Andi freakin’ Marquette
@andimarquette.bsky.social
Writer, reader, wannabe ghosthunter, she/her.
imagine how wild it would be if humans could do this. Everybody's eyeballs tracking everywhere omg
Coiled nerves allow chameleons to move their eyes in multiple directions at once without moving their heads. https://scim.ag/3LLUFgk
The twisted secret behind a chameleon’s oddball eyes
Coiled nerves allow the reptiles to move their peepers in multiple directions at once without moving their heads
www.science.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
imagine how wild it would be if humans could do this. Everybody's eyeballs tracking everywhere omg
Ah, hell. I had this idea for a sleuth and a sidekick and I just saw somebody on this platform already wrote something quite like it and published it.
lolollllll
Sigh. Late to the party again.
lolollllll
Sigh. Late to the party again.
November 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Ah, hell. I had this idea for a sleuth and a sidekick and I just saw somebody on this platform already wrote something quite like it and published it.
lolollllll
Sigh. Late to the party again.
lolollllll
Sigh. Late to the party again.
Still around. But lordie, it is nutso coo-coo all over the place.
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Still around. But lordie, it is nutso coo-coo all over the place.
Mondays, amirite
November 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Mondays, amirite
oh, lordie, y'all. So in this cozy mystery, a suspected murderer is arrested and the trial seems to have happened...within a week? A month? It's unclear. Anybody in the legal system knows that's impossible.
I'll be putting this book in a little free library. Godspeed to the next reader.
I'll be putting this book in a little free library. Godspeed to the next reader.
Edit rant 🧵 and #writetips.
1/ I'm reading a cozy mystery published by a decent-sized house and omg did this thing need a good edit. A skilled edit helps clean up the writing and helps the writer learn. This thing needs some cleanup and the writer needs a bit of help.
1/ I'm reading a cozy mystery published by a decent-sized house and omg did this thing need a good edit. A skilled edit helps clean up the writing and helps the writer learn. This thing needs some cleanup and the writer needs a bit of help.
October 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
oh, lordie, y'all. So in this cozy mystery, a suspected murderer is arrested and the trial seems to have happened...within a week? A month? It's unclear. Anybody in the legal system knows that's impossible.
I'll be putting this book in a little free library. Godspeed to the next reader.
I'll be putting this book in a little free library. Godspeed to the next reader.
Still trying to get through this cozy mystery and for the 4th time, I've been reminded that Character X is the husband of the MC.
Yeah, you told me that initially on p. 2. I didn't forget.
--sends out a plaintive cry to the editor deities--
Yeah, you told me that initially on p. 2. I didn't forget.
--sends out a plaintive cry to the editor deities--
Edit rant 🧵 and #writetips.
1/ I'm reading a cozy mystery published by a decent-sized house and omg did this thing need a good edit. A skilled edit helps clean up the writing and helps the writer learn. This thing needs some cleanup and the writer needs a bit of help.
1/ I'm reading a cozy mystery published by a decent-sized house and omg did this thing need a good edit. A skilled edit helps clean up the writing and helps the writer learn. This thing needs some cleanup and the writer needs a bit of help.
October 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Still trying to get through this cozy mystery and for the 4th time, I've been reminded that Character X is the husband of the MC.
Yeah, you told me that initially on p. 2. I didn't forget.
--sends out a plaintive cry to the editor deities--
Yeah, you told me that initially on p. 2. I didn't forget.
--sends out a plaintive cry to the editor deities--
Edit rant 🧵 and #writetips.
1/ I'm reading a cozy mystery published by a decent-sized house and omg did this thing need a good edit. A skilled edit helps clean up the writing and helps the writer learn. This thing needs some cleanup and the writer needs a bit of help.
1/ I'm reading a cozy mystery published by a decent-sized house and omg did this thing need a good edit. A skilled edit helps clean up the writing and helps the writer learn. This thing needs some cleanup and the writer needs a bit of help.
October 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Edit rant 🧵 and #writetips.
1/ I'm reading a cozy mystery published by a decent-sized house and omg did this thing need a good edit. A skilled edit helps clean up the writing and helps the writer learn. This thing needs some cleanup and the writer needs a bit of help.
1/ I'm reading a cozy mystery published by a decent-sized house and omg did this thing need a good edit. A skilled edit helps clean up the writing and helps the writer learn. This thing needs some cleanup and the writer needs a bit of help.
good fucking gawd
Also, fuck Oracle. And ALLLLL the Ellisons who rode in on it.
Also, fuck Oracle. And ALLLLL the Ellisons who rode in on it.
Well, I’ve got some great news. Oracle is building eight buildings (which is considered one data center) full of the GB200 for OpenAI, and the GB200 has negative 100% margins. Oracle is charging $300 billion to OpenAI and this is maybe 30% of that contract. According to Oracle this is good!
October 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
good fucking gawd
Also, fuck Oracle. And ALLLLL the Ellisons who rode in on it.
Also, fuck Oracle. And ALLLLL the Ellisons who rode in on it.
I am on a "fuck AI" bender.
Would you want AI doing war for you? How about doing surgery on you?
AI is a plagiarizing, anti-environment, anti-critical thinking tool pushed by misogynist douchebros. Anything a tech douche-bro thinks is good is anything but.
Would you want AI doing war for you? How about doing surgery on you?
AI is a plagiarizing, anti-environment, anti-critical thinking tool pushed by misogynist douchebros. Anything a tech douche-bro thinks is good is anything but.
dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated
October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I am on a "fuck AI" bender.
Would you want AI doing war for you? How about doing surgery on you?
AI is a plagiarizing, anti-environment, anti-critical thinking tool pushed by misogynist douchebros. Anything a tech douche-bro thinks is good is anything but.
Would you want AI doing war for you? How about doing surgery on you?
AI is a plagiarizing, anti-environment, anti-critical thinking tool pushed by misogynist douchebros. Anything a tech douche-bro thinks is good is anything but.
Reposted by Andi freakin’ Marquette
I am loving @premeemohamed.com The Siege of Burning Grass. This is my kind of sci-fi. There is a simple plot point, and the book just keeps building layer upon layer. There's no janky over elaboration. Nothing ruins sci-fi so much as clutter.
October 17, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I am loving @premeemohamed.com The Siege of Burning Grass. This is my kind of sci-fi. There is a simple plot point, and the book just keeps building layer upon layer. There's no janky over elaboration. Nothing ruins sci-fi so much as clutter.
fuck yeah, South Korea!
South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.
restofworld.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
fuck yeah, South Korea!
Again, fuck AI.
I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.
October 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Again, fuck AI.
this is freaking amazing.
The video tutorial about painting freehand on the cloak of my Wolf Guard Battle Leader is now available on my patreon! I had to split this tutorial into two 1h long videos because recording it took me over 8h, what makes it the longest video I ever made #warhammercommunity #warhammer #warhammer40000
October 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
this is freaking amazing.
whatever drugs this guy's on, could he please share?
Mike Johnson: "The last time I checked, Americans have more freedom right now to express themselves and speak their minds after Republicans took over ... it is the Republicans who restored your right to share and speak your mind."
October 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
whatever drugs this guy's on, could he please share?
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I have a very long podcast subscription list, but my regular listening these days is basically "a bunch of horror audio drama and MERL's Absolute Units".
🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
October 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I have a very long podcast subscription list, but my regular listening these days is basically "a bunch of horror audio drama and MERL's Absolute Units".
a gajillion percent this. My laptop and devices are tools I use. I don't want or need a goddamn "partner" from my devices. jfc.
“We want every person making the move to experience what it means to have a PC that’s not just a tool, but a true partner” no, thank you, my PC is just a tool, and so is my phone, and so is my other tech, and it'll stay this way.
It's incredible how out of touch and out of reality tech bros are
It's incredible how out of touch and out of reality tech bros are
October 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
a gajillion percent this. My laptop and devices are tools I use. I don't want or need a goddamn "partner" from my devices. jfc.
No.
Take your data-stealing, environment-destroying, ignorance-inducing AI and shove it, @microsoft.com.
Take your data-stealing, environment-destroying, ignorance-inducing AI and shove it, @microsoft.com.
This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...
Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
No.
Take your data-stealing, environment-destroying, ignorance-inducing AI and shove it, @microsoft.com.
Take your data-stealing, environment-destroying, ignorance-inducing AI and shove it, @microsoft.com.
If you can help, great. Re-post helps, too. Mutual aid is resistance to fascism.
I’m going to need to move by the end of October and have no real prospects or savings. I hate to ask but I have no idea what I’m even going to be able to do short-term until I have some resources saved up. Please, if you’re able, could you help with a donation?
(birthday in two days if matters 🤣)
(birthday in two days if matters 🤣)
While I have food now, I’m broke with no income and I am going to be hard pressed to come up with any money to put towards rent or anything else. I’ve just been treading water for a year.
Please, if anyone can help my payment links are in my bio. Uber credit also helps💕💸💸💕
#mutualaid #crowdfunding
Please, if anyone can help my payment links are in my bio. Uber credit also helps💕💸💸💕
#mutualaid #crowdfunding
October 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If you can help, great. Re-post helps, too. Mutual aid is resistance to fascism.
Reposted by Andi freakin’ Marquette
Some
Of you, you know, not having a day you want. Go to cvs or whatever bullshit they have where you are. Go buy a bouncy ball. Go outside, find good flat concrete, and spike it with all of your might
Of you, you know, not having a day you want. Go to cvs or whatever bullshit they have where you are. Go buy a bouncy ball. Go outside, find good flat concrete, and spike it with all of your might
October 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Some
Of you, you know, not having a day you want. Go to cvs or whatever bullshit they have where you are. Go buy a bouncy ball. Go outside, find good flat concrete, and spike it with all of your might
Of you, you know, not having a day you want. Go to cvs or whatever bullshit they have where you are. Go buy a bouncy ball. Go outside, find good flat concrete, and spike it with all of your might
United States: "we have a loneliness problem!"
Also United States: "use AI as your therapist, your friends, your family, and your intimate partners."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Also United States: "use AI as your therapist, your friends, your family, and your intimate partners."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, OpenAI boss says
CEO Sam Altman says upcoming versions of the popular chatbot would enable it to behave in a more human-like way - "but only if you want it".
www.bbc.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
United States: "we have a loneliness problem!"
Also United States: "use AI as your therapist, your friends, your family, and your intimate partners."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Also United States: "use AI as your therapist, your friends, your family, and your intimate partners."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reposted by Andi freakin’ Marquette
can't wait to drive one of these around and yell at bystanders in an incomprehensibly guttural southern German dialect
This 1983 Mercedes-Benz 500SEL is a custom pickup built by a German tuning shop in the 80s, and it looks to be well done.
Long Wheelbase Pickup: 1983 Mercedes-Benz 500SEL
This 1983 Mercedes-Benz 500SEL is a custom pickup built by a German tuning shop in the 80s, and it looks to be well done.
barnfinds.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
can't wait to drive one of these around and yell at bystanders in an incomprehensibly guttural southern German dialect
12 ft. Grave & Bones Giant-Sized Skelly with LifeEyes™ LCD Eyes H5
www.homedepot.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
OH, this is bad shit, y'all. BAD shit.
As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is.
Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?
Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?
September 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
OH, this is bad shit, y'all. BAD shit.
jeeziz fuck, y'all.
Try to grab a bit of piece every day. Cuz this shit is cray.
Try to grab a bit of piece every day. Cuz this shit is cray.
September 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
jeeziz fuck, y'all.
Try to grab a bit of piece every day. Cuz this shit is cray.
Try to grab a bit of piece every day. Cuz this shit is cray.