Jo Wright
@kvetchup.bsky.social
Game designer, nerd, ADHD hobby chomper. Design Line Director at Ripple Effect. Board member at DIY Girls
Cannot recommend this enough. Also very strongly recommend reading All Systems Red if you haven't already!
Still exceptionally relevant, a great 2024 keynote speech by @marthawells.com. On Murderbot, oppression, dubious tropes about robots and AI, pairing humor with impactful commentary, mental and bodily autonomy, neurodivergence, and finding happiness in art and play.
📚 #Murderbot #Robots #SFF
📚 #Murderbot #Robots #SFF
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February 26, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Cannot recommend this enough. Also very strongly recommend reading All Systems Red if you haven't already!
I got sent an RNC survey for some bizarre reason. Reading these questions and considering older people who just watch Fox News all day, makes realize the enormous amount of brainwashing that needs to be undone to bring them back to reality.
February 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I got sent an RNC survey for some bizarre reason. Reading these questions and considering older people who just watch Fox News all day, makes realize the enormous amount of brainwashing that needs to be undone to bring them back to reality.
Remind me how AI is going to take away our jobs?
February 22, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Remind me how AI is going to take away our jobs?
I hope Alicia is actually AI because otherwise this is so embarrassing for an “award-winning reporter”
December 11, 2024 at 11:04 PM
I hope Alicia is actually AI because otherwise this is so embarrassing for an “award-winning reporter”
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This story is bananas.
A couple wrote an e-commerce newsletter. eBay execs didn’t like it. Now eBay is settling criminal charges for sending them a torrent of harassment by mail, including live spiders & cockroaches, a bloody pig mask & a funeral wreath.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
A couple wrote an e-commerce newsletter. eBay execs didn’t like it. Now eBay is settling criminal charges for sending them a torrent of harassment by mail, including live spiders & cockroaches, a bloody pig mask & a funeral wreath.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Feds charge eBay over employees who sent live spiders and cockroaches to couple; company to pay $3M
Online retailer eBay has agreed to pay a $3 million fine to resolve criminal charges over employees who harassed a Massachusetts couple by sending live spiders, cockroaches and other disturbing items ...
www.washingtonpost.com
January 12, 2024 at 1:22 PM
This story is bananas.
A couple wrote an e-commerce newsletter. eBay execs didn’t like it. Now eBay is settling criminal charges for sending them a torrent of harassment by mail, including live spiders & cockroaches, a bloody pig mask & a funeral wreath.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
A couple wrote an e-commerce newsletter. eBay execs didn’t like it. Now eBay is settling criminal charges for sending them a torrent of harassment by mail, including live spiders & cockroaches, a bloody pig mask & a funeral wreath.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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hey so
existing as trans right now means a daily absolute onslaught of legislators (LITERALLY) moving to criminalize our existence
cis people, now more than ever, WE NEED YOU TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT IT
so many cis people ignore *us* but THEY WILL LISTEN TO **YOU**
existing as trans right now means a daily absolute onslaught of legislators (LITERALLY) moving to criminalize our existence
cis people, now more than ever, WE NEED YOU TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT IT
so many cis people ignore *us* but THEY WILL LISTEN TO **YOU**
January 11, 2024 at 3:11 AM
hey so
existing as trans right now means a daily absolute onslaught of legislators (LITERALLY) moving to criminalize our existence
cis people, now more than ever, WE NEED YOU TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT IT
so many cis people ignore *us* but THEY WILL LISTEN TO **YOU**
existing as trans right now means a daily absolute onslaught of legislators (LITERALLY) moving to criminalize our existence
cis people, now more than ever, WE NEED YOU TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT IT
so many cis people ignore *us* but THEY WILL LISTEN TO **YOU**
Ohhh, uhh, no thank you.
January 6, 2024 at 5:55 AM
Ohhh, uhh, no thank you.
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Per this poster, the Spider Body Butter really may be bringing all the (spider) boys to the yard
www.reddit.com/r/Sephora/s/...
www.reddit.com/r/Sephora/s/...
December 28, 2023 at 5:33 AM
Per this poster, the Spider Body Butter really may be bringing all the (spider) boys to the yard
www.reddit.com/r/Sephora/s/...
www.reddit.com/r/Sephora/s/...
As a middle-aged woman I would like to propose that all funding is pulled from Torment Nexus projects, and switched to Warm Goo Healing Pod please!
I need tech companies to stop creating things from sci-fi that were cautionary tales and get to work inventing warm goo healing pod
December 20, 2023 at 4:00 AM
As a middle-aged woman I would like to propose that all funding is pulled from Torment Nexus projects, and switched to Warm Goo Healing Pod please!
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Stuff like this is really important to pay attention to bc it's a reminder that CA is not as unshakeably liberal as many people seem to think it is. The steady push of rhetoric and legislation elsewhere in the country emboldens hateful people here. (Like the M4L scum making bomb threats in Davis!)
LAT ed board comes out swinging against a proposed CA initiative that bans care for trans youth, forces teachers to out trans students, and bans them from bathrooms/sports.
"Voters have a real chance to protect children in the coming months by refusing to sign petitions for this noxious proposal"
"Voters have a real chance to protect children in the coming months by refusing to sign petitions for this noxious proposal"
Editorial: Want to protect children? Don't sign this trans-bashing petition
California has protected the rights of transgender students for years with few complaints or problems. Now a push for a ballot measure to end that is underway.
www.latimes.com
December 10, 2023 at 5:57 PM
Stuff like this is really important to pay attention to bc it's a reminder that CA is not as unshakeably liberal as many people seem to think it is. The steady push of rhetoric and legislation elsewhere in the country emboldens hateful people here. (Like the M4L scum making bomb threats in Davis!)
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Programming is chaotic magic. There are no rules. You ask a game dev “Can the player summon a giant demon that bursts from the ground in an explosion of lava?” and they’ll say “sure, that’s easy” and then you’ll ask “can the player wear a scarf?” and they’ll go “oof”
May 11, 2023 at 2:01 PM
Programming is chaotic magic. There are no rules. You ask a game dev “Can the player summon a giant demon that bursts from the ground in an explosion of lava?” and they’ll say “sure, that’s easy” and then you’ll ask “can the player wear a scarf?” and they’ll go “oof”
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I like how the FedEx tracker says “WE HAVE YOUR PACKAGE.” Is it okay? Can I see a picture of it holding today’s newspaper? Let me just talk to it for a second so I can hear its little voice
August 17, 2023 at 2:59 AM
I like how the FedEx tracker says “WE HAVE YOUR PACKAGE.” Is it okay? Can I see a picture of it holding today’s newspaper? Let me just talk to it for a second so I can hear its little voice
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how we envisioned the dark future: you wear leather and buy brain stims from a small store in an alley. your wrist computer helps you hack
actual dark future: your $89 pants rip after 8 wears. adderall shortage. your wrist computer makes you stand up hourly and buzzes with email from your boss
actual dark future: your $89 pants rip after 8 wears. adderall shortage. your wrist computer makes you stand up hourly and buzzes with email from your boss
November 30, 2023 at 12:29 AM
how we envisioned the dark future: you wear leather and buy brain stims from a small store in an alley. your wrist computer helps you hack
actual dark future: your $89 pants rip after 8 wears. adderall shortage. your wrist computer makes you stand up hourly and buzzes with email from your boss
actual dark future: your $89 pants rip after 8 wears. adderall shortage. your wrist computer makes you stand up hourly and buzzes with email from your boss
The video is quite something to watch. The disconnection from reality is astonishing. The behavior is that of a toddler failing to pull off a showstopping move. He didn’t get the reaction he wanted the first time, so he kept repeating it
Everyone's quoting Elon's "Go fuck yourself," but the lines just after it were also something x.com/AlexThomp/st...
November 30, 2023 at 12:45 AM
The video is quite something to watch. The disconnection from reality is astonishing. The behavior is that of a toddler failing to pull off a showstopping move. He didn’t get the reaction he wanted the first time, so he kept repeating it
This is one of the weirdest and funniest misprints ever, and it’s all the better because it predates digital typesetting. Would love to know WTF happened. Re-skeeting because everyone should see and enjoy this beauty
You occasional reminder that “Fremony at the library” remains the funniest and most comprehensive misprint in the history of the printed word.
November 27, 2023 at 7:10 PM
This is one of the weirdest and funniest misprints ever, and it’s all the better because it predates digital typesetting. Would love to know WTF happened. Re-skeeting because everyone should see and enjoy this beauty
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I think the fact that we did fix these things and it didn't make it into collective memory is a big part of the apathy toward climate change now. A lot of us remember being warned about all this stuff as kids only for it to go away without much discussion - *because we fixed it*.
we fixed acid rain! we fixed the ozone layer! we beat polio! we’ve rescued scores of species from the brink of extinction! the despair many of us feel about climate change isn’t that it’s too big to fix. it’s that we know it is fixable but we’re being thwarted by greedy ghouls at every turn.
The other day I was like “you know something we heard a lot about as kids was acid rain, why don’t we hear about it anymore”
TURNS OUT we fixed it???
TURNS OUT we fixed it???
November 24, 2023 at 3:23 AM
I think the fact that we did fix these things and it didn't make it into collective memory is a big part of the apathy toward climate change now. A lot of us remember being warned about all this stuff as kids only for it to go away without much discussion - *because we fixed it*.
When I got into sewing as a hobby, I wasn’t expecting to do so much papercraft too. 😄
November 25, 2023 at 3:47 AM
When I got into sewing as a hobby, I wasn’t expecting to do so much papercraft too. 😄
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This really is the greatest correction of all time.
November 24, 2023 at 3:03 AM
This really is the greatest correction of all time.
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I wrote a thing. About how terrible billionaires are for their direct impact but also their anti-democratic power, mostly used in the worst ways.... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Billionaires are out of touch and much too powerful. The planet is in trouble | Rebecca Solnit
The 1% aren’t just the biggest climate wreckers, they also greatly influence how the world responds to the crisis, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2023 at 12:49 AM
I wrote a thing. About how terrible billionaires are for their direct impact but also their anti-democratic power, mostly used in the worst ways.... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Since journalists are now upset that Elon Musk, ex-world's richest man, is "trying to sue investigative journalism out of existence"- please realize this Nov. 2022 thread anticipated exactly this kind of thing and suggested they proactively report on Elon's Big Lie before it was too late. 1/
November 21, 2023 at 3:43 AM
Since journalists are now upset that Elon Musk, ex-world's richest man, is "trying to sue investigative journalism out of existence"- please realize this Nov. 2022 thread anticipated exactly this kind of thing and suggested they proactively report on Elon's Big Lie before it was too late. 1/