Sam
@kingwesinald.bsky.social
I'm a non-binary therapist who specializes in working with my trans siblings, non-monogamy, and pet grief.
I am partnered and not currently interested in new romantic connections, but new friends are always welcome.
they/them
I am partnered and not currently interested in new romantic connections, but new friends are always welcome.
they/them
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Day 10 #artAdventCalendar A piece for Manufactured Ecosystems about the future of pollination about who decides what gets pollinated if humans and our devices are the only pollinators. 🧪🐡
The definition of “weed” is usually pretty arbitrary and usually all sorts of native plants get caught up in 🧵
The definition of “weed” is usually pretty arbitrary and usually all sorts of native plants get caught up in 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Day 10 #artAdventCalendar A piece for Manufactured Ecosystems about the future of pollination about who decides what gets pollinated if humans and our devices are the only pollinators. 🧪🐡
The definition of “weed” is usually pretty arbitrary and usually all sorts of native plants get caught up in 🧵
The definition of “weed” is usually pretty arbitrary and usually all sorts of native plants get caught up in 🧵
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One thing about "original intent" is that the original Constitution was so hostile to the President that their rival was made Vice President, but now we have SCOTUS "originalists" happily giving the President absolute power over everything.*
* So long as they're a Republican.
* So long as they're a Republican.
the whole structure of this argument — independent agencies are politically unaccountable therefore the president must have removal power — treats congress as if it were a total nullity, or as if only the president truly represents the public.
December 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
One thing about "original intent" is that the original Constitution was so hostile to the President that their rival was made Vice President, but now we have SCOTUS "originalists" happily giving the President absolute power over everything.*
* So long as they're a Republican.
* So long as they're a Republican.
Who am I in the DC universe? (And why is it probably John Economos?)
December 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Who am I in the DC universe? (And why is it probably John Economos?)
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it’s boys night out. away with ye then, boys. out
December 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
it’s boys night out. away with ye then, boys. out
Pour one out from my fallen comrade.
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Pour one out from my fallen comrade.
If Chuck Schumer has no haters left, I am dead.
Me, every time I read some story with a conveniently anonymous source claiming “no, seriously, Schumer didn’t want to cave on the shutdown, he wanted to fight for real you guys.”
a man in a suit and tie says " i don t believe you "
ALT: a man in a suit and tie says " i don t believe you "
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
If Chuck Schumer has no haters left, I am dead.
Look at her in her burrow like a normal spider!
November 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Look at her in her burrow like a normal spider!
We picked up an Aphonopelma chalcodes that we felt sorry for back in May. She was a little chunky back then, and absolutely did not know how to act like a normal spider. She had no real burrowing behaviors. This week she started burrowing. Today she took her first meal from us. Good job, Tarangela!
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
We picked up an Aphonopelma chalcodes that we felt sorry for back in May. She was a little chunky back then, and absolutely did not know how to act like a normal spider. She had no real burrowing behaviors. This week she started burrowing. Today she took her first meal from us. Good job, Tarangela!
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Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.
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since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
Another day, another "Supreme" Court opinion that makes my life and the lives of people I love less safe.
a man wearing a green shirt with flamingos on it says i 'm really tired
ALT: a man wearing a green shirt with flamingos on it says i 'm really tired
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Another day, another "Supreme" Court opinion that makes my life and the lives of people I love less safe.
I'm sick and crabby, but my nurse is cute.
November 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I'm sick and crabby, but my nurse is cute.
I'm alive. Turned 40. Still hot.
November 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I'm alive. Turned 40. Still hot.
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The people who are silent over the East Wing demolition at the White House are the same people who get hysterical when we take down a Confederate monument.
October 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The people who are silent over the East Wing demolition at the White House are the same people who get hysterical when we take down a Confederate monument.
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recently learned that the guy who did this also coined the phrase "gay pride," a true legend
October 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
recently learned that the guy who did this also coined the phrase "gay pride," a true legend
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NEW: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor slams Attorney General Pam Bondi: “Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed.”
#FuckPamBondi
#FuckPamBondi
September 16, 2025 at 11:35 PM
NEW: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor slams Attorney General Pam Bondi: “Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed.”
#FuckPamBondi
#FuckPamBondi
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
September 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
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i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence
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Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr
September 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr
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not unrelated: a recent study by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism found that modern “AI” chatbots not only provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries, the LLMs are TERRIBLE at accurate citations, misattributing sources 115 out of 200 times in one instance
AI Search Has A Citation Problem
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.
www.cjr.org
September 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
not unrelated: a recent study by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism found that modern “AI” chatbots not only provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries, the LLMs are TERRIBLE at accurate citations, misattributing sources 115 out of 200 times in one instance
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Deeply sinister energy to this video. Feels like it might become "The Cask of Amontillado" at any moment
trying to imagine firefighters getting dispatched to this house and the absolute nightmare that would be
August 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Deeply sinister energy to this video. Feels like it might become "The Cask of Amontillado" at any moment
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Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
www.advocate.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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