Trivial Thingling
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40-ish
queerly asexual aromantic agender autistic
chronic illness & brain chemistry weirdness
washed up in south texas u.s.a.
- down with supremacy -
fandom cheer and mild diary venting
no auto follow back
40-ish
queerly asexual aromantic agender autistic
chronic illness & brain chemistry weirdness
washed up in south texas u.s.a.
- down with supremacy -
oh. hm.
a vtuber avatar that's just a floating kb and mouse that lights up with the different inputs is actually pretty cool sounding.
having keyboard waggle around as you move your head
s'pose it would be difficult to put a position tracker on the mouse to catch when you lift it off the desk
a vtuber avatar that's just a floating kb and mouse that lights up with the different inputs is actually pretty cool sounding.
having keyboard waggle around as you move your head
s'pose it would be difficult to put a position tracker on the mouse to catch when you lift it off the desk
February 13, 2026 at 6:12 AM
oh. hm.
a vtuber avatar that's just a floating kb and mouse that lights up with the different inputs is actually pretty cool sounding.
having keyboard waggle around as you move your head
s'pose it would be difficult to put a position tracker on the mouse to catch when you lift it off the desk
a vtuber avatar that's just a floating kb and mouse that lights up with the different inputs is actually pretty cool sounding.
having keyboard waggle around as you move your head
s'pose it would be difficult to put a position tracker on the mouse to catch when you lift it off the desk
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okay I enjoyed that enough that I think I’m going to watch the next round of women’s games and maybe become obsessed
February 13, 2026 at 5:40 AM
okay I enjoyed that enough that I think I’m going to watch the next round of women’s games and maybe become obsessed
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You can call fascists vile without using their tools. You don't need to make fun of bad people for being fat or ugly or for their gender or ableness of their bodies. It's just shitty, white guy behavior. None of us like Pam Bondi, but now none of us like you either.
February 11, 2026 at 10:04 PM
You can call fascists vile without using their tools. You don't need to make fun of bad people for being fat or ugly or for their gender or ableness of their bodies. It's just shitty, white guy behavior. None of us like Pam Bondi, but now none of us like you either.
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And perhaps most importantly,
5) Trek is about us, in the future. It has a legacy of people seeing themselves, in the future. Any concern about realism comes a distant, distant second to "I want someone to see themselves."
"I promise you, you'll still exist in the future. You're coming with us."
5) Trek is about us, in the future. It has a legacy of people seeing themselves, in the future. Any concern about realism comes a distant, distant second to "I want someone to see themselves."
"I promise you, you'll still exist in the future. You're coming with us."
February 13, 2026 at 4:58 AM
And perhaps most importantly,
5) Trek is about us, in the future. It has a legacy of people seeing themselves, in the future. Any concern about realism comes a distant, distant second to "I want someone to see themselves."
"I promise you, you'll still exist in the future. You're coming with us."
5) Trek is about us, in the future. It has a legacy of people seeing themselves, in the future. Any concern about realism comes a distant, distant second to "I want someone to see themselves."
"I promise you, you'll still exist in the future. You're coming with us."
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Do I want another main character using an accessibility device in a novel way, like Geordi? Something that helps imagine what the future might hold for folks?
Absolutely!
But for this, as a brief background scene? No suspension of disbelief required. Bog-standard, "yeah, of course" representation.
Absolutely!
But for this, as a brief background scene? No suspension of disbelief required. Bog-standard, "yeah, of course" representation.
February 13, 2026 at 5:03 AM
Do I want another main character using an accessibility device in a novel way, like Geordi? Something that helps imagine what the future might hold for folks?
Absolutely!
But for this, as a brief background scene? No suspension of disbelief required. Bog-standard, "yeah, of course" representation.
Absolutely!
But for this, as a brief background scene? No suspension of disbelief required. Bog-standard, "yeah, of course" representation.
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Daily bunny no.3228 is too close to the screen
February 13, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Daily bunny no.3228 is too close to the screen
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The thing many people fail to grasp—the thing you are sort of prevented from ever having a reason to grasp until you put the effort in to learn or life demands it of you—is that a world in which you see a lot of disabled people is simply a world in which more people survive disability.
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
February 13, 2026 at 2:37 AM
The thing many people fail to grasp—the thing you are sort of prevented from ever having a reason to grasp until you put the effort in to learn or life demands it of you—is that a world in which you see a lot of disabled people is simply a world in which more people survive disability.
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lotro taught me if I make enough bowls of hearty onion soup I can learn to harness the power of the storms. But it takes a fuckton of bowls, so it isn't really practical
February 4, 2026 at 1:34 AM
lotro taught me if I make enough bowls of hearty onion soup I can learn to harness the power of the storms. But it takes a fuckton of bowls, so it isn't really practical
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so mom and i have been playing lotro together. (we played a lot on launch, then dropped it for years, got back into it end of last year)
mom always plays a loremaster. you can trait it 3 different ways, but 2 of them are pet classes. mom loves to run with her sabertooth pet, KittyKitty
mom always plays a loremaster. you can trait it 3 different ways, but 2 of them are pet classes. mom loves to run with her sabertooth pet, KittyKitty
February 13, 2026 at 3:48 AM
so mom and i have been playing lotro together. (we played a lot on launch, then dropped it for years, got back into it end of last year)
mom always plays a loremaster. you can trait it 3 different ways, but 2 of them are pet classes. mom loves to run with her sabertooth pet, KittyKitty
mom always plays a loremaster. you can trait it 3 different ways, but 2 of them are pet classes. mom loves to run with her sabertooth pet, KittyKitty
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I do love that we named the spacecraft reporting back on what this planet is up to after the wife who spied on him so much she literally invented peacocks to have eleventy jillion eyes in their tail feathers
February 13, 2026 at 2:26 AM
I do love that we named the spacecraft reporting back on what this planet is up to after the wife who spied on him so much she literally invented peacocks to have eleventy jillion eyes in their tail feathers
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All of these stories are terrible but it's the bigger picture that terrifies me even more.
The US only has 350m people. If you can't turn a profit without access to the US market that's ONLY because of our dysfunctional for-profit healthcare system.
Today it's vaccines.
The US only has 350m people. If you can't turn a profit without access to the US market that's ONLY because of our dysfunctional for-profit healthcare system.
Today it's vaccines.
February 13, 2026 at 2:43 AM
All of these stories are terrible but it's the bigger picture that terrifies me even more.
The US only has 350m people. If you can't turn a profit without access to the US market that's ONLY because of our dysfunctional for-profit healthcare system.
Today it's vaccines.
The US only has 350m people. If you can't turn a profit without access to the US market that's ONLY because of our dysfunctional for-profit healthcare system.
Today it's vaccines.
alt text:
4 panel comic
panel 1: cat yelling "HEY! HEY! HEY!" so many times that it can't be contained by the panel
panel 2: cat proudly shows off a toy mouse to a human. "look what i hunted for you ♥️"
4 panel comic
panel 1: cat yelling "HEY! HEY! HEY!" so many times that it can't be contained by the panel
panel 2: cat proudly shows off a toy mouse to a human. "look what i hunted for you ♥️"
February 13, 2026 at 3:18 AM
alt text:
4 panel comic
panel 1: cat yelling "HEY! HEY! HEY!" so many times that it can't be contained by the panel
panel 2: cat proudly shows off a toy mouse to a human. "look what i hunted for you ♥️"
4 panel comic
panel 1: cat yelling "HEY! HEY! HEY!" so many times that it can't be contained by the panel
panel 2: cat proudly shows off a toy mouse to a human. "look what i hunted for you ♥️"
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Do you think boobs would be pointless without nipples?
February 12, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Do you think boobs would be pointless without nipples?
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Of course not! as discussed in another answer, big squishy bumps are the sauce of anatomy. They would lack tips and perhaps primarynpurpose, but they'd still be a great place to put your hands during sex and, depending on size, a good way to bring cold sticks of butter up to temp for baking
February 12, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Of course not! as discussed in another answer, big squishy bumps are the sauce of anatomy. They would lack tips and perhaps primarynpurpose, but they'd still be a great place to put your hands during sex and, depending on size, a good way to bring cold sticks of butter up to temp for baking
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why do butts look like that?
February 12, 2026 at 7:52 PM
why do butts look like that?
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the legs used to join rether unceremoniously to the torso, but Zeus decided there needed to be more of a commotion about it and plopped some big squishy bumps on there. Big squishy bumps are the sauce of anatomy, you gotta have some on there or it's dry and flavorless
February 12, 2026 at 7:57 PM
the legs used to join rether unceremoniously to the torso, but Zeus decided there needed to be more of a commotion about it and plopped some big squishy bumps on there. Big squishy bumps are the sauce of anatomy, you gotta have some on there or it's dry and flavorless
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in the urgent care waiting to find out if i need stitches, ask me a sex question and i will respond with a typo-ridden one-hanfed answer
February 12, 2026 at 7:47 PM
in the urgent care waiting to find out if i need stitches, ask me a sex question and i will respond with a typo-ridden one-hanfed answer
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the amswer, as per tradition, will be a bald-faced lie
February 12, 2026 at 7:47 PM
the amswer, as per tradition, will be a bald-faced lie
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We've been looking forward to sharing this news for a long time. We're making a graphic novel!
The Owl House: The Long-Lived King
Written by me and the amazing @mikkicrisostomo.bsky.social
Illustrated by the incomparable @dindu99.bsky.social
We're so excited to tell a brand new story.
The Owl House: The Long-Lived King
Written by me and the amazing @mikkicrisostomo.bsky.social
Illustrated by the incomparable @dindu99.bsky.social
We're so excited to tell a brand new story.
February 12, 2026 at 8:23 PM
We've been looking forward to sharing this news for a long time. We're making a graphic novel!
The Owl House: The Long-Lived King
Written by me and the amazing @mikkicrisostomo.bsky.social
Illustrated by the incomparable @dindu99.bsky.social
We're so excited to tell a brand new story.
The Owl House: The Long-Lived King
Written by me and the amazing @mikkicrisostomo.bsky.social
Illustrated by the incomparable @dindu99.bsky.social
We're so excited to tell a brand new story.
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Aleksei and I have put a shitton of hours into merely scanning and making into accessible plaintext an out of print book that originally was published as samizdat for MY PERSONAL USE because it's the only collation of letters from three archives on two different continents. AI could LITERALLY never.
Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized.
And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.
And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.
it's literally impossible for an LLM to do a historian's job
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
February 12, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Aleksei and I have put a shitton of hours into merely scanning and making into accessible plaintext an out of print book that originally was published as samizdat for MY PERSONAL USE because it's the only collation of letters from three archives on two different continents. AI could LITERALLY never.
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something from minnesota that i would like people to learn, that i don’t think is hitting people yet:
helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis.
and you can help.
helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis.
and you can help.
February 12, 2026 at 10:02 PM
something from minnesota that i would like people to learn, that i don’t think is hitting people yet:
helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis.
and you can help.
helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis.
and you can help.
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yep, they're still at it in LA and Portland too
the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them
the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them
ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week.
Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.
Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.
February 12, 2026 at 7:17 PM
yep, they're still at it in LA and Portland too
the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them
the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them
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"The grammar and punctuation is bogging me down" is just one of the cues that tell me I may have wrongworded a thing but it's a really useful one.
February 12, 2026 at 6:16 PM
"The grammar and punctuation is bogging me down" is just one of the cues that tell me I may have wrongworded a thing but it's a really useful one.
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It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished.
I have neighbors everywhere.
I have neighbors everywhere.
February 12, 2026 at 2:37 PM
It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished.
I have neighbors everywhere.
I have neighbors everywhere.