mel thomas
@pagemelt.bsky.social
several possums in a trench coat and one of them learned how to read
they/them
https://pagemelt.zone/links/
they/them
https://pagemelt.zone/links/
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mel thomas
@pagemelt.bsky.social
· Jul 6
be your own algorithm
YouTube video by pagemelt
youtu.be
hi! 😃 i couldn't help but notice that scrolling is sapping your will to live! may i offer u a video essay in these trying times?
youtu.be/Bdj14_jdumI
youtu.be/Bdj14_jdumI
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PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY
There has been a noticeable reticence in left and liberal circles to voice full-throated support for pornography, even as it's become increasingly clear what the open end goals of the censorship movement are
In a lot of ways other leftists chose this path folks. They shrugged and didn’t care when Patreon banned a ton of hypnosis and TF creators, or when YouTube started their ASMR crackdown. Now it’s coming for queer porn creators, more and more. Who will stand up?
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY
me and ur girl this holiday season
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
me and ur girl this holiday season
enough productivity for today 🙅♂️🙅♂️. it's time to look up people i don't like to see if they've posted anything annoying recently
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
enough productivity for today 🙅♂️🙅♂️. it's time to look up people i don't like to see if they've posted anything annoying recently
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99% of memoirs should have been or remained essays. like what do you mean you're a 29-year-old brooklyn transplant and you wrote 70k words about your life. you better have been a war correspondent before you picked up that podcast mic. you better have been raised in a fundamentalist cult
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
99% of memoirs should have been or remained essays. like what do you mean you're a 29-year-old brooklyn transplant and you wrote 70k words about your life. you better have been a war correspondent before you picked up that podcast mic. you better have been raised in a fundamentalist cult
currently self-flagellating by reading substack articles called "the over-consumption of girlhood" and "joan didion (and other writers you've probably never heard of)" and "the proliferation of degeneracy in contemporary romance: a leftist analysis"
November 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
currently self-flagellating by reading substack articles called "the over-consumption of girlhood" and "joan didion (and other writers you've probably never heard of)" and "the proliferation of degeneracy in contemporary romance: a leftist analysis"
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[me, yesterday, watching the Arabic Zohran ad] dick cheney would die if he saw this
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
[me, yesterday, watching the Arabic Zohran ad] dick cheney would die if he saw this
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Long live Guilloteen Vogue
November 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Long live Guilloteen Vogue
pumping my fist in the air like my team just scored
Most modern fantasy writers would answer this question, whether or not they'd given it much thought. Sapkowski flatly will not and resents you asking him about it
November 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
pumping my fist in the air like my team just scored
look at him. his bandana has skulls
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
look at him. his bandana has skulls
ohhh noooOOooOO jira's down, what am i gonna doooOOooOOOoO
October 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
ohhh noooOOooOO jira's down, what am i gonna doooOOooOOOoO
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if i get a say in what people remember me for when i'm dead, may i suggest my preternatural tolerance for bad artificial grape flavoring. if it's purple and it says "grape" i will eat it and probably like it at least a little
October 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
if i get a say in what people remember me for when i'm dead, may i suggest my preternatural tolerance for bad artificial grape flavoring. if it's purple and it says "grape" i will eat it and probably like it at least a little
my favorite thing that happens on social media is when people i follow on instagram are killing time at the airport and so they post a bunch of stories about being at the airport
October 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
my favorite thing that happens on social media is when people i follow on instagram are killing time at the airport and so they post a bunch of stories about being at the airport
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For sale: baby shoes. So fuckin worn. This baby ran everywhere fast as shit
November 30, 2024 at 6:51 AM
For sale: baby shoes. So fuckin worn. This baby ran everywhere fast as shit
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LLM AI exists to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.
There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.
There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.
October 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
LLM AI exists to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.
There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.
There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.
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finally some cool news
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
finally some cool news
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i'm getting weirder, maybe
open.substack.com/pub/pagemelt...
open.substack.com/pub/pagemelt...
Music is a thing you can hold in your hands
DIY sigilism with compact discs
open.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
i'm getting weirder, maybe
open.substack.com/pub/pagemelt...
open.substack.com/pub/pagemelt...
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no judgment, no irony: if you're one of these people who's started using chatgpt for quasi-therapy, you should look into tarot reading. a friend gave me a great reading last week, and it felt like flossing
October 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
no judgment, no irony: if you're one of these people who's started using chatgpt for quasi-therapy, you should look into tarot reading. a friend gave me a great reading last week, and it felt like flossing
everybody loves to denigrate BookTok books but when a 19-year-old covered in cybersigiglism tattoos comes across my FYP holding up a paperback 9 times out of 10 it's East of Eden. I'm not joking. And if it's not that it's Lonesome Dove
October 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
everybody loves to denigrate BookTok books but when a 19-year-old covered in cybersigiglism tattoos comes across my FYP holding up a paperback 9 times out of 10 it's East of Eden. I'm not joking. And if it's not that it's Lonesome Dove
having a paranoid delusion about everybody posting in a way that is designed to annoy me specifically
September 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
having a paranoid delusion about everybody posting in a way that is designed to annoy me specifically
crashing out at Kroger because the security alarm has been screeching for several minutes and Blue Diamond apparently doesn't make their sweet Thai chili flavored almonds anymore
September 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
crashing out at Kroger because the security alarm has been screeching for several minutes and Blue Diamond apparently doesn't make their sweet Thai chili flavored almonds anymore
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the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse
Imagine if NPR had actually talked to safe streets advocates for this story and learned how the solutions to drivers killing people is not, in fact, victim blaming
September 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse