Kay Orchison
@kayorchison.bsky.social
Former visual artist. Occasionally still a musician. Mostly writing SF/horror these days, with excursions into amnesiac memoirs. Disabled, keen indoorsman, BLOCKS WITH GAY ABANDON. You were warned. He/him
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Kay Orchison
@kayorchison.bsky.social
· Aug 23
Facial ID has arrived in the UK and is coming to Australia in November, so I'm putting my Signal contact here for anyone who's lost DMs.
Here I block on vibes. On Signal if you're not someone I already know you're gonna have to work pretty hard not to get blocked.
Try me here first
KayOrchison.71
Here I block on vibes. On Signal if you're not someone I already know you're gonna have to work pretty hard not to get blocked.
Try me here first
KayOrchison.71
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this is what hacking the mainframe actually means
January 5, 2026 at 9:11 PM
this is what hacking the mainframe actually means
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Bigger & bigger & bigger models give a bigger & better pool of potential responses, but they do not address the fundamental issue with LLMs - they are not thinking machines, & they never will be
They are a clever little trick which looks like thinking unless you poke it too hard
They are a clever little trick which looks like thinking unless you poke it too hard
January 6, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Bigger & bigger & bigger models give a bigger & better pool of potential responses, but they do not address the fundamental issue with LLMs - they are not thinking machines, & they never will be
They are a clever little trick which looks like thinking unless you poke it too hard
They are a clever little trick which looks like thinking unless you poke it too hard
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The PBS is a national treasure.
Australia Institute research shows the prices Australians would pay if Trump had his way and dismantled our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.🤯
#auspol
Australia Institute research shows the prices Australians would pay if Trump had his way and dismantled our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.🤯
#auspol
January 5, 2026 at 12:56 AM
The PBS is a national treasure.
Australia Institute research shows the prices Australians would pay if Trump had his way and dismantled our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.🤯
#auspol
Australia Institute research shows the prices Australians would pay if Trump had his way and dismantled our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.🤯
#auspol
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I had a lovely chat w/the kid at the UPS store today who was wearing a real, old school watch that only TOLD TIME. Turns out he actually repairs watches as his side hustle and said it's very much like putting together a puzzle. It's wild how that one small interaction made me feel great all day
One of my goals for 2026 is to either get my ass out of the house every day or have a real, even brief, chat online with somebody who doesn't live in my house and who isn't a work colleague, and even that small amount of human connection makes me vastly less likely to lose my shit over some nonsense
January 6, 2026 at 1:48 AM
I had a lovely chat w/the kid at the UPS store today who was wearing a real, old school watch that only TOLD TIME. Turns out he actually repairs watches as his side hustle and said it's very much like putting together a puzzle. It's wild how that one small interaction made me feel great all day
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Read all the way to the end
Read all the way to the end
Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
January 6, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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Read all the way to the end
Read all the way to the end
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Somehow, manifest destiny returned
January 6, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Somehow, manifest destiny returned
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Europe should already be planning for a post-NATO future
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 6, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Europe should already be planning for a post-NATO future
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Just saw this in LinkedIn for anyone interested in looking into Grok's production of CSAM and non-consensual sexualised imagery.
www.linkedin.com/posts/mtechl...
www.linkedin.com/posts/mtechl...
January 6, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Just saw this in LinkedIn for anyone interested in looking into Grok's production of CSAM and non-consensual sexualised imagery.
www.linkedin.com/posts/mtechl...
www.linkedin.com/posts/mtechl...
That brief involuntary revelation when you're on the phone to someone and you have to chastise one of the cats like "Naughty girl! Stop it! Yes you know what I'm talking about!" and you hear the person you're talking to get audibly hot and flustered until you say "No hunting your sister!" and hiss
January 6, 2026 at 8:34 AM
That brief involuntary revelation when you're on the phone to someone and you have to chastise one of the cats like "Naughty girl! Stop it! Yes you know what I'm talking about!" and you hear the person you're talking to get audibly hot and flustered until you say "No hunting your sister!" and hiss
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Bunch of the reddest and maddest dudes in the history of online seeing the vast and subtle American empire and screaming THAT'S PUSSY SHIT before tearing it all to pieces so they can be A Real Man
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
January 6, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Bunch of the reddest and maddest dudes in the history of online seeing the vast and subtle American empire and screaming THAT'S PUSSY SHIT before tearing it all to pieces so they can be A Real Man
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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anyway please share this around and report it yourself if you can? it's absurd to see LITERAL RUSSIAN NEO NAZI PROPAGANDA being sold on the front page of steam. sign of the times I guess.
ran into what i'm fairly confident is coded neo nazi propaganda on the steam front page today store.steampowered.com/app/3107800/... not even joking.
Save 50% on LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 on Steam
LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 is a cooperative slasher action game, a high–quality continuation of the SENSATIONAL first part. Insidious lizards attacked the lands of the Rus again. HYPERBOREA is on fire and onl...
store.steampowered.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:55 AM
anyway please share this around and report it yourself if you can? it's absurd to see LITERAL RUSSIAN NEO NAZI PROPAGANDA being sold on the front page of steam. sign of the times I guess.
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my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility
January 6, 2026 at 3:12 AM
my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility
I swear, every fash-fic road leads inexorably back to Helena fkn Blavatsky
How did one con artist do so much lasting damage to the world
How did one con artist do so much lasting damage to the world
January 6, 2026 at 3:12 AM
I swear, every fash-fic road leads inexorably back to Helena fkn Blavatsky
How did one con artist do so much lasting damage to the world
How did one con artist do so much lasting damage to the world
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One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
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Not disagreeing with OP by any means but I feel like a not-zero of wine moms are covert bullies and former Mean Girls and giving them a deserving target is a net good for society, like finally giving a border collie trapped in a suburban development 20 acres and a flock of sleep
we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work
January 5, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Not disagreeing with OP by any means but I feel like a not-zero of wine moms are covert bullies and former Mean Girls and giving them a deserving target is a net good for society, like finally giving a border collie trapped in a suburban development 20 acres and a flock of sleep
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we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work
January 5, 2026 at 8:44 PM
we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work
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I'm thinking about the time I was capturing field recordings for an album and got a genuinely weird, frightening EVP. Wish I still had the recording!
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If you, like me, love an unexpected ghost encounter, pick up our dark and scary #ghost anthology: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/why-...
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January 5, 2026 at 3:34 PM
I'm thinking about the time I was capturing field recordings for an album and got a genuinely weird, frightening EVP. Wish I still had the recording!
If you, like me, love an unexpected ghost encounter, pick up our dark and scary #ghost anthology: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/why-...
If you, like me, love an unexpected ghost encounter, pick up our dark and scary #ghost anthology: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/why-...
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A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
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Brooklyn, my story in Winter in the City, made Ellen's recommended 2025 stories
ellendatlow.com/2026/01/03/f...
ellendatlow.com/2026/01/03/f...
January 5, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Brooklyn, my story in Winter in the City, made Ellen's recommended 2025 stories
ellendatlow.com/2026/01/03/f...
ellendatlow.com/2026/01/03/f...
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Hookland has Old Mother Bone as well as Dame Thorne and Dame Clink.
January 5, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Hookland has Old Mother Bone as well as Dame Thorne and Dame Clink.
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All along the cut there are half-sunken boats. Each attracts folklore to itself. Here a cursing, there an attack by Stay Belows. This isn't just speculation by children. The towpath is a territory of rumours. Each lock an exchange of gossip, a fluid network of minor myth. – #MattAdams, 1982
January 5, 2026 at 3:12 PM
All along the cut there are half-sunken boats. Each attracts folklore to itself. Here a cursing, there an attack by Stay Belows. This isn't just speculation by children. The towpath is a territory of rumours. Each lock an exchange of gossip, a fluid network of minor myth. – #MattAdams, 1982
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Here comes a Hollowing Man
To empty all of your insides out
Here comes the Stuffing Man
To have a good rummage about
For you are his child
Stuffed with straw and bone
For you are his child
Stuffed with teeth and stone
- Trad. Hookland nursery rhyme
To empty all of your insides out
Here comes the Stuffing Man
To have a good rummage about
For you are his child
Stuffed with straw and bone
For you are his child
Stuffed with teeth and stone
- Trad. Hookland nursery rhyme
January 5, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Here comes a Hollowing Man
To empty all of your insides out
Here comes the Stuffing Man
To have a good rummage about
For you are his child
Stuffed with straw and bone
For you are his child
Stuffed with teeth and stone
- Trad. Hookland nursery rhyme
To empty all of your insides out
Here comes the Stuffing Man
To have a good rummage about
For you are his child
Stuffed with straw and bone
For you are his child
Stuffed with teeth and stone
- Trad. Hookland nursery rhyme
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You wouldn’t stand up in a cinema a shout: “I know where that was filmed!” It would be filthy manners. Please don’t do this is Hookland. We respect the fourth wall in the county. My DMs are open if anyone wants ask where a picture was taken. Replies publicly breaking the fourth wall will be hidden.
January 4, 2026 at 12:50 PM
You wouldn’t stand up in a cinema a shout: “I know where that was filmed!” It would be filthy manners. Please don’t do this is Hookland. We respect the fourth wall in the county. My DMs are open if anyone wants ask where a picture was taken. Replies publicly breaking the fourth wall will be hidden.
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They can definitely tell who the enemy of the planet is.
North Atlantic #Orca appear to be expanding from harassing #yachts to going after #commercialvessels
North Atlantic warning: orcas now targeting commercial vessels in what experts call coordinated assaults share.google/kwy5wy9eIc33...
North Atlantic warning: orcas now targeting commercial vessels in what experts call coordinated assaults share.google/kwy5wy9eIc33...
North Atlantic warning: orcas now targeting commercial vessels in what experts call coordinated assaults
The wind drops, the radar hums softly, and the crew relaxes a fraction as the cargo ship cuts a clean path through the water. Then the first shudder runs
share.google
January 5, 2026 at 8:50 AM
They can definitely tell who the enemy of the planet is.