Mid Fimbulwinter
@curgoth.bsky.social
Canadian queer nerd. Likes SF/F, wearing black and circus arts. They/them.
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December 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Under anarcho-communism, spontaneous autonomous community improvement will be, actually, legal
Man paints crosswalks in Westwood to make them safer, LAPD arrests him for vandalism
A man who says he's making dangerous crosswalks safer by painting them was arrested and cited for vandalism in Westwood Sunday afternoon.
abc7.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Under anarcho-communism, spontaneous autonomous community improvement will be, actually, legal
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Tapping the sign
December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Tapping the sign
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"It's 106 miles to Fossanova, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, you're a skull ... and I don't know how to drive."
"Hit it."
"Hit it."
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"It's 106 miles to Fossanova, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, you're a skull ... and I don't know how to drive."
"Hit it."
"Hit it."
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i think people seem to still be under the impression that corporations are seeking to achieve profitability when they are instead searching desperately for ways to further precaritize labor
Its the same thing as "hmm is Cloud the natural endpoint of computing or is it a ludicrously profitable model of computing that was able to pay for an enormous amount of developer and lawyer labor hours to smooth the path of entrapment and crush alternatives"
December 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
i think people seem to still be under the impression that corporations are seeking to achieve profitability when they are instead searching desperately for ways to further precaritize labor
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"Either stop giving me directions or you do the driving, Thomas. Oh right. You CAN'T. Because your arm is in Naples. So SHUT THE FUCK UP."
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"Either stop giving me directions or you do the driving, Thomas. Oh right. You CAN'T. Because your arm is in Naples. So SHUT THE FUCK UP."
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Some ideas:
Captain Marvel & Captain Marvel
Firestorm & Firelord
Plastic Man and Elongated Man & Mr Fantastic and Flatman
Captain Marvel & Captain Marvel
Firestorm & Firelord
Plastic Man and Elongated Man & Mr Fantastic and Flatman
What DC/Marvel team-up would YOU like to see next?
Check out covers and more info on DC/Marvel’s Superman/Spider-Man #1, coming in March
We know know when it's coming out (March 25). When know how much it's going to cost ($7.99, or $8.99 for card stock variants). We know who's writing and drawing the main story (Mark Waid and Jorge Jimenez). We know the idea of the Daily Bugle and Daily Planet news teams racing to scoop a story is right up my journalistic alley.
comicsxf.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Some ideas:
Captain Marvel & Captain Marvel
Firestorm & Firelord
Plastic Man and Elongated Man & Mr Fantastic and Flatman
Captain Marvel & Captain Marvel
Firestorm & Firelord
Plastic Man and Elongated Man & Mr Fantastic and Flatman
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when is ethan hawke going to play philip k dick
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
when is ethan hawke going to play philip k dick
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"But what does that say about my job if a machine that's wrong 75% of the time can do for me and no one notices?"
Hi, you are participating in the most inefficient and needlessly cruel version of UBI possible.
Hi, you are participating in the most inefficient and needlessly cruel version of UBI possible.
this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
So similarly, when we see people who prefer ChatGPT or a similar synthetic text extruding machine as a source of medical information, that means those are people who are under-served in the current system.
December 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"But what does that say about my job if a machine that's wrong 75% of the time can do for me and no one notices?"
Hi, you are participating in the most inefficient and needlessly cruel version of UBI possible.
Hi, you are participating in the most inefficient and needlessly cruel version of UBI possible.
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"Put the money in the bag and nobody gets hurt" - dull, uncreative, overly literal
"Your money or your life!" - better, dramatic, raises the stakes
"Stand and deliver!" - classic, establishes your place in the long history of robbers, enhances the experience by reminding your victim of Adam Ant
"Your money or your life!" - better, dramatic, raises the stakes
"Stand and deliver!" - classic, establishes your place in the long history of robbers, enhances the experience by reminding your victim of Adam Ant
If you're going to stick somebody up with one of these you should be required to say "STAND AND DELIVER" because honestly what kind of terminally unfun loser would try to be serious about it
Man arrested, accused of robbing Tulsa liquor store with antique gun
December 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"Put the money in the bag and nobody gets hurt" - dull, uncreative, overly literal
"Your money or your life!" - better, dramatic, raises the stakes
"Stand and deliver!" - classic, establishes your place in the long history of robbers, enhances the experience by reminding your victim of Adam Ant
"Your money or your life!" - better, dramatic, raises the stakes
"Stand and deliver!" - classic, establishes your place in the long history of robbers, enhances the experience by reminding your victim of Adam Ant
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Sportin' Jenny claims another victim
Man arrested, accused of robbing Tulsa liquor store with antique gun
Man arrested, accused of robbing liquor store with antique gun
The Tulsa Police Department arrested a man accused of robbing a south Tulsa liquor store with an antique gun on Friday night.
www.fox23.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Sportin' Jenny claims another victim
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Talking to somebody yesterday about a Cdn oral history archive that disappeared - turns out LLMs were scraping it so much it crashed their servers so it’s offline. Vile vulture technology.
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Talking to somebody yesterday about a Cdn oral history archive that disappeared - turns out LLMs were scraping it so much it crashed their servers so it’s offline. Vile vulture technology.
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“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.
December 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.
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I have a joke about Eris but I’m only telling it to the fairest
December 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I have a joke about Eris but I’m only telling it to the fairest
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The words 'authoritarian capitalism' are running through my brain a lot these days.
Not only are we not appropriately regulating new digital technologies in Canada, the Budget Implementation Bill proposes to allow Ministers to exempt anyone from current laws (except the criminal code) if they think it's in the public interest. www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
Althia Raj: Mark Carney is quietly giving sweeping new powers to his ministers
Sneaking a change of this magnitude into a 600-page bill that will not get parliamentary scrutiny raises a red flag, Althia Raj writes.
www.thestar.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The words 'authoritarian capitalism' are running through my brain a lot these days.
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if you're into AI "advisors" and find their insights helpful, may I non-ironically recommend seriously considering: tarot
- connection to your subconscious
- therapeutic or confessional as need be
- patterns of meaning
- self-determined takeaways
- no need to google facts afterwards
- connection to your subconscious
- therapeutic or confessional as need be
- patterns of meaning
- self-determined takeaways
- no need to google facts afterwards
December 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
if you're into AI "advisors" and find their insights helpful, may I non-ironically recommend seriously considering: tarot
- connection to your subconscious
- therapeutic or confessional as need be
- patterns of meaning
- self-determined takeaways
- no need to google facts afterwards
- connection to your subconscious
- therapeutic or confessional as need be
- patterns of meaning
- self-determined takeaways
- no need to google facts afterwards
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pals you gotta quit spotify
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
pals you gotta quit spotify
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Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
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So unlike the rest of the TTC's fleet of light rail, the Finch line has tap on tap off machines on the platforms but nowhere on the train itself???
They'e set up people to inadvertently forget cuz decades of habit and put them at the mercy of fare enforcement agents who have a *history*.
They'e set up people to inadvertently forget cuz decades of habit and put them at the mercy of fare enforcement agents who have a *history*.
December 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
So unlike the rest of the TTC's fleet of light rail, the Finch line has tap on tap off machines on the platforms but nowhere on the train itself???
They'e set up people to inadvertently forget cuz decades of habit and put them at the mercy of fare enforcement agents who have a *history*.
They'e set up people to inadvertently forget cuz decades of habit and put them at the mercy of fare enforcement agents who have a *history*.
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A quick big monster for you.
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A quick big monster for you.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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These are now going to be known as Krampus' 'Forbidden Buns of Steel'
December 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
These are now going to be known as Krampus' 'Forbidden Buns of Steel'
I would really like it if white people on stage would stop trying to get audiences, also mostly white, to throw one arm up in the air and shout "hail!". I don't care if you're hailing Krampus, Satan, "the gods" or the drummers. Try "huzzah", "hooray", "three cheers for" or something, anything else.
December 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I would really like it if white people on stage would stop trying to get audiences, also mostly white, to throw one arm up in the air and shout "hail!". I don't care if you're hailing Krampus, Satan, "the gods" or the drummers. Try "huzzah", "hooray", "three cheers for" or something, anything else.
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
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Not being porn won't protect you, so it's time to protect porn
A lot of creators essentially saying "My work might contain nudity and sexual situations, but it's NOT porn. My work is important and artistic, while their work is dirty, which is still okay to hate and censor." But guess what! The purity squad makes no such distinction.
December 6, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Not being porn won't protect you, so it's time to protect porn