Mel (they/them)🐀
@kupgup.bsky.social
Neurospicy, queer. Feral goblin hermit since 2020.
I knit (mostly socks) and hang out with my pet rats and sometimes bake bread and stuff.
Sometimes I am sighted at post-apocalyptic preenactment events.
I knit (mostly socks) and hang out with my pet rats and sometimes bake bread and stuff.
Sometimes I am sighted at post-apocalyptic preenactment events.
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The Curse of Skorpox
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The Curse of Skorpox
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Life cycle of autistic special interests
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Life cycle of autistic special interests
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You always ask me “Jorts why are you so wet?” but I never ask why your phone is at 7%
November 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
You always ask me “Jorts why are you so wet?” but I never ask why your phone is at 7%
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THIS IS HUGE: No Kings Alliance just announced they're going to mobilize in support of our striking baristas.
No kings in the White House, No kings at work!
www.commondreams.org/news/starbuc...
No kings in the White House, No kings at work!
www.commondreams.org/news/starbuc...
'Don't Cross the Picket Line': No Kings Alliance Backs Starbucks Boycott During Workers Strike | Common Dreams
The No Kings Alliance stands in solidarity with Starbucks workers on strike for fair pay and contracts, highlighting CEO-worker pay disparity.
www.commondreams.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
THIS IS HUGE: No Kings Alliance just announced they're going to mobilize in support of our striking baristas.
No kings in the White House, No kings at work!
www.commondreams.org/news/starbuc...
No kings in the White House, No kings at work!
www.commondreams.org/news/starbuc...
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Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
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Philly is turning OUT today! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽🔥
Starbucks hasn't given us a proposal in almost a YEAR. They know we need fair pay, better staffing, and an end to union-busting.
Starbucks can’t ignore us any longer. And this is just the beginning! #NoContractNoCoffee
Starbucks hasn't given us a proposal in almost a YEAR. They know we need fair pay, better staffing, and an end to union-busting.
Starbucks can’t ignore us any longer. And this is just the beginning! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Philly is turning OUT today! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽🔥
Starbucks hasn't given us a proposal in almost a YEAR. They know we need fair pay, better staffing, and an end to union-busting.
Starbucks can’t ignore us any longer. And this is just the beginning! #NoContractNoCoffee
Starbucks hasn't given us a proposal in almost a YEAR. They know we need fair pay, better staffing, and an end to union-busting.
Starbucks can’t ignore us any longer. And this is just the beginning! #NoContractNoCoffee
Don't be a scab!
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Don't be a scab!
Breaking news: KITTY
November 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Breaking news: KITTY
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"You can't un-invent AI, just accept it already!"
We also invented asbestos, CFCs, lead-based makeup, and Crystal Pepsi. History is paved with the forgotten corpses of bad ideas that we didn't un-invent, but we all moved on from.
We also invented asbestos, CFCs, lead-based makeup, and Crystal Pepsi. History is paved with the forgotten corpses of bad ideas that we didn't un-invent, but we all moved on from.
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
"You can't un-invent AI, just accept it already!"
We also invented asbestos, CFCs, lead-based makeup, and Crystal Pepsi. History is paved with the forgotten corpses of bad ideas that we didn't un-invent, but we all moved on from.
We also invented asbestos, CFCs, lead-based makeup, and Crystal Pepsi. History is paved with the forgotten corpses of bad ideas that we didn't un-invent, but we all moved on from.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
Since starting another attempt at intros, Toffee has been good at sharing sofa time with the old boys. Mostly he ignores them and goes about his own business.
... But tonight, Nico followed Toffee into the pillow fort to hang out together! Twice! Maybe we have some actual friendship developing?? 🤞
... But tonight, Nico followed Toffee into the pillow fort to hang out together! Twice! Maybe we have some actual friendship developing?? 🤞
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Since starting another attempt at intros, Toffee has been good at sharing sofa time with the old boys. Mostly he ignores them and goes about his own business.
... But tonight, Nico followed Toffee into the pillow fort to hang out together! Twice! Maybe we have some actual friendship developing?? 🤞
... But tonight, Nico followed Toffee into the pillow fort to hang out together! Twice! Maybe we have some actual friendship developing?? 🤞
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Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ.
The AI industry's most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it's the story the AI industry is telling about itself
www.theringer.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
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great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"
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A fine example of "AI doesn't know anything, it just picks a statistically good fit for the next word/sentence, with no memory of the previous one." So this one forgets it's supposed to be shilling for pay-us-for-reviews and pivots HARD in another direction.
November 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A fine example of "AI doesn't know anything, it just picks a statistically good fit for the next word/sentence, with no memory of the previous one." So this one forgets it's supposed to be shilling for pay-us-for-reviews and pivots HARD in another direction.
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Woke up to a feed full of Dick pics but you know what? I don't mind at all.
November 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Woke up to a feed full of Dick pics but you know what? I don't mind at all.
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Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
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Please check your Halloween candy carefully this year! Corporations are hiding useless AI features inside of the bars in an attempt to trick you to use them.
October 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Please check your Halloween candy carefully this year! Corporations are hiding useless AI features inside of the bars in an attempt to trick you to use them.
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS
Old man El Chikitin has found a piece of cereal and wants you to admire his foraging skills. His nose is still sharp after almost 2.5 years!
#PetRats
Old man El Chikitin has found a piece of cereal and wants you to admire his foraging skills. His nose is still sharp after almost 2.5 years!
#PetRats
October 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS
Old man El Chikitin has found a piece of cereal and wants you to admire his foraging skills. His nose is still sharp after almost 2.5 years!
#PetRats
Old man El Chikitin has found a piece of cereal and wants you to admire his foraging skills. His nose is still sharp after almost 2.5 years!
#PetRats
I love the zoo animals that don't BELONG TO the zoo, they're just AT the zoo.
This bold as brass squirrel stared at me as they ate, for a solid 5 minutes before I left to follow my party. I did not know squirrels had that much attention span.
This bold as brass squirrel stared at me as they ate, for a solid 5 minutes before I left to follow my party. I did not know squirrels had that much attention span.
October 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I love the zoo animals that don't BELONG TO the zoo, they're just AT the zoo.
This bold as brass squirrel stared at me as they ate, for a solid 5 minutes before I left to follow my party. I did not know squirrels had that much attention span.
This bold as brass squirrel stared at me as they ate, for a solid 5 minutes before I left to follow my party. I did not know squirrels had that much attention span.
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At this point I don't want an AI assistant even if they did make it sound like Majel Barrett
October 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
At this point I don't want an AI assistant even if they did make it sound like Majel Barrett
October 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.
Fuck Columbus.
Fuck Columbus.
October 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
October 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.