Nikki
@n2k1p1.bsky.social
Self-taught Artist | Writer | Reader | Baker 📚
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Christian ✝️ | defender of 🐈 🐕 | lover of astronomy 🌌 and gremlin with stomach ailments
don't dm asking for money or thou shall be blocked 😊
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Books are tangible magic ✨
June 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Books are tangible magic ✨
Silence can be political as well, it says we are too scared of the oppressors to stand up for the oppressed. That we choose to turn a blind eye to the suffering of others, because it comes at the cost of our safety and comfort. Is it selfish, yes but I can't blame people even if I disagree with it.
April 7, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Silence can be political as well, it says we are too scared of the oppressors to stand up for the oppressed. That we choose to turn a blind eye to the suffering of others, because it comes at the cost of our safety and comfort. Is it selfish, yes but I can't blame people even if I disagree with it.
Everything is political. It always has been. Even art written forma or sketched is and can be political.
April 7, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Everything is political. It always has been. Even art written forma or sketched is and can be political.
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If you don’t understand protesters’ desires to anonymize themselves or to protect themselves from tear gas and other “less lethal” militarized police weaponry, you likely have never been surveilled, detained, attacked, or otherwise targeted by the state. Yet.
That will likely change moving forward.
That will likely change moving forward.
April 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
If you don’t understand protesters’ desires to anonymize themselves or to protect themselves from tear gas and other “less lethal” militarized police weaponry, you likely have never been surveilled, detained, attacked, or otherwise targeted by the state. Yet.
That will likely change moving forward.
That will likely change moving forward.
Life can be a blessing or a curse.
April 7, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Life can be a blessing or a curse.
Sometimes I feel like books are the only things that's keeping me alive.
Social interactions make me so uncomfortable. Especially when I am feeling antisocial. Also it depends on the person/people 🤔
Social interactions make me so uncomfortable. Especially when I am feeling antisocial. Also it depends on the person/people 🤔
April 7, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Sometimes I feel like books are the only things that's keeping me alive.
Social interactions make me so uncomfortable. Especially when I am feeling antisocial. Also it depends on the person/people 🤔
Social interactions make me so uncomfortable. Especially when I am feeling antisocial. Also it depends on the person/people 🤔
Learning to unlearn things that make me unhealthy, mentally. Hardest job I started but it will be worthwhile in the end, or so I hope.
April 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Learning to unlearn things that make me unhealthy, mentally. Hardest job I started but it will be worthwhile in the end, or so I hope.
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Disabled and disability aren't slurs. There is no shame in being disabled or part of the disability community.
Trying to avoid using the words disabled or disability puts shame on the words and is actually ableism and eugenics.
Knock it off.
Trying to avoid using the words disabled or disability puts shame on the words and is actually ableism and eugenics.
Knock it off.
February 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Disabled and disability aren't slurs. There is no shame in being disabled or part of the disability community.
Trying to avoid using the words disabled or disability puts shame on the words and is actually ableism and eugenics.
Knock it off.
Trying to avoid using the words disabled or disability puts shame on the words and is actually ableism and eugenics.
Knock it off.
Don't feel comfortable on 🐦 anymore. That app really isn't what it used to be. Somehow it felt like a community, not anymore.
April 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Don't feel comfortable on 🐦 anymore. That app really isn't what it used to be. Somehow it felt like a community, not anymore.
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“If we accept that war is inevitable, that inequality is inevitable, that environmental destruction is a necessary cost of progress, then we abandon the possibilities of transformation..”
President Michael D Higgins
What’ll we do without him?
President Michael D Higgins
What’ll we do without him?
March 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
“If we accept that war is inevitable, that inequality is inevitable, that environmental destruction is a necessary cost of progress, then we abandon the possibilities of transformation..”
President Michael D Higgins
What’ll we do without him?
President Michael D Higgins
What’ll we do without him?
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Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law
Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly
Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor
OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal
media: should shoplifters be executed?
Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly
Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor
OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal
media: should shoplifters be executed?
January 9, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law
Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly
Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor
OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal
media: should shoplifters be executed?
Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly
Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor
OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal
media: should shoplifters be executed?
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trust the twitching of your elbows: you need to read this book if you at all consider yourself a reader of SFF in 2024
Also wait what day is it
Wait do I have a book coming out TOMORROW
WHAT IS HAPPENING
HEY @solarisbooks.bsky.social HOW DID YOU ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN
WHERE DID THE TIME GO
Wait do I have a book coming out TOMORROW
WHAT IS HAPPENING
HEY @solarisbooks.bsky.social HOW DID YOU ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN
WHERE DID THE TIME GO
March 11, 2024 at 7:20 PM
trust the twitching of your elbows: you need to read this book if you at all consider yourself a reader of SFF in 2024
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Sure, there's a lot of shit that only "works" because someone's allowed to steal a lot of other people's shit. Enclosure, primitive accumulation, imperialism, colonization—there is a standard, even definitional mechanism of profit through dispossession. Media commentary, ofc, elides it altogether.
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Sure, there's a lot of shit that only "works" because someone's allowed to steal a lot of other people's shit. Enclosure, primitive accumulation, imperialism, colonization—there is a standard, even definitional mechanism of profit through dispossession. Media commentary, ofc, elides it altogether.
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I read a lot of excellent books this year, so the list is a bit long (a couple of these aren't officially out til next year - thanks Netgalley! - but take my recommendation on board.)
In no particular order, my faves:
In no particular order, my faves:
December 28, 2023 at 7:59 PM
I read a lot of excellent books this year, so the list is a bit long (a couple of these aren't officially out til next year - thanks Netgalley! - but take my recommendation on board.)
In no particular order, my faves:
In no particular order, my faves:
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An early staff pick for RAKESFALL, and some reading recs. “The empire never ended but it pretended, for a while.”
vajra.me/2023/12/29/r...
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Rake’s Progress: Initiation
On RAKESFALL, the jackpot, imperialism, some reading on Palestine (and the world), and making art in hell.
vajra.me
December 29, 2023 at 6:33 AM
An early staff pick for RAKESFALL, and some reading recs. “The empire never ended but it pretended, for a while.”
vajra.me/2023/12/29/r...
vajra.me/2023/12/29/r...
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Good morning, Bluesky. Free Palestine.
December 27, 2023 at 1:41 PM
Good morning, Bluesky. Free Palestine.