Erik Schuckers
@erikjs.bsky.social
Queer writer. Eldergoth. Fan of horror, torch songs, & fried mushrooms. He/him. https://sevenkitchenspress.com/keystone-chapbook-series/erik-schuckers-pretty-boys-in-trouble/
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
You say blob. I say rat king.
AI companies, funders, and government are all intertwined in one big heaping trillion dollar blob. Here's what it means. www.wired.com/story/ai-ind...
There Is Only One AI Company. Welcome to the Blob
As Nvidia, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft forge partnerships and deals, the AI industry is looking more like one interconnected machine. What does that mean for all of us?
www.wired.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
You say blob. I say rat king.
Only 364 days til Halloween
November 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Only 364 days til Halloween
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the truth is that this isn't a theocracy and jesus isn't my fucking king
Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."
October 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
the truth is that this isn't a theocracy and jesus isn't my fucking king
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This morning outside the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh!
October 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This morning outside the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh!
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Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.
It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.
Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
October 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.
"This country would not exist if Black women had not birthed it from their wombs on the blood-soaked earth of Native people. Enslavement, lynching, Jim Crow, genocide, the prison industrial complex aren’t footnotes in American history. They’re the main text." Yes.
"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."
I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion
Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.
rewirenewsgroup.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"This country would not exist if Black women had not birthed it from their wombs on the blood-soaked earth of Native people. Enslavement, lynching, Jim Crow, genocide, the prison industrial complex aren’t footnotes in American history. They’re the main text." Yes.
Like John Wayne Gacy was just "bucking tradition" and clowning precedent.
President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained
President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
n.pr
October 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Like John Wayne Gacy was just "bucking tradition" and clowning precedent.
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On this, the birthday of Clive Barker, one of the great Patron Saints of the Subversive, let the power of queer horror guide you.
October 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
On this, the birthday of Clive Barker, one of the great Patron Saints of the Subversive, let the power of queer horror guide you.
Happy 50th, Rocky. My first time was 1991 at a summer arts program at Mercyhurst. We had to improvise outfits last minute because we didn't think the campus nuns were going to let us screen it. (Tbh this wasn't much different from how we usually dressed.) Don't dream it...
September 27, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Happy 50th, Rocky. My first time was 1991 at a summer arts program at Mercyhurst. We had to improvise outfits last minute because we didn't think the campus nuns were going to let us screen it. (Tbh this wasn't much different from how we usually dressed.) Don't dream it...
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I'm going to start calling all staircases "fatal funnels."
"Do you want to take the elevator?"
"Nah, I'm going to go up the fatal funnel instead."
"Do you want to take the elevator?"
"Nah, I'm going to go up the fatal funnel instead."
September 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I'm going to start calling all staircases "fatal funnels."
"Do you want to take the elevator?"
"Nah, I'm going to go up the fatal funnel instead."
"Do you want to take the elevator?"
"Nah, I'm going to go up the fatal funnel instead."
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"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes."
It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...
buff.ly
September 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes."
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I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy
September 14, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy
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You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others?
David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC.
apnews.com/article/deka...
David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC.
apnews.com/article/deka...
Law enforcement officers remember police officer killed in CDC shooting in Atlanta
Weeks after David Rose was killed while responding to a shooting this month at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, officers are remembering the DeKalb County police officer as a courageous leader who pri...
apnews.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others?
David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC.
apnews.com/article/deka...
David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC.
apnews.com/article/deka...
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Destroying the planet in search of a computer program powerful enough to count the 'b's in blueberry
Meta is building a data center in Wyoming that would use more electricity than every home in the state combined.
apnews.com/article/ai-a...
apnews.com/article/ai-a...
Cheyenne to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined
A massive AI data center proposed near Cheyenne, Wyoming, would use more electricity than all homes in the state combined.
apnews.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Destroying the planet in search of a computer program powerful enough to count the 'b's in blueberry
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my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!
“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
September 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!
“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
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Live your life so that people don’t consider rumors of your death a form of edging.
August 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Live your life so that people don’t consider rumors of your death a form of edging.
what the actual fuck are we doing here? this is not only evil but stupid & evil
Border Patrol agents detained two firefighters from private contractors at a wildfire on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, prompting criticism from Sen. Patty Murray.
Border agents take 2 firefighters into custody at Olympic Peninsula blaze
Border Patrol agents detained two firefighters from private contractors at a wildfire on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, prompting criticism from Sen. Patty Murray.
www.oregonlive.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
what the actual fuck are we doing here? this is not only evil but stupid & evil
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Hey so just fyi, if you're abandoning trans rights you're abandoning all civil rights
At that point what the fuck is the point of the democracy you're willing to sacrifice trans people for
This actually isn't hard at all, quit making it pretend hard because you finally feel scared too
At that point what the fuck is the point of the democracy you're willing to sacrifice trans people for
This actually isn't hard at all, quit making it pretend hard because you finally feel scared too
August 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Hey so just fyi, if you're abandoning trans rights you're abandoning all civil rights
At that point what the fuck is the point of the democracy you're willing to sacrifice trans people for
This actually isn't hard at all, quit making it pretend hard because you finally feel scared too
At that point what the fuck is the point of the democracy you're willing to sacrifice trans people for
This actually isn't hard at all, quit making it pretend hard because you finally feel scared too
gone but not forgotten
August 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
gone but not forgotten
when you mistake your own withered sense of morality and absolute brainrot for political "strategy" you end up advocating for some truly heinous shit
I don't think trans people should pipe down, but they'll mostly have to until we defeat the people out to get them. Maybe that's more significant than your needing to make a not well understood demographic a central issue, instead of creating enough unity to win as big as we need to for their safety
August 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
when you mistake your own withered sense of morality and absolute brainrot for political "strategy" you end up advocating for some truly heinous shit
at last some good news
Child abuse aficionado James Dobson dead at the tragically advanced age of 89.
August 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
at last some good news
vibe today
Down, down to hell, and say I sent thee thither
August 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
vibe today
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We don’t talk enough about how American fascism is a blend of authoritarian capitalism, Christian Nationalism, millenarianism, a Freudian death cult, and adoration of the dumbest, cheapest shit you would find stuffed in the closet of a pack rat next to Jeff Gordon commemorative Pepsi cans.
August 19, 2025 at 2:27 AM
We don’t talk enough about how American fascism is a blend of authoritarian capitalism, Christian Nationalism, millenarianism, a Freudian death cult, and adoration of the dumbest, cheapest shit you would find stuffed in the closet of a pack rat next to Jeff Gordon commemorative Pepsi cans.
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on the one hand language follows usage and policing it is futile and on the other hand I believe this p strongly & have a similar schtick about calling one’s work “content”
Said it before but the worse things get it bears repeating. You are not a ‘creative’ or a ‘maker.’ You’re an artist, & if you choose to distinguish, a playwright, painter, whatever. These words have a lineage, they mean something. They’re politically important. Take responsibility.
August 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
on the one hand language follows usage and policing it is futile and on the other hand I believe this p strongly & have a similar schtick about calling one’s work “content”