
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Every time I see a cyber truck I am reminded that I've never seen a Cyber truck with someone in the passenger seat.
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Every time I see a cyber truck I am reminded that I've never seen a Cyber truck with someone in the passenger seat.
I'm going to continue to believe that this is why I was the prosecution's very first peremptory challenge last time I got called
Listening to yet another true crime podcast that teaches us how the jury selection system in the US is designed to find the most credulous, cop-believing people in the room
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I'm going to continue to believe that this is why I was the prosecution's very first peremptory challenge last time I got called
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Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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November 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
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While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.
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i confess that one big reason it's hard to remain optimistic is the sheer amount of shit that needs to be handled. this idiotic out of control ai and ai economy, crypto, the shattered political order, wild wealth inequality and malevolent billionaires. a mountain of effort and courage is needed
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
i confess that one big reason it's hard to remain optimistic is the sheer amount of shit that needs to be handled. this idiotic out of control ai and ai economy, crypto, the shattered political order, wild wealth inequality and malevolent billionaires. a mountain of effort and courage is needed
My coworker--probably my superior, but also just, like, head of the party planning committee --was dressed today in a Star Wars imperial officer uniform, which, uh...is either pretty loaded or super tone deaf and I fear it's the first
November 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
My coworker--probably my superior, but also just, like, head of the party planning committee --was dressed today in a Star Wars imperial officer uniform, which, uh...is either pretty loaded or super tone deaf and I fear it's the first
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the news is hard to scroll through. everything is brutal and ugly and cruel. will try to do something to help someone today. and tomorrow. and again and again. will try to make myself a counter to my own nagging despair.
October 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
the news is hard to scroll through. everything is brutal and ugly and cruel. will try to do something to help someone today. and tomorrow. and again and again. will try to make myself a counter to my own nagging despair.
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Apple is moving ahead with a plan to bring ads to Maps.
The company will allow businesses to pay to have their details featured more prominently within the app’s searches.
Apple plans to use AI to enhance this new feature, per Bloomberg.
The company will allow businesses to pay to have their details featured more prominently within the app’s searches.
Apple plans to use AI to enhance this new feature, per Bloomberg.
October 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Apple is moving ahead with a plan to bring ads to Maps.
The company will allow businesses to pay to have their details featured more prominently within the app’s searches.
Apple plans to use AI to enhance this new feature, per Bloomberg.
The company will allow businesses to pay to have their details featured more prominently within the app’s searches.
Apple plans to use AI to enhance this new feature, per Bloomberg.
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I never knew that in the United States literally the president can do anything as long as everybody agrees not to stop them. Very weird, realizing the entire thing was made of cotton candy
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I never knew that in the United States literally the president can do anything as long as everybody agrees not to stop them. Very weird, realizing the entire thing was made of cotton candy
Happy to report that pretty sure the worst thing I did while drunk in Croatia is half-watch a Nic Cage movie about the Rapture
October 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Happy to report that pretty sure the worst thing I did while drunk in Croatia is half-watch a Nic Cage movie about the Rapture
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In Mexico, blackouts caused by data centers destroyed people's refrigerators and oxygen equipment in hospitals, and water shortages meant toilets couldn't flush in schools.
AI is another version of colonial extraction.
AI is another version of colonial extraction.
“By 2035, data centers globally are projected to use about as much electricity as India…according to the International Energy Agency. A single data center can also use more than 500,000 gallons of water a day, nearly as much as an Olympic-size swimming pool.”
🎁:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
🎁:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
In Mexico, blackouts caused by data centers destroyed people's refrigerators and oxygen equipment in hospitals, and water shortages meant toilets couldn't flush in schools.
AI is another version of colonial extraction.
AI is another version of colonial extraction.
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All for this techno-garbage that steals our stuff, that plunders art and information and jobs, that just all around sucks at doing all the miracle things it's supposed to do. It tanks productivity, makes jobs harder, lies and plagiarizes, and salt in the wound? Drinks our water, burns our world.
“By 2035, data centers globally are projected to use about as much electricity as India…according to the International Energy Agency. A single data center can also use more than 500,000 gallons of water a day, nearly as much as an Olympic-size swimming pool.”
🎁:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
🎁:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
All for this techno-garbage that steals our stuff, that plunders art and information and jobs, that just all around sucks at doing all the miracle things it's supposed to do. It tanks productivity, makes jobs harder, lies and plagiarizes, and salt in the wound? Drinks our water, burns our world.
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"Person impeached for insurrection sends billions to Argentina during US gov't shutdown" and "Felon convicted of fraud pardons felon convicted of fraud" and "Long-time Epstein associate posts video depicting himself as a king dumping diarrhea on Americans from a fighter jet" are factual statements
October 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"Person impeached for insurrection sends billions to Argentina during US gov't shutdown" and "Felon convicted of fraud pardons felon convicted of fraud" and "Long-time Epstein associate posts video depicting himself as a king dumping diarrhea on Americans from a fighter jet" are factual statements