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Sasha Fury
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Literary academic & PhD candidate. Mostly US lit. Theory junkie. Writer. Editor. Musician. Musician. Cat mom. She/her. Trans. Disabled. Treaty 1 Territory. Palestine will be free.

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What a headline. How does the LPC hold itself upright when the backbone of the party has become bitumen?
WORLD Ottawa turns to Alberta as it moves to revive trade with China JAMES GRIFFITHS Asia correspondent HONG KONG Published December 26 2025, 4:00AM
December 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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The field of Holocaust education is in crisis because no one can agree on whether we are supposed to take moral lessons from learning about past genocides, and if so, what those moral lessons are supposed to be.
"Trump-appointed Holocaust Museum board members pushing to oust Bernie Sanders The members say the Vermont senator hasn’t attended council meetings and that his rhetoric, accusing Israel of committing genocide, runs counter to the museum’s mission"
December 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Frodo: Frodo wouldn't have got far without fucking Sam.
Sam: Now Mr. Frodo, you shouldn't make fun. I was being serious.
Frodo: So was I. *wink* [they continue to walk]
thecallisandra.bsky.social Callisandra @thecallisandra.bsky.social · 16h
The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word?

"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
December 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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ninamarkl.bsky.social
merry christmas from me and Beast*

*not his real name unfortunately
nina holding a very large black maine coone cat
December 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Again: we have discussed all of this before. We warned you that things like this were going to happen. We told you that the values embedded in these LLM/GPT-type "AI" systems were a) trash & b) woefully under-examined.

And yet here we are.

And that is also why I'm furious at CBS about this framing
November 15, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
I want to talk to you a little bit about how and why Google's Gemini "AI" just told someone that they were a drain on resources and they should die. And, frankly, why I'm a little bit furious with CBS right now.

Because it's actually very simple, and we've even talked about it before, a few times:
Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die."
In an online conversation about aging adults, Google's Gemini AI chatbot responded with a threatening message, telling the user to "please die."
www.cbsnews.com
November 15, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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The Press: This is fine because Trump warned them
Top Stories U.S. hits Islamic State in Nigeria after Trump warnings
December 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Everybody's talking about Stranger Things spoilers, but I think this series was already spoiled by not ending years ago.
December 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Oh, I think there are lots of good examples of shimmer use. Shimmer was basically invented by Brian Eno. For this reason, it got used on U2 records, and all praise and worship music is just a bad imitation of U2.
December 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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"Praise and worship" guitar is a plague. I just saw on one pickup builder's website that they make "praise and worship" spec pickups. Motherfucker, what in god's name does that mean?
December 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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I just realized Fralin does prewired control plates with all the mods you could possibly want, like with push-pull for series mode or blend mode. I think my guitar-related purchase this year will be new wiring for all my guitars and maybe a baritone neck for one of my Teles.
Fralin Customizable Prewired Telecaster Control Plate
The Lindy Fralin Customizable Telecaster Control Plate allows you to customize your tone, and we wire It up for you. Over 150 combinations available!
www.fralinpickups.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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NO MORE ALIEN MOVIES NUKE IT FROM SPACE
Let Franchises End
YouTube video by Patrick (H) Willems
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December 26, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Feels very 2025, NGL.
We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.
YouTube video by Things I Want to Say Sometimes
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December 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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And Jesus said unto them, “Bomb the peoples of this world in my name on my birthday. This is the way and the light.”
bcfinucane.bsky.social Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 19h
Merry Christmas!

The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.
Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries! I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was. The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing. Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues. DONALD J. TRUMP PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
December 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Christian nationalism. It is wild that what this is still beyond the perception of many people.
markjacob.bsky.social Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
Homeland Security tweet: Merry Christmas, America. We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior.
December 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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And Jesus said unto them, “Bomb the peoples of this world in my name on my birthday. This is the way and the light.”
bcfinucane.bsky.social Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 19h
Merry Christmas!

The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.
Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries! I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was. The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing. Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues. DONALD J. TRUMP PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
December 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Derrida, in questioning how Heidegger can know what he claims to know, throws in this "and another thing!" where he asks how can one possible claim to know the sex (gender) of Christ, which is not something anyone can determine of another person.

Happy Christmas!
If you gave me a little time, I would undertake what would not be just an exercise, what is on the contrary a very serious thing that could be experienced with fear and trembling, but which might today become a mere exercise, which would consist in demonstrating that the figure of the sister and that of Christ can very easily be substituted for one another. And precisely in Trakl’s corpus, if I may say so. How is one to determine the sex of Christ, and how is one to characterize, within sexual difference, the properly Christian, decidedly Christian expe rience that a man (supposing that Trakl is a man, decidedly a man, “one sidedly a man,” as one of Joyce’s commentators dared to say of him) or a woman has of the relation to Christ?
December 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Home Alone is Die Hard for kids.
December 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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When I got my first Telecaster, I was disappointed that it didn't come with the ashtray cover, because even though no one would actually play with it on, it just looks really cool.

I continue to be disappointed Teles don't come with them.
December 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Christmas Day and it's raining in Winnipeg. It's a climate change miracle!
December 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Watching my neighbours try to leave their apartment without letting their newly adopted Christmas cat out also is comedy gold.
December 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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"These boots were made for Trekking. And that's just what they'll do."
—traditional 20th-century Earth song
December 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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“I’m sorry, sir, but your bells are indecently merry.”
paulinwpg.bsky.social Paul in Winnipeg @paulinwpg.bsky.social · 1d
Jingle bells is ‘explicit’?
Anyway. Merry Christmas Winnipeg. 
December 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Tumblr user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM