MK Zvokel
@mkzvokel.bsky.social
Queer writer, clumsy maker, Jewish librarian. They/them pronouns. Anti generative AI.
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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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Every day, chatbots force us to investigate the nature of personhood. Specifically, "are the freaks that made this chatbot people"
February 11, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Every day, chatbots force us to investigate the nature of personhood. Specifically, "are the freaks that made this chatbot people"
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‘The Talking Cloth’ by Frances Featherstone is a masterclass in painting textiles and fabric! I’m just obsessed with how wonderfully cozy this looks!
#art #beautifulbizarre #francesfeatherstone #realism #contemporaryart #figurativeart
#art #beautifulbizarre #francesfeatherstone #realism #contemporaryart #figurativeart
February 10, 2026 at 11:30 PM
‘The Talking Cloth’ by Frances Featherstone is a masterclass in painting textiles and fabric! I’m just obsessed with how wonderfully cozy this looks!
#art #beautifulbizarre #francesfeatherstone #realism #contemporaryart #figurativeart
#art #beautifulbizarre #francesfeatherstone #realism #contemporaryart #figurativeart
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The media should be PRAISING these athletes who know and understand the importance of public health. These articles should be about how they are setting an example for EVERYONE. And how we should all take their lead.
Instead their positioning is: “look at these fucking weirdos”
Instead their positioning is: “look at these fucking weirdos”
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy. n.pr/4akK70l
Olympic Covid restrictions are gone, but some athletes still self-quarantining
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy.
n.pr
February 10, 2026 at 3:36 AM
The media should be PRAISING these athletes who know and understand the importance of public health. These articles should be about how they are setting an example for EVERYONE. And how we should all take their lead.
Instead their positioning is: “look at these fucking weirdos”
Instead their positioning is: “look at these fucking weirdos”
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Neither want to deal with having to take women’s needs and women’s interests seriously.
MAGA men say those needs *should* be subordinated.
Leftist men say they don’t matter, because economic parity will fix it all.
MAGA men say those needs *should* be subordinated.
Leftist men say they don’t matter, because economic parity will fix it all.
February 9, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Neither want to deal with having to take women’s needs and women’s interests seriously.
MAGA men say those needs *should* be subordinated.
Leftist men say they don’t matter, because economic parity will fix it all.
MAGA men say those needs *should* be subordinated.
Leftist men say they don’t matter, because economic parity will fix it all.
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I also can't help but feel doing this is, unintentionally, almost victim blamey? Like "you were all taken in by his subpar derivative work and if you hadn't he wouldn't have had so much power to abuse in the first place" 🥴
February 3, 2026 at 12:14 PM
I also can't help but feel doing this is, unintentionally, almost victim blamey? Like "you were all taken in by his subpar derivative work and if you hadn't he wouldn't have had so much power to abuse in the first place" 🥴
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one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.
February 2, 2026 at 9:48 PM
one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.
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Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
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the thing about niche hyperfixations is that they are basically monomaniacal coping mechanisms, real tulpas into which one can divert all of one's psychic anguish in what is essentially a productive manner. i do however realize that this is annoying
February 5, 2026 at 2:10 AM
the thing about niche hyperfixations is that they are basically monomaniacal coping mechanisms, real tulpas into which one can divert all of one's psychic anguish in what is essentially a productive manner. i do however realize that this is annoying
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The x-files isn't set in America so much as it's set in the fever dream of modern America's collective subconscious. Just a big stew of paranoia and pulp tropes. Arthurian Britain of the strip malls.
February 5, 2026 at 10:09 AM
The x-files isn't set in America so much as it's set in the fever dream of modern America's collective subconscious. Just a big stew of paranoia and pulp tropes. Arthurian Britain of the strip malls.
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I'm pretty positive on adulthood cause I get to say things from Batman: The Animated Series like "I have a fundraiser to attend" "The Council votes on that tomorrow" and "Oh no! The Riddler!"
February 8, 2026 at 11:57 AM
I'm pretty positive on adulthood cause I get to say things from Batman: The Animated Series like "I have a fundraiser to attend" "The Council votes on that tomorrow" and "Oh no! The Riddler!"
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Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.
February 9, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.
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I will go to my GRAVE cackling over this Marlon Brando anecdote
Please engrave it on my tombstone
Please engrave it on my tombstone
February 9, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I will go to my GRAVE cackling over this Marlon Brando anecdote
Please engrave it on my tombstone
Please engrave it on my tombstone
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If you're wearing a symbol of resistance against a regime which has proven it'll execute people on a whim, you're doing more than most online commenters ever will.
It’s more than disappointing to see people mocking the red knit hats.
1. The symbol was strong enough the Nazis banned them to stop people signaling their resistance to each other.
2. Sales of patterns have raised hundreds of thousands for mutual aid.
3. Not everyone can stand, shout, smuggle.
1. The symbol was strong enough the Nazis banned them to stop people signaling their resistance to each other.
2. Sales of patterns have raised hundreds of thousands for mutual aid.
3. Not everyone can stand, shout, smuggle.
February 8, 2026 at 8:18 PM
If you're wearing a symbol of resistance against a regime which has proven it'll execute people on a whim, you're doing more than most online commenters ever will.
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Clout chasers truly don’t realize, or don’t care, that they are one of the MAJOR disseminators of propaganda and misinformation. That they’re playing into the hands of fascists. That their selfishness is a danger to us all.
This is a fake Trump post, and the account that posted it here has been told repeatedly that it's a fake Trump post but still has it up.
That's an easy block.
That's an easy block.
February 8, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Clout chasers truly don’t realize, or don’t care, that they are one of the MAJOR disseminators of propaganda and misinformation. That they’re playing into the hands of fascists. That their selfishness is a danger to us all.
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My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
February 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
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The crushing disappointment when an episode of Murder, She Wrote opens with Jessica turning to the camera to tell us about a friend/student/book of hers 😭
a close up of a woman 's face with her eyes closed
Alt: Jessica Fletcher rolls her eyes
media.tenor.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:52 PM
The crushing disappointment when an episode of Murder, She Wrote opens with Jessica turning to the camera to tell us about a friend/student/book of hers 😭
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wait wait wait ...
TUMBLR.
THE PORN BAN GUY FROM TUMBLR IS GOING TO RUN THE WASHINGTON POST.
Look I've been pushing back on the idea that Bezos is intentionally sabotaging the paper but COME ON this is a man who thought he could just take the boobs and dicks off of *Tumblr.*
TUMBLR.
THE PORN BAN GUY FROM TUMBLR IS GOING TO RUN THE WASHINGTON POST.
Look I've been pushing back on the idea that Bezos is intentionally sabotaging the paper but COME ON this is a man who thought he could just take the boobs and dicks off of *Tumblr.*
Will Lewis is resigning as WaPo CEO, former Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio is the paper’s new acting CEO and publisher, per memos to staff
February 7, 2026 at 10:50 PM
wait wait wait ...
TUMBLR.
THE PORN BAN GUY FROM TUMBLR IS GOING TO RUN THE WASHINGTON POST.
Look I've been pushing back on the idea that Bezos is intentionally sabotaging the paper but COME ON this is a man who thought he could just take the boobs and dicks off of *Tumblr.*
TUMBLR.
THE PORN BAN GUY FROM TUMBLR IS GOING TO RUN THE WASHINGTON POST.
Look I've been pushing back on the idea that Bezos is intentionally sabotaging the paper but COME ON this is a man who thought he could just take the boobs and dicks off of *Tumblr.*
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i kneeled to take a sweet pic of her with her eyes closed and facing the sun and instead i instantly got a whole serving of stanley kubrick shit from someone who’s afraid of shadows, plastic bags, shoes, and her own tail.
February 7, 2026 at 7:43 PM
i kneeled to take a sweet pic of her with her eyes closed and facing the sun and instead i instantly got a whole serving of stanley kubrick shit from someone who’s afraid of shadows, plastic bags, shoes, and her own tail.
I thought she was more progressive than this?
NEW: U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro exchanged heated words Friday with Connecticut clergy who called on her to push for abolishing ICE.
"If the vote comes up, I will not vote to abolish ICE,” she said in the tense meeting.
My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/... #nutmegsky
"If the vote comes up, I will not vote to abolish ICE,” she said in the tense meeting.
My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/... #nutmegsky
DeLauro rejects calls to abolish ICE during tense roundtable with local clergy
At a heated roundtable with local clergy on Friday, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro pushed back forcefully on calls to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
www.ctinsider.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:55 PM
I thought she was more progressive than this?
I’d buy the fox one.
February 7, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I’d buy the fox one.
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Doing art badly is good and sacred
February 6, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Doing art badly is good and sacred
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I feel like the problem of "ppl w/o visual artistic talent need to quickly & cheaply decorate flyers" was solved by punk bands with access to copy machines 50 years ago.
February 6, 2026 at 7:16 PM
I feel like the problem of "ppl w/o visual artistic talent need to quickly & cheaply decorate flyers" was solved by punk bands with access to copy machines 50 years ago.