Absotively
@absotively.bsky.social
Canadian, software dev, ADHD haver, FFXIV player, she/her
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#3157 A helpful tutorial
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Being an adult means promising yourself you’ll get on a better sleep schedule every day until you die
September 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Being an adult means promising yourself you’ll get on a better sleep schedule every day until you die
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It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
August 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
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an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
August 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
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the thing about trans rights is that we fight the civil rights issues of our time. nazi chuds have made this the issue of our time.
it's not more *important* than other civil rights issues, but it is the battleground of the moment, and we have to meet the moment to support everyone's rights.
it's not more *important* than other civil rights issues, but it is the battleground of the moment, and we have to meet the moment to support everyone's rights.
Centrists bigots and right wingers have this all backward. YOU are the ones constantly bringing up trans issues. I would be happy to not think about this shit every day of my life unless I was talking to or reading something by one of my trans friends and thought of it in passing. SHUT THE FUCK UP
August 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
the thing about trans rights is that we fight the civil rights issues of our time. nazi chuds have made this the issue of our time.
it's not more *important* than other civil rights issues, but it is the battleground of the moment, and we have to meet the moment to support everyone's rights.
it's not more *important* than other civil rights issues, but it is the battleground of the moment, and we have to meet the moment to support everyone's rights.
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So I ran into some technical issue with the automated migration from Substack to Ghost, and now all I can do is ask those affected--about 200 people--to please subscribe to The Bugbear Dispatch on Ghost once I shut down paid subscriptions on Substack
bugbeardispatch.substack.com/p/update-2-o...
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Update 2 on the Migration to Ghost: What to Do if You Weren't Automatically Migrated
Hello to everyone who is still reading this!
bugbeardispatch.substack.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
So I ran into some technical issue with the automated migration from Substack to Ghost, and now all I can do is ask those affected--about 200 people--to please subscribe to The Bugbear Dispatch on Ghost once I shut down paid subscriptions on Substack
bugbeardispatch.substack.com/p/update-2-o...
bugbeardispatch.substack.com/p/update-2-o...
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Wearyingly frequently necessary reminder that "social darwinism" or anything else that equates notions of intelligence with "fitness to live" is just ableist eugenicist bullshit derived from a fascist-minded misapplication of darwinism, no matter how clever and snarky and cool you think you're being
August 23, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Wearyingly frequently necessary reminder that "social darwinism" or anything else that equates notions of intelligence with "fitness to live" is just ableist eugenicist bullshit derived from a fascist-minded misapplication of darwinism, no matter how clever and snarky and cool you think you're being
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Never forgive men for treating programming as a meaningless thing your secretary did while women were inventing and developing the field, then, once they realized it was going to be important, shoving women out of it and claiming only Male Logic Brains could perform it.
Gaslight of the century that we made programming totally inaccessible to huge portions of the population and now we're told that the reason is programming can only emerge from the innate genius of the brilliant few
July 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Never forgive men for treating programming as a meaningless thing your secretary did while women were inventing and developing the field, then, once they realized it was going to be important, shoving women out of it and claiming only Male Logic Brains could perform it.
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Here is my take on takeout/cooking discourse:
It is none of my fucking business how other people get food into their bodies because I do not know their lives, circumstances, limitations, or practical realities.
But there should be more good, affordable options and the choices suck.
It is none of my fucking business how other people get food into their bodies because I do not know their lives, circumstances, limitations, or practical realities.
But there should be more good, affordable options and the choices suck.
July 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Here is my take on takeout/cooking discourse:
It is none of my fucking business how other people get food into their bodies because I do not know their lives, circumstances, limitations, or practical realities.
But there should be more good, affordable options and the choices suck.
It is none of my fucking business how other people get food into their bodies because I do not know their lives, circumstances, limitations, or practical realities.
But there should be more good, affordable options and the choices suck.
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How many children does Israel have to blow up, shoot, and starve to death before Canada stops making disappointed statements and actually takes any concrete action?
This isn't a rhetorical question @mark-carney.bsky.social, this is a question that has a real numerical answer only you can give.
This isn't a rhetorical question @mark-carney.bsky.social, this is a question that has a real numerical answer only you can give.
NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s"
An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
‘Past The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Describes How Starvation In Gaza Is Driving Mass Death
"In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, to...
www.huffpost.com
July 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
How many children does Israel have to blow up, shoot, and starve to death before Canada stops making disappointed statements and actually takes any concrete action?
This isn't a rhetorical question @mark-carney.bsky.social, this is a question that has a real numerical answer only you can give.
This isn't a rhetorical question @mark-carney.bsky.social, this is a question that has a real numerical answer only you can give.
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We've had millennia of stories with fae, Jinn and other bargainers that teach it is impossible to word a wish such there will be no catches, costs or deceptions only to have this many people be like "the fawning, lying, imitating, extraction machine is amazing if you word your prompts the right way"
July 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
We've had millennia of stories with fae, Jinn and other bargainers that teach it is impossible to word a wish such there will be no catches, costs or deceptions only to have this many people be like "the fawning, lying, imitating, extraction machine is amazing if you word your prompts the right way"
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It's actually hard to chill out knowing we issued a similar statement TWO MONTHS AGO warning that Israel must let humanitarian aid flow.
TWO MONTHS LATER and all we can manage is a strongly worded finger wagging? What the fuck is wrong with us?
This cowardice is a permanent stain on our country.
TWO MONTHS LATER and all we can manage is a strongly worded finger wagging? What the fuck is wrong with us?
This cowardice is a permanent stain on our country.
NEW from the Canadian government on the genocide in Gaza! It's......more words.
Not even on our own, because GOD FORBID. It's a joint statement with several other nations:
"The war in Gaza must end now."
Still calling it a "war," huh?
Not even on our own, because GOD FORBID. It's a joint statement with several other nations:
"The war in Gaza must end now."
Still calling it a "war," huh?
July 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's actually hard to chill out knowing we issued a similar statement TWO MONTHS AGO warning that Israel must let humanitarian aid flow.
TWO MONTHS LATER and all we can manage is a strongly worded finger wagging? What the fuck is wrong with us?
This cowardice is a permanent stain on our country.
TWO MONTHS LATER and all we can manage is a strongly worded finger wagging? What the fuck is wrong with us?
This cowardice is a permanent stain on our country.
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This is one of the best commentaries I've seen on this. I'm a magician, so I'm familiar with cold reading techniques, and this makes perfect sense.
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
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July 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This is one of the best commentaries I've seen on this. I'm a magician, so I'm familiar with cold reading techniques, and this makes perfect sense.
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Happy International Women's Day!
A reminder that this specific screwup has now killed ~25 million people.
A world that allows an influential, entitled, ignorant man to just shout down a smarter and more knowledgeable woman 👉can literally kill you.👈
www.wired.com/story/the-te...
A reminder that this specific screwup has now killed ~25 million people.
A world that allows an influential, entitled, ignorant man to just shout down a smarter and more knowledgeable woman 👉can literally kill you.👈
www.wired.com/story/the-te...
March 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Happy International Women's Day!
A reminder that this specific screwup has now killed ~25 million people.
A world that allows an influential, entitled, ignorant man to just shout down a smarter and more knowledgeable woman 👉can literally kill you.👈
www.wired.com/story/the-te...
A reminder that this specific screwup has now killed ~25 million people.
A world that allows an influential, entitled, ignorant man to just shout down a smarter and more knowledgeable woman 👉can literally kill you.👈
www.wired.com/story/the-te...
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RFK Jr. informs Alberta policy? Seems normal and wise.
It also appears that Alberta has used the FDA as part of their new approach to limit publicly-funded COVID vaccines.
June 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
RFK Jr. informs Alberta policy? Seems normal and wise.
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I'll add that this Herald story on the subject is an utter failure, giving the government a platform to make claims about these books with no further research whatsoever. It might as well be a press release.
Let's be clear: three of the four books flagged by the Alberta government today as containing "inappropriate content" feature queer and trans people.
This is moral panic.
This is the same blueprint of book bans in the US.
And this is happening in Canada.
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
This is moral panic.
This is the same blueprint of book bans in the US.
And this is happening in Canada.
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
‘Extremely graphic’ sexual content found in books at K-9 schools, province says
Books found in some school libraries in Calgary and Edmonton had “explicit sexual content,” said the provincial government.
calgaryherald.com
May 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I'll add that this Herald story on the subject is an utter failure, giving the government a platform to make claims about these books with no further research whatsoever. It might as well be a press release.
In case anyone needed another reason to get to the polls
Pierre Poilievre says he’ll end ‘woke ideology’ — he isn’t saying what that means
Canada election 2025: Poilievre isn't saying what 'woke' means
Pierre Poilievre is vowing to eliminate “woke ideology” from the public service, federal funding for university research and military culture.
www.ctvnews.ca
April 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
In case anyone needed another reason to get to the polls
I mean at least we already know how to leave the British Empire
Canadians really said, "Long live the king! Down with the yanks!"
April 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I mean at least we already know how to leave the British Empire
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People are not mad enough at Israel for intentionally starving Palestinians. It seems surreal to me that the international community is allowing this to happen. There are warehouses full of food and medications that other nations have sent but Israel won't allow in. We are watching a war crime live.
April 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
People are not mad enough at Israel for intentionally starving Palestinians. It seems surreal to me that the international community is allowing this to happen. There are warehouses full of food and medications that other nations have sent but Israel won't allow in. We are watching a war crime live.
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Every one of these idiots will vote. Their heads are filled with disinformation and they are spinning with rage. They are highly motivated. The race is close.
DO NOT SIT HOME AND ALLOW THEM TO PICK THE NEXT PRIME MINISTER
Advance polling stations are open now from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m until Monday night
DO NOT SIT HOME AND ALLOW THEM TO PICK THE NEXT PRIME MINISTER
Advance polling stations are open now from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m until Monday night
April 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Every one of these idiots will vote. Their heads are filled with disinformation and they are spinning with rage. They are highly motivated. The race is close.
DO NOT SIT HOME AND ALLOW THEM TO PICK THE NEXT PRIME MINISTER
Advance polling stations are open now from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m until Monday night
DO NOT SIT HOME AND ALLOW THEM TO PICK THE NEXT PRIME MINISTER
Advance polling stations are open now from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m until Monday night
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It’s really expensive and only removes a small amount of the emissions thetyee.ca/News/2022/07...
April 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
It’s really expensive and only removes a small amount of the emissions thetyee.ca/News/2022/07...
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but like, I think it's important to acknowledge when your opinion changes upon receiving new information, because otherwise we're all pretending that 20 years ago everyone thought those books were unreadable trash and that JKR was an evil bitch, and that's simply not the case!
April 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
but like, I think it's important to acknowledge when your opinion changes upon receiving new information, because otherwise we're all pretending that 20 years ago everyone thought those books were unreadable trash and that JKR was an evil bitch, and that's simply not the case!
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Pierre Poilievre admitting in the debate that he's going to suspend the Charter of Rights and Freedoms so he can defend the charter rights of the people he deems to be worthy should terrify everyone.
Seeing what's happening in the US with ICE he wants the same thing in Canada
Seeing what's happening in the US with ICE he wants the same thing in Canada
April 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Pierre Poilievre admitting in the debate that he's going to suspend the Charter of Rights and Freedoms so he can defend the charter rights of the people he deems to be worthy should terrify everyone.
Seeing what's happening in the US with ICE he wants the same thing in Canada
Seeing what's happening in the US with ICE he wants the same thing in Canada
"Protecting the choice of kids" is a hell of a way to describe denying children medical treatments.
From her big splashy NYT profile ... Alberta premier Danielle Smith proudly talks about "leading the way" on policy targeting trans kids' access to gender-affirming health care.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/w...
April 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"Protecting the choice of kids" is a hell of a way to describe denying children medical treatments.