purpurina ✨🪡
@purpurinastitch.bsky.social
She/they. I do cross stitch & hand embroidery. I also write stories and essays. I like cephalopods, movies, and when people are kind. Producer/writer on @observableradio.com. RRR is my favorite movie.
Be warned: I block folks who post AI/have AI avatars
Be warned: I block folks who post AI/have AI avatars
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A quick “hello to new followers” intro post:
I’m purpurina, I do stitchy things and I write sometimes. This past year a lot of my creative energy has gone into horror/sci-fi audiodrama @observableradio.com (check us out!!)
Here are some of my horror stitches:
I’m purpurina, I do stitchy things and I write sometimes. This past year a lot of my creative energy has gone into horror/sci-fi audiodrama @observableradio.com (check us out!!)
Here are some of my horror stitches:
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Speaking as a longtime Paul Thomas Anderson aficionado, Sinners was a way more important film — and a much smarter film — than One Battle After Another, which was entertaining at times but also full of misogynoir and bad revisionist readings of liberation movements
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Speaking as a longtime Paul Thomas Anderson aficionado, Sinners was a way more important film — and a much smarter film — than One Battle After Another, which was entertaining at times but also full of misogynoir and bad revisionist readings of liberation movements
An affirmation I need to hear today, so posting it in case anyone else needs it too:
It’s not an unreasonable expectation that someone stays true to their word, especially if they say they want to have a meaningful place in your life.
It’s not an unreasonable expectation that someone stays true to their word, especially if they say they want to have a meaningful place in your life.
November 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
An affirmation I need to hear today, so posting it in case anyone else needs it too:
It’s not an unreasonable expectation that someone stays true to their word, especially if they say they want to have a meaningful place in your life.
It’s not an unreasonable expectation that someone stays true to their word, especially if they say they want to have a meaningful place in your life.
I’m a sucker for late as hell title drops
November 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I’m a sucker for late as hell title drops
mercury betch-rograde
November 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
mercury betch-rograde
Spying on my friend’s letterboxd instead of just texting him to ask if he’s seen a particular movie
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Spying on my friend’s letterboxd instead of just texting him to ask if he’s seen a particular movie
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Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Does anybody else take the Pepto bismol out and leave it on the counter for a while before actually taking it, as though somehow the threat of the Pepto will scare your guts into behaving?
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Does anybody else take the Pepto bismol out and leave it on the counter for a while before actually taking it, as though somehow the threat of the Pepto will scare your guts into behaving?
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Do NOT license your voice to ElevenLabs.
Their highest-paid actor made $30k last year. Sounds a lot, but that’s from 1.2 bn paid uses - $0.000025 per job. ElevenLabs charge 20 cents per 1,000 words. So they’re making at least 8,000 times what their artists are.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Their highest-paid actor made $30k last year. Sounds a lot, but that’s from 1.2 bn paid uses - $0.000025 per job. ElevenLabs charge 20 cents per 1,000 words. So they’re making at least 8,000 times what their artists are.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine sign voice deal with AI company
The voices of the Oscar-winning actors can now be used to create AI-generated versions in a new deal with ElevenLabs
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Do NOT license your voice to ElevenLabs.
Their highest-paid actor made $30k last year. Sounds a lot, but that’s from 1.2 bn paid uses - $0.000025 per job. ElevenLabs charge 20 cents per 1,000 words. So they’re making at least 8,000 times what their artists are.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Their highest-paid actor made $30k last year. Sounds a lot, but that’s from 1.2 bn paid uses - $0.000025 per job. ElevenLabs charge 20 cents per 1,000 words. So they’re making at least 8,000 times what their artists are.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
My fellow millenials will all say: yes this is exactly what happened
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
My fellow millenials will all say: yes this is exactly what happened
The rollercoaster experience of finding out that a fun movie you saw just had a 4K restoration…
…but it was done sloppily with AI upscaling.
Literally everything these fools touch turns to caca
…but it was done sloppily with AI upscaling.
Literally everything these fools touch turns to caca
November 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The rollercoaster experience of finding out that a fun movie you saw just had a 4K restoration…
…but it was done sloppily with AI upscaling.
Literally everything these fools touch turns to caca
…but it was done sloppily with AI upscaling.
Literally everything these fools touch turns to caca
I wanna watch a movie but idk what. I know I have my watchlist on letterboxd and my watchlist on my notes and my watchlist on this other list app my therapist told me about and the various post-its where I wrote down movie titles and the screencaps of referrals and favorites messages from friend rec
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I wanna watch a movie but idk what. I know I have my watchlist on letterboxd and my watchlist on my notes and my watchlist on this other list app my therapist told me about and the various post-its where I wrote down movie titles and the screencaps of referrals and favorites messages from friend rec
Saved from an impulse purchase! 🥳
By non-inclusive sizing ☹️
By non-inclusive sizing ☹️
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Saved from an impulse purchase! 🥳
By non-inclusive sizing ☹️
By non-inclusive sizing ☹️
So I manage several Gmail accounts (hello compartmentalization) so while in turning off the Gemini in email, I’m also just double checking that the personalization and other general account tracking settings are off in every account as well.
And I have noticed something!
And I have noticed something!
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
So I manage several Gmail accounts (hello compartmentalization) so while in turning off the Gemini in email, I’m also just double checking that the personalization and other general account tracking settings are off in every account as well.
And I have noticed something!
And I have noticed something!
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hey do i know any drummers in the seattle area who are transgender and available on January 9th
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
hey do i know any drummers in the seattle area who are transgender and available on January 9th
I don’t know how I’m not more tired today considering how little I slept, but it makes me nervous that I won’t be able to sleep again tonight
(What I would give to live a jump cut to me being passed out in bed for like 10 hours)
(What I would give to live a jump cut to me being passed out in bed for like 10 hours)
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I don’t know how I’m not more tired today considering how little I slept, but it makes me nervous that I won’t be able to sleep again tonight
(What I would give to live a jump cut to me being passed out in bed for like 10 hours)
(What I would give to live a jump cut to me being passed out in bed for like 10 hours)
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Hot damn. Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson would be proud of this country boy sticking it to the man.
Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆
November 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Hot damn. Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson would be proud of this country boy sticking it to the man.
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I THINK I’M GONNA DIE IN THIS HOUSE
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I THINK I’M GONNA DIE IN THIS HOUSE
I’m being vague on purpose but one of the best things about muting most relevant Alien: Earth tags early on is by the time I watched the show myself, the whole ice age deal was a total surprise to me and I got to experience it like a baseball bat connecting to my temple at 80 mph
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I’m being vague on purpose but one of the best things about muting most relevant Alien: Earth tags early on is by the time I watched the show myself, the whole ice age deal was a total surprise to me and I got to experience it like a baseball bat connecting to my temple at 80 mph
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“You know, over 200 years, a lot can happen. A lot can change," Jason Lewis said. "It's very difficult for speakers today in Mississippi to find the words that they say represented in the dictionaries of the past.”
Mississippi Choctaw Dictionary Project Helps Preserve Language
The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians’ Choctaw Dictionary Project is designed to help teach the language and encourage more daily use.
buff.ly
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“You know, over 200 years, a lot can happen. A lot can change," Jason Lewis said. "It's very difficult for speakers today in Mississippi to find the words that they say represented in the dictionaries of the past.”
Love how my brain has kept me up all night for no reason
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Love how my brain has kept me up all night for no reason
I hate when Instagram puts me on the Mean Girl* algorithm. Why do you think I would enjoy spending time with such hateful miserable people
It’s also always mixed with “middle class, usually white parents” algorithm
*gender neutral
It’s also always mixed with “middle class, usually white parents” algorithm
*gender neutral
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I hate when Instagram puts me on the Mean Girl* algorithm. Why do you think I would enjoy spending time with such hateful miserable people
It’s also always mixed with “middle class, usually white parents” algorithm
*gender neutral
It’s also always mixed with “middle class, usually white parents” algorithm
*gender neutral
