Jane Plain Jane
@janeplainjane.bsky.social
knitter, researcher, grumpy person
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The map's form: newsprint
It shows: winds
Its purpose: moral
It shows: winds
Its purpose: moral
December 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
The map's form: newsprint
It shows: winds
Its purpose: moral
It shows: winds
Its purpose: moral
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@indie88toronto.bsky.social asking an llm is the same as going to buzzfeed for a gift idea, except buzzfeed paid writers, had editors, the products existed in the world (because they had ad budget), and it wasn't building new data centers or burning through water and energy at an unsustainable rate
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
@indie88toronto.bsky.social asking an llm is the same as going to buzzfeed for a gift idea, except buzzfeed paid writers, had editors, the products existed in the world (because they had ad budget), and it wasn't building new data centers or burning through water and energy at an unsustainable rate
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
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My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.
Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.
3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.
You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.
Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.
3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.
You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.
So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?
Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?
Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?
Something else?
What have you got?
Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?
Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?
Something else?
What have you got?
October 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.
Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.
3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.
You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.
Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.
3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.
You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.
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although now I'm quite taken with "this colonialist expansion could have been an email".
September 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
although now I'm quite taken with "this colonialist expansion could have been an email".
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Very important question: If I write :) instead of 😀 do I look cool and retro or anachronistic and indecipherable?
September 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Very important question: If I write :) instead of 😀 do I look cool and retro or anachronistic and indecipherable?
yesterday morning I was reminded of the classic scene 'we're walking and we're walking and we're stopping'. great movie
August 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
yesterday morning I was reminded of the classic scene 'we're walking and we're walking and we're stopping'. great movie
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Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
August 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
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![Comic. (1) [Teacher points to world map that highlights the edges of South America’s eastern coastline and Africa’s western coastline.] TEACHER: People had long noticed that South America and Africa had similarly-shaped coastlines. (2) TEACHER: In the 20th century, geologists finally found the explanation. (3) STUDENT: *Plagiaris*— TEACHER: Continental drift. STUDENT: Oh.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreida5trxp2ydhx435gmulqrv4xdysw4du35etqmbdrdhgknqhxe6mm@jpeg)
August 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
just finished 'Stuff & Money' by @rlspang.bsky.social and partway through @adapalmer.bsky.social 'Inventing the Renaissance', both which are great reminders that the history I was taught might be heavily influenced by centuries old political talking points (now to reread Pratchett's Making Money)
August 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
just finished 'Stuff & Money' by @rlspang.bsky.social and partway through @adapalmer.bsky.social 'Inventing the Renaissance', both which are great reminders that the history I was taught might be heavily influenced by centuries old political talking points (now to reread Pratchett's Making Money)
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Gio Monsargo has learned to offer shaves, not political opinions. But when a high-ranking military official visits his shop, Gio finds himself tested in ways he could never imagine.
"With Only a Razor Between" by @mcflycahill90.bsky.social is out now at Reactor!
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"With Only a Razor Between" by @mcflycahill90.bsky.social is out now at Reactor!
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With Only a Razor Between - Reactor
Barber Gio Monsargo has learned to stay quiet and keep his head down, offering shaves and haircuts, not political opinions. But when a high-ranking military official of the Empire begins visiting his ...
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August 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Gio Monsargo has learned to offer shaves, not political opinions. But when a high-ranking military official visits his shop, Gio finds himself tested in ways he could never imagine.
"With Only a Razor Between" by @mcflycahill90.bsky.social is out now at Reactor!
reactormag.com/with-only-a-...
"With Only a Razor Between" by @mcflycahill90.bsky.social is out now at Reactor!
reactormag.com/with-only-a-...
I don't even have cats (my roses are my honorary cats), and this is still true
I am increasingly sick and tired of businesses trying to force me to install their proprietary apps! My phone is full! Let me print my boarding pass at the airport! Let me get a posted paper schedule for the con! YOU ARE NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN 5,000 PICTURES OF MY CATS!
July 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I don't even have cats (my roses are my honorary cats), and this is still true
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Like most people, I grew up believing luddite meant "regressive" or "anti-technology" but actually the luddites were professionals, artisans and craftspeople, and they were upset about machines taking away not just their jobs, but also the art of the work they produced. Sound familiar?
July 30, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Like most people, I grew up believing luddite meant "regressive" or "anti-technology" but actually the luddites were professionals, artisans and craftspeople, and they were upset about machines taking away not just their jobs, but also the art of the work they produced. Sound familiar?
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“Please send us emails instead” means “we can put key words from your script on our corporate spam filter and ignore you, but calls shut down our entire contact infrastructure”
Keep fucking calling.
Keep fucking calling.
LMAO I called Visa’s customer support service - the guy on the other line was like “are you ALSO calling about the video game payment processing? Please send us emails instead.”
Keep up the calls, folks, we’re definitely gumming up their works
Keep up the calls, folks, we’re definitely gumming up their works
I know we're upset about itch, but they're not the only ones
Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign
But we can EASILY top 1,000!
I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send!
↻💬♡ to boost
We CAN make a difference 💕
#itch #censorship
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Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign
But we can EASILY top 1,000!
I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send!
↻💬♡ to boost
We CAN make a difference 💕
#itch #censorship
1/🧵
July 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
“Please send us emails instead” means “we can put key words from your script on our corporate spam filter and ignore you, but calls shut down our entire contact infrastructure”
Keep fucking calling.
Keep fucking calling.
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Inside every adult human being there's an 8 year old screeching "DON'T WANNA!!!"
(Or is this just me?)
(Or is this just me?)
July 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Inside every adult human being there's an 8 year old screeching "DON'T WANNA!!!"
(Or is this just me?)
(Or is this just me?)
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![4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreibwuu57ullc7vacjyno6c5z3gtyakkg2qub6cn3dbbjdpn2kaowmi@jpeg)
July 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Censorship is 1/4 law, 1/4 culture-attitudes-customs, 1/4 technology, and 1/4 money.
Where tech & money overlap to silence things, they have a ton of power to censor, even if the law is uninvolved.
Having the abstract legal right to say X doesn’t help if tech+money means saying X bankrupts you.
Where tech & money overlap to silence things, they have a ton of power to censor, even if the law is uninvolved.
Having the abstract legal right to say X doesn’t help if tech+money means saying X bankrupts you.
Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs
July 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Censorship is 1/4 law, 1/4 culture-attitudes-customs, 1/4 technology, and 1/4 money.
Where tech & money overlap to silence things, they have a ton of power to censor, even if the law is uninvolved.
Having the abstract legal right to say X doesn’t help if tech+money means saying X bankrupts you.
Where tech & money overlap to silence things, they have a ton of power to censor, even if the law is uninvolved.
Having the abstract legal right to say X doesn’t help if tech+money means saying X bankrupts you.
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It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
July 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
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![Comic. [Person with ponytail using handheld device in front of a large sign with crooked, off-center header, with crooked QR code (with illegible URL) and crooked list beneath] Header: DOANATE TO FIX THIS SIGN! List: $10 Fix kerning [kerning around “rni” of kerning is difficult to read]; $20 Align Columns [out of alignment] $20 Fix text size [much smaller text size]; $50 Fix typo; $50 Fix centering; $100 fix rotation. PERSON: Grrr… [caption] My new company’s business model is based on extorting graphic designers.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidspubnircp7xyx267adn6waakg76eb4giljnlwdh3zig5dqw7pbm@jpeg)
July 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you.
They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.
They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.
July 10, 2025 at 4:41 AM
If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you.
They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.
They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.
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you should turn this on because it's the right thing to do
but also because if you are anything like me, you constantly see characters that you can't quite place and it's incredibly helpful to be able to click on a picture and find out what the reference is so you can judge if it's funny or not
but also because if you are anything like me, you constantly see characters that you can't quite place and it's incredibly helpful to be able to click on a picture and find out what the reference is so you can judge if it's funny or not
today's a great day to make sure "require alt text before posting" is enabled in your settings and to continue to make bluesky more accessible and inclusive bsky.app/settings/acc...
July 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
you should turn this on because it's the right thing to do
but also because if you are anything like me, you constantly see characters that you can't quite place and it's incredibly helpful to be able to click on a picture and find out what the reference is so you can judge if it's funny or not
but also because if you are anything like me, you constantly see characters that you can't quite place and it's incredibly helpful to be able to click on a picture and find out what the reference is so you can judge if it's funny or not