Zach/Rina Totz
@totztheplaid.bsky.social
Just a geeky genderfluid/enby getting through this thing called life.
36. He/she/they/him/her/them.
[Born 1/30/89. I forget to change my age in these things.]
36. He/she/they/him/her/them.
[Born 1/30/89. I forget to change my age in these things.]
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no it isn’t!!! fuck you!!!
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
no it isn’t!!! fuck you!!!
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hank hill would kill himself if he saw this shit
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
hank hill would kill himself if he saw this shit
There's still the huge problem with the massive environmental impact, but if that would be happening anyway, this is the better option.
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
There's still the huge problem with the massive environmental impact, but if that would be happening anyway, this is the better option.
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Yes, please. The word "content" reduces complex art and discourse to a status that justifies their use as fodder for the "AI" maw.
And we should consider the phrase "content creator" offensive for that reason.
And we should consider the phrase "content creator" offensive for that reason.
Inspired by someone elsewhere, I hereby vow to try to avoid the terms "content" and "content creator," unless I *must* talk about work across so many fields that a generic term is the only one that will suffice. Let's not reduce art, criticism, journalism, etc. to an undifferentiated smear of Stuff.
November 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Yes, please. The word "content" reduces complex art and discourse to a status that justifies their use as fodder for the "AI" maw.
And we should consider the phrase "content creator" offensive for that reason.
And we should consider the phrase "content creator" offensive for that reason.
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This is my kind of good trouble.
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is my kind of good trouble.
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death of the artist is a stupid baby excuse for clowns with no standards to pretend the money they give her doesn't literally go to making trans people's lives worse. fucking get over her her writing isn't even good. ursula k le guin and terry prachett are right there. have some fucking self respect
Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling says 'a ton' of fans are 'still with me' after trans remarks
J.K. Rowling addressed her controversial comments about transgender women on 'The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling' podcast, saying many 'Harry Potter' fans were 'grateful that I'd said what I said,' and ...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
death of the artist is a stupid baby excuse for clowns with no standards to pretend the money they give her doesn't literally go to making trans people's lives worse. fucking get over her her writing isn't even good. ursula k le guin and terry prachett are right there. have some fucking self respect
Actually, they very literally fucking might since nearly every fucking cent is used to fund active hate and harm.
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Actually, they very literally fucking might since nearly every fucking cent is used to fund active hate and harm.
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I cannot stress how much I do not care about whether you still have feelings about the series. I know how sentiment and nostalgia work. I don’t care.
March 6, 2024 at 4:16 AM
I cannot stress how much I do not care about whether you still have feelings about the series. I know how sentiment and nostalgia work. I don’t care.
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A Harry Potter Adult is just a Pick-Me Variety Disney Adult, literally grow up lmao what are you doing
March 6, 2024 at 3:47 AM
A Harry Potter Adult is just a Pick-Me Variety Disney Adult, literally grow up lmao what are you doing
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Underwater basket-weaving. Cage fighting. Turtle-keeping.
March 6, 2024 at 3:46 AM
Underwater basket-weaving. Cage fighting. Turtle-keeping.
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Harry Potter is one of those things where I don’t care how important it was or is to you sentimentally or whatever. I insist you find another fucking thing. There are so many things. Other things. Better things. Literally anything.
March 6, 2024 at 3:44 AM
Harry Potter is one of those things where I don’t care how important it was or is to you sentimentally or whatever. I insist you find another fucking thing. There are so many things. Other things. Better things. Literally anything.
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Some superior wizard-school series you can easily replace HP with:
🧙 Witch Hat Atelier
🧙 Little Witch Academia
🧙 The Worst Witch
🧙♀️ The Owl House
🧙 Mashle: Magic & Muscles
🧙♀️ Wizard of Earthsea (le Guin)
🧙 The School for Good & Evil (Soman Chainani)
🧙 Witch Hat Atelier
🧙 Little Witch Academia
🧙 The Worst Witch
🧙♀️ The Owl House
🧙 Mashle: Magic & Muscles
🧙♀️ Wizard of Earthsea (le Guin)
🧙 The School for Good & Evil (Soman Chainani)
Harry Potter is one of those things where I don’t care how important it was or is to you sentimentally or whatever. I insist you find another fucking thing. There are so many things. Other things. Better things. Literally anything.
March 12, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Some superior wizard-school series you can easily replace HP with:
🧙 Witch Hat Atelier
🧙 Little Witch Academia
🧙 The Worst Witch
🧙♀️ The Owl House
🧙 Mashle: Magic & Muscles
🧙♀️ Wizard of Earthsea (le Guin)
🧙 The School for Good & Evil (Soman Chainani)
🧙 Witch Hat Atelier
🧙 Little Witch Academia
🧙 The Worst Witch
🧙♀️ The Owl House
🧙 Mashle: Magic & Muscles
🧙♀️ Wizard of Earthsea (le Guin)
🧙 The School for Good & Evil (Soman Chainani)
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Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling says 'a ton' of fans are 'still with me' after trans remarks
J.K. Rowling addressed her controversial comments about transgender women on 'The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling' podcast, saying many 'Harry Potter' fans were 'grateful that I'd said what I said,' and ...
share.google
November 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
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some see this as claiming that sexism motivated the elimination of inkers. to be clear, sexism wasn’t the driving factor, but the gendered construction of creative/uncreative labor had the effect of making women’s jobs more expendable than men’s. it’s not conspiratorial to call the firing sexist
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 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
some see this as claiming that sexism motivated the elimination of inkers. to be clear, sexism wasn’t the driving factor, but the gendered construction of creative/uncreative labor had the effect of making women’s jobs more expendable than men’s. it’s not conspiratorial to call the firing sexist
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Every day there's a headline like "President's fire safety officer says we're going to set everything on fire and if you think that's bad you're woke"
Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Every day there's a headline like "President's fire safety officer says we're going to set everything on fire and if you think that's bad you're woke"
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This is fu*king outrageous!
The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards.
apnews.com/article/utah...
The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards.
apnews.com/article/utah...
Charges dropped against Utah doctor accused of throwing away $28,000 in COVID vaccine doses
The federal government has dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines worth thousands of dollars during the pandemic.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
This is fu*king outrageous!
The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards.
apnews.com/article/utah...
The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards.
apnews.com/article/utah...
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Did you know that big studios monitor piracy? Don't you fucking dare pirate this shit. Do not hate watch through piracy. JK Rowling is a disgusting human being that funds and encourages the hurt, pain and death of my fellow trans peers.
Support media that actually deserves our time and money.
Support media that actually deserves our time and money.
HBO CEO Casey Bloys says 'HARRY POTTER' Season 2 is already being written
"We’re going to do whatever we can to not have a huge gap, for the kids, obviously, but also for viewers"
"We’re going to do whatever we can to not have a huge gap, for the kids, obviously, but also for viewers"
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Did you know that big studios monitor piracy? Don't you fucking dare pirate this shit. Do not hate watch through piracy. JK Rowling is a disgusting human being that funds and encourages the hurt, pain and death of my fellow trans peers.
Support media that actually deserves our time and money.
Support media that actually deserves our time and money.
No. Both suck.
Why the fuck is anyone still hiring that asshole Anish Kapoor?
Why the fuck is anyone still hiring that asshole Anish Kapoor?
🗽 Chicago has the Michael Jordan statue outside the United Center and the Bean among famous landmarks.
Houston's bean? Just as amazing, if not better.
Houston's bean? Just as amazing, if not better.
November 23, 2025 at 6:20 AM
No. Both suck.
Why the fuck is anyone still hiring that asshole Anish Kapoor?
Why the fuck is anyone still hiring that asshole Anish Kapoor?
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if I may add: I put all my bullshit in brackets. whenever I'm stumped, or need to fact-check something, or the syntax is fucked, or I need to rewrite a passage. anything funky goes in brackets so when I'm ready to revise, I can easily search the doc for them and find all the bullshit.
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
if I may add: I put all my bullshit in brackets. whenever I'm stumped, or need to fact-check something, or the syntax is fucked, or I need to rewrite a passage. anything funky goes in brackets so when I'm ready to revise, I can easily search the doc for them and find all the bullshit.
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this is the only RFK Jr content you should read today (trust me)
On the 62nd anniversary of his assassination, JFK's granddaughter wrote a (for now) not paywalled essay about her terminal leukemia. Discussing the treatments and medications she's had. And that the scientific research behind it is being destroyed by her cousin RFK Jr.
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
this is the only RFK Jr content you should read today (trust me)
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-FDR, 1937
-FDR, 1937
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-FDR, 1937
-FDR, 1937
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what the fuck you mean Public Health and NURSING (among everything else) is no longer a professional degree
ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees:
Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin
A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin
A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
November 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
what the fuck you mean Public Health and NURSING (among everything else) is no longer a professional degree
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elon installs a new feature that publicly displays the country where your app was installed and operates from
people find out the most racist pro-US accounts are based in israel, india, bangladesh, etc
US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TWITTER BASED IN ISRAEL
elon pauses location feature
people find out the most racist pro-US accounts are based in israel, india, bangladesh, etc
US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TWITTER BASED IN ISRAEL
elon pauses location feature
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
elon installs a new feature that publicly displays the country where your app was installed and operates from
people find out the most racist pro-US accounts are based in israel, india, bangladesh, etc
US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TWITTER BASED IN ISRAEL
elon pauses location feature
people find out the most racist pro-US accounts are based in israel, india, bangladesh, etc
US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TWITTER BASED IN ISRAEL
elon pauses location feature
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Over on Whatever today I confirm that, indeed, all those emails authors and other writers are getting promising access to readers and book clubs and such are 100% scams, share all the scam emails I got just this morning, and note why they are all awful and bad:
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/22/y...
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Yes, All Those Author Services and Book Club Emails Are Fake, and No, Don’t Send Them Any Money
If you’re an author, or honestly if you just happen to be standing near an author these days, then you have probably seen a flood of emails in the past couple of months promising you that who…
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November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Over on Whatever today I confirm that, indeed, all those emails authors and other writers are getting promising access to readers and book clubs and such are 100% scams, share all the scam emails I got just this morning, and note why they are all awful and bad:
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/22/y...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/22/y...