@karlruben.bsky.social
Barely posting. Profile pic is a commissioned pixel art piece by @bachelorsoft.bsky.social, after a painting by the late, great Rick Froberg.
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Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
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wisdom is realizing that it's called the Four Doorus because it has four doors.
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
wisdom is realizing that it's called the Four Doorus because it has four doors.
@giselelagace.bsky.social Hey, Gisele; I'm probably missing something v. obvious here, but I can't find a way to buy the Pixie Trix collections digitally. I bought the first couple from Comixology (they're in my Amazon library still), but I can't find new ones in the Amazon webshop any more. Help?
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 AM
@giselelagace.bsky.social Hey, Gisele; I'm probably missing something v. obvious here, but I can't find a way to buy the Pixie Trix collections digitally. I bought the first couple from Comixology (they're in my Amazon library still), but I can't find new ones in the Amazon webshop any more. Help?
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Veldig personlig nå, men det tåler dere:
Jeg tenker fortsatt, 25 år senere, på den eldre mannlige legen som kom inn til meg etter jeg tok abort som 16-åring og sa «Hvis du trenger noen å snakke med ordner vi det. Men hvis du ikke trenger det og bare er lettet og glad nå, er det også helt greit»
Jeg tenker fortsatt, 25 år senere, på den eldre mannlige legen som kom inn til meg etter jeg tok abort som 16-åring og sa «Hvis du trenger noen å snakke med ordner vi det. Men hvis du ikke trenger det og bare er lettet og glad nå, er det også helt greit»
October 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Veldig personlig nå, men det tåler dere:
Jeg tenker fortsatt, 25 år senere, på den eldre mannlige legen som kom inn til meg etter jeg tok abort som 16-åring og sa «Hvis du trenger noen å snakke med ordner vi det. Men hvis du ikke trenger det og bare er lettet og glad nå, er det også helt greit»
Jeg tenker fortsatt, 25 år senere, på den eldre mannlige legen som kom inn til meg etter jeg tok abort som 16-åring og sa «Hvis du trenger noen å snakke med ordner vi det. Men hvis du ikke trenger det og bare er lettet og glad nå, er det også helt greit»
Loved these back when they first came out, and appreciated them even more rereading them this past week. If a series of Regency-set mysteries starring a moderately swashbuckling independent "agent of inquiry" (that's Miss Tolerance to you) sounds appealing, run to your local ebook retailer now
It’s pub day for the new editions of the first three Regency-noir Sarah Tolerance Mysteries: Point of Honour, Petty Treason, and The Sleeping Partner—available in print or ebook!
And Coming in October, The Doxies Penalty! And yes, I’m delighted!
And Coming in October, The Doxies Penalty! And yes, I’m delighted!
November 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Loved these back when they first came out, and appreciated them even more rereading them this past week. If a series of Regency-set mysteries starring a moderately swashbuckling independent "agent of inquiry" (that's Miss Tolerance to you) sounds appealing, run to your local ebook retailer now
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I'm going to start a new political party. It's called Shut The Fuck Up and Feed People.
"But what if they're on drugs?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"Or not really THAT poor?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"What if they have a phone and nice nails?"
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE
"But what if they're on drugs?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"Or not really THAT poor?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"What if they have a phone and nice nails?"
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE
October 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I'm going to start a new political party. It's called Shut The Fuck Up and Feed People.
"But what if they're on drugs?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"Or not really THAT poor?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"What if they have a phone and nice nails?"
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE
"But what if they're on drugs?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"Or not really THAT poor?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"What if they have a phone and nice nails?"
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE
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While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
August 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
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Just saw this great post again and it reminded me of my old beef against "spoilers don't matter, a good film isn't spoilable": The timing with which information is revealed is important in every movie! It's as much a part of the art as dialogue or lighting,it matters at least as much as aspect ratio
September 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Just saw this great post again and it reminded me of my old beef against "spoilers don't matter, a good film isn't spoilable": The timing with which information is revealed is important in every movie! It's as much a part of the art as dialogue or lighting,it matters at least as much as aspect ratio
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Every day, I pray for a world where everyone is kind and respectful of each other, regardless of gender.
May unreasonable attacks against transgender people end🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
May today be filled with happiness and love for you all🤍
May unreasonable attacks against transgender people end🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
May today be filled with happiness and love for you all🤍
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Every day, I pray for a world where everyone is kind and respectful of each other, regardless of gender.
May unreasonable attacks against transgender people end🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
May today be filled with happiness and love for you all🤍
May unreasonable attacks against transgender people end🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
May today be filled with happiness and love for you all🤍
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hey @bsky.app why was @scumbelievable.bsky.social suspended? considering the timing (she just put a new book out) it feels like someone is weaponizing your safety features in a targeted manner
August 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
hey @bsky.app why was @scumbelievable.bsky.social suspended? considering the timing (she just put a new book out) it feels like someone is weaponizing your safety features in a targeted manner
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“BUT THE CHILDREN!”
Piss off!
If you gave a damn about kids, you’d listen to what they need! You’d listen to adult trans people telling you how awful going through the wrong puberty is. You wouldn’t mock the high suicide rates.
You don’t give a damn about kids. You just want less trans people.
Piss off!
If you gave a damn about kids, you’d listen to what they need! You’d listen to adult trans people telling you how awful going through the wrong puberty is. You wouldn’t mock the high suicide rates.
You don’t give a damn about kids. You just want less trans people.
June 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“BUT THE CHILDREN!”
Piss off!
If you gave a damn about kids, you’d listen to what they need! You’d listen to adult trans people telling you how awful going through the wrong puberty is. You wouldn’t mock the high suicide rates.
You don’t give a damn about kids. You just want less trans people.
Piss off!
If you gave a damn about kids, you’d listen to what they need! You’d listen to adult trans people telling you how awful going through the wrong puberty is. You wouldn’t mock the high suicide rates.
You don’t give a damn about kids. You just want less trans people.
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“WAH! BUT DE-TRANSITION!”
Go fuck yourself!
Transition care has a lower regret rate than almost any other medical procedure.
Even if it didn’t, the solution isn’t taking medicine away from everyone, it’s giving robust care for detransitioners as well.
Stop using their pain as a political prop!
Go fuck yourself!
Transition care has a lower regret rate than almost any other medical procedure.
Even if it didn’t, the solution isn’t taking medicine away from everyone, it’s giving robust care for detransitioners as well.
Stop using their pain as a political prop!
June 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“WAH! BUT DE-TRANSITION!”
Go fuck yourself!
Transition care has a lower regret rate than almost any other medical procedure.
Even if it didn’t, the solution isn’t taking medicine away from everyone, it’s giving robust care for detransitioners as well.
Stop using their pain as a political prop!
Go fuck yourself!
Transition care has a lower regret rate than almost any other medical procedure.
Even if it didn’t, the solution isn’t taking medicine away from everyone, it’s giving robust care for detransitioners as well.
Stop using their pain as a political prop!
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“BU- BU- BU- FAIRNESS IN SPORTS!”
Shut the fuck up!
Trans women have been playing various pro sports since the ‘70s and competing in the Olympics since 2004. No one gave a shit. No one “pretended to be trans” to cheat. Trans women didn’t become the sporting over-class.
It’s a non-issue. Always was
Shut the fuck up!
Trans women have been playing various pro sports since the ‘70s and competing in the Olympics since 2004. No one gave a shit. No one “pretended to be trans” to cheat. Trans women didn’t become the sporting over-class.
It’s a non-issue. Always was
June 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“BU- BU- BU- FAIRNESS IN SPORTS!”
Shut the fuck up!
Trans women have been playing various pro sports since the ‘70s and competing in the Olympics since 2004. No one gave a shit. No one “pretended to be trans” to cheat. Trans women didn’t become the sporting over-class.
It’s a non-issue. Always was
Shut the fuck up!
Trans women have been playing various pro sports since the ‘70s and competing in the Olympics since 2004. No one gave a shit. No one “pretended to be trans” to cheat. Trans women didn’t become the sporting over-class.
It’s a non-issue. Always was
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I cannot emphasize this enough that for YEARS:
-trans women played various women’s sports.
-trans kids got medical assistance as they and their parents needed.
-trans folk could get accurate documents.
-trans folk used the bathrooms that felt appropriate.
AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENED.
-trans women played various women’s sports.
-trans kids got medical assistance as they and their parents needed.
-trans folk could get accurate documents.
-trans folk used the bathrooms that felt appropriate.
AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENED.
June 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I cannot emphasize this enough that for YEARS:
-trans women played various women’s sports.
-trans kids got medical assistance as they and their parents needed.
-trans folk could get accurate documents.
-trans folk used the bathrooms that felt appropriate.
AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENED.
-trans women played various women’s sports.
-trans kids got medical assistance as they and their parents needed.
-trans folk could get accurate documents.
-trans folk used the bathrooms that felt appropriate.
AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENED.
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ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
AI was trained on my books (without my permission and against my will) so this annoys me. I never use AI. Not for research, not for images, not for writing. AI used me.
I keep seeing reports of non-AI users being told that an AI detector has dubbed their work AI generated, and it makes me insane because:
1) AI detection tools *are themselves AI* and thus entirely bullshit; and
2) if an AI was trained on your works, of COURSE it’ll flag you as sounding “like” AI!
1) AI detection tools *are themselves AI* and thus entirely bullshit; and
2) if an AI was trained on your works, of COURSE it’ll flag you as sounding “like” AI!
June 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
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kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
June 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
KJ Charles has reached the Bujold tier for me where I click "buy" as fast as I possibly can whenever they publish something new. I've obviously not read this one yet, but I fully recommend KJC's last historical mystery, DEATH IN THE SPIRES. One of my all-time fave despairing but dogged protagonists
Copper Script is out today! Get your morally conflicted policeman / chaos graphologist romance here.
All e platforms books2read.com/u/4NE2KG
Gumroad kjcharles.gumroad.com/l/copperscript
Out in pb too, audio on its way.
All e platforms books2read.com/u/4NE2KG
Gumroad kjcharles.gumroad.com/l/copperscript
Out in pb too, audio on its way.
May 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
KJ Charles has reached the Bujold tier for me where I click "buy" as fast as I possibly can whenever they publish something new. I've obviously not read this one yet, but I fully recommend KJC's last historical mystery, DEATH IN THE SPIRES. One of my all-time fave despairing but dogged protagonists
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Dear "game devs,"
This is STILL a deal breaker.
This is STILL a deal breaker.
May 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Dear "game devs,"
This is STILL a deal breaker.
This is STILL a deal breaker.
This page sold me on THE TITAN's first issue by itself. Love how the negative space in the second panel not only suggests a ceiling, but helps convey how dark and dingy this booth is. And "oh it's just fun watching you walk into a room" is such a killer line. Go, read: titancomic.net/comic/v1c1/
May 6, 2025 at 7:22 AM
This page sold me on THE TITAN's first issue by itself. Love how the negative space in the second panel not only suggests a ceiling, but helps convey how dark and dingy this booth is. And "oh it's just fun watching you walk into a room" is such a killer line. Go, read: titancomic.net/comic/v1c1/
Just read the first issue of FML, the new (ish) creator-owned comic by @kellysue.bsky.social, @davidlopez.bsky.social, Cris Peter and @claytoncowles.bsky.social, and wow, what a thing this is. My favourite kind of teen story: the one where the parents/grown-ups are actual human characters too
May 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Just read the first issue of FML, the new (ish) creator-owned comic by @kellysue.bsky.social, @davidlopez.bsky.social, Cris Peter and @claytoncowles.bsky.social, and wow, what a thing this is. My favourite kind of teen story: the one where the parents/grown-ups are actual human characters too
@kennym.bsky.social I gotta say, after learning about the coming of Sweet Shop, every time I buy a digital comic from Cmxlgy's shambling corpse, I've started rueing that act even more. Really looking forward to the launch! (Also, you were so great on @sktchd.bsky.social's podcast the other week)
May 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
@kennym.bsky.social I gotta say, after learning about the coming of Sweet Shop, every time I buy a digital comic from Cmxlgy's shambling corpse, I've started rueing that act even more. Really looking forward to the launch! (Also, you were so great on @sktchd.bsky.social's podcast the other week)
@andrewmaclean.bsky.social Hello! I was wondering if you're selling the digital version of the Agatha comic you kickstarted anywhere, or if it was (and forever will be) exclusive to that campaign?
April 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
@andrewmaclean.bsky.social Hello! I was wondering if you're selling the digital version of the Agatha comic you kickstarted anywhere, or if it was (and forever will be) exclusive to that campaign?
@oliviawaite.com Hi, I just finished The Hellion's Waltz, and I wanted to thank you for a lovely book, but in particular, the acknowledgements section at the end. I'm tearing up here at your beautifully encouraging words; very much needed just as much now as they were at the time you wrote them.
March 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
@oliviawaite.com Hi, I just finished The Hellion's Waltz, and I wanted to thank you for a lovely book, but in particular, the acknowledgements section at the end. I'm tearing up here at your beautifully encouraging words; very much needed just as much now as they were at the time you wrote them.