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Moopsy!, MLIS

@lilacwire.bsky.social

At this point I'm convinced I'll never see the northern lights.

November 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM

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Meredith McClaren

@iniquitousfish.bsky.social

November 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM

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year40yap✨

@jazmineduke.bsky.social

Big day for people who care about other people

November 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM

Moopsy!, MLIS

@lilacwire.bsky.social

Goobers.

November 5, 2025 at 1:39 AM

Moopsy!, MLIS

@lilacwire.bsky.social

August 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM

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Yeet Kune Do

@yeetkunedo.bsky.social

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape.

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

July 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM

Moopsy!, MLIS

@lilacwire.bsky.social

This made me cry.

the idea slumlord✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · Mar 26

I wrote you a poem this morning.

Everything is Terrible So Here’s a Picture of a Tree

Everything is terrible so here’s a picture of a tree
here’s a picture of a cat
I’m sorry for sending you a picture of a cat when everything is terrible
No, don’t be, please
I want the pictures of cats
of trees
Maybe it’s me who’s irresponsible, wanting those pictures of trees
of cats
when everything is so terrible
No, it’s not
It’s not irresponsible to want to remember the fragility of a leaf
and its power too
the way it buds and grows and changes color and falls. The way it feeds some and shelters others, all while powering something mighty, with such deep roots
It’s not irresponsible to want to look at soft warm fur, and imagine pressing your face into that softness, or to contemplate the miracle of toes spread wide in pleasure, or smile at some small naughtiness captured in pixels
You send me these things because you love me.
And I send them to you because I love you
yes, even if I don’t know you
I am sending you this picture of a tree, this picture of a cat, because I love you and I want you to know that you are loved enough for me to want you to remember trees
and to remember cats
even when it feels wrong to do so.
Let us both remember that trees have roots that dig into the earth
and branches that reach to the sky
even on the worst days.
And cats—
cats especially—
for they are famous for enjoying the soft caress of a friend one moment
and turning into a ferocious ball of claws and teeth and bristling fur and indignation the next
as must we.
So send me your pictures of cats
of trees
And let us both save our apologies for what we cannot do
instead of what we can.

March 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM

Moopsy!, MLIS

@lilacwire.bsky.social

Everything else today is real fucking upsetting!

February 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM

Moopsy!, MLIS

@lilacwire.bsky.social

I AM FILLED WITH EMOTION

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · Feb 3

wow they... actually figured out how to do this?? deadline.com/2025/02/buff...

‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ Reboot Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar Nears Hulu Pilot Order With Chloé Zhao Directing

Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot starring Sarah Michelle Gellar is getting a Hulu pilot order. Chloé Zhao will direct, Nora & Lilla Zuckerman wrote it.

deadline.com

February 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

When We Invited You To Join Our Trivia Team, It Was With The Understanding That You Knew ‘Star Trek’
theonion.com/when-we...

January 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM

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Ian Boudreau

@ianboudreau.com

Sir our plan to replace the entire government with 4chan freaks has run into a few snags

January 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM

Moopsy!, MLIS

@lilacwire.bsky.social

Some good news.

Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · Jan 30

The US Copyright Office has declared that generative AI art and text generated by prompts cannot be copyright protected.

(Read more: The Verge)

January 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM

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Paolo Bacigalupi

@paolobacigalupi.bsky.social

The more you do something, the more you'll be recognized as someone who does that thing. Over time, new opportunities will arise connected to that thing.

If you do something you hate, you will be recognized, rewarded, and given more opportunities to do that thing you hate.

Do things you like.

luna @imlunahey.com · Jan 30

people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?

January 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM

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Joe Katz

@joekatz45.bsky.social

Trump can authorize this "don't you dare call it a" concentration camp.

The money to build it has to come from somewhere.

Tell your members of Congress not one cent for mass detention camps.

January 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM

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Alycia the Artist 🪶

@alycia.art

It's still legal to make sims of your enemies and put them in a pool without a ladder

January 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM

Moopsy!, MLIS

@lilacwire.bsky.social

I'm back!
- moved to Washington state
- learning to make friends as an adult
- poodles

January 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM

Moopsy!, MLIS

@lilacwire.bsky.social

Ahh, the time between 2pm and 4pm, when I am inspired to work on projects, but I can't because I'm stuck at work, and by the time I get home it's depression hour.

April 4, 2024 at 8:15 PM