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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 3h

I have a Google home and I have to put on a fake English accent and lower the pitch of my voice to use it.

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 3h

Obligatory.

A screenshot from Burnistoun's "eleven" lift sketch.

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 3h

"You will never need to type again. You can talk to your computer!"

[laughs in Scottish]

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 12d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 22h

This is actually really bad the more I read about it and I strongly encourage anyone with a lingering Twitter account to delete it.

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 1d

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 1d

what even happened on the other site this time

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 1d

Update. Migraine fucked off for a few hours. Back with vengeance. Send... something. Stronger painkillers?

Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 1d

Day four of The Migraine That Won't Fuck Off and today I am combining sumatriptan, ibuprofen and toast with Nutella.

Might make a cup of tea, too.

Results to follow.

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 1d

Why does he look so weird here

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 1d

Yay

The Duolingo streak screen, showing a 1000 day streak.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 1d

Day four of The Migraine That Won't Fuck Off and today I am combining sumatriptan, ibuprofen and toast with Nutella.

Might make a cup of tea, too.

Results to follow.

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 1d

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to Tgi Fridays becoming the next front of the culture wars tbh. Their potato skins are class.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

going by the decor, is this not TGI Fridays?

Someone on Twitter posted a photo of themselves doing a happy dance as they receive a hot plate of fajitas. Then "Raw Egg Nationalist" on Twitter retweets them, writing: It's incredible that these people exist, but they really do. These are the people who justify the demographic replacement of Western countries in terms of the variety of street food and how many different kinds of fried-meat-and-vegetables in flatbread they can buy.

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 2d

The opening cyberpunk credits of TRON Ares being set to this in full IMAX with ridiculous bass boost was so good it should be prescribed on the NHS for depression. youtu.be/f9D8gHY2OPE

Nine Inch Nails - Init (Official Visualizer)

YouTube video by NineInchNailsVEVO

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 2d

Sources say she has become one of those people who recommends the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks to everyone.

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 2d

I totally agree. At first I was a little irked because many women have been shouting about this for decades but sometimes men do need to hear it from other men and it's good that it's being shared on TikTok rather than in dusty academic journals.

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 2d

The nausea for this one has been brewing for at least four days and I could do with not feeling every inch of my intestine tbh.

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 2d

Sitting in a wooly jumper with a cool pack on my head because I'm being haunted by the Pain Triangle™

Painting of a jagged migraine aura by Giorgio de Chirico

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 2d

guy who reports every teams meeting invite as a phishing attempt

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 2d

If you get your kicks reading about fairy dicks I am just gonna be happy you read. I mean that as a writer and an ex-library worker.

These women (yeah it's mostly women) are going to keep publishing afloat in an increasingly hostile economic environment.

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 2d

People dismissing the new wave of romantasy as fanfiction slop are the latest in a long line of "this style of writing/genre is corrupting the womenfolk/youth" pearl-clutchers. Congrats! You'd have complained about novels when they first came out!

The only slop we should worry about is AI slop.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 2d

Didn't realise that I've been cold for a while but finally caved and put the heating on for the first time this year and almost immediately dozed off.

I'm working from home. This is not optimal.

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 2d

I like how he starts off enraged and ends up as tired as the rest of us. bsky.app/profile/cjoa...

Mx. P (they/he/we/&) @cjoat.blacksky.app · 6d

Medical Gaslighting: When Women's Health is Ignored by @thatguyrenejay

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ADn68w/

#WomensHealth #MedicalInequity #Endometriosis #WomensRights #Healthcare #BlackWomenHealth

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 2d

I'm really enjoying watching this guy lose his shit every time he finds out about some new shitty thing women have to deal with.

Mx. P (they/he/we/&) @cjoat.blacksky.app · 3d

My Body, My Choice: The Hysterectomy Dilemma by @thatguyrenejay

#WomensHealth #BodyAutonomy #Hysterectomy #WomensRights #HealthChoices

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 2d

In a statement released today, the autistic population explained: “Lol have you ever got a single fact wrong around one of us?”

Read this and other exclusive articles on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/116939...

a group of men and women shouting with fists raised

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, babes. Have you got a big surprise coming...

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo
This is great news. We've hired the classicist Spencer Klavan to teach at New College of Florida. Goodbye gender studies; hello, Greek literature.
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Spencer A. Klavan
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Aug 19, 2024
Truly excited to be teaching an online survey course in Greek literature this fall semester @NewCollegeofFL. Even more excited that it's open to the public. Please join in here! We'll be reading Homer, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and lots more.

https://ncf.edu/youngheretics/
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