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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott)
@m57lyra.bsky.social
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Writer and illustrator, lover of juicy infographics and editorial illustrations based in the beautiful, hyper-green PNW! Degree in physics, decades in engineering. I ❤️ science! Working on my first book…
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 11m
One Billion Years to the End of the World echos forward as well. See if you can figure where to!
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 21m
After this, consider reading some of the Strugatsky brothers’ works.
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 4h
Everybody now! Da-da-da dat dah…
We’ll be back (You know the tune!) We say The price of your love's not a price that we’re willing to pay You cry To your ICE, which you hurl at the crowds when you see us go by Why so sad? Remember, you have the House and the Senate and Judiciary Now, you're making us mad Remember, despite your stable genius, you’ve tanked the economy We’ll be back, soon, you'll see You'll remember that you work for us We’ll be back, time will tell We’ll remember that you served yourself Oceans rise, empires fall Your name’s still in the Epstein files And when push comes to shove It’s the Constitution that makes the Rule of Law Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da Da-da, dat, dat, da-ya-da Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da Da-da, dat, dat, da-ya Your popularity is waning, and you can't go on You're constantly complainin' even after you won And no, don't change the subject We’re have rights like Amendment 1 We’re a free, empowered people Not loyal, royal subjects Forever and ever and ever and ever and ever We’ll be back like before We will keep our rights and laugh at you more When you rant, to get your way You run to SCOTUS like a whiny babe When you're gone, we'll go mad You can’t imagine the parties that we’ll have 'Cause when push comes to shove You’re a tyrant and we’ll rise above Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da Da-da, dat, dat, da-ya-da Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da Da-da, dat- everybody! Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da Da-da, dat, dat, da-ya-da Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da Da-da-da, dat, da-ya-da-ah
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 9h
🎶And you may find yourself protesting beside David Byrne
And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"🎶
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 10h
Hallmark Christmas movie!!!
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 10h
Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 1d
OMG my neighbors & I talk about this movie. We have this one house that is like the Klopeks. Only ever see them when the garage opens. We aren’t even sure how the garbage gets to the curb. This has been going on for five years or so.
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 1d
Wait… what? Talking about gassing Jews is tame talk for the oval office?
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 2d
She’s *almost* as funny.
Baghdad Bob (Comical Ali)
YouTube video by Mr. BarkyVonSchnauzer
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 2d
I have three bonus dahlias I just noticed today. Hopefully they will be there tomorrow.
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 3d
OR… you could just extend spooky season through to Thanksgiving
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d
What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?
Jan 6 protester assaulting a cop Jan 6 protesters assaulting a cop Jan 6 protesters assaulting a cop Jan 6 protester assaulting a cop
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 4d
a group of people are sitting in a theatre clapping their hands .
Alt: At the Oscars or Emmys or whatever, a standing-o.
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 4d
OMG I am furious on your behalf.
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 4d
To this day I absolutely ADORE existential lit. *She* was just an unengaging, awful dullard of a teacher. Who apparently thought so highly of herself that no one could write unless they heard every word she spoke. Whatever, lady.
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 4d
In college I took an existential lit class. Teacher was dull & awful. She said I must’ve plagiarized paper because couldn’t sleep in her class & write that well & gave me an F. Had chat with the Dean; changed to A. Then proceeded to write all my papers in red ink cos she thought it was offensive.
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 4d
That was real work, and it was clearly a necessary and valuable service. The fact that they didn’t have attachments to copiers yet in that country that weren’t incredibly expensive unobtanium did not mean it wasn’t real work. Sam Altman is an arrogant asshole with a god complex. /end
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 4d
So, I’m explaining the job, and looking around, I asked where the copiers with the collators were. The guy looked at me funny and pointed at a table with a bunch of guys standing side by side… sorting pages. “Those are my collators.” 3/
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 4d
While in India in 1996, I had to write a training manual. It turned out to be about 40 pages long double-sided and I needed about 20 copies. We didn’t have that capability in-office, so we went to a print shop that had collators and binders, etc. 2/
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 4d
Altman’s statement is just wrong, period. Any job that is taken over by a technology was a proof that something was worth doing more efficiently, if possible. A thread about my time in India, If I may… 1/
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 4d
I entered Silicon Valley in the early 90s. It’s eating itself now.
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 4d
This is the end-state of evolution of the 90s build-it-and-they-will-come -> 00s propose-it-and-we’ll-see-how-it-goes -> 20s this-thing-we-are-still-imagining-will-rule-the-world lunacy of VC culture. And I am here for it.
a man in a red jacket is eating a sandwich
Alt: Michael Jackson eating popcorn
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 4d
Duck Duck Go.
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 4d
I had MetaAI rewrite a post of mine to see what would happen. Here is the result. WTF. I have whiplash.
MetaAI rewrote my original text (“What if OpenAI went belly-up? I would party like it’s 19freaking99.”) as “What if OpenAl reached new heights? I would celebrate like it's an incredible new beginning.”
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it’s ttoiיָעֵל (Yaelliott) @m57lyra.bsky.social · 5d
Yes. So much this!
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