Penelope Darling
@missdarling.bsky.social
Ex-Wrench Wench, Anti-Authoritarian, Transgender Natalie Wood (but I won't!)
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Penelope Darling
@missdarling.bsky.social
· Jul 27
Help Tariqs family
Hi my name is Tarig Abu asha, I am living with my family in Palestine - Gaza. What the world sees in pictures and videos the ground reality is far more brutal and cruel. I am reaching out to all those...
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Hi my name is Tarig Abu asha, I am living with my family in Palestine - Gaza. What the world sees in pictures and videos the ground reality is far more brutal and cruel. I am reaching out to all those people who in their hearts feel our pain and want to help us. Please donate so that we can survive
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You might enjoy my special interest, “terror management theory,” which studies all the ways irrational human behavior can be explained by the constant need to avoid noticing our own mortality
December 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
You might enjoy my special interest, “terror management theory,” which studies all the ways irrational human behavior can be explained by the constant need to avoid noticing our own mortality
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Nothing has reconciled me to my own mortality like watching billionaires resist the notion that they are going to die.
If the choices are dying or beginning to resemble that guy who got blood transfusions from his teenaged son, dying is fine. No rush, but definitely before it comes to that.
If the choices are dying or beginning to resemble that guy who got blood transfusions from his teenaged son, dying is fine. No rush, but definitely before it comes to that.
December 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Nothing has reconciled me to my own mortality like watching billionaires resist the notion that they are going to die.
If the choices are dying or beginning to resemble that guy who got blood transfusions from his teenaged son, dying is fine. No rush, but definitely before it comes to that.
If the choices are dying or beginning to resemble that guy who got blood transfusions from his teenaged son, dying is fine. No rush, but definitely before it comes to that.
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if you could choose between learning to live with your emotions or burning the whole world down in an attempt to avoid them which would you pick?
December 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
if you could choose between learning to live with your emotions or burning the whole world down in an attempt to avoid them which would you pick?
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it is very easy to get hoodwinked by grifters that's all I'm saying
December 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
it is very easy to get hoodwinked by grifters that's all I'm saying
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I think a lot about how dangerous this all is from the point of view of someone who once went into a ghost hunting experience for tourists ironically, with the goal of live-blogging it afterwards, and ended up crying in the Victoria BC Maritime Museum because the dowsing rods didn't summon my mom
December 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I think a lot about how dangerous this all is from the point of view of someone who once went into a ghost hunting experience for tourists ironically, with the goal of live-blogging it afterwards, and ended up crying in the Victoria BC Maritime Museum because the dowsing rods didn't summon my mom
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also, by the way
a lot of us process our grief by making art
they're trying to replace that process with AI from both directions
a lot of us process our grief by making art
they're trying to replace that process with AI from both directions
December 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
also, by the way
a lot of us process our grief by making art
they're trying to replace that process with AI from both directions
a lot of us process our grief by making art
they're trying to replace that process with AI from both directions
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it's also an act of generous creative imagination
sometimes when I really need my mom, and she's not here, I have to think about like, okay when she was being her best self, what might she say or do in this situation? it's a story we tell ourselves that gives comfort and meaning. no app can do that
sometimes when I really need my mom, and she's not here, I have to think about like, okay when she was being her best self, what might she say or do in this situation? it's a story we tell ourselves that gives comfort and meaning. no app can do that
December 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
it's also an act of generous creative imagination
sometimes when I really need my mom, and she's not here, I have to think about like, okay when she was being her best self, what might she say or do in this situation? it's a story we tell ourselves that gives comfort and meaning. no app can do that
sometimes when I really need my mom, and she's not here, I have to think about like, okay when she was being her best self, what might she say or do in this situation? it's a story we tell ourselves that gives comfort and meaning. no app can do that
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it's not just that I find it chilling to imagine Sam Altman wearing my dead mom's face in order to sell me ads
it's that the way we ACTUALLY keep our lost loved ones alive requires a myriad of human skills these assholes perpetually devalue, like storytelling and deep emotional connection
it's that the way we ACTUALLY keep our lost loved ones alive requires a myriad of human skills these assholes perpetually devalue, like storytelling and deep emotional connection
December 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
it's not just that I find it chilling to imagine Sam Altman wearing my dead mom's face in order to sell me ads
it's that the way we ACTUALLY keep our lost loved ones alive requires a myriad of human skills these assholes perpetually devalue, like storytelling and deep emotional connection
it's that the way we ACTUALLY keep our lost loved ones alive requires a myriad of human skills these assholes perpetually devalue, like storytelling and deep emotional connection
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Lubna is struggling with her family in Gaza. Any amount is welcome. chuffed.org/project/1552...
Support Naser’s Treatment and Escape from Gaza
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December 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Lubna is struggling with her family in Gaza. Any amount is welcome. chuffed.org/project/1552...
Help mother Nevin care for her four children and husband with cancer in Gaza chuffed.org/project/1296...
Help mother Nevin care for her four children and husband with cancer in Gaza
Dear friends of the world,
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December 8, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Help mother Nevin care for her four children and husband with cancer in Gaza chuffed.org/project/1296...
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One officer was accused of spreading a nude photo of a woman he knew.
Another was found responsible for acts of domestic violence and sexual assault.
In spite of their disciplinary records, the Chicago Police Department promoted both of them.
With @invisible.institute
Another was found responsible for acts of domestic violence and sexual assault.
In spite of their disciplinary records, the Chicago Police Department promoted both of them.
With @invisible.institute
Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct
The Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored. Despite years of reform efforts, nothing has changed.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
One officer was accused of spreading a nude photo of a woman he knew.
Another was found responsible for acts of domestic violence and sexual assault.
In spite of their disciplinary records, the Chicago Police Department promoted both of them.
With @invisible.institute
Another was found responsible for acts of domestic violence and sexual assault.
In spite of their disciplinary records, the Chicago Police Department promoted both of them.
With @invisible.institute
Help Lolo and her family evacuate Gaza to safety chuffed.org/project/1582...
Help Lolo and her family evacuate Gaza to safety
Hello friends. My name is Megan, and I am a close friend of Lulu and her family, who are currently residing in Khan Younis, Gaza, Palestine, originally from Rafah. The humanitarian crisis has weighed ...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Help Lolo and her family evacuate Gaza to safety chuffed.org/project/1582...
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Absolutely this. The idea that 20% of a student body couldn't be disabled is an expression of ableism (not understanding disability) but also an implicitly normative statement -- that 20% of students shouldn't be disabled.
We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.
December 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Absolutely this. The idea that 20% of a student body couldn't be disabled is an expression of ableism (not understanding disability) but also an implicitly normative statement -- that 20% of students shouldn't be disabled.
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Everyone involved in this child’s kidnapping is going to hell.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Everyone involved in this child’s kidnapping is going to hell.
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When I talk to my students about law and resistance, I talk about how people tend to think in terms of whether they would’ve acted in 1942, but that they should instead ask themselves what they would’ve done in 1933.
“I think we have to be careful with the Nazi comparisons” people are always waiting until we are five minutes until the Holocaust and then they’re like well it’s only ethnic cleansing not a Holocaust
Is this clear enough or are we still doing that whole thing where we pretend it’s about “crime”?
December 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
When I talk to my students about law and resistance, I talk about how people tend to think in terms of whether they would’ve acted in 1942, but that they should instead ask themselves what they would’ve done in 1933.
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Automation, climate accelerationism, anti-vaccine ideology, anti-immigration policy, and the gutting of public services is essentially a program of population liquidation. The billionaire capitalist class is pulling up the ladder and leaving us all to die. Class warfare on an ecological level.
December 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Automation, climate accelerationism, anti-vaccine ideology, anti-immigration policy, and the gutting of public services is essentially a program of population liquidation. The billionaire capitalist class is pulling up the ladder and leaving us all to die. Class warfare on an ecological level.
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It’s not even just the wealthy. Lots of liberals in the West think this way when it comes to the Global South. I’ve actually gotten someone I know to admit they prefer a vast population reduction to a future without cars and meat consumption for all. The rich just have even more to lose.
December 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
It’s not even just the wealthy. Lots of liberals in the West think this way when it comes to the Global South. I’ve actually gotten someone I know to admit they prefer a vast population reduction to a future without cars and meat consumption for all. The rich just have even more to lose.
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Seems pretty obvious that the rich want the rest of us to die off so they and their rich friends can ride out the remaining decades our existence on this planet with whatever few resources are left to exploit.
October 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Seems pretty obvious that the rich want the rest of us to die off so they and their rich friends can ride out the remaining decades our existence on this planet with whatever few resources are left to exploit.
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I've been into this for a while
December 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I've been into this for a while
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New conspiracy theory that ai is being deployed to prepare the global north for proletarianization coming with climate change
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
New conspiracy theory that ai is being deployed to prepare the global north for proletarianization coming with climate change
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Luddites often get mistaken for being outright anti-tech, when in reality they were anti-bourgeois-controlling-the-tech.
In this case, I call myself Luddite as outright anti-tech, this is just not good for humanity
In this case, I call myself Luddite as outright anti-tech, this is just not good for humanity
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Luddites often get mistaken for being outright anti-tech, when in reality they were anti-bourgeois-controlling-the-tech.
In this case, I call myself Luddite as outright anti-tech, this is just not good for humanity
In this case, I call myself Luddite as outright anti-tech, this is just not good for humanity
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I have, for a couple months now been thinking about pretty much exactly this. every invention is a trade. what are we gaining by using it, and what are we losing by using it. With the more important question is the gain worth the loss.
For generative LLM's the answer is at this point clear, no.
For generative LLM's the answer is at this point clear, no.
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I have, for a couple months now been thinking about pretty much exactly this. every invention is a trade. what are we gaining by using it, and what are we losing by using it. With the more important question is the gain worth the loss.
For generative LLM's the answer is at this point clear, no.
For generative LLM's the answer is at this point clear, no.
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We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
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Skills must be practiced to be maintained. Your brain will gladly unlearn some trivial shit that it does not think matters, and offloading that kind of process onto a thinking rock causing skill decline has gotta be the most obvious shit ever… sci-fi writers had that figured out 60+ years ago.
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Skills must be practiced to be maintained. Your brain will gladly unlearn some trivial shit that it does not think matters, and offloading that kind of process onto a thinking rock causing skill decline has gotta be the most obvious shit ever… sci-fi writers had that figured out 60+ years ago.
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Yes. In fact, it seems like several presidential elections in my lifetime have come down to "we should care about other people" versus "no we shouldn't."
November 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Yes. In fact, it seems like several presidential elections in my lifetime have come down to "we should care about other people" versus "no we shouldn't."