Rakel
@lobster667.bsky.social
Queer mess. Amateur poet & gamer. She/Her. Talks (shit) about gender, games&politics.
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once, i asked my mom why she doesn't speak yiddish. her bubbe, my great-grandmother, was fluent. her mom, my bubbe, spoke some.
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honorable mentions: while the words don't quite dwell in my head as the above poems do, i find myself coming back to "Dear White Girls in My Spanish Class" a lot, & "The God of Broken Things" remains near and dear to my heart.
December 7, 2025 at 5:31 AM
once, i asked my mom why she doesn't speak yiddish. her bubbe, my great-grandmother, was fluent. her mom, my bubbe, spoke some.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Modern UI rarely, if ever, contains drawings of skulls, jewels, or naked greek statues. Please do what you can to correct this.
December 9, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Modern UI rarely, if ever, contains drawings of skulls, jewels, or naked greek statues. Please do what you can to correct this.
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It is legitimately infuriating that yotuube can go "ah yeah this video raising charity money for the Trevor project has a fictional slot machine game in it, that's gambling, take away the money" while allowing fanduel and draftkings to run ads as much as they want, someone's ass needs kicking tbh
I am so furious at YouTube for doing this. You have literal gambling ads plastered across your website. The video you take action on contains no real gambling, and is promoting an LGBTQ+ children's charity fundraiser. Absolutely horrendous image and optics for the website. Completely moronic
I am beyond upset, YouTube has age restricted my video tonight for thinking it depicts real actual gambling. The video is on CloeverPit and contains no real gambling, but does contain a massive charity push for The Trevor Project. Last time this happened I almost quit YouTube
December 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It is legitimately infuriating that yotuube can go "ah yeah this video raising charity money for the Trevor project has a fictional slot machine game in it, that's gambling, take away the money" while allowing fanduel and draftkings to run ads as much as they want, someone's ass needs kicking tbh
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You will be visited by 3 spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
You will be visited by 3 spirits.
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i've had so many people tell me this tweet got them to transition
Which is why you need to try both out. For the greater pursuit of knowledge, of course.
December 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
i've had so many people tell me this tweet got them to transition
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so bsky is putting people through kws but if I alter one letter of that it's a ban? horseshit.
December 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
so bsky is putting people through kws but if I alter one letter of that it's a ban? horseshit.
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This is such a good post. Really nails how I felt about things before figuring myself out. Anyone who follows me that has thought about being a girl *NEEDS* to give this a read
So I saw a comment on Reddit and had to write an essay about it
"You can be a girl if you want to" is useless if you don't know what wanting to be a girl looks like.
If lesbians make you sad, read this one
"You can be a girl if you want to" is useless if you don't know what wanting to be a girl looks like.
If lesbians make you sad, read this one
It's Miserable In The Egg | Ela Bambust
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December 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This is such a good post. Really nails how I felt about things before figuring myself out. Anyone who follows me that has thought about being a girl *NEEDS* to give this a read
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I firmly believe that talking normally to strangers on the internet preserves *my* mental health. If I was on here yelling at people every day my brain would be mashed potatoes by now
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I firmly believe that talking normally to strangers on the internet preserves *my* mental health. If I was on here yelling at people every day my brain would be mashed potatoes by now
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if you are an artist your compatriots are the people that make food and the people that make porno
Saw someone saying you shouldn't interact with NSFW accounts online if your account isn't also purely NSFW and FUCK THAT BULLSHIT.
They can adjust their settings to avoid nudes and porn. You do whatever the fuck you want to do you freaks 😘💙
They can adjust their settings to avoid nudes and porn. You do whatever the fuck you want to do you freaks 😘💙
December 9, 2025 at 3:49 AM
if you are an artist your compatriots are the people that make food and the people that make porno
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also always deeply funny that every sci-fi video game from 1999-2014 was trying to be Aliens, and copied everything except the...working class woman protagonist
Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
also always deeply funny that every sci-fi video game from 1999-2014 was trying to be Aliens, and copied everything except the...working class woman protagonist
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old soviet joke about the difference between an optimist and a pessimist
a pessimist complains surely things can’t possibly get worse while the optimist knows things can always get worse
a pessimist complains surely things can’t possibly get worse while the optimist knows things can always get worse
honestly i think you could probably describe the vast majority of American media, political, and corporate elites as decadent
nobody knows how bad things can get
nobody knows how bad things can get
you'd think that the fact that the president is currently trying to get the Feds to arrest Senators would be what the NYT editorial board would focus on but...
December 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
old soviet joke about the difference between an optimist and a pessimist
a pessimist complains surely things can’t possibly get worse while the optimist knows things can always get worse
a pessimist complains surely things can’t possibly get worse while the optimist knows things can always get worse
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we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
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<picture of the average student with a speech bubble emerging>
you can't keep making me read things it's illegal
December 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
<picture of the average student with a speech bubble emerging>
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One big effect of AI hype and promotion of unreliable chatbots is that a significant amount of additional friction and labour is being injected into our knowledge-making and -maintaining systems. At a time when these systems are already contracting and being starved by growing austerity.
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
One big effect of AI hype and promotion of unreliable chatbots is that a significant amount of additional friction and labour is being injected into our knowledge-making and -maintaining systems. At a time when these systems are already contracting and being starved by growing austerity.
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"conducting soft power" sure is a cool way to frame providing welcome and needed aid in a time of crisis
"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."
Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica as US Gunboats Ply Caribbean
A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission ...
www.bloomberg.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"conducting soft power" sure is a cool way to frame providing welcome and needed aid in a time of crisis
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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If I don't send such quality bird posting to my bird friends I'd be robin them of a good laugh
Paid a bird to talk to me. What it said didn't make a lot of sense but at least it was cheep
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If I don't send such quality bird posting to my bird friends I'd be robin them of a good laugh
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So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
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it's a strange thing to ponder that you might have seen the peak of human technological achievement in terms of usability, adaptability and capability and it was running Windows 98
December 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
it's a strange thing to ponder that you might have seen the peak of human technological achievement in terms of usability, adaptability and capability and it was running Windows 98
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BREAKING: Paramount Skydance has launched a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery.
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM