Ruxandra Grrr
@ruxandragrrr.bsky.social
Anarchist, speculative writer, disaster bisexual, luddite
I'm sure this is no way connected to Microsoft and OpenAI being in bed together and basically fucking up the earth royally with myriads data centers...
Bill Gates softens 'Climate Disaster' approach, says too many resources are going to fight the problem
Bill Gates softens 'Climate Disaster' approach, says too many resources are going to fight the problem
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says countries and leaders need to shift their approach to climate change and focus on 'improving lives'
cnb.cx
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I'm sure this is no way connected to Microsoft and OpenAI being in bed together and basically fucking up the earth royally with myriads data centers...
Fully support what Jack is saying here, we need more recognition of collective work and not singling out individuals, especially when they're involved in super collective work. Why not award orgs and coalitions?
With Jane Goodall's death last week and the Nobel Prize announcements this week, I wrote about why it's a big problem that we lionise individuals for achievements that resulted from the work of collective groups of people.
We spend too much time lionising people like Jane Goodall
Idolising people only entrenches the idea that it is spectacular individuals, not collectives, who change the world.
www.sower.world
October 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Fully support what Jack is saying here, we need more recognition of collective work and not singling out individuals, especially when they're involved in super collective work. Why not award orgs and coalitions?
Before we celebrate the whole Peace Prize winner and take for granted what the committee said about her, can we check on her freaking politics? Like how she wants to privatize the oil sector and renew engagement with international financial institutions?
October 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Before we celebrate the whole Peace Prize winner and take for granted what the committee said about her, can we check on her freaking politics? Like how she wants to privatize the oil sector and renew engagement with international financial institutions?
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there really is something inherently abusive about AI. Buying into the hype means you are perpetually gaslighting your workers while desperately explaining away its faults as if they're either your own or your employees. Very nasty stuff.
September 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
there really is something inherently abusive about AI. Buying into the hype means you are perpetually gaslighting your workers while desperately explaining away its faults as if they're either your own or your employees. Very nasty stuff.
The last few months I've gotten into looking at posts from craft groups, embroidery groups, diorama groups and such. I realize now that I find comfort in them because they're beautiful things that people make with their hands and not digital slop
September 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The last few months I've gotten into looking at posts from craft groups, embroidery groups, diorama groups and such. I realize now that I find comfort in them because they're beautiful things that people make with their hands and not digital slop
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The thing about science is when it works, people don't realise it because it just eliminates the problem. Take quicksand. In the 80s it was a HUGE issue, it was everywhere. Now its mostly eradicated and we barely give it a thought, but ask any kid from the 80s, they'll tell you what it was like then
June 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The thing about science is when it works, people don't realise it because it just eliminates the problem. Take quicksand. In the 80s it was a HUGE issue, it was everywhere. Now its mostly eradicated and we barely give it a thought, but ask any kid from the 80s, they'll tell you what it was like then
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You know you can just not use AI, right?
You can make a choice not to be part of this.
Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.
You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.
You can make a choice not to be part of this.
Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.
You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.
June 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
You know you can just not use AI, right?
You can make a choice not to be part of this.
Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.
You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.
You can make a choice not to be part of this.
Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.
You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.
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Ok, the plague doctors would normally be anachronistic, but Nicholas Cage’s presence in anything renders it secondary world, as he is not actually from this world.
May 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Ok, the plague doctors would normally be anachronistic, but Nicholas Cage’s presence in anything renders it secondary world, as he is not actually from this world.
Very happy to have edited Jack's first essay in his brand new newsletter, which you should absolutely subscribe to, cause *gulp* we need all the hope we can get these days!
Sower is a newsletter that I launched today with this feature. Please consider subscribing if you liked the article – there are many more exciting, ideas-driven articles in the pipeline.
What’s Sower about?
A newsletter inspiring action through progressive ideas.
www.sower.world
May 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Very happy to have edited Jack's first essay in his brand new newsletter, which you should absolutely subscribe to, cause *gulp* we need all the hope we can get these days!
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Fix your hearts!
April 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Fix your hearts!
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A tremendous loneliness comes over you. Everybody in the world is doing something without you.
April 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A tremendous loneliness comes over you. Everybody in the world is doing something without you.
Once again I am watching The Pitt while eating and once again it is a mistake. The eating, not The Pitt, I rather like The Pitt.
April 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Once again I am watching The Pitt while eating and once again it is a mistake. The eating, not The Pitt, I rather like The Pitt.
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Some random mutual aid Signal chat: No real names used, nothing ever leaks. Messages delete after one hour, a guy complains that it's not set at 10-minute delete. Everyone knows each other in real life, says nothing.
The Department of Defense: idk just add anyone whose phone number start with 7.
The Department of Defense: idk just add anyone whose phone number start with 7.
March 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Some random mutual aid Signal chat: No real names used, nothing ever leaks. Messages delete after one hour, a guy complains that it's not set at 10-minute delete. Everyone knows each other in real life, says nothing.
The Department of Defense: idk just add anyone whose phone number start with 7.
The Department of Defense: idk just add anyone whose phone number start with 7.
Pretty darn annoyed that duckduckgo tried to give me some sort AI assist today, twice!! The second time was after I changed my settings and said I never want AI :( I'm tired.
March 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Pretty darn annoyed that duckduckgo tried to give me some sort AI assist today, twice!! The second time was after I changed my settings and said I never want AI :( I'm tired.
Getting sick & tired of all the older actresses saying that they don't need / want / weren't aware of intimacy coordinators. Can't you just like shut up and let progress happen for the younger generation??
March 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Getting sick & tired of all the older actresses saying that they don't need / want / weren't aware of intimacy coordinators. Can't you just like shut up and let progress happen for the younger generation??
I want the creators of The Good Fight to make an intensely political & dramatic revival of Parks and Recreation that's all about the current moment. It would probably be 2 episodes though, if I'm realistic, until all the jobs are cut.
March 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I want the creators of The Good Fight to make an intensely political & dramatic revival of Parks and Recreation that's all about the current moment. It would probably be 2 episodes though, if I'm realistic, until all the jobs are cut.
PMS? More like PeMess, amirite? (I'm so tired)
February 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
PMS? More like PeMess, amirite? (I'm so tired)
Truly upset & disgusted by the news about the Tate brothers. But not surprised, knowing how fucking absolutely shitty Romania is re: women and all the forms of violence against them. And this strong feeling of shame being Romanian. Fuck that shit.
February 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Truly upset & disgusted by the news about the Tate brothers. But not surprised, knowing how fucking absolutely shitty Romania is re: women and all the forms of violence against them. And this strong feeling of shame being Romanian. Fuck that shit.
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This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...
Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
Current mental health mood is wanting to argue with people on the internet, but I stopped doing that many years ago and I can't do this to myself. But of, I really want to.
February 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Current mental health mood is wanting to argue with people on the internet, but I stopped doing that many years ago and I can't do this to myself. But of, I really want to.
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Musk speaking to the far right German party, the AfD, today. Best picture angle, ever! 😂
January 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Musk speaking to the far right German party, the AfD, today. Best picture angle, ever! 😂
Really pissed off seeing Elon Musk cozying up to fucking AfD only because imo he hates the labor laws in Germany and he has a factory here that he want to get more out of.
January 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Really pissed off seeing Elon Musk cozying up to fucking AfD only because imo he hates the labor laws in Germany and he has a factory here that he want to get more out of.
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Reminder that your AI generated joke image is wasting gallons of water and takes shit tons of energy, and your written prompt would have been as funny without the environmental destruction
Also, data centers are horrifyingly detrimental to living creatures
time.com/6982015/bitc...
Also, data centers are horrifyingly detrimental to living creatures
time.com/6982015/bitc...
Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
A Bitcoin mine moved to a small town in Texas. One by one, the residents fell ill.
time.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Reminder that your AI generated joke image is wasting gallons of water and takes shit tons of energy, and your written prompt would have been as funny without the environmental destruction
Also, data centers are horrifyingly detrimental to living creatures
time.com/6982015/bitc...
Also, data centers are horrifyingly detrimental to living creatures
time.com/6982015/bitc...
Thinking about how capital is reorienting around trumpofascism and how I'm very much expecting funding for culture to go to the most milquetoast white cishet male stories for a while. It's a bummer. The age of abundant streaming options gave me decision fatigue, now it's gonna be slim pickens
January 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Thinking about how capital is reorienting around trumpofascism and how I'm very much expecting funding for culture to go to the most milquetoast white cishet male stories for a while. It's a bummer. The age of abundant streaming options gave me decision fatigue, now it's gonna be slim pickens