Magnus is That Thang
@magnusworm.bsky.social
Author, Creature, Manthing. 23. Aries. He/It. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 They call me "that thang" because they can't figure out what I am. Lover of the weird, unusual, and mundane. And hippos!
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Magnus Writes
18, He/Him, writeblr. The new account for @lemon-writings. Current WIP: Jeez Take the Wheel
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Howdy! I'm Magnus. I'm a #writer of the strange and Weird, and also sometimes the mundane.You can catch more of my long-form writing on my Tumblr. I'm a lot more coherent there. Check out my published works linked below for more weirdness!
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Do me right; or I will protest your cowardice.
October 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Do me right; or I will protest your cowardice.
Antarctica is truly the continent of bicuriosity.
October 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Antarctica is truly the continent of bicuriosity.
It's nearly Season's Greasons time
October 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It's nearly Season's Greasons time
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Oh, some of you are like, NEW new.
1. They’re called skeets. No, you will not change that.
2. Use alt text.
3. This isn’t Twitter. If you act like a fool, you will get blocked so hard you cease to exist to some folks. If you really act a fool you get put in the Louvre.
1. They’re called skeets. No, you will not change that.
2. Use alt text.
3. This isn’t Twitter. If you act like a fool, you will get blocked so hard you cease to exist to some folks. If you really act a fool you get put in the Louvre.
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Oh, some of you are like, NEW new.
1. They’re called skeets. No, you will not change that.
2. Use alt text.
3. This isn’t Twitter. If you act like a fool, you will get blocked so hard you cease to exist to some folks. If you really act a fool you get put in the Louvre.
1. They’re called skeets. No, you will not change that.
2. Use alt text.
3. This isn’t Twitter. If you act like a fool, you will get blocked so hard you cease to exist to some folks. If you really act a fool you get put in the Louvre.
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WGA WRITERS protest abc & disney : “Writers against fascism — this isn’t just about Kimmel, it’s about our ability to say what we want and not be punished by the state… a chilling effect… you don’t capitulate to bullies…”
(from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social )
(from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social )
September 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
WGA WRITERS protest abc & disney : “Writers against fascism — this isn’t just about Kimmel, it’s about our ability to say what we want and not be punished by the state… a chilling effect… you don’t capitulate to bullies…”
(from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social )
(from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social )
You know what runs in my family? Workoholics. You know what drives in my family? Alcoholics
September 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
You know what runs in my family? Workoholics. You know what drives in my family? Alcoholics
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What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart
September 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart
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This is something that I think needs to be said more for the young people. This shit got worse. Google was more useful in 2006 than it is today. Meemaw and Peepaw regularly post shit on Facebook that would have got you banned from Newgrounds.
Silicon Valley also just doesn’t make good shit anymore and are mad they lost the deference that comes with a reputation for competence.
September 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is something that I think needs to be said more for the young people. This shit got worse. Google was more useful in 2006 than it is today. Meemaw and Peepaw regularly post shit on Facebook that would have got you banned from Newgrounds.
The amount of time I've read "snap-on" as "strap-on" is, concerningly, not zero
August 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The amount of time I've read "snap-on" as "strap-on" is, concerningly, not zero
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Mobile bookshop.✨🚐✨
August 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Mobile bookshop.✨🚐✨
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All you need to know about Chris Columbus is that he directed an INFAMOUS Autism Speaks ad where he compared us to AIDS and cancer and blamed us for our parents' divorces. Nothing he does shocks me.
August 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
All you need to know about Chris Columbus is that he directed an INFAMOUS Autism Speaks ad where he compared us to AIDS and cancer and blamed us for our parents' divorces. Nothing he does shocks me.
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So shut it down.
If a car performed perfectly safely in it's first hundred miles but those safety features "degraded" in every mile driven after that until it was a death trap, we wouldn't allow that car to be sold.
Turn the bloody thing off.
If a car performed perfectly safely in it's first hundred miles but those safety features "degraded" in every mile driven after that until it was a death trap, we wouldn't allow that car to be sold.
Turn the bloody thing off.
OpenAI's newest co-CEO(?) Fidji Simo was the one to post a message to the company Slack last night telling employees about Adam Raine's death and that stories were coming.
Company gave me this statement and put up a blog post: openai.com/index/helpin...
Company gave me this statement and put up a blog post: openai.com/index/helpin...
August 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
So shut it down.
If a car performed perfectly safely in it's first hundred miles but those safety features "degraded" in every mile driven after that until it was a death trap, we wouldn't allow that car to be sold.
Turn the bloody thing off.
If a car performed perfectly safely in it's first hundred miles but those safety features "degraded" in every mile driven after that until it was a death trap, we wouldn't allow that car to be sold.
Turn the bloody thing off.
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Don't be too fast of a learner, or too slow. Don't have any disabilities! Don't daydream. Don't socialize. Don't get bored. Don't get upset. Don't have questions. Don't think.
“The school uses AI to monitor how students are working on their computers, recording screen activity & monitoring keystrokes. If a student isn’t taking time to read lessons, flying through prompts or not paying attention to the computer, a coaching tool will remind them to slow down & refocus.”
A 🧵
A 🧵
For $65,000 a year, a teacher-less AI private school comes to Virginia
At Alpha School, a new private school in Northern Virginia, students will study for just two hours a day using adaptive apps and personalized lesson plans.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Don't be too fast of a learner, or too slow. Don't have any disabilities! Don't daydream. Don't socialize. Don't get bored. Don't get upset. Don't have questions. Don't think.
I've been working at this evil establishment for 8 slutty, slutty months, and I have yet to have a customer throw a coffee at me, which is a good thing
August 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I've been working at this evil establishment for 8 slutty, slutty months, and I have yet to have a customer throw a coffee at me, which is a good thing
"The Bubconic butt plague."
August 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
"The Bubconic butt plague."
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Thrilled to announce this ground-breaking new book, Area X: The Southern Reach Files! The Central agent in question is, of course, Hargraves from Absolution. The book includes some new ways of approaching storytelling, and also I hope will be satisfying in lots of other ways. More in a thread. 1/?
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Thrilled to announce this ground-breaking new book, Area X: The Southern Reach Files! The Central agent in question is, of course, Hargraves from Absolution. The book includes some new ways of approaching storytelling, and also I hope will be satisfying in lots of other ways. More in a thread. 1/?
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This is a serious problem. Pretty soon adult content will be gone from bluesky.
These are always the opening moves to broader #censorship.
Please everyone, let bluesky know what you think.
These are always the opening moves to broader #censorship.
Please everyone, let bluesky know what you think.
the usual vagueness is present here that is usually a bad sign to come for adult content.
bluesky is taking feedback on the guidelines at this link below. Let them know these are not satisfactory
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
points that need addressing are: [cont]
bluesky is taking feedback on the guidelines at this link below. Let them know these are not satisfactory
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
points that need addressing are: [cont]
August 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This is a serious problem. Pretty soon adult content will be gone from bluesky.
These are always the opening moves to broader #censorship.
Please everyone, let bluesky know what you think.
These are always the opening moves to broader #censorship.
Please everyone, let bluesky know what you think.
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Anyway, buy trans books.
On that note:
Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.
Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.
Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.
Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.
Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"
So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?
So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?
August 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Anyway, buy trans books.
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Biblically accurate billionaire.
August 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Biblically accurate billionaire.
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To mark the launch of GPT-5, and the fresh wave of people talking about this technology as if it's capable of thinking like human and even if it's not, it will be soon and it's inevitable and it's not actually stealing people's work, it's just learning like a human.
Here's why it's none of that.
Here's why it's none of that.
One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/
August 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
To mark the launch of GPT-5, and the fresh wave of people talking about this technology as if it's capable of thinking like human and even if it's not, it will be soon and it's inevitable and it's not actually stealing people's work, it's just learning like a human.
Here's why it's none of that.
Here's why it's none of that.
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It’s great that every issue that could be solved by asking corporations and the wealthy to live slightly differently now involves a government being like “oh you have a small light that stays on in the bathroom? Way to fuck everything up dickhead”
The British government is asking people to delete their emails to reduce stress on data centers.
🔗 www.404media.co/uk-asks-peop...
🔗 www.404media.co/uk-asks-peop...
UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought
As Britain experiences one of its worst droughts in decades, its leaders suggest people get rid of old data to reduce stress on data centers.
www.404media.co
August 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It’s great that every issue that could be solved by asking corporations and the wealthy to live slightly differently now involves a government being like “oh you have a small light that stays on in the bathroom? Way to fuck everything up dickhead”
Hate when the self-checkout asks if I have anything in my bottom of my cart when they have cameras and can see I'm carrying everything in my arms like a fucking barbarian
August 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Hate when the self-checkout asks if I have anything in my bottom of my cart when they have cameras and can see I'm carrying everything in my arms like a fucking barbarian
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Script: "Hi, I'm [name with spelling]. I'm a constituent from [city, zip]. I'm calling to tell [name] to take actions re: Kennedy's recent attempt to rescind money for mRNA vaccines. This is dangerously anti-science/anti-health. Kennedy must be called before Congress for questioning/impeachment."
This cannot stand. Not only is it stupid at, but it is also HARMFUL.
Vaccines save lives. They are GOOD.
Kennedy is dangerously idiotic and should not be in a position related to health at all.
Vaccines save lives. They are GOOD.
Kennedy is dangerously idiotic and should not be in a position related to health at all.
Link:
August 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Script: "Hi, I'm [name with spelling]. I'm a constituent from [city, zip]. I'm calling to tell [name] to take actions re: Kennedy's recent attempt to rescind money for mRNA vaccines. This is dangerously anti-science/anti-health. Kennedy must be called before Congress for questioning/impeachment."
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One way to reduce stress is to meditate. Another way is to not live under a fascist government. This has been wellness tips!
August 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
One way to reduce stress is to meditate. Another way is to not live under a fascist government. This has been wellness tips!
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If only someone could have seen this coming! @wolvendamien.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
If only someone could have seen this coming! @wolvendamien.bsky.social