km fedyk 🐀
@karigrafia.bsky.social
Academic, writer, immigrant. Queer vegan. I spend a lot of time thinking about different kinds of minds | they/them
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* ANNOUNCING *
Wild Hunt Books are seeking short stories in Jan 2026 for our upcoming anthology, Modern Decadent, which embraces the fin de siècle literary & arts of the decadents, along with 19th century symbolism and aestheticism. We also welcome stories with a good dash of proto-Weird 🖤
Wild Hunt Books are seeking short stories in Jan 2026 for our upcoming anthology, Modern Decadent, which embraces the fin de siècle literary & arts of the decadents, along with 19th century symbolism and aestheticism. We also welcome stories with a good dash of proto-Weird 🖤
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
* ANNOUNCING *
Wild Hunt Books are seeking short stories in Jan 2026 for our upcoming anthology, Modern Decadent, which embraces the fin de siècle literary & arts of the decadents, along with 19th century symbolism and aestheticism. We also welcome stories with a good dash of proto-Weird 🖤
Wild Hunt Books are seeking short stories in Jan 2026 for our upcoming anthology, Modern Decadent, which embraces the fin de siècle literary & arts of the decadents, along with 19th century symbolism and aestheticism. We also welcome stories with a good dash of proto-Weird 🖤
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"Cowardly work made by a button"
Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button
November 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"Cowardly work made by a button"
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If you are checking LLM-extruded drivel against a real source anyway, why not just use that source? Why not skip the LLM part entirely?
(it's because in practice, no one actually checks; these things are designed to discourage you from going "off tool")
(it's because in practice, no one actually checks; these things are designed to discourage you from going "off tool")
AI Chatbots Discourage Error Checking
AI hallucinations threaten the usefulness of LLM-generated text in professional environments, but today’s LLMs encourage users to take outputs at face value.
www.nngroup.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
If you are checking LLM-extruded drivel against a real source anyway, why not just use that source? Why not skip the LLM part entirely?
(it's because in practice, no one actually checks; these things are designed to discourage you from going "off tool")
(it's because in practice, no one actually checks; these things are designed to discourage you from going "off tool")
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Sri Lanka is hit hard by Cyclone Ditwah with severe flooding across the island. Over a hundred and fifty are dead, and tens of thousands are displaced. Some ways you can help:
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
Cyclone Ditwah Flood Relief Sri Lanka
How to donate to Sri Lankan flood relief initiatives in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah.
vajra.me
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Sri Lanka is hit hard by Cyclone Ditwah with severe flooding across the island. Over a hundred and fifty are dead, and tens of thousands are displaced. Some ways you can help:
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
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Y'ALL. Tanvir Ahmed has a new essay out in @strangehorizons.bsky.social and it is a MUST READ.
"I think it’s something about the body. The same eyes that watch Daenerys and her dragons watch Israeli bombs double-tap journalists at a hospital."
"I think it’s something about the body. The same eyes that watch Daenerys and her dragons watch Israeli bombs double-tap journalists at a hospital."
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence
Dragon fire on white bodies is sad. Dragon fire on not-Muslim bodies is cheered on the screen. We ache when the scimitar prows of not-Muslim ships cleave through a white human captain’s ship. But b…
strangehorizons.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Y'ALL. Tanvir Ahmed has a new essay out in @strangehorizons.bsky.social and it is a MUST READ.
"I think it’s something about the body. The same eyes that watch Daenerys and her dragons watch Israeli bombs double-tap journalists at a hospital."
"I think it’s something about the body. The same eyes that watch Daenerys and her dragons watch Israeli bombs double-tap journalists at a hospital."
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A reminder that every time Ru appeals to legal arguments (Ru constitution includes Ukr regions; Ru can't legally sign w Ukr because martial law has postponed elections), we should laugh. Ru law is utterly devoid of legality; it's a pure instrument of the state for post hoc justifying its actions.
November 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A reminder that every time Ru appeals to legal arguments (Ru constitution includes Ukr regions; Ru can't legally sign w Ukr because martial law has postponed elections), we should laugh. Ru law is utterly devoid of legality; it's a pure instrument of the state for post hoc justifying its actions.
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buying a farm that straddles the cavan-fermanagh county border to run contreband intermezzos into the occupied 6
Sweating at Heathrow border control because I’ve swallowed 15 copies of uncut Intermezzo
Sally Rooney's books may be pulled off UK shelves due to her support for Palestine Action group
The author said it was “unclear” whether any UK company can make payments to her.
www.thejournal.ie
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
buying a farm that straddles the cavan-fermanagh county border to run contreband intermezzos into the occupied 6
every time I see a job offer for writers to train AI I’m like “why would I advance my own disenfranchisement”
November 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
every time I see a job offer for writers to train AI I’m like “why would I advance my own disenfranchisement”
“This is how Muslims are wound into the existential stuff of Anglophone SFF—by serving as the ultimate field of permitted violence.”
In this week’s @strangehorizons.bsky.social, one of my favourite pieces I’ve edited this year — on orientalism from Star Trek to Game of Thrones.
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence
Dragon fire on white bodies is sad. Dragon fire on not-Muslim bodies is cheered on the screen. We ache when the scimitar prows of not-Muslim ships cleave through a white human captain’s ship. But b…
strangehorizons.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
“This is how Muslims are wound into the existential stuff of Anglophone SFF—by serving as the ultimate field of permitted violence.”
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It also had a very appreciable effect on individual campaigns. And everyone is very clear - the aid which is coming in, though more than previously, is in no way sufficient for the huge need of the Strip.
The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
It also had a very appreciable effect on individual campaigns. And everyone is very clear - the aid which is coming in, though more than previously, is in no way sufficient for the huge need of the Strip.
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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Thrilled to post that PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE has made NPR's list of Books We Love!
It's one of over 300 books handpicked by NPR staffers and trusted critics. See the full list here:
apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
It's one of over 300 books handpicked by NPR staffers and trusted critics. See the full list here:
apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
apps.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Thrilled to post that PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE has made NPR's list of Books We Love!
It's one of over 300 books handpicked by NPR staffers and trusted critics. See the full list here:
apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
It's one of over 300 books handpicked by NPR staffers and trusted critics. See the full list here:
apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
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I loved this. Decadently and deftly written. A book deeply concerned with aesthetics, and refreshingly cavalier with its setting - a visceral Gene-Wolfe-esque opera of a novel. Bravo, @hironennes.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I loved this. Decadently and deftly written. A book deeply concerned with aesthetics, and refreshingly cavalier with its setting - a visceral Gene-Wolfe-esque opera of a novel. Bravo, @hironennes.bsky.social
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URGENT shared survival fund for six families & a displacement camp of fifteen more. Since May, you’ve helped them with food in famine, transportation & shelter during displacement, multiple surgeries, infant needs, and so much more.
Keep hope alive: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep hope alive: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
URGENT shared survival fund for six families & a displacement camp of fifteen more. Since May, you’ve helped them with food in famine, transportation & shelter during displacement, multiple surgeries, infant needs, and so much more.
Keep hope alive: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep hope alive: chuffed.org/project/hope...
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Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
stone-soup.ghost.io
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
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"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?"
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?"
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
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This is not funny. Norwegian busses only do this when they are very distressed.
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
This is not funny. Norwegian busses only do this when they are very distressed.
Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things, but @saranorja.bsky.social and I just ordered a million nematodes
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things, but @saranorja.bsky.social and I just ordered a million nematodes
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I'm taking this headline literally and assuming that all EU states must recognise gay marriage in an explicitly Poland-rebuking way.
"By the power vested in me to piss off those damn Poles, I now pronounce you wife and wife."
"By the power vested in me to piss off those damn Poles, I now pronounce you wife and wife."
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I'm taking this headline literally and assuming that all EU states must recognise gay marriage in an explicitly Poland-rebuking way.
"By the power vested in me to piss off those damn Poles, I now pronounce you wife and wife."
"By the power vested in me to piss off those damn Poles, I now pronounce you wife and wife."
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Israel, which has obliterated most of Palestine’s archeological and heritage sites, including ancient churches, mosques, and temples, has suddenly discovered an urge to protect one from Palestinian ‘neglect’. It just so happens to be in the West Bank.
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
Israel begins seizing 1,800 dunams of West Bank land to develop archaeological site
Civil Administration says development legal, taking place amid 'neglect' of site by Palestinians; Peace Now: 'Government's lust for dispossession and annexation is insatiable'
www.timesofisrael.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Israel, which has obliterated most of Palestine’s archeological and heritage sites, including ancient churches, mosques, and temples, has suddenly discovered an urge to protect one from Palestinian ‘neglect’. It just so happens to be in the West Bank.
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
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"Real hope, as opposed to the performance of hope, requires confronting uncomfortable truths. It requires being willing to say that the emperor has no clothes, even when your career depends on tailoring his wardrobe"
www.linkedin.com/posts/the-co...
www.linkedin.com/posts/the-co...
November 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"Real hope, as opposed to the performance of hope, requires confronting uncomfortable truths. It requires being willing to say that the emperor has no clothes, even when your career depends on tailoring his wardrobe"
www.linkedin.com/posts/the-co...
www.linkedin.com/posts/the-co...
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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gouache sketch using whatever i had left on the palette and tray, with some paint pens to see how they behave together (better than expected for ~12$ Marshalls' knockoff Poscas)
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
gouache sketch using whatever i had left on the palette and tray, with some paint pens to see how they behave together (better than expected for ~12$ Marshalls' knockoff Poscas)