Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson
@bettybitter.bsky.social
Popular Front TradWife in waiting. Doonesbury fan account. Avowed Luddite. Join a union. Will your lawyer talk to God for you?
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I've embarked on a quest to read the entirety of Doonesbury in order. The cringe-factor of Trudeau's self-insert character being an incompetent womanizer in these early strips is made up for by the sheer amount of "yesterday's satire is today's news"
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Also we should have human operators again. If you want to scam call someone you should have to explain it to someone else on the phone every time you do it and ask to be connected.
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Also we should have human operators again. If you want to scam call someone you should have to explain it to someone else on the phone every time you do it and ask to be connected.
Tonight I learned I've been sleeping on the Chad Mitchell Trio. Did not realize they had a snark on par with Ochs. I hope I live long enough to do an American update of this one.
I Was Not A Nazi Polka
YouTube video by The Mitchell Trio - Topic
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Tonight I learned I've been sleeping on the Chad Mitchell Trio. Did not realize they had a snark on par with Ochs. I hope I live long enough to do an American update of this one.
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Obviously I don't write for games (yet?? I guess??) but dialogue is absolutely the most fun part of writing and the fact that people are going "oh yeah I just streamline it no one cares about that stuff"
You have no soul, you have no spark, and you have no understanding of human enjoyment
You have no soul, you have no spark, and you have no understanding of human enjoyment
Buy a solo indie dev's game because I want to support them.
Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
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Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
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November 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Obviously I don't write for games (yet?? I guess??) but dialogue is absolutely the most fun part of writing and the fact that people are going "oh yeah I just streamline it no one cares about that stuff"
You have no soul, you have no spark, and you have no understanding of human enjoyment
You have no soul, you have no spark, and you have no understanding of human enjoyment
I wanna take a minute to thank all the authors who have been engaging in the book piracy discourse. I have sophisticated heuristics as to what music I will and won't pirate but the corresponding book heuristics have been difficult to develop and those posts have been very helpful in developing them.
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I wanna take a minute to thank all the authors who have been engaging in the book piracy discourse. I have sophisticated heuristics as to what music I will and won't pirate but the corresponding book heuristics have been difficult to develop and those posts have been very helpful in developing them.
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Leftism doesn't mean "I get other people's labor for free because I'm poor" and Capitalism isn't a synonym for "selling things." At this rate, online leftists are going to polarize themselves into fighting wars for Anthropic and OpenAI bc they've "nationalized art."
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Leftism doesn't mean "I get other people's labor for free because I'm poor" and Capitalism isn't a synonym for "selling things." At this rate, online leftists are going to polarize themselves into fighting wars for Anthropic and OpenAI bc they've "nationalized art."
Tbh I wish my parents had had this attitude towards physical affection. As a kid I was constantly bullied into hugging distant relatives who Id never met and never saw again, and with 20/20 hindsight I can see how that planted the seed for some of my later struggles with intimacy...
Ahh yes, a totally real trend for which we totally have evidence
www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...
www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Tbh I wish my parents had had this attitude towards physical affection. As a kid I was constantly bullied into hugging distant relatives who Id never met and never saw again, and with 20/20 hindsight I can see how that planted the seed for some of my later struggles with intimacy...
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Telling people to touch grass, constantly going off on how much he hates AI, getting swept up in poly drama... Truly he is the Poster's Pope
In a new doctrinal note, Pope Leo and the Vatican sharply reject polygamy and growing Western polyamory, praising monogamy as an exclusive union between one man and one woman.
Pope Leo and the Vatican reject polygamy in sweeping doctrinal praise of monogamy
In a new doctrinal note, Pope Leo and the Vatican sharply reject polygamy and growing Western polyamory, praising monogamy as an exclusive union between one man and one woman.
www.sltrib.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Telling people to touch grass, constantly going off on how much he hates AI, getting swept up in poly drama... Truly he is the Poster's Pope
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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You know what food I hate? Your personal favourite food. Inedible garbage.
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
You know what food I hate? Your personal favourite food. Inedible garbage.
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CHOTINER: I see you've used the 'isaac chotiner interview' format for a series of posts
ME: Well, I noticed a lot of people getting a fair amount of attention for some clever spins on the-
C: Ok, but in 2023 you tweeted "fuck these lazy clout chasing joke trends" in respo-
Me: Now, wait a second
ME: Well, I noticed a lot of people getting a fair amount of attention for some clever spins on the-
C: Ok, but in 2023 you tweeted "fuck these lazy clout chasing joke trends" in respo-
Me: Now, wait a second
September 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
CHOTINER: I see you've used the 'isaac chotiner interview' format for a series of posts
ME: Well, I noticed a lot of people getting a fair amount of attention for some clever spins on the-
C: Ok, but in 2023 you tweeted "fuck these lazy clout chasing joke trends" in respo-
Me: Now, wait a second
ME: Well, I noticed a lot of people getting a fair amount of attention for some clever spins on the-
C: Ok, but in 2023 you tweeted "fuck these lazy clout chasing joke trends" in respo-
Me: Now, wait a second
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Explaining to my Canadian wife that Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on Thursdays because Thanksgiving is the Thursday of holidays
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Explaining to my Canadian wife that Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on Thursdays because Thanksgiving is the Thursday of holidays
People are usually astonished by my breadth of knowledge about the American Revolution and American music of the 1920s-60s but those are just topics where I crossed the Dunning-Kruger peak and landed in the valley below. The only topic I'm truly an expert on in Bruce Frederick Springsteen.
One thing about the word "obsessive" is that the internet teaches you there is no ceiling.
I give a great deal of my pop culture attention to The Beatles and Star Wars. Someone unacquainted with them would think I'm obsessive. A brief glance at the fandom tells you I'm a rank amateur.
I give a great deal of my pop culture attention to The Beatles and Star Wars. Someone unacquainted with them would think I'm obsessive. A brief glance at the fandom tells you I'm a rank amateur.
I wouldn't bother getting it if you're not an obsessive fan, unless you don't have the other Anthologies, but as a bonus on the box set of the others it's definitely worth having.
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
People are usually astonished by my breadth of knowledge about the American Revolution and American music of the 1920s-60s but those are just topics where I crossed the Dunning-Kruger peak and landed in the valley below. The only topic I'm truly an expert on in Bruce Frederick Springsteen.
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between "study on honesty appears to have used fabricated data," "study on cognitive dissonance after thwarted expectations may not show what it was believed to" and possibly "data for study on use of AI generated by LLM" we're pretty close to either a Dramatic Irony bracket or a trend piece
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
between "study on honesty appears to have used fabricated data," "study on cognitive dissonance after thwarted expectations may not show what it was believed to" and possibly "data for study on use of AI generated by LLM" we're pretty close to either a Dramatic Irony bracket or a trend piece
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It's objectively strange that Chrono Trigger is the name of a JRPG series about time travellers dealing with a crisis, and Time Crisis a series of light gun games.
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It's objectively strange that Chrono Trigger is the name of a JRPG series about time travellers dealing with a crisis, and Time Crisis a series of light gun games.
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Destroying Blue Sky for good with a 'still posts on Twitter' labeller.
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Destroying Blue Sky for good with a 'still posts on Twitter' labeller.
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Any time corporate executives are in a room together and don't know they're being recorded, the transcript is like: "Christ, I hate our customers. We're agreed that we all hate our customers? Let's lie to the IRS, criminally. Did I mention the Holocaust never happened? Put more lead in our soda."
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Any time corporate executives are in a room together and don't know they're being recorded, the transcript is like: "Christ, I hate our customers. We're agreed that we all hate our customers? Let's lie to the IRS, criminally. Did I mention the Holocaust never happened? Put more lead in our soda."
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I really enjoy Star Wars very much primarily because I utterly refuse to engage with the fandom.
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I really enjoy Star Wars very much primarily because I utterly refuse to engage with the fandom.
JFK was killed by Big Poultry for his duplicitous refusal to feast on their annual bribe three days earlier. Johnson, keenly aware of the operation but covering it up to save his own head, bravely enshrined Kennedy's mercy as a national tradition.
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
JFK was killed by Big Poultry for his duplicitous refusal to feast on their annual bribe three days earlier. Johnson, keenly aware of the operation but covering it up to save his own head, bravely enshrined Kennedy's mercy as a national tradition.
It's interesting how the ongoing civil war has changed my reactions to crime reporting. Stories that used to illicit an "they're cherry picking stories to make things sound more dangerous than they are" now inspire a "fuckin hell those ICE thugs are just gunnin everyone down."
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It's interesting how the ongoing civil war has changed my reactions to crime reporting. Stories that used to illicit an "they're cherry picking stories to make things sound more dangerous than they are" now inspire a "fuckin hell those ICE thugs are just gunnin everyone down."
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I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
I'm sorry but I will not vote for a man who considers "Solo" (2018) a major Star Wars film while completely omitting the greatest feature length Star Wars film "Battle for Endor: An Ewok Adventure."
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I'm sorry but I will not vote for a man who considers "Solo" (2018) a major Star Wars film while completely omitting the greatest feature length Star Wars film "Battle for Endor: An Ewok Adventure."
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You go to Disney World and see someone dressed up as Mickey Mouse and you're like "ok, a guy in a Mickey Mouse costume." You see someone puppeteering Kermit and you're like "holy shit. It's him. It's Kermit the Frog."
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
You go to Disney World and see someone dressed up as Mickey Mouse and you're like "ok, a guy in a Mickey Mouse costume." You see someone puppeteering Kermit and you're like "holy shit. It's him. It's Kermit the Frog."
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Every story I ever hear about celebrities meeting a muppet involves them making eye contact with the muppet only, and almost completely failing to acknowledge the person or people operating it.
A national bond that transcends race, religion, politics and class is our shared agreement that the Muppets are real. They are real people with jobs and lives. Listen to that crowd screaming. They know they're seeing a celebrity.
Sabrina Carpenter arrests Miss Piggy at the final show of her Short n’ Sweet tour in Los Angeles.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Every story I ever hear about celebrities meeting a muppet involves them making eye contact with the muppet only, and almost completely failing to acknowledge the person or people operating it.
[divorced cybertruck owner voice] stuck paying too damn much alimony to my bitch ex-wife Hatsune Miku because she caught me sexting with Microsoft's Cortana. It's not my damn fault she got all Women's Lib after the 5.4 patch.
one of the more bleak aspects of ai chatbots is it’s starting to blow up real marriages
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
[divorced cybertruck owner voice] stuck paying too damn much alimony to my bitch ex-wife Hatsune Miku because she caught me sexting with Microsoft's Cortana. It's not my damn fault she got all Women's Lib after the 5.4 patch.
Where's that post abt how RFK Jr clearly did not learn from the basic failure of 1960s Democratic politics which is to not kill any kids if your name rhymes with "how many kids did you kill today?"
2/ so many gutting moment but this was among the first, from one of the world’s leading scientists on vaccines and immunology:
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Where's that post abt how RFK Jr clearly did not learn from the basic failure of 1960s Democratic politics which is to not kill any kids if your name rhymes with "how many kids did you kill today?"