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McNutcase
@mcnutcase.bsky.social
Tried a bit of everything. Former gifted kid, depressed burnout, finally found a calling in woodworking. Wants to make all the musical instruments.

Nonbinary/genderfluid/genderqueer/it's complicated, e/em/eir
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I'm not here to be followed, I'm here to keep in touch with what people I want to hear are saying, and maybe say some stuff myself. Set your expectations accordingly.
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h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social

holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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August 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Tzeentch. For AI slop is forever changing and none of what you see can be trusted to be the truth. Ask an AI the same question 10 times and you may get ten different answers. Look at the pictures and count the fingers and limbs. Mutation abounds.
I think it's time to ask the professionals, like @learninglaser.bsky.social & @aotearoabadger.bsky.social, which of the Ruinous Powers best represented by AI slop so that it may be offered to their throne. I fear we may have manifested a new one.
December 4, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️‍⚧️
December 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Hey so all fashion is political.

One of the reasons I put a Trans Rights patch on my vest is because I went to a counter protest of a far right rally and spotted a guy dressed exactly like me. The last thing I want is for someone like that to think they're welcome in my spaces based on my outfit.
December 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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For years, the disability community has been used by industry as a shield against Medicare For All.

In new polling from @dataforprogress.org, we asked disabled voters whether they support M4A:

62% Support among voters who ID as disabled
63% Support among voters who do not ID as disabled

#IDPWD
December 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Embracing a label of "disabled" made me more confident in asking for accommodations. I can't get through a full work day in person without suffering in pain.

If you're a chronically ill person, I welcome you to join this identity.
December 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Also there’s a cowboy. You should read Dracula, it’s great
December 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Lithgow saying that a family friend with a trans kid came to him and literally said “please don’t do this” and he did it anyway really gives the game away. they don’t not know
Once again thinking about every actor trying to justify taking the money for the new HP series.
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
As always, my spotify wrapped is "I don't use spotify because they don't pay artists and they make money from fascism". Instead, here are some things I think people should listen to, as Artist: Song Title.
New Model Army: Purity
New Model Army: Vagabonds
The Budos Band: Long in the Tooth
December 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I didn't get an answer, so let's crowdsource

How do you effectively make the world accessible to people with disabilities while making sure people who don't need it don't take advantage but without denying access to people who need it?

i think the answer is "stop being a cop about it."
so how do you solve the problem without denying access to people who need it?
December 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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exhibit #81823840 in my "Terry Pratchett should be recognized as one of our foremost worldly philosophers" file
December 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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lol you'll never convince me a huge part of the reluctance isn't that there's no legal way to make UBI white-only.

Lotta white people in this country are happy to lose as long as nobody Black or brown wins.
I wish more people didn't get mad because "why can't I have $1000 a month for nothing!"
And instead went "why not universal basic income?"
December 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Actually, the likelihood is 100%. In US jurisprudence, accused people are innocent until proven guilty. Hegseth's victims were not proven guilty; they were not even tried. Therefore they were ALL, to the last man, legally innocent. Hegseth ordered the murders of several dozen innocent men.
Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Just give people who didn't need accommodations an extra tassel on their souvenir hat. And sell such tassels for a cent each.
December 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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If more students need accommodations than not, then maybe the system is too restrictive.
So apparently we are doing this shit again.
December 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Costco actually cares about how people think about it.
pretty remarkable that Costco has more of a spine in fighting for the rule of law than many major universities and fancy law firms
this is going to be a fucking shitshow, lmao
December 3, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Fuck the Salvation Army, keep your dollars out of the bigot buckets (but don't harass the bell ringers, they can't change the policy).
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Really not liking how "late-Soviet gerontocracy" the ambient vibes are.
December 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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It’s not our fault the right decided that not being a massive antisocial prick is left-coded now.

We actually didn’t do that. That was all them.
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Images you can hear with the sound off. (Alt text: a tuxedo cat, standing on a bodega's refrigerated-section shelf, looking directly at the camera and yelling.)
December 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I note that a straight reading of the quoted text from Steam would ban Spec Ops: The Line, which I seem to remember getting lots of good press. Hmm.
Horses is a Very Bad Time and I highly recommend it. Here’s me on Valve and Epic deciding that a critique of how the powerful use conservative moralism to oppress others is too morally objectionable for their platforms
www.inverse.com/gaming/horse...
Steam And Epic Could Destroy One Of The Best Indie Studios With An Unexplained Game Ban
'Horses' is a subversive, unsettling indie game like nothing you've ever played — but censorship from Steam and Epic Games could destroy its developer.
www.inverse.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a me in possession of any kind of aeronautics simulation will immediately create a de Havilland Sea Vixen.
December 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
A pain in the ass and the hands, but worthwhile and it keeps me busy.
December 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM