Spencer Koelle
@spencerkoelle.bsky.social
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Writer of Horror, Fantasy, and Scifi, in that order. He/Him
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This is what they do to an internationally famous activist who they're just trying to humiliate. Imagine what they do to nobodies they have totally in their power.
Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

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Israel has killed at least 9 Palestinians since the ceasefire, including a journalist. And the people in Gaza are still denied the right to govern themselves.
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i hate ppl using “content creators” in place of “fan artists” so fucking much like. “content creators” implies a responsibility to create which is not the fucking case in fandom. “fan artists” is just…. they’re a fan who is an artist who chooses to create fan art in their spare time.
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This and the Palestinian hostages are always referred to as anything but, despite returning with signs of psychological and physical torture, missing limbs and eyes… they’re just “Palestinians” or “prisoners.”
I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.
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speaking as a child who has a mother that didn't want to divorce "for the sake of the children," i am BEGGING people to break up. your children can feel that shit. SEE that shit. they're not dumb. you're making them miserable. 😭
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I keep masking and will for the foreseeable future

I won't push my views on people but every time my mom asks if i will keep wearing them, I remind her, a woman who has said she'd rather kill herself that live with a drooping face after a stroke, that COVID increases your chance of disability--
it is in fact both caring about the fact that vulnerable people have been pushed out of public life, AND a rational assessment of the threat model. covid is airborne, quite contagious, & every infection increases your chances of adding a lifelong painful and exhausting chronic illness to your plate.
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How many of you have friends out there saying or thinking this about you?

We deserve safety.
I don't trust my best friend in the world enough to mask to make plans to see her again... it's hearbreaking.
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When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
Now that I've finished Morbing out, I have to say that, while Morbius is neither particularly original nor the best thing I've ever seen, it's not as bad as I was expecting based on the level that it managed to bomb twice. Wasn't crazy about the smokey special effect tho.
50 minutes into Morbius and the thing that annoys me the most about it is nobody asks for a damn lawyer when the cops interrogate them.
In my partner's defense, they said "It's got to be better than Sucker Punch at least", which yeah, correct.
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It's my partner's turn to pick the movie tonight, so we are watching the notorious vampiric box-office bomb Morbius. Looks like it's Morbin time for me!
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Happy Anita Bryant Gets Pied in Her Nasty Homophobic Face Day to all who celebrate!

Everybody say thank you to Thomas Lawrence Higgins (RIP).
Anita Bryant, a horrible person in a twee outfit seated in front of several microphones, holds her hands out after being pied in the face. She is covered in banana cream pie, which is quite an improvement to her looks.
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I'm seeing friends go back in the closet and my heart hurts for them. They shouldn't need to do this. This is so awful. Queer and trans people are always made to choose between safety and freedom. We deserve both, but many of us get neither. I ache for my people.
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name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

chef boyardee
name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus
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First & foremost among them is the Treaty of Fort Laramie. The territories defined need to be returned to the Lakota & other Plains tribes - the Black Hills are their holy place of origin and, if you've ever been, it's a place so deeply infected with white supremacy that it would be a potent symbol.
The United States is currently in material breach of over five hundred legally binding treaties with Indigenous nations. We violated even the treaties we coerced at the point of a sword.

We cannot talk about restoring the rule of law until we acknowledge and repair this fundamental truth.
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lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day
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Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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2. Go to ‘Privacy and data’ and turn off permissions to use your data to train Pinterest Canvas.

It's ridiculous that they do this without warning, but not surprised. 🙄
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it will always baffle me how democrats will cede all narratives to the far right on topics like immigration, whenever the right gets in office public opinion slides against them on this issue and you’ll see your average american protesting against ICE. dems need to stop ceding ground
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But the doomer answer - that protest no longer works, that if you're not firebombing a WalMart or exchanging gunfire with ICE agents in the streets you'll never have any impact - is absolute bullshit.
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A consistent thing about Trumpists in power is how they want everyone else to believe that people only do things for money
Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."