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Petra
@mildbannered.bsky.social
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millennial | boston | chaotic good | fuck ai
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love a tool that is objectively stupid AND uses all our drinking water!
December 19, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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theres a thread about poetry going around and so obviously I’m rereading Danez Smith
i've left Earth in search of darker planets, a solar system revolving too near a black hole. ive left in search of a new God. i do not trust the God you have given us. my grandmother's hallelujah is only outdone by the fear she nurses every time the blood-fat summer swallows another child who used to sing in the choir. take your God back. though his songs are beautiful, his miracles are inconsistent. i want the fate of Lazarus for Renisha, want Chucky, Bo, Meech, Trayvon, Sean & Jonylah risen three days after their entombing, their ghost re-gifted flesh & blood, their flesh & blood re-gifted their children. ive left Earth, i am equal parts sick of your go back to Africa 8 i just don't see race. neither did the poplar tree. we did not build your boats (though we did leave a trail of kin to guide us home). we did not build your prisons (though we did & we fill them too). we did not ask to be part of your America (though are we not America? her joints brittle & dragging a ripped gown through Oakland?). i can't stand your ground. i'm sick of calling your recklessness the law. each night, i count my brothers. & in the morning, when some do not survive to be counted, i count the holes they leave. i reach for black folks & touch only air. your master magic trick, America. now he's breathing, now he don't. abra- cadaver. white bread voodoo. sorcery you claim not to practice, hand my cousin a pistol to do your work. i tried, white people. i tried to love you, but you spent my brother's funeral making plans for brunch, talking too loud next to his bones. you took one look at the river, plump with the body of boy after girl after sweet boi & ask why does it always have to be about race? because you made it that way! because you put an asterisk on my sister's gorgeous face! call her pretty (for a black girl)! because black girls go missing without so much as a whisper of where?! because there are no amber alerts for amber-skinned girls! because Jordan boomed. because Emmett whistled. because Huey P. spoke. because Martin preached. because black boys can always be too loud to live. because it's taken my papa's & my grandma's time, my father's time, my mother's time, my aunt's time, my uncle's time, my brother's & my sister's time ... how much time do you want for your progress? ive left Earth to find a place where my kin can be safe, where black people ain't but people the same color as the good, wet earth, until that means something, until then i bid you well, i bid you war, i bid you our lives to gamble with no more. i've left Earth & i am touching everything you beg your telescopes to show you. i'm giving the stars their right names. & this life, this new story & history you cannot steal or sell or cast overboard or hang or beat or drown or own or redline or shackle or silence or cheat or choke or cover up or jail or shoot or jail or shoot or jail or shoot or ruin this, if only this one, is ours. Copyright Credit: Danez Smith, "dear white america" from Don't Call Us Dead. Copyright © 2017 by Danez Smith. Reprinted by permission of Graywolf Press, www.graywolfpress.org.
December 7, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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I'm a first gen girlie at heart but I do make exceptions
December 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Watchmen (2019) holds up to an eerie degree
November 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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November 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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actual footage of me “cleaning” my apartment
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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This is SENDING ME
Stories about AI messing up: one where it assumed a software design meeting was about a water bottle due to a side conversation; one where it AI transcripted a discussion about job applicants and then automatically emailed the transcription to the entire company and said job applicants; and one where AI mistakenly transcribed a conversation in French as if it were English which made it NSFW (Merci = Mercy, etc)
October 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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them: you should try using ai! ai is the future, might as well get behind it
me:
uncomfortable smile/grimace
August 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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So over this shit
July 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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clearly had 0 idea what was going on in connections today
July 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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June 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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February 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Elle Woods in court
January 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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me just trying to enjoy the vibe on the eve of an h5n1 outbreak and the second trump administration
November 16, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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awooga, etc
December 20, 2023 at 12:37 AM