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it me suzi @ PAX Unplugged
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bluebombardier.bsky.social
Helluva Welcome Home, Philly.

#PAXUnplugged LET’S FUCKIN GOOOOOOOO
A photo of Philadelphia City Hall and a few other buildings lit up with purple lights
November 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
bluebombardier.bsky.social
T – 4 to #PAXUnplugged so you know what that means…

Gotta hit Backbar to condition my body for the @pinnypalsafterdark.bsky.social #MargaritaQuest before I head down to Philly

Had the Coconut Hands and Tom Kha Martini, and shoved an incredible smoked turkey melt from Scott Bros. BBQ into my face
A reddish cocktail in a cordial glass backlit by a candle Turkey melt sandwich with a little dish of gravy Paper menu of cocktails inspire by Month Python and the Holy Grail A clear cocktail with a floating drop of oil in a cordial glass backlit by a candle
November 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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cwebbonline.com
I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served.

F that!
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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primajohna.bsky.social
Me, asleep on a plane, being woken up by the attendant asking if I want a bag of nuts
Scene from Lord of the Rings showing Frodo and Elrond floating side by side in an ethereal white void
November 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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octavianbgg.bsky.social
Earlier this year an insurance company's claims managing AI decided I was at fault for a traffic accident in Texas when I hadn't driven more than a mile from my house in Connecticut that day.

So yeah - this technology is shit. And the burden of dealing with mistakes is passed on to us.
cait.bsky.social cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 11d
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
r/ExpectationVsReality u/Additional-Simple858 • 3d Join Al 'doctor' said my back pain is depression, not a slipped disc. Now physical therapy won't get approved. Al Expectation We are reviewing claim #& submitted on 09/28/2025. Our records indicate the claim was filed under diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while the corresponding prescription and referral history list treatment for lumbar disc herniation (back pain). Re: Incorrect Diagnosis in Record Hi Thank you for reaching out. We have reviewed your visit documentation and can confirm that the notes in question were generated using our Al scribe system. It appears the Al tool assigned diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while your visit notes and treatment plan reference lumbar disc herniation (back pain). Per compliance policy, certain Al-generated fields cannot be manually updated by clinic staff and require vendor correction. We have escalated this to our vendor support team and opened ticket # . We'll notify you once we receive confirmation or correction from the vendor.
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
bluebombardier.bsky.social
please enjoy this playlist that absolutely nobody asked for
open.spotify.com/playlist/4Zc...

YouTube alt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI5n...

are there better things I could be doing with my time like scanning English rules, making paste-ups, and reformatting PDFs to print as rulebooks? yes.

anyway.
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
to quote @slacktivistfred.bsky.social, vampires fear the cross *because* it is powerless.
Vampire stories tell us, for example, that any of us can have great power if only we are willing to prey on others. Feed off the blood of others and great power will be yours. This is demonstrably true. It's how the pyramids were built. And Standard Oil. The stories also tell us that there's a downside to this predatory choice. You become a creature of the night, unable to stand in the light of day. And crosses will confound you. Some mistakenly think that this is because the cross is a holy symbol, imbued with religious power. But this is wrong. The symbol, like the thing itself, is powerless. And that's the point. That is why vampires can't tolerate it. Most vampires don't believe in the cross, but that hardly matters. It's the idea of the thing that gives them fits. The cross confronts vampires with their opposite — with the rejection of power and its single-minded pursuit. It suggests that no one is to be treated as prey — not even an enemy. The idea of the cross, in other words, suggests that vampires have it wrong, that they have it backwards, in fact, and that those others they regard as prey are actually, somehow, winning.
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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johnrogers.bsky.social
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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tiffanyleigh.bsky.social
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lexmcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 17d
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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proton.me
Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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schwindter.bsky.social
we've talked for hours and hours on @bythebywater.bsky.social about tolkien and race, tolkien and women—dude was not exactly progressive. but he was very much opposed to fascism and imperialism and i refuse to cede his work to orcs
October 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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schwindter.bsky.social
fascists who attempt to appropriate tolkien's work should be exiled to a deserted island
zachweinersmith.bsky.social Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · Oct 16
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
bluebombardier.bsky.social
I know I’m jaded about an event once I stop taking as many photos of it

Took five years for PAX Unplugged but only three for SPIEL, lol

It’s all photos of food, maybe two of people, and a handful of our booth
October 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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elierlick.bsky.social
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
bluebombardier.bsky.social
you can tell how anxious I am about a trip by the amount of random fucking shit I decide that I absolutely NEED to purchase at the last minute
October 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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marygillis.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
bluebombardier.bsky.social
I've been reading erotic fanfic for 30 years. no way in hell any chatbot can produce the quality of smut that I have come to expect
October 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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honestcanadian.bsky.social
This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...
UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News
UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.
news.ubc.ca
October 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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mattround.com
OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in
October 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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4nikkolas.bsky.social
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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authorwinifred.blacksky.app
When I say no social media platform is safe right now, not only am I serious, I will keep harping on the need for durable alternatives. These places are fine for dissociating, but they're not for us. No telecom infrastructure is.

We HAVE to go harder on real time community building and safety.
authorwinifred.blacksky.app Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · Sep 20
My strongest suggestion is that we use the current convenient means to build durable networks to each other that we can transfer from Blacksky between meatspace and the airwaves as needed or desired.
Black CBers were already experimenting with the radios as a form of organizing- although in ways that weren't exactly government sanctioned. According to Blake, Black CB users were active as early as 1959 with the founding of the Rooster Channel Jumpers, a network of Black CB users across the US. The club had chapters in major cities in the north, south, and east, and "a formal governance structure at every level, and blue and gold uniforms for its members." In 1978, about 10,000 Rooster Channel Jumpers met in Dallas for the club's annual convention, where the keynote speaker urged Black CBers to "join together in a national black radio operators organization to promote the use of CB channels specifically for black economic organizing and mutual benefit."
October 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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vajra.me
Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash
October 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
bluebombardier.bsky.social
How it started vs. How it’s going
20 bobbins of yarn wound around clothespins, arranged in a 4x5 square 20 bobbins of yarn wound on clothespins, clipped to the edges of a box with a tangle of yarn inside it
October 3, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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eizebasa.baby
Being friends with a fantasy author is fun.
Text conversation: "I need a name for the place where all the sex magic happens, the place [REDACTED] needs rescuing from." "The Hall Of The Nymphomancers" "Be serious." "The Fornicatorium." "lol, it's more of a religious thing. Like a temple." "Our Lady Of Perpetual Gooning" Text conversation, continued. "why did i bother" "The Crescendojo" "How are you coming up with these so fast??" "I've got it!" [In-N-Out logo]
October 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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rajandelman.bsky.social
The bees have discovered Brutalism
killhamster.bsky.social Satanic Manic @killhamster.bsky.social · Sep 28
Nature is healing
September 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM