a quivering leaf 🍃
@roadsidefruitstand.bsky.social
aspiring cloud-eater
naive, cynical and unserious
naive, cynical and unserious
Pinned
i wish left wing intellectual types werent so wedded to polemical modes of writing, it makes it a real fucking headache as a reader / wannabe reader to sort through and consider different ideas. theres a time and place for it but not to the extent that it gets used. its a fucking addiction
December 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
i wish left wing intellectual types werent so wedded to polemical modes of writing, it makes it a real fucking headache as a reader / wannabe reader to sort through and consider different ideas. theres a time and place for it but not to the extent that it gets used. its a fucking addiction
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Giant tape recorder mural on bus shelter, The Strand, Tauranga, 1980s. Designed and painted by Mike Ryan and Corolyn Murphy. Photo: Bob Maysmor; natlib.govt.nz/records/5669...
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Giant tape recorder mural on bus shelter, The Strand, Tauranga, 1980s. Designed and painted by Mike Ryan and Corolyn Murphy. Photo: Bob Maysmor; natlib.govt.nz/records/5669...
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“It’s ONLY coal & mining & social control & lack of privacy & private east India company & conquest & enclosure of the commons with ha-has & hedgerows & polluted waterways & slavery for cotton & opium & gunpowder & silver mining to topple Chinese textiles & time-theft
Why do you hate cloth so much?”
Why do you hate cloth so much?”
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
“It’s ONLY coal & mining & social control & lack of privacy & private east India company & conquest & enclosure of the commons with ha-has & hedgerows & polluted waterways & slavery for cotton & opium & gunpowder & silver mining to topple Chinese textiles & time-theft
Why do you hate cloth so much?”
Why do you hate cloth so much?”
v theatrical clouds in the sky this evening. lots of dramatic shapes and painterly colour happening
November 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
v theatrical clouds in the sky this evening. lots of dramatic shapes and painterly colour happening
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"Scientists are toiling day and night to lengthen our lives. We don’t want it, we want it thickened; it’s too damned thin now and if they stretch and stretch it, ’twill break in the middle."
T-Bone Slim, Industrial Worker, September 18, 1937
T-Bone Slim, Industrial Worker, September 18, 1937
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Scientists are toiling day and night to lengthen our lives. We don’t want it, we want it thickened; it’s too damned thin now and if they stretch and stretch it, ’twill break in the middle."
T-Bone Slim, Industrial Worker, September 18, 1937
T-Bone Slim, Industrial Worker, September 18, 1937
im sorry but why tf is hilary duff doing a comeback in 2025 with a song that sounds like taylor swift ripping off katy perrys teenage dream
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
im sorry but why tf is hilary duff doing a comeback in 2025 with a song that sounds like taylor swift ripping off katy perrys teenage dream
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Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing
whats the etymology of "keen" becoming the standard word for describing one's "attention to detail"
describing your "professional skills" to strangers is such a weirdly infantilizing social ritual
November 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
whats the etymology of "keen" becoming the standard word for describing one's "attention to detail"
omg they're doing it in canada too
A major healthcare policy paper commissioned by @govnl.bsky.social government from Deloitte at a cost of $1.6 million, cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months. #nlpoli #AI
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent
$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months
theindependent.ca
November 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
omg they're doing it in canada too
that genocide supporting obama speechwriter has the exact same cadence when she says "and i'm obscene" as aunty donna in their real estate agents sketch. ifkyk
November 22, 2025 at 7:37 AM
that genocide supporting obama speechwriter has the exact same cadence when she says "and i'm obscene" as aunty donna in their real estate agents sketch. ifkyk
Ata Kak — Medoba
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November 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM
describing your "professional skills" to strangers is such a weirdly infantilizing social ritual
November 21, 2025 at 4:23 AM
describing your "professional skills" to strangers is such a weirdly infantilizing social ritual
this guy had weird politics. hawkish and imperialist Conservative Party candidate who campaigned against jewish immigration, but was also a marxist and a friend of marx and expelled from IWMA for being a possible spy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltman...
Maltman Barry - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM
this guy had weird politics. hawkish and imperialist Conservative Party candidate who campaigned against jewish immigration, but was also a marxist and a friend of marx and expelled from IWMA for being a possible spy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltman...
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A moment of silence for the lads I got to witness realising they’d hung their billboard upside down 🙃🥲
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 AM
A moment of silence for the lads I got to witness realising they’d hung their billboard upside down 🙃🥲
i'm not smart enough to properly theorise about this but it seems to me that much of the thinking behind the widespread adoption of "AI" (besides just the controlling and replacing workers stuff) replicates the "markets as automatons that solve knowledge problems"
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
i'm not smart enough to properly theorise about this but it seems to me that much of the thinking behind the widespread adoption of "AI" (besides just the controlling and replacing workers stuff) replicates the "markets as automatons that solve knowledge problems"
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There is a famous mantra from the movie Field of Dreams: "If you build it, they will come." This applies very well to the punishment bureaucracy. It is not the solution to what ails the human spirit, our collective society, or the desperate planet. Never let anyone scare you into forgetting that.
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
There is a famous mantra from the movie Field of Dreams: "If you build it, they will come." This applies very well to the punishment bureaucracy. It is not the solution to what ails the human spirit, our collective society, or the desperate planet. Never let anyone scare you into forgetting that.
i kinda hate that subway takes guy
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
i kinda hate that subway takes guy
this kinda rules (they went with "A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Businessmen")
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
this kinda rules (they went with "A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Businessmen")
