Laurel ☁️🌈
@laurelcloud.bsky.social
30s (they/them)
agender, lesbian
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agender, lesbian
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This headline isn't just *misleading*, this is a deliberate attempt to create a false narrative about life-saving medical care. Absolutely fucking disgusting.
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
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archive.ph/Tmthz
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This headline isn't just *misleading*, this is a deliberate attempt to create a false narrative about life-saving medical care. Absolutely fucking disgusting.
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Love how the response to "social media is dangerous, toxic and damaging" is "ban children" and not "hold platforms accountable".
December 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Love how the response to "social media is dangerous, toxic and damaging" is "ban children" and not "hold platforms accountable".
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"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
truthout.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!
Buy a solo indie dev's game because I want to support them.
Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
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Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
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November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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Friends initiate conversations. Friends speak of their own volition. Friends have their own interests and passions they want your input on.
When someone says an AI treats them as a 'friend', it is because they treat their friends like appliances.
Or they would notice the difference.
When someone says an AI treats them as a 'friend', it is because they treat their friends like appliances.
Or they would notice the difference.
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Friends initiate conversations. Friends speak of their own volition. Friends have their own interests and passions they want your input on.
When someone says an AI treats them as a 'friend', it is because they treat their friends like appliances.
Or they would notice the difference.
When someone says an AI treats them as a 'friend', it is because they treat their friends like appliances.
Or they would notice the difference.
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STOP having "conversations" with ChatGPT and START talking to your stuffed animals like a normal person
everyone needs to grow the fuck up and start playing pretend with toys
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
STOP having "conversations" with ChatGPT and START talking to your stuffed animals like a normal person
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AI is an abomination.
November 20, 2025 at 1:24 AM
AI is an abomination.
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TLDR: 'International Men's Day' is sponsored by a christian "fathers rights" group who say all the kinds of vile homophobic, anti-feminist things you'd expect from a group that solely exists to help cis men continue abusing their exs and kids.
TLDR: 'International Men's Day' is sponsored by a christian "fathers rights" group who say all the kinds of vile homophobic, anti-feminist things you'd expect from a group that solely exists to help cis men continue abusing their exs and kids.
November 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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TLDR: 'International Men's Day' is sponsored by a christian "fathers rights" group who say all the kinds of vile homophobic, anti-feminist things you'd expect from a group that solely exists to help cis men continue abusing their exs and kids.
TLDR: 'International Men's Day' is sponsored by a christian "fathers rights" group who say all the kinds of vile homophobic, anti-feminist things you'd expect from a group that solely exists to help cis men continue abusing their exs and kids.
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Key information from this story: "humans generally have a crash, whether they are at fault or not, every 700,000 miles. Tesla has 7 in probably ~300,000 miles."
Tesla robotaxis get in crashes at 16 times the rate of human drivers.
Tesla robotaxis get in crashes at 16 times the rate of human drivers.
“.. Tesla’s current Robotaxi crash rate .. is about 2x higher than Waymo’s, despite in-car supervisors that prevent an unknown number of crashes.”
@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/11/17/t...
@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/11/17/t...
November 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Key information from this story: "humans generally have a crash, whether they are at fault or not, every 700,000 miles. Tesla has 7 in probably ~300,000 miles."
Tesla robotaxis get in crashes at 16 times the rate of human drivers.
Tesla robotaxis get in crashes at 16 times the rate of human drivers.
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Abolish gender. Abolish the family, abolish work and abolish sports.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Abolish gender. Abolish the family, abolish work and abolish sports.
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this isn’t my MOST woke opinion but it is one i’m passionate about:
borders shouldn’t exist and there should be complete freedom of movement globally. fuck visas. get rid of them
borders shouldn’t exist and there should be complete freedom of movement globally. fuck visas. get rid of them
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
this isn’t my MOST woke opinion but it is one i’m passionate about:
borders shouldn’t exist and there should be complete freedom of movement globally. fuck visas. get rid of them
borders shouldn’t exist and there should be complete freedom of movement globally. fuck visas. get rid of them
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Even before all the vast harms of AI, just the sheer misallocation of resources is itself a crime against humanity.
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Even before all the vast harms of AI, just the sheer misallocation of resources is itself a crime against humanity.
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Since visibility on this is a really big challenge I just wanna say that I still mask in public spaces. I wear a mask when around anyone who doesn’t practice similar precautions. If you do too, you are not alone and I appreciate you so much. If you don’t, you can *always* start again.
October 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Since visibility on this is a really big challenge I just wanna say that I still mask in public spaces. I wear a mask when around anyone who doesn’t practice similar precautions. If you do too, you are not alone and I appreciate you so much. If you don’t, you can *always* start again.
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Happy Ace Week! 🖤🩶🤍💜
October 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Happy Ace Week! 🖤🩶🤍💜
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but also, even if he hadn't been condemned in his time, i still don't have to judge him by the always-exculpatory standard of "a man of his time." his victims also lived in his world, their perspective existed at the same time, there's nothing anachronistic about seeing him from their view.
You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.
Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.
Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.
October 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
but also, even if he hadn't been condemned in his time, i still don't have to judge him by the always-exculpatory standard of "a man of his time." his victims also lived in his world, their perspective existed at the same time, there's nothing anachronistic about seeing him from their view.
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Happy Hamoween 🐹🎃👻 #art #illustration
October 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Happy Hamoween 🐹🎃👻 #art #illustration
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"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore
October 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore
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Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.
Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.
Just deal with people being different than you.
Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.
Just deal with people being different than you.
September 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.
Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.
Just deal with people being different than you.
Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.
Just deal with people being different than you.
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I think being trans is one of the least nihilistic things you can do. You are the hopes and dreams of those like us that never got to be themselves. You’re proof that the future can and will be better.
September 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I think being trans is one of the least nihilistic things you can do. You are the hopes and dreams of those like us that never got to be themselves. You’re proof that the future can and will be better.
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September 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM