Harper (she/her)
@harperyi.bsky.social
Culture Witch ✨ Material(ity) Girl
Storytelling 💖 Big Feelings 💖 Justice
she/her ✨ ♈️♎️♍️ ✨ 30+
opinions my own; may be jokes or lies 🤷🏻♀️
Storytelling 💖 Big Feelings 💖 Justice
she/her ✨ ♈️♎️♍️ ✨ 30+
opinions my own; may be jokes or lies 🤷🏻♀️
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I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
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God I want to see a million “Dems demanding new leadership” articles today, I want it to be a narrative Schumer can’t escape
Democrats are demanding new leadership after Schumer failed to stop a GOP-backed funding deal that doesn't guarantee continued health care subsidies. Progressives like Ro Khanna blasted him for giving in and warned premiums could soar as a result.
Democrats Call for New Leadership After Schumer Caves on “Terrible” GOP Deal
“If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing … what will you fight for?” said Ro Khanna.
truthout.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
God I want to see a million “Dems demanding new leadership” articles today, I want it to be a narrative Schumer can’t escape
No one else is doing it like Cain Culto. Inspiring work.
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
No one else is doing it like Cain Culto. Inspiring work.
"Male loneliness epidemic" keeps being framed around them being single, and I think the actual solution is to start framing it around them not having emotionally intimate friendships.
November 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
"Male loneliness epidemic" keeps being framed around them being single, and I think the actual solution is to start framing it around them not having emotionally intimate friendships.
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"Rather than feeling overwhelmed by the vastness of it all, remember: every intervention, every site of contestation, every kindness and act of courage matters."
My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
We Have to Move
"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"Rather than feeling overwhelmed by the vastness of it all, remember: every intervention, every site of contestation, every kindness and act of courage matters."
Sometimes you decide to make a pop-up book for the first time because you want a job at a tech company in marketing. Did they ask for it? No. But you are committed to the idea of getting hired for exactly who you are: a creative strategist who knows how to connect with humans and fight for a vision.
October 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Sometimes you decide to make a pop-up book for the first time because you want a job at a tech company in marketing. Did they ask for it? No. But you are committed to the idea of getting hired for exactly who you are: a creative strategist who knows how to connect with humans and fight for a vision.
Some people want the tech because they want the ultimate yes man to validate them at all times. And some people want it because they want someone who can never tell them "no." Both are incredibly messed up but don't mistake all enthusiasts for the former. Many more than you'd hope are the latter.
October 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Some people want the tech because they want the ultimate yes man to validate them at all times. And some people want it because they want someone who can never tell them "no." Both are incredibly messed up but don't mistake all enthusiasts for the former. Many more than you'd hope are the latter.
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The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material
www.404media.co/openais-sora...
www.404media.co/openais-sora...
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus
The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.
www.404media.co
October 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material
www.404media.co/openais-sora...
www.404media.co/openais-sora...
Been doing some paper cutting art recently.
September 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Been doing some paper cutting art recently.
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Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️🔥 Pre-orders are open!
September 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️🔥 Pre-orders are open!
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What does this even mean
September 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
What does this even mean
In other good news, I have finally completed my collection of @gailcarriger.bsky.social's Finishing School series! I adore the Parasolverse and have been diligently hunting for all the books at my local used bookstore for over a year now. 😌
September 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
In other good news, I have finally completed my collection of @gailcarriger.bsky.social's Finishing School series! I adore the Parasolverse and have been diligently hunting for all the books at my local used bookstore for over a year now. 😌
I finally got my first digital product online! It's my job hunt dashboard that all my friends have been obsessed with and I finally got it on my website and on gumroad. boldwishstudio.gumroad.com/l/job-hunt-n...
September 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I finally got my first digital product online! It's my job hunt dashboard that all my friends have been obsessed with and I finally got it on my website and on gumroad. boldwishstudio.gumroad.com/l/job-hunt-n...
Really trying to internalize the idea that price of the life you want is the life you have.
September 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Really trying to internalize the idea that price of the life you want is the life you have.
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Do you care about access to COVID vaccines?
Here's something you can do that's more effective than ranting on Bluesky (and takes about the same amount of time)!*
* No shade to ranting, I do a lot of it myself.
Here's something you can do that's more effective than ranting on Bluesky (and takes about the same amount of time)!*
* No shade to ranting, I do a lot of it myself.
ACTION OPPORTUNITY: Public Comment Period for urging CDC to restore old guidelines that everyone get COVID vaccine access, opposing new restriction to high-risk only (which will reduce number of places stocking it & make it easier for insurance to deny coverage). Commenting takes literally 1 minute!
🚨 HELLO folks who care about science, health, and kids 🚨
👋 Can I borrow you for a sec? Public comment for ACIP meeting opened today and there are only THREE entries 😳
Can you add your input? Ok to do anon. Brief comments fine - deadline Sept 13. Please share! ❤️⤵️
www.regulations.gov/docket/CDC-2...
👋 Can I borrow you for a sec? Public comment for ACIP meeting opened today and there are only THREE entries 😳
Can you add your input? Ok to do anon. Brief comments fine - deadline Sept 13. Please share! ❤️⤵️
www.regulations.gov/docket/CDC-2...
September 3, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Do you care about access to COVID vaccines?
Here's something you can do that's more effective than ranting on Bluesky (and takes about the same amount of time)!*
* No shade to ranting, I do a lot of it myself.
Here's something you can do that's more effective than ranting on Bluesky (and takes about the same amount of time)!*
* No shade to ranting, I do a lot of it myself.
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another example of the vague use of "AI" in the genAI whitewashing. This has to be iterative machine learning (because there either is or isn't a croc), but it's being lumped in with chatGPT and other slop. #AIWashing
Boat ramp users could soon be alerted to nearby saltwater crocodiles, with the state government backing the development of a warning system using sonar and artificial intelligence technologies.
Croc-detection trial using AI green-lit for Far North Queensland
Boat ramp users could soon be alerted to nearby saltwater crocodiles, with the state government backing the development of a warning system using sonar and artificial intelligence technologies.
www.abc.net.au
September 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
another example of the vague use of "AI" in the genAI whitewashing. This has to be iterative machine learning (because there either is or isn't a croc), but it's being lumped in with chatGPT and other slop. #AIWashing
Your life changes for the better when you start cutting kitchen sponges into thirds. Improves my willingness to wash dishes by 2000%.
September 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Your life changes for the better when you start cutting kitchen sponges into thirds. Improves my willingness to wash dishes by 2000%.
Started reading a romance novel that is set in the digital content ecosystem at a buzzfeed-type company from the POV of a woman producing a video series that will make or break not only her success but her chances of surviving the next round of layoffs. I am having flashbacks.
September 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Started reading a romance novel that is set in the digital content ecosystem at a buzzfeed-type company from the POV of a woman producing a video series that will make or break not only her success but her chances of surviving the next round of layoffs. I am having flashbacks.
Just witnessed an absolutely bananas exchange on social media because one person did not know the phrase "go off" and thought the other person was saying "f*** off" and the OP didn't realize there was a miscommunication. I am reminded every day how many people get screwed over by things like this.
August 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Just witnessed an absolutely bananas exchange on social media because one person did not know the phrase "go off" and thought the other person was saying "f*** off" and the OP didn't realize there was a miscommunication. I am reminded every day how many people get screwed over by things like this.
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new from me! i loved chatting with alyson stoner about mental health, their inner publicist, and setting boundaries with the media: www.self.com/story/alyson...
Former Child Star Alyson Stoner’s Long Path to Healing
In a new memoir, the one-time kid sensation shares how they wound up “semi-well-adjusted.”
www.self.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
new from me! i loved chatting with alyson stoner about mental health, their inner publicist, and setting boundaries with the media: www.self.com/story/alyson...
I am traveling to see friends soon and this is going to be painfully obvious. It is not ponytail length so idk if I can wear my hair up at all.
Growing out my undercut is so embarassing because it is very obvious and every time I explain it to people it just sounds like I chickened out of being cool.
August 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I am traveling to see friends soon and this is going to be painfully obvious. It is not ponytail length so idk if I can wear my hair up at all.
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which means at least its enterprise model will comply with the terms of EO-14319—preventing woke AI in the federal government—that will require them to suppress or distort factual information about “transgenderism.”
so, “my use case is different & special” openAI users—welcome to the epistemicide.
so, “my use case is different & special” openAI users—welcome to the epistemicide.
August 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
which means at least its enterprise model will comply with the terms of EO-14319—preventing woke AI in the federal government—that will require them to suppress or distort factual information about “transgenderism.”
so, “my use case is different & special” openAI users—welcome to the epistemicide.
so, “my use case is different & special” openAI users—welcome to the epistemicide.
Why did Linkedin invest in putting games natively on platform instead of stronger scam protections?
August 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Why did Linkedin invest in putting games natively on platform instead of stronger scam protections?
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We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death