wildflowersong.bsky.social
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My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
February 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
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Genuinely astonishing to me that there are people on here who hate liberals so much they just end up becoming pro-Nazi by default
February 7, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Genuinely astonishing to me that there are people on here who hate liberals so much they just end up becoming pro-Nazi by default
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You think you can outsmart your brain, but you can't. If you do something ironically, you will end up doing it earnestly. This is good (exercise, diet, study) and bad (racism, bigotry, hatefulness). But you can't handle things at a remove. You are not a pilot in your head. You are your actions.
February 8, 2026 at 5:46 AM
You think you can outsmart your brain, but you can't. If you do something ironically, you will end up doing it earnestly. This is good (exercise, diet, study) and bad (racism, bigotry, hatefulness). But you can't handle things at a remove. You are not a pilot in your head. You are your actions.
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This type of thing where voters think their vote is just a nice little I'm mad button they can press instead of an actual serious responsibility they have infuriates me
Just saw a lady quoted in a local small town paper say she signed the separatist petition even though she doesn’t want to separate but wants to “send a message” and I’m just beside myself
Like this isn’t a fucking joke lady
Like this isn’t a fucking joke lady
February 6, 2026 at 7:28 PM
This type of thing where voters think their vote is just a nice little I'm mad button they can press instead of an actual serious responsibility they have infuriates me
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"Women are treated as inherently bourgeois" so succinctly and deftly sums up the resentful gender politics at the heart of the reactionary left that I'm shocked I havent seen this expressed before
"Girlboss" as an epithet was a load-bearing piece of the new societal consensus that women are inherently bourgeois and don't deserve power or status, and it needs reclamation stat before we truly return to monke on gender issues
We need to rehabilitate the "girlboss" as a concept, seeing how it took approximately 2.5 seconds for us to go from deciding they were cringe to a rapeboss taking over the world.
February 7, 2026 at 1:51 AM
"Women are treated as inherently bourgeois" so succinctly and deftly sums up the resentful gender politics at the heart of the reactionary left that I'm shocked I havent seen this expressed before
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this is such a profound misunderstanding of what art is and what it means
![2. being poor means having to make hard choices like:
[a] drawing something yourself in a way society would call "bad" (i.e. unprofessional)
[b] sacrificing resources you don't have to pay a real artist what they're worth (or learn yourself)
[c] not doing it at all, or
[d] using AI.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jb2q4yqmgpmefxd4xx66gepm/bafkreif2bp3na5nfvtvrsdljkuycvteizzcclwmgcg4u55mybhpx4qqvxm@jpeg)
February 6, 2026 at 6:18 PM
this is such a profound misunderstanding of what art is and what it means
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this isn’t even about stancil or direct action or setting a dumpster on fire, it’s just pure reactionary oppositional defiance, there’s no merit or principle at stake here, just people who can’t control themselves indulging their worst impulses
drilling a hole in my own skull and pouring battery acid directly into it to show the smug libs on the internet that i have imagined are my true enemies who the real activist is
February 4, 2026 at 1:02 AM
this isn’t even about stancil or direct action or setting a dumpster on fire, it’s just pure reactionary oppositional defiance, there’s no merit or principle at stake here, just people who can’t control themselves indulging their worst impulses
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i guess, fundamentally, i am just anti-crank. if your position is that normal, everyday people getting out into the streets to protest in the tens of thousands are doing it wrong, you’re a crank, and i assume you believe a lot of other crank shit i don’t care about.
February 3, 2026 at 8:54 PM
i guess, fundamentally, i am just anti-crank. if your position is that normal, everyday people getting out into the streets to protest in the tens of thousands are doing it wrong, you’re a crank, and i assume you believe a lot of other crank shit i don’t care about.
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once again these things boil down to “is your group a bohemian cultural identity” or “is your group actually trying to do things?” and the key tell is whether your activity centers on policing of in-group behavior or whether it centers on, again, tangible goals
February 3, 2026 at 6:50 PM
once again these things boil down to “is your group a bohemian cultural identity” or “is your group actually trying to do things?” and the key tell is whether your activity centers on policing of in-group behavior or whether it centers on, again, tangible goals
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to be kind of blunt, if the hardcore veteran activist organizer expertise that you bring results in "light a dumpster on fire, get mad that this is filmed" it's not really expertise anyone should respect, sorry. don't care how many little activism merit badges you have.
February 3, 2026 at 7:25 AM
to be kind of blunt, if the hardcore veteran activist organizer expertise that you bring results in "light a dumpster on fire, get mad that this is filmed" it's not really expertise anyone should respect, sorry. don't care how many little activism merit badges you have.
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It's Oct 7 all over again.
"Palestine must be free and Palestinians must have full human rights in their homeland. Also, I do not approve of murdering 800 civilians."
"WHY DO YOU REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE OPPRESSED CAN NEVER ENACT A FORM OF REVENGE COMPARABLY BAD TO THEIR SUFFERING"
"Palestine must be free and Palestinians must have full human rights in their homeland. Also, I do not approve of murdering 800 civilians."
"WHY DO YOU REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE OPPRESSED CAN NEVER ENACT A FORM OF REVENGE COMPARABLY BAD TO THEIR SUFFERING"
It's really cool how any time that someone does something ethically dubious in service of a political cause the hikikomori leftists of the world turn it into an abstract conversation about violence versus nonviolence instead of "was this act, specifically, ok"
February 3, 2026 at 3:49 PM
It's Oct 7 all over again.
"Palestine must be free and Palestinians must have full human rights in their homeland. Also, I do not approve of murdering 800 civilians."
"WHY DO YOU REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE OPPRESSED CAN NEVER ENACT A FORM OF REVENGE COMPARABLY BAD TO THEIR SUFFERING"
"Palestine must be free and Palestinians must have full human rights in their homeland. Also, I do not approve of murdering 800 civilians."
"WHY DO YOU REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE OPPRESSED CAN NEVER ENACT A FORM OF REVENGE COMPARABLY BAD TO THEIR SUFFERING"
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It's really cool how any time that someone does something ethically dubious in service of a political cause the hikikomori leftists of the world turn it into an abstract conversation about violence versus nonviolence instead of "was this act, specifically, ok"
February 3, 2026 at 3:33 PM
It's really cool how any time that someone does something ethically dubious in service of a political cause the hikikomori leftists of the world turn it into an abstract conversation about violence versus nonviolence instead of "was this act, specifically, ok"
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The people trying to blackbag Will are all nazis who are mad when people, especially white guys, pull back the curtain and revealed that they're actually nazis using progressive language to disguise what they actually want
February 2, 2026 at 11:14 PM
The people trying to blackbag Will are all nazis who are mad when people, especially white guys, pull back the curtain and revealed that they're actually nazis using progressive language to disguise what they actually want
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We don’t owe them anything. They spent a decade ignoring obvious evidence implicating the most guilty while fabricating insane accusations against the innocent.
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
We don’t owe them anything. They spent a decade ignoring obvious evidence implicating the most guilty while fabricating insane accusations against the innocent.
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Liberalism and pluralism are the cheat codes for human prosperity
February 1, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Liberalism and pluralism are the cheat codes for human prosperity
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We need to shut down the word "performative" until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Of course adopting symbols of protest and resistance is performative! Performance is a core strategy for mass movements!! That's why the call them demonstrations!!!
"In response to criticisms she's heard about the hat being 'performative,' Mashaal, the shop owner, said the thousands of dollars that have gone toward supporting their community speaks for itself."
A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community. n.pr/4thWiUr
January 31, 2026 at 3:54 PM
We need to shut down the word "performative" until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Of course adopting symbols of protest and resistance is performative! Performance is a core strategy for mass movements!! That's why the call them demonstrations!!!
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The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.
It's disturbing to see many of the the major figures in moral cognition all over the Epstein files
He was friendly with a huge number of the leading figures in the field, including giving millions to their labs, long after he pled guilty to sexually abusing young girls
www.justice.gov/epstein
He was friendly with a huge number of the leading figures in the field, including giving millions to their labs, long after he pled guilty to sexually abusing young girls
www.justice.gov/epstein
www.justice.gov
January 31, 2026 at 10:48 PM
The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.
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Qanon was never about taking down actual pedophiles and pursuing justice for victims. It was about smearing any and all prominent liberal figures while protecting and empowering actual pedophiles. Qanon was a movement of pedophiles, protecting pedophiles.
January 31, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Qanon was never about taking down actual pedophiles and pursuing justice for victims. It was about smearing any and all prominent liberal figures while protecting and empowering actual pedophiles. Qanon was a movement of pedophiles, protecting pedophiles.
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They believe that the trade-off for wealth/power is to be a bad person, so if they see somebody who accomplished either of those things, or especially more than they did, without being a bad person, it actually suggests that they could've been good people. They won't forgive this.
January 31, 2026 at 2:15 PM
They believe that the trade-off for wealth/power is to be a bad person, so if they see somebody who accomplished either of those things, or especially more than they did, without being a bad person, it actually suggests that they could've been good people. They won't forgive this.
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I would simply use the microwave.
Ma'am you are spending 1/3 of your post-tax income on doordash
January 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM
I would simply use the microwave.
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we do, in fact, owe each other things. one of those things is accountability for the results of our actions.
January 29, 2026 at 5:11 PM
we do, in fact, owe each other things. one of those things is accountability for the results of our actions.
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politicians aren't "owed" anything. they are public servants. "but i'd be sad if i retired" who CARES.
if you're out here doing the business of political agitation--you too have responsibilities. "but i'd be SAD if i was held accountable for the results of my choices--" tough tuna.
if you're out here doing the business of political agitation--you too have responsibilities. "but i'd be SAD if i was held accountable for the results of my choices--" tough tuna.
January 29, 2026 at 5:10 PM
politicians aren't "owed" anything. they are public servants. "but i'd be sad if i retired" who CARES.
if you're out here doing the business of political agitation--you too have responsibilities. "but i'd be SAD if i was held accountable for the results of my choices--" tough tuna.
if you're out here doing the business of political agitation--you too have responsibilities. "but i'd be SAD if i was held accountable for the results of my choices--" tough tuna.
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my increasingly curmudgeonly take is that we all, in fact, have responsibilities. politics isn't an arena for self-actualization. it's an arena for public service. this is as true of voters as it is of politicians.
Ps: a common refrain that you'll hear is that "you're saying the Dems can't be at fault, it's the voters, as if the voters owe something to politicians and not the other way around!"
Yes, actually, that's how the social contract of democracy works. Voters yet the government they work for. Or don't.
Yes, actually, that's how the social contract of democracy works. Voters yet the government they work for. Or don't.
January 29, 2026 at 5:10 PM
my increasingly curmudgeonly take is that we all, in fact, have responsibilities. politics isn't an arena for self-actualization. it's an arena for public service. this is as true of voters as it is of politicians.