KB
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
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I do not like your AI slop
I do not want this worthless glop
I do not read its overviews
I don't care what Grok says is true
I do not like it here nor there
I'm tired of it everywhere
I do not want this worthless glop
I do not read its overviews
I don't care what Grok says is true
I do not like it here nor there
I'm tired of it everywhere
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I do not like your AI slop
I do not want this worthless glop
I do not read its overviews
I don't care what Grok says is true
I do not like it here nor there
I'm tired of it everywhere
I do not want this worthless glop
I do not read its overviews
I don't care what Grok says is true
I do not like it here nor there
I'm tired of it everywhere
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Admin: Another person having to cancel bc they're sick. But it's that time of year! What can you do?
Me, masked and laughing: I know what to do! I know EXACTLY what to do! IF ONLY PEOPLE COULD SOMEHOW SEE WHAT I DO!
Me, masked and laughing: I know what to do! I know EXACTLY what to do! IF ONLY PEOPLE COULD SOMEHOW SEE WHAT I DO!
October 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Admin: Another person having to cancel bc they're sick. But it's that time of year! What can you do?
Me, masked and laughing: I know what to do! I know EXACTLY what to do! IF ONLY PEOPLE COULD SOMEHOW SEE WHAT I DO!
Me, masked and laughing: I know what to do! I know EXACTLY what to do! IF ONLY PEOPLE COULD SOMEHOW SEE WHAT I DO!
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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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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In EVERYTHING. not just government. not just aid. everything should be like this.
The goal should be to build structures that are distributed enough and resilient enough that the presence or absence of any one person does not determine success or failure
August 13, 2025 at 4:38 AM
In EVERYTHING. not just government. not just aid. everything should be like this.
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COVID is surging.
Care because the research re long COVID is grim. It’s more common & damaging than you’ve been told.
Care because the fascists in charge, like all fascists, weaponize illness to harm resistance movements & targeted groups.
Mask to protect yourself & others.
Give/get mutual aid:
Care because the research re long COVID is grim. It’s more common & damaging than you’ve been told.
Care because the fascists in charge, like all fascists, weaponize illness to harm resistance movements & targeted groups.
Mask to protect yourself & others.
Give/get mutual aid:
Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc
MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.
Maskbloc.org
August 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
COVID is surging.
Care because the research re long COVID is grim. It’s more common & damaging than you’ve been told.
Care because the fascists in charge, like all fascists, weaponize illness to harm resistance movements & targeted groups.
Mask to protect yourself & others.
Give/get mutual aid:
Care because the research re long COVID is grim. It’s more common & damaging than you’ve been told.
Care because the fascists in charge, like all fascists, weaponize illness to harm resistance movements & targeted groups.
Mask to protect yourself & others.
Give/get mutual aid:
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This is also 21st century thinking. Fauci said “the vulnerable will fall by the wayside” & y’all didn’t blink. It would have been more truthful tho if he said “only ppl who die or get Long Covid will be harmed by Covid—this will include healthy ppl, but they won’t be healthy *anymore,* so fuck em!”
The deeper meaning behind "almost no healthy children die of the measles" is that, when children do die of the measles, it's only ever because they were already ill. And the deeper meaning behind that is "well, we can't save 'em all." And that's just...17th century thinking.
May 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This is also 21st century thinking. Fauci said “the vulnerable will fall by the wayside” & y’all didn’t blink. It would have been more truthful tho if he said “only ppl who die or get Long Covid will be harmed by Covid—this will include healthy ppl, but they won’t be healthy *anymore,* so fuck em!”
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Covid is a social justice issue. For many of the most vulnerable, the pandemic never ended.
People decided to 'go back to normal' because it's what they wanted, not because it was over.
Society's unwillingness to address Covid means those of us who care must work twice as hard to avoid infection
People decided to 'go back to normal' because it's what they wanted, not because it was over.
Society's unwillingness to address Covid means those of us who care must work twice as hard to avoid infection
May 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Covid is a social justice issue. For many of the most vulnerable, the pandemic never ended.
People decided to 'go back to normal' because it's what they wanted, not because it was over.
Society's unwillingness to address Covid means those of us who care must work twice as hard to avoid infection
People decided to 'go back to normal' because it's what they wanted, not because it was over.
Society's unwillingness to address Covid means those of us who care must work twice as hard to avoid infection
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PSA:
1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly
2. If you are silly, you must stay silly
2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness
1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly
2. If you are silly, you must stay silly
2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness
January 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
PSA:
1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly
2. If you are silly, you must stay silly
2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness
1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly
2. If you are silly, you must stay silly
2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness
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Today, March 15th, is International Long COVID Awareness Day? If you follow us, maybe the rest of your feed is already talking about it--Join PCAC in doing something about it by fighting for cleaner air in our communities! Long COVID affects millions & your risk increases with each COVID infection.
March 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Today, March 15th, is International Long COVID Awareness Day? If you follow us, maybe the rest of your feed is already talking about it--Join PCAC in doing something about it by fighting for cleaner air in our communities! Long COVID affects millions & your risk increases with each COVID infection.
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When I was talking a lot about getting prepared for FEMA cuts and trade war, someone told me apologetically needed to mute me because it was stressful hearing about preparation they couldn't afford to do.
That's a huge stress right now for ALL of us, I think-- there is no getting fully prepared.
That's a huge stress right now for ALL of us, I think-- there is no getting fully prepared.
February 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
When I was talking a lot about getting prepared for FEMA cuts and trade war, someone told me apologetically needed to mute me because it was stressful hearing about preparation they couldn't afford to do.
That's a huge stress right now for ALL of us, I think-- there is no getting fully prepared.
That's a huge stress right now for ALL of us, I think-- there is no getting fully prepared.
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With alt text:
February 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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For us illness-avoiders, we’ve already built the mask blocs, anti-sickness inclusive gatherings and basement testing labs. We know how to do this and we can teach others how
Now is a good time to rethink your emotional relationship to the state, if you haven't already.
We are taught from birth to think of the state as the be all and end all for how we govern ourselves and allocate our resources.
But there are other ways.
It is time to emotionally distance.
We are taught from birth to think of the state as the be all and end all for how we govern ourselves and allocate our resources.
But there are other ways.
It is time to emotionally distance.
February 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
For us illness-avoiders, we’ve already built the mask blocs, anti-sickness inclusive gatherings and basement testing labs. We know how to do this and we can teach others how
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saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu
February 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu
the onion is just an actual newspaper now I guess. cool cool cool
Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
WASHINGTON—Saying his latest executive order was legal due to an “underutilized but totally feasible workaround,” President Trump claimed Tuesday that he could overrule the U.S. Constitution by means ...
theonion.com
February 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
the onion is just an actual newspaper now I guess. cool cool cool
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Reminder that protecting each other from illness and potential disability/death when the people in charge actively want us dead is actually punk as fuck.
Simple disease prevention is community care.
It is resistance.
Please mask up, especially at protests.
Simple disease prevention is community care.
It is resistance.
Please mask up, especially at protests.
February 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Reminder that protecting each other from illness and potential disability/death when the people in charge actively want us dead is actually punk as fuck.
Simple disease prevention is community care.
It is resistance.
Please mask up, especially at protests.
Simple disease prevention is community care.
It is resistance.
Please mask up, especially at protests.
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I know this is going to make a lot of people uncomfortable but I'd invite them to sit with it.
There was a moment where the science pointed one way and we as a society said, fuck it, we're going the other way.
And then everyone just pretended that science agreed.
There was a moment where the science pointed one way and we as a society said, fuck it, we're going the other way.
And then everyone just pretended that science agreed.
February 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I know this is going to make a lot of people uncomfortable but I'd invite them to sit with it.
There was a moment where the science pointed one way and we as a society said, fuck it, we're going the other way.
And then everyone just pretended that science agreed.
There was a moment where the science pointed one way and we as a society said, fuck it, we're going the other way.
And then everyone just pretended that science agreed.
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Which, by the way.
Someday we are going to have to come to terms with the fact that COVID minimization was (is) a form of disinformation and that our collective, willful departure from science played a role in the rise of irreality proponents like RFK Jr.
Someday we are going to have to come to terms with the fact that COVID minimization was (is) a form of disinformation and that our collective, willful departure from science played a role in the rise of irreality proponents like RFK Jr.
Actually let me be more clear. It's not that COVID broke our brains.
What broke our brains was the willful, eugenic denial the "normality at any cost" crew pushed. We're all literally afraid to acknowledge that illness exists now.
What broke our brains was the willful, eugenic denial the "normality at any cost" crew pushed. We're all literally afraid to acknowledge that illness exists now.
February 3, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Which, by the way.
Someday we are going to have to come to terms with the fact that COVID minimization was (is) a form of disinformation and that our collective, willful departure from science played a role in the rise of irreality proponents like RFK Jr.
Someday we are going to have to come to terms with the fact that COVID minimization was (is) a form of disinformation and that our collective, willful departure from science played a role in the rise of irreality proponents like RFK Jr.
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Kind of weird how much we've separated egg prices from the h5n1 virus. Like we get that's why eggs are expensive? Because we've failed to contain it and farmers have had to cull large amounts of chickens leading to a reduction in production?
February 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Kind of weird how much we've separated egg prices from the h5n1 virus. Like we get that's why eggs are expensive? Because we've failed to contain it and farmers have had to cull large amounts of chickens leading to a reduction in production?
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Good thread; my work has a bit to say about this. First, the constant rebranding/redefinition of the in-group and out-groups is a critical element of extremist ideology. Extremist is grounded on a crisis caused by out-groups, which the in-group must solve through hostile action. 1/x
I want some linguist or sociologist or something to do a study on the lifecycle of terminology on the right. I've seen the same cycle repeat itself dozens, hundreds of times over the years.
It goes like this: 🧵
It goes like this: 🧵
February 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Good thread; my work has a bit to say about this. First, the constant rebranding/redefinition of the in-group and out-groups is a critical element of extremist ideology. Extremist is grounded on a crisis caused by out-groups, which the in-group must solve through hostile action. 1/x