Manogirl
@manogirl.bsky.social
Once a librarian, always a librarian. Founding member, Trifecta of Young Evil. Fat liberation. BL person, bed person, writer of fanfic. Self-possessed cool aunt, teenager girl, rad fat lady in my 40s and tbh it's pretty fucking great.
What if I got a cat and named her Anne Shirley. I mean, I can't do it while our big ol' small animal hunter dog is alive, but after.
February 12, 2026 at 4:40 PM
What if I got a cat and named her Anne Shirley. I mean, I can't do it while our big ol' small animal hunter dog is alive, but after.
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Tech people have a pattern where they stumble up to basically any area of human endeavor and underestimate / misunderstand what is being done so wildly that they immediately start yapping about how whatever new shiny they are trying to sell can totally replace the whole discipline or industry.
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February 12, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Tech people have a pattern where they stumble up to basically any area of human endeavor and underestimate / misunderstand what is being done so wildly that they immediately start yapping about how whatever new shiny they are trying to sell can totally replace the whole discipline or industry.
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This is not to say that the digital revolution (which is also the big data revolution, which has morphed into the AI revolution) is not bringing some killer new tools that actually help a lot … but this arrogance where the instinct is to -replace- rather than -understand- and -help- is … meh.
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February 12, 2026 at 1:02 PM
This is not to say that the digital revolution (which is also the big data revolution, which has morphed into the AI revolution) is not bringing some killer new tools that actually help a lot … but this arrogance where the instinct is to -replace- rather than -understand- and -help- is … meh.
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I don't know who advised all these CEOs that it's a wise and pragmatic business move to debase themselves in front of this asshole who has a long record of screwing everyone on earth. It's not smart actually!
February 12, 2026 at 3:26 PM
I don't know who advised all these CEOs that it's a wise and pragmatic business move to debase themselves in front of this asshole who has a long record of screwing everyone on earth. It's not smart actually!
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Made an annotated version of "Something Big Is Coming" for all of you to enjoy. I hate this guy's writing so much
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qw6k5...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qw6k5...
February 12, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Made an annotated version of "Something Big Is Coming" for all of you to enjoy. I hate this guy's writing so much
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qw6k5...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qw6k5...
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Like OP said, the fun is in the journey. How does the fiction aithor get to their destination? What does the destination say about the world and the characters? The point of reading is the act of reading, not whatwvwe happens on the final few pages.
February 12, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Like OP said, the fun is in the journey. How does the fiction aithor get to their destination? What does the destination say about the world and the characters? The point of reading is the act of reading, not whatwvwe happens on the final few pages.
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Must-read thread
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Must-read thread
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Once again: people are angry for very good reason, and this brand of post is perhaps one of the most tedious and bewildering. Practically every social media platform is rabidly pro-‘AI’ so are govts, academia, companies. This one small space being critical of AI is okay, I think.
February 11, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Once again: people are angry for very good reason, and this brand of post is perhaps one of the most tedious and bewildering. Practically every social media platform is rabidly pro-‘AI’ so are govts, academia, companies. This one small space being critical of AI is okay, I think.
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"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?"
Cuz the data centers are being built carelessly and at speed, polluting poor neighborhoods, cuz it's drinking my fucking aquifer, and cuz all my art and writing have been plagisrized while the worst assholes crow about my impending obsolescense...
Cuz the data centers are being built carelessly and at speed, polluting poor neighborhoods, cuz it's drinking my fucking aquifer, and cuz all my art and writing have been plagisrized while the worst assholes crow about my impending obsolescense...
February 12, 2026 at 1:37 AM
"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?"
Cuz the data centers are being built carelessly and at speed, polluting poor neighborhoods, cuz it's drinking my fucking aquifer, and cuz all my art and writing have been plagisrized while the worst assholes crow about my impending obsolescense...
Cuz the data centers are being built carelessly and at speed, polluting poor neighborhoods, cuz it's drinking my fucking aquifer, and cuz all my art and writing have been plagisrized while the worst assholes crow about my impending obsolescense...
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Booksellers are total heroes who keep us falling in love with reading. They are vitally important to our communities.
So I'm delighted that for the next 2 days sales of the audiobook of Lessons in Magic and Disaster via @libro.fm will benefit BINC, which helps booksellers in need 🥰
libro.fm/binc
So I'm delighted that for the next 2 days sales of the audiobook of Lessons in Magic and Disaster via @libro.fm will benefit BINC, which helps booksellers in need 🥰
libro.fm/binc
February 11, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Booksellers are total heroes who keep us falling in love with reading. They are vitally important to our communities.
So I'm delighted that for the next 2 days sales of the audiobook of Lessons in Magic and Disaster via @libro.fm will benefit BINC, which helps booksellers in need 🥰
libro.fm/binc
So I'm delighted that for the next 2 days sales of the audiobook of Lessons in Magic and Disaster via @libro.fm will benefit BINC, which helps booksellers in need 🥰
libro.fm/binc
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"What if the AI hype is correct?"
IDC. I don't want it, I won't use it, and you can't make me be happy about it. My grandparents lived their lives without computers, vcrs, or any music device newer than an 8 track. Not cuz they thought these were bad but because THEY, PERSONALLY, didn't want it.
IDC. I don't want it, I won't use it, and you can't make me be happy about it. My grandparents lived their lives without computers, vcrs, or any music device newer than an 8 track. Not cuz they thought these were bad but because THEY, PERSONALLY, didn't want it.
February 12, 2026 at 2:59 AM
"What if the AI hype is correct?"
IDC. I don't want it, I won't use it, and you can't make me be happy about it. My grandparents lived their lives without computers, vcrs, or any music device newer than an 8 track. Not cuz they thought these were bad but because THEY, PERSONALLY, didn't want it.
IDC. I don't want it, I won't use it, and you can't make me be happy about it. My grandparents lived their lives without computers, vcrs, or any music device newer than an 8 track. Not cuz they thought these were bad but because THEY, PERSONALLY, didn't want it.
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I watched the whole thing because it's astonishing
February 12, 2026 at 1:36 AM
I watched the whole thing because it's astonishing
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"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?"
Because folks don't actually want to discuss AI, they want blind submission to the ideological structures that motivate the contemporary use cases and deployments of AI. They don't want to hear the concerns except to dismiss them out of hand.
Because folks don't actually want to discuss AI, they want blind submission to the ideological structures that motivate the contemporary use cases and deployments of AI. They don't want to hear the concerns except to dismiss them out of hand.
February 12, 2026 at 3:39 AM
"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?"
Because folks don't actually want to discuss AI, they want blind submission to the ideological structures that motivate the contemporary use cases and deployments of AI. They don't want to hear the concerns except to dismiss them out of hand.
Because folks don't actually want to discuss AI, they want blind submission to the ideological structures that motivate the contemporary use cases and deployments of AI. They don't want to hear the concerns except to dismiss them out of hand.
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To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like:
The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/
Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate
Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!
The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/
Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate
Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!
February 12, 2026 at 12:29 AM
To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like:
The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/
Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate
Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!
The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/
Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate
Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!
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People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy.
But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.
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But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.
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February 11, 2026 at 9:57 PM
People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy.
But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.
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But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.
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And what awaits these clients in Texas? Unspeakably cruel and inhumane treatment.
1. Rotten food. I had a client explain she had to make a half-pint of milk and an apple last every day because the other meals consisted of spoiled or rotten food. One client wasn’t fed for >36 hours.
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1. Rotten food. I had a client explain she had to make a half-pint of milk and an apple last every day because the other meals consisted of spoiled or rotten food. One client wasn’t fed for >36 hours.
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February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
And what awaits these clients in Texas? Unspeakably cruel and inhumane treatment.
1. Rotten food. I had a client explain she had to make a half-pint of milk and an apple last every day because the other meals consisted of spoiled or rotten food. One client wasn’t fed for >36 hours.
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1. Rotten food. I had a client explain she had to make a half-pint of milk and an apple last every day because the other meals consisted of spoiled or rotten food. One client wasn’t fed for >36 hours.
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Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it.
The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.
I’ve had a front row seat.
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The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.
I’ve had a front row seat.
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February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it.
The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.
I’ve had a front row seat.
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The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.
I’ve had a front row seat.
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Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you
February 12, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you
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Target not doing anything to make me consider un-boycotting them
Target still lets ICE roam free in their stores & stage in their parking lots, often this one at the Quarry in Mpls.
But they call the police in no time on peaceful teachers and neighbors.
Until Target calls for ICE to leave MN and congress to cut off DHS funding, we’ll keep coming back. #ICEOut
But they call the police in no time on peaceful teachers and neighbors.
Until Target calls for ICE to leave MN and congress to cut off DHS funding, we’ll keep coming back. #ICEOut
February 12, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Target not doing anything to make me consider un-boycotting them
This could be a hit show. Just sayin.
been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis
February 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
This could be a hit show. Just sayin.
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Damn, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social's got hands today.
February 11, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Damn, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social's got hands today.
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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There are multiple flavors of police and they're all bad
Abolishing the police MEANS ICE TOO IT ALWAYS HAS
February 11, 2026 at 7:24 PM
There are multiple flavors of police and they're all bad
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guys we have to consider the possibility that the poop from a butt machine might actually be making some decent poop
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 7:35 PM
guys we have to consider the possibility that the poop from a butt machine might actually be making some decent poop
Curious to me that the Trib says "few" Chicagoans know about the Municipal Device. My sense has always been that quite a few folks know about it and recognize it when they're out and about in Chicago. But maybe I'm wrong!
(I love the Municipal Device, fwiw.)
(I love the Municipal Device, fwiw.)
February 11, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Curious to me that the Trib says "few" Chicagoans know about the Municipal Device. My sense has always been that quite a few folks know about it and recognize it when they're out and about in Chicago. But maybe I'm wrong!
(I love the Municipal Device, fwiw.)
(I love the Municipal Device, fwiw.)