Zinnia Z
@zinniazed.bsky.social
I’m not bad, I’m just written that way. 📚@ZinniaZed on Twitter, ZinniaZ on Tumblr. 🏳️🌈 She/her/hers.
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Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
If your true top priority in life is having babies with a Jesus-loving outdoorsy Trump voter who works hard but isn’t antisocial about it, move to a midsize city in a red state. Finding a man like this is only hard if you refuse to give up the perks of being a girlboss in a liberal stronghold.
This Washington Post article about MAGA people trying and failing to date in Washington is...really something
www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...
www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...
November 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If your true top priority in life is having babies with a Jesus-loving outdoorsy Trump voter who works hard but isn’t antisocial about it, move to a midsize city in a red state. Finding a man like this is only hard if you refuse to give up the perks of being a girlboss in a liberal stronghold.
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you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
August 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
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I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
October 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
Please bring back 2018 autocorrect because why did my phone try to change “the” to “rhetorical?”
October 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Please bring back 2018 autocorrect because why did my phone try to change “the” to “rhetorical?”
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I hope you all have spooky usernames lined up for October 1st or else I'll have no choice but to individually shame-post all of you and put you all on blocklists titled "Prison Should Be Abolished Except For People Like This" - as is Bluesky tradition.
September 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I hope you all have spooky usernames lined up for October 1st or else I'll have no choice but to individually shame-post all of you and put you all on blocklists titled "Prison Should Be Abolished Except For People Like This" - as is Bluesky tradition.
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This IS a great headline and also: Seattle! Get the word out! Someone was exposed to rabies and needs to seek medical care IMMEDIATELY!
This is the most excellent local headline writing.
"DID YOU GIVE WATER TO A BAT NEAR THE ARBORETUM? IT HAD RABIES."
(this is explicitly for @andreagrimes.com )
"DID YOU GIVE WATER TO A BAT NEAR THE ARBORETUM? IT HAD RABIES."
(this is explicitly for @andreagrimes.com )
Did you give water to a bat near the Arboretum? It had rabies
A rabid bat was found in Seattle near the Washington Park Arboretum. Here's what to know, and what to do if you think you might have been exposed.
www.seattletimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This IS a great headline and also: Seattle! Get the word out! Someone was exposed to rabies and needs to seek medical care IMMEDIATELY!
Yeah just imagine what would have happened if the Titanic’s officers didn’t know where the icebergs were
September 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Yeah just imagine what would have happened if the Titanic’s officers didn’t know where the icebergs were
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cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level
but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses
but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses
Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.
September 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM
cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level
but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses
but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses
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Now through September 20th, these books will be $.99. Happy Reading!
readerlinks.com/l/4995493
So pick up Heal Me for $.99, and if you don't have the audio yet, you can get that whispersynced for $5.05.
#mmromance 🏳️🌈📚🎧 💙📚 🌈📚 💙📚🌈 🌶️📚 📚💙
readerlinks.com/l/4995493
So pick up Heal Me for $.99, and if you don't have the audio yet, you can get that whispersynced for $5.05.
#mmromance 🏳️🌈📚🎧 💙📚 🌈📚 💙📚🌈 🌶️📚 📚💙
September 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Now through September 20th, these books will be $.99. Happy Reading!
readerlinks.com/l/4995493
So pick up Heal Me for $.99, and if you don't have the audio yet, you can get that whispersynced for $5.05.
#mmromance 🏳️🌈📚🎧 💙📚 🌈📚 💙📚🌈 🌶️📚 📚💙
readerlinks.com/l/4995493
So pick up Heal Me for $.99, and if you don't have the audio yet, you can get that whispersynced for $5.05.
#mmromance 🏳️🌈📚🎧 💙📚 🌈📚 💙📚🌈 🌶️📚 📚💙
I saw the headline and thought “yeah, no shit the sycophancy machine trained on /r/AmITheAsshole will give toxic relationship advice” but the article is way sadder than I expected
NEW: ChatGPT is causing chaos in marriages, as one spouse becomes deeply fixated on AI therapy/advice/spiritual wisdom — alienating the other spouse and, often, resulting in divorce.
In some cases, ChatGPT-enmeshed spouses are using the tech to bully their partners.
futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...
In some cases, ChatGPT-enmeshed spouses are using the tech to bully their partners.
futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...
September 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I saw the headline and thought “yeah, no shit the sycophancy machine trained on /r/AmITheAsshole will give toxic relationship advice” but the article is way sadder than I expected
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losing my shit at tom clancy's daughter immediately setting this to her banner after seeing it
September 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
losing my shit at tom clancy's daughter immediately setting this to her banner after seeing it
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standing with glinner? no. i'm SITTING for DINNER. with my wife, who has not left me,
September 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
standing with glinner? no. i'm SITTING for DINNER. with my wife, who has not left me,
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Honestly a better argument to get people off their phones than most of the scolding you see on substack
September 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Honestly a better argument to get people off their phones than most of the scolding you see on substack
One of the most shocking things about this story is that Cindy Bi (the tech bro-ette on a holy mission to persecute her surrogate for having a stillbirth) willingly brought all this info to the Wired journalist, confident she would come out looking like the good guy.
Surrogate pregnancies are increasingly popular in tech circles, and the practice is expected to explode globally in the coming decade. It’s also shockingly unregulated. This is a story about what happens when it goes horribly wrong.
The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It?
When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate.
www.wired.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
One of the most shocking things about this story is that Cindy Bi (the tech bro-ette on a holy mission to persecute her surrogate for having a stillbirth) willingly brought all this info to the Wired journalist, confident she would come out looking like the good guy.
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Finished the beading >:]
August 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Finished the beading >:]
“Physical inactivity” “mood disorders”
So if I show the pharmacist my screen time tracker I should be good, right?
So if I show the pharmacist my screen time tracker I should be good, right?
FDA is authorizing anybody with a risk factor from this list to receive the vaccines, as well as anybody 65+.
August 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
“Physical inactivity” “mood disorders”
So if I show the pharmacist my screen time tracker I should be good, right?
So if I show the pharmacist my screen time tracker I should be good, right?
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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If he were even 1% less evil I would feel sorry for him, honestly. The poster child for “living in a hell of your own making”
critics did manage to shame Elon into deleting one particularly sexual clip of the Grok “companion” Ani, but he was soon back to posting about her as if she were his girlfriend
August 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If he were even 1% less evil I would feel sorry for him, honestly. The poster child for “living in a hell of your own making”
This actually sounds kinda fun. I want a pair of ikeans
Japan Post has ceased all mail delivery to the US for packages valued over $100. To get around this, a Japanese denim company tells me they'll ship components to US customers one-by-one — fabric, buttons, rivets, a sewing needle, and thread. You then assemble the jeans at home like IKEA furniture.
August 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This actually sounds kinda fun. I want a pair of ikeans
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Can't even get on an airplane without being sucked into debates on what counts as "literature"
August 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Can't even get on an airplane without being sucked into debates on what counts as "literature"
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When steam starts coming out of my tea kettle, does that mean it's angry?
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
When steam starts coming out of my tea kettle, does that mean it's angry?
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My therapist (first edition Encyclopædia Britannica entry titled "Moral Philosophy", 1768) said this to me, and it hit me like a brick:
"Good and ill are often blended, and wonderfully complicated one with the other."
"Good and ill are often blended, and wonderfully complicated one with the other."
August 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My therapist (first edition Encyclopædia Britannica entry titled "Moral Philosophy", 1768) said this to me, and it hit me like a brick:
"Good and ill are often blended, and wonderfully complicated one with the other."
"Good and ill are often blended, and wonderfully complicated one with the other."
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if you are a fan of Teen Vogue's coverage and particularly that we're willing to cover topics that are ignored or undermined—or even risky, because of censorship and scrutiny—in broader US media, sharing our coverage (and clicking the links) is a really key way to support us and our work
today a UN body announced famine is in Gaza. this oped from New Disabled South connects US funding of Israel's starvation campaign to Trump's BBB cutting SNAP as fundamentally American.
"The U.S. allegedly has no money to feed its children or the world’s children, but has plenty of money for war."
"The U.S. allegedly has no money to feed its children or the world’s children, but has plenty of money for war."
From Famine in Gaza to Trump Cutting SNAP, Child Hunger is An American Pastime
"At home and abroad, the U.S. government is participating in starving people, particularly children, and calling it policy."
www.teenvogue.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
if you are a fan of Teen Vogue's coverage and particularly that we're willing to cover topics that are ignored or undermined—or even risky, because of censorship and scrutiny—in broader US media, sharing our coverage (and clicking the links) is a really key way to support us and our work