Craig Tyhurst
@thewilytouchstone.bsky.social
Crafter of characters, master of games, and teller of stories.
Any/all personal pronouns.
Any/all personal pronouns.
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the reason 101 dalmations looks like that is because disney incorporated xerography (ie early photocopying technology) into the animation process. rough pencils (by mostly male animators) were copied onto the cels so that disney could fire the (mostly female) inkers. remember that art can lie to you
November 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
the reason 101 dalmations looks like that is because disney incorporated xerography (ie early photocopying technology) into the animation process. rough pencils (by mostly male animators) were copied onto the cels so that disney could fire the (mostly female) inkers. remember that art can lie to you
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Social media is so weird because whenever you show interest in something, it just floods you with people who care a lot about that thing, and makes you feel like the whole world cares about X thing.
When in reality, nobody really gives a shit, but social media fucks with your brain.
When in reality, nobody really gives a shit, but social media fucks with your brain.
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Social media is so weird because whenever you show interest in something, it just floods you with people who care a lot about that thing, and makes you feel like the whole world cares about X thing.
When in reality, nobody really gives a shit, but social media fucks with your brain.
When in reality, nobody really gives a shit, but social media fucks with your brain.
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A quick update to say thank you to everyone who chipped in to meet & surpass not one but two goals. :O
Like I said, I’m not upping the goal again but leaving this up as a few kind souls chose a monthly support option.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
gofund.me/68950306a
Like I said, I’m not upping the goal again but leaving this up as a few kind souls chose a monthly support option.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
gofund.me/68950306a
November 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
A quick update to say thank you to everyone who chipped in to meet & surpass not one but two goals. :O
Like I said, I’m not upping the goal again but leaving this up as a few kind souls chose a monthly support option.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
gofund.me/68950306a
Like I said, I’m not upping the goal again but leaving this up as a few kind souls chose a monthly support option.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
gofund.me/68950306a
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Anyway time to post this again.
AI is a tool of fascism.
AI is a tool of fascism.
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Anyway time to post this again.
AI is a tool of fascism.
AI is a tool of fascism.
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
Good to see a company like Malwarebytes own up to their mistakes & take responsibility for the confusion they may have caused, but until tech companies (especially ones as big, influential, & inescapable as Google) explicitly denounce forced AI integration, we should continue to assume the worst.
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
November 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Good to see a company like Malwarebytes own up to their mistakes & take responsibility for the confusion they may have caused, but until tech companies (especially ones as big, influential, & inescapable as Google) explicitly denounce forced AI integration, we should continue to assume the worst.
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Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
November 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
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*leaping out of the bath like archimedes* eureka! a shakespeare-themed mexican wrestling tournament called Luchador About Nothing, eureka!!
November 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
*leaping out of the bath like archimedes* eureka! a shakespeare-themed mexican wrestling tournament called Luchador About Nothing, eureka!!
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Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
The literal fucking State Department issuing statements of White Supremacist rhetoric.
Congratulations, America: the State is the enemy of the People.
Congratulations, America: the State is the enemy of the People.
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The literal fucking State Department issuing statements of White Supremacist rhetoric.
Congratulations, America: the State is the enemy of the People.
Congratulations, America: the State is the enemy of the People.
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“You’re just a bully who found it easier and easier and decided that everybody else wasn’t really a REAL person, not like you, and when you know that, there’s no crime too big, is there?”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff
#Discworld
(gee, I wonder if we have any current examples of this...)
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff
#Discworld
(gee, I wonder if we have any current examples of this...)
November 10, 2024 at 2:57 PM
“You’re just a bully who found it easier and easier and decided that everybody else wasn’t really a REAL person, not like you, and when you know that, there’s no crime too big, is there?”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff
#Discworld
(gee, I wonder if we have any current examples of this...)
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff
#Discworld
(gee, I wonder if we have any current examples of this...)
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"… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong."
- Terry Pratchett, Snuff
#Discworld
- Terry Pratchett, Snuff
#Discworld
November 10, 2024 at 2:57 PM
"… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong."
- Terry Pratchett, Snuff
#Discworld
- Terry Pratchett, Snuff
#Discworld
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"That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.'
Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it."
- Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
#Discworld
Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it."
- Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
#Discworld
November 10, 2024 at 2:57 PM
"That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.'
Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it."
- Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
#Discworld
Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it."
- Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
#Discworld
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"History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow.
Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders."
-Terry Pratchett, Jingo
#Discworld
Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders."
-Terry Pratchett, Jingo
#Discworld
November 10, 2024 at 2:57 PM
"History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow.
Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders."
-Terry Pratchett, Jingo
#Discworld
Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders."
-Terry Pratchett, Jingo
#Discworld
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Joint Statement from Goodlander, Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Deluzio, and Houlahan
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Joint Statement from Goodlander, Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Deluzio, and Houlahan
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The construction of prisons in rural areas can create relationships in which residents ultimately become engulfed by incarceration. “The prison almost begins to imprison the community in a way,” says a prison researcher.
The Prison Next Door
How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered people in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.
boltsmag.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The construction of prisons in rural areas can create relationships in which residents ultimately become engulfed by incarceration. “The prison almost begins to imprison the community in a way,” says a prison researcher.
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BREAKING: 30 more Starbucks locations are joining the strike.
Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike.
Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.
Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike.
Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
BREAKING: 30 more Starbucks locations are joining the strike.
Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike.
Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.
Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike.
Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.
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ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
It doesn't matter how many Republicans (or Democrats, for that matter) come before the press to profess their shock, disappointment, or disgust with the president because they will continue to refuse to impeach him and his P2025 cronies, or use their Constitutional powers to reverse his mandates.
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It doesn't matter how many Republicans (or Democrats, for that matter) come before the press to profess their shock, disappointment, or disgust with the president because they will continue to refuse to impeach him and his P2025 cronies, or use their Constitutional powers to reverse his mandates.
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I am frankly really concerned about states possibly capitulating in advance with this "No regulating 'AI'" executive order— either because they agree, or our of fear— & thus self-fulfilling a precedent rather than making the trump regime enforce it and then defend it, at every step along the process
1) There is no legal basis on which such an executive order against state-level "AI" regulation could possibly be enforced. No state or institution should comply w/ this in advance. Many will, obviously, because every EO this man puts out is a set of marching orders for his cronies; but none should.
NEW: Trump Takes Aim at State AI Laws in Draft Executive Order
All the deets + more w/ @mzeff.bsky.social (it's his first WIRED byline yay!!!!)
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
All the deets + more w/ @mzeff.bsky.social (it's his first WIRED byline yay!!!!)
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
November 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I am frankly really concerned about states possibly capitulating in advance with this "No regulating 'AI'" executive order— either because they agree, or our of fear— & thus self-fulfilling a precedent rather than making the trump regime enforce it and then defend it, at every step along the process
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Makes sense, considering Musk is pretty much a Nazi.
Musk's Grokipedia is a cesspool of white supremacist and Neo Nazi garbage. Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Makes sense, considering Musk is pretty much a Nazi.