Erin (Snow Mephit Era)
@erinsopran.bsky.social
Silly, strident, queer, neurosomething, opera, etc. Settler in Mi'kma'ki. You know me from that thing.
CW: extremely bad-ending @wtyppod.bsky.social Safety Third in the midst of this
It (the streetcar stop)'s not supposed to look like that and for good reason
It (the streetcar stop)'s not supposed to look like that and for good reason
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
December 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
CW: extremely bad-ending @wtyppod.bsky.social Safety Third in the midst of this
It (the streetcar stop)'s not supposed to look like that and for good reason
It (the streetcar stop)'s not supposed to look like that and for good reason
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Let me stop you right there…
“Earning far too little”, will do.
“Earning far too little”, will do.
December 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Let me stop you right there…
“Earning far too little”, will do.
“Earning far too little”, will do.
Oh I've solved by agonizing over it for so long even I can tell the apology would be worse if only because of the geologic-level passage of time
A trivial social error has been greatly exacerbated by an autistic person’s unnecessary apology for it, sources have claimed.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Oh I've solved by agonizing over it for so long even I can tell the apology would be worse if only because of the geologic-level passage of time
It's the DuckDuckGo browser, btw, I enjoy it
Oh man. One of the browsers I use has a "reopen last closed tab" and whoever developed that really saw me
December 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
It's the DuckDuckGo browser, btw, I enjoy it
WAIT
Is this all part of the thing where many, many people truly can't read unfamiliar words or in unfamiliar contexts
IS THIS 3-CUEING'S FAULT
Is this all part of the thing where many, many people truly can't read unfamiliar words or in unfamiliar contexts
IS THIS 3-CUEING'S FAULT
Half the time that "tech support" seems to consist of reading an error message aloud, verbatim. I swear some people see a little box pop up on screen and they immediately forget how to read.
December 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
WAIT
Is this all part of the thing where many, many people truly can't read unfamiliar words or in unfamiliar contexts
IS THIS 3-CUEING'S FAULT
Is this all part of the thing where many, many people truly can't read unfamiliar words or in unfamiliar contexts
IS THIS 3-CUEING'S FAULT
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I'll take a livestream, official studio recording, 4k director's cut, and merch.
we are the world but its everybody telling quentin tarantino to shut the fuck up
December 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I'll take a livestream, official studio recording, 4k director's cut, and merch.
I can have a PDF named assignment.pdf
OR
a series of HEICs or worse named LastnameFirstInitialCourseNumberAssignmentname
But (usually) not both 😭
And yes it's in the syllabus. Yes I begged.
OR
a series of HEICs or worse named LastnameFirstInitialCourseNumberAssignmentname
But (usually) not both 😭
And yes it's in the syllabus. Yes I begged.
Oh gads trying to get my early-20s students to send me a file as an attachment I can actually OPEN, that isn't created in some weird knockoff software or in a locked google document or that is attached AT ALL.
the amount of extra cognitive labor I have to do for things like that is boggling
the amount of extra cognitive labor I have to do for things like that is boggling
For a while, they said if you needed tech help, ask a 10yo. But current 10-20yos didn't have to explore and click around and futz with things to get them to work, so if it's not immediately obvious, they can't do it.
Basically if you're 30-50 you're just doing tech support for everyone forever.
Basically if you're 30-50 you're just doing tech support for everyone forever.
December 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I can have a PDF named assignment.pdf
OR
a series of HEICs or worse named LastnameFirstInitialCourseNumberAssignmentname
But (usually) not both 😭
And yes it's in the syllabus. Yes I begged.
OR
a series of HEICs or worse named LastnameFirstInitialCourseNumberAssignmentname
But (usually) not both 😭
And yes it's in the syllabus. Yes I begged.
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This matches my experience in the Writing Center, where sessions with students both older and younger than me had tangents on the theme of "here's where OneDrive is hiding your file that you need to upload to BlackBoard."
For a while, they said if you needed tech help, ask a 10yo. But current 10-20yos didn't have to explore and click around and futz with things to get them to work, so if it's not immediately obvious, they can't do it.
Basically if you're 30-50 you're just doing tech support for everyone forever.
Basically if you're 30-50 you're just doing tech support for everyone forever.
What we say is their kids know the tech of a phone. If it’s not on the phone they struggle
December 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This matches my experience in the Writing Center, where sessions with students both older and younger than me had tangents on the theme of "here's where OneDrive is hiding your file that you need to upload to BlackBoard."
Truly one of the greatest masterpieces of our age
“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic
THE ARCTIC CIRCLE—With a vow to destroy the abomination she had created if it was the last thing she ever did, television host Oprah Winfrey has spent weeks on a ship pursuing Dr. Phil through the Arc...
theonion.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Truly one of the greatest masterpieces of our age
For a while, they said if you needed tech help, ask a 10yo. But current 10-20yos didn't have to explore and click around and futz with things to get them to work, so if it's not immediately obvious, they can't do it.
Basically if you're 30-50 you're just doing tech support for everyone forever.
Basically if you're 30-50 you're just doing tech support for everyone forever.
What we say is their kids know the tech of a phone. If it’s not on the phone they struggle
December 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
For a while, they said if you needed tech help, ask a 10yo. But current 10-20yos didn't have to explore and click around and futz with things to get them to work, so if it's not immediately obvious, they can't do it.
Basically if you're 30-50 you're just doing tech support for everyone forever.
Basically if you're 30-50 you're just doing tech support for everyone forever.
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People are responding to this saying the line is sweetest friend, not Swedish friend. I don’t think there’s any way of knowing for sure since Johnny Cash passed away and he wrote it. But what are you going to do, *taste* all your friends? Pretty sure it’s Swedish.
In the song “Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails, further popularized by Johnny Cash, do they sing:
“What have I become, my Swedish friend?”
Like you’re existentially asking your pal Bjorn.
or is it more like
“What? Have I become my Swedish friend?”
Like you may have become Bjorn.
“What have I become, my Swedish friend?”
Like you’re existentially asking your pal Bjorn.
or is it more like
“What? Have I become my Swedish friend?”
Like you may have become Bjorn.
December 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
People are responding to this saying the line is sweetest friend, not Swedish friend. I don’t think there’s any way of knowing for sure since Johnny Cash passed away and he wrote it. But what are you going to do, *taste* all your friends? Pretty sure it’s Swedish.
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They did a good job editing away the glaring weirdness, and packaging it in a tear-jerker so you feel generous and glad.
Truly insidious stuff, because it makes us distrust our kind emotions
Truly insidious stuff, because it makes us distrust our kind emotions
December 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
They did a good job editing away the glaring weirdness, and packaging it in a tear-jerker so you feel generous and glad.
Truly insidious stuff, because it makes us distrust our kind emotions
Truly insidious stuff, because it makes us distrust our kind emotions
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Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
Yeah, I mean, I'm critical of any video nowadays that is trying to elicit an emotional response, especially when it's asking for subs at the end. It's weird that all the people seem to end up with the dog they want. And shelters are overflowing, where are the rooms full of people wanting to adopt?
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
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Ruby-crowned kinglet for @javajanegallery.co.uk’s #smallbirdsaturday.
#birds #photography #nature #birding #kinglet #nature #naturephotography
#birds #photography #nature #birding #kinglet #nature #naturephotography
December 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Ruby-crowned kinglet for @javajanegallery.co.uk’s #smallbirdsaturday.
#birds #photography #nature #birding #kinglet #nature #naturephotography
#birds #photography #nature #birding #kinglet #nature #naturephotography
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Hovering American kestrel for the #stripes theme of #BirdOfTheDay.
#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding
#naturephotography
#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding
#naturephotography
December 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Hovering American kestrel for the #stripes theme of #BirdOfTheDay.
#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding
#naturephotography
#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding
#naturephotography
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It isp the time of chrimbus so that means it is time to honor the long stnanding tradition of "being stared at by a goblin"
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
It isp the time of chrimbus so that means it is time to honor the long stnanding tradition of "being stared at by a goblin"
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For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
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Blocking weirdos is the one feature this app absolutely excels at. Two clicks & annoying strangers disappear forever. Unprecedented feeling.
I cannot stress enough that is some rando responds to something you reposted trying to draw you into a “but have you considered” discussion of it, they are not acting in good faith, and you just block. Please, embrace the blue sky way. block. block. block.
December 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Blocking weirdos is the one feature this app absolutely excels at. Two clicks & annoying strangers disappear forever. Unprecedented feeling.
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Delighted to announce that the MURDERFISH anthology is now live!! Containing a whole bunch of great stories and cool art, all about murderous fish, including my own story "In Sheets of Seaweed."
Ebook: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G59L1WF2/
Paperback: www.amazon.com/Murderfish-A... Audiobook: coming soon!
Ebook: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G59L1WF2/
Paperback: www.amazon.com/Murderfish-A... Audiobook: coming soon!
Murderfish: an Aquatic Anthology (Unhelpful Encyclopedia)
Murderfish: an Aquatic Anthology (Unhelpful Encyclopedia) - Kindle edition by Stoumbos, Mike Jack, La Ronn, Michael, Stein, Jake, Rey, Jena, Arther, Azure, Hodges, Larry, Hankins, David, Haskell, N. V., Fox, Shannon, Cole, Ryan. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Murderfish: an Aquatic Anthology (Unhelpful Encyclopedia).
www.amazon.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Delighted to announce that the MURDERFISH anthology is now live!! Containing a whole bunch of great stories and cool art, all about murderous fish, including my own story "In Sheets of Seaweed."
Ebook: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G59L1WF2/
Paperback: www.amazon.com/Murderfish-A... Audiobook: coming soon!
Ebook: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G59L1WF2/
Paperback: www.amazon.com/Murderfish-A... Audiobook: coming soon!
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instant follow just for being the person to realize he had to find the puke hose man
Talked to the Mad Men special effects foreman holding the puke hose about all the (usually) invisible creative work that goes into making grounded TV feel real
Mad Men’s special effects foreman hasn’t seen the infamous 4K remaster
“I had to watch a lot of videos of people vomiting.”
www.theverge.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
instant follow just for being the person to realize he had to find the puke hose man
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Talked to the Mad Men special effects foreman holding the puke hose about all the (usually) invisible creative work that goes into making grounded TV feel real
Mad Men’s special effects foreman hasn’t seen the infamous 4K remaster
“I had to watch a lot of videos of people vomiting.”
www.theverge.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Talked to the Mad Men special effects foreman holding the puke hose about all the (usually) invisible creative work that goes into making grounded TV feel real
Get her a gig in broadcasting, if she wants it. That "Hello everyone, HERE he is," is better than ANYONE's SNL musical guest intro.
December 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Get her a gig in broadcasting, if she wants it. That "Hello everyone, HERE he is," is better than ANYONE's SNL musical guest intro.
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But wait, there's one more bit of Bonus Content behind door number 5! It's @johnmoe.bsky.social of @sleepwithcelebs.bsky.social here to help you nighttime phone scrollers get to sleep tonight.
December 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
But wait, there's one more bit of Bonus Content behind door number 5! It's @johnmoe.bsky.social of @sleepwithcelebs.bsky.social here to help you nighttime phone scrollers get to sleep tonight.
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Had to cancel a gig last night coz my larynx exploded again (see pinned post, getting real tired of it tbh) and if anyone would like to see my Edinburgh show from this August I posted it on my Patreon so you can still see me yelling if you like.
patreon.com/soozuk
patreon.com/soozuk
December 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Had to cancel a gig last night coz my larynx exploded again (see pinned post, getting real tired of it tbh) and if anyone would like to see my Edinburgh show from this August I posted it on my Patreon so you can still see me yelling if you like.
patreon.com/soozuk
patreon.com/soozuk
I had no idea her name was pronounced Newsie. And the ex's name is pronounced like Lizzo but you forgot to do an O shape at the end.
Justice for the pizza-style zz in America!
Justice for the pizza-style zz in America!
LOL
Catch our new episode about this scandal on @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social this week:
youtu.be/ALbBUTHrAQE
Catch our new episode about this scandal on @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social this week:
youtu.be/ALbBUTHrAQE
December 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I had no idea her name was pronounced Newsie. And the ex's name is pronounced like Lizzo but you forgot to do an O shape at the end.
Justice for the pizza-style zz in America!
Justice for the pizza-style zz in America!