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@ritavonbees.bsky.social
· Jan 19
The Second Law of Thermodynamics (Archived)
The magazine that published this poem seems to have disappeared into the void, which happens sometimes. It took me a while to get this published – I wrote the first draft when I was twenty an…
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i guess i should have the same pinned post on here as twitter so people have some idea of my political philosophy
thepresenttenser.wordpress.com/2019/03/13/t...
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Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
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I was falling over laughing reading this one, highly worth your time.
For fans of Doctor Williams, there IS a sequel! escapepod.org/2025/05/15/e...
January 21, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I was falling over laughing reading this one, highly worth your time.
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feeling lost alone & hopeless at the prospect of being without AO3 for 15 hours? don’t despair- there’s another highly addictive website out there just waiting for you. it’s got heated rivalries. it’s got behavior: mating. and so much more.
that’s right. it’s iNaturalist.
that’s right. it’s iNaturalist.
January 21, 2026 at 5:32 AM
feeling lost alone & hopeless at the prospect of being without AO3 for 15 hours? don’t despair- there’s another highly addictive website out there just waiting for you. it’s got heated rivalries. it’s got behavior: mating. and so much more.
that’s right. it’s iNaturalist.
that’s right. it’s iNaturalist.
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also this story contains the sentence "There is no suggestion that Veronika’s skills are evidence of the evolution of an ominous new species of super-cow," surely an early front-runner for sentence of the year
people are makin cow tools jokes about this and why not, but as a longtime believer in the sentience of non-human animals and great lover of cows in particular, I hope people will check out the story in full
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:03 PM
also this story contains the sentence "There is no suggestion that Veronika’s skills are evidence of the evolution of an ominous new species of super-cow," surely an early front-runner for sentence of the year
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so strange to bookpost in times like these™. but my debut poetry collection, Differential Diagnosis, coming out with @nupress.bsky.social in two months! it's about embodied and enminded noncompliance w/ institutional medicine, disorderly eating, being trans, all the usual Cavar fare.
Buy it here:
Buy it here:
Differential Diagnosis - Northwestern University Press
Undoing traditional psychiatric narratives in this innovative and bold first collectionDrawing from queer, trans, disabled, and Mad poetic traditions, Differ...
nupress.northwestern.edu
January 17, 2026 at 4:17 PM
so strange to bookpost in times like these™. but my debut poetry collection, Differential Diagnosis, coming out with @nupress.bsky.social in two months! it's about embodied and enminded noncompliance w/ institutional medicine, disorderly eating, being trans, all the usual Cavar fare.
Buy it here:
Buy it here:
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Please don't ask me why my brain works like this, because I don't have an answer
January 16, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Please don't ask me why my brain works like this, because I don't have an answer
listening to the new @trashfuture.bsky.social and i am once again asking for a record scratch sound effect every time somebody says the phrase "antisemitism czar"
January 14, 2026 at 2:11 AM
listening to the new @trashfuture.bsky.social and i am once again asking for a record scratch sound effect every time somebody says the phrase "antisemitism czar"
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New Lesbian Historic Motif Project blog, looking at a dissertation on gender non-conformity.
alpennia.com/blog/gender-...
alpennia.com/blog/gender-...
Gender Non-Conformity in All its Forms | Alpennia
The current cluster of articles I'm blogging are on general topics around gender and sexuality. This one addresses both transgender and intersex themes while also looking at a range of gender non-conf...
alpennia.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:37 PM
New Lesbian Historic Motif Project blog, looking at a dissertation on gender non-conformity.
alpennia.com/blog/gender-...
alpennia.com/blog/gender-...
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a bunch of pigeons flew up from the footpath and startled the man walking in front of me, and his startle response looked like. Putting Your Dukes Up like he literally looked like he was about to punch a bird 😅
January 12, 2026 at 4:39 AM
a bunch of pigeons flew up from the footpath and startled the man walking in front of me, and his startle response looked like. Putting Your Dukes Up like he literally looked like he was about to punch a bird 😅
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we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
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I've seen some bullshit at CES, but I've never seen such an aggressive gaslighting - AI that doesn't work but is reported as if it does, robots that do not exist that are discussed as if they do, broken demos that are reported as functional. It's a disgrace, I am disgusted.
January 10, 2026 at 2:25 AM
I've seen some bullshit at CES, but I've never seen such an aggressive gaslighting - AI that doesn't work but is reported as if it does, robots that do not exist that are discussed as if they do, broken demos that are reported as functional. It's a disgrace, I am disgusted.
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Every single "the robots are here" story from CES is wrong
January 10, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Every single "the robots are here" story from CES is wrong
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doing it out of spite (against myself)
January 6, 2026 at 7:57 PM
doing it out of spite (against myself)
got a fork and butter knife right in the elbow when I walked into a waitress cos I wasn't looking where I was going while chatting on the way to an Alice in Wonderland themed tea party, for which i was dressed as the Cheshire Cat, by which I mean Twink Semi-Formal except with a huge face paint smile
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
😅
😅
January 6, 2026 at 8:05 PM
got a fork and butter knife right in the elbow when I walked into a waitress cos I wasn't looking where I was going while chatting on the way to an Alice in Wonderland themed tea party, for which i was dressed as the Cheshire Cat, by which I mean Twink Semi-Formal except with a huge face paint smile
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Next test for America: pick up & distribute Crave’s upcoming lesbian softball mockumentary sitcom co-exec produced by Elliot Page & Stevie from Schitt’s Creek with Nadine Bhabha - Kip’s friend Elena from Heated Rivalry - both as a guest star & one of the writers.
www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pre...
www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pre...
Beer, Lesbians and Baseball! Casting Announced for New Crave Original Comedy Series, SLO PITCH - Bell Media
TORONTO (October 2, 2025) – Crave announced today casting details for its new original series SLO PITCH, produced by Shaftesbury in association with Boss & Co, and Elliot Page’s PAGEBOY Productions. T...
www.bellmedia.ca
December 31, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Next test for America: pick up & distribute Crave’s upcoming lesbian softball mockumentary sitcom co-exec produced by Elliot Page & Stevie from Schitt’s Creek with Nadine Bhabha - Kip’s friend Elena from Heated Rivalry - both as a guest star & one of the writers.
www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pre...
www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pre...
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>looking for a new cheetah
>ask one of the Franks of Haifa if their big cat is a cheetah or a leopard
>he doesn’t understand
>pull out diagram explaining what is a cheetah and what is a leopard
>he laughs and says “its a good big cat sir”
>buy a big cat
>its a leopard
>ask one of the Franks of Haifa if their big cat is a cheetah or a leopard
>he doesn’t understand
>pull out diagram explaining what is a cheetah and what is a leopard
>he laughs and says “its a good big cat sir”
>buy a big cat
>its a leopard
July 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
>looking for a new cheetah
>ask one of the Franks of Haifa if their big cat is a cheetah or a leopard
>he doesn’t understand
>pull out diagram explaining what is a cheetah and what is a leopard
>he laughs and says “its a good big cat sir”
>buy a big cat
>its a leopard
>ask one of the Franks of Haifa if their big cat is a cheetah or a leopard
>he doesn’t understand
>pull out diagram explaining what is a cheetah and what is a leopard
>he laughs and says “its a good big cat sir”
>buy a big cat
>its a leopard
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This is just a note to say
that I have eaten the falcon
in a widening gyre
and that you were probably saving for anarchy
Forgive me
it was delicious
so rough
and full of passionate intensity
that I have eaten the falcon
in a widening gyre
and that you were probably saving for anarchy
Forgive me
it was delicious
so rough
and full of passionate intensity
December 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This is just a note to say
that I have eaten the falcon
in a widening gyre
and that you were probably saving for anarchy
Forgive me
it was delicious
so rough
and full of passionate intensity
that I have eaten the falcon
in a widening gyre
and that you were probably saving for anarchy
Forgive me
it was delicious
so rough
and full of passionate intensity
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please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
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Harlequin’s global growth in the 70s was made possible by local translators who not only converted the language but also the idioms and symbols of love into things locals would understand. This is a penny wise, pound foolish move by HC, another in a long line.
Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
"Bradage de la traduction, plan social invisible : Harlequin passe à l’IA"
Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/
#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/
#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
December 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Harlequin’s global growth in the 70s was made possible by local translators who not only converted the language but also the idioms and symbols of love into things locals would understand. This is a penny wise, pound foolish move by HC, another in a long line.
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Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.
December 18, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.
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The comorbidity of neo-Nazism and transphobia isn't just a kind of "one bad belief leads to all bad beliefs". At its core, it's the same belief: belief in a rigid societal order where your station at birth determines your future, your role, and how you must labor.
A belief in biodestiny, in short.
A belief in biodestiny, in short.
Today, I examine how the boundaries of the Nation are co-constituted by race, disability, and sexuality, but also---notably---gender and control over reproduction.
And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...
And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...
December 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The comorbidity of neo-Nazism and transphobia isn't just a kind of "one bad belief leads to all bad beliefs". At its core, it's the same belief: belief in a rigid societal order where your station at birth determines your future, your role, and how you must labor.
A belief in biodestiny, in short.
A belief in biodestiny, in short.
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
nm just doing some online shopping
December 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
nm just doing some online shopping
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I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit