Alizon Device
@feedamongthelilies.bsky.social
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So much for free speech.
State Department Slammed After Requiring Visa Applicants To Make All Social Media Posts Public For Vetting
Where are all those free speech absolutists now?
www.comicsands.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
So much for free speech.
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The U.S., notoriously passive and bombing another country because someone made us do it
June 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The U.S., notoriously passive and bombing another country because someone made us do it
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Dr. Biden is not a medical doctor, and there’s no such thing as stage five cancer, Junior.
May 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Dr. Biden is not a medical doctor, and there’s no such thing as stage five cancer, Junior.
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I feel sorry for all the bookstore workers who now have some customer screaming in their face that Chicago Sun-Times said a book existed and refusing to believe anyone working there that it doesn't.
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I feel sorry for all the bookstore workers who now have some customer screaming in their face that Chicago Sun-Times said a book existed and refusing to believe anyone working there that it doesn't.
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We had the same thing happening in the Dutch Harpers Bazar. The books are real but the discriptions are AI and do not match the stories in the books. The magazine refused to say there was AI involved until the story blew up www.tzum.info/2025/01/nieu...
Nieuws: Harper's Bazaar geeft na ophef toe dat het ChatGPT gebruikte voor lijstje beste boeken van het jaar - Tzum
Gisteren publiceerde Thomas Heerma van Voss een column op de lage landen die het nodige stof deed opwaaien. De auteur schreef over het eindejaarslijstje
www.tzum.info
May 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We had the same thing happening in the Dutch Harpers Bazar. The books are real but the discriptions are AI and do not match the stories in the books. The magazine refused to say there was AI involved until the story blew up www.tzum.info/2025/01/nieu...
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Others are hammering this home as well, but you're well within your right to refer to the interview subject as simply "the person" or "the individual." If they didn't write it, they're not a writer.
May 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Others are hammering this home as well, but you're well within your right to refer to the interview subject as simply "the person" or "the individual." If they didn't write it, they're not a writer.
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I don't know if that AI-generated "summer reading list" in the Chicago Sun-Times is more upsetting as an author who would've killed for that space or a blogger who would've killed to write the real version, but it's all terrible, actually!
May 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I don't know if that AI-generated "summer reading list" in the Chicago Sun-Times is more upsetting as an author who would've killed for that space or a blogger who would've killed to write the real version, but it's all terrible, actually!
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Someone trying to say something negative about Cory Booker said that he had just come back from a book tour. I'm pretty sure they confused him with Hakeem Jeffries.
April 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Someone trying to say something negative about Cory Booker said that he had just come back from a book tour. I'm pretty sure they confused him with Hakeem Jeffries.
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New Jersey State Sen. Cory Booker leading America out of the darkness by speaking the light into existence:
Always & forever welcome at the Orange Table of Virtuous Force my friend.
Keep speaking the language of light.
Always & forever welcome at the Orange Table of Virtuous Force my friend.
Keep speaking the language of light.
April 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
New Jersey State Sen. Cory Booker leading America out of the darkness by speaking the light into existence:
Always & forever welcome at the Orange Table of Virtuous Force my friend.
Keep speaking the language of light.
Always & forever welcome at the Orange Table of Virtuous Force my friend.
Keep speaking the language of light.
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us politics
hell yes! I especially love that it was a Black man, considering what thurmond stood for. also, I'm reealllllyyyy sick of people saying things like this "aren't enough". every act of resistance is resistance. do not let them convince you that nothing is better than something.
hell yes! I especially love that it was a Black man, considering what thurmond stood for. also, I'm reealllllyyyy sick of people saying things like this "aren't enough". every act of resistance is resistance. do not let them convince you that nothing is better than something.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
April 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
us politics
hell yes! I especially love that it was a Black man, considering what thurmond stood for. also, I'm reealllllyyyy sick of people saying things like this "aren't enough". every act of resistance is resistance. do not let them convince you that nothing is better than something.
hell yes! I especially love that it was a Black man, considering what thurmond stood for. also, I'm reealllllyyyy sick of people saying things like this "aren't enough". every act of resistance is resistance. do not let them convince you that nothing is better than something.
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New litmus test for the senate just dropped: If you can’t fillbuster as long as Sen booker you’re too old to be in the senate
April 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
New litmus test for the senate just dropped: If you can’t fillbuster as long as Sen booker you’re too old to be in the senate
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It’s easy to shit on Corey Booker for being corny or not substantively stopping anything, and yea obviously it can’t begin and end with this. But we’ve been screaming for somebody to do something and he’s trying to do something, so that’s good I think.
April 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
It’s easy to shit on Corey Booker for being corny or not substantively stopping anything, and yea obviously it can’t begin and end with this. But we’ve been screaming for somebody to do something and he’s trying to do something, so that’s good I think.
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It would be very if Cory Booker got lots of postcards from around the nation (& the world for that matter) thanking him for taking a stand:
306 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
306 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
It would be very if Cory Booker got lots of postcards from around the nation (& the world for that matter) thanking him for taking a stand:
306 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
306 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
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I'm sober now so I went into a bar and ordered an Amanda Palmer. The barkeep asked "what's that?" So I told him "It's like an Arnold Palmer, but I'm not gonna pay you for it."
January 14, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I'm sober now so I went into a bar and ordered an Amanda Palmer. The barkeep asked "what's that?" So I told him "It's like an Arnold Palmer, but I'm not gonna pay you for it."
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2/12 As so often happens when it's a famous artist, some folk dive into an attempted analysis of why or how someone who creates wonderful things could also do awful things. That's not necessarily the most useful thing to do...
January 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
2/12 As so often happens when it's a famous artist, some folk dive into an attempted analysis of why or how someone who creates wonderful things could also do awful things. That's not necessarily the most useful thing to do...
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I was just saying to a friend, someone who was horrified by a prominent person’s wretched behavior (but this individual was fine/good to my friend)—I said, “never forget, these people choose the targets of their generosity & goodwill & appreciation as carefully as they choose their abuse targets.”
I think all the time about the interviewer who asked Meryl Streep “how did you not know about Weinstein” and she was like “I didn’t know because he NEEDED me not to know”
it isn’t a character flaw to have been deceived by someone who is a deceit expert cultivating the cover of your faith & goodwill
it isn’t a character flaw to have been deceived by someone who is a deceit expert cultivating the cover of your faith & goodwill
Whenever someone is outed as problematic, there are a billion people who need to see, in sky-writing, "you didn't know, that's ok, but now you do, act accordingly."
No one expects you to be psychic or in on every whisper network, and folks inferring so aren't being fair. WHISPER networks. WHISPER.
No one expects you to be psychic or in on every whisper network, and folks inferring so aren't being fair. WHISPER networks. WHISPER.
July 10, 2024 at 7:25 PM
I was just saying to a friend, someone who was horrified by a prominent person’s wretched behavior (but this individual was fine/good to my friend)—I said, “never forget, these people choose the targets of their generosity & goodwill & appreciation as carefully as they choose their abuse targets.”
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'Master storyteller' Neil Gaiman telling nannies to 'go ahead and take a bath' and strolling in naked like Harvey Weinstein.
The ego and self-delusion is insane. *Nobody* wants unsolicited dinosaur anal-focused BDSM from a fossil who probably looks like a blob of shredded newspaper.
Absurd.
The ego and self-delusion is insane. *Nobody* wants unsolicited dinosaur anal-focused BDSM from a fossil who probably looks like a blob of shredded newspaper.
Absurd.
January 14, 2025 at 3:20 AM
'Master storyteller' Neil Gaiman telling nannies to 'go ahead and take a bath' and strolling in naked like Harvey Weinstein.
The ego and self-delusion is insane. *Nobody* wants unsolicited dinosaur anal-focused BDSM from a fossil who probably looks like a blob of shredded newspaper.
Absurd.
The ego and self-delusion is insane. *Nobody* wants unsolicited dinosaur anal-focused BDSM from a fossil who probably looks like a blob of shredded newspaper.
Absurd.
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Maybe Grant Morrison had a clearer 'view' of Neil Gaiman than anyone else had.
"Neil finally admitting he's psychopathic. He only pretends to be this lovely person who's terribly friendly."
i.imgur.com/XIjFK5l.jpg
"Neil finally admitting he's psychopathic. He only pretends to be this lovely person who's terribly friendly."
i.imgur.com/XIjFK5l.jpg
January 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Maybe Grant Morrison had a clearer 'view' of Neil Gaiman than anyone else had.
"Neil finally admitting he's psychopathic. He only pretends to be this lovely person who's terribly friendly."
i.imgur.com/XIjFK5l.jpg
"Neil finally admitting he's psychopathic. He only pretends to be this lovely person who's terribly friendly."
i.imgur.com/XIjFK5l.jpg
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It’s good and necessary that the discussion around Gaiman isn’t just about “bad man did bad things” (though he did).
It’s also about how the wealthy *require* poverty and precariousness to exploit others. They need a ready supply of the vulnerable.
It’s also about how the wealthy *require* poverty and precariousness to exploit others. They need a ready supply of the vulnerable.
January 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
It’s good and necessary that the discussion around Gaiman isn’t just about “bad man did bad things” (though he did).
It’s also about how the wealthy *require* poverty and precariousness to exploit others. They need a ready supply of the vulnerable.
It’s also about how the wealthy *require* poverty and precariousness to exploit others. They need a ready supply of the vulnerable.
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Something I have been struggling to phrase in a useful way is that writing about abuse in a way that will resonate with survivors is something survivors can do, but a smart and talented abuser can also manage.
(And of course a lot of abusers are survivors as well).
(And of course a lot of abusers are survivors as well).
January 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Something I have been struggling to phrase in a useful way is that writing about abuse in a way that will resonate with survivors is something survivors can do, but a smart and talented abuser can also manage.
(And of course a lot of abusers are survivors as well).
(And of course a lot of abusers are survivors as well).
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Nice people are struggling over the revelations on Gaiman, and something I keep hearing is, 'His work had a big influence on how I shaped my own identity.' So here's something to remember:
You did that. He didn't do it for you. 1/
You did that. He didn't do it for you. 1/
January 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Nice people are struggling over the revelations on Gaiman, and something I keep hearing is, 'His work had a big influence on how I shaped my own identity.' So here's something to remember:
You did that. He didn't do it for you. 1/
You did that. He didn't do it for you. 1/