clevermanka
@clevermanka.bsky.social
Still wearing combat boots with dresses
she/her
Queer as in fuck you
she/her
Queer as in fuck you
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When I arrive at the party
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
When I arrive at the party
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Show me an apolitical story and I will show you unconscious bias.
November 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Show me an apolitical story and I will show you unconscious bias.
Heads up for any USians still using TT for their taxes
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Heads up for any USians still using TT for their taxes
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"it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed"
This.
This right here.
I'm so, SO tired of having to scrutinize any piece of art that even remotely resembles genAI slop just to determine whether or not it's worth a second thought or any admiration.
This.
This right here.
I'm so, SO tired of having to scrutinize any piece of art that even remotely resembles genAI slop just to determine whether or not it's worth a second thought or any admiration.
Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed"
This.
This right here.
I'm so, SO tired of having to scrutinize any piece of art that even remotely resembles genAI slop just to determine whether or not it's worth a second thought or any admiration.
This.
This right here.
I'm so, SO tired of having to scrutinize any piece of art that even remotely resembles genAI slop just to determine whether or not it's worth a second thought or any admiration.
My neighbor across the street has a driveway light so bright that it shines *through the cracks in my closed blinds* 😒 Did I mention *across the street*? THROUGH MY CLOSED BLINDS?
hot take: if you can comfortably read a book by the light of your porch light, that shit's going too hard. all you need it for is to not trip on the steps on your way to the doorway nobody is hanging out in your entryway getting their anti-SAD 100000 lux
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
My neighbor across the street has a driveway light so bright that it shines *through the cracks in my closed blinds* 😒 Did I mention *across the street*? THROUGH MY CLOSED BLINDS?
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I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
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My dream is that the AI bubble lasts just long enough for us to get settlements from a few of them and then it crashes, and I use that money to hire artists to do amazing work.
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Like to charge reblog to cast
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every author in the class action, please file the claim.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
every author in the class action, please file the claim.
Attempts to use Deezer continue. Temporarily set Edge as my default browser so I could get logged in on the app. It told me I still hadn't signed up for the free trial. Went through that again & it flashed an error so fast I couldn't see it then sent me to this page. Any other suggestions? 😂😅😩
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Attempts to use Deezer continue. Temporarily set Edge as my default browser so I could get logged in on the app. It told me I still hadn't signed up for the free trial. Went through that again & it flashed an error so fast I couldn't see it then sent me to this page. Any other suggestions? 😂😅😩
Lovely, free journaling techniques for anyone who could use a gamifying angle to dig in the dirt of their interior landscape www.restlesscourage.com/ttrpgs/
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Lovely, free journaling techniques for anyone who could use a gamifying angle to dig in the dirt of their interior landscape www.restlesscourage.com/ttrpgs/
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periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!
www.brailleinstitute.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
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We’re up to 38% of last year. Wanna help me get a little closer to last year?
SquidFacts.net
Advent starts in ~2 weeks! I’ll be packing up orders all morning and tonight!
Advent calendars fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s programming. They’ve been our biggest fundraiser for the last 3 years!
SquidFacts.net
Advent starts in ~2 weeks! I’ll be packing up orders all morning and tonight!
Advent calendars fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s programming. They’ve been our biggest fundraiser for the last 3 years!
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
November 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We’re up to 38% of last year. Wanna help me get a little closer to last year?
SquidFacts.net
Advent starts in ~2 weeks! I’ll be packing up orders all morning and tonight!
Advent calendars fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s programming. They’ve been our biggest fundraiser for the last 3 years!
SquidFacts.net
Advent starts in ~2 weeks! I’ll be packing up orders all morning and tonight!
Advent calendars fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s programming. They’ve been our biggest fundraiser for the last 3 years!
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Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
Disability Visibility - Latest
Get the latest on Disability Visibility from Teen Vogue. Find articles, slideshows and more.
web.archive.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
web.archive.org/web/20241122...
Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
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ALSO.
If you're just coming across this news now, and thinking about what you can do to support disabled people like Alice in your community.
WEAR A MASK.
If you're just coming across this news now, and thinking about what you can do to support disabled people like Alice in your community.
WEAR A MASK.
November 15, 2025 at 6:42 AM
ALSO.
If you're just coming across this news now, and thinking about what you can do to support disabled people like Alice in your community.
WEAR A MASK.
If you're just coming across this news now, and thinking about what you can do to support disabled people like Alice in your community.
WEAR A MASK.
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
A last call for assistance from Deezer-using friends. Any of you have this problem or is it just me?
I got the Deezer sign up page to work by using Chrome. Then I downloaded the app and tried to login via that, but it opens a Firefox browser window where it just spins and spins like it did when I tried to register. 😩 Any advice?
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
A last call for assistance from Deezer-using friends. Any of you have this problem or is it just me?
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to the best of my knowledge, this is the FIRST western journalistic source to report 袁依楣 Yuan Yimei (MXTX) was in fact detained in 2019 for tax evasion ("非法經營罪"), imprisoned for 3 years, and paroled in 2021—there were HK articles but with dubious sources. i think we can now take this to be factual.
apnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
to the best of my knowledge, this is the FIRST western journalistic source to report 袁依楣 Yuan Yimei (MXTX) was in fact detained in 2019 for tax evasion ("非法經營罪"), imprisoned for 3 years, and paroled in 2021—there were HK articles but with dubious sources. i think we can now take this to be factual.
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Glad BlueSky did this. When I saw Patton Oswalt saying Megyn Kelly should be fed into a woodchipper feet first for defending raping children based on what age she thinks is okay, I thought, "yes, comedian Patton Oswalt is going to, in real life, feed Megyn Kelly into a woodchipper feet first."
patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Glad BlueSky did this. When I saw Patton Oswalt saying Megyn Kelly should be fed into a woodchipper feet first for defending raping children based on what age she thinks is okay, I thought, "yes, comedian Patton Oswalt is going to, in real life, feed Megyn Kelly into a woodchipper feet first."
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Last year, Starbucks’ CEO took home $95.8 million. The typical Starbucks worker got $14,674. That’s a gap of 6,666 to 1.
It’s no wonder Starbucks workers across the country are going on strike today.
Show solidarity and shop elsewhere.
It’s no wonder Starbucks workers across the country are going on strike today.
Show solidarity and shop elsewhere.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Last year, Starbucks’ CEO took home $95.8 million. The typical Starbucks worker got $14,674. That’s a gap of 6,666 to 1.
It’s no wonder Starbucks workers across the country are going on strike today.
Show solidarity and shop elsewhere.
It’s no wonder Starbucks workers across the country are going on strike today.
Show solidarity and shop elsewhere.
I got the Deezer sign up page to work by using Chrome. Then I downloaded the app and tried to login via that, but it opens a Firefox browser window where it just spins and spins like it did when I tried to register. 😩 Any advice?
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I got the Deezer sign up page to work by using Chrome. Then I downloaded the app and tried to login via that, but it opens a Firefox browser window where it just spins and spins like it did when I tried to register. 😩 Any advice?
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PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY
There has been a noticeable reticence in left and liberal circles to voice full-throated support for pornography, even as it's become increasingly clear what the open end goals of the censorship movement are
In a lot of ways other leftists chose this path folks. They shrugged and didn’t care when Patreon banned a ton of hypnosis and TF creators, or when YouTube started their ASMR crackdown. Now it’s coming for queer porn creators, more and more. Who will stand up?
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY
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My 2025 Watercolor Collection plates are now available on my Etsy! One of a kind pieces, all food safe, dishwasher safe, and microwave safe. #ceramics #pottery #handmade foxestacado.etsy.com/listing/4403...
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
My 2025 Watercolor Collection plates are now available on my Etsy! One of a kind pieces, all food safe, dishwasher safe, and microwave safe. #ceramics #pottery #handmade foxestacado.etsy.com/listing/4403...
Guess it's time to stock up just in case...
The spending bill signed by the president will essentially prohibit hemp-based THC products nationwide in a year.
Minnesota’s hemp-derived THC companies prepare to fight ban on Capitol Hill
A spending bill passed by the U.S. House and signed by the president Wednesday will essentially prohibit hemp-based THC products nationwide in a year.
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Guess it's time to stock up just in case...