@peppermintsmith.bsky.social
Peppermint Smith.... Sometimes go by other names. They/them. 🧠💻📡♿🏳️🌈
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These days, if you don't give your name in English you get arrested and thrown in jail.
August 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
These days, if you don't give your name in English you get arrested and thrown in jail.
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New signposting in the UK.
August 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
New signposting in the UK.
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almost like the real gamble is even going
August 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
almost like the real gamble is even going
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Also, FFS. Get out of my mentions with your AI defenses. I am talking about literature in my magazine. Not about cancer research or whatever the fuck you are twisting into a justifcation about using programs trained on stolen art and writing to make crappy stories to flood my submission portal.
The queries have started about “What if I only used a little bit of AI for my story submission.”
The answer is, fuck AI. Uncanny Magazine doesn't want your story. There is no grey area here. Send us a story using AI for any aspect, it will be auto-rejected and you will be banned. Period.
The answer is, fuck AI. Uncanny Magazine doesn't want your story. There is no grey area here. Send us a story using AI for any aspect, it will be auto-rejected and you will be banned. Period.
August 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Also, FFS. Get out of my mentions with your AI defenses. I am talking about literature in my magazine. Not about cancer research or whatever the fuck you are twisting into a justifcation about using programs trained on stolen art and writing to make crappy stories to flood my submission portal.
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The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
Stanford University’s student-run newspaper sued two senior Trump administration officials Wednesday, challenging Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.
Stanford newspaper sues Trump administration over student deportations
The lawsuit challenges Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.
wapo.st
August 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
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August 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Wearyingly frequently necessary reminder that "social darwinism" or anything else that equates notions of intelligence with "fitness to live" is just ableist eugenicist bullshit derived from a fascist-minded misapplication of darwinism, no matter how clever and snarky and cool you think you're being
August 23, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Wearyingly frequently necessary reminder that "social darwinism" or anything else that equates notions of intelligence with "fitness to live" is just ableist eugenicist bullshit derived from a fascist-minded misapplication of darwinism, no matter how clever and snarky and cool you think you're being
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the zoo is homphobic
August 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
the zoo is homphobic
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This video shows the process behind one continuous shot showing a condensed period of time in a woman's life and the changes to her apartment in the show Kidding. AI could make something that looks kind of like this but it could never make you wonder about it. You'd never discuss it with friends.
August 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This video shows the process behind one continuous shot showing a condensed period of time in a woman's life and the changes to her apartment in the show Kidding. AI could make something that looks kind of like this but it could never make you wonder about it. You'd never discuss it with friends.
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When you're walking along an old railroad right of way sometimes you discover trans pirates have been there already.
August 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
When you're walking along an old railroad right of way sometimes you discover trans pirates have been there already.
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“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”
Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
August 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”
Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
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Reddit has officially blocked subreddits such as r/periods, r/stopsmoking, r/stopdrinking, and r/sexualassault for UK minors and anyone in the UK who is unwilling to submit their age/identity information.
All in fear of violating the UK's Online Safety Act.
All in fear of violating the UK's Online Safety Act.
The UK is slogging through an online age-gate apocalypse
A lot of IP addressess moved overseas this weekend.
www.theverge.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Reddit has officially blocked subreddits such as r/periods, r/stopsmoking, r/stopdrinking, and r/sexualassault for UK minors and anyone in the UK who is unwilling to submit their age/identity information.
All in fear of violating the UK's Online Safety Act.
All in fear of violating the UK's Online Safety Act.
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Dear U.K. Labour. The fact that VPNs can easily bypass large parts of the Online Safety Act is *not* a reason to ban VPNs. It’s a reason to rethink the Online Safety Act.
We did tell you. Many times.
Don’t throw good money after bad.
We did tell you. Many times.
Don’t throw good money after bad.
July 29, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Dear U.K. Labour. The fact that VPNs can easily bypass large parts of the Online Safety Act is *not* a reason to ban VPNs. It’s a reason to rethink the Online Safety Act.
We did tell you. Many times.
Don’t throw good money after bad.
We did tell you. Many times.
Don’t throw good money after bad.
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You have met one plural person then you have met ... an unknown number of plural people who may or may not identify as people and it's complicated and yeah.
July 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
You have met one plural person then you have met ... an unknown number of plural people who may or may not identify as people and it's complicated and yeah.
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A trans person being in the same room as you is not a violation of your privacy. Demanding to know whether a person in a room with you is trans or not IS a violation of their privacy. It's endemic of how fucking far the needle has moved that this simple fact is so lost on so many people.
July 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
A trans person being in the same room as you is not a violation of your privacy. Demanding to know whether a person in a room with you is trans or not IS a violation of their privacy. It's endemic of how fucking far the needle has moved that this simple fact is so lost on so many people.
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Apparently the UK adult verification thing has basically banned blind people from half of the internet because they can't use the verification system 🫣
July 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Apparently the UK adult verification thing has basically banned blind people from half of the internet because they can't use the verification system 🫣
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There are few creatures in nature more impressive than a transsexual from the countryside
July 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
There are few creatures in nature more impressive than a transsexual from the countryside
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Werner Herzog voice:
"It's like a curse
weighing on an entire landscape.
And whoever...
goes too deep into this...
has his share of that curse.
So we are cursed
with what we are doing here"
I like to think I'm that curse on the rural landscape
"It's like a curse
weighing on an entire landscape.
And whoever...
goes too deep into this...
has his share of that curse.
So we are cursed
with what we are doing here"
I like to think I'm that curse on the rural landscape
There are few creatures in nature more impressive than a transsexual from the countryside
July 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Werner Herzog voice:
"It's like a curse
weighing on an entire landscape.
And whoever...
goes too deep into this...
has his share of that curse.
So we are cursed
with what we are doing here"
I like to think I'm that curse on the rural landscape
"It's like a curse
weighing on an entire landscape.
And whoever...
goes too deep into this...
has his share of that curse.
So we are cursed
with what we are doing here"
I like to think I'm that curse on the rural landscape
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As a native Spanish speaker, it baffles me the dissonance between written and oral languages in English.
For instance, you write "BlueSky is a dead echo chamber for libs", but it reads "I want to post slurs without being blocked".
For instance, you write "BlueSky is a dead echo chamber for libs", but it reads "I want to post slurs without being blocked".
June 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
As a native Spanish speaker, it baffles me the dissonance between written and oral languages in English.
For instance, you write "BlueSky is a dead echo chamber for libs", but it reads "I want to post slurs without being blocked".
For instance, you write "BlueSky is a dead echo chamber for libs", but it reads "I want to post slurs without being blocked".
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Just remembered that America’s Next Top Model had multiple race swapping photo shoots and cancel culture hasn’t gone far enough
July 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Just remembered that America’s Next Top Model had multiple race swapping photo shoots and cancel culture hasn’t gone far enough
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@maxgladstone.bsky.social I saw this on oglaf.com the other day and was reminded of your books
July 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
@maxgladstone.bsky.social I saw this on oglaf.com the other day and was reminded of your books