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@affinity.bsky.social
The thing that controls, even if it's also not what does the controlling. 18+. Most pronouns work.
Author of The Place Where We Can Stop Running, a Human Domestication Guide novel: https://archiveofourown.org/works/58402522
AD: @cayenaleva.bsky.social
Author of The Place Where We Can Stop Running, a Human Domestication Guide novel: https://archiveofourown.org/works/58402522
AD: @cayenaleva.bsky.social
This gets worse. A few years ago, a guy bamed Mario Zechner began scraping European grocery chains, and one of the things he found was widespread cyclic discounts leading to it being impossible to know what anything costs. Intentional price obfuscation. mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/11...
February 16, 2026 at 12:03 PM
This gets worse. A few years ago, a guy bamed Mario Zechner began scraping European grocery chains, and one of the things he found was widespread cyclic discounts leading to it being impossible to know what anything costs. Intentional price obfuscation. mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/11...
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Art by Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestami | www.instagram.com/neyestanimana
February 7, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Art by Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestami | www.instagram.com/neyestanimana
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I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more
github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more
github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
February 3, 2026 at 12:30 AM
I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more
github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more
github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
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TREBEK: You may see them crawling up walls, but you cannot kill them in a way that matters.
me: who are the Chinese psychedelic mushroom people
TREBEK: Bizarre little men. You still control the board.
me: who are the Chinese psychedelic mushroom people
TREBEK: Bizarre little men. You still control the board.
With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
www.bbc.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:09 PM
TREBEK: You may see them crawling up walls, but you cannot kill them in a way that matters.
me: who are the Chinese psychedelic mushroom people
TREBEK: Bizarre little men. You still control the board.
me: who are the Chinese psychedelic mushroom people
TREBEK: Bizarre little men. You still control the board.
State Azure, "Fragments", a procedurally-generated four-hour eurorack song I've been using to sleep for years. GGEZ.
If someone put $1,000,000 on the table and said you had to listen to one album on repeat for 48 hours straight…
what album are you risking your sanity for?
what album are you risking your sanity for?
a hand is holding a discman device in front of a table
ALT: a hand is holding a discman device in front of a table
media.tenor.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:31 PM
State Azure, "Fragments", a procedurally-generated four-hour eurorack song I've been using to sleep for years. GGEZ.
I have a comedy set from Marc Maron from like 2004 that contains the line "We sure showed those Iraqis for what those Saudis did". It's part of the culture of abuse in the US ruling apparatus. Get mad and take it out on a victim you don't think anyone will care about.
This is like the 10,000th thing wrong here but threatening Denmark because the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee didn't select you is like bombing Canada because you didn't win an Oscar
mad king moment
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
January 19, 2026 at 11:29 AM
I have a comedy set from Marc Maron from like 2004 that contains the line "We sure showed those Iraqis for what those Saudis did". It's part of the culture of abuse in the US ruling apparatus. Get mad and take it out on a victim you don't think anyone will care about.
This is an ad for DuckDuckGo. It offers a choice when the real issue is that LLMs are shoved into everything. "You should let the monsters and the vulnerable people preyed upon by LLMs still use it, and look, you don't have to!"
Cigarette companies denied the existence of secondhand smoke, too.
Cigarette companies denied the existence of secondhand smoke, too.
January 17, 2026 at 4:18 AM
This is an ad for DuckDuckGo. It offers a choice when the real issue is that LLMs are shoved into everything. "You should let the monsters and the vulnerable people preyed upon by LLMs still use it, and look, you don't have to!"
Cigarette companies denied the existence of secondhand smoke, too.
Cigarette companies denied the existence of secondhand smoke, too.
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I understand that we’re all fighting helplessness and despair right now but one ought to refrain from forcing strangers to be part of one’s maladaptive coping mechanisms
January 12, 2026 at 11:06 PM
I understand that we’re all fighting helplessness and despair right now but one ought to refrain from forcing strangers to be part of one’s maladaptive coping mechanisms
'The button that says your name', in The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, which only says "Jim". The narrator has you visualize yourself as Jim in order to get you to react to that name as yours.
In the finale, you find dozens of these buttons. They all say "Jim", except one, which says "Stanley".
In the finale, you find dozens of these buttons. They all say "Jim", except one, which says "Stanley".
tell me about a time you were awed by a set piece in a video game. not a story beat, not an emotional moment or a cool mechanic, but something just There, in the world, that made your jaw drop or sent a chill up your spine
January 9, 2026 at 12:08 PM
'The button that says your name', in The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, which only says "Jim". The narrator has you visualize yourself as Jim in order to get you to react to that name as yours.
In the finale, you find dozens of these buttons. They all say "Jim", except one, which says "Stanley".
In the finale, you find dozens of these buttons. They all say "Jim", except one, which says "Stanley".
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If we cut the predator out of you, we would be cutting out the way you play with children; the urge you have to walk at night; the holiness you sometimes glimpse upon the kitchen knife
January 7, 2026 at 2:33 PM
If we cut the predator out of you, we would be cutting out the way you play with children; the urge you have to walk at night; the holiness you sometimes glimpse upon the kitchen knife
My extension to this: The death penalty is barbaric when applied to people. It is necessary to apply to companies, with the same criteria we have applied to individuals. If a company wilfully kills a bunch of people, it should cease to exist.
second degree murder, and specifically depraved heart murder, wherein the accused doesn't actively plan to kill a specific person or people but acts with callous disregard for human life - like firing a gun into a crowd or driving drunk - should apply to decisions made by CEOs and heads of industry
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
January 6, 2026 at 2:42 PM
My extension to this: The death penalty is barbaric when applied to people. It is necessary to apply to companies, with the same criteria we have applied to individuals. If a company wilfully kills a bunch of people, it should cease to exist.
Bear with me, I'm going to get nerdy about Starcraft II for a moment.
MAKE THEM DO THAT
I am so gd sick of hearing “well it wouldn’t work/succeed” offered as a justification for not doing something, which is a complete failure to grasp how sometimes if not often “succeeding” is less straightforward than that
You can lose every fucking battle and still win a war
I am so gd sick of hearing “well it wouldn’t work/succeed” offered as a justification for not doing something, which is a complete failure to grasp how sometimes if not often “succeeding” is less straightforward than that
You can lose every fucking battle and still win a war
“Oh but if Democrats did that Republicans would just vote it down, wouldn’t convict and would rally their base to defend Trump’s crimes.”
Yeah, okay, make them do that then.
Yeah, okay, make them do that then.
January 5, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Bear with me, I'm going to get nerdy about Starcraft II for a moment.
*Aragorn kicks helmet, breaks toe*
FFFFFFFFUCK
FFFFFFFFUCK
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?
"All we have to decide is what the fuck to do with the time that is given us."
"All we have to decide is what the fuck to do with the time that is given us."
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"
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
December 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
*Aragorn kicks helmet, breaks toe*
FFFFFFFFUCK
FFFFFFFFUCK
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/daily-stormer-nazi-style-guide_n_5a2ece19e4b0ce3b344492f2 big CW for slurs, but this is quite literally in the white supremacist playbook, and this article is from 2017. We still don't know how to counter it effectively at scale as a society.
![An excerpt from the linked article. Its text is reproduced below.
Lulz
The tone of the site should be light.
Most people are not comfortable with material that comes across as vitriolic, raging, non-ironic hatred. The unindoctrinated should not be able to tell if we are joking or not. There should also be a conscious awareness of mocking stereotypes of hateful racists. I usually think of this as self- deprecating humor - I am a racist making fun of stereotype of racists, because I don't take
myself super-seriously.
This is obviously a ploy and I actually do want to gas [slur]s. But that's neither here nor there.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yjy4secapklmgv3mls4pwry4/bafkreifms73maka77crxvpkk62nogdecrdvwrzihpaem3pxyl3emqnqj7y@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/daily-stormer-nazi-style-guide_n_5a2ece19e4b0ce3b344492f2 big CW for slurs, but this is quite literally in the white supremacist playbook, and this article is from 2017. We still don't know how to counter it effectively at scale as a society.
In grade 12 English, I wrote an in-class essay on Act 2 of the Scottish play. The assignment was to physically write the essay in 70 minutes, but I could outline beforehand.
I hadn't read Act 2 when I walked in the door.
My English teacher said it was the best essay he'd ever read by a student.
I hadn't read Act 2 when I walked in the door.
My English teacher said it was the best essay he'd ever read by a student.
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
October 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
In grade 12 English, I wrote an in-class essay on Act 2 of the Scottish play. The assignment was to physically write the essay in 70 minutes, but I could outline beforehand.
I hadn't read Act 2 when I walked in the door.
My English teacher said it was the best essay he'd ever read by a student.
I hadn't read Act 2 when I walked in the door.
My English teacher said it was the best essay he'd ever read by a student.
This is from a thread about respecting pronoun usage, and the whole thread is good, but I want to shout this out in particular. It is an undervalued skill to look at a group engaging with someone and go "nah, they've got it, I add no value by piling on".
And I'm saying all of this here instead of in this shithead's mentions because, profanity aside, I'm a polite person. I'm considerate of his feelings. Other people are already engaging with him, saying all the things I'd be saying, and I'd be contributing nothing extra to the conversation.
July 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This is from a thread about respecting pronoun usage, and the whole thread is good, but I want to shout this out in particular. It is an undervalued skill to look at a group engaging with someone and go "nah, they've got it, I add no value by piling on".
Very funny to me that half my skyline is talking about how you don't have to give oxygen to shitty opinions, and the other half is dunking on an article about Bluesky. Which isn't a criticism! The latter is proving the former's point about how blocking is fine, the information will spread anyway.
November 16, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Very funny to me that half my skyline is talking about how you don't have to give oxygen to shitty opinions, and the other half is dunking on an article about Bluesky. Which isn't a criticism! The latter is proving the former's point about how blocking is fine, the information will spread anyway.
So, hey. I wrote a HDG novel called The Place Where We Can Stop Running in August. People seem to like it. I'm bad at having an online presence, but, I'm still writing in the continuity, and I'll be linking it here too, and it's a prerequisite to understand it. archiveofourown.org/works/58402522
The Place Where We Can Stop Running - Chapter 1 - Dame Harmony (Glire), Glire - Human Domestication Guide - GlitchyRobo [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
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November 8, 2024 at 2:26 AM
So, hey. I wrote a HDG novel called The Place Where We Can Stop Running in August. People seem to like it. I'm bad at having an online presence, but, I'm still writing in the continuity, and I'll be linking it here too, and it's a prerequisite to understand it. archiveofourown.org/works/58402522
I grew up on these streets
November 5, 2024 at 12:59 PM
I grew up on these streets
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Most people can’t sing on key. All crowds can. This is the key to everything.
And maybe my favorite, the entire crowd at a music festival singing Bohemian Rhapsody: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZnB...
Green Day Crowd Singing Bohemian Rhapsody [Live in Hyde Park 2017]
YouTube video by Green Day
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Most people can’t sing on key. All crowds can. This is the key to everything.
In high school I had a university student TA in my physics class. Once he described the difference between high school and university by dismissively stating that high school was a contest to see who could memorize the most equations. And he was right. Recall is the least important part of learning.
Times Higher Ed has a column today about getting rid of accommodations for students with disabilities. It is breathtakingly ableist. It argues for the exclusion of people with disabilities from higher ed. I am not linking: it's click bait, but you can see the opening paragraph below.
October 23, 2024 at 1:11 PM
In high school I had a university student TA in my physics class. Once he described the difference between high school and university by dismissively stating that high school was a contest to see who could memorize the most equations. And he was right. Recall is the least important part of learning.
This absolutely rules. If you're in the HDG community, give this one a look.
I finally posted the first chapter of my ridiculous HDG story! Give it a read if you want I guess!
#HumanDomesticationGuide #Writing
archiveofourown.org/chapters/152...
#HumanDomesticationGuide #Writing
archiveofourown.org/chapters/152...
Only In Dreams - Chapter 1 - TransSalamander - Human Domestication Guide - GlitchyRobo [Archive of Our Own]
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October 22, 2024 at 12:29 AM
This absolutely rules. If you're in the HDG community, give this one a look.
Also: archiveofourown.org/works/58402522
A plampt alien mind control erotica story about characters who just want to stop fighting all the time. If you know, you know; if you don't, humandomestication.guide
A plampt alien mind control erotica story about characters who just want to stop fighting all the time. If you know, you know; if you don't, humandomestication.guide
October 18, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Also: archiveofourown.org/works/58402522
A plampt alien mind control erotica story about characters who just want to stop fighting all the time. If you know, you know; if you don't, humandomestication.guide
A plampt alien mind control erotica story about characters who just want to stop fighting all the time. If you know, you know; if you don't, humandomestication.guide
I've read this. It's a primal scream in a couple of thousand words. Parts of it get stuck in my head sometimes, it's one of those things. Definitely check it out.
Writers: repost with a random story you’re proud of.
What if lesbians made a superpower out of intense physical sensation and then had an extremely destructive fight www.uncannymagazine.com/article/slau...
What if lesbians made a superpower out of intense physical sensation and then had an extremely destructive fight www.uncannymagazine.com/article/slau...
October 18, 2024 at 11:51 PM
I've read this. It's a primal scream in a couple of thousand words. Parts of it get stuck in my head sometimes, it's one of those things. Definitely check it out.
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it would not
what would an artless world look like
THEY STOLE ALL THE ART IN THE WORLD
September 4, 2024 at 3:54 PM
it would not