Steeves
@devonshyr.bsky.social
Hamline MFAC
Writer
HS Teacher and Theatre Director
When I post here, it means I have other work I really don't want to do right now.
Writer
HS Teacher and Theatre Director
When I post here, it means I have other work I really don't want to do right now.
Went to a old childhood park. A golf course that had been there is now a nature preserve, which was pretty cool. The bridge I used to cross to get to my GF'S house in high school has been torn down. Also, I found this neat thing. Places age along with people, it turns out.
November 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Went to a old childhood park. A golf course that had been there is now a nature preserve, which was pretty cool. The bridge I used to cross to get to my GF'S house in high school has been torn down. Also, I found this neat thing. Places age along with people, it turns out.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
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this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
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Deskilling is real.
This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.
Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.
Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help
August 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Deskilling is real.
This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.
Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.
Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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I think that if you're a writer and you don't invent a word every now and then you're missing out on a solid chunk of the fun.
July 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I think that if you're a writer and you don't invent a word every now and then you're missing out on a solid chunk of the fun.
I've decided to implement a new policy in my life: noticing moments of Stupid Little Joy. The world is bad! Everyone won't shut up about it (rightfully)! And to preserve my mental health, I try to embrace a positive, hopeful mindset, but ya'll know that can be hard. But this is the genius of the SLJ
June 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I've decided to implement a new policy in my life: noticing moments of Stupid Little Joy. The world is bad! Everyone won't shut up about it (rightfully)! And to preserve my mental health, I try to embrace a positive, hopeful mindset, but ya'll know that can be hard. But this is the genius of the SLJ
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June 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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People who use AI think that they’re skipping to the success when they’re skipping to the failure. You begin and end your life as someone who has not written the novel, you did not teach yourself to express what was inside of you, you died without making something that no one else could make.
June 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
People who use AI think that they’re skipping to the success when they’re skipping to the failure. You begin and end your life as someone who has not written the novel, you did not teach yourself to express what was inside of you, you died without making something that no one else could make.
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This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.
June 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.
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I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger
June 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger
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This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
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at the core of andor is a very simple thing that i think about a lot the older i get and the more loss i naturally accrue: we are made up of all the people we've ever loved or respected, crown to heels
May 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
at the core of andor is a very simple thing that i think about a lot the older i get and the more loss i naturally accrue: we are made up of all the people we've ever loved or respected, crown to heels
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It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
May 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
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That is some moral clarity.
“This is violence disguised as law.”
“This is violence disguised as law.”
Providence City Councilor Justin Roias: “Yesterday, ICE tased & detained a Providence resident with a pregnant U.S. citizen wife & a green card interview that same day.”
April 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
That is some moral clarity.
“This is violence disguised as law.”
“This is violence disguised as law.”
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Words to live by.
April 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Words to live by.
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March 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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I can't speak for anyone else,
But a thing that I am finding is really helping me to get through all this nonsense
is helping others.
It can be something small- sharing a job ad with a fired colleague, looking over a resume- or something larger.
But helping others helps me.
But a thing that I am finding is really helping me to get through all this nonsense
is helping others.
It can be something small- sharing a job ad with a fired colleague, looking over a resume- or something larger.
But helping others helps me.
February 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I can't speak for anyone else,
But a thing that I am finding is really helping me to get through all this nonsense
is helping others.
It can be something small- sharing a job ad with a fired colleague, looking over a resume- or something larger.
But helping others helps me.
But a thing that I am finding is really helping me to get through all this nonsense
is helping others.
It can be something small- sharing a job ad with a fired colleague, looking over a resume- or something larger.
But helping others helps me.
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
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NYC bar owner explaining why bar has an analog jukebox: "We will never have a digital one. We’re just so sick of the internet."
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Why these bars are sticking with old-school offline jukeboxes
Plus, we made you a map of the analog jukeboxes you can still find across the city
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February 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
NYC bar owner explaining why bar has an analog jukebox: "We will never have a digital one. We’re just so sick of the internet."
nygroove.nyc/nyc-physical...
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Incredibly good advice for all workers
If they won't put it in writing yourself. Send an email (bcc yourself?): "Following our conversation on x date at x time regarding x, I am writing to clarify your directives. According to my notes, you instructed me to A, B, and C. If any of this is incorrect, please advise. I have some concerns."
February 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Incredibly good advice for all workers
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Writers, you might be struggling rn.
Math might help.
No, seriously.
If you write 300 (around a page) words a day, you will have an 80k book in 267 days. Less than a year.
If it's 200 words, it will take a little more than a year.
Doing it slowly is still doing it. 💪
Math might help.
No, seriously.
If you write 300 (around a page) words a day, you will have an 80k book in 267 days. Less than a year.
If it's 200 words, it will take a little more than a year.
Doing it slowly is still doing it. 💪
January 31, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Writers, you might be struggling rn.
Math might help.
No, seriously.
If you write 300 (around a page) words a day, you will have an 80k book in 267 days. Less than a year.
If it's 200 words, it will take a little more than a year.
Doing it slowly is still doing it. 💪
Math might help.
No, seriously.
If you write 300 (around a page) words a day, you will have an 80k book in 267 days. Less than a year.
If it's 200 words, it will take a little more than a year.
Doing it slowly is still doing it. 💪
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This is basically what C-3PO did in the original Star Wars movies and everyone was constantly telling him to shut the fuck up
"Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to buy a book where there’s only a 10 percent chance you’ll get past Page 6..."
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Opinion | AI Can Work for Us
A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This is basically what C-3PO did in the original Star Wars movies and everyone was constantly telling him to shut the fuck up