Margot/Marty
@martymango0.bsky.social
Worldbuilder, conlanger, casual artist & crafter // ace, agender
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Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
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Maybe—just maybe—sports leagues getting in bed with gambling companies wasn’t such a hot idea…
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Maybe—just maybe—sports leagues getting in bed with gambling companies wasn’t such a hot idea…
For a while as a kid I knew Tim Curry solely as the misogynist penguin from Pebble and the Penguin
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
For a while as a kid I knew Tim Curry solely as the misogynist penguin from Pebble and the Penguin
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
My boss at my college job once asked me to go get more pico de gallo out of the fridge but she pronounced it "pick oh duh gal low"
November 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
My boss at my college job once asked me to go get more pico de gallo out of the fridge but she pronounced it "pick oh duh gal low"
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I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
Flu & Covid shots: ACQUIRED!
November 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Flu & Covid shots: ACQUIRED!
Is it even truly Halloween if you don't eat a spider donut?
October 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Is it even truly Halloween if you don't eat a spider donut?
Today in "being poor is expensive": our washer is broken & the apartment is taking forever to replace it (its a Whole Thing™️) so we had to haul it all to the laundromat & y'all. It cost *$60* - & dryers are free at the place we went! No idea how folks worse off than us manage that on the regular...
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Today in "being poor is expensive": our washer is broken & the apartment is taking forever to replace it (its a Whole Thing™️) so we had to haul it all to the laundromat & y'all. It cost *$60* - & dryers are free at the place we went! No idea how folks worse off than us manage that on the regular...
On one hand, every joint in my legs hurts. On the other hand, this is because I walked a couple miles of hilly zoo today so... worth it.
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
On one hand, every joint in my legs hurts. On the other hand, this is because I walked a couple miles of hilly zoo today so... worth it.
My mom came through & found me my seasonal cookies!
(My complaints still stand, but at least we found some!)
(My complaints still stand, but at least we found some!)
October 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
My mom came through & found me my seasonal cookies!
(My complaints still stand, but at least we found some!)
(My complaints still stand, but at least we found some!)
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Not to mention, ban ‘cashless’ brick and mortar stores. Not everyone has tap-to-pay and last I checked, physical money is still LEGAL TENDER and businesses should have no grounds to reject customers paying with hard cash.
tbh I don't think this is that niche but man we gotta make LIVING accessible for people who don't have smart phones and/or data. I'm talking bus schedules, restaurant menus, doing your laundry, accessing social security and unemployment, all of it. we goddamn GOTTA dude
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Not to mention, ban ‘cashless’ brick and mortar stores. Not everyone has tap-to-pay and last I checked, physical money is still LEGAL TENDER and businesses should have no grounds to reject customers paying with hard cash.
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“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?
www.technologyreview.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
Somebody explain to me why, on October 16th, I cannot find a pack of orange-colored Oreos anywhere (we checked multiple stores) but I *can* - if I was so inclined - purchase CHRISTMAS PACKAGED ones
Make it make sense
Make it make sense
October 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Somebody explain to me why, on October 16th, I cannot find a pack of orange-colored Oreos anywhere (we checked multiple stores) but I *can* - if I was so inclined - purchase CHRISTMAS PACKAGED ones
Make it make sense
Make it make sense
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“The scheme provides unconditional, regular payments to eligible artists and creative workers, allowing them to focus on their practice without the pressure of commercial viability.”
“A cost-benefit analysis by Alma Economics found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 in return.”
“A cost-benefit analysis by Alma Economics found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 in return.”
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“The scheme provides unconditional, regular payments to eligible artists and creative workers, allowing them to focus on their practice without the pressure of commercial viability.”
“A cost-benefit analysis by Alma Economics found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 in return.”
“A cost-benefit analysis by Alma Economics found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 in return.”
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October 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Sharktober: 07. Tropical Shark 🌴
A zebra shark. 🦓
You might think: Hey Elli, this shark doesn't look like a zebra at all! - Just look up juvenile zebra sharks.
#sharktober #sharktober2025 #digitalart
A zebra shark. 🦓
You might think: Hey Elli, this shark doesn't look like a zebra at all! - Just look up juvenile zebra sharks.
#sharktober #sharktober2025 #digitalart
October 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Sharktober: 07. Tropical Shark 🌴
A zebra shark. 🦓
You might think: Hey Elli, this shark doesn't look like a zebra at all! - Just look up juvenile zebra sharks.
#sharktober #sharktober2025 #digitalart
A zebra shark. 🦓
You might think: Hey Elli, this shark doesn't look like a zebra at all! - Just look up juvenile zebra sharks.
#sharktober #sharktober2025 #digitalart
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In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
October 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
I have been blessed!
(Excuse the photo quality; it's hard to take a pic of your own shoulder without moving too much)
(Excuse the photo quality; it's hard to take a pic of your own shoulder without moving too much)
October 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I have been blessed!
(Excuse the photo quality; it's hard to take a pic of your own shoulder without moving too much)
(Excuse the photo quality; it's hard to take a pic of your own shoulder without moving too much)
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Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.
October 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.
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The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars
Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.
October 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars
[my local beach is building post-season berms]
Guy:"What's with all the diggin'?"
Lifeguard letting the digger through: "Oh, yanno, it's a thing they do for the winter. Makes a barrier; just gives the storms something to crash on that's not, like, the town..."
(NOTE: read in a New England accent)
Guy:"What's with all the diggin'?"
Lifeguard letting the digger through: "Oh, yanno, it's a thing they do for the winter. Makes a barrier; just gives the storms something to crash on that's not, like, the town..."
(NOTE: read in a New England accent)
October 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
[my local beach is building post-season berms]
Guy:"What's with all the diggin'?"
Lifeguard letting the digger through: "Oh, yanno, it's a thing they do for the winter. Makes a barrier; just gives the storms something to crash on that's not, like, the town..."
(NOTE: read in a New England accent)
Guy:"What's with all the diggin'?"
Lifeguard letting the digger through: "Oh, yanno, it's a thing they do for the winter. Makes a barrier; just gives the storms something to crash on that's not, like, the town..."
(NOTE: read in a New England accent)
I don't yet have candy corn in the house & this can't start eating it the second it ticks over into being October this year, so I guess this guy'll have to do
October 1, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I don't yet have candy corn in the house & this can't start eating it the second it ticks over into being October this year, so I guess this guy'll have to do
How did you spend your Tuesday?
I spent the day manually queueing over 300 Halloween posts to run throughout the month of October on my Tumblr.
Basically nobody follows me on social media anywhere; this is for me.
I have no regrets.
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I spent the day manually queueing over 300 Halloween posts to run throughout the month of October on my Tumblr.
Basically nobody follows me on social media anywhere; this is for me.
I have no regrets.
👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇
September 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
How did you spend your Tuesday?
I spent the day manually queueing over 300 Halloween posts to run throughout the month of October on my Tumblr.
Basically nobody follows me on social media anywhere; this is for me.
I have no regrets.
👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇
I spent the day manually queueing over 300 Halloween posts to run throughout the month of October on my Tumblr.
Basically nobody follows me on social media anywhere; this is for me.
I have no regrets.
👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇🕸️👻🎃🦇