Adrian Speed
@adrianspeed.bsky.social
A novelist and amatuer history communicator.
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The eternal struggle of trying to teach people that "I am opposed to the systemic objectification of women" and "I should be allowed to sexually express myself by drawing tied up women with big tits" aren't mutually exclusive statements
February 6, 2026 at 8:06 AM
The eternal struggle of trying to teach people that "I am opposed to the systemic objectification of women" and "I should be allowed to sexually express myself by drawing tied up women with big tits" aren't mutually exclusive statements
I have a 13 inch laptop and a 15 inch laptop. I have a 7 inch phone and I have a 6 inch phone. Each time I switch from one to the other I think "This form factor is great, why do I even bother with the other one."
February 5, 2026 at 4:31 PM
I have a 13 inch laptop and a 15 inch laptop. I have a 7 inch phone and I have a 6 inch phone. Each time I switch from one to the other I think "This form factor is great, why do I even bother with the other one."
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I'm buying a kitchen and they sent a sample of the marble counter top with a metal ball showing what the sink will be like. Now my desk looks like a 90s 3D rendering tool demo image.
February 4, 2026 at 9:36 AM
I'm buying a kitchen and they sent a sample of the marble counter top with a metal ball showing what the sink will be like. Now my desk looks like a 90s 3D rendering tool demo image.
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What's that you say!
It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds
Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time
www.independent.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 8:44 AM
What's that you say!
It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Some people mistake the French lack of English-style politeness for being rude but that's because they get shit done.
The fifth republic's constitution was designed by looking at the British parliamentary system and going "we can fix this" and then they did.
The fifth republic's constitution was designed by looking at the British parliamentary system and going "we can fix this" and then they did.
My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.
February 4, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Some people mistake the French lack of English-style politeness for being rude but that's because they get shit done.
The fifth republic's constitution was designed by looking at the British parliamentary system and going "we can fix this" and then they did.
The fifth republic's constitution was designed by looking at the British parliamentary system and going "we can fix this" and then they did.
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We need to respect France more. Labor laws, cheese, willingness to riot, all on point.
My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.
February 4, 2026 at 12:31 AM
We need to respect France more. Labor laws, cheese, willingness to riot, all on point.
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This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
February 4, 2026 at 12:53 AM
This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
Nothing makes me think more about the collapse of the Roman Empire than driving down Britain's roads.
We know, mathematically we have proven, that heavy loads cause the most wear on roads. So we should build special iron roads for them, right? Not in Britain!
We know, mathematically we have proven, that heavy loads cause the most wear on roads. So we should build special iron roads for them, right? Not in Britain!
February 1, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Nothing makes me think more about the collapse of the Roman Empire than driving down Britain's roads.
We know, mathematically we have proven, that heavy loads cause the most wear on roads. So we should build special iron roads for them, right? Not in Britain!
We know, mathematically we have proven, that heavy loads cause the most wear on roads. So we should build special iron roads for them, right? Not in Britain!
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honestly not in a million years would i have called this
That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:
January 31, 2026 at 3:46 AM
honestly not in a million years would i have called this
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Still trying to do right by one of my favorite literary passages of all time, Peter S. Beagle's description of The Last Unicorn
[Originally posted April 10, 2019]
[Originally posted April 10, 2019]
October 17, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Still trying to do right by one of my favorite literary passages of all time, Peter S. Beagle's description of The Last Unicorn
[Originally posted April 10, 2019]
[Originally posted April 10, 2019]
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Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.
January 31, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.
You would do better getting your history lesson from finding your nearest neurodivergent person and giving them two triple shot espressos. There would be slightly less awkward twitching.
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
January 30, 2026 at 9:11 AM
You would do better getting your history lesson from finding your nearest neurodivergent person and giving them two triple shot espressos. There would be slightly less awkward twitching.
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Incredibly disappointing to see Aranofsky attempt this kind of sloppy mess, AND you already know that I strongly feel GenAI has no place in creative works, BUT SETTING ALL OF THAT ASIDE…
holy shit this looks like ass
this is absolute cheeks
even if I liked GenAI, this would be dog balls
holy shit this looks like ass
this is absolute cheeks
even if I liked GenAI, this would be dog balls
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Incredibly disappointing to see Aranofsky attempt this kind of sloppy mess, AND you already know that I strongly feel GenAI has no place in creative works, BUT SETTING ALL OF THAT ASIDE…
holy shit this looks like ass
this is absolute cheeks
even if I liked GenAI, this would be dog balls
holy shit this looks like ass
this is absolute cheeks
even if I liked GenAI, this would be dog balls
Just putting it out there that the "land of the free" that I imagine doesn't require a newspaper to help you identify gas canisters thrown at you by the government
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 27, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Just putting it out there that the "land of the free" that I imagine doesn't require a newspaper to help you identify gas canisters thrown at you by the government
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for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence
hope that helps
hope that helps
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
Opinion | Why Gen Z Doesn’t Love ‘Harry Potter’
The wizarding worldview is naïve.
nyti.ms
January 26, 2026 at 9:47 PM
for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence
hope that helps
hope that helps
It is quite terrifying to think the Average American has a 1 in 1,000,000 chance to be shot by the police on any given day.
just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now
Our government is murdering the citizens of this country. They are doing it without any checks on their violence
January 25, 2026 at 9:00 PM
It is quite terrifying to think the Average American has a 1 in 1,000,000 chance to be shot by the police on any given day.
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“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
January 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
This is not legal (but wouldn't stop them) but also people have wanted to get rid of birthright citizenship.
January 22, 2026 at 8:58 PM
This is not legal (but wouldn't stop them) but also people have wanted to get rid of birthright citizenship.
This game looks like it could be fun but it sounds like they actively chose the most generic noun for every object possible, including the game itself. This is like bringing out a new cereal called "Rolled corn".
January 21, 2026 at 9:53 AM
This game looks like it could be fun but it sounds like they actively chose the most generic noun for every object possible, including the game itself. This is like bringing out a new cereal called "Rolled corn".
I use multi-speed on youtube because everyone talks fucking slow (some youtubers are only speaking normally at 3x speed) but I feel youtube should default back to 1x when you play music. It knows what music is. This would help the majority of people using the feature.
January 20, 2026 at 11:39 AM
I use multi-speed on youtube because everyone talks fucking slow (some youtubers are only speaking normally at 3x speed) but I feel youtube should default back to 1x when you play music. It knows what music is. This would help the majority of people using the feature.
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don't you
forget about me
♪♫
forget about me
♪♫
August 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
don't you
forget about me
♪♫
forget about me
♪♫
People living in a failed state don't notice their state has failed. Parties happen in the same cities as government raids. Metros run while the government massacres rebels. People get up and go to work and grumble about the roads and the weather and tomorrow is just a little bit worse than today
January 18, 2026 at 8:03 PM
People living in a failed state don't notice their state has failed. Parties happen in the same cities as government raids. Metros run while the government massacres rebels. People get up and go to work and grumble about the roads and the weather and tomorrow is just a little bit worse than today
LLMs require refreshing their models with fresh data to stay relevant and keep up with changing language. This should mean that AI businesses have both a financial and professional obligation to keep society free, fair and open, and encourage human made art and culture.
But they don't.
But they don't.
January 17, 2026 at 10:12 PM
LLMs require refreshing their models with fresh data to stay relevant and keep up with changing language. This should mean that AI businesses have both a financial and professional obligation to keep society free, fair and open, and encourage human made art and culture.
But they don't.
But they don't.
The writers of Star Trek the next generation were simply not capable of making good on their promise for the Ferengi. The word comes from the Afghanistani word for Western foreigner. They should have been more conniving and insidious than the romulans, and invade with less hesitation.
January 17, 2026 at 5:37 PM
The writers of Star Trek the next generation were simply not capable of making good on their promise for the Ferengi. The word comes from the Afghanistani word for Western foreigner. They should have been more conniving and insidious than the romulans, and invade with less hesitation.
Sometimes I worry I am too much an online person and then I see an assemblage of words I do not understand and breathe a sigh of relief.
I have a theory that the general epistemic crisis has led to a lot of very online people getting used to communicating primarily through oughtposting and kind of forgetting how to deal with isposting
people gotta chill out about making normative vs. descriptive claims. it’s tedious to have to specify “of course, I do NOT support fire” if you’re talking about a house burning down.
January 16, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Sometimes I worry I am too much an online person and then I see an assemblage of words I do not understand and breathe a sigh of relief.