Jocelyn Pitsch
@jprimrose.bsky.social
“Radical softness as a boundless form of resistance” -genderfail
N95-wearing anti-racist feminist; theatre scholar; poet; flâneuse. she/her. settler on stolen territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, BC)
N95-wearing anti-racist feminist; theatre scholar; poet; flâneuse. she/her. settler on stolen territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, BC)
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Vancouverites - sharing this widely! It's about time. If other dentists want more business, it's time to adapt to meet the reality we're living in 🦷
January 9, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Vancouverites - sharing this widely! It's about time. If other dentists want more business, it's time to adapt to meet the reality we're living in 🦷
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If you're stable (housed, fed, spending funds) & haven't changed what you're doing from a year or two ago to actively help folks survive fascism, then what you're doing now is assimilating to fascism.
Stop it.
This will not pass without action from everyone who can act.
"Fix your hearts or die."
Stop it.
This will not pass without action from everyone who can act.
"Fix your hearts or die."
January 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
If you're stable (housed, fed, spending funds) & haven't changed what you're doing from a year or two ago to actively help folks survive fascism, then what you're doing now is assimilating to fascism.
Stop it.
This will not pass without action from everyone who can act.
"Fix your hearts or die."
Stop it.
This will not pass without action from everyone who can act.
"Fix your hearts or die."
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
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There is such a profound misunderstanding of what the outputs of language models really are: they take in a sequence, a prompt, and output a probabilistically-generated sequence that is the model saying “given the input sequence, here’s the most likely output sequence.”
This isn’t summarization.
This isn’t summarization.
Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
December 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
There is such a profound misunderstanding of what the outputs of language models really are: they take in a sequence, a prompt, and output a probabilistically-generated sequence that is the model saying “given the input sequence, here’s the most likely output sequence.”
This isn’t summarization.
This isn’t summarization.
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The Act of Creation? The Divine Motions that flow through me as is my right as the Conduit of a power known only to my gods? A true gift that lets me briefly feel connected yet free from the universal laws themselves having borne something from nothing? And you want me to let the computer do that?
December 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The Act of Creation? The Divine Motions that flow through me as is my right as the Conduit of a power known only to my gods? A true gift that lets me briefly feel connected yet free from the universal laws themselves having borne something from nothing? And you want me to let the computer do that?
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
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Someone should tell him how much the oil industry gets in subsidies & the amount of renewable capacity you could build with that kind of investment. Pumping the $1.4 trillion provided directly & indirectly globally for oil each year into solar would make quite a difference.
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Someone should tell him how much the oil industry gets in subsidies & the amount of renewable capacity you could build with that kind of investment. Pumping the $1.4 trillion provided directly & indirectly globally for oil each year into solar would make quite a difference.
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Agro-photovoltaic (solar panels over agricultural fields) still feels more solarpunk than real world, but they are (slowly) becoming more common, and with that, the thought about how to move towards integration with sustainable agriculture. 🧪
Link: www.cetjournal.it/index.php/ce...
Link: www.cetjournal.it/index.php/ce...
December 1, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Agro-photovoltaic (solar panels over agricultural fields) still feels more solarpunk than real world, but they are (slowly) becoming more common, and with that, the thought about how to move towards integration with sustainable agriculture. 🧪
Link: www.cetjournal.it/index.php/ce...
Link: www.cetjournal.it/index.php/ce...
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.
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Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
October 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
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Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!
We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.
Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"
US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.
We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.
Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"
US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.
October 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!
We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.
Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"
US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.
We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.
Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"
US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.
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LMAOOOOO
A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying
A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying
Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money
Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.
www.vulture.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
LMAOOOOO
A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying
A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying
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This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.
June 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.
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Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
www.thegauntlet.news
October 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
September 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
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You wonder what disabled Canadians, subject to coercion into assisted dying because governments keep disability supports well below the poverty line, need to do to get anywhere near the attention paid to ostriches.
September 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
You wonder what disabled Canadians, subject to coercion into assisted dying because governments keep disability supports well below the poverty line, need to do to get anywhere near the attention paid to ostriches.
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Second Amendment activists in shock as Charlie Kirk shot instead of just schoolchildren
Second Amendment activists in shock as Charlie Kirk shot instead of just schoolchildren
OREM, UT - Americans who champion the right to bear arms were shocked Wednesday as controversial commentator Charlie Kirk was shot and killed, as opposed to the ordinarily acceptable trend of mass shootings in schools.
www.thebeaverton.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Second Amendment activists in shock as Charlie Kirk shot instead of just schoolchildren
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healthy ideological opponents are people who challenge each other on *how* we achieve collective liberation, not people who want to debate whether or not we *should*
September 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
healthy ideological opponents are people who challenge each other on *how* we achieve collective liberation, not people who want to debate whether or not we *should*
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It isn’t “grace” to pretend to hand-wring over a man who called for violence, praised gun culture, dehumanized trans folks, and led young people into violent nationalism. It is disingenuousness at best, rank cowardice at worst. And it does harm.
If your words whitewash a fascist, stop speaking.
If your words whitewash a fascist, stop speaking.
September 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It isn’t “grace” to pretend to hand-wring over a man who called for violence, praised gun culture, dehumanized trans folks, and led young people into violent nationalism. It is disingenuousness at best, rank cowardice at worst. And it does harm.
If your words whitewash a fascist, stop speaking.
If your words whitewash a fascist, stop speaking.
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Sex work is 1000% more honorable and socially beneficial than working as an ICE agent.
August 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Sex work is 1000% more honorable and socially beneficial than working as an ICE agent.
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It's anti-human on a fundamental level to say any one of us MIRACLES of creatures & our children cannot freely walk about this ONE SOLE ONLY little tiny MIRACLE of a planet it is spiritually wicked to keep us from each other all across our ONE HOME, the only PLANET in the UNIVERSE known to have LIFE
August 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
It's anti-human on a fundamental level to say any one of us MIRACLES of creatures & our children cannot freely walk about this ONE SOLE ONLY little tiny MIRACLE of a planet it is spiritually wicked to keep us from each other all across our ONE HOME, the only PLANET in the UNIVERSE known to have LIFE
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"A lot of men have trouble with the idea of buying clothes based on joy, or self-fashioning, or looking good," @dieworkwear.bsky.social said when @harrisonmooney.bsky.social called him to talk performance tech for @thetyee.ca.
My greatest achievement as an editor maybe
thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
My greatest achievement as an editor maybe
thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
Welcome to the Golden Age of Testicular Technology | The Tyee
Lululemon’s ABC pants won’t leave you hanging. But beware of lawsuits.
thetyee.ca
July 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"A lot of men have trouble with the idea of buying clothes based on joy, or self-fashioning, or looking good," @dieworkwear.bsky.social said when @harrisonmooney.bsky.social called him to talk performance tech for @thetyee.ca.
My greatest achievement as an editor maybe
thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
My greatest achievement as an editor maybe
thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
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We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
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Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
July 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.