Michael
@michaeldhm.bsky.social
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Disabled folks feeling guilty for not protesting today: *it is not your fault* that organizers don’t make an effort to make protests accessible and don’t encourage masking
And despite what folks on Bluesky would have you believe, there are MANY ways to resist and protests don’t have to be your way
And despite what folks on Bluesky would have you believe, there are MANY ways to resist and protests don’t have to be your way
October 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Disabled folks feeling guilty for not protesting today: *it is not your fault* that organizers don’t make an effort to make protests accessible and don’t encourage masking
And despite what folks on Bluesky would have you believe, there are MANY ways to resist and protests don’t have to be your way
And despite what folks on Bluesky would have you believe, there are MANY ways to resist and protests don’t have to be your way
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And yeah, "no ethical consumption under capitalism" and "there's no such thing as a morally good tomato", but literally at every step, genAI makes something worse for someone.
Even as the end user who "saved time", it's just conditioning you to settle for slop.
"I've made 250k images. Now what?"
Even as the end user who "saved time", it's just conditioning you to settle for slop.
"I've made 250k images. Now what?"
August 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
And yeah, "no ethical consumption under capitalism" and "there's no such thing as a morally good tomato", but literally at every step, genAI makes something worse for someone.
Even as the end user who "saved time", it's just conditioning you to settle for slop.
"I've made 250k images. Now what?"
Even as the end user who "saved time", it's just conditioning you to settle for slop.
"I've made 250k images. Now what?"
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While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
August 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
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I need everyone to hear this: if we are not centering and listening to disabled ppl in this moment, our priorities and vision for the future are fucked.
Disabled ppl are the ppl most likely to be poor. This bill will kill them. And we already abandoned them to
COVID. We have to show up now
Disabled ppl are the ppl most likely to be poor. This bill will kill them. And we already abandoned them to
COVID. We have to show up now
July 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I need everyone to hear this: if we are not centering and listening to disabled ppl in this moment, our priorities and vision for the future are fucked.
Disabled ppl are the ppl most likely to be poor. This bill will kill them. And we already abandoned them to
COVID. We have to show up now
Disabled ppl are the ppl most likely to be poor. This bill will kill them. And we already abandoned them to
COVID. We have to show up now
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![Obama administration (2014–2016)
He was appointed by President Barack Obama as Immigration and Customs Enforcement's executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations in 2013.[5]
By 2014, under the Obama administration, Homan began to argue that separating children from their caregivers would be an effective means of discouraging illegal border crossings. The journalist Caitlin Dickerson describes him as the "intellectual father" of the policy, which he outlined years before it was adopted by the Trump administration. "Most parents don’t want to be separated", Homan told Dickerson. He argued that this fact made separation an effective tool for immigration enforcement: "I’d be lying to you if I didn’t think that would have an effect."[7]
In 2015, Obama awarded him a Presidential Rank Award as a Distinguished Executive. The Washington Post article at the time stated, "Thomas Homan deports people. And he's really good at it."[8][9]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wfy4l5sl22lgb2lakf6kwqvw/bafkreiey6dvztnws5wfnkj6scihbycafw3ecwmnauu5yyn42dmjmimnb7y@jpeg)
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You can summarize every justification of using AI as “ I want to be an Ideas Guy”. Unskilled people who don’t understand the friction and challenge and tedium *is* the creative process.
June 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
You can summarize every justification of using AI as “ I want to be an Ideas Guy”. Unskilled people who don’t understand the friction and challenge and tedium *is* the creative process.
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I love the outpouring of love for David Lynch.
I don't love how many of the people who are remembering him have stopped masking in public.
If you've stopped masking, you're why he had to choose to spend his final years isolated at home.
I don't know what to do with that anger.
I don't love how many of the people who are remembering him have stopped masking in public.
If you've stopped masking, you're why he had to choose to spend his final years isolated at home.
I don't know what to do with that anger.
January 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I love the outpouring of love for David Lynch.
I don't love how many of the people who are remembering him have stopped masking in public.
If you've stopped masking, you're why he had to choose to spend his final years isolated at home.
I don't know what to do with that anger.
I don't love how many of the people who are remembering him have stopped masking in public.
If you've stopped masking, you're why he had to choose to spend his final years isolated at home.
I don't know what to do with that anger.
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Thank you to Pleiades for publishing my snarky little CDC hate poem 🖤
May 19, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Thank you to Pleiades for publishing my snarky little CDC hate poem 🖤