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
Nonbinary/genderfluid/genderqueer/it's complicated, e/em/eir
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McNutcase
@mcnutcase.bsky.social
· Nov 14
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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what ablebodied ppl don’t rly get is that visible disability doesn’t mean a world that has failed to “cure” it, but a world where disabled people are given the equity and resources to BE AND BE TREATED LIKE PEOPLE
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
February 13, 2026 at 2:58 AM
what ablebodied ppl don’t rly get is that visible disability doesn’t mean a world that has failed to “cure” it, but a world where disabled people are given the equity and resources to BE AND BE TREATED LIKE PEOPLE
It is a distinctive spoor.
February 13, 2026 at 3:06 AM
It is a distinctive spoor.
That's just a specialty of Suspicious Bastard status. You know what sorts of research will want to stash lead and where they'll try to hide it.
February 13, 2026 at 3:00 AM
That's just a specialty of Suspicious Bastard status. You know what sorts of research will want to stash lead and where they'll try to hide it.
The materials science gameplay loop, as set down by @explosionsandfire.bsky.social:
1. Invent incredibly useful new substance (easy)
2. Attempt to recreate its usefulness without needing to include lead or cadmium (bastard hard)
1. Invent incredibly useful new substance (easy)
2. Attempt to recreate its usefulness without needing to include lead or cadmium (bastard hard)
How exceptionally useful lead would be if only it weren't so horrifically toxic feels like an important element in the hypothesis that the universe is cruel and also wants us dead.
(Yes I see what I did there)
(Yes I see what I did there)
February 13, 2026 at 2:58 AM
The materials science gameplay loop, as set down by @explosionsandfire.bsky.social:
1. Invent incredibly useful new substance (easy)
2. Attempt to recreate its usefulness without needing to include lead or cadmium (bastard hard)
1. Invent incredibly useful new substance (easy)
2. Attempt to recreate its usefulness without needing to include lead or cadmium (bastard hard)
Love the stage of capitalism where you start needing a website to help you find "I used to get this at _________" because all the useful stores got drained by private equity.
February 13, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Love the stage of capitalism where you start needing a website to help you find "I used to get this at _________" because all the useful stores got drained by private equity.
Also Fry's was right there while my nearest MicroCenter is over an hour away, traffic willing. Circuit City died too, all I have left is Best Buy for big box I'd be willing to enter.
February 13, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Also Fry's was right there while my nearest MicroCenter is over an hour away, traffic willing. Circuit City died too, all I have left is Best Buy for big box I'd be willing to enter.
There's a certain satisfaction in walking up to the thread checker at Ace Hardware and getting the right thread on the first try.
February 13, 2026 at 1:05 AM
There's a certain satisfaction in walking up to the thread checker at Ace Hardware and getting the right thread on the first try.
"When all you need is a fly"
February 12, 2026 at 11:35 PM
"When all you need is a fly"
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Everyone who's doing business with Musk right now deserves to be scrutinized as closely as everyone in the Epstein files.
The silence of US elites about this remains stunning & utterly damning.
Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January
Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Everyone who's doing business with Musk right now deserves to be scrutinized as closely as everyone in the Epstein files.
There's a bunch of "not as itself but not a categorical no" on there, and one that I absolutely would if not for medical stuff that prevents me.
February 12, 2026 at 10:50 PM
There's a bunch of "not as itself but not a categorical no" on there, and one that I absolutely would if not for medical stuff that prevents me.
Current mood: angry about the demise of Fry's Electronics, because goddammit they were useful.
Where the heck am I supposed to go nowadays to buy cromulent computer parts?
February 12, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Current mood: angry about the demise of Fry's Electronics, because goddammit they were useful.
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Alt text: a graph showing a massive spike in anti-trans articles per 30 days.
The x axis starts in 2012, most of the spike is just in the last decade
The spike really starts to kick in around 2017 or so, corresponding almost *perfectly* with powerful sexual predators feeling threatened by MeToo.
The x axis starts in 2012, most of the spike is just in the last decade
The spike really starts to kick in around 2017 or so, corresponding almost *perfectly* with powerful sexual predators feeling threatened by MeToo.
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 12, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Alt text: a graph showing a massive spike in anti-trans articles per 30 days.
The x axis starts in 2012, most of the spike is just in the last decade
The spike really starts to kick in around 2017 or so, corresponding almost *perfectly* with powerful sexual predators feeling threatened by MeToo.
The x axis starts in 2012, most of the spike is just in the last decade
The spike really starts to kick in around 2017 or so, corresponding almost *perfectly* with powerful sexual predators feeling threatened by MeToo.
Where the heck am I supposed to go nowadays to buy cromulent computer parts?
February 12, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Where the heck am I supposed to go nowadays to buy cromulent computer parts?
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Archaeopteryx looks like it would be bitey, a little asshole flying lizard. Probably smart for its size too. Imagine a pigeon-sized lizard crow with a mouthful of sharp teeth that looks at everything as having too many fingers and not bleeding nearly enough
February 12, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Archaeopteryx looks like it would be bitey, a little asshole flying lizard. Probably smart for its size too. Imagine a pigeon-sized lizard crow with a mouthful of sharp teeth that looks at everything as having too many fingers and not bleeding nearly enough
I'm too casual a fan to be able to answer that definitively.
February 12, 2026 at 10:05 PM
I'm too casual a fan to be able to answer that definitively.
Yeah. People were saying "surely that far in the future there'd be a cure", but they had the sense to go with "that far in the future, nobody cares".
February 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Yeah. People were saying "surely that far in the future there'd be a cure", but they had the sense to go with "that far in the future, nobody cares".
I mean, if you've ever seen Patrick Stewart in a wig, that's absolutely the case. He looks so much better bald.
February 12, 2026 at 9:59 PM
I mean, if you've ever seen Patrick Stewart in a wig, that's absolutely the case. He looks so much better bald.
The discussion about Picard's baldness leaps to my mind.
February 12, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The discussion about Picard's baldness leaps to my mind.
It's not even the repository of all human misconceptions.
all the years of "the internet is the repository of all human knowledge" takes have given people a vastly inflated idea of how much human knowledge is actually on the internet
it's literally impossible for an LLM to do a historian's job
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
February 12, 2026 at 8:36 PM
It's not even the repository of all human misconceptions.
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Please understand that the people who are warning you about Newsom are doing the work. Here. Now. WELL BEFORE a primary. To prepare you! I did not vote for Biden in the primary. Best believe I voted for him in the presidential election though.
February 12, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Please understand that the people who are warning you about Newsom are doing the work. Here. Now. WELL BEFORE a primary. To prepare you! I did not vote for Biden in the primary. Best believe I voted for him in the presidential election though.
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never seen a better clapback to "just playing devil's advocate," this made me screech
rather than play advocate, go meet your client in person to be sure you understand their concerns
February 12, 2026 at 7:12 PM
never seen a better clapback to "just playing devil's advocate," this made me screech
It never fails. Whenever you find a transphobe, there's something absolutely unhinged in their feed. "People are too uptight about smoking nowadays" level of utter nonsense.
February 12, 2026 at 7:31 PM
It never fails. Whenever you find a transphobe, there's something absolutely unhinged in their feed. "People are too uptight about smoking nowadays" level of utter nonsense.
I particularly like the Northumbrian smallpipes, with their closed chanter. That opens up techniques most bagpipes aren't capable of.
February 12, 2026 at 10:12 AM
I particularly like the Northumbrian smallpipes, with their closed chanter. That opens up techniques most bagpipes aren't capable of.
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An incredibly important thread on the history of voter suppression
Imma try and keep this short, but this is what i think is importantly historically. The 1960s civil rights laws and decisions were not technically "new legislation." it was a restoration of what already was.
For example
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For example
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February 12, 2026 at 7:36 AM
An incredibly important thread on the history of voter suppression
Even temporary disenfranchisement goes too far. Imprisoned people should be able to vote.
If the government can take away your voting rights for a felony conviction, and they also decide what constitutes a felony, and they also decide who’s charged with the felony, and they also decide who’s prosecuted for the felony, you don’t have a right to vote.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger endorsed a constitutional amendment to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions when they leave prison. State lawmakers passed the amendment and it will now appear on the state ballot.
February 12, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Even temporary disenfranchisement goes too far. Imprisoned people should be able to vote.