needleclicker
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Archivist, IR overlord, and doer of ALL THE THINGS. When I'm not sidetracked by books, knitting, chain maille, etc. Opinions my own.
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Yes our Christmas tree DOES have a mini Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition and yours could too www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/dam/jcr:a46f...
December 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Yes our Christmas tree DOES have a mini Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition and yours could too www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/dam/jcr:a46f...
Do recommend. I preordered and it came in after 11pm last night. I made bedtime....choices....aided and abetted by good storytelling. Finished the book in 2 sittings.
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS A MERMAID is finally here!
*throws confetti*
Go grab your copy and escape into a magical holiday romance!
All the juicy background gossip and teasers: www.lianabrooks.com/...
Buy it now: books2read.com/chris...
*throws confetti*
Go grab your copy and escape into a magical holiday romance!
All the juicy background gossip and teasers: www.lianabrooks.com/...
Buy it now: books2read.com/chris...
December 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Do recommend. I preordered and it came in after 11pm last night. I made bedtime....choices....aided and abetted by good storytelling. Finished the book in 2 sittings.
My arms ache down to the bones. Right elbow has a tendonitis flare, so not unexpected, but the left? I'm assuming the temp in my work space being below 60F, plus weather changes. Bodies are dumb.
a black and white cat is sitting on a bed next to a pillow .
Alt: a black and white cat is sitting on a bed next to a pillow, crossing its paws and pouting
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December 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
My arms ache down to the bones. Right elbow has a tendonitis flare, so not unexpected, but the left? I'm assuming the temp in my work space being below 60F, plus weather changes. Bodies are dumb.
Me: I'll be good and stop reading my book, despite there being under an hour left, so I can go to bed earlyish.
Also me, more than an hour later: doom scrolled then started another book.
Also me, more than an hour later: doom scrolled then started another book.
December 1, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Me: I'll be good and stop reading my book, despite there being under an hour left, so I can go to bed earlyish.
Also me, more than an hour later: doom scrolled then started another book.
Also me, more than an hour later: doom scrolled then started another book.
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Does it strike anyone as weird that we have a ratings board that counts the number of times a movie says fuck or shows a boob and decides who is allowed to see it, and yet GenAI was dropped on the entire with no restrictions, no age verification, no checks, no regulation whatsoever?
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Does it strike anyone as weird that we have a ratings board that counts the number of times a movie says fuck or shows a boob and decides who is allowed to see it, and yet GenAI was dropped on the entire with no restrictions, no age verification, no checks, no regulation whatsoever?
I know my duty: I provided horizontal(ish) human time for Tatum, while Her Human is away. She was Very Pleased. I got ALL the purrs. And then I was a monster and evicted her (after 1.5 hrs). #cats
November 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I know my duty: I provided horizontal(ish) human time for Tatum, while Her Human is away. She was Very Pleased. I got ALL the purrs. And then I was a monster and evicted her (after 1.5 hrs). #cats
I loved the first one and have the rest queued. I highly recommend them!
THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES series is perfect for lovers of Gothic coziness. There are 4 books with
💀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow vibes
🫀An autistic necromancer
⚰️His reanimated lover
🪦 Solving mysteries in 1890s NYC
🏳️🌈MM paranormal historical romance
🔗⬇️Available wide!
#romancelandia #booksky 🌈📚
💀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow vibes
🫀An autistic necromancer
⚰️His reanimated lover
🪦 Solving mysteries in 1890s NYC
🏳️🌈MM paranormal historical romance
🔗⬇️Available wide!
#romancelandia #booksky 🌈📚
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I loved the first one and have the rest queued. I highly recommend them!
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Now this is journalism.
Point it out. POINT IT THE FUCKOUT. They are PRETENDING to not get it.
Point it out. POINT IT THE FUCKOUT. They are PRETENDING to not get it.
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Now this is journalism.
Point it out. POINT IT THE FUCKOUT. They are PRETENDING to not get it.
Point it out. POINT IT THE FUCKOUT. They are PRETENDING to not get it.
Started the day with brownie waffles. Slightly putsy recipe but really tasty. domesticfits.com/brownie-waff... #food
November 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Started the day with brownie waffles. Slightly putsy recipe but really tasty. domesticfits.com/brownie-waff... #food
Low energy day, so, while I managed to get the turkey cooked, going with just leftover roasted garlic mashed potatoes and microwaved peas as sides. Might make the planned crostata later, or just eat straight whipped cream for dessert.
November 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Low energy day, so, while I managed to get the turkey cooked, going with just leftover roasted garlic mashed potatoes and microwaved peas as sides. Might make the planned crostata later, or just eat straight whipped cream for dessert.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to.
Enter the Haggis
Tom Paxton
Great Big Sea
Flogging Molly
Carbon Leaf
Enter the Haggis
Tom Paxton
Great Big Sea
Flogging Molly
Carbon Leaf
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to.
Tony Bennett
The Fall
Chappell Roan
Sebadoh
Wet Leg
Tony Bennett
The Fall
Chappell Roan
Sebadoh
Wet Leg
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to
Linton Kwesi Johnson
James Brown
Nirvana
Manic Street Preachers (Cardiff, blood everywhere)
The Cramps
Linton Kwesi Johnson
James Brown
Nirvana
Manic Street Preachers (Cardiff, blood everywhere)
The Cramps
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to.
Enter the Haggis
Tom Paxton
Great Big Sea
Flogging Molly
Carbon Leaf
Enter the Haggis
Tom Paxton
Great Big Sea
Flogging Molly
Carbon Leaf
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GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that
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AI 👏 is 👏 fundamentally 👏 and 👏 inescapably 👏 dehumanizing
"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?"
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
AI 👏 is 👏 fundamentally 👏 and 👏 inescapably 👏 dehumanizing
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Right, OK, so The Most American Thanksgiving Ever:
November 24, 2024 at 1:39 AM
Right, OK, so The Most American Thanksgiving Ever:
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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
Definitely didn't sob through the Grandpa's Drum episode of Molly of Denali. Nope.
November 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Definitely didn't sob through the Grandpa's Drum episode of Molly of Denali. Nope.
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Feeling queasy now I've learned that Google is not only now offering Gemini ambassador certificates to teachers but also awarding students and *children* to be corporate AI mascots. Coercive normalization of commercialized digital education. blog.google/outreach-ini...
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Feeling queasy now I've learned that Google is not only now offering Gemini ambassador certificates to teachers but also awarding students and *children* to be corporate AI mascots. Coercive normalization of commercialized digital education. blog.google/outreach-ini...
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ml is written in python, ai is written in power points
November 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
ml is written in python, ai is written in power points
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Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling says 'a ton' of fans are 'still with me' after trans remarks
J.K. Rowling addressed her controversial comments about transgender women on 'The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling' podcast, saying many 'Harry Potter' fans were 'grateful that I'd said what I said,' and ...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
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I was reading a book the other day and the author threw in a passing mention to a bridge in Cork, Ireland which I’m pretty sure was a gift to me personally because what do you mean the locals have called it The Shakey Bridge for so long that recent conservation works were forced to retain the wobble
November 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I was reading a book the other day and the author threw in a passing mention to a bridge in Cork, Ireland which I’m pretty sure was a gift to me personally because what do you mean the locals have called it The Shakey Bridge for so long that recent conservation works were forced to retain the wobble
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@sbworkersunited.org have launched the biggest open-ended strike in Starbucks history, fighting for fair wages and against unfair labor practices. We all need to stand in solidarity with striking workers. DON'T BUY STARBUCKS FOR THE DURATION OF THE STRIKE. #NoContractNoCoffee
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
@sbworkersunited.org have launched the biggest open-ended strike in Starbucks history, fighting for fair wages and against unfair labor practices. We all need to stand in solidarity with striking workers. DON'T BUY STARBUCKS FOR THE DURATION OF THE STRIKE. #NoContractNoCoffee
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nobody wants your fucking ai
November 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
nobody wants your fucking ai
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I’m Alisa, disabled former librarian and academic. Now I make stitch markers and project bags for knitters, and sell at craft fairs in New England.
You can peruse things at knitspinquilt.etsy.com
You can peruse things at knitspinquilt.etsy.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I’m Alisa, disabled former librarian and academic. Now I make stitch markers and project bags for knitters, and sell at craft fairs in New England.
You can peruse things at knitspinquilt.etsy.com
You can peruse things at knitspinquilt.etsy.com
Ugh. Strong "Monday on Tuesday" vibes - forgot my lunch at home and Cloudflare is having issues. All before I walk into a 2+ hr meeting that is likely to be emotionally charged.
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Ugh. Strong "Monday on Tuesday" vibes - forgot my lunch at home and Cloudflare is having issues. All before I walk into a 2+ hr meeting that is likely to be emotionally charged.