Flax Blue
@flaxblue.bsky.social
Worker by day & night. Also fish mom, musician, writer, and love water colors. Housing & environment both need collective solutions
My new pastor mentioned climate change, saying ‘i’m not saying if it’s real or not ha ha i don’t have a dog in that race’
(He was saying that with prayer , nothing matters at all, it’s all secure with the divine)
Im exiting. We all have dogs in that race & the divine is telling me to do better
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
My new pastor mentioned climate change, saying ‘i’m not saying if it’s real or not ha ha i don’t have a dog in that race’
(He was saying that with prayer , nothing matters at all, it’s all secure with the divine)
Im exiting. We all have dogs in that race & the divine is telling me to do better
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The thing about trying to get the blood off of one's hands is, as Lady MacBeth taught us, that bloodstains have a transmissible quality but not a transmutable or expungable quality. That is, you might give others the same stain you bear but in the process you can't change or eliminate your stain.
December 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The thing about trying to get the blood off of one's hands is, as Lady MacBeth taught us, that bloodstains have a transmissible quality but not a transmutable or expungable quality. That is, you might give others the same stain you bear but in the process you can't change or eliminate your stain.
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Tapping the sign
A good meme to send people who are convinced we live in a computer simulation.
November 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Tapping the sign
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
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Hamlet with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart is one of the best.
Actors can be nuts, man. A dude (André Tchaikowsky) left his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company to play Yorick in future productions. No one felt comfortable doing it until David Tennant played Hamlet.
November 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Hamlet with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart is one of the best.
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Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
When some one friends you here but has no comments & replies, do you think that’s a time to block or to do nothing?
November 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
When some one friends you here but has no comments & replies, do you think that’s a time to block or to do nothing?
What Ice means to Tr and Kavanaugh has been hinted at; what it means to me (due to that memo from HR’s lawyer) remains on the dl
What the white whale was to Ahab, has been hinted; what, at times, he was to me, as yet remains unsaid.
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
What Ice means to Tr and Kavanaugh has been hinted at; what it means to me (due to that memo from HR’s lawyer) remains on the dl
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when God sings with his creations, will AI not be part of the choir?
Pope: lol no
Pope: lol no
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
when God sings with his creations, will AI not be part of the choir?
Pope: lol no
Pope: lol no
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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a cancer nurse in a state I've never been to told messaged me and said that reading out Rice Truck aloud as it happened was the only day in her entire 14 year career on chemo ward that nobody cried and it's probably the best compliment I will ever get in my life
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
a cancer nurse in a state I've never been to told messaged me and said that reading out Rice Truck aloud as it happened was the only day in her entire 14 year career on chemo ward that nobody cried and it's probably the best compliment I will ever get in my life
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“For a 1971 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal, my family was asked to pose for a Thanksgiving photo shoot re-creating my grandfather’s painting Freedom From Want. We had to sit for hours at a dining table at the local inn, staring at food we weren’t supposed to eat.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“For a 1971 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal, my family was asked to pose for a Thanksgiving photo shoot re-creating my grandfather’s painting Freedom From Want. We had to sit for hours at a dining table at the local inn, staring at food we weren’t supposed to eat.
So what AI can really do is give users implausible deniability. Is that enough for the rich+ to use and maintain legal distance from their own choices? That’s one of the next cultural questions. (“It was on advice that I did the thing that killed, maimed, abused, was prejudicial, …i didn’t know…”)
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
So what AI can really do is give users implausible deniability. Is that enough for the rich+ to use and maintain legal distance from their own choices? That’s one of the next cultural questions. (“It was on advice that I did the thing that killed, maimed, abused, was prejudicial, …i didn’t know…”)
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The thing about Star Trek is that the majority of it has the crew spending most of the episode trying to figure out, through arguing and investigating, what's the right thing to do in a complicated situation and I don't think any shows do that now? Like in a Very Special Episode but not all the time
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The thing about Star Trek is that the majority of it has the crew spending most of the episode trying to figure out, through arguing and investigating, what's the right thing to do in a complicated situation and I don't think any shows do that now? Like in a Very Special Episode but not all the time
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star trek is about a utopian vision of the future bordering on fantasy where people someday will be able to make good choices about complicated problems by talking to each other and involving people who know about things
The thing about Star Trek is that the majority of it has the crew spending most of the episode trying to figure out, through arguing and investigating, what's the right thing to do in a complicated situation and I don't think any shows do that now? Like in a Very Special Episode but not all the time
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 AM
star trek is about a utopian vision of the future bordering on fantasy where people someday will be able to make good choices about complicated problems by talking to each other and involving people who know about things
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I don’t understand HP’s printer business model. If the equation is “who breaks first, user or printer?” then we’re just broken and only chuthulu can print
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I don’t understand HP’s printer business model. If the equation is “who breaks first, user or printer?” then we’re just broken and only chuthulu can print
I’ve gone to this eyeglass place since childhood. The business name was the family’s name. The business changed owners in the 90’s. I went elsewhere in recent years. Out of the blue I just got a bot call to schedule an appt. It mispronounced the family’s name. It feels weird. My memories don’t fit
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I’ve gone to this eyeglass place since childhood. The business name was the family’s name. The business changed owners in the 90’s. I went elsewhere in recent years. Out of the blue I just got a bot call to schedule an appt. It mispronounced the family’s name. It feels weird. My memories don’t fit
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When Frustration Threatens Desire, by Kerry James Marshall, 1990, 📸 by @drewhallowell
November 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
When Frustration Threatens Desire, by Kerry James Marshall, 1990, 📸 by @drewhallowell
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This dynamic kills Agile in practice - teams are supposed to be able to pivot based on customer signals but if those signals take months to arrive, they end up pivoting based on changing stakeholder whims instead.
They act faster than they learn, which simply increases the amount of waste.
They act faster than they learn, which simply increases the amount of waste.
May 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This dynamic kills Agile in practice - teams are supposed to be able to pivot based on customer signals but if those signals take months to arrive, they end up pivoting based on changing stakeholder whims instead.
They act faster than they learn, which simply increases the amount of waste.
They act faster than they learn, which simply increases the amount of waste.
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AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
We need language to express what it is to talk with cliche machines.
(We’ve become the tree in the woods and no one hears us falling)
Fraudversation? Chatlusion? Conversaicon?
(We’ve become the tree in the woods and no one hears us falling)
Fraudversation? Chatlusion? Conversaicon?
November 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
We need language to express what it is to talk with cliche machines.
(We’ve become the tree in the woods and no one hears us falling)
Fraudversation? Chatlusion? Conversaicon?
(We’ve become the tree in the woods and no one hears us falling)
Fraudversation? Chatlusion? Conversaicon?