Stephen Fruchtman
@stephenfruchtman.bsky.social
Disabled enby Antizionist Jewish playwright just trying to get through the ongoing pandemic hellscape
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I miss my pointycat. It’s been 8 months without him.
June 16, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I miss my pointycat. It’s been 8 months without him.
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I joined a bold jumping spider for lunch today #MacroMonday #spiders #nature #macro #macrophotography #nature
June 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I joined a bold jumping spider for lunch today #MacroMonday #spiders #nature #macro #macrophotography #nature
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Who you should ask instead of ChatGPT:
A friend
A lawyer
The guys who sit on plastic chairs out in front of the corner store
The tarot cards
Yourself, in your journal
The cicadas singing in the trees behind your apartment building
The moon
Any librarian
An entomologist
Your local birdwatching group
A friend
A lawyer
The guys who sit on plastic chairs out in front of the corner store
The tarot cards
Yourself, in your journal
The cicadas singing in the trees behind your apartment building
The moon
Any librarian
An entomologist
Your local birdwatching group
May 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Who you should ask instead of ChatGPT:
A friend
A lawyer
The guys who sit on plastic chairs out in front of the corner store
The tarot cards
Yourself, in your journal
The cicadas singing in the trees behind your apartment building
The moon
Any librarian
An entomologist
Your local birdwatching group
A friend
A lawyer
The guys who sit on plastic chairs out in front of the corner store
The tarot cards
Yourself, in your journal
The cicadas singing in the trees behind your apartment building
The moon
Any librarian
An entomologist
Your local birdwatching group
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Who amongst us hasn’t paused our favorite audiobook to beseech the universe: “can’t this narrator sound more uncanny valley? I also really want to hear the wails of starving voice actors in the background.”
Pay human artists, you despicable corporate ghouls.
Pay human artists, you despicable corporate ghouls.
May 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Who amongst us hasn’t paused our favorite audiobook to beseech the universe: “can’t this narrator sound more uncanny valley? I also really want to hear the wails of starving voice actors in the background.”
Pay human artists, you despicable corporate ghouls.
Pay human artists, you despicable corporate ghouls.
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A real actual ad I just got on YouTube: if you frequently go walking at night, you need this special forces flashlight that blinds people from up to 50 ft away!
Me to Roundcat: IDK, I would personally consider that to be a major design flaw in a flashlight.
Roundcat: purrrrrrrr
Me to Roundcat: IDK, I would personally consider that to be a major design flaw in a flashlight.
Roundcat: purrrrrrrr
April 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
A real actual ad I just got on YouTube: if you frequently go walking at night, you need this special forces flashlight that blinds people from up to 50 ft away!
Me to Roundcat: IDK, I would personally consider that to be a major design flaw in a flashlight.
Roundcat: purrrrrrrr
Me to Roundcat: IDK, I would personally consider that to be a major design flaw in a flashlight.
Roundcat: purrrrrrrr
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I guess we may as well all decide now: should AI get an MFA? On the one hand it’ll give AI the time to write and get invaluable craft lessons, on the other hand maybe it’ll take away its unique creative voice and make it write like it has an MFA.
a woman in a purple suit looks surprised in front of a statue of a man
Alt: Jessica Fletcher, played by Angela Lansbury, rolling her eyes as if she’s listening to discourse about AI creative writing.
media.tenor.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I guess we may as well all decide now: should AI get an MFA? On the one hand it’ll give AI the time to write and get invaluable craft lessons, on the other hand maybe it’ll take away its unique creative voice and make it write like it has an MFA.
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Today @stephenfruchtman.bsky.social coined the best term: a flannel floaf, to describe our floofkitten loafing on his favorite flannel shirt, which he dragged out of the laundry basket for floof-loafing (floafing) purposes. #cats
December 17, 2024 at 1:41 AM
Today @stephenfruchtman.bsky.social coined the best term: a flannel floaf, to describe our floofkitten loafing on his favorite flannel shirt, which he dragged out of the laundry basket for floof-loafing (floafing) purposes. #cats
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Unless Congress acts in the next three weeks, Medicare will stop covering telehealth.
For people too sick to leave home for months, including millions who have been disabled by Covid, this will mean losing all access to healthcare.
Please sign this petition urging your representatives to act
For people too sick to leave home for months, including millions who have been disabled by Covid, this will mean losing all access to healthcare.
Please sign this petition urging your representatives to act
Preserving Telehealth
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actionnetwork.org
December 4, 2024 at 4:35 AM
Unless Congress acts in the next three weeks, Medicare will stop covering telehealth.
For people too sick to leave home for months, including millions who have been disabled by Covid, this will mean losing all access to healthcare.
Please sign this petition urging your representatives to act
For people too sick to leave home for months, including millions who have been disabled by Covid, this will mean losing all access to healthcare.
Please sign this petition urging your representatives to act
Watched the Gavin Creel memorial on YouTube. Powerful and moving, and really accessible, complete with asl interpretation.
I do kind of find it frustrating in a very on the nose kind of way that artist memorials and retrospectives are more accessible than their actual performances.
I do kind of find it frustrating in a very on the nose kind of way that artist memorials and retrospectives are more accessible than their actual performances.
December 2, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Watched the Gavin Creel memorial on YouTube. Powerful and moving, and really accessible, complete with asl interpretation.
I do kind of find it frustrating in a very on the nose kind of way that artist memorials and retrospectives are more accessible than their actual performances.
I do kind of find it frustrating in a very on the nose kind of way that artist memorials and retrospectives are more accessible than their actual performances.
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If you aren't even able to take the initiative to mask in public to protect other people from Covid because you'll feel self conscious, why would I believe that you won't obey the Trump administration in advance if you're put in a position where your actions will help them execute their agenda?
November 25, 2024 at 3:05 AM
If you aren't even able to take the initiative to mask in public to protect other people from Covid because you'll feel self conscious, why would I believe that you won't obey the Trump administration in advance if you're put in a position where your actions will help them execute their agenda?
Shoutout to davidfolkenflik.bsky.social et al for their turn toward anti-antifascism. Alienating people while pandering to those who will never support you worked out exactly as well as it always does.
November 25, 2024 at 2:49 AM
Shoutout to davidfolkenflik.bsky.social et al for their turn toward anti-antifascism. Alienating people while pandering to those who will never support you worked out exactly as well as it always does.
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🚨🚨🚨MY DEBUT GUARDIAN OP-ED IS UP
Theatrics, hatred and Linda McMahon: how pro wrestling explains Donald Trump
The ex-WWE CEO and likely incoming education secretary doesn’t seem like a threat. That’s what makes her one
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 4:01 PM
🚨🚨🚨MY DEBUT GUARDIAN OP-ED IS UP
At first the situation makes the lawmen look so filthy,
But they investigate themselves and it turns out that they're not guilty .
Hey, hey, Daloy politzei…
But they investigate themselves and it turns out that they're not guilty .
Hey, hey, Daloy politzei…
Today marks 300 days since Israeli forces killed 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her family members, and the medics sent to save her in Gaza.
For months, I have pressed the US government again and again on the killing.
How they’ve responded is shocking.
Watch all 300 days here: zeteo.com/p/300-days-a...
For months, I have pressed the US government again and again on the killing.
How they’ve responded is shocking.
Watch all 300 days here: zeteo.com/p/300-days-a...
November 24, 2024 at 4:43 PM
At first the situation makes the lawmen look so filthy,
But they investigate themselves and it turns out that they're not guilty .
Hey, hey, Daloy politzei…
But they investigate themselves and it turns out that they're not guilty .
Hey, hey, Daloy politzei…
I continue to be gobsmacked by gamergate targets who decide to align with gamergate values and actual gamergaters. Like, she’s being mass blocked instead of constantly barraged with threats, and that’s worse, somehow?
November 24, 2024 at 12:44 AM
I continue to be gobsmacked by gamergate targets who decide to align with gamergate values and actual gamergaters. Like, she’s being mass blocked instead of constantly barraged with threats, and that’s worse, somehow?
The fascists are going to kill a bunch of people, and neoliberal systems and institutions are complicit. This is what comes from ignoring and normalizing a pandemic.
"Dr. Oz will work closely with RFK Jr to take on the illness industrial complex."
November 19, 2024 at 9:29 PM
The fascists are going to kill a bunch of people, and neoliberal systems and institutions are complicit. This is what comes from ignoring and normalizing a pandemic.