eviŁrooster
@evilrooster.bsky.social
Dual US/UK techie living in the Netherlands. Technical writer and contagious documentarian by day, bookbinder by night.
My opinions are my own, and do not reflect those of anyone who employs, hangs out with, or is in any other way stuck with me.
My opinions are my own, and do not reflect those of anyone who employs, hangs out with, or is in any other way stuck with me.
Subskeet: I know it’s hard, venturing into the world of transformative works for the first time, to accept that just as your clever work may not be everyone’s cup of tea, so what you find hopelessly cringe may also be valid and valuable.
But it’s worth the effort.
But it’s worth the effort.
December 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Subskeet: I know it’s hard, venturing into the world of transformative works for the first time, to accept that just as your clever work may not be everyone’s cup of tea, so what you find hopelessly cringe may also be valid and valuable.
But it’s worth the effort.
But it’s worth the effort.
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i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
The gnomes have added another work to our art wall: Gnomerican Gothic.
December 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The gnomes have added another work to our art wall: Gnomerican Gothic.
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trans kids deserve the goddamn world and when we swing this pendulum back in the enemy’s face i hope there’s thousands of them who feel safe and supported enough to come out. liberation and justice for all. fuck the haters.
December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
trans kids deserve the goddamn world and when we swing this pendulum back in the enemy’s face i hope there’s thousands of them who feel safe and supported enough to come out. liberation and justice for all. fuck the haters.
Well, it’s Christmas for me, so have my favorite Christmas story.
www.jowaltonbooks.com/short-storie...
www.jowaltonbooks.com/short-storie...
What Joseph Felt (A Christmas Story) | Jo Walton -- Science Fiction and Fantasy Author
www.jowaltonbooks.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Well, it’s Christmas for me, so have my favorite Christmas story.
www.jowaltonbooks.com/short-storie...
www.jowaltonbooks.com/short-storie...
This is as reasonable as the theory that James Maybrick was Jack the Ripper.
greatest generation update; ex-Marine traumatised in combat on Okinawa may have been both the Black Dahlia perpetrator *and* the Zodiac killer: www.latimes.com/california/s...
An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings
Two retired LAPD homicide detectives say that both notorious cases are solved -- with a single culprit -- thanks to the work of a novice sleuth.
www.latimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
This is as reasonable as the theory that James Maybrick was Jack the Ripper.
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God jul, nästa år vänder vi kampen mot fascismen till seger!
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
God jul, nästa år vänder vi kampen mot fascismen till seger!
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This needed better alt-text (it had adequate alt, but it’s art, and art needs a description, not just attribution)
It’s such a powerful piece of commentary.
It’s such a powerful piece of commentary.
December 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This needed better alt-text (it had adequate alt, but it’s art, and art needs a description, not just attribution)
It’s such a powerful piece of commentary.
It’s such a powerful piece of commentary.
It’s not yet Christmas, so I’m not too late to post my Advent story: Silence in the Hill-Country
evilrooster.dreamwidth.org/50289.html
evilrooster.dreamwidth.org/50289.html
December 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
It’s not yet Christmas, so I’m not too late to post my Advent story: Silence in the Hill-Country
evilrooster.dreamwidth.org/50289.html
evilrooster.dreamwidth.org/50289.html
On Saturday M and I bought a table to put in a corner of the living room and play games on. Chunky, wood, old, leafs out. (1/n)
December 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
On Saturday M and I bought a table to put in a corner of the living room and play games on. Chunky, wood, old, leafs out. (1/n)
This is just to say
I have read
the book
that was in
your training data
And which
you had absorbed
as mere
statistics
Forgive me
your summary
misses the point
of reading at all.
I have read
the book
that was in
your training data
And which
you had absorbed
as mere
statistics
Forgive me
your summary
misses the point
of reading at all.
The “AI” has not read the book.
Even if the book
was in its training data,
it has just absorbed it
as a set
of statistics.
It will juggle you a “summary”
that might
or might not
relate to the conclusions
of the actual text.
The only way
you’ll know
is to read it
yourself.
Even if the book
was in its training data,
it has just absorbed it
as a set
of statistics.
It will juggle you a “summary”
that might
or might not
relate to the conclusions
of the actual text.
The only way
you’ll know
is to read it
yourself.
The “AI” has not read the book. Even if the book was in its training data, it has just absorbed it as a set of statistics. It will juggle you a “summary” that might or might not relate to the conclusions of the actual text. The only way you’ll know is to read it yourself.
December 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is just to say
I have read
the book
that was in
your training data
And which
you had absorbed
as mere
statistics
Forgive me
your summary
misses the point
of reading at all.
I have read
the book
that was in
your training data
And which
you had absorbed
as mere
statistics
Forgive me
your summary
misses the point
of reading at all.
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My friends. Starting tomorrow the daylight returns. Finally. Longer days. Longer and longer and longer days.
December 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
My friends. Starting tomorrow the daylight returns. Finally. Longer days. Longer and longer and longer days.
Yeah, I’ve learned too much about the organ donor market to think that’s a good idea.
“Rather than relying on an implant or a patient's own body fat to add volume to hips or augment breasts, alloClae — which can cost as much as $100,000 per procedure — uses donor fat from a cadaver as a first-of-its-kind body filler.”
Corporate types are clamoring for a new kind of plastic surgery — using dead people's fat
Corporate types are waiting weeks for — and spending big on — alloClae, which cuts out the recovery time typically associated with body enhancements.
www.businessinsider.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Yeah, I’ve learned too much about the organ donor market to think that’s a good idea.
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Am thinking of writing a Christmas/anniversary post about why Jane Austen is our greatest writer about law.
She can deftly describe the most complex of legal relationships - entails, succession, etc - in a sentence or two. And you don’t even notice she’s done it.
Awesome.
She can deftly describe the most complex of legal relationships - entails, succession, etc - in a sentence or two. And you don’t even notice she’s done it.
Awesome.
December 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Am thinking of writing a Christmas/anniversary post about why Jane Austen is our greatest writer about law.
She can deftly describe the most complex of legal relationships - entails, succession, etc - in a sentence or two. And you don’t even notice she’s done it.
Awesome.
She can deftly describe the most complex of legal relationships - entails, succession, etc - in a sentence or two. And you don’t even notice she’s done it.
Awesome.
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THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
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This Christmas as always we ask the question, is Die Hard a sandwich?
December 20, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This Christmas as always we ask the question, is Die Hard a sandwich?
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catching up on the day’s news and learning some really disturbing things about the monolith from 2001
December 20, 2025 at 5:31 AM
catching up on the day’s news and learning some really disturbing things about the monolith from 2001
My boy Vitruvius got it wrong!
Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete. https://cnn.it/3MUd237
December 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
My boy Vitruvius got it wrong!
The AO3 joke, but no longer funny.
If they're going to award Nebulas for partial LLM-created works then I want a piece of those Nebulas since my work was stolen to create them.
I'm so disappointed in @sfwa.org for this. I understand that by requiring disclosure of partial LLM-created works, as their announcement states, means SFWA's letting "nominators and the voters" make the final decision. BUT YOU'RE STILL ALLOWING SUCH WORKS ON THE NEBULA AWARDS FINAL BALLOT! 1/
December 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The AO3 joke, but no longer funny.
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There's a real synergy between this and that WSJ article about estranged children going around.
We’re all being punished because a bunch of unattractive billionaires are mad they can only buy the faux respect of sycophants, and not real cultural influence.
December 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
There's a real synergy between this and that WSJ article about estranged children going around.
I will never vote for someone who holds Reagan up as an example of anything good. So much of our rot started with him.
The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
December 17, 2025 at 6:18 AM
I will never vote for someone who holds Reagan up as an example of anything good. So much of our rot started with him.
Colleague recently changed their name to better reflect their gender identity.
Another colleague and I were talking about a thing they had written. Rolling their new name around between us for the pleasure of saying it. For the joy of seeing them becoming more themself.
Trans friends, we do this.
Another colleague and I were talking about a thing they had written. Rolling their new name around between us for the pleasure of saying it. For the joy of seeing them becoming more themself.
Trans friends, we do this.
December 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Colleague recently changed their name to better reflect their gender identity.
Another colleague and I were talking about a thing they had written. Rolling their new name around between us for the pleasure of saying it. For the joy of seeing them becoming more themself.
Trans friends, we do this.
Another colleague and I were talking about a thing they had written. Rolling their new name around between us for the pleasure of saying it. For the joy of seeing them becoming more themself.
Trans friends, we do this.
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my name is cow
and wen its nite
and when a star
is shiyning brite
and three wise men
give me the nod
i walk up close
I lik the God
and wen its nite
and when a star
is shiyning brite
and three wise men
give me the nod
i walk up close
I lik the God
December 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
my name is cow
and wen its nite
and when a star
is shiyning brite
and three wise men
give me the nod
i walk up close
I lik the God
and wen its nite
and when a star
is shiyning brite
and three wise men
give me the nod
i walk up close
I lik the God
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sundogs! at the library
December 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
sundogs! at the library