Bess Hamilton
@besshamilton.bsky.social
Writer. Canadian. May I be a star in the dark time. She/her. My opinions & views are mine alone. Am guaranteed AI-free.
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I wish we, like, regulated shit nowadays. Between car bloat, blinding headlines, and neighbourhoods packed with rental suites but no on-property parking, driving is an absolute nightmare now.
Nearly all drivers say vehicles' lights are too bright in study
The study, commissioned by the Department for Transport, was completed by Berkshire's TRL.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I wish we, like, regulated shit nowadays. Between car bloat, blinding headlines, and neighbourhoods packed with rental suites but no on-property parking, driving is an absolute nightmare now.
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“When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Minnesota for soliciting sex from a minor
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
“When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
I love it when a novel is like "here's a little magical realism, as a treat."
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I love it when a novel is like "here's a little magical realism, as a treat."
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At COP30 Canada just got awarded the fossil of the day — first time since 2014 (the harper years). Clear sign of how Carney’s pro fossil fuel agenda and backsliding on climate policy is being noticed internationally.
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
At COP30 Canada just got awarded the fossil of the day — first time since 2014 (the harper years). Clear sign of how Carney’s pro fossil fuel agenda and backsliding on climate policy is being noticed internationally.
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I 100% agree that we need like a really diverse ecosystem and not everyone is ever gonna find all the Patreons and Substacks
that's what was so great about Teen Vogue, it met an audience where they were and brought journalism to them, rather than them having to know where to look to find it
that's what was so great about Teen Vogue, it met an audience where they were and brought journalism to them, rather than them having to know where to look to find it
November 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I 100% agree that we need like a really diverse ecosystem and not everyone is ever gonna find all the Patreons and Substacks
that's what was so great about Teen Vogue, it met an audience where they were and brought journalism to them, rather than them having to know where to look to find it
that's what was so great about Teen Vogue, it met an audience where they were and brought journalism to them, rather than them having to know where to look to find it
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It’s Gene’s birthday tomorrow.
November 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
It’s Gene’s birthday tomorrow.
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you can't defeat fascists by becoming them. centrists at home who call for a rejection of identity politics (except their own) should take note
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
you can't defeat fascists by becoming them. centrists at home who call for a rejection of identity politics (except their own) should take note
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November 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Got one of these in and a) it's BIG and b) the print quality is *excellent*! Hell yeah. standplaatskrakow.etsy.com/listing/4377...
At least with a conversation, I might hear some juicy gossip. Or get an insight into other lives. I've never overheard a TikTok that can compare.
Like when I overheard a guy at a pub present his case for a threesome (them+girl) to his girlfriend. By the end, she negotiated it to them + a guy.
Like when I overheard a guy at a pub present his case for a threesome (them+girl) to his girlfriend. By the end, she negotiated it to them + a guy.
I need some science video or podcast to explain why overhearing someone's video is worse than overhearing someone's conversation. It is, but WHY?
My bus driver just called out the people watching videos on speaker and I think we should make him mayor
November 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
At least with a conversation, I might hear some juicy gossip. Or get an insight into other lives. I've never overheard a TikTok that can compare.
Like when I overheard a guy at a pub present his case for a threesome (them+girl) to his girlfriend. By the end, she negotiated it to them + a guy.
Like when I overheard a guy at a pub present his case for a threesome (them+girl) to his girlfriend. By the end, she negotiated it to them + a guy.
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Everything is just rent-seeking, at every level.
🚨 EXPOSED: Parents are being threatened for recording their own kids’ hockey games. Private equity bought the rinks, banned filming, and now charges up to $50 a month to watch youth sports.
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Everything is just rent-seeking, at every level.
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“Elected school board trustees are being stripped of their authority. In their place, handpicked supervisors with no accountability are appointed.” Ontario is not the United States, but our democracy is also being dismantled www.torontotoday.ca/local/opinio... #topoli #onpoli #onted
OPINION: Ontario is not the United States, but our democracy is also being dismantled
Jessica Bell, the Ontario NDP MPP for University—Rosedale, on the 'growing list' of undemocratic reforms coming out of Premier Doug Ford's government
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November 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Elected school board trustees are being stripped of their authority. In their place, handpicked supervisors with no accountability are appointed.” Ontario is not the United States, but our democracy is also being dismantled www.torontotoday.ca/local/opinio... #topoli #onpoli #onted
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2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 AM
1. Great, let's do this
2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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I don't think I'm overestimating at all. I have spent a lot of time dealing with victims and their enablers.
I'd argue people underestimate how much abusers know what they're doing is wrong.
I'd argue people underestimate how much abusers know what they're doing is wrong.
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I don't think I'm overestimating at all. I have spent a lot of time dealing with victims and their enablers.
I'd argue people underestimate how much abusers know what they're doing is wrong.
I'd argue people underestimate how much abusers know what they're doing is wrong.
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Am I the only one who finds it very troubling that the most prominent argument for AI has suddenly become "it would be really awful for the economy if the AI bubble bursts"?
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Am I the only one who finds it very troubling that the most prominent argument for AI has suddenly become "it would be really awful for the economy if the AI bubble bursts"?
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This really feels like we are at the Bored Ape stage
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This really feels like we are at the Bored Ape stage
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Under the category life never fails to delight.
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B.C. wolves use line to pull up crab traps in first possible tool use by species | CBC News
Within a day of the cameras being set up in the Heiltsuk First Nation last year, researchers captured footage of a sea wolf emerging from the water with a buoy hanging from its mouth. The footage the...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Under the category life never fails to delight.
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So if Olivia is 32 now, broke up with Lizza last year, was together with him for a decade, and then was living with you for 4+ years before that, how old was she when you moved her out of her (presumably parents’) house in the suburbs to live with you?
Btw about this from Lizza's reply: Olivia and I lived together for 4+ years (4 b'days, 4 Xmases, 4 anniversaries). That's like $1250 of jewelry per celebration. And her apartment was a writing studio. And I made an f-ton then. What was I supposed to do? Get her a lot of Gift Certificates from Kmart?
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
So if Olivia is 32 now, broke up with Lizza last year, was together with him for a decade, and then was living with you for 4+ years before that, how old was she when you moved her out of her (presumably parents’) house in the suburbs to live with you?
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What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket *Day 2*
Welcome to day two of What Was Literary Twitter! Plenty of you voted yesterday in our first round of polling, and it was exciting to go though the results. The top seeds sailed through, YA won all …
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November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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There's every chance this has something to do with Thiel's bizarre beliefs about the antichrist and not anything based on some kind of business logic. Neither is great. One person shouldn't be able to tank an economy for either reason (although fuck AI).
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
There's every chance this has something to do with Thiel's bizarre beliefs about the antichrist and not anything based on some kind of business logic. Neither is great. One person shouldn't be able to tank an economy for either reason (although fuck AI).
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Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
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November 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
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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.
There's a teen on the bus who looks like a Ramone and that makes me very happy.
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
There's a teen on the bus who looks like a Ramone and that makes me very happy.
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Folks in Ontario, please email your MPPs and urge them to vote no on Bills 60 & 33. We need to our government to invest in repairing and funding our schools and support strong tenant protections and real solutions to the housing crisis: win.newmode.net/ontarionewde...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Folks in Ontario, please email your MPPs and urge them to vote no on Bills 60 & 33. We need to our government to invest in repairing and funding our schools and support strong tenant protections and real solutions to the housing crisis: win.newmode.net/ontarionewde...
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
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The thing about genAI is it doesn't do anything its promoters say it does. It doesn't work.
Finally got to the "I want to burn it all down" portion of the gen AI-era semester, where I realize they're all using some sort of LLM to "help" organize their thoughts and it's just spitting out raw sewage onto the screen.
November 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The thing about genAI is it doesn't do anything its promoters say it does. It doesn't work.