Arlin, Dramaturge
@rskarlin.bsky.social
Nerd, Game Designer, Delightfully Weird.
日本語はまだ学んでいます。
日本語はまだ学んでいます。
Would a vampire's makeup show up in a mirror?
Just like, a hanging face shaped bit of makeup?
Just like, a hanging face shaped bit of makeup?
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Would a vampire's makeup show up in a mirror?
Just like, a hanging face shaped bit of makeup?
Just like, a hanging face shaped bit of makeup?
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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
theonion.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
Why in the everloving fuck would you not allow clinic staff to correct AI generated fields??? Even setting aside the questionable choice to use AI in anything in medical paperwork, you are giving more authority to a thoughtless machine than to professionals whose job is to ensure accuracy for care!
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Why in the everloving fuck would you not allow clinic staff to correct AI generated fields??? Even setting aside the questionable choice to use AI in anything in medical paperwork, you are giving more authority to a thoughtless machine than to professionals whose job is to ensure accuracy for care!
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This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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Chuck Schumer you are currently being obliterated by "Fox Trot"
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Chuck Schumer you are currently being obliterated by "Fox Trot"
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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I feel more like this with every passing year.
We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all.
We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.
We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all.
We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.
This pretty much sums up the entire ideological dispute between the two American political parties.
What they are arguing about, on almost all issues, is either methodology or magnitude. That is literally it.
The party of We Will Kill You vs the party of We Will Let You Die.
What they are arguing about, on almost all issues, is either methodology or magnitude. That is literally it.
The party of We Will Kill You vs the party of We Will Let You Die.
To be clear, Lindsey Graham, an American senator, has gone on the most popular Sunday morning current events show in the country and suggested that we drop nuclear bombs on Palestinians.
While they may differ in methodology, both parties agree that Palestinians should be eliminated.
While they may differ in methodology, both parties agree that Palestinians should be eliminated.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I feel more like this with every passing year.
We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all.
We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.
We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all.
We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Fucking done with bitches over 70 ruining every fucking thing that has even made life slightly sustainable the past twenty years
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Fucking done with bitches over 70 ruining every fucking thing that has even made life slightly sustainable the past twenty years
Tonight’s session of what I am choosing to call Adventures In Old Hackmaster was, unsurprisingly, mostly book keeping. The system is such an overcomplicated mess, even if this group managed to have a lot of fun with (and in spite of) the foibles.
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Tonight’s session of what I am choosing to call Adventures In Old Hackmaster was, unsurprisingly, mostly book keeping. The system is such an overcomplicated mess, even if this group managed to have a lot of fun with (and in spite of) the foibles.
I’ve had people try to tell me that being a night owl isn’t a thing. I would submit for consideration my current struggles in waking up at the horrendously early hour of… *checks notes* 7:45 am.
It’s been like this basically ever since I was a preteen.
It’s been like this basically ever since I was a preteen.
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I’ve had people try to tell me that being a night owl isn’t a thing. I would submit for consideration my current struggles in waking up at the horrendously early hour of… *checks notes* 7:45 am.
It’s been like this basically ever since I was a preteen.
It’s been like this basically ever since I was a preteen.
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People often push the disabled to take risks with our health.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 AM
People often push the disabled to take risks with our health.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
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About Teen Vogue,
I don't read or care much for a lot of mainstream media, but Teen Vogue is the only consistent non-Native media outlet that has always done an incredible job reporting on Native issues and giving our talent a platform to shine and not just to fill their "diversity" quota.
I don't read or care much for a lot of mainstream media, but Teen Vogue is the only consistent non-Native media outlet that has always done an incredible job reporting on Native issues and giving our talent a platform to shine and not just to fill their "diversity" quota.
November 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
About Teen Vogue,
I don't read or care much for a lot of mainstream media, but Teen Vogue is the only consistent non-Native media outlet that has always done an incredible job reporting on Native issues and giving our talent a platform to shine and not just to fill their "diversity" quota.
I don't read or care much for a lot of mainstream media, but Teen Vogue is the only consistent non-Native media outlet that has always done an incredible job reporting on Native issues and giving our talent a platform to shine and not just to fill their "diversity" quota.
We have the second attempt at garlic sourdough, courtesy of Breadginald Yeastways. The garlic didn’t come out quite the same as my last time roasting some, I suspect I didn’t leave it in quite long enough, but the misshapen mega loaf certainly smells good.
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
We have the second attempt at garlic sourdough, courtesy of Breadginald Yeastways. The garlic didn’t come out quite the same as my last time roasting some, I suspect I didn’t leave it in quite long enough, but the misshapen mega loaf certainly smells good.
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For the love of God stop calling capitalism “Technofeudalism.” This is not a mutant regression off the track of benign capitalism’s progress to utopia. This is capitalism doing capitalism.
November 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
For the love of God stop calling capitalism “Technofeudalism.” This is not a mutant regression off the track of benign capitalism’s progress to utopia. This is capitalism doing capitalism.
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My Game Boy breakbeat music album is now released! Listen to it here:
marupanda.bandcamp.com/album/drink-...
marupanda.bandcamp.com/album/drink-...
November 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
My Game Boy breakbeat music album is now released! Listen to it here:
marupanda.bandcamp.com/album/drink-...
marupanda.bandcamp.com/album/drink-...
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They literally ruin everything they touch
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They literally ruin everything they touch
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UX person here: in a social platform, not a critique based one, the introduction of negative yardsticks beyond what we already express in text and through blocks, would likely start generating chilling effects or inhibiting use. Nobody wants the experience of waking up to 20, 200, 2000 dislikes.
“As users ‘dislike’ posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.”
Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch
As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.
techcrunch.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
UX person here: in a social platform, not a critique based one, the introduction of negative yardsticks beyond what we already express in text and through blocks, would likely start generating chilling effects or inhibiting use. Nobody wants the experience of waking up to 20, 200, 2000 dislikes.
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Every so often I repost this photo of Darwin to prove he is the most perfect little man (see alt for more)
October 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Every so often I repost this photo of Darwin to prove he is the most perfect little man (see alt for more)
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I felt very much this when I heard about free emergency contraception in pharmacies coming in today. I had to go down the most hideous wormhole 15 years ago because it was a Sunday and I didn't have £30. It could have been worse – but not that much. www.independent.co.uk/voices/morni...
October 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I felt very much this when I heard about free emergency contraception in pharmacies coming in today. I had to go down the most hideous wormhole 15 years ago because it was a Sunday and I didn't have £30. It could have been worse – but not that much. www.independent.co.uk/voices/morni...
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I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
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Being Muslim is not antisemitic.
Being Palestinian is not antisemitic.
Supporting Palestine is not antisemitic.
Jews who support Mamdani are not self hating.
Jews who support Palestine are not self hating.
I've had more than enough of this bullshit.
Being Palestinian is not antisemitic.
Supporting Palestine is not antisemitic.
Jews who support Mamdani are not self hating.
Jews who support Palestine are not self hating.
I've had more than enough of this bullshit.
October 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Being Muslim is not antisemitic.
Being Palestinian is not antisemitic.
Supporting Palestine is not antisemitic.
Jews who support Mamdani are not self hating.
Jews who support Palestine are not self hating.
I've had more than enough of this bullshit.
Being Palestinian is not antisemitic.
Supporting Palestine is not antisemitic.
Jews who support Mamdani are not self hating.
Jews who support Palestine are not self hating.
I've had more than enough of this bullshit.
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I'm serious: It's very probably long past time to stop using the current paradigm of "generative AI."
It comes from, depends on, and perpetuates so much environmental and social harm.
Reinvision a better way than this. JFC.
It comes from, depends on, and perpetuates so much environmental and social harm.
Reinvision a better way than this. JFC.
Stop overrelying on "AI" for important shit. Like, honestly, stop using it for important shit at all, but definitely stop uncritically trusting it at the level of the GODDAM FEDERAL JUDICIARY.
Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire.
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
October 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I'm serious: It's very probably long past time to stop using the current paradigm of "generative AI."
It comes from, depends on, and perpetuates so much environmental and social harm.
Reinvision a better way than this. JFC.
It comes from, depends on, and perpetuates so much environmental and social harm.
Reinvision a better way than this. JFC.
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I don’t know how many times I have to say this but if you didn’t know any geek girls in high school or you don’t know any now it’s because they didn’t trust you and you’re *NOT A SAFE PERSON* for women to be themselves around.
October 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I don’t know how many times I have to say this but if you didn’t know any geek girls in high school or you don’t know any now it’s because they didn’t trust you and you’re *NOT A SAFE PERSON* for women to be themselves around.