The Old Habetrot
@oldhabetrot.bsky.social
Middle-aged bog hag and occasional author. I am not clever or quippy enough for this place, so I probably didn't get your cool edgy joke. Well-adjusted Swiftie. Free Palestine.
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Donate to Please Help Me Put an End to 40 Years of Dental Pain, organized by Anna Louise
Hello, my name is Louise, and I have teeth so bad that they make me w… Anna Louise needs your support for Please Help Me Put an End to 40 Years of Dental Pain
www.gofundme.com
Posting my dental fundraiser again. I hate asking for help when we're all in need to help, because nobody can afford to be alive, so consider this an appeal to the wealthy, the celebrities, and corporations out there looking for a pet project or good PR. It's ya girl, please help me get new teeth.
Some potential NYT headlines for the week:
At What Age Is It Okay To Start Touching Kids? The Answer MIght Surprise You
Is 15 the New 18 for US Women? We Asked a Panel of Middle-Aged Men
She's 14, He's 77: Why It Works and How Their Love Might Just Save America
Have Women Ruined Sex Trafficking?
At What Age Is It Okay To Start Touching Kids? The Answer MIght Surprise You
Is 15 the New 18 for US Women? We Asked a Panel of Middle-Aged Men
She's 14, He's 77: Why It Works and How Their Love Might Just Save America
Have Women Ruined Sex Trafficking?
November 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Some potential NYT headlines for the week:
At What Age Is It Okay To Start Touching Kids? The Answer MIght Surprise You
Is 15 the New 18 for US Women? We Asked a Panel of Middle-Aged Men
She's 14, He's 77: Why It Works and How Their Love Might Just Save America
Have Women Ruined Sex Trafficking?
At What Age Is It Okay To Start Touching Kids? The Answer MIght Surprise You
Is 15 the New 18 for US Women? We Asked a Panel of Middle-Aged Men
She's 14, He's 77: Why It Works and How Their Love Might Just Save America
Have Women Ruined Sex Trafficking?
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By offering up his body’s own fluid to those who profess to be dying of thirst, and through their ability to be sustained by it, the Kool-Aid Man embodies the myth of Biblical Transubstantiation, and therefore is a personification of The Christ.
In this 500-page essay, I will…
In this 500-page essay, I will…
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
By offering up his body’s own fluid to those who profess to be dying of thirst, and through their ability to be sustained by it, the Kool-Aid Man embodies the myth of Biblical Transubstantiation, and therefore is a personification of The Christ.
In this 500-page essay, I will…
In this 500-page essay, I will…
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capitalism rules, I love doing extensive research any time I need to replace something because roughly 94% of all products are scam garbage
November 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
capitalism rules, I love doing extensive research any time I need to replace something because roughly 94% of all products are scam garbage
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Jesus ate with his hands and the Catholic Church used to think forks were sinful. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
October 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Jesus ate with his hands and the Catholic Church used to think forks were sinful. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
PSA:
Making protest signs and anti-fascist images using generative AI is a hell of a fucking disconnect, my dudes. Knock it off.
Making protest signs and anti-fascist images using generative AI is a hell of a fucking disconnect, my dudes. Knock it off.
October 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
PSA:
Making protest signs and anti-fascist images using generative AI is a hell of a fucking disconnect, my dudes. Knock it off.
Making protest signs and anti-fascist images using generative AI is a hell of a fucking disconnect, my dudes. Knock it off.
"I protect the family," I whisper as I pay my cats' pet insurance bill.
October 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM
"I protect the family," I whisper as I pay my cats' pet insurance bill.
To honor Charlie Kirk’s beliefs, I will refrain from feeling empathy at the news of his demise. It’s what he would have wanted.
Instead, I encourage all to make donations in his memory to orgs that support trans rights, gun reform, and the victims of mass shootings. It’s what he would have hated.
Instead, I encourage all to make donations in his memory to orgs that support trans rights, gun reform, and the victims of mass shootings. It’s what he would have hated.
September 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
To honor Charlie Kirk’s beliefs, I will refrain from feeling empathy at the news of his demise. It’s what he would have wanted.
Instead, I encourage all to make donations in his memory to orgs that support trans rights, gun reform, and the victims of mass shootings. It’s what he would have hated.
Instead, I encourage all to make donations in his memory to orgs that support trans rights, gun reform, and the victims of mass shootings. It’s what he would have hated.
That sentient hangnail running the Health Department can eat my entire ass, I got my COVID vaccine today.
Thank you, @massgovernor.bsky.social.
Thank you, @massgovernor.bsky.social.
September 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
That sentient hangnail running the Health Department can eat my entire ass, I got my COVID vaccine today.
Thank you, @massgovernor.bsky.social.
Thank you, @massgovernor.bsky.social.
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I'm only mildly joking when I say that the genealogy fad dying out made space for the mainstreaming of the anti-vaccine movement. If wide swaths of working class America still knew how many dead babies were in their family trees they might stop and think about this shit.
September 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I'm only mildly joking when I say that the genealogy fad dying out made space for the mainstreaming of the anti-vaccine movement. If wide swaths of working class America still knew how many dead babies were in their family trees they might stop and think about this shit.
Posting my dental fundraiser again. I hate asking for help when we're all in need to help, because nobody can afford to be alive, so consider this an appeal to the wealthy, the celebrities, and corporations out there looking for a pet project or good PR. It's ya girl, please help me get new teeth.
Donate to Please Help Me Put an End to 40 Years of Dental Pain, organized by Anna Louise
Hello, my name is Louise, and I have teeth so bad that they make me w… Anna Louise needs your support for Please Help Me Put an End to 40 Years of Dental Pain
www.gofundme.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Posting my dental fundraiser again. I hate asking for help when we're all in need to help, because nobody can afford to be alive, so consider this an appeal to the wealthy, the celebrities, and corporations out there looking for a pet project or good PR. It's ya girl, please help me get new teeth.
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Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.
September 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.
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I can't even imagine how soul-destroying it must be to be a creative faced with needing to find a new job because people are churning out AI slop rather than paying for quality artistic creations only to have to settle for a job like this to put food on the table.
It's so horrifyingly dystopian.
It's so horrifyingly dystopian.
The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy
In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.
www.nbcnews.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I can't even imagine how soul-destroying it must be to be a creative faced with needing to find a new job because people are churning out AI slop rather than paying for quality artistic creations only to have to settle for a job like this to put food on the table.
It's so horrifyingly dystopian.
It's so horrifyingly dystopian.
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whenever a progressive Democrat raises a million dollars by promising to fight the GOP it triggers Chuck Schumer's Spidey Sense and he rushes to find the oldest, most depressing moderate available to challenge them and placate the donors
September 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
whenever a progressive Democrat raises a million dollars by promising to fight the GOP it triggers Chuck Schumer's Spidey Sense and he rushes to find the oldest, most depressing moderate available to challenge them and placate the donors
Be the type of person who doesn't disappoint the world by still being alive.
August 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Be the type of person who doesn't disappoint the world by still being alive.
JUST SO EVERYONE KNOWS, I'M IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT IT'S SURPRISINGLY HARD TO FIND A PLACE TO PARK A PALE HORSE IN DC.
- DEATH
- DEATH
August 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
JUST SO EVERYONE KNOWS, I'M IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT IT'S SURPRISINGLY HARD TO FIND A PLACE TO PARK A PALE HORSE IN DC.
- DEATH
- DEATH
Got the notice this morning that I have been kicked off SNAP. I make $2100 a month, my rent is $1550 + $100 for air conditioner use.
No, that's not enough money. Yes, I work full-time. Yes, I am looking for additional part-time work. I am disabled. I am tired.
I don't want to be here anymore.
No, that's not enough money. Yes, I work full-time. Yes, I am looking for additional part-time work. I am disabled. I am tired.
I don't want to be here anymore.
August 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Got the notice this morning that I have been kicked off SNAP. I make $2100 a month, my rent is $1550 + $100 for air conditioner use.
No, that's not enough money. Yes, I work full-time. Yes, I am looking for additional part-time work. I am disabled. I am tired.
I don't want to be here anymore.
No, that's not enough money. Yes, I work full-time. Yes, I am looking for additional part-time work. I am disabled. I am tired.
I don't want to be here anymore.
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And now people are beginning to understand what it's like to be under the control of the weapons that they approved of.
Please remember this feeling.
Please remember this feeling.
August 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
And now people are beginning to understand what it's like to be under the control of the weapons that they approved of.
Please remember this feeling.
Please remember this feeling.
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"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:
LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:
LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
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Pagliacci goes to see Pagliacci. He's in the audience, but also on the stage. "Is this, fuck," he thinks. "Am I in a Lynch film right now. Am I in Mullholland Drive." Captured by confusion, horror, and strange, exultant sorrow, the clown must admit he is no longer depressed
August 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Pagliacci goes to see Pagliacci. He's in the audience, but also on the stage. "Is this, fuck," he thinks. "Am I in a Lynch film right now. Am I in Mullholland Drive." Captured by confusion, horror, and strange, exultant sorrow, the clown must admit he is no longer depressed
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every living Republican, foaming at the mouth, eyes rolled back:
KILL! KILL! KILL!!!
Democrats, sweating, anxious:
How can we placate our GOP friends and make them like us??
KILL! KILL! KILL!!!
Democrats, sweating, anxious:
How can we placate our GOP friends and make them like us??
August 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
every living Republican, foaming at the mouth, eyes rolled back:
KILL! KILL! KILL!!!
Democrats, sweating, anxious:
How can we placate our GOP friends and make them like us??
KILL! KILL! KILL!!!
Democrats, sweating, anxious:
How can we placate our GOP friends and make them like us??
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So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.
If true, then fucking yikes.
If true, then fucking yikes.
August 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.
If true, then fucking yikes.
If true, then fucking yikes.