🐝 Rappaccini
@rappaccini.bsky.social
foul temptress. suspected werewolf. in this house you are required to remove your hat as a sign of respect
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🐝 Rappaccini
@rappaccini.bsky.social
· Nov 21
“A biological winter is possible, and we may even be in the midst of one. And chances are we will not even recognise what is in plain sight, or that it will be hidden from us by information warfare.”
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No way to know for sure. I’ve filed reports for impersonation and scam accounts on twitter/x before. Part of that process includes validating a DL, but it specifically says the DL info will remain private. Given that x had access to my DL info previously, is that where grok got it? Who knows!
February 19, 2026 at 5:46 PM
No way to know for sure. I’ve filed reports for impersonation and scam accounts on twitter/x before. Part of that process includes validating a DL, but it specifically says the DL info will remain private. Given that x had access to my DL info previously, is that where grok got it? Who knows!
Heard some great local talent @ moon bar tonight 🌙✨
February 19, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Heard some great local talent @ moon bar tonight 🌙✨
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The problem with a National Government is that you eventually run out of other people‘s projects and plans to cancel
February 18, 2026 at 5:59 PM
The problem with a National Government is that you eventually run out of other people‘s projects and plans to cancel
My sister’s friends visited the other day and she told me they took lots of photos of my courtyard garden and said it’s “so Pinterest” this is the best feeling lol
February 18, 2026 at 10:33 PM
My sister’s friends visited the other day and she told me they took lots of photos of my courtyard garden and said it’s “so Pinterest” this is the best feeling lol
Did u know you can use wd40 to clean tar off a rug. Like magic
February 18, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Did u know you can use wd40 to clean tar off a rug. Like magic
Repairability
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Repairability
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The pretense that unbiased journalism doesn't allow for evaluative judgments is stupid and weird and obviously untrue. Every time a killing is described as "brutal" or a politician is called "embattled", journalists are making judgments based on norms.
February 18, 2026 at 7:10 AM
The pretense that unbiased journalism doesn't allow for evaluative judgments is stupid and weird and obviously untrue. Every time a killing is described as "brutal" or a politician is called "embattled", journalists are making judgments based on norms.
Idk if this made the national media as much but they didn’t just occupy parliament they also protested outside specific govt buildings whom they made demands of including my work. We had to work from home until the occupation was cleared. Then within a couple of months their demands were met
Ppl may disagree w this but I think we also gotta come to terms with the fact that police leadership were sympathetic to the occupation and imo didn’t end it until certain concessions were granted
February 18, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Idk if this made the national media as much but they didn’t just occupy parliament they also protested outside specific govt buildings whom they made demands of including my work. We had to work from home until the occupation was cleared. Then within a couple of months their demands were met
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The legitimately innovative thing about AI is that it is a completely bottomless pit. It's swallowed up:
- all energy sources
- all our data
- all investment dollars
- all new jobs
- all capex
- all attention
- and now, all hardware components
with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.
- all energy sources
- all our data
- all investment dollars
- all new jobs
- all capex
- all attention
- and now, all hardware components
with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.
the AI junk that nobody - including the people making it - have enough real uses or profitable demand for is screwing up all the things that have real uses and decades of profitable demand
p.s. added alt text for the quoted post's screenshot into my alt text
p.s. added alt text for the quoted post's screenshot into my alt text
February 17, 2026 at 10:18 PM
The legitimately innovative thing about AI is that it is a completely bottomless pit. It's swallowed up:
- all energy sources
- all our data
- all investment dollars
- all new jobs
- all capex
- all attention
- and now, all hardware components
with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.
- all energy sources
- all our data
- all investment dollars
- all new jobs
- all capex
- all attention
- and now, all hardware components
with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.
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lol, it’s a lot easier to form a tenants union when everyone in the building is in the same group chat
MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @governorwalz.mn.gov fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, this would be the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.
February 18, 2026 at 3:03 AM
lol, it’s a lot easier to form a tenants union when everyone in the building is in the same group chat
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do you think cats know how perfect they are
February 17, 2026 at 12:40 AM
do you think cats know how perfect they are
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as someone who needs mental healthcare, i kinda hate it when public figures come out with statements about how we need to invest in mh care. it's an uphill battle to get better if your core needs aren't being met. effective mh care looks like stable housing, sufficient food, and climate action
February 18, 2026 at 2:14 AM
as someone who needs mental healthcare, i kinda hate it when public figures come out with statements about how we need to invest in mh care. it's an uphill battle to get better if your core needs aren't being met. effective mh care looks like stable housing, sufficient food, and climate action
If you are handing out flyers for a bridge club perhaps consider also wearing a big sign that says ‘bridge club’. Otherwise based on ur demographic I am going to assume you are proselytising and glare daggers until I get close enough to read your little pamphlet. Sorry
February 18, 2026 at 1:46 AM
If you are handing out flyers for a bridge club perhaps consider also wearing a big sign that says ‘bridge club’. Otherwise based on ur demographic I am going to assume you are proselytising and glare daggers until I get close enough to read your little pamphlet. Sorry
No one is ready to hear my most conspiratorial belief. One day u will be though
February 18, 2026 at 12:40 AM
No one is ready to hear my most conspiratorial belief. One day u will be though
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This guy (@glutelord.bsky.social) is correct about a lot of the discourse around "looksmaxxing" and so much of guys' ideas of what men should look like, and he should keep saying it.
February 17, 2026 at 7:57 PM
This guy (@glutelord.bsky.social) is correct about a lot of the discourse around "looksmaxxing" and so much of guys' ideas of what men should look like, and he should keep saying it.
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Just noting that if you want to show Tamatha Paul some love after the last couple of weeks, now’s a great time to volunteer!
We have a phone bank this Thursday, 6-8pm and a door knock this Sunday 12-2pm.
I train you personally before you have a crack 🙂
www.greens.org.nz/events_near_...
We have a phone bank this Thursday, 6-8pm and a door knock this Sunday 12-2pm.
I train you personally before you have a crack 🙂
www.greens.org.nz/events_near_...
For people and planet
Join our activists across Aotearoa New Zealand who are working hard to build a cleaner future the next generation.
www.greens.org.nz
February 17, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Just noting that if you want to show Tamatha Paul some love after the last couple of weeks, now’s a great time to volunteer!
We have a phone bank this Thursday, 6-8pm and a door knock this Sunday 12-2pm.
I train you personally before you have a crack 🙂
www.greens.org.nz/events_near_...
We have a phone bank this Thursday, 6-8pm and a door knock this Sunday 12-2pm.
I train you personally before you have a crack 🙂
www.greens.org.nz/events_near_...
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I just think it’s incredibly important to know that this is how it works. Basically no one on the right is going “oh no I don’t agree with hold-your-nose voting”. They are all holding their noses in support of their bigger goals. They do that willingly for hundreds of years.
i had a friend in 2016 (not any longer) who told me she’d voted for Trump as a committed Catholic because “he’s a disgusting person, horrible morals, wouldn’t leave him around my kids, but he’ll stack the court against abortion and that’s what I care about”
The right get in lockstep
The right get in lockstep
I also want to tell you - as someone who grew up fundamentalist - that the right will always do this
many fundy Christian ppl voted Trump while hating him
if they get into lockstep while the left are still holding out for the ideologically perfect candidate, the right will always always win
many fundy Christian ppl voted Trump while hating him
if they get into lockstep while the left are still holding out for the ideologically perfect candidate, the right will always always win
February 17, 2026 at 10:45 AM
I just think it’s incredibly important to know that this is how it works. Basically no one on the right is going “oh no I don’t agree with hold-your-nose voting”. They are all holding their noses in support of their bigger goals. They do that willingly for hundreds of years.
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really gone under-reported just how heavily, and directly, connected these networks are to sitting politicians
NZ has not really come to terms with how far developed the disinfo networks were that led to riots and flames on the parliament grounds.
It's been brushed off as individual cookers without much serious introspection in public of the information ecosystem and funding conditions that led to it.
It's been brushed off as individual cookers without much serious introspection in public of the information ecosystem and funding conditions that led to it.
February 17, 2026 at 6:24 AM
really gone under-reported just how heavily, and directly, connected these networks are to sitting politicians
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NZ has not really come to terms with how far developed the disinfo networks were that led to riots and flames on the parliament grounds.
It's been brushed off as individual cookers without much serious introspection in public of the information ecosystem and funding conditions that led to it.
It's been brushed off as individual cookers without much serious introspection in public of the information ecosystem and funding conditions that led to it.
February 17, 2026 at 5:43 AM
NZ has not really come to terms with how far developed the disinfo networks were that led to riots and flames on the parliament grounds.
It's been brushed off as individual cookers without much serious introspection in public of the information ecosystem and funding conditions that led to it.
It's been brushed off as individual cookers without much serious introspection in public of the information ecosystem and funding conditions that led to it.
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every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make
February 17, 2026 at 2:22 AM
every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make
Talking to friends who are thinking of coming back to nz like “it really sucks, please come back though, but it’s terrible”
February 17, 2026 at 5:50 AM
Talking to friends who are thinking of coming back to nz like “it really sucks, please come back though, but it’s terrible”
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I do think cluing in to the human social information behavior of performing make-believe as a way of signaling suspension of disbelief for a willing audience to bind their commitment to a collective belief has been a skeleton key for me to unlock so much understanding of otherwise weird behavior.
February 17, 2026 at 4:56 AM
I do think cluing in to the human social information behavior of performing make-believe as a way of signaling suspension of disbelief for a willing audience to bind their commitment to a collective belief has been a skeleton key for me to unlock so much understanding of otherwise weird behavior.
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The important thing to remember is that feijoa season will be upon us soon
February 17, 2026 at 4:04 AM
The important thing to remember is that feijoa season will be upon us soon