So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.

Can confirm am tiger.

@tkingfisher.com Listening to A Sorceress Comes to Call. Having flashbacks of when I was that protagonist, and no one could understand why so obedient. Learned Helplessness is really hard to beat.

I'm glad you gave her Hester, an advocate with bad knees and strength of character.

The last two weeks before an election are just everyone gathered around a sheep's entrails screaming at each other over what it might all mean

Finally made it back into Bluesky. It had kept me out for months, now I am back.

So glad to be leaving that other place, finally.

For my art friends:
www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1...

This screws with the AI that scrapes the internet for art to train their model on it.