Jasmine Lawrence
@troacctid.bsky.social
Tabletop gamer, choral singer, certified queer. troacctid.tumblr.com
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"When your enemy is making one catastrophic mistake after another, interrupt them and save them from any consequences they might face."
–Schumer-Tzu
–Schumer-Tzu
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"When your enemy is making one catastrophic mistake after another, interrupt them and save them from any consequences they might face."
–Schumer-Tzu
–Schumer-Tzu
And it's GOOD y'all. If you have any interest in the genre at all, I recommend it VERY highly.
If you're not familiar with Velveteen, it's my superhero dystopia, and from the fact that I've been writing it for fifteen years, you can see that it's not just me trying to capitalize on the popularity of THE BOYS.
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
And it's GOOD y'all. If you have any interest in the genre at all, I recommend it VERY highly.
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i laughed *and* i wish i could read the dissertation from 200 years from now that references this post as a confluence of popular culture from three different centuries.
Vast and trunkless legs of stone $200
Half sunk shattered visage $150
Wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command $800
Hand that mocked them $3600
Pedestal $150
someone who is good at entropy help me budget this. No thing beside remains
Half sunk shattered visage $150
Wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command $800
Hand that mocked them $3600
Pedestal $150
someone who is good at entropy help me budget this. No thing beside remains
November 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
i laughed *and* i wish i could read the dissertation from 200 years from now that references this post as a confluence of popular culture from three different centuries.
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It's interesting that wise conservative business guys implicitly understand "return on investment" except when it comes to this. It's better for YOU if your neighbor gets enough to eat so he can become your community's mechanic, accountant, dentist--whatever!--instead of lying dead in a ditch
The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself
Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
November 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's interesting that wise conservative business guys implicitly understand "return on investment" except when it comes to this. It's better for YOU if your neighbor gets enough to eat so he can become your community's mechanic, accountant, dentist--whatever!--instead of lying dead in a ditch
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Everyone using ChatGPT says they are being responsible and always double check it, blah blah, but somehow real life (job applications, college essays, people arguing online, legal fillings, computer code) is full of ChatGPT output that clearly nobody checked. What a bizarre mystery
October 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Everyone using ChatGPT says they are being responsible and always double check it, blah blah, but somehow real life (job applications, college essays, people arguing online, legal fillings, computer code) is full of ChatGPT output that clearly nobody checked. What a bizarre mystery
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“Comparative Calm or ‘Hellscape’? In Portland, Depends on the Narrator”
No, it fucking doesn’t! It literally does not! You can look and see which of those narratives more closely approaches the truth. You can collect facts and build a narrative of your own that reflects reality!
No, it fucking doesn’t! It literally does not! You can look and see which of those narratives more closely approaches the truth. You can collect facts and build a narrative of your own that reflects reality!
October 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
“Comparative Calm or ‘Hellscape’? In Portland, Depends on the Narrator”
No, it fucking doesn’t! It literally does not! You can look and see which of those narratives more closely approaches the truth. You can collect facts and build a narrative of your own that reflects reality!
No, it fucking doesn’t! It literally does not! You can look and see which of those narratives more closely approaches the truth. You can collect facts and build a narrative of your own that reflects reality!
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We talk a lot about how the mindset of there being two sides and how you're on the good side, can make you vulnerable to hubris if you're too inflexible but I think the mindset of there being two sides that are both wrong and you being in the sensible middle makes you even more vulnerable to hubris
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We talk a lot about how the mindset of there being two sides and how you're on the good side, can make you vulnerable to hubris if you're too inflexible but I think the mindset of there being two sides that are both wrong and you being in the sensible middle makes you even more vulnerable to hubris
A lot of folks in the comments are saying the map is wildly imbalanced in favor of D and G, and they're not wrong, but I don't see nearly as many considering how inconvenient it would be to have to import all of your ingredients. The real strat is picking the octant you live in and eating local!
For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?
For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...
For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...
September 18, 2025 at 7:09 AM
A lot of folks in the comments are saying the map is wildly imbalanced in favor of D and G, and they're not wrong, but I don't see nearly as many considering how inconvenient it would be to have to import all of your ingredients. The real strat is picking the octant you live in and eating local!
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I recently talked to a guy who thinks AI won / is inevitable, who doesn't understand why anti-AI people get so mad about it (handwaves off energy, copyright, jobs) also doesn't see users clog up human review that used to work
screenshots are from 2023 and 2024 this has gotten worse across the board
screenshots are from 2023 and 2024 this has gotten worse across the board
September 7, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I recently talked to a guy who thinks AI won / is inevitable, who doesn't understand why anti-AI people get so mad about it (handwaves off energy, copyright, jobs) also doesn't see users clog up human review that used to work
screenshots are from 2023 and 2024 this has gotten worse across the board
screenshots are from 2023 and 2024 this has gotten worse across the board
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The key to what "crime" means in politics is that it's when a dirty stranger, probably dark-skinned, sometimes just gay, jumps out at you with a knife and goes "raaAAaGhH", or is just standing around and you feel like they might do that. Slapping your wife around or embezzling is just being a rascal
Trump claims crime is down to "virtually nothing" in DC & adds the crimes that are happening are "much lesser things. Things that take place in the home they call crime. You know, they'll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight w/the wife they say 'this is a crime. See?'"
September 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The key to what "crime" means in politics is that it's when a dirty stranger, probably dark-skinned, sometimes just gay, jumps out at you with a knife and goes "raaAAaGhH", or is just standing around and you feel like they might do that. Slapping your wife around or embezzling is just being a rascal
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Said in D&D tonight:
"If the gauntlets don't fit, you must acquit!"
"They're magic gauntlets, they resize to fit the wearer."
"Therefore you can't prove they belong to my client."
"If the gauntlets don't fit, you must acquit!"
"They're magic gauntlets, they resize to fit the wearer."
"Therefore you can't prove they belong to my client."
August 28, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Said in D&D tonight:
"If the gauntlets don't fit, you must acquit!"
"They're magic gauntlets, they resize to fit the wearer."
"Therefore you can't prove they belong to my client."
"If the gauntlets don't fit, you must acquit!"
"They're magic gauntlets, they resize to fit the wearer."
"Therefore you can't prove they belong to my client."
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You can argue about potential but the *current level of publicly available production AI tools* is clearly incredibly well suited for exponential advances in scammer productivity (volume and surface verisimilitude important, accuracy unimportant) and possibly negative progress in scam detection
August 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
You can argue about potential but the *current level of publicly available production AI tools* is clearly incredibly well suited for exponential advances in scammer productivity (volume and surface verisimilitude important, accuracy unimportant) and possibly negative progress in scam detection
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Facebook and LinkedIn once had genuine utility as places you could keep aware of important life events (marriage, kids, moving) and career updates from people in your life who you like and hope are doing well but aren't close enough to talk to all the time. But that doesn't make any money I guess
I remember when LinkedIn was "that place I logged into once a year to see where people I worked with years ago ended up", not "the worst parts of instagram combined with copious amounts of adderall"
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
August 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Facebook and LinkedIn once had genuine utility as places you could keep aware of important life events (marriage, kids, moving) and career updates from people in your life who you like and hope are doing well but aren't close enough to talk to all the time. But that doesn't make any money I guess
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This reminds me of when Zemeckis claimed the "performance capture" technology used on Polar Express, Beowulf, and Christmas Carol seamlessly captured the expressions on actors' faces and transferred them to the CG characters, while it actually worked poorly and was manually "fixed" by animators
So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.
If true, then fucking yikes.
If true, then fucking yikes.
August 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This reminds me of when Zemeckis claimed the "performance capture" technology used on Polar Express, Beowulf, and Christmas Carol seamlessly captured the expressions on actors' faces and transferred them to the CG characters, while it actually worked poorly and was manually "fixed" by animators
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If you're worried about your daughter losing at sports to a trans kid just wait until you hear about "tall kids" or "rich kids"!!! There's a thousand reasons why one kid might win over another and gender identity is like not even on the list
July 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
If you're worried about your daughter losing at sports to a trans kid just wait until you hear about "tall kids" or "rich kids"!!! There's a thousand reasons why one kid might win over another and gender identity is like not even on the list
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If you don't want to write a part you feel like you're "supposed to write," like a description of a room that you feel like is boring to write, maybe your readers would also find it boring to read and you could just not do it. The writing cops will not come and arrest you for not checking that box
if u see this, quote-post with your tips for writers that no one gives anymore because they seem obvious (even though they're not)
July 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
If you don't want to write a part you feel like you're "supposed to write," like a description of a room that you feel like is boring to write, maybe your readers would also find it boring to read and you could just not do it. The writing cops will not come and arrest you for not checking that box
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The conservatives' complaint about the Superman immigrant angle is that they think it's only true as a humorous rhetorical technicality like when they joke about Elon Musk being African American, assuming we all agree Superman obviously doesn't have anything in common with like, nonwhite immigrants
July 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The conservatives' complaint about the Superman immigrant angle is that they think it's only true as a humorous rhetorical technicality like when they joke about Elon Musk being African American, assuming we all agree Superman obviously doesn't have anything in common with like, nonwhite immigrants
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and don't forget in his first term, he cut pandemic response teams and then we got covid.
trump cuts. we all bleed.
trump cuts. we all bleed.
The message should be that Trump cut the FAA, and there was a huge plane crash. Trump cut the weather service, and a bunch of people died in a flood. What’s next?
July 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
and don't forget in his first term, he cut pandemic response teams and then we got covid.
trump cuts. we all bleed.
trump cuts. we all bleed.
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A little bit of encouragement and a reminder to keep fighting
I know we don't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. It's been a rough several years.
So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.
So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.
July 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
A little bit of encouragement and a reminder to keep fighting
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RFK fits in with the administration so well because his approach to health is the same as the conservative approach to money: if you already have it, it's because you deserve it. If you don't have it, you must be punished to motivate you to earn it
I guess the media needs it to be spelled out but the core principle of RFKj wellness fascism is that if you get sick it’s your fault, you could have avoided it by using the right “supplements” and working out, so you might as well die because you’re of no use
If you find this confusing you should never comment on American politics ever again.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
July 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
RFK fits in with the administration so well because his approach to health is the same as the conservative approach to money: if you already have it, it's because you deserve it. If you don't have it, you must be punished to motivate you to earn it
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this!
what if we abolished slavery but for real?
what if we abolished slavery but for real?
Unironically the thing I love about this point, is that it's a great basis to start talking to y'all about the fact that most of the people in jail in the US are just as innocent as Khalil. Many are Black folk that have been arrested with *absolutely no basis*, but wait *over a year* to see a judge.
The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.
June 21, 2025 at 5:21 AM
this!
what if we abolished slavery but for real?
what if we abolished slavery but for real?
I picked up the remastered version of Spyro the Dragon this week and there sure are no female characters in this game, huh? Over 50 dragons I've met so far, all male. And yet, there are dragon eggs. I'm already devising theories about where they come from.
June 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I picked up the remastered version of Spyro the Dragon this week and there sure are no female characters in this game, huh? Over 50 dragons I've met so far, all male. And yet, there are dragon eggs. I'm already devising theories about where they come from.
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Oh, hey. TIDAL CREATURES is out in paperback today! If you want a book about weird alchemy, found family, moon deities around the world, academic politics, the destructive applications of peach trees, lesbians, and the Impossible City, this is the book for you.
June 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Oh, hey. TIDAL CREATURES is out in paperback today! If you want a book about weird alchemy, found family, moon deities around the world, academic politics, the destructive applications of peach trees, lesbians, and the Impossible City, this is the book for you.
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this thread is very silly. "democrats must cancel the gender language police" like who exactly is the gender language police?
who in any position of power is getting so upset about improper gender terminology that they fail to recognize when someone's heart is earnestly in the right place?
who in any position of power is getting so upset about improper gender terminology that they fail to recognize when someone's heart is earnestly in the right place?
May 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
this thread is very silly. "democrats must cancel the gender language police" like who exactly is the gender language police?
who in any position of power is getting so upset about improper gender terminology that they fail to recognize when someone's heart is earnestly in the right place?
who in any position of power is getting so upset about improper gender terminology that they fail to recognize when someone's heart is earnestly in the right place?
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I feel like these kinds of articles are industry plants. Negative articles that make AI seem better or in any way intelligent.
Nuke it. Now!
“The company behind an Amazon-backed AI model revealed a number of concerning findings from its testing process, including that the AI would blackmail engineers who threatened to shut it down.“
“The company behind an Amazon-backed AI model revealed a number of concerning findings from its testing process, including that the AI would blackmail engineers who threatened to shut it down.“
Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline
In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence, a safety report revealed.
www.huffpost.com
May 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I feel like these kinds of articles are industry plants. Negative articles that make AI seem better or in any way intelligent.