Frankie: tired retail gremlin
@plum177.bsky.social
queer, autistic, nearly 40, fandom old, ttrpg player and gm. hmu if you recognise the username or you want queer nerd shit in your life. they/them
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Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
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As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
a man reading a book to a young boy
Alt: a man reading a book to a young boy
media.tenor.com
June 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
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"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time
December 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time
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The royal rapist was allowed onto the set of a show where the majority of the cast are children. The queen of "protecting women and girls" is the executive producer.
You won't see any of the "protecting women and girls" columnists columnists challenging that, tho.
You won't see any of the "protecting women and girls" columnists columnists challenging that, tho.
They invited Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to the Harry Potter set THIS SEPTEMBER?!?
December 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The royal rapist was allowed onto the set of a show where the majority of the cast are children. The queen of "protecting women and girls" is the executive producer.
You won't see any of the "protecting women and girls" columnists columnists challenging that, tho.
You won't see any of the "protecting women and girls" columnists columnists challenging that, tho.
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
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Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."
January 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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The guy from the "Hit it, Joe!" photoplayer meme is starting his own nonprofit to preserve silent cinema technology:
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
This instrument from the early cinema is disappearing. But not on Joe's watch
Joe Rinaudo is doing everything to ensure his passion for photoplayers, the self-playing pianos that scored silent movies, outlives him even as interest in the instrument has waned for a long time, wi...
www.latimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The guy from the "Hit it, Joe!" photoplayer meme is starting his own nonprofit to preserve silent cinema technology:
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.
ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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An autistic man has raised the terror stakes this Halloween with a costume that friends have described as “genuinely horrifying”.
Chilling! This autistic person’s Halloween costume is neurotypical man
An autistic man has raised the terror stakes this Halloween with a costume that friends have described as “genuinely horrifying”. Gavin Monks, 26, reportedly eschewed traditional Halloween…
thedailytism.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
An autistic man has raised the terror stakes this Halloween with a costume that friends have described as “genuinely horrifying”.
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Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
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On this Halloween, a reminder that a sculptor included a Xenomorph gargoyle during the 1990s restoration of Paisley Abbey
October 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
On this Halloween, a reminder that a sculptor included a Xenomorph gargoyle during the 1990s restoration of Paisley Abbey
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Hi bluesky I made you a giraph ok thanks
October 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Hi bluesky I made you a giraph ok thanks
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“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”
Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'
Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'
"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.
l.euronews.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”
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When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.
When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.
When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
October 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.
When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.
When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.
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Using ChatGPT
What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?
August 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Using ChatGPT
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Over 1,000 letters sent in just 3 hours! 🤯🤯🤯
You guys are epic ❤️❤️❤️
Keep writing, keep sharing!
You guys are epic ❤️❤️❤️
Keep writing, keep sharing!
Here we go! 📝📝📝
🚽 Scrap the Bathroom Ban🚨🏳️⚧️
Our work so far is already working (see here: archive.ph/gaCN4)
Now we’re demanding that any new Code must outline how providers can lawfully *include* trans folk in their services.
✍️ Write to your MP with our easy tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
🚽 Scrap the Bathroom Ban🚨🏳️⚧️
Our work so far is already working (see here: archive.ph/gaCN4)
Now we’re demanding that any new Code must outline how providers can lawfully *include* trans folk in their services.
✍️ Write to your MP with our easy tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Scrap the Bathroom Ban
🚨This is urgent🚨
Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...
actionnetwork.org
October 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Over 1,000 letters sent in just 3 hours! 🤯🤯🤯
You guys are epic ❤️❤️❤️
Keep writing, keep sharing!
You guys are epic ❤️❤️❤️
Keep writing, keep sharing!
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"𝖄𝖔𝖚'𝖗𝖊 𝖌𝖔𝖓𝖓𝖆 𝖓𝖊𝖊𝖉 𝖆 𝖇𝖎𝖌𝖌𝖊𝖗 𝖇𝖔𝖆𝖙."
Finally revealing my illustration featured in the #Jaws 50th anniversary artbook by @printedinblood .
I wanted to create an illustration that replicated the mythical sea monsters featured in acient maps.
#jawsartbook #stevenspielberg #ilustration #movieposter
Finally revealing my illustration featured in the #Jaws 50th anniversary artbook by @printedinblood .
I wanted to create an illustration that replicated the mythical sea monsters featured in acient maps.
#jawsartbook #stevenspielberg #ilustration #movieposter
October 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"𝖄𝖔𝖚'𝖗𝖊 𝖌𝖔𝖓𝖓𝖆 𝖓𝖊𝖊𝖉 𝖆 𝖇𝖎𝖌𝖌𝖊𝖗 𝖇𝖔𝖆𝖙."
Finally revealing my illustration featured in the #Jaws 50th anniversary artbook by @printedinblood .
I wanted to create an illustration that replicated the mythical sea monsters featured in acient maps.
#jawsartbook #stevenspielberg #ilustration #movieposter
Finally revealing my illustration featured in the #Jaws 50th anniversary artbook by @printedinblood .
I wanted to create an illustration that replicated the mythical sea monsters featured in acient maps.
#jawsartbook #stevenspielberg #ilustration #movieposter
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I published this piece today, on how the binary gender model and enforced gender roles are a model of hierarchical child abuse that punishes everyone but the capitalists who run the system.
It would mean a lot if you read it. This link is unpaywalled.
Thank you. 💜
medium.com/prismnpen/wh...
It would mean a lot if you read it. This link is unpaywalled.
Thank you. 💜
medium.com/prismnpen/wh...
Who Gave Cis People Their Gender Identities?
Cis people reading this: you don’t have to be trans to opt out.
medium.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I published this piece today, on how the binary gender model and enforced gender roles are a model of hierarchical child abuse that punishes everyone but the capitalists who run the system.
It would mean a lot if you read it. This link is unpaywalled.
Thank you. 💜
medium.com/prismnpen/wh...
It would mean a lot if you read it. This link is unpaywalled.
Thank you. 💜
medium.com/prismnpen/wh...
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"Who would have predicted this?"
- Black women did.
- Trans people did.
- The *entire* disability community did.
- The anarchists did.
- Post-Evangelicals did.
"Well why didn't I hear them."
You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.
- Black women did.
- Trans people did.
- The *entire* disability community did.
- The anarchists did.
- Post-Evangelicals did.
"Well why didn't I hear them."
You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.
September 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
"Who would have predicted this?"
- Black women did.
- Trans people did.
- The *entire* disability community did.
- The anarchists did.
- Post-Evangelicals did.
"Well why didn't I hear them."
You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.
- Black women did.
- Trans people did.
- The *entire* disability community did.
- The anarchists did.
- Post-Evangelicals did.
"Well why didn't I hear them."
You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.
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It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.
September 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.
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The truth is there are three kinds of people: the disabled, the pre-disabled, and the doomed to die suddenly. Most of us will be disabled at some point.
You’re much closer to becoming disabled or homeless than you are to becoming rich and wealthy.
It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of.
We need robust social supports & safety nets to ensure everyone is properly cared for.
It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of.
We need robust social supports & safety nets to ensure everyone is properly cared for.
September 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The truth is there are three kinds of people: the disabled, the pre-disabled, and the doomed to die suddenly. Most of us will be disabled at some point.