Susan Wachtman
@suewrite.bsky.social
Hard of hearing old white lady who can imagine being different. SFF writer, she/her. "Tell me, where do the children play?"
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AI is so cooked
December 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
AI is so cooked
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this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
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These people are so obsessed with the culture war and fucking bathrooms it’s ridiculous
December 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
These people are so obsessed with the culture war and fucking bathrooms it’s ridiculous
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Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.
OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy
Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.
wrd.cm
December 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.
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notice who's repping him in his lawsuit - the Pacific Legal Foundation, which is a very conservative public interest advocacy group
Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.
CBP agents held this U.S. citizen for hours until he agreed to let them search his electronic devices
A federal lawsuit argues that perusing travelers' personal data without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.
reason.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
notice who's repping him in his lawsuit - the Pacific Legal Foundation, which is a very conservative public interest advocacy group
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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Alerta:
Urgent blood donation need for Brown University!
If you live in the following states, please consider donating to save lives 🖤
💕💸
Urgent blood donation need for Brown University!
If you live in the following states, please consider donating to save lives 🖤
💕💸
I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
Donate Blood
Check your eligibility to donate blood, learn about the process and why blood matters, and enroll in a RIBC Donor Loyalty Rewards programs.
www.ribc.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Alerta:
Urgent blood donation need for Brown University!
If you live in the following states, please consider donating to save lives 🖤
💕💸
Urgent blood donation need for Brown University!
If you live in the following states, please consider donating to save lives 🖤
💕💸
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You know what? I'm willing to empirically test this as many times as it takes to reach statistical certainty about any conclusions we reach
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
You know what? I'm willing to empirically test this as many times as it takes to reach statistical certainty about any conclusions we reach
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Not a single non-adopted person has ever genuinely asked me (unprompted) what my experience as an adoptee was like as a child. Or even as an adult.
No one in my family.
Not my friends or even my spouse.
Not any of the various mental health professionals I've worked with over the years.
No one in my family.
Not my friends or even my spouse.
Not any of the various mental health professionals I've worked with over the years.
December 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Not a single non-adopted person has ever genuinely asked me (unprompted) what my experience as an adoptee was like as a child. Or even as an adult.
No one in my family.
Not my friends or even my spouse.
Not any of the various mental health professionals I've worked with over the years.
No one in my family.
Not my friends or even my spouse.
Not any of the various mental health professionals I've worked with over the years.
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There’s an urgent need for blood in the aftermath of the Brown University shooting
If you can give, please do
If you can’t, please spread the word
Its terrifying to think how bad this shooting might be if they need an urgent call for blood, but the more people donating the more lives we can save
If you can give, please do
If you can’t, please spread the word
Its terrifying to think how bad this shooting might be if they need an urgent call for blood, but the more people donating the more lives we can save
I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
Donate Blood
Check your eligibility to donate blood, learn about the process and why blood matters, and enroll in a RIBC Donor Loyalty Rewards programs.
www.ribc.org
December 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
There’s an urgent need for blood in the aftermath of the Brown University shooting
If you can give, please do
If you can’t, please spread the word
Its terrifying to think how bad this shooting might be if they need an urgent call for blood, but the more people donating the more lives we can save
If you can give, please do
If you can’t, please spread the word
Its terrifying to think how bad this shooting might be if they need an urgent call for blood, but the more people donating the more lives we can save
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There's never been a time where elite *students* are insulated from violence. In fact I can recall just a little while ago when two Muslim students who attended very prestigious schools were kidnapped by the federal government.
December 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
There's never been a time where elite *students* are insulated from violence. In fact I can recall just a little while ago when two Muslim students who attended very prestigious schools were kidnapped by the federal government.
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▶️ WATCH: My reaction to a Fox News guest telling Americans to buy fake Christmas trees so AI data centers can use the land.
December 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
▶️ WATCH: My reaction to a Fox News guest telling Americans to buy fake Christmas trees so AI data centers can use the land.
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In case you have never seen this.
December 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In case you have never seen this.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Climate Abandon
bsky.app/profile/pmag...
bsky.app/profile/pmag...
"Two of these DOOZIES in 4 years, that's a finger print of climate chaos" #xwx @1.5C
"Atmospheric Rivers are part of the PNW cycle, but.." 🔥💦🌊 #bcwx #pnw
B.C. is flooding again and all eyes are on Washington's Nooksack River #bclng eh
youtube.com/watch?v=qCpX...
"Atmospheric Rivers are part of the PNW cycle, but.." 🔥💦🌊 #bcwx #pnw
B.C. is flooding again and all eyes are on Washington's Nooksack River #bclng eh
youtube.com/watch?v=qCpX...
B.C. is flooding again and all eyes are on Washington state
YouTube video by CBC News
youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Climate Abandon
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bsky.app/profile/pmag...
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Israel is occupying Gaza
There is no ceasefire
It’s all lies
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There is no ceasefire
It’s all lies
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Israeli military chief Eyal Zamir says Israel views the "Yellow Line" dividing Gaza as its new border. Palestinians in Gaza report widespread demolitions east of the line, reshaping Gaza's landscape through force in what they call a “second Nakba.”
December 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Israel is occupying Gaza
There is no ceasefire
It’s all lies
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There is no ceasefire
It’s all lies
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Exactly. Oxfam predicts the world is on track for its 1st trillionaire, while it could take more than a century to eradicate poverty, as things stand. We desperately need an economic/political/social model based on giving all people a fair deal, while preserving the planet’s diminishing resources.
December 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Exactly. Oxfam predicts the world is on track for its 1st trillionaire, while it could take more than a century to eradicate poverty, as things stand. We desperately need an economic/political/social model based on giving all people a fair deal, while preserving the planet’s diminishing resources.
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I read that Rishi Sunak "earns' 7 million per WEEK in "residual income" ..that is, money that flows in simply because he's rich.
We could tax this guy at 6 million a week, and he'd STILL be getting a million richer every week!
TAX THEM.
We could tax this guy at 6 million a week, and he'd STILL be getting a million richer every week!
TAX THEM.
December 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I read that Rishi Sunak "earns' 7 million per WEEK in "residual income" ..that is, money that flows in simply because he's rich.
We could tax this guy at 6 million a week, and he'd STILL be getting a million richer every week!
TAX THEM.
We could tax this guy at 6 million a week, and he'd STILL be getting a million richer every week!
TAX THEM.
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This is obscene.
That others in politics can’t or won’t say that this is obscene hits at the heart of the problems we face.
We are the 99.999%.
Tax the super rich.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
That others in politics can’t or won’t say that this is obscene hits at the heart of the problems we face.
We are the 99.999%.
Tax the super rich.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
This is obscene.
That others in politics can’t or won’t say that this is obscene hits at the heart of the problems we face.
We are the 99.999%.
Tax the super rich.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
That others in politics can’t or won’t say that this is obscene hits at the heart of the problems we face.
We are the 99.999%.
Tax the super rich.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
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RFK Jr has suggested he wants to end access to mifeprostone; it's the MAHA war on women
>100 studies have examined the effectiveness/safety of the abortion pills mifepristone & misoprostol. "All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy" (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
>100 studies have examined the effectiveness/safety of the abortion pills mifepristone & misoprostol. "All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy" (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
FDA Slow Walking a Long-Awaited Abortion Pill Safety Study
The Food and Drug Administration has delayed a promised review of safety data for the abortion drug mifepristone at Commissioner Marty Makary’s request to put it off until after the midterm elections,...
www.bloomberg.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
RFK Jr has suggested he wants to end access to mifeprostone; it's the MAHA war on women
>100 studies have examined the effectiveness/safety of the abortion pills mifepristone & misoprostol. "All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy" (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
>100 studies have examined the effectiveness/safety of the abortion pills mifepristone & misoprostol. "All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy" (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
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US Defense Bill Would Fill Israel’s Weapons ‘Gaps’ Caused by Embargoes
The US armed Israel’s genocide. Nations responded by embargoing Israel. Citing those restrictions, the US may now send even more weapons to Israel, @premthakker.bsky.social reports.
zeteo.com/p/us-defense...
The US armed Israel’s genocide. Nations responded by embargoing Israel. Citing those restrictions, the US may now send even more weapons to Israel, @premthakker.bsky.social reports.
zeteo.com/p/us-defense...
US Defense Bill Would Fill Israel’s Weapons ‘Gaps’ Caused by Embargoes
The US armed Israel’s genocide. Nations responded by embargoing Israel. Citing those restrictions, the US may now send even more weapons to Israel.
zeteo.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
US Defense Bill Would Fill Israel’s Weapons ‘Gaps’ Caused by Embargoes
The US armed Israel’s genocide. Nations responded by embargoing Israel. Citing those restrictions, the US may now send even more weapons to Israel, @premthakker.bsky.social reports.
zeteo.com/p/us-defense...
The US armed Israel’s genocide. Nations responded by embargoing Israel. Citing those restrictions, the US may now send even more weapons to Israel, @premthakker.bsky.social reports.
zeteo.com/p/us-defense...
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
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"Biological people" was always where this eugenicist rhetoric was headed - ie "biological women", "biological pronouns" - because they genuinely don't believe trans people are even human. This dehumanizing language is essential for them to paint trans people as genetically incompatible with society.
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"Biological people" was always where this eugenicist rhetoric was headed - ie "biological women", "biological pronouns" - because they genuinely don't believe trans people are even human. This dehumanizing language is essential for them to paint trans people as genetically incompatible with society.