Abbey St. Brendan
@abbeystbrendan.bsky.social
Artistic director of a certain amount of miscellany, provider of opinions and silliness. Half fey on my mother's side. abbeystbrendan.com & suspiciouslyconvenient.com
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All of my friends and family are here. My kids are here. My aging parents are here. Why should I leave when it's Republicans who suck?
It's hard to more succinctly sum up 2025 than a heartfelt, serious lament from a targeted minority about whether she needs to uproot her life for safety that also contains a pop culture quote reference.
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The thing where conservatives think they should be able to go to college to teach experts instead of to learn from them shows how coddled they have been by society. We need to stop disrespecting them by shielding them with accommodation; let’s respect their beliefs by releasing them to the effects.
November 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The thing where conservatives think they should be able to go to college to teach experts instead of to learn from them shows how coddled they have been by society. We need to stop disrespecting them by shielding them with accommodation; let’s respect their beliefs by releasing them to the effects.
This unironically sounds great? Most of the people I know would watch the hell out of this. You're making *me* want to write it. Shit, this might even be the solution to "What would Studio Ghibli mechsploitation look like?"
going to start writing reverse mechsploitation where a severely traumatized pilot & her barely-functional mech find themselves cast aside as used up by the empire that brainwashed them & repurposing their mech into an agricultural tool while the pilot is slowly coaxed to heal by her new community
November 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This unironically sounds great? Most of the people I know would watch the hell out of this. You're making *me* want to write it. Shit, this might even be the solution to "What would Studio Ghibli mechsploitation look like?"
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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vancouver city council voted in an egregious budget that only benefits millionaires, billionaires, and cops. here's a very simple action we can all take:
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
vancouver city council voted in an egregious budget that only benefits millionaires, billionaires, and cops. here's a very simple action we can all take:
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One of my ongoing frustrations with software engineering as a professional practice is that LLMs were in no way the thing that caused this (though they do exacerbate it). Every company I’ve seen in my career fetishized producing solution-shaped objects for problems they didn’t (care to) understand.
"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
One of my ongoing frustrations with software engineering as a professional practice is that LLMs were in no way the thing that caused this (though they do exacerbate it). Every company I’ve seen in my career fetishized producing solution-shaped objects for problems they didn’t (care to) understand.
Rome's got it coming.
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Rome's got it coming.
Ah, another beautiful Christmas in Innsmouth!
🎶 It's beginning to look a lot like fish men...
🎶 It's beginning to look a lot like fish men...
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Ah, another beautiful Christmas in Innsmouth!
🎶 It's beginning to look a lot like fish men...
🎶 It's beginning to look a lot like fish men...
... Pretty sure amongst my friends it's me.
we all got that one homie who's drawn in a different art style
November 16, 2025 at 6:00 AM
... Pretty sure amongst my friends it's me.
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Both the dog’s cool confidence and the cat’s bitchiness are hilarious.
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Both the dog’s cool confidence and the cat’s bitchiness are hilarious.
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When the great lines of cinema are discussed no one ever brings up Kevin Bacon in Tremors exclaiming, “I found the ass end!” Because in that moment I really BELIEVED he’d located the ass end of a Precambrian life form buried beneath the desert. Like, he and the writer delivered that reality to me.
November 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
When the great lines of cinema are discussed no one ever brings up Kevin Bacon in Tremors exclaiming, “I found the ass end!” Because in that moment I really BELIEVED he’d located the ass end of a Precambrian life form buried beneath the desert. Like, he and the writer delivered that reality to me.
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Fuck off
This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...
Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Fuck off
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Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.
It’s time to cancel your account.
It’s time to cancel your account.
October 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.
It’s time to cancel your account.
It’s time to cancel your account.
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"gaming is dead"
My dude gaming has never been more alive. Ya just gotta stop hoping that big studios are gonna stop shitting on their own dicks out of greed, and go look at smaller dev teams and indie devs
My dude gaming has never been more alive. Ya just gotta stop hoping that big studios are gonna stop shitting on their own dicks out of greed, and go look at smaller dev teams and indie devs
April 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"gaming is dead"
My dude gaming has never been more alive. Ya just gotta stop hoping that big studios are gonna stop shitting on their own dicks out of greed, and go look at smaller dev teams and indie devs
My dude gaming has never been more alive. Ya just gotta stop hoping that big studios are gonna stop shitting on their own dicks out of greed, and go look at smaller dev teams and indie devs
Sure, but that's hardly surprising. Philosophy, out of all the humanities, is the one most easily treated as a study of old European guys and ancient Greeks, the one that teaches formalized argumentation disconnected from actual lived experiences.
No wonder it produces solipsists.
No wonder it produces solipsists.
Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.
October 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Sure, but that's hardly surprising. Philosophy, out of all the humanities, is the one most easily treated as a study of old European guys and ancient Greeks, the one that teaches formalized argumentation disconnected from actual lived experiences.
No wonder it produces solipsists.
No wonder it produces solipsists.
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i hope this is helpful, I tried to be thorough
September 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
i hope this is helpful, I tried to be thorough
A plague of frogs on their (ICE's) houses!
Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid
October 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A plague of frogs on their (ICE's) houses!
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L’hymne national du Canada, mais on remplace tous les pronoms avec des pronoms interdits par le gouvernement du Québec?
October 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
L’hymne national du Canada, mais on remplace tous les pronoms avec des pronoms interdits par le gouvernement du Québec?
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“A motion calling on the Vancouver Park Board to officially apologize for hosting an upcoming Harry Potter attraction passed Tuesday in a unanimous vote.”
‘This will not happen again’: Vancouver Park Board apologizes for hosting Harry Potter event
A motion calling on the Vancouver Park Board to officially apologize for hosting an upcoming Harry Potter attraction passed Tuesday in a unanimous vote.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
“A motion calling on the Vancouver Park Board to officially apologize for hosting an upcoming Harry Potter attraction passed Tuesday in a unanimous vote.”
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We've been burned before for your warmth.
Not going to do so willingly.
Not going to do so willingly.
September 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
We've been burned before for your warmth.
Not going to do so willingly.
Not going to do so willingly.
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Amazing to me how hearing the name "Jared Leto" will instantly turn me off from any movie.
Casting him in 2025 just speaks to so many problems with the flick beyond just him.
Casting him in 2025 just speaks to so many problems with the flick beyond just him.
October 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Amazing to me how hearing the name "Jared Leto" will instantly turn me off from any movie.
Casting him in 2025 just speaks to so many problems with the flick beyond just him.
Casting him in 2025 just speaks to so many problems with the flick beyond just him.
Many, and yet I have seen so many from other eras. I don't resemble my technical generation very much at all.
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Many, and yet I have seen so many from other eras. I don't resemble my technical generation very much at all.
My hot take: I think both of these are butt-ugly. Though at least the first one was legible as a symbol...
October 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
My hot take: I think both of these are butt-ugly. Though at least the first one was legible as a symbol...