Abi
@abivasquez.bsky.social
vocalist of UNDERDARK//co-founder of FIXER OPTIONAL//author of DEPRESSING SCI FI
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Abi
@abivasquez.bsky.social
· Aug 10
THIS FUTURE SUCKS
DIY publishing by Jed & Abi. Click ABOUT for more information. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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Links updated:
fixeroptional.co.uk (for news and views from our micropress)
fixeroptional.itch.io (to buy our ebooks)
payhip.com/fixeroptional (in case our itch gets torched)
fixeroptional.gumroad.com (in case our itch and payhip get torched)
fixeroptional.co.uk (for news and views from our micropress)
fixeroptional.itch.io (to buy our ebooks)
payhip.com/fixeroptional (in case our itch gets torched)
fixeroptional.gumroad.com (in case our itch and payhip get torched)
Oh yeah since I remembered my password:
These books make great Christmas presents for the cynical paranoiac in your life
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These books make great Christmas presents for the cynical paranoiac in your life
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December 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Oh yeah since I remembered my password:
These books make great Christmas presents for the cynical paranoiac in your life
fixeroptional.itch.io
These books make great Christmas presents for the cynical paranoiac in your life
fixeroptional.itch.io
Overheard a great interaction between the guys renovating the flat next to mine.
"You have never pet a cat? You must try, it's so good."
"You have never pet a cat? You must try, it's so good."
December 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Overheard a great interaction between the guys renovating the flat next to mine.
"You have never pet a cat? You must try, it's so good."
"You have never pet a cat? You must try, it's so good."
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I do not like ChatGPT,
Not when it’s paid, nor when it’s free.
I will not use it for a thing,
Especially not for referencing.
It cannot help me with email,
It’s law advice can lead to jail.
It cannot bring back my late Nan,
I do not like it, Sam-Alt-Man.
Not when it’s paid, nor when it’s free.
I will not use it for a thing,
Especially not for referencing.
It cannot help me with email,
It’s law advice can lead to jail.
It cannot bring back my late Nan,
I do not like it, Sam-Alt-Man.
December 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I do not like ChatGPT,
Not when it’s paid, nor when it’s free.
I will not use it for a thing,
Especially not for referencing.
It cannot help me with email,
It’s law advice can lead to jail.
It cannot bring back my late Nan,
I do not like it, Sam-Alt-Man.
Not when it’s paid, nor when it’s free.
I will not use it for a thing,
Especially not for referencing.
It cannot help me with email,
It’s law advice can lead to jail.
It cannot bring back my late Nan,
I do not like it, Sam-Alt-Man.
The further we stray from DIY gigs, the more we run into people who's idea of being "alternative" is just replicating the same plastic celebrity worship bullshit as mainstream culture, just in a black t shirt
December 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The further we stray from DIY gigs, the more we run into people who's idea of being "alternative" is just replicating the same plastic celebrity worship bullshit as mainstream culture, just in a black t shirt
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The government's climbdown on day one rights against unfair dismissal was sold to us as a way out of the impasse on the Employment Rights Bill. Pragmatism, eh? Well guess what? The business lobby (via the Lords) isn’t giving up & is pushing for more concessions. Funny that. 🤔
December 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The government's climbdown on day one rights against unfair dismissal was sold to us as a way out of the impasse on the Employment Rights Bill. Pragmatism, eh? Well guess what? The business lobby (via the Lords) isn’t giving up & is pushing for more concessions. Funny that. 🤔
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Every young generation explores retro technology because it’s cheap and plentiful and exotic but it’s more alluring when current technology gets actively shittier, more evil and invasive.
December 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Every young generation explores retro technology because it’s cheap and plentiful and exotic but it’s more alluring when current technology gets actively shittier, more evil and invasive.
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The harder they try to make AI useful the less useful it is…
Hinge launched “Convo Starters,” a feature powered by AI that provides personalized tips for initiating meaningful conversations.
Hinge's new AI feature helps daters move beyond boring small talk | TechCrunch
Hinge launched “Convo Starters,” a feature powered by AI that provides personalized tips for initiating meaningful conversations.
techcrunch.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The harder they try to make AI useful the less useful it is…
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Gammon Four Lions should ne a thing. There's like a million and one hard-hitting dramas like This is England and American History X that portray neo-nazis as variously dangerous and/or full of tragic pathos; I want one that portrays them as bumbling dipshit facebook dads and coked up lads on tour.
The videos of this escapade have been a bit of a guilty pleasure, I must admit. It's like Gammon Four Lions.
Update, Piss Boy and his his mate Ryan Bridge did in fact fuck around giving it Billy Big Bollocks in a migrant camp near Calais and very nearly found out. The video footage is very funny. Next time, lads, next time.
December 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Gammon Four Lions should ne a thing. There's like a million and one hard-hitting dramas like This is England and American History X that portray neo-nazis as variously dangerous and/or full of tragic pathos; I want one that portrays them as bumbling dipshit facebook dads and coked up lads on tour.
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There were also a group of men (landlords and company directors) who had a good laugh by burning an effigy of Grenfell, and I can't imagine that in China these men would continue to live upper middle-class lives. People genuinely get 'cancelled' there, and sometimes that's for the best.
November 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
There were also a group of men (landlords and company directors) who had a good laugh by burning an effigy of Grenfell, and I can't imagine that in China these men would continue to live upper middle-class lives. People genuinely get 'cancelled' there, and sometimes that's for the best.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
You are now picturing a 2017 sad Bart Simpson edit
November 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
You are now picturing a 2017 sad Bart Simpson edit
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Actual artists have a community, genAI users just have a fistful of hot dogshit an Epstein associate is losing billions of dollars on.
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Actual artists have a community, genAI users just have a fistful of hot dogshit an Epstein associate is losing billions of dollars on.
Fuck off all stores
I don't care if it's black friday
Stop emailing me
I don't care if it's black friday
Stop emailing me
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Fuck off all stores
I don't care if it's black friday
Stop emailing me
I don't care if it's black friday
Stop emailing me
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There are entire books about this! And the answer is “bragging to journalists about how cleverly they had shitehoused their own party to defeat”, “sending Times journos pissy WhatsApps” and “fretting in case someone shouted ‘LOL you suckup wankers’ when they unveiled the sixty foot Union flag”.
November 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
There are entire books about this! And the answer is “bragging to journalists about how cleverly they had shitehoused their own party to defeat”, “sending Times journos pissy WhatsApps” and “fretting in case someone shouted ‘LOL you suckup wankers’ when they unveiled the sixty foot Union flag”.
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at Fixer Optional we do negotiate with Terrorists. And by terrorists we mean @abivasquez.bsky.social 's laptop
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
at Fixer Optional we do negotiate with Terrorists. And by terrorists we mean @abivasquez.bsky.social 's laptop
Hey everyone, please consider checking out my novella, it's really good and only £3.99. Support the punx, buy a book etc
NEW BOOK OUT
This one's got:
- forced disfigurement surgery
- wrench beatings
- revenge plots
- a suspiciously friendly cult
- fashionistas
This one was fun to write, check it out if you're into Rant era Palahniuk, violent revenge dramas, or Cannibal Corpse
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This one's got:
- forced disfigurement surgery
- wrench beatings
- revenge plots
- a suspiciously friendly cult
- fashionistas
This one was fun to write, check it out if you're into Rant era Palahniuk, violent revenge dramas, or Cannibal Corpse
fixeroptional.itch.io/nils-shroud
Nil's Shroud by Fixer Optional
Second cyberpunk novella from Abi Vasquez.
fixeroptional.itch.io
November 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hey everyone, please consider checking out my novella, it's really good and only £3.99. Support the punx, buy a book etc
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Donald Trump is the planted flag of every crook and rapist. He is the lost cause of the south. He is the vice of the slave master, the shadow that clouds his superego at all hours, the sweat on his brow that makes him never end in his gluttony, lust, and greed. He is spiritual excrement incarnate.
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Donald Trump is the planted flag of every crook and rapist. He is the lost cause of the south. He is the vice of the slave master, the shadow that clouds his superego at all hours, the sweat on his brow that makes him never end in his gluttony, lust, and greed. He is spiritual excrement incarnate.
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The rise of AI-as-everything and the rise of violent-extremism-as-politics are two sides of the same coin, and not because of any actual intersection between the people making AI and the people doing extremist politics—they are just the same abdication of doing the work to have an actual society.
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The rise of AI-as-everything and the rise of violent-extremism-as-politics are two sides of the same coin, and not because of any actual intersection between the people making AI and the people doing extremist politics—they are just the same abdication of doing the work to have an actual society.
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Starmers entire project is one of profound pessimism and borderline irrational hatred of idealism as a corbynite value. He (or mcsweeney or whatever) basically has the entire country trapped in a doom spiral because he thinks thats a mature decision
November 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Starmers entire project is one of profound pessimism and borderline irrational hatred of idealism as a corbynite value. He (or mcsweeney or whatever) basically has the entire country trapped in a doom spiral because he thinks thats a mature decision
Feels very 21:00 for 16:00. Winter enjoyers, defend this
November 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Feels very 21:00 for 16:00. Winter enjoyers, defend this
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When a big media company uses genai slop instead of human made art, it is not just taking a job away from one artist to make that thing but *multiple* artists involved in all the things.
The entire artist-hiring pipeline gets destroyed in favor of chugging from the hot dogshit pipeline.
The entire artist-hiring pipeline gets destroyed in favor of chugging from the hot dogshit pipeline.
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
When a big media company uses genai slop instead of human made art, it is not just taking a job away from one artist to make that thing but *multiple* artists involved in all the things.
The entire artist-hiring pipeline gets destroyed in favor of chugging from the hot dogshit pipeline.
The entire artist-hiring pipeline gets destroyed in favor of chugging from the hot dogshit pipeline.
If I was a journalist right now I would deadass ask donny if he spits or swallows
November 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
If I was a journalist right now I would deadass ask donny if he spits or swallows
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The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
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"I supplied everyone but the typewriter factory. I sold AI generated essays to students, AI detectors to teachers. I even sold image generators to the chuds when they were memeing on my fellow techbros. Never sold to Peter Thiel - not on any moral grounds, in those days his checks always bounced."
August 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"I supplied everyone but the typewriter factory. I sold AI generated essays to students, AI detectors to teachers. I even sold image generators to the chuds when they were memeing on my fellow techbros. Never sold to Peter Thiel - not on any moral grounds, in those days his checks always bounced."
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okay see this has made me want to destroy palantir now. i did not think palantir was up to any good before, but this guy? talking like this? i think palantir should be destroyed and I'm reconsidering my opinion on involuntary committal
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
okay see this has made me want to destroy palantir now. i did not think palantir was up to any good before, but this guy? talking like this? i think palantir should be destroyed and I'm reconsidering my opinion on involuntary committal