Kate Coldwind
@katecoldwind.bsky.social
A flier of a pretend flying boat and occasional spaceships, builder of pretend Dyson Spheres and Sanctuarian demon-botherer. Romana pessima Britanniae. Shoddy fae contrivance and trans mess. 🏳️⚧️
Please note I do not have access to DMs.
Please note I do not have access to DMs.
I find myself feeling more and more Butlerian as time goes on. It's a shame they're setting the bar so high, to a degree of 'AI' we're probably never going to reach, so that the potentially hugely damaging systems they're pushing on us *right now* are protected.
October 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I find myself feeling more and more Butlerian as time goes on. It's a shame they're setting the bar so high, to a degree of 'AI' we're probably never going to reach, so that the potentially hugely damaging systems they're pushing on us *right now* are protected.
I'm probably doing rosy-glassesed remembering here, but I'm pretty sure it used to be that you'd buy an application or game etc, and then if they wanted more of your money they had to release a new version that substantially improved on the previous one. Meaning they had to meaningfully innovate.
October 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I'm probably doing rosy-glassesed remembering here, but I'm pretty sure it used to be that you'd buy an application or game etc, and then if they wanted more of your money they had to release a new version that substantially improved on the previous one. Meaning they had to meaningfully innovate.
(By the way, if anyone has any suggestions for an audiobook platform that isn't Amazon I'd be grateful.)
October 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
(By the way, if anyone has any suggestions for an audiobook platform that isn't Amazon I'd be grateful.)
Pfft. You clearly don't know me well enough. 😋
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Pfft. You clearly don't know me well enough. 😋
Heh. Fair enough. Too quick off the mark there. 😬
October 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Heh. Fair enough. Too quick off the mark there. 😬
We're maybe a few months from seeing forced institutionalisations, just like last time. They've tested public opinion a few times on that, and the public didn't care enough to bother to shrug.
And we know what came after that the last time.
I'd say they've more than got their money's worth.
And we know what came after that the last time.
I'd say they've more than got their money's worth.
October 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We're maybe a few months from seeing forced institutionalisations, just like last time. They've tested public opinion a few times on that, and the public didn't care enough to bother to shrug.
And we know what came after that the last time.
I'd say they've more than got their money's worth.
And we know what came after that the last time.
I'd say they've more than got their money's worth.
That you want someone, or multiple someones, to see you broadcasting mysterious numbers openly over a social media platform.
Who you are, who you're aiming the posts at, or why you want them seen, it would be pointless to speculate.
Who you are, who you're aiming the posts at, or why you want them seen, it would be pointless to speculate.
March 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
That you want someone, or multiple someones, to see you broadcasting mysterious numbers openly over a social media platform.
Who you are, who you're aiming the posts at, or why you want them seen, it would be pointless to speculate.
Who you are, who you're aiming the posts at, or why you want them seen, it would be pointless to speculate.
What a shame these particular "Christians" are so determinedly opposed to more or less every word Christ is recorded as saying.
Some of them were quite good. All that stuff about compassion, humility, abjuring the love of money, and keeping religion and the state separate.
Some of them were quite good. All that stuff about compassion, humility, abjuring the love of money, and keeping religion and the state separate.
March 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
What a shame these particular "Christians" are so determinedly opposed to more or less every word Christ is recorded as saying.
Some of them were quite good. All that stuff about compassion, humility, abjuring the love of money, and keeping religion and the state separate.
Some of them were quite good. All that stuff about compassion, humility, abjuring the love of money, and keeping religion and the state separate.
There won't be. They made up that doctrine in the 1800s. There's nothing in the Bible about it at all.
It is worth mentioning that most Christians in the world don't believe in the Rapture. It's very much a right-wing American evangelical thing.
It is worth mentioning that most Christians in the world don't believe in the Rapture. It's very much a right-wing American evangelical thing.
March 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
There won't be. They made up that doctrine in the 1800s. There's nothing in the Bible about it at all.
It is worth mentioning that most Christians in the world don't believe in the Rapture. It's very much a right-wing American evangelical thing.
It is worth mentioning that most Christians in the world don't believe in the Rapture. It's very much a right-wing American evangelical thing.
Why is pre-purchasing still a thing? I'm old enough to remember when there was a possibility a shop wouldn't get in enough copies of a game, so you could pay for one in advance to reserve a copy.
But what does it get you with digital distribution?
But what does it get you with digital distribution?
March 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Why is pre-purchasing still a thing? I'm old enough to remember when there was a possibility a shop wouldn't get in enough copies of a game, so you could pay for one in advance to reserve a copy.
But what does it get you with digital distribution?
But what does it get you with digital distribution?
Well, I take it all back. And in exchange, I give up my hopes and dreams and the last vestiges of my humanity.
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January 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Well, I take it all back. And in exchange, I give up my hopes and dreams and the last vestiges of my humanity.
😁
😁
Good *gods*, all of you. Do you people - and museums - think likes just grow on trees?
January 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Good *gods*, all of you. Do you people - and museums - think likes just grow on trees?