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abivasquez.bsky.social
Abi
@abivasquez.bsky.social
Author, vocalist, hauntologist

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payhip.com/fixeroptional (in case our itch gets torched)

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THIS FUTURE SUCKS
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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
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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
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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
Feels very 21:00 for 16:00. Winter enjoyers, defend this
November 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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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.
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
If I was a journalist right now I would deadass ask donny if he spits or swallows
November 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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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."
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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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
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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
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This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Sorry Elon, the figure you needed to earn to make your family talk to you was actually two trillion. Good luck earning the rest
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Sorry to use terms like 'Libidinal Economy' on the app for weird radlibs and distressing Furry art, but the mechanism here is building structures in which a person can have fun - posting botched surgery pics at trans people, gabbing with your TERF gal-pals, proximity to JK Rowling...
Transphobia is a pipeline to the far right. An example:

Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.

Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.

Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
Suzanne Moore, who would rather be locked up than pay her BBC licence fee because the BBC is too nice to trans people for her liking.
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Pls considering buying my sci fi horror novella
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

fixeroptional.itch.io/nils-shroud
Nil's Shroud by Fixer Optional
Second cyberpunk novella from Abi Vasquez.
fixeroptional.itch.io
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
When Have A Nice Life said "arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads" I felt that
November 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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

fixeroptional.itch.io/nils-shroud
Nil's Shroud by Fixer Optional
Second cyberpunk novella from Abi Vasquez.
fixeroptional.itch.io
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Yer da calls it X now
November 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The USSR produced some of the best cinema I've seen in my life, to be quite honest, and it's partly *because* of the system it was produced under. Imagine trying to get Stalker made in the Hollywood ecosystem
When anti-communists ask, "Well what kind of art will be made under socialism/communism?" show them Solaris.
youtu.be/Z8ZhQPaw4rE
Solaris | SCIENCE FICTION | FULL MOVIE | directed by Tarkovsky
YouTube video by Mosfilm
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November 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Doing yoga to the most underproduced lo-fi chaotic sk0rm they got on Deezer like I'm trying to achieve inner peace via overstimulation
November 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Tbh if you've even seen an advert in the last year, that's on you. Skill issue
27% of white Britons say they don't feel well represented in advertising in terms of their race, with Reform MP Sarah Pochin causing a row on the subject

White Britons
Well represented: 65%
Not well represented: 27%

Ethnic minority Britons
Well: 42%
Not well: 51%

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
November 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Chatgpt dissolves your mind into sludge the same way being a billionaire does, but the difference is *you* will face consequences for it in a way no billionaire will.

Any random billionaire can afford to happily keep rotting their mind into absolute slush in a way you can't.
June 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I survived 2012 UKHC bruh of course I know what a rat king is
October 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Sam Altman is a an incestuous rapist and I feel like not enough people talk about it
October 30, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?
October 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Chatgpt is not only the exact opposite of a disability aid, not only does it *induce* the very disability its evangelists claim it helps, but this is very extremely obvious to everyone else.
May 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM