Carly Orosz
@carlyorosz.bsky.social
Writer, wrangler of children, enthusiastic-if not always successful-grower of edible plants. Avid consumer of caffeine and fancy cheese.
It's hydrangea season again! #gardening
July 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
It's hydrangea season again! #gardening
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This is such a good point. Ozzy Osbourne had a band called Black Sabbath and invented heavy metal music and Hulk Hogan was in the Rocky movies and had children's shows and action figures. Ozzy is now universally beloved and people are holding marathon forgetting sessions to rid themselves of Hogan.
Watching the shift in response between Ozzy and Hogan’s death should serve as a reality check to everyone that in life, it doesn’t matter how much money you manage to accumulate or how you express yourself - people will remember you for who you were as a person, esp. others.
Be a force for good.
Be a force for good.
July 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This is such a good point. Ozzy Osbourne had a band called Black Sabbath and invented heavy metal music and Hulk Hogan was in the Rocky movies and had children's shows and action figures. Ozzy is now universally beloved and people are holding marathon forgetting sessions to rid themselves of Hogan.
PSA: If you're moving a big metal bathtub in the bed of your pickup, even if it FEELS like it's not going to go anywhere no matter how many bumps you hit 'cause it's heavier than a dead star...you still need to tie it down.
July 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
PSA: If you're moving a big metal bathtub in the bed of your pickup, even if it FEELS like it's not going to go anywhere no matter how many bumps you hit 'cause it's heavier than a dead star...you still need to tie it down.
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"I don't want to raise my children! Let's let Visa do it!"
That's all I'm hearing right now. Nobody knows what a god damned power button is, or what parental controls are, or, you know , TALK TO YOUR KIDS!
That's all I'm hearing right now. Nobody knows what a god damned power button is, or what parental controls are, or, you know , TALK TO YOUR KIDS!
July 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
"I don't want to raise my children! Let's let Visa do it!"
That's all I'm hearing right now. Nobody knows what a god damned power button is, or what parental controls are, or, you know , TALK TO YOUR KIDS!
That's all I'm hearing right now. Nobody knows what a god damned power button is, or what parental controls are, or, you know , TALK TO YOUR KIDS!
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you rail against how wasteful AI is since it’s an idiotic technology and yet you meet your basic needs using modern conveniences? interesting.
![r/DefendingAlArt u/storytellerai • 9h
Anti Hypocrisy. They never tell you all the "bad" things they do.
[AI generated cartoon man saying "AI uses too much power" surrounded by examples such as "uses chemicals to clean"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:awzzrtrcrvpnxi3ph2sbhxwv/bafkreibllv2bkf7thhvxnws2eljd5njlycvx6pnmk3yvsdoi3ieaykvi3a@jpeg)
July 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
you rail against how wasteful AI is since it’s an idiotic technology and yet you meet your basic needs using modern conveniences? interesting.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your children are not extensions of you. They are their own people. They have rights. It is your job, should you have children, to protect those rights. And it is the community’s job to call you the fuck out if you’re not doing that.
July 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your children are not extensions of you. They are their own people. They have rights. It is your job, should you have children, to protect those rights. And it is the community’s job to call you the fuck out if you’re not doing that.
Until my toddler's pronunciation gets clearer, her emotional support stuffie's name will unfortunately be Fuck.
July 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Until my toddler's pronunciation gets clearer, her emotional support stuffie's name will unfortunately be Fuck.
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It's true; there's just a lot of darkness to muddle through first 🤘🏼😈
![inner darkness aside I am filled with whimsy and love
[Illustration of a unicorn with a red eye and its legs over a barbed wire fence]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tcvpjkdcsdotgvcgdf6epyoe/bafkreicjtkbxndwx4a423wwkhxjstf3uql73rat43qpswfe6oz534ryr2i@jpeg)
July 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
It's true; there's just a lot of darkness to muddle through first 🤘🏼😈
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Speaking as an academic, and as a punster: I am in awe.
Ah yes. The best article title ever
July 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Speaking as an academic, and as a punster: I am in awe.
Got the stinkiest of stink eyes from my oldest this morning because I noticed she'd left her dinner leftovers out the night before and put them in the fridge...not knowing she'd deliberately left them out so they'd spoil overnight and she wouldn't have to eat zucchini casserole.
July 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Got the stinkiest of stink eyes from my oldest this morning because I noticed she'd left her dinner leftovers out the night before and put them in the fridge...not knowing she'd deliberately left them out so they'd spoil overnight and she wouldn't have to eat zucchini casserole.
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When I talk about my opposite and naked hostility toward AI, people will point to emergent technology in the past that disrupted. But the thing is were I there at the time, I would have been an opponent of that too. This does not mean I am anti-technology, or didn't want the tech to develop. 🧵
July 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
When I talk about my opposite and naked hostility toward AI, people will point to emergent technology in the past that disrupted. But the thing is were I there at the time, I would have been an opponent of that too. This does not mean I am anti-technology, or didn't want the tech to develop. 🧵
Oh, the things I could achieve if I had half the tenacity and conviction of a toddler steadfastly refusing to eat her eggs (which she likes and asked for) for some goddamn reason.
July 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Oh, the things I could achieve if I had half the tenacity and conviction of a toddler steadfastly refusing to eat her eggs (which she likes and asked for) for some goddamn reason.
My older kid left for summer camp today, and apparently made us an offer we couldn't refuse on her way out. 😳
July 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
My older kid left for summer camp today, and apparently made us an offer we couldn't refuse on her way out. 😳
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We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games!
Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI.
You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:-
www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal
Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI.
You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:-
www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal
February 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games!
Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI.
You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:-
www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal
Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI.
You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:-
www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal
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AI has allowed the most incurious people on earth to briefly surface like cicadas before fizzling out and leaving the landscape dotted with their abandoned husks. Just IMO
July 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
AI has allowed the most incurious people on earth to briefly surface like cicadas before fizzling out and leaving the landscape dotted with their abandoned husks. Just IMO
I don't like fireworks, but please enjoy this picture of a well-fed monarch butterfly caterpillar on the butterfly weed plant at my inlaws' house. #gardening #butterflygarden
July 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I don't like fireworks, but please enjoy this picture of a well-fed monarch butterfly caterpillar on the butterfly weed plant at my inlaws' house. #gardening #butterflygarden
The fun thing about the age gap between my kids is, it's just big enough that by the time the older one finally stopped making massive messes by picking up big globs of cooked rice and eating them like apples, the younger one discovered the joys of doing just that.
July 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The fun thing about the age gap between my kids is, it's just big enough that by the time the older one finally stopped making massive messes by picking up big globs of cooked rice and eating them like apples, the younger one discovered the joys of doing just that.
SIGHHH. Happy "dinguses you wouldn't trust with a butter knife set off actual explosives the week before AND the week after the actual designated fireworks day, making your kids' sleep worse and giving your pets PTSD" Independence Day to my countryfolk who celebrate, I suppose.
July 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
SIGHHH. Happy "dinguses you wouldn't trust with a butter knife set off actual explosives the week before AND the week after the actual designated fireworks day, making your kids' sleep worse and giving your pets PTSD" Independence Day to my countryfolk who celebrate, I suppose.
Your daily reminder not to ask ChatGPT for help with your legal troubles. Or your medical questions. Or your homework. Or...anything, really.
I have three hearings at three different courthouses today. At the second, someone was sobbing outside the courtroom. They'd asked ChatGPT what to say in Court. They believed what it told them.
They lost because it hallucinated, and they didn't know there were no do-overs.
They lost because it hallucinated, and they didn't know there were no do-overs.
June 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Your daily reminder not to ask ChatGPT for help with your legal troubles. Or your medical questions. Or your homework. Or...anything, really.
People have our ice cube trays all tied up making ice cubes (with plain old *water!* Imagine that!) But it's been 90ish degrees out for days and we have some silicone candy molds I could repurpose to make coffee ice cubes, so I guess I can't complain.
June 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
People have our ice cube trays all tied up making ice cubes (with plain old *water!* Imagine that!) But it's been 90ish degrees out for days and we have some silicone candy molds I could repurpose to make coffee ice cubes, so I guess I can't complain.
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So glad I woke up to see this. Signed. Immediately and without hesitation.
‘Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers’
To add your name, please read and sign here: lithub.com/against-ai-a...
‘Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers’
To add your name, please read and sign here: lithub.com/against-ai-a...
June 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
So glad I woke up to see this. Signed. Immediately and without hesitation.
‘Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers’
To add your name, please read and sign here: lithub.com/against-ai-a...
‘Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers’
To add your name, please read and sign here: lithub.com/against-ai-a...
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If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.
June 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.
The lavender bush that has to be trimmed every year because it hogs the sprinkler head yielded a nice little crop of culinary lavender. Perfect for the one person (me) who likes lavender in our household. #gardening #ediblelandscaping
June 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The lavender bush that has to be trimmed every year because it hogs the sprinkler head yielded a nice little crop of culinary lavender. Perfect for the one person (me) who likes lavender in our household. #gardening #ediblelandscaping
A garden ninja paid us a visit last night. Probably to tell us to stop being lazy and put down more mulch. #gardening
June 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A garden ninja paid us a visit last night. Probably to tell us to stop being lazy and put down more mulch. #gardening